The Luomo stuff has lots of vox, if that's a concern. The album I recommend is the first, 'Vocalcity', after that it gets
too sugary for me. From memory he's recorded as Vladislav Delay, Sistol, Conoco (great, great 12" on the same label as Ele), Luomo, and Uusitalo. Maybe check the spelling on that last one. Plus there's The Dolls above and a collaboration between the vocalist from The Dolls (they're an item, I think) and him called, I think, AGFDelay?
More things I love dearly that I guess I could call "minimal electronica" or something:
Thomas Fehlmann. Excellent shimmery ambient and schaffel techno on Kompakt; great moody downbeat on Plug Research. This guy's been trucking along strong for yeeeeears.
Dettinger. Also released on Kompakt, makes really ... fuck, I hate to write it... organic sounding electronic stuff, some of his 12"s have the craziest mixes going on... off-kilter loops of Cocteau Twins records over the quietest, most un-pounding techno rhythms, and none of it's polished up or professional sounding. Which in his case is a really good thing. His two CDs on Kompakt are phenomenal, particularly the first one, 'Intershop'.
Rhythm & Sound. OK, I actually do find some of their stuff pretty boring, but this duo are one of those outfits who kicked off a whole damn genre of dubby, minimal tech business. Well, maybe subgenre, but a flood of copycats nonetheless. The thing that sets them apart is that they sound bloody grubby and far from being "glitchy" their music is swamped in the hiss of too many old effects boxes chained together, synths set to the wrong presets and so on. Plus the rivers of bass, if I can quote Underworld... The defining stuff was earlier, as Maurizio and Basic Channel, but get Rhythm & Sound's self-titled album. Or if you like reggae, maybe go for 'With The Artists', where they've collaborated with a whole lot of reggae vocalists.
Porter Ricks. Fucking Arctic drone producer Thomas Koener and another guy
try their hand at the kind of dub techno I was mentioning above. 'Biokinetics', their debut is on the legendary Chain Reaction label and is amazing.. techno heard from out of the club, down some alley, plus everyone's underwater and about to die from the cold. Somewhere deep in the mix come some pretty angry burrowing noises, which are more obvious on their second album. If you like industrial stuff but can also stomach really repetitive and, well, minimal material, maybe try this out. I was really pleased to see Koener do this stuff live on a huge PA. It was incredibly visceral and thought-destroying in a way I just hadn't imagined techno could be before then.
Whoa, these descriptions are getting longer and more unwieldy. I'll stop here. One of the things I generally like about electronic stuff is it's more about picking up a great single here and there rather than pissing about with epic length albums, so trying to think of albums is a bit tricky.
Oh yeah, since that comic was about Villalobos, if people haven't heard his track
Dexter then you're really, really missing out. It's like all the melancholy synth goodness of pre-95 Autechre roped into this super subdued techno rhythm that somehow is actually fun to dance to in a tent at 8am when it's raining outside and you're wondering what you're doing at this shit festival. . . I imagine.
Someone told me he's been playing dubstep tracks in his DJ sets, which is ... confusing.
