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[Be My Head]

Hey there, I've realized that I'm severely lacking in the Electronica/Techno department. So I've come for aid from you knowledgeable folks.

Basically I've only listened to a little bit, but so far I've enjoyed NIN's "The Perfect Drug" EP, Boards of Canada, and Aphex Twin.

I'd like it if you could throw out some recommendations based on that. I'm not looking for anything in the realm of "Dance Music", I want nothing that's oversimplified and meant to dance to. I'm looking for stuff that's more Avant-Garde and "out there".

Thank you in advance, I appreciate you guys taking the time to help me out.

[ThisIsOriginal]

daft punk(some),M83-lower your eyelids to die with me,Boards of Canada-dayvan cowboy,FisherSpooner-All we are,Whitey,Benny Benassi

[Be My Head]

Daft Punk is kind of boring for me.

Another one I forgot to mention is Venetian Snares, I like what I've heard of his stuff.

I'll check out the other ones you mentioned, though, and see if I like them.

[ViolentDove]

As far as stuff in a similar vein to Aphex Twin goes, check out Squarepusher.

As far as Venetian Snares goes, maybe check out Aaron Spectre//Drumcorps. Drumcorps is the more breakcore stuff (ie. more like Venetian Snares), Aaron Spectre is the dubstep side of things. Check out his mash-up of NIN's reptile with a whole bunch of heavy dubstep.

If you dig Boards of Canada, you might like DJ Krush. Similar downtempo style, not as warm and fuzzy, though. Also check out Cleptoclectics, and possibly Hermitude on a funkier tip.

Also, basically most stuff on Planet Mu, Warp, Hyperdub and Stones Throw record labels, and maybe Ninja Tune. In fact, go here and listen to a whole bunch of mixes from a whole bunch of people. Particularly the Kper mix, Quarta330's live mix, Aaron Spectre mix, Goth Trad, and um... pretty much everything actually, that site is fucking quality.

P.S. If you don't own one, buy a stereo with a sub or a good pair of headphones. Many types of electronic music have a heavy emphasis on the bass.

[McTaggart]

[jimbunny]

I imagine there are very few people in the world who would not like Helios.

Also: Justice; Dan Deacon (recently placed in the mediafire thread); and the aforementioned  M83.

I'm curious. What on God's green earth would make you find Daft Punk boring, and Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and Nine Inch Nails not boring? Is it some kind of distaste for happiness?

[McTaggart]

Probably less a case of boring and more of not wanky enough.

[Daft pun]

Probably. Anyway, more stuff to listen to:

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Dntel
Autechre
Röyksopp
Four Tet

And some more dance-ish stuff

Out Hud
Soulwax - Nite Versions
Pantha Du Prince
The Field
Nathan Fake
Gui Boratto
Matthew Dear
Ellen Alien & Apparat
Superpitcher

[parm]

Underworld, biznitches. Specially "Dubnobasswithmyheadman" and "Second toughest in the infants". "Beaucoup Fish" is good, but not essential (apart from maybe Cups and Judder/King of Snake). You can pass on "A hundred days off", it's not so great.

[Dimmukane]

Holy Fuck

[imapiratearg]

Strategy.

[KvP]

I'm curious. What on God's green earth would make you find Daft Punk boring, and Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and Nine Inch Nails not boring? Is it some kind of distaste for happiness?

I'm pretty much the same as the OP, actually. I'd say it has more to do with the fact that Daft Punk is made for the dance floor, as is Soulwax or Justice or any of the "unce unce unce unce unce" brigade, whereas the artists mentioned (except for, uh, Nine Inch Nails I guess) are more suited for home listening, or maybe it's just better to say that you can't really dance to it. Aphex Twin's occasionally not averse to making music you can dance to, though.

And I don't know why anyone would come to think that Boards of Canada is not happy music. It's just not as pumped full of plastic and stimulants as Daft Punk. Is it the fact that they don't use vocals at all? Is it the lack of eurodisco influence? The fact that they're not much fun on coke?

Anyway, Planet Mu is where you'd want to be looking. If you like NIN and Aphex Twin then Battles would be right up your alley, probably. The aforementioned Helios trades in the sort of warm ambiance that BoC excels at. You'd probably dig Coil, if you're not opposed to getting much gothier than NIN. Trentemoller's pretty chilled out. If you like ambient music at all you should track down William Basinski.

[Jepser]

Don't forget Vitalic. And oh yes, Infected Mushroom perhaps. And :wumpscut: might be worth trying too?

[BlakeJustBlake]

It sounds like you might be interested in some more Big Beat stuff like Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, Basement Jaxx, whoever said Justice I agree with them, maybe try DJ Tiesto, but that might not be your cup of tea. My advice as far as Electronica/Techno goes, just go listen to a bunch and find out which niche you fall into with it.

[Be My Head]

Okay, I'm going to make a list of all of these, just so I don't forget anything. Thanks for all the recommendations again, I never would have discovered all of this on my own.

Also, I do own a decent stereo with a sub, as well as a nice pair of Sony Noise Cancelling headhpones.

Oh, and to the person who recommended DJ Shadow, I forgot I've already listened to Endtroducing, I thought it was all right but something sounded off to me in some of the songs, I couldn't quite enjoy it for some reason.

List:

M83
FisherSpooner
Whitey
Benny Benassi
Squarepusher
Aaron Spectre//Drumcorps
DJ Krush
Cleptoclectics
Hermitude
Kraftwerk
Helios
Justice
Dan Deacon
Dntel
Autechre
Röyksopp
Four Tet
Underworld
Battles
Coil
William Basinski
Vitalic
Infected Mushroom
:wumpscut:
Prodigy
The Chemical Brothers
The Crystal Method
Basement Jaxx
DJ Tiesto

I'll sample each of them and let you guys know which fit my tastes. Now, off to listen to some music....

[ThisIsOriginal]

I also recently found:

The Presets

[ViolentDove]

Man that list is hot.

I'll throw some cleptoclectics and hermitude up in the med!afire thread, on account of the fact they're local guys and you might not be able to find their stuff elsewhere.

Also, if you get into the Aaron Spectre, let me know, 'cause if you like dubstep I can recommend a shitload more artists. Same with drum n bass. Actually, maybe check out Dom and Roland as well to see if you dig it. He writes some nice techy drum and bass.

[LittleKey]

I am in violent sexy love with Oh No! Oh My!, Royksopp, Owl City, and Hot Chip.

[BlakeJustBlake]

I saw Oh No! Oh My! several months ago, I don't think I'd really call them Electronic or Techno.

However, I forgot, you should check out Ratatat.

[Durin]

I'm going to be a total jerk and plug my own friend. He calls himself Pyroshock.
http://www.last.fm/music/Pyroshock
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=585476

I like it but I very well may be biased.

[dukkha]

Hmm, Boards of Canada and Aphex both roughly fall into the IDM tangent (although Aphex leans into Drill 'n' Bass and Ambient as well), while Venetian Snares tends towards Breakcore, so I'd probably recommend (off the top of my head, so I'm probably missing heaps)...

IDM or related:
Detritus (particularly the album Fractured)
Somatic Responses
Autechre (Particularly Tri Repetae, they can lean towards glitch though)
Gridlock
Bitcrush (their latest album is ambient, but still great)
Scanner (also jumps between idm and ambient)
Subheim
Stendeck

Ambient or related:
Helios
Deaf Centre
Nest
Tim Hecker
Frost/Ben Frost
Hecq (Night Falls album, earlier were glitch)
Christopher Bissonnette
Eluvium
Muhr
Peter Broderick
Yasushi Yoshida
Tomasz Bednarczyk
Stars of the Lid

Breakcore or related:
CDataKill
Aaron Spectre/Drumcorps (as others have said)
Tarmvred
Datach'I

Glitch/Clicks (not really related, but if you like the others, you'll probably like this style):
Another Electronic Musician
I/O
TrenteMoller (a bit of a stretch perhaps)

Dubstep (the straight-forward stuff isn't great, but the more interesting stuff should be up your alley):
Burial
Ital.tec
Enduser
Boxcutter
Pinch
Fanu

Avant:
Contagious Orgasm
Lawrence English
Bernard Parmegiani
Philip Jeck
Pluramon

Instrumental Hip-hop (again, may fit within your tastes):
Blockhead
RJD2
Kid Koala
DDay One

Label wise, check out Planet Mu, Ad Noiseam, Hymen, n5MD, Miasmah, Room 40, Type, Warp (but that's very hit or miss these days), Kranky and the net labels are often good too (www.serein.co.uk, www.thinner.cc as examples)

[Daft pun]

...and the net labels are often good too (www.serein.co.uk, www.thinner.cc as examples)

Totally forgot about thinner, they have a huge assortment of free ambient/minimal. Good stuff.

Also be sure to check out Amon Tobin. His last album should be sufficiently quirky, earlier stuff is more drum & bass.

[parm]

I've we're plugging friends, I'm going to plug Oddskool, which is sort of glitchy electronicy stuff. I'm not sure what I'd compare him to - it's quite stripped down at times, and there's a lot of glitchy beats and rhythms. I like it a lot.

[est]

Holy Fuck

this, Amon Tobin and RJD2.

I could channel Jeph here and say "Ellen Allein, Mathew Dear and Audion" or I could just refer you to this other electronica thread halfway down the front page that I recently locked because it's kind of old and oh god we have so many of these fucking threads why can't you guys use the goddamn search function?: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,17542.0.html

also: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,8926.0.html and http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,9277.0.html and http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,16306.0.html

[ViolentDove]

Maybe a stickied "asking for recommendations" thread would be useful?

[est]

Perhaps!  But it'd also be useful for people to search for shit first based on what their own preferences are before trundling in with only a handful of posts and asking us to predict what kind of music they like.

[gardenhead_]

The thing is most people think that the prediction is going to be unique to them and so want to post about it. That or they want to show off their e-penis or how "ecelectic" they are by posting a list of bands they like and asking for recommendations. So maybe if we had a recommendations thread stickied kind of like the blog thread in ILH. And maybe add somewhere in the rules that all requests for recommendations go in that thread?

I don't know, but these threads are getting really fucking annoying.

So that this post is actually contributing, I'm going to say Four Tet, specifically Rounds. Also seconding Kraftwerk.

[casull]

I really, really enjoy BT's This Binary Universe. It's really out there, (imagine dying computers thrown in a bucket with a full symphony and stirred with a chainsaw) but enjoyable, not weird-for-weirdness' sake.

[carrotosaurus]

Vladislav Delay.

[Akeboshi]

Just my 2 cents, sorry if there are any repeats:

Armin van Buuren
Jes
Sunlounger
Gabriel & Dresden  (duh)
Dave Dresden's solo work  (a friend of mine in D.C. actually met with Dave and heard some unreleased solo stuff.  he says it's unbelievable, so keep an ear out for that)
Kaskade
Kid Koala  (more of a hip-hop influence)

[Jed]

Jori Hulkkonen
Mr. Pulsar

Also check out this site: www.kahvi.org It is dedicated mostly to electronic music and everything on the site is legal and free.

[ViolentDove]

Oh shit yeah, check out ten and tracer. He makes some sweet IDM, and releases a lot of stuff under creative commons. So you can go and download it for free!

[Hat]

Listen to Shit Robot

[sroe]

If you haven't heard of them, try out Afro Celt Sound System. They're a fairly eclectic group of guys and gals ranging between an African master storyteller, a celtic vittuoso, a master dhol player...there's about 8 people total, and their sound is, well, it varies from track to track. Techno, with heavy celtic and african influences, obviously.

For your listening pleasure:
Mojave
Riding the Waves
Persistence of Memory

Now, I don't know if Persistence of Memory is originally theirs, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but it's a pretty cool video anyway.

[McTaggart]

This is my favourite album right now. Might not really fit in with the op's idea, but electro-pop is close enough especially when it's this good.

[ViolentDove]

They're touring here in september/october. Maybe I will go!

[Hat]

Actually I just want to clarify, are you strictly looking for electronic ambient/IDM type music, or are you looking for any kind of electronic music that isn't just a thumping 4 on the floor type of music that needs pills to be listened to? There is some good stuff that still falls into the catagory of "danceable" that is still really quite interesting. Check the mediafire thread to see if the Grafton Primary EP is still up, that is a great album. I might download Ponyloaf's first album as well, really kind of dark, almost industrial in a lot of ways but strangely ballin' and excellent for upbeat parties in the same vein.

[Ax]

I love me some Fuck Buttons.

Pendulum is more mainstream, club-like stuff, but their BBC Essential Mix is Phenomenal.

[ViolentDove]

Ew, Pendulum.

Seriously, if you're after drum and bass, there's a whole bunch of better producers out there.

[Hat]

Actually I really like their latest album, because it didn't really worry too much about actually being drum and bass and just tried to rock.

[Mister Arkadin]

Suicide? Not sure if they're what you're looking for, though.

[MrBlu]

Crazy Frog.

[Steel_Town_Erick]

Acumenation
An Albatross
Angelspit
Celdweller
Covenant
EC8OR
GOTO80
Grendal
Grim Faeries
Klutæ
Leæther Strip
ohGr
Pitbull Daycare

[MrBlu]

Celdweller

Say what now?

[Dimmukane]

Yeah, he ain't looking for all that industrial-type stuff.


OP: do not check out Celldweller.

[Viperidae]

This is useful, pretentious, and comprehensive. For artists, less so, but for genres, it helps.

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

Just sticky this, please.

Note: It's a little dated atm, but ver3 is coming 'soon.'

[KvP]

Hey, don't knock Celldweller. Dude has colorful hair, and he makes club jamz.

Although, seriously, being subjected to a Pitbull Daycare show was about the worst thing that ever happened to me. And believe, some pretty terrible things have been done to me.

[Hat]

That Ishkur guide is actually one of the least pretentious explanations of the various subgenres of electronic music you'll ever hear, it's quite aware of the arbitrariness of a lot of the distinctions and doesn't have a lot of airs like most serious electronic music fans you'll meet.

[bbqrocks]

Surely some of them subgenres are unneeded..About 4 seem to be pretty much 'hardstyle'. And he missed breakcore too, I think. But still, it is a damn good explanation.

[Be My Head]

OP: do not check out Celldweller.

Duly noted

Also, I think I've got more than enough stuff to check out now, I'll simply discover whatever else I like through my usual way (checking out artists associated with ones I like already)

Thanks to everyone who recommended stuff ; )