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KvP:
Daft Punk and Ed Banger are the go-to sources of House music for people who are made uncomfortable with music that isn't rock. If you're a novice when it comes to electronic music they're a good place to start. They are also fun at parties, but tonally they are quite different from most House types.

For classic Chicago house, DJ International has a pretty good archive. Look up: Fast Eddie.

For more current House music, Bpitch Control has the market more or less cornered on notable tech house and microhouse. Look up: Ellen Allien, various Bpitch Control compilations.

In terms of House / Dubstep, the latter is becoming increasingly the former even without UK Funky and the various UK Garage permutations that orbit the scene. There are numerous House-centric labels - Numbers, Ramp, PTN, Ten Thousand Yen, etc. Look up: Breach, Julio Bashmore, xxxy.

For deeper house, I tend towards Soma, mainly because of The Black Dog, who I've been a fan of for forever (and even though they're more Techno than House). Look up their compilations.

For Disco-oriented House, LCD Soundsystem gets all the attention but the rest of the DFA catalog is reliably good lo-fi Disco and Acid House. Look up: Black Meteoric Star, James Murphy and the other guy's Fabriclive mix, the DFA comps.

There's also Rush Hour, which is a legendary House-oriented record store and their label runs the gamut from newer House to remasters via their 100% excellent Voyage Direct series, to Anthony "Shake" Shakir reissues, on and on and on. Look up: Voyage Direct series.

If you look through the dozens of releases I put up in the M / F thread every week there are bound to be a few House ones.

There's probably more that I'm not remembering.

KvP:
One thing: House music (and dance music in general) isn't as album-oriented as most other kinds of music. Chances are you'll find many more 12" singles than you will albums. There are some exceptions - Ellen Allien and Bpitch Control deal pretty heavy in full-length releases, for example - but especially with very "current" artists, most of their work is going to be disseminated via white labels, dubplates and vinyl singles, so as to better cater to the club scene. Thankfully most artists these days release simultaneous or slightly staggered (usually a week after vinyl release and several months after exclusive dubplate release) digital versions.

Jimmy the Squid:
I've been really getting into Skrillex lately. They are pretty tops.

imagist42:
Is it me or do we have a thread about this stuff and/or Daft Punk specifically like once a month?

KvP:
Not that I've noticed.

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