(Electronica with Guitars! how about that Salada?)
yeh, it's just that whenever this thread comes up (it seems to be second only in recurringness to the hip-hop thread), everyone seems to list this weird mix of bigbeat superstar commercial stuff (chemical brothers, fatboy slim, underworld, etc) and whatever pitchfork thinks is cool this month (boards of canada and a bit of aphex twin)*.
it seems to be the indie rock equivalent of mentioning clap your hands say yeah and coldplay in the same breath. that's kind of a shonky metaphor, but you get the idea.
and then there's my issue with the "electronica" genre -- it's such a laughably broad tag. i mean depending on your standards, you can put lemonjelly and kruder+dorfmeister in the same boat as guys like phthalocyanine and kid606 -- they're both broadly "electronica". i suppose people are doing the subgenre thing though, which kinda helps.
(and the way music's going these days, it'd be pretty uncommon for there NOT to be some sort of electronic somethingorother somewhere in the recording/production of it.)
all that said, though, some favourites:
silly glitchy stuff, IDM maybe, bordering on noise at times: venetian snares, kid 606, cex, shitmat, hrvåtski, guilty connector, epsilon, squarepusher, atari teenage riot, autechre
drum and basssss: evol intent, the enemy, paul blackout, spor, pish posh, dom+roland, bad company, pendulum, phobia, concord dawn.
downbeat, sort of hip-hop-ish stuff: prefuse 73, krush, blockhead, hermitude, dj cam, vadim, herbaliser, peace orchestra, kruder+dorfmeister, tosca, and, er, can't remember.
and, er, other people: amon tobin, aphex twin, BoC, chaos AD, and that's all i can think of and i want lunch.
*don't get me wrong, i like all of these people (with the possible exception of fatboy slim)
