Topic: Electropunk/Futurepunk (Read 10675 times)

Rizzo · « **on:** 03 Oct 2005, 00:13 »

Hey folks.
I was wondering if people could recommend some good futurepunk/electropunk/synthpunk.
For those who don't know Futurepunk is an infusion of industrial ideals with punk style. Make it fast and brutal.
Click here for a better outline than I can give.
I personally recommend Katscan, Error, Sexpositions and NZ's own NUTE as good examples of this.
Sometimes known as Digital hardcore, ala Atari Teenage Riot. I personally don't see any similarities with hardcore so it's Electropunk for me.
There is also the slightly similar genre of synthpunk, combining punk style and attitude with electronica. Probably best known for this are The Faint and The Epoxies.
Basically I'm looking for more. Sites with free mp3's preferably.
All the sites below have free mp3s.
Katscan:
http://www.katscan.net/
Error:
http://www.epitaph.com/bands/index.php?id=342
NUTE:
http://www.cyborgresistance.com/
Sexpositions:
http://www.sexpos.net/
The Faint:
http://www.thefaint.com/
The Epoxies:
http://www.the-epoxies.com/

KharBevNor · « **Reply #1 on:** 03 Oct 2005, 08:36 »

Angelspit?

http://www.angelspit.net

Probably a bit too tilted towards industrial though. Still a great band.

Rizzo · « **Reply #2 on:** 03 Oct 2005, 14:27 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

Angelspit?

http://www.angelspit.net

Probably a bit too tilted towards industrial though. Still a great band.

Yeah, I've downloaded all their mp3's from their site. Pretty good. A bit generic in places but I really like the layered vocals.
Try NUTE, you can get their entire first EP from their website, and their most famous track "Reflecting on Skin and Bone" or ROSB as it's commonly known. They're pretty industrial.

1patheticloser · « **Reply #3 on:** 03 Oct 2005, 15:15 »

NUTE reminds me very much of a slightly musically superior Marilyn Manson, in terms of the vocals/mood. No that it's a bad thing in my perspective. Yup. A heavier, more industrial Manson.

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #4 on:** 03 Oct 2005, 15:57 »

I listened to a couple of the Katscan mp3's, and it just sounded like darkish breakbeat. Maybe I'm missing some crucial elements, but if not, I'd try Evil Nine and B.L.I.M.

Rizzo · « **Reply #5 on:** 03 Oct 2005, 16:09 »

Quote from: 1patheticloser

NUTE reminds me very much of a slightly musically superior Marilyn Manson, in terms of the vocals/mood. No that it's a bad thing in my perspective. Yup. A heavier, more industrial Manson.

Nothing wrong with Manson, as long as you don't say he's goth.
They're pretty well known in the goth/industrial scene in NZ. They've just released their first album which is doing really well. Even made it into Rocksound which is an international magazine(Big deal for NZ).

Quote

I'd try Evil Nine and B.L.I.M.

Got links? I'll google them.

TheCourtJester · « **Reply #6 on:** 03 Oct 2005, 17:37 »

Polysics?

Rizzo · « **Reply #7 on:** 03 Oct 2005, 18:38 »

Quote from: TheCourtJester

Polysics?

http://www.polysics.com/en/

They look cool, no mp3s though... the Japanese seem to get looped into these contracts that prevent them from having mp3s on their sites...

I need mp3s people. I'm looking for new albums to buy.

Cheers though.

Thrillho · « **Reply #8 on:** 04 Oct 2005, 08:45 »

The Mad Capsule Markets.

It's kind of electro-j-punk, but it's utterly bonkers and utterly brilliant. I'd recommend their albums OSC-DIS or 010, or maybe even the recent live or best of packages.

Thrillho · « **Reply #9 on:** 04 Oct 2005, 08:47 »

Quote from: 1patheticloser

NUTE reminds me very much of a slightly musically superior Marilyn Manson, in terms of the vocals/mood. No that it's a bad thing in my perspective. Yup. A heavier, more industrial Manson.

I remember seeing Manson's Personal Jesus cover when it first came out. I thought 'geez, he's taken another band's song and it STILL sounds exactly like every other song he's ever done.'

Then, about a week ago, I heard Depeche Mode's original version of Personal Jesus.

It turns out, Manson's just been off Depeche Mode this whole time.

Rizzo · « **Reply #10 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 01:43 »

I'm still looking for more!
Surely there's some other people here who don't just listen to Modest Mouse on repeat, wishing that their lives were as exciting as Marten and Fayes....
Get some Venetian Snares down ya!

KharBevNor · « **Reply #11 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 04:11 »

You've clamped down the genre a bit, 'tis all. How about Contrastic?

http:// http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26QPQRAURW5091THLVPST49H7H

More electro-metal, but still has a similiar feel to it in my mind.

Pretty rocking as well.

Rizzo · « **Reply #12 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 04:24 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

You've clamped down the genre a bit, 'tis all. How about Contrastic?

http:// http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26QPQRAURW5091THLVPST49H7H

More electro-metal, but still has a similiar feel to it in my mind.

Pretty rocking as well.

It's true. I'll broaden up a little.
I'm looking for things that are fast, electronic and agressive preferably. Electronic and agressive are the buzz words here.

I couldn't get that song cause it's in wma... I don't go near that shit. Cheers though.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #13 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 04:25 »

You can play it in winamp you know? It's got no ownership certificates, my mate who ripped it isn't that much of a tard.

Rizzo · « **Reply #14 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 04:32 »

Nah, I just don't touch microsoft with a ten-foot pole.
I use iTunes, I've deleted media player and winamp crashes my computer.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #15 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 05:08 »

Bit cutting off your nose-ish imo. Also, won't touch microsoft but embracing apple? Makes me chuckle for some reason.

Well, this is an mp3. I think this gets electronic and aggressive down well enough:

Count Nosferatu Kommando - Jim Beamed Ahnenherbe TV

If you like the Count, go for early Anorexia Nervosa, Aborym, Trollheims Grott and the aforementioned Contrastic.

Also, are we allowed self-promotion? Of course we are!

http://www.myspace.com/deaththroes

One of my projects. Electronic, aggressive and extreme. You can listen to the whole Signal Decay EP at http://www.last.fm/music/Death+Throes/+albums.

Probably a bucket-full of white noise above what you were looking for.The first minute of the autoplay track on the myspace page is just the intro btw.

Also, as a final note, being aghast at the blandness of peoples musical tastes round here doesn't get you very far.

Rizzo · « **Reply #16 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 05:17 »

Nah, I'm not aghast. I just thought there might be a better response. Abuse works wonders.
I'll have a listen to your stuff in the morning, its 1am for me.

Thrillho · « **Reply #17 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 06:06 »

Why did you just ignore my suggestion? :-S

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #18 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 09:12 »

Electronic and agressive? Why didn't you say so in the first place?

Personally, if you're looking for that kind of stuff, I'd skip futurepunk or whatever the hell it's called and get some Breakcore, Breakbeat, DnB and Dubstep in your life. Breakcore you seem to have a start in with Venetian Snares, but you could also check out Chevron, Doormouse and Epsilon. Maybe Kid606 and knifehandchop. You can get samples for most of those guys off http://www.boomkat.com.

Breakbeat wise, I've already suggested Evil Nine and B.L.I.M. Ideally you want to get the Essential Mix Evil Nine did, if you can find it. It's a mix they did for Radio 1, so it should be around on your favourite P2P program. It's number 603 [20/03/2005], which might help. It's got a bunch of tunes by both artists along with a bunch of other darkish breakbeat.

DnB wise, Evol Intent, Exile, DJ Craze and Diesel Boy are all pretty agressive and such. To be honest, there's entire record labels releasing agressive, downright nasty DnB. Renegade Hardware spring to mind, but there's plenty of others.

Dubstep is pretty obscure, but you should be able to find some around. It's basically instrumental Grime, as far as I can tell. Take Dizzy Rascal and replace the lyrics with mountains of sub-bass. Good stuff.
It's all about Digital Mystikz, Skream and Loefah. It's all about this CD

Rizzo · « **Reply #19 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 16:54 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid

Why did you just ignore my suggestion? :-S

I went out and checked their website and such like but couldn't find any mp3s. I've heard many good things about them from friends so I will endevour to find some.

Quote from: MilkmanDan

Electronic and agressive? Why didn't you say so in the first place?

Personally, if you're looking for that kind of stuff, I'd skip futurepunk or whatever the hell it's called and get some Breakcore, Breakbeat, DnB and Dubstep in your life.

I don't use a p2p, don't want adware on my computer. I tried to find BLIM and Evil Nine but all I got was this bizarre flash animation.
I've been listening to D'n B for a while but it doesn't really do it for me. I find it too controlled I guess. I'll check those bands out though.

As for microsoft, I don't touch their music software, I've had it delete my files too many times. I do use some of their other software though.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #20 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 17:40 »

Try DC++ or IRC filesharing if you don't want adware. Neither has ever given my comp anything, and indeed, there's no way it can. I do use Adaware and Hijackthis. There's such a thing as being too paranoid.

Check my stuff yo! Also that CNK mp3 I uploaded for your delectation.

Rizzo · « **Reply #21 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 18:10 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

Try DC++ or IRC filesharing if you don't want adware. Neither has ever given my comp anything, and indeed, there's no way it can. I do use Adaware and Hijackthis. There's such a thing as being too paranoid.

Check my stuff yo! Also that CNK mp3 I uploaded for your delectation.

I've gone and exceeded my bandwidth, NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I'm currently downloading your stuff from myspace and CNK from usendit. I'll give you my thoughts when it's fully downloaded.
Cheers man.
Here's one from a friend of mine in Germany. http://www.myspace.com/noiseburge
Grinding noisecore (Its not serious)

KharBevNor · « **Reply #22 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 18:21 »

Unfortunately the sound on my comp is down totally, so I cannae listen atm. I'll keep him in mind though. I just added you to my myspace friends list so I can find it again when I get the sound working, hopefully tomorrow. Also because you appear cool. *shifty eyes*

Rizzo · « **Reply #23 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 18:33 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

Unfortunately the sound on my comp is down totally, so I cannae listen atm. I'll keep him in mind though. I just added you to my myspace friends list so I can find it again when I get the sound working, hopefully tomorrow. Also because you appear cool. *shifty eyes*

It's a lie, I'm terribly uncool as all of my friends(Non myspace o course) can attest.
I'm really liking this CNK. I could listen to this for ages. Not what I was looking for but still good. More metal should sound like this. I'm pressuming this would be classified as metal.
I advocate Zyklon for something slightly similar.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #24 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 18:59 »

I highly recommend their full-length as CNK, 'Ultraviolence Uber Alles'. The two demo/ep thingumies released as simply Count Nosferatu aren't as good, but ok. They deserve respect simply because they have a song about how much they hate black metal scene kiddies, and they call themselves 'Hellektronika'. Not to mention their schtick is nazi satanist cyborg vampire anarchist fetish terrorists. Or something. All I know is it involves a lot of shotguns, motorbikes, blood and gimp masks.

Their almost impossible to find via google website

If you want some very insane industrial black metal on the same plane of existence as the count, Aborym is your safest bet. This is by far their most EBM track, but the rest of their stuff is just as skull-crushing, only in a more metal fashion (normally...they're experimental as hell)

Aborym - Chernobyl Generation

These guys mainly deserve respect because of their day-glo raver corpsepaint:

Rizzo · « **Reply #25 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 20:35 »

Ugh... Nazis. I hate nazis.

Raver corpsepaint FTW

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #26 on:** 08 Oct 2005, 21:17 »

Quote from: Rizzo

Quote from: TheCourtJester
Polysics?

http://www.polysics.com/en/

They look cool, no mp3s though... the Japanese seem to get looped into these contracts that prevent them from having mp3s on their sites...

I need mp3s people. I'm looking for new albums to buy.

Cheers though.

http://www.asianmanrecords.com/media/Polysics-Married_To_A_Frenchman.mp3 ask and ye shall receive.

if you're including The Epoxies, i would recommend both The Phenomenauts (although they've got a huge rockabilly influence) and The Aquabats' latest album.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #27 on:** 09 Oct 2005, 03:32 »

Quote from: Rizzo

Ugh... Nazis. I hate nazis.

Nazis for the lose.

Bands that include random nazi/fascist imagery for shits, giggles or to satirise the right wing (CNK, Hanzel und Gretyl, Laibach, Current 93, Death in June, Marduk, Rammstein to an extent) for the win. I must point out that the bands 'nazi' schtick was almost entirely contained in the song that you just listened to, and you seemingly didn't notice it (The Ahnenherbe were the wierd supernatural division of the SS, the guys Indiana Jones fights). Mainly they dress as terrorists or gimps. Offend! Offend! Offend!

TheLoweringTide · « **Reply #28 on:** 09 Oct 2005, 04:33 »

Polysics are fucking EXCELLENT. Just buy an album. It's pretty much impossible to be disappointed.

Rizzo · « **Reply #29 on:** 09 Oct 2005, 04:44 »

Quote from: KharBevNor

Quote from: Rizzo
Ugh... Nazis. I hate nazis.

Nazis for the lose.

Bands that include random nazi/fascist imagery for shits, giggles or to satirise the right wing (CNK, Hanzel und Gretyl, Laibach, Current 93, Death in June, Marduk, Rammstein to an extent) for the win. I must point out that the bands 'nazi' schtick was almost entirely contained in the song that you just listened to, and you seemingly didn't notice it (The Ahnenherbe were the wierd supernatural division of the SS, the guys Indiana Jones fights). Mainly they dress as terrorists or gimps. Offend! Offend! Offend!

Yeah, I haven't listened to the lyrics really, on listening again I can hear it. Still like it.
It's just that using Nazism as a shock factor is totally repugnant. Millions of people died in WWII so those scum wouldn't take over and yet we still have people parroting their stupid ideologies even today. I find it utterly ridiculous that people can even begin to lean that way in this day and age. Really it's just a matter of ignorance.
On the otherhand, they seem to be doing it just for the supernatural factor so it's not so bad but I still don't like it.
I guess in the long run as long as people don't get tolerant of it then it'll all be ok.

That Polysics song rules! I wish I could understand more of it... my Japanese is pretty terrible.

Thrillho · « **Reply #30 on:** 09 Oct 2005, 07:30 »

Quote from: Rizzo

Quote from: DynamiteKid
Why did you just ignore my suggestion? :-S

I went out and checked their website and such like but couldn't find any mp3s. I've heard many good things about them from friends so I will endevour to find some.

Hit me up on MSN sometime and I'll send you some. It's great stuff, and they are actually surprisingly varied. Some of it's not quite electropunk.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #31 on:** 09 Oct 2005, 08:10 »

Jeez. The interweb.

I remember liking a long post explaining how, basically, fucking around with fascistic basically removes all it's power and is like pissing on Mussolini's face. Or something. It was good.

Rizzo · « **Reply #32 on:** 11 Oct 2005, 01:05 »

I've just discovered www.pandora.com
Seems to be awesome.

Rizzo · « **Reply #33 on:** 26 Oct 2005, 02:17 »

*BUMP* I'm still looking for more. At the moment my favs are Venetian Snares and Polysics.

ASturge · « **Reply #34 on:** 26 Oct 2005, 04:06 »

To be honest d00dz, I prefer Cyberpunk-Electrojiggle.

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #35 on:** 26 Oct 2005, 04:22 »

Try Xanopticon. Breakcore. Harder and more electronic than Venetian Snares. Great stuff. No idea about MP3s, sorry.

salada · « **Reply #36 on:** 26 Oct 2005, 05:24 »

i never really paid much attention to this thread until now. which is a pity, since "electronic and aggressive" has sort of been my main thing for a while now.

i haven't read anything, so forgive me for any unnecessary repetition.

electronic, aggressive, but usually quite silly: toecutter, shitmat

and venetian snares are kinda a staple. check out the µ-ziq (mu-ziq) label for some cool stuff (not all of it's aggresive electronic stuff though. mostly pretty good regardless). hvratski, who is signed to µ-ziq, apparently produced some pretty abrasive dnb-esque stuff in his early days. haven't heard any of it though.

if you can find some of amon tobin's earlier stuff, that can get a bit edgy sometimes. pretty fast, and on a sort of jazzy tip. even better, stuff that he recorded as cujo, which is much more drum and bass focussed.

atari teenage riot, but you mentioned them at the start.

jungle / ragga / dancehall influenced stuff: bong-ra, kid 606, cex

drum and bass-ish: evol intent make some of my favourite songs right now. killer. also spor, noisia, gein, dj hidden. labels to check out for heavy dnb: barcode, renegade hardware, freak recordings, outbreak and maybe metalheadz and moving shadow.

and if you're looking for audio without getting into p2p stuff:

grindthieves international have a bunch of excellent breakcore / heavy jungle / dnb mixes in their "exclusive audio" section. good for listening to and finding new artists.

dnb-sets is a drum and bass mixes search engine, cataloguing loads of stuff from all over dnb -- live sets, promo mixes, amateur stuff, and so on. just punch in and artist name (you can also set mix / max bitrates and times).

the mixing bowl is a bittorrent tracker for mixes and live sets (hip-hop and various electronic music mostly). i only just found this place last week, but it seems ok for live sets etc. there's a bbc radio 1 'breezeblock' show up there with evol intent, and noisia and spor sets on it. radulous.

never seen a bittorrent tracker that installs spyware, but caveat emptor or whatever.

local stuff you probably won't know, but then maybe you will since you're just over in nu zillund:

artists: paul blackout, epsilon, xylocaine, patricider. also fraughman, toecutter, rank sinatra, and the rest of the 'system corrupt' crew.

labels: killing sheep, hardline, and the now defunct bloody fist. noisexchange is a melbourne record shop (run by the dude who used to run the bloody fist record store and label in newcastle). they sell a lot of breakcore, glitch, noise, loud dnb, and other forms of fairly painful music.

anyway. i should be studying, and that's all i've got at the moment. hope it helps.

NINJA EDIT! to fix up some bbcode.

DOUBLE EDIT! listen to nonprophet's "sound murderation" mix on grindthieves NOW. i am. it's awesome. tracklist here.

Rizzo · « **Reply #37 on:** 27 Oct 2005, 01:32 »

Thanks people. I'll check it all out.
Just listening to The Locust and downloading Non Prophet.

EDIT:Not downloading Non Prophet, not at 127mb.

Rizzo · « **Reply #38 on:** 30 Nov 2005, 23:10 »

BUMP!

Still looking for more music. Bring on the digital anarchy. And another big thanks to the people who've posted thus far.

salada · « **Reply #39 on:** 01 Dec 2005, 04:48 »

today's post is brought to you by the letter E!

be on the lookout for anything by ewun, exile (more recent stuff), and enduser!

while we're on the E's, i don't want to pimp out evol intent too much, but i just put up a track of theirs for the forced listening thread if you want a sampler. WARNING: it's silly.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #40 on:** 01 Dec 2005, 05:02 »

How about some Melt-Banana?
Melt-Banana - Lost Parts Stinging Me So Cold
Trencher?
Trencher - Illuminated Dead
Le Tigre?
Le Tigre - My My Metrocard
Infidel?;Castro!
Infidel?;Castro! - Negativity

Rizzo · « **Reply #41 on:** 01 Dec 2005, 13:48 »

Thanks guys. I'm really liking Trencher and Evol Intent.

Rizzo · « **Reply #42 on:** 17 Jul 2007, 21:15 »

RAAAAAGH BRAAAAAINS. ZOMBIE THREAD.

Bring me your industrial/synth punk!

amok · « **Reply #43 on:** 17 Jul 2007, 21:22 »

Nice avatar

Still just looking for the punk side of things, or anything aggressive like?

Rizzo · « **Reply #44 on:** 17 Jul 2007, 22:49 »

Same to you homeslice.

Anything aggressive electro really. Rock my face off plz.

amok · « **Reply #45 on:** 17 Jul 2007, 22:59 »

You mentioned Atari Teenage Riot so I'm guessing it's a pretty safe bet you've heard Panic DHH? That's probably my most relevant suggestion on the offchance you haven't.

Actually I've only seen those guys live, not given the records much of a listen at all*, but if they're anything like as good on CD as in person it's worth a shot.

Soman's album Mask from this year is a must.

C-Drone Defect are pretty aggressive if you don't find the whole EBM thing too cheesy. Also, their remix of Unter Null's 'Sick Fuck' from the SF EP is absolutely outstanding, worth checking out even if you don't like their own (rather more formulaic) recordings. The latest Tactical Sekt CD (Syncope) is also awesome, as is the Tac Sekt remix of 'Pax Psychosis' by Grendel.

Terrorfakt and Empusae do some pretty good beat-driven 'powernoise' (I am not good with genres it's like OONTZ OONTZ SCARY DISTORTION (film sample) thudda thudda OONTZ OONTZ) which certainly sounds aggressive to my ears.

You still not doing the whole downloading thing? I can upload any CDs mentioned/similar stuff to the Sendspace thread if ya like.

*Heard a couple of tracks before the gig but seeing PDHH in a small underground bar the size of yer average basement blew my mind so hard I pretty much never had the urge to listen to 'em on record, 'cos it couldn't possibly be that awesome.

edit: f'k it, I'll upload Soman anyway.

Rizzo · « **Reply #46 on:** 17 Jul 2007, 23:08 »

Cheers dude. I know my Terrorfakt reasonably well but the others all sound pretty cool. Upload away! (That's if it's not a hassle of course. Much appreciated)
Panic DHH are on DHR right? I know the name but not the band. I shall investigate.
Thanks again.

amok · « **Reply #47 on:** 17 Jul 2007, 23:14 »

Yeah that's cool, no one ever uses the uploady bit of the internet here except me so I'll get a few of 'em done tomorrow.

They are indeed on DHR, one of their members is Alec Empire's guitarist or something. Absolutely tore the place up live, the singer was swinging on pipes on the ceiling screaming into people in the 5th row's faces by 10 seconds into the first song. Awesome. Couldn't hear shit for a week mind.

edit: also since you know/like Terrorfakt I feel obliged to mention Tarmvred since I was recommended 'em at the same time and I can't see anyone liking one and not the other. Similar shit, still awesome.

anditsdiscontents · « **Reply #48 on:** 23 Jul 2007, 02:37 »

Genghis Tron! Genghis Tron! Genghis Tron! Genghis Tron!
http://www.genghistron.com/

Rizzo · « **Reply #49 on:** 23 Jul 2007, 20:50 »

Will investigate once I return from work.

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