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Electronic Music Compendium
Outshined:
We've had a lot of music suggestions threads on a general level, but I see less discussion of electonic music in specific on this forum. This is a genre I'd really like to see more people get into, because it is such an individualistic field in terms of how people come up with their sounds. However, to me, it seems pretty inaccessable (I basically got into it by jumping in blind, and getting lucky by picking a good starting point/band).
I was thinking we might compile some kind of compedium, so people looking into the genre would have some idea of the major players and some good places to start looking, but I'd also like to see some fresh suggestions thrown out, as well, because I'm always interested in hearing a new artist.
I'll start by throwing out a few of the obvious/better known ones:
Kraftwerk
Autechre
Aphex Twin
Boards of Canada
The Chemical Brothers
The Crystal Method
Air
Juno Reactor
Amon Tobin
M83
NIN
Tangerine Dream
Daft Punk
Junior Senior
Would you guys consider The Faint electronic? They toe the line pretty well, it seems.
Some more obscure bands/artists that I think are pretty good are:
Esem
Tycho
You can also find some pretty interesting stuff on amatuer sites like Myspace, as well, and there are also some pretty cool remixes on OCRemix if you dig in the right places.
If you are interested or curious about a particular artist or what any of these bands sounds like, feel free to ask.
elcapitan:
The problem with this is similar to the problem with a universal hip-hop thread. "Electronic" music has so many byzantine subdivisions that it's pretty much impossible to even try and pigeonhole it. I mean, do you include trance? Do you include hard trance, hardcore, happy hardcore, deep trance, prog trance, or do you simply not accept that those labels even describe different types of music? Same goes for DnB, house, funk, breaks, etc., etc... To say nothing of Khar's favourite brand of dark metal inspired electronica, and so on and so forth. It's a can of worms.
To be honest, I couldn't detect an overarching theme to your list. That's not a bad thing - the groups you listed are all good - but what do you mean by "electronic"?
In the spirit of it, though, some good groups/artists:
BT
X-Dream
Supreme Beings Of Leisure
Layo & Bushwacka!
2 Many DJs (just because)
Itch-E and Scratch-E (and anything else involving paul mac)
Four Tet
Propellerheads
Plump DJs
Kosheen
Freestylers (yes, even Push Up)
Pendulum
Orbital
KharBevNor:
I know what I mean by electronic:
:wumpscut:
Post 'Daudi Baldrs' Burzum
Neuroticfish
VNV Nation
Funker Vogt
Lords of Acid
OhGr
Mortiis
Later Sopor Aeternus
Anne Clark
old Current 93
Skinny Puppy
Alien Vampires
Throbbing Gristle
Dread Conveyor
Terrorfakt
Deathstars
Gary Numan
Psychic TV
Mind.in.a.Box
Curse of the Golden Vampire
Assemblage 23
...and so on and so forth.
I'd recommend all those bands, but not to get you in to electronic music. Maybe to get you away from it...
The easiest way to get into electronica is simply to drop the stupid prejudices against it that most of my friends seem to have. Even then, I have to say, I don't like most mainstream electronica at all. Only really stuff in the EBM/industrial/darktrance/dark ambient sort of axis, with some acid and of course wierder stuff like Mortiis (All hail the disco-troll!) and Curse of the Golden Vampire (Scum 'n bass! Scum 'n bass!).
Shaft:
NO. PENDULUM ARE NOT GOOD ELECTRONIC ARTISTS. THEY ARE CHAVS ON CD. THEY EPITOMIZE REPETETIVENESS. THEY GIVE D'N'B A BAD NAME.
Caps lock makes it look like I'm shouting, right?
Outshined:
To start, for the purpose of this thread lets define electronic music as:
Anything produced in majority by use of computerized composition or synths. This includes music generated entirely with computer generated/synth sounds, or samples that have been recorded and then arranged or composed on the computer. This can also extend to sounds created by synth, but then manually dubbed (I think this is how Tangerine Dream worked..?). I really think electronica is almost a kind of "mentality" that you can just tell by hearing it.
Electronica is not something that is made solely by guitars, drums, or traditional instruments (although it may contain samples of said instruments.)
In regards to elcapitan: I tried to avoid picking a unified theme/subgenre in my initial suggestions because:
a) I'd like to make a relatively unbiased list that highlights the better artists from electronic as a whole, so as to encourage different musical tastes and expose interested people to a range of styles.
and
b)To avoid getting into the whole "splitting hairs over which subgenre it fits into" issue. I don't like trying to fit bands into little boxes =P.
Apologies, it seems I've forgotten to add the trance, though ;). It's not really my bag, but it has it's merits, and I still enjoy it on occasion.
Paul Oakenfold,
Sasha,
and John Digweed are probably the better known names in that field.
I'll also throw out Bit Shifter since I forgot to mention him earlier, even though he's unrelated to trance =P.
In regards to Khar: I've recently heard a bit of "dark metal" as I think it was called.... it was kind of interesting... sort of like Ambient electronica, but approached from a metal mentality and using guitar distortion instead of synths to create a really threatening "atmosphere" for lack of a better word. It was kind of interesting... I think of it as one of the places metal and electronica overlap.
Also, what are "disco-troll" and "scum-n-bass"? I'm a bit curious as to what that sounds like =).
I've heard a little Skinny Puppy, but I'm still kind of on the fence about them. Maybe I just need to find the right album ;)
If you guys had to pick 2 favorites from the lists you posted, who would they be? Trying to pick a place to start, haha.
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