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JLM:
Industrial music is like infant formula before you move on to real electronic.

Everyone has different tastes, and I've often found that a lot of people in the indie community (and I'm totally generalizing here) seem to prefer music that doesn't really maintain a steady rhythm, or exercises that sort of chaotic, musically masturbatory beatmaking that seems to be popular among the IDM artists these days.  I prefer my electronic music to sort of resemble a song, rather than a pretentious college experiment.  If I wanted that I'd listen to Daniel Lanois.

So moving on.  There's always going to be variances in taste.  And frankly, I think trance music ruined the electronic scene (that's a different topic altogether though).  But here's some of what I dig:

House:
Fred Everything
ADNY
The Persuader
Forme
Chris J.
Denver McCarthy
Charles Webster
Ben Watt
Blue Six
Miguel Migs
Vikter Duplaix
Gilles Peterson
Triola
Yukihiro Fukutomi

Techno:
Fluxion
Aril Brikha
Monolake
Theorem
Alexander Kowalski
Dennis DeSantis
Mike Parker
The Orb

Drum & Bass:
Teebee
Cable
Blame
Seba
Krust
Photek
Paradox
Alaska
Fauna Flash

Downtempo:
Tosca
Pre Cosmic Game Thievery Corporation
Koop
Jazzanova
Truby Trio
Peace Orchestra
Slowpho

Bunnyman:
Trance *can* be lots of fun.  Trance can also be overblown shite.

House:
Phuture (Bumping Acid House)
Luke Vibert (Ditto...Kerrier District is amazing, as is Yoseph)
Future Sound of London (The most varied sound outside of Aphex Twin)
Leftfield (I'm really a sucker for that mid 90's British sound)
Underworld (Further evidence)
Trance:
Infected Mushrooms (Who doesn't love a good bit of Psy-Goa?)

Techno:
o9 (Obscure, awesome.  Seek out Church of the Ghetto P.C. for some amazing soundscapes.)

Drum & Bass:
Source Direct
John B (one of those artists who seems to have remembered how to have fun)

Drill & Bass:
Kid606
Squarepusher

Down Tempo:
Nightmares on Wax (upbeat ambient sort of stuff)

I'm also partial to a good bit of futurepop...I love www.digitalgunfire.com.

elcapitan:

--- Quote from: Outshined ---In regards to elcapitan:  I tried to avoid picking a unified theme/subgenre in my initial suggestions because:

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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.
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Fair call.


--- Quote ---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.  

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I only used trance as an illustrative example. :) I'm not that big a fan of it, to be honest - I listen to some, but I prefer breaks, deep house, stuff with a bit more funk to it.

KharBevNor:

--- Quote from: JLM ---Industrial music is like infant formula before you move on to real electronic.
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Ridiculously biased and wrong opinions are like cat turds shovelled into my eyes. Heard Throbbing Gristle? Current 93's Dog's Blood Rising? Industrial /= Rammstein.

Mortiis is this dude:



and his band. He makes ridiculously wierd fantasy music ranging from industrial-styled efforts to strange dark disco numbers.

And Scum'n Bass is just what you'd expect from a former member of Napalm Death making Drum 'n Bass.

Rizzo:

--- Quote from: JLM ---Industrial music is like infant formula before you move on to real electronic.
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I disagree. I think industrial is a perfectly respectable genre in its own right. The good stuff incorporates so many different styles as well, it can be very complex and interesting. I would say house and D 'n B are more like infant formula, not much variation and less interest.
My personal favourites are:

KMFDM
Covenant
Razed In Black
Prodigy
Concord Dawn (Kiwi D 'n B)
Pop Will Eat Itself
NIN
Wolfsheim
Katscan
Chemical Brothers
Angelspit

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