doesn't 'indie' just really represent the word 'independant'? and when it comes to electronic music. isn't it all basically independant? tons of cats out there making shit on their PC's without any outside help at all.
at any rate. someone already mentioned ellen alien. Jeph has mentioned numerous times his adoration of the Ellen Alien and Apparat album called 'Orchestra of Bubbles' which is a good accessible poppy kind of electronica. also worth checking out is Apparat's own albums. entitled Trial and Error, Multifunktionsebene, Duplex (which just yesterday got props from Jeph), Algorhythm, Shapemodes, and Silzium. (the track Komponent in particular is beautiful) when apparat throws lyrics into his tracks they take on a whole new force.
the voice in the back of my mind is telling me that what you kids mean by 'indie' really means more like 'accessible' or 'poppy'. so I'll keep to that..
more to the IDM side of things, check out Beefcake. specifically the album 'Drei'. Gridlock has already got mention, they're along the same lines as beefcake. for more chilled out sounds try some cats like New Delhi FM, or Ishq, Monolake, Jetone, xploding plastix...
another one I have to toss out there is the ethereally beautiful, melancholic, and sometimes haunted sounding Ulrich Schnauss.
Dj Cuddlefish could go on and on and on and on really. he'll cut it short today.
cheers!
