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nebulae wrote:If you want seriously ground-breaking electronic music, go no further than Aqua. This great band is no more, but once, they stood on top of a mountain of soul-less electronic tripe, and once searing, nay screaching, voice stood out and proclaimed to the world, "I'm a barbie girl in a barbie world."

Wow! I just listened to this band via Rhapsody and, wow, it is really awful awful stuff.

Let me add, Rhapsody gives you suggestions on contemporaries of the band your currently listening to - for Aqua is gave (1) Backstreet Boys, (2) Mariah Carey, (3) Jennifer Lopez. Yeah.

For me I'd have too say

Unkle
Plaid
Blackdog
Flanger
Tortoise
Monolake
Richard H.Kirk
Underworld
Akufen
Oval
The Orb
Orbital
LFO
Future Sound of London
MuM
Mouse on Mars
Bjork
Matmos
Arovane
Aux 88


etc ... would rank among my favourites by a long shot

FaX-01 wrote:For me I'd have too say

Unkle
Plaid
Blackdog
Flanger
Tortoise
Monolake
Richard H.Kirk
Underworld
Akufen
Oval
The Orb
Orbital
LFO
Future Sound of London
MuM
Mouse on Mars
Bjork
Matmos
Arovane
Aux 88


etc ... would rank among my favourites by a long shot

Nice to see Tortoise get the shout out. Let me add:

Boards of Canada
DJ Shawdow (part of U.N.K.L.E)
Hexstatic
Squarepusher
Wagon Christ
Luke Vibert

Vince Watson
Joris Voorn
Alexander Kowalski
Heiko Laux
Diego Hostetler

iff you like harder edge stuff, try maybe ant-zen or associated labels. some of imminent's releases are kind of listenable (I'm not so much of a fan now as I used to be). they also got vromb, and silk-saw, two of my long standing favs (more like slow, crushing heavy beats and drones (silk-saw), and plodding analogue machine music from vromb).

I meant so say also, 666, a side label from drop-bass has some pretty flat-out industrial "make your ears bleed" kind of stuff. sadly alot is sold out though.

Trentemoller

http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Trentemoller/

Jan Holm wrote:Trentemoller

http://www.juno.co.uk/artists/Trentemoller/

ditto

I thought heavy guitars and electronics was asked for?
I mean trentemoller rocks, but probably I just overlooked those heavy guitars .

allready stated here but another one for MOGWAI
(and that is not moguai; that's a dj I think)

One of the deepest songs ever made: MOGWAI - TWO RIGHTS MAKE ONE WRONG

listen to that for your heavy guitars/electronic mashup.

Hmmm... irrelevant of your background, there are a few artists that do electronic stuff that I feel anyone with any musical intelligence will appreciate -

DJ Shadow (he was one of the 2 producers on UNKLE's Psyence Fiction, he is the undisputed king of fat, chilled grooves) - Endtroducing/Pre-emptive Strike

Bjork - Homogenic/Vespertine (awesome production on these two albums, just unreal)

Faithless - Reverence (I don't know anyone who doesn't like Faithless once they've listened to their albums, although many people don't know anything about them)

Radiohead - Kid A (if you don't know this album backwards, then.... pffft I'm not talking to you any more ) also check out OK Computer and Amnesiac, both of those albums are more traditional songs with electronics rather then the other way around, but they are still awesome...

Chemical Brothers - Surrender (pretty cool)

Massive Attack - Mezzanine (if you don't own this album, I will hurt you for being a dick) this album also has a little (I said little) bit of guitar in it, but it's sort of only secondary to the electronic stuff

Portishead - Dummy/Portishead (both albums use a lot of guitar mixed with trip-hop beats and cool bass lines)

Ok sorry this is turning into more of a list-my-favourite music thread, but I did keep it all to electronic tinged stuff. Note that I don't like mindless doof-doof or repetitive electronica, I need a bit of soul, groove or heart to my music.

I'd specifically check out Faithless and Radiohead, and remember that both of these groups are actual bands, not producers. It freaked me out a little to see Faithless actually play all their songs as a 6-7 piece band when I saw them in 2004...

uncoiled wrote:Wow thanks guys! Lots of stuff to check out I'm digging the 65 Days of Static and UNKLE stuff.

If you like UNKLE, you should check out the stuff DJ Shadow did before and has done after his UNKLE-period.

http://www.djshadow.com/

Other stuff:

Kraftwerk
Funki Porcini
Squarepusher


And so on.....

markaugust wrote:I thought heavy guitars and electronics was asked for?
I mean trentemoller rocks, but probably I just overlooked those heavy guitars .

allready stated here but another one for MOGWAI
(and that is not moguai; that's a dj I think)

One of the deepest songs ever made: MOGWAI - TWO RIGHTS MAKE ONE WRONG

listen to that for your heavy guitars/electronic mashup.

Oh man these guys are rock'n it!

adam freeland gets down and dirty with the breakbeat heavy guitar action