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So I have of late found myself realising it's a long time since I have heard a genuinely interesting or exciting new artist & I've decided it's time to head off into a deep dive of the interweb, in search of new and interesting electronic artists. There's lots of lovely commercial stuff around (I'm listening to Lorde in my car ) but I am particularly interested in people who take risks, who do interesting new things, and whose music stands up to repeated listening.

I will post whatever I find really interesting and worthwhile on this thread, and would love it if others do the same.

Please post songs, artists' own pages, interviews and articles, your own comments...

If the thread becomes interesting I will use the first post as a kind of index or contents page.

thanks!

So here's me first one:

Arca

https://soundcloud.com/arca1000000/arca ... air-fw15-1

Interesting artist. Very young, very creative, very intense, melodious and dissonant style.

Like all of his solo offerings so far, Mutant can be hard to wrap your head around. The album's melodies are slippery, elusive things. They bob like eye floaters, refusing to come into focus; around them surges a riot of colors, textures, and shuddering rhythms. At any given moment some sound or another is either coming into being or in the process of disintegration. The music's organizing principles feel almost biological—if you could amplify the sounds of proteins going about their biochemical business, you suspect it might sound something like this

http://pitchfork.com/features/interview ... ed-beauty/

For me he sounds a little like Burial, but on acid.

Here's another:

Holly Herndon
http://hollyherndon.tumblr.com/
https://hollyherndon.bandcamp.com/

Very unlike Arca - in fact she reminds me a lot of Laurie Anderson in that she makes heavy use of her own voice, and that a lot of her music is political / social category in that oblique Andrerson way. I am listening to Movement and Platform at the moment. Very smart, cerebral music, and her production skills of are off the chart.

Here we go again! Oldies, but goldies! I haven't heard nothing better in my life!
I love the analog warmth of their vocals! And that discrete sound of music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlmRjqBt_mE
Enjoy!
Skål!

Gelbart... can't wait for the lp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNy7cDwa1sE

Rob Clouth - new EP is pretty special.
https://leisuresystem.bandcamp.com/albu ... structures

Deathgrips, all done on V Drums, plus vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5GCn1BKkxg

Machinesworking wrote:Deathgrips, all done on V Drums, plus vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5GCn1BKkxg

H20nly wrote:

Machinesworking wrote:Deathgrips, all done on V Drums, plus vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5GCn1BKkxg

"I like my ipod more than fuckin."
So many good lines! and I guess they aren't unknown, but wtf it's what I'm listening to besides the last Bowie recording.

This probably leans towards the commercial but I'm posting it under the "interesting" request. On a background listen it sounds like an early 90's rock song but when paying closer attention there in fact isn't any guitar and you'd be forgiven for thinking the chorus is backed by distorted guitar power chords when in fact its a synth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4UoS9qtozc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SsBtfuSDxw

Machinesworking wrote:Deathgrips, all done on V Drums, plus vocals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5GCn1BKkxg

i loved their first album, ex-military

electronic? i guess so, they play techno music with real instruments

Nisennenmondai are the best thing i found over the last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6-DdkXS7d0

Thanks for all these suggestions! Some amazing artists there.

Meanwhile, here's another find of mine:

https://soundcloud.com/stachy

This is one of the members (ex members?) of Hofuku Sochi, which is one of my favourite chillwave/glo-fi electronic outfits.

And it took me until now to stumble across Stereolab.

I've been enjoying this guy: millolab