Alternative Electronic LoveMusic

[Boffin]

Over the last couple of years I have delved into the world of some alternative electronic music. That's not to say raving dance techno, sometimes it has a beat, sometimes no - same goes with melody. Some are more different from the norm than others. I love what some of these people are doing and how some of the work they produce makes you sit back and actually analyse it for one or two plays through before the musical ear in your head....understands it so to speak.

Its not to be hipster with the whole "Have you heard of this artist? Thought not" regime, but these artists are sometimes small, home-based or rather localised to a certain area seeing as the greater public don't respond all that well to it, so a lot of these artists don't carry a huge profile. Discovery comes from soundcloud searching, trawling through some awesome yet relatively unknown blogs (ISO50 is a brillant one for music and design), itunes and word of mouth.
So I decided to set up a thread about it as a kind of hub for new discoveries. I am seeing more and more people getting into this kind of thing so I was wondering if there are any like minded people on the 'Planet!

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If there is already a thread like this, I am sorry, but I didn't think it would be all too well recieved in the Unknown Artists thread, seeing as its generally focsing on other genres.

Here are some of my favourite artists to start off. For people wanting to get into it, if you don't like the sound of one, move on - there are plenty of different sounds these guys are making from several different sub genres.

Shigeto

Berimbau Interlude.



Young Montana?







Lorne (featured on GT5)







Com Truise







Flume







Bonobo







Mux Mool





Charles Trees





Gold Panda





Amon Tobin







Scuba





Mr Lager





Robot Koch





Cj_Harder





Hudson Mohawke





Seekae

Blood Bank



Jon Hopkins





EDit (slight language)





Le Knight Club





Toro Y Moi







Washed Out





Boards of Canada





Bullion





Hourglass Sea





Orna





Letherette

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[Tesla]

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

A useful resource for anyone who wants to look into the history of a particular genre, with examples and a description. Language Warning.

 

[Pupik]

Lorn and Amon Tobin are pretty good; Lorn's of the chill-out music variety, and Amon Tobin is more like Autechre meets Brazilian samba. I recall he made of the Splinter Cell soundtracks.

Boards of Canada is okay, but sometimes their stuff is a little doleful and/or trippy to the point I can't do anything at the same time while listening to it. Still, some of their stuff like Happy Cycling and Turquiose Hexagon Sun invokes a childish smile out of me.

 

[Wiegert]

Cherry Moon is still my favourite GT5 song, and I like both Lorn and Amon Tobin. Funnily enough, I've recently been listening to the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory soundtrack that was composed by Tobin.


While I do like a lot of Boards of Canada songs, I agree that some of them are a little too trippy for my taste (Tears From The Compound Eye is probably the trippiest song that I like from them). The first 5 minutes of Happy Cycling has that rather hypnotic trip-hop beat which I never get tired of, plus the melody which kicks in towards the end kind of reminds me of some of the stuff that Ulrich Schnauss made a few years later.




Anyway, I've got a few other alternative electronic suggestions as well (well tracks I listen to regularly anyway):


Ochre - Revolver





Ochre - Yugen





Tycho - From Home





The Flashbulb - Mellann

 

[Boffin]

I go in and out of phases, and with that, I am not focusing on Lorn that much these days, mind you I still listen to anything he throws up on Facebook.

Right now I am listening to Bonobo, Young Montana?, Flume and Com Truise more than anyone else. I think they each have something special to bring to the table. Actually went to school with Flume, so its really great to see him take off like he is.

Boards of Canada is okay, but sometimes their stuff is a little doleful and/or trippy to the point I can't do anything at the same time while listening to it. Still, some of their stuff like Happy Cycling and Turquiose Hexagon Sun invokes a childish smile out of me.

Would have to agree - on the whole, BOC is a bit dull but it works in some situations and moods.

Tycho - From Home

Ahhh Tycho - I was meaning to put that one up. That's actually really cool and I also like 'Hours'.

 

[Copper]

Squarepusher

 

[disinfected]

Something like this, perhaps?

 

[Boffin]

If you like 👍


Another brilliant song. Took a few plays for it to grow on me but loved it ever since.

 

[Mike Rotch]

I like Bonobo, but the good tracks are great and the bad ones, well, bad.

Not sure if it counts as the same genre, but Zero 7



, Cinematique


and Air


are excellent electro/ downtempo stuff. For some relaxing alt- classical stuff (if that makes sense) try Yasushi Yoshida.




Sigur Ros is also epic aural pleasure; although completely different to anything you have ever heard before. 👍

 

[disinfected]

 

[Wiegert]

This track is pretty underated, but it's been one of my favourite remixes for the past few months now:





Most Tim Exile tracks are, well, strange. That doesn't stop me from liking songs such as this one though:





And I've started listening to Quantic recently. Not bad:

 

[Boffin]

I like Bonobo, but the good tracks are great and the bad ones, well, bad.

Indeed - some of his stuff lacks some imagination. I think the Black Sands album is great however. Theres only one boring song on it (for me)

Incidentally, I quite enjoy this rap version of 'Stay the Same' (which I am also quite fond of):

Not sure if it counts as the same genre, but Zero 7

Yeah I think chillout belongs here. 👍

, Cinematique


are excellent electro/ downtempo stuff. For some relaxing alt- classical stuff (if that makes sense) try Yasushi Yoshida.

Lol these links don't work.

Sigur Ros is also epic aural pleasure; although completely different to anything you have ever heard before. 👍

Love them! My personal fav:

This is really cool 👍

This track is pretty underated, but it's been one of my favourite remixes for the past few months now:

Love the bassline in this. 👍

And I've started listening to Quantic recently. Not bad:

This is awesome.

 

[astrosdude91]

Some of my picks:

 

[Mike Rotch]

Lol these links don't work.

Yasushi Yoshida:



Cinematique



👍

 

[disinfected]

Some more you might enjoy. Really into this stuff lately.

 

[Boffin]

 

[Boffin]

Pretty cool stuff.


Mahal (feat. Chet Faker) - Ta Ku

 

[F1GTR]

Some of my favourite tracks of 2011.

 

[Boffin]

^^ Nice!

 

[astrosdude91]

How about Star*****r? Obviously I can't type their name here without the swear filter intervening.

 

[Boffin]

Cool beans. Love Starfornicator. 👍

 

[akuyuku]

Cool beans. Love Starfornicator. 👍

Good job avoiding the censor.

Shlohmo

Shigeto

Dorian Concept

 

[Wiegert]

So, I've started listening to more stuff from Amon Tobin in the past couple of weeks:








And some newish stuff from The Flashbulb:

 

[Boffin]

Good job avoiding the censor.

Shlohmo

Really enjoyed this.


Moar from me:



New T.E.E.D snippet from his new single, pretty cool.

 

[Wiegert]

Slight thread revival. Started listening to some of these after going through Ninja Tune's signed artists.


Daedelus - Samba Legrand




Cujo - Paris Streatham




Bonobo - All In Forms




Tycho - Dictaphone's Lament

 

[disinfected]

Wasn't sure quite where to put this one, but it's awesome.