Best electronic music act ever

[longers]

Lamb is way up there for me.

You should definitely check out some of the stuff I’ve listed if you’re into Lamb.

Bonobo, Four Tet, Amon Tobin etc.

 

[verreauxi]

You should definitely check out some of the stuff I’ve listed if you’re into Lamb. Bonobo, Four Tet etc.... check their 90s/early 2000s stuff for example.

Indeed. You listed pretty much all the stuff I like! All good stuff. I was just adding to the list you assembled.

 

[COYBL25]

Depends what you mean they started: electronic pop songs busting the mainstream? There was a lot of eletronic musik doing the rounds at the time of, or even before, Kraftwerk. Tangerine Dream were doing the long dreamy pieces, and that famous Popcorn number was late-60's.




aye, I discounted synthpop/trip-hop/New Romantic/EDM-pop or anything with more focus on traditional songwriting with regular vocals as that's its own thread.

So no Massive Attack or Portishead or Tricky even tho' they're brilliant.

Tangerine Dream and Hawkwind, was just a load of hippies off their boxes on acid lol

 

[dholliday]

Tangerine Dream and Hawkwind, was just a load of hippies off their boxes on acid lol

I wish I could get hold of some these days...frakkin' society and its stupid hangups. Seriously one of life's most intensely-pleasurable things is playing synth drones awash with reverb & flanger while peaking on a tab.

 

[ste d' indica]

Tangerine Dream and Hawkwind, was just a load of hippies off their boxes on acid lol

 

[COYBL25]

I wish I could get hold of some these days...frakkin' society and its stupid hangups. Seriously one of life's most intensely-pleasurable things is playing synth drones awash with reverb & flanger while peaking on a tab.

Magic Mushies are a good substitute

 

[dholliday]

Magic Mushies are a good substitute

they're fun in a club or at a fest with yer pals, but not the same for those deep cosmic vibes alas.

 

[longers]

perfect blend of electronic and real instruments with production that is out of this world good... ultimate headphone music. The amount of detail in the track is crazy.

 

[dholliday]

perfect blend of electronic and real instruments with production that is out of this world good... ultimate headphone music. The amount of detail in the track is crazy.

You might like James Holden's new album:

 

[verreauxi]

Magic Mushies are a good substitute

So this was you!

 

[longers]

You might like James Holden's new album:

I like one track from it (The neverending), the rest is a bit too hippy and 'far out' for me. I admire him as a producer though... my favourite thing he did was the the remix of Andre Kramls 'Safari'... but he's kinda ditched that sound and gone down the super arty hippy route.

 

[verreauxi]

Always thought this was a brilliant little joint:

 

[longers]

worth a watch, probably the most critically acclaimed electronic artist/album of past decade or so

 

[dholliday]

I like one track from it (The neverending), the rest is a bit too hippy and 'far out' for me. I admire him as a producer though... my favourite thing he did was the the remix of Andre Kramls 'Safari'... but he's kinda ditched that sound and gone down the super arty hippy route.

I wouldn't call it super arty hippy, it's kosmische Musik inspired (krautrock, motorik rhythms, lots of infectious arps). Really reminds me of that early-to-mid-70's sound. "super arty hippy" is minimal glitch and drone-noizes that don't go anywhere, they're barely frequency exercises. Lots of that here in Berlin, where the 'message' is more important than the musik.

from the techno end, this is Holden's meisterwerk i reckon...what a build-up!

 

[dholliday]

worth a watch, probably the most critically acclaimed electronic artist/album of past decade or so

I was this close to including Burial. Just didn't think anyone would've heard of him. Love Space Ape.