Favorite Electronic Music Artists?

[plb]

For those that listen to it that is... :)

[ComplexNumber]

i don't listen to that much electronic music, but i do like bands such as Air and Fez Dispenser(these are probably more trip-hop than electronic).

[qamelian]

VNV Nation
Velvet Acid Christ
Suicide Commando
Apoptygma Berzerk
Skinny Puppy
Sparks
Gary Numan
:wumpscut:
Fad Gadget

[23meg]

[Placeholder for obligatory treatise on how electronic music doesn't necessarily mean techno and its derivatives, how it was invented in the 1950s by separate groups of German, French and American composers as a mostly academic endeavor, how its history can be stretched even further back, and how it evolved/branched into what it is today]

*cough*

There are many; nowadays I've spent the most time with Fennesz, Autechre and Vladislav Delay.

[tbroderick]

Favorite Electronic Music Artists? This is an April Fools joke right? They are all trash.

[raublekick]

Favorite Electronic Music Artists? This is an April Fools joke right? They are all trash.

I am just going to assume that you are of the opinion that "electronic music" simply means crappy house techno...

[qamelian]

Favorite Electronic Music Artists? This is an April Fools joke right? They are all trash.

Hardly. Some of the most intelligent and literate composers in the business work in one sub-genre or another of electronic music. Now if they O/P had asked about Country/Western....:lolflag:

[raul_]

Riton
Timo Maas
Chemichal Brothers
Fatboy Slim

....

i could go on all night, most of the music made nowadays is electronic (synthesyzers, drum machines, mpc's for hip hop, etc etc)

[antenna]

I'm not sure either of these count but recently I like Boards Of Canada, and Massive Attack. I think I have somewhat misunderstood electronic music in the past but am certainly willing to give some of it a shot and i'll check out some of the bands listed.

[plb]

Massive attack is good :)

[ComplexNumber]

I'm not sure either of these count but recently I like Boards Of Canada, and Massive Attack. I think I have somewhat misunderstood electronic music in the past but am certainly willing to give some of it a shot and i'll check out some of the bands listed.
i wouldn't call massive attack electronic. i would call them trip-hop. i liked boards of canada's geogaddi, but it got boring very quickly.

brian eno has done some good stuff.

[23meg]

In a sense, all recorded music is electronic music.

[aidanr]

In a sense, all recorded music is electronic music.
:rolleyes:

listening to a good bit of beborn beton and fischerspooner recently

[Spr0k3t]

Pendalum
John B (euro trash disco, but still good)
Chemical bros.
DJ Tiesto
Gabriel & Dresden
Paul Van Dyke
Moby (pre Gwen Stef days)
Strongbad & Teh Cheat
Paul Oakenfold

But really, there are tons of good artists out there. Your best bet is to sample some of the songs from a few artists. Some of the songs are indeed bad, but there are some great ones.

[tbroderick]

I am just going to assume that you are of the opinion that "electronic music" simply means crappy house techno...

I don't care for electronic music, but don't assume I don't know what it is. I used to work at a "alternative" record store that stocked all that stuff. I've heard most of the sub-genres and IMHO, it is nowhere near as good as other genres of music (jazz,blues,soul,reggae,hip-hop,samba).

[ComplexNumber]

jazz,blues,soul,reggae,hip-hop,sambadon't include hip-hop in that list of music ;). hip-hop is an insult to music.

[cstudent]

"Poor boy don't need electronics to make no rock and roll."
-- Mac Davis

:guitar:

[FuturePilot]

I love Electronic Music!
DJ Tiesto
Ian van Dahl
Groove Coverage
DJ Inphinity
DJ Markski
DJ Doboy

Just to name a few:)

[qamelian]

"Poor boy don't need electronics to make no rock and roll."
-- Mac Davis

:guitar:

My brain hurts from trying to assimilate the concepts of Mac Davis and rock and roll in such close proximity.

[fuscia]

harold budd and william orbit are about the only two names i can remember,

[Xzallion]

Heres a few of my favs from Jamendo (http://www.jamendo.com/)
Subatomicglue
Celestial Aeon Project
Psychonada
Chaos
David Schombert
Binary Mind
Revolution Void
Try^d
ADC Level

Non-free ones I like:
Fatboy Slim
The Prodigy
The Chemical Brothers
Massive Attack
Eiffel 65
Freezepop
MC Frontalot

That is just a small list, and not all are purely electronic but have electronic parts or songs etc. And the people saying electronica / techno etc is junk or lesser then any other music style, music is like linux. Everyone has different tastes and a different distro to suit those tastes. None are inherently better than another. Coincidently I like a lot of Jazz, Rock, Classical, Rap, Hip-Hop, J-Pop, Country, and well just about everything, I just appreciate the different styles and sounds.

[aktiwers]

I dont listen that much to electronic music, but The Knife is pretty good.

[mcduck]

Uhh. How can I choose? I'll just put here the ones I've been listening most recently:

Overseer, Haltya, Necton, Sesto Sento, Ticon, Pendulum, Shpongle and perhaps Ursula 1000. I've listened some Nine Inch Nails recently also, and I'd consider industrial to be electronic music too.

I used to hate 'techno' (as in all electronic music) when I was a kid but then I started finding my own music instead of listening to radio & TV and now I probably listen more of electronic music than metal & rock.

I still hate most of electronic music genres, but some like alterntive hip hop, jungle, all psychedelic trance/techno variants and many others are really great genres, and much more alive than any rock/metal subgenres seem to be today. (not to say I wouldn't listen to lots and lots of metal, but summer is coming and sun is shining and I feel now more like listening to some happy and living music than sad and heavy songs about killing yourself ;))

[koshatnik]

Decomposed Subsonic
Co-Fusion
Boredoms
Two Lone Swordsmen
Aphex Twin
Silver Apples
Jan Jelinek
SCSI-9
Exit Human
Nosei Sakata
Katsuya Urushizaki
Miss Kittin
Laurent Garnier
Ken Ishii
Money Mark

[karellen]

fatboy slim
daft punk

[junior aspirin]

Amon Tobin
LCD Soundsystem
Death From above 1979
Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada - infact most things off warp records
Venetian Snares

and not forgetting Kraftwerk

[graabein]

Kraftwerk

[DigitalDuality]

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[mykalreborn]

jean michel jarre
vangelis
terry oldfield - this is more world/new age music, but i just like it a lot
robert miles
paul van dyk
digitally imported trance channel :D

[der_joachim]

A few of the oft-listened CDs in my vast collection

Aphex Twin
Autechre
Coil
Front 242
Foetus
Front Line Assembly
Orbital
NIN
Skinny Puppy
Squarepusher

Mostly IDm and industrial really.

[Hershey]

Aphex Twin
Chemical Brothers
Crystal Method
Daft Punk
Fatboy Slim
John Digweed
Lords of Acid
LTJ Bukem
Moby
Orb
Paul Oakenfold
Paul van Dyk
Praga Khan
Sasha

[Rutabega]

Portishead
Massive Attack
Sneaker Pimps
Air

[futz]

Growling Mad Scientist (GMS)
Oforia
Logic Bomb
Hux Flux
Eskimo
Sensient
Cosmosis
Absolum
Fractal Glider
Deviant Species
Bamboo Forest
Space Cat
Dino
Baphomet Engine
Toï Doï
Etnica
1200 Mics
Skazi
Hallucinogen
Psychaos
and many, many more!

[Bigbluecat]

Chemical Brothers
Leftfield
Ladytron
Air
Propellerheads

[Pikestaff]

Freezepop, Cyborg Jeff... most stuff on OCRemix... me ;)

[dbbolton]

Portugal. The Man

[lerox]

check out www.3am.co.za for psy-trance tunes .

[caish5]

Armin Van Buuren is my personal favourite. Although not really a lot of his own productions. His radio show "A State Of Trance" is amazing every week.

[slider2800]

I could go on for hour with that.

Though the ones that have the most influence on me ( and my music --coz i compose too-- ) would be Juno Reactor, Combichrist, Robert Miles, Jean Michel Jarre...

[OffHand]

Drexciya
Kraftwerk
Juan Atkins aka Model 500
Dopplereffekt
Japanese Telecom
Kobol Electronics
Underground Resistance
Carl Craig
John Tejada
Jeff Mills
Gary Martin

[Rob Alderson]

There's 3 names that everyone should give time to that no-ones mentioned

Tangerine Dream
Brian Eno
Art of Noise

Creating the sounds & techniques 25+yrs ago that artists are still using today, pay homage to the masters & creators of modern electronic music.