Ladytron!
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I love the way M83 uses guitars. This is a great example, from a live performance I’ve posted here before because it’s one of the best-sounding things I’ve ever heard, full stop. Also I love that everyone in the band seems to have at least two hydrasynths lol. I hope the people who set up and take down their rigs are paid very well. Here’s the whole video which i will not atart watching rn or forty minutes will disappear from my life:
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Fennesz
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Definitely think Andy Stott fits the bill with this.
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I feel this thread needs at least one mention of Tom Morello for making a guitar sound like a scratch DJ. Plus other electronic sounds.
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I thought they started off in a more “shoegaze” vein to begin with, I really need to reconnect with where they’re at now.
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Pretty much everything by Legendary Pink Dots, particularly for example The Maria Dimension and Shadow Weaver albums:
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65daysofstatic
The Algorithm
Gramatik
Some my sketches
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The grid - swamp thing
Even worse than guitars … banjos / ukulele’s
They’re funny - their first album is almost like a “we have boards of canada at home” thing, which evolved into “what if shoegaze but synths,” then that but pop, then BLINDINGLY ALL CAPS RETROFUTURIST POP EUPHORIA, a charmingly earnest detour into 80s cheese, a couple ambient/experimental things here and there, and most recently an album based around the interpley between guitars and keyboards… Not that I’ve been a huge nerd for m83 for 20 years or anything lol. I think Anthony just follows his muse wherever it takes him and I consistently love meeting them there.
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Sorry, it’s not about guitars, but Caribou’s drummer is amazing.
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Mansur Brown!
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Pavel Milyakov aka Buttechno
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Might be a stretch…
But I really love Pete Cosey’s playing on all those 70s electric Miles Davis albums. I always feel like he opened up a whole direction for the guitar that is still largely unexplored.
Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Temple etc) would be an obvious pick.
Or how bout 60 year old jazz/free guitarist Derek Bailey playing over D&B tracks?
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battles? always liked ian williams even during his don cab times
got me into looping and eventually sampler/sequencers
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I was about to mention Battles. Dave Konopka tge former bass player is also very good at sound manipulation in an “electronic” mindset.
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Ultravox/Midge Ure was a master of guitar riffs/hooks in electronic based music. Check out the albums “Rage in Eden” or “Vienna”. There’s also the band Visage which Midge Are was an integral part of - check out the song “The Horseman”.
Also - Bananarama on backing vox.
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UNKLE, perhaps Thievery Corporation? Just going off memory, haven’t listened to either in a while. And, yes, I probably should. Great bands. Also Freur, the first incarnation of Underworld. Doot Doot is one of my favorite guitar/synth songs. Um, am I getting OT here?