Big fan of King Gizzard as well. I think this turkish song sounds a lot like Sleep Drifter and it’s microtonal as well
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I hear it, in the refrain that starts around 1:15. absolutely a parallel with sleep drifter.
Love this dudes microtonal stuff
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I would suggest checking out Glenn Branca. He used a lot of alternate tunings/microtonality in a musical way.
Related to this, if you’re a fan of more metal stuff, Scarcity put out a great album a year ago of microtonal drone black metal that is phenomenal.
Video has an epilepsy warning for flashing lights fyi.
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Also in a classical vein, Georg Friedrich Haas has done some incredible stuff.
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South American indigenous music is as diverse in scales and intervals arrangements as any other non-western group, but all that beautiful voicing is lost when tempered:
Single voice and beat is how I like it better. Syro follows that recipe I think. Also these guys, by letting the voice sing free of stacked harmonies:
And on top, you can dance to it.
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Is that supposed to be a bad or silly thing to do? How is one supposed to become familiar with the Phrygian mode (which is indeed a musically useful construct, as is microtonality)?
Further, “microtonal” is an ill-defined term. If one is referring to music that prominently uses very small intervals, then perhaps this analogy with Phrygian makes some sense.
However, it seems to me that “microtonal” is most widely used to describe any music that is not conceived in a 12-note equal division of “the octave” (ie. a 2:1 frequency ratio). In this sense, the quest to hear some (no one said “only”) “microtonal” music is simply a desire to escape the constraints of an extremely culturally specific approach to musical pitch, which has gained inordinate influence via industrialization and colonization, consequently often eroding and obscuring other possibilities both ancient and novel.
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Nothing wrong with that, there’s music that get’s thrown at you on every corner and then the music you have to search really hard for. Not always a super lucky coincidence happens.
Personally I always had a very hard time to find music I like. One of the biggest lucky coincidences in my life was when I coincidentally heard the last part of Alban Berg’s violin concerto on TV - just through zapping - and felt home for the first time.
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Beauty in the Beast by Wendy Carlos is all microtonal and a perfect album as far as I’m concerned
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Kraig Grady makes some lovely microtonal pieces:
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Maybe MonoNeon ?
Here feat. David Fiuczynski
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And although this here is a (very beautiful and impressing) King Gizzard Cover, they both seem to know, what they‘re playing. I guess we will hear more nice microtonal stuff by them in the future.
Billabong Valley arranged and performed by Maddie Ashman and Tolgahan Çoğulu.
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No, I donˋt know of any search term with your three points.
It would be something like „microtonal music with an origin in western or capitalistic countries minus Aphex Twin“ 
I‘m just kidding.
But you could use „EDO“ in your search, since a lot of microtonal music on YouTube writes it down how much notes / intervals they used in their scale.
A nice example of EDO is this here
„Microtonal Star Wars Cantina Band“
„Most people are completely unfamiliar with microtonal music and can find it difficult to listen to, so I wanted to experiment in a way that is (hopefully) more accessible by adapting a familiar tune. The fact that the cantina musicians are supposedly alien is another justification. If you could manage to listen to the entire piece, I’d love to know. Although ‘alternative’ tuning systems exist in many cultures, the Western twelve-interval equal-division-of-the-octave (12EDO) is by far the most prominent tuning system. 12EDO is ideal as it approximates the intervals of the naturally-occurring harmonic series, uses the minimum number of notes to do so, and allows each key to sound good. Earlier western music divided the octave into 12 unequal intervals so that the harmonic series was more accurately preserved in some keys, though other keys suffered badly as a result. In practice, Western classical music is a combination of both kinds of systems (except in the case of pianos or other fixed-pitch instruments) as performers will subtly adjust the pitches to be closer to the intervals of the harmonic series, but without straying too far from equal temperament. There have been plenty of equal and unequal temperaments proposed, such as 19EDO which is a more ‘in-tune’ version of 12EDO, though the keyboard layouts in the video demonstrates the awkwardness of scales with many notes. By the way, these keyboard layouts (most of which are not my suggestions) are meant to be as logical as possible: they aim for eight ‘white’ keys per octave (including the repeated octave) which produce notes resembling the familiar major scale as closely as the scale permits. Scales based around two or more octaves must make more compromises, e.g. 5.5EDO, which is actually a division of two octaves into eleven equal intervals. The hexagonal keyboard shown near the end is actually less nonsensical than it appears - it is inspired by an isomorphic MIDI keyboard designed for 12EDO (and more) that allows interval patterns to be transposed much more easily than the standard piano keyboard, which is a bit goofy when you think about it… Percussion was realised in Sibelius 7 All other instruments were realised using the microtonally-compatible virtual instruments IVOR and IVOR2“
I wanted to thank you for putting me onto Wendy Carlos. I only had brief encounters with her music before, which may be partly because her records are virtually unobtainable by normal means. But some trips to Soulseek and the local library led me to Beauty and The Beast, A Clockwork Orange and of course Switched-On Bach. They’re all mindblowing stuff!
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I’m generally not too impressed with reinterpretations but this is fantastic for both the arrangement, execution, and clear understanding of the source material. Both also appear to be skilled, classically trained musicians.
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Tolgahan Çoğulu has a whole channel of interesting microtonal guitar stuff!
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In case someone missed this:
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Ivan Wyschnegradsky’s 24 preludes in quarter tones 
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I love this album.
Fun fact, Duane Pitre was a professional skateboarder before making beautiful microtonal music:
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