So no one has mentioned Tipper. Very important.
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Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records !
Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers !
Al Dobson Jr - Rye Lane Vol II & III !
Glenn Astro & Hodini - Turqoise Turtoise
Shigeto - No Better Time Than Now
Stimming - Ludwig
Dan Kye - Small Moments
Kid Baltan - Electronic Music
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Not sure if mentioned:
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Future Sound of London
Gui Boratto
Berkson and What
Ceephax Acid Crew
Squarepusher
Amon Tobin
Uberzone
(A few off the next layer of my head.)
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A taste of struggle
DMX Krew
Luke Vibert
Tipper
Beetroots
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I almost wanted to say everything from England. At least that’s where it starts for me seriously. Now i need to figure that out.
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Anybody mentioned Monolake yet?
Actress? Akkord?
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Check out Daft Punk’s new single “Get Lucky” if you get the chance. Sound of the summer.
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Cabaret Voltaire and Severed Heads were also pretty good acts.
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Sheffield council estates had the best.
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Those threads :
Zero 7
Tim Hecker - Virgins, Harmony amd Ultraviolet
Dgohn - Undesignated Proximate, Alterations in Gyral Form.
Illuvia - Iridescence of Clouds
Nebula - Bound By Secrets
ASC - The Depths of Space, Eye of the Storm.
Barker - Utility
Lorenzo Senni - Scacco Matto
Hoavi - Invariant
Low End Activist - Airdrop
Wrecked Lightship - Antiposition
Clams Casino - Instrumentals, Moon Trip Radio
Opn - Replica, Garden of Delete
Brainwaltzera - Itsame, Poly-Ana
Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy and Geometry, Where All is Fled.
Washed Out- Within and Without, life of leisure
Hysterical Love Project - Lashes
Gonima- Escapism
Lee Gamble - Models
Fennesz - black sea
So much more. And tbh I kinda miss some chillwave, don’t make fun haha
Two Banks of Four
RSD
Or this new band called Chemical Brothers
Born Slippy.
Any answer to this is gonna be incredibly personal, but what the hell - share and share alike. Some classics already covered here. Of course as a Brit I’d concur with the British scene from the 90s, Prodigy, Underworld, Chemical Brothers, Leftfield, Aphex, DJ Shadow especially are all musts.
In more modern times, my personal interest is in the thread of electronic artists from Elliot School and those they’ve influenced or worked with. They seem to endlessly overlap (literally, and artistically), and they’ve been a big part of the UK sound since For Tet & Burial especially broke through.
Their concept (some call this out directly in interviews, some don’t) seems to be that samples are as interesting and in some cases more important than classic subtractive synthesis as a tool for generating sound.
That conversation has to start with Burial. There were others doing interesting things around this time (notably The Field), but Burial blew apart the concept of what an electronic album sounds like for me. Like something from another planet. Untrue is so influential that it spanned a global audience and people fall over themselves to reference it now.
Of course Burial was a student at Elliott School. And I feel like that place is is a red line that runs through a lot of critically acclaimed UK electronic music. Even if people didn’t go there, the “samples first” footprint exploded in the mid 00’s and has been part of the furniture for a while even with folks outside the school citing it as an approach. The first and most obvious alumni to mention is Four Tet, who like Burial needs no introduction.
Related to that is also Jamie XX, who was also at the school initially with his band, and then with his increasingly influential solo career.
All of these artists have a distinct sound, yet there is a shared use of samples as a core part of their sound. That concept fed into so many other artists in a really interesting way.
Moving outside of that pool of artists, Tourist is a personal favourite of mine. He seems influenced by both artists from Elliot School, but he has cited the use of samples over synthesis himself at times. Tourist is influenced by The Field, but has a sound closer to that of Jamie XX, as his 90s/00s euphoric dance influences merge with more meloncholic sounds. He describes his own music as “dance music that you can’t dance to.”
That last one is very obviously influenced by The Field, and I know Tourist cites him as a direct influence. And of course the Field himself goes down with Burial as another artist who changed the game in terms of his micro sampling approach.
Lastly I feel you can’t have a convo about modern dance music without mentioning Fred Again. Mentored by Brian Eno, and again cross pollinated with Elliott School alumni. While he’s much more commercial than Burial, his friendship with Four Tet (and Keiran’s link to Burial) makes me think that they must have spoken about it, and especially in the drums you can hear nods to Burial’s style, without it being overt. If anything he took the sampling situation forward by his famed use of the iPhone.
In terms of collaboration, he’s worked with Four Tet (they are good friends) and he produced and co-wrote Romy’s album which also has production credits from Jamie XX.
Speaking of that Fred Again x Four Tet collab, I also think Skrillex is worth a mention. I watched a 1hr documentary about how he “ruined” dubstep (now deleted), compared to “true” artists like Burial. Honestly at that point I never listened to his stuff so it felt like a critique that made sense (since I enjoyed Burial) but I didn’t fully understand.
That said I gave Quest for Fire a spin and really enjoyed it. Yet again there’s crossover here because it features Four Tet, but it’s also influenced heavily by the UK scene, unlike his work of 20+ years ago.
Quite a bit in there, but that’s the road I’m following these days. For me the interesting thing is this idea of how people are capturing and manipulating samples as a core instrument. Interesting times!
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The question was asked three years ago, folks. The op has probably moved on to Romanian minimal and Belgian hi-NRG by now.
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I will never forget, got a tape in the 90ties from some rave guy at the isle of wight. If you havent listen to it, do it now. Its ambient though.
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Anything Nicolas Jaar.
Great feed this and plenty of stuff to explore…
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