Your favorite sound design-oriented electronic pop innovators of past 5+ years?

craig · 2022-09-21T19:57:43.577Z

Autechre will always be at the forefront. Just yesterday, I really enjoyed a deep listening of this one. It kinda doesn’t go anywhere but there are so many subtleties, such as the ever changing depth/weight of the kick, for example:

delikinesis · 2022-09-22T18:38:30.385Z

Thanks for the Kelela rec, i checked it out and dug it. Long time Fever Ray and Knife listener, excited for what that next album sounds like. Though it obviously has a sophie collab and was made by one of her collaborators, I will say that Jimmy Edgar album Cheetah truly does scratch the itch for early Sophie singles for me, and that’s a recent discovery. What do you think about that one?

I agree about 100 gecs and similar. I appreciate the lofi avant garde, but i find 100gecs stuff offensive to my sensibilities if we’re talking music i actually like (and not audio shitposting to prove a point or something). I like things to sound good even when theyre distorted, I truly don’t relish the nasty digital clipping sounds or things like that. I prefer mid or hifi and a more focused and “beautiful” sound where things have space. Feels prudish and geezerish to say and maybe that’s the point, but the hyperpop thing has indeed become way too nasty sounding to me, and i like black metal and generally tape lofi plenty.

Zelio · 2022-09-22T18:43:26.396Z

Iglooghost and Little Snake.

delikinesis · 2022-09-22T18:44:52.292Z

I never listened to Hopelessness besides the lead single. I wasn’t an OPN fan at the time of it’s release, but have since become a superfan – so revisiting that record feels long overdue.

And wow, thanks for introducing me to Max Tundra, though it isn’t new, it’s still the kind of forward thinking thing I’m looking for in pop. Insanely cool.

Agreed about Bjork, always lots of sonic candy + accessibility in her work that fits the bill.
I also feel similar about most Arca. I think she could do better, some of it has become especially lofi and noisy to me. I’d probably like to hear the mega hi-fi version of what she’s doing.

delikinesis · 2022-09-22T18:50:44.095Z

Absolutely, Autechre are like the Rosetta Stone for this kind of thing. I really enjoy when people take their approaches to sound design and tastefully apply it to pop forms, that is essentially what I’m after in this search for new music to listen to.

craig · 2022-09-22T19:13:06.850Z

Cool cool. Maybe not quite what you’re after but some of Billie Eillish’s vocal work and harmonies are pretty delicious, especially in the way they’re processed/presented (almost ASMR)

reeloy · 2022-09-22T19:22:22.599Z

…last real oooo and aaaaa in overall electronica and production skills for me was…
IVY LAB…and…EPROM…oh and…TWO FINGERS…and… LORN…

davestasiuk · 2022-09-22T19:30:33.553Z

Sophia Kennedy is an artist who is mostly unknown who blows me away. Pop sensibility, but loads of depth and character. Really can’t recommend her enough.

davestasiuk · 2022-09-22T19:32:26.302Z

Amon Tobin as Two Fingers is amazing.

bodymechanics · 2022-09-22T19:37:24.564Z

Amon Tobin SI incredible!

A few years back I saw Grun Wasser play and bought this album.
I love the whole thing!

It’s hard to find stuff that seems entirely fresh and still appealing.
I feel like rather thank being entirely fresh, I’m more of a fan of music that you can pick out influences, but don’t necessarily sound like carbon copies of what came before.
Something reminiscent but brings something new there as well.
Com Truise, the Horrors, HYDE, and tons of electro like Cygnus, E.R.P.

reeloy · 2022-09-23T05:38:40.992Z

…trippe yeah…did’nt know that tune…what a damn grrreat masterpiece…!

in the sonic game for so long…but still breathtaking when i hear something that powerful, skilful…griity 'n dirty but absolutey prestine and nailed to the spot at same time…oooof…reeeeespect.

sabana · 2022-09-23T05:44:52.510Z

You need Fins Perkons if you like this type of sound.

nfim · 2022-09-23T09:49:09.969Z

Here are few recent favs possibly in this vein

xidnpnlss · 2022-09-23T10:29:33.718Z

Aside from Autechre, The Knife / Fever Ray and SOPHIE (RIP), I think Jlin is pushing things

I like SOPHIE a ton more than her hyperpop counterparts. She not only had sound design bona fides, but she composed beautifully with them. Most hyperpop just comes off as throwing whatever everywhere. Whenever I try Im just like “…bro chill.” Or maybe since I dont consume Adderall / on TikTok all day I cant hear the composition.

binaural · 2022-09-23T10:44:39.632Z

About Sophia Kennedy: Thanks for the tip. Never heard of her, great find!

Diefenbaker · 2022-09-23T10:56:04.684Z

I take back what I said in the “can you hear the drugs?” thread. I can hear Adderall/dexedrine everywhere these days.

lesstalkmoredisco · 2022-09-23T11:24:59.533Z

Fin25:

ANOHNI’s Hopelessness

!!!

So good

I also always really love how those stomps/kicks hit in their song from their other EP:

Automageddon · 2022-09-23T11:35:22.919Z

I’m finding it hard to finding something at the level of Silent Shout )The Knife) or The Inevitable End (Royksopp) absolute electronic pop perfection.

Pico · 2022-09-23T12:46:06.775Z

Sophie and Current Value.
Sophie, because signature. Though you hear Autechre and Aphex as influence.

Current Value, because signature, innovative, sounddesign. This guy is/ was way ahead of his time.
Here is an Album you can listen to :
Current Value - Deadly Toys (Full Album) - YouTube

Innovative as in rythms for drum and bass :
Current Value - Consequences - YouTube

xidnpnlss · 2022-09-23T13:40:49.219Z

Alexaplays:

Fever Ray is teasing something too

This is looking less and less like “just” a remix / live release. Absolutely stoked; love them to death.

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