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electroacoustic artist with serious avant-garde cred making some of the most batshit glitch pop/plunderphonic dance(?) electro-skronk magic in his 70s. Samples include "One Last Time" by Ariana Grande, "Strawberry Blonde" by Mitski and a whole bunch of others that i'm sure a more ear-savvy user could come up with. FFO: A.G. Cook DJ Mixes, Arca Side-Projects (WENCH!!), Fucking Around In Audacity, Sampledelia, Old Men?
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firstly, if you like PS1 type beats you will LOVE:
- Skee Mask - Compro, specifically Kozmic Flush.
- Also you might dig the album Reso - Tangram
- Andy Stott is the king of atmosphere, but also prob has more grit than others
- This album by Transllusion also has some pretty sleek sound design goin on
- Sweet Trip's album Velocity:Design:Comfort straddles the realms of drum and bass, glitch, pop, and shoegaze like nothing else
- EPROM is prolly the heaviest on this whole list but takes a lot of inspo from the jungle and acid eras
if you like things more chill and spatial:
- try Burial. his album Untrue is considered a landmark work of electronic music
- This album from Djrum might also scratch that itch
- Boards of Canada are a staple of chill electronica
- Huerco S borders on soundscapes at times, but with enough movement to keep things interesting
- Floating Points makes really lush, almost orchestral electronic music with a lot of jungle and techno influence
- Leon Vynehall is similar to Floating Points but more of a house influence
if you want wacked out Machine Girl stuff with a lot of energy:
- Phuture Doom has the same level of acid-infused madness
- try Machinedrum too maybe? both draw heavily from footwork as a genre. I'd say Machinedrum is just happy Machine Girl in a way
- Maybe have a little Drexciya if you want something more classic
- if you like danceable rhythms, maybe other Detroit Techno stuff like Los Hermanos
the world of electronic music is so vast and diverse so explore wherever your ears lead! also paging aidanaguirre for the assist on this one
Jun 26, 2024
More stuff I've put on our Breakthrough Electronic playlist. I hate when people say this but I honestly laughed out loud when I saw this artist name. Turns out it's Stefan Schwander from Düsseldorf who's done a lot of stuff but if you take on a new name I think you get to be "emerging" again. "Burton" is both charming and a bit spooky, minimal-ish at 110bpm but with a subtle swing to the beat, I kinda want to just put it on repeat and lope around my house doing weird dances.
Jan 22, 2024
Really digging this, sounds like if Alex G leaned more into making electronic music. Also getting some Panda Bear as well. It was released Vegyn's label which is a good cosign.
Jul 19, 2024
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all 3+ stream of consciousness hours at the roxie in SF (spooky and weirdly proportioned venue, see photo) and the 4k remaster still looked like shit (i.e. as good as you can remaster early 2000s digital camcorder footage) and there was one dead pixel of green hanging out for the whole movie and somehow it was still the most immersive and unsettling experience cinema has ever given me and walking back to the parking garage in san francisco at 1am (which was closed and we had to call the garage for someone to come open) made me feel like i was in the movie FFO: browsing r/liminalspaces, psychological horror video games, eastern european swag/horror, being confused
Apr 10, 2025
never underestimate the power of locking into a nice groove and riding it out FFO: Dean Blunt, Pressing Repeat On Durutti Column Songs, Tape Music, TinyMixtapes(R.I.P.), Madchester, Arthur Russell's "Instrumentals"
Sep 27, 2024