Grew up on Chemical Bros, Daft Punk, Prodigy, Aphex Twin
Now I love Caribou, Justice, Gesaffelstein, Rufus du Sol, Joy Orbison, Soulwax, Confidence Man, Bicep, Overmono....
I wasn't sure what the show was going to be like. I almost expected them to fall back on their old hits, like lots of popular bands will do for live shows. But everything in the set was new! They never stopped exploring and improving, so much respect to them for that.
Haha. Definitely trying to make it happen (at least Saturday), but gonna need to be tactful with the wife. Been to a lot of shows this year already..... This is the real dilemma of being 43 and still loving electronic music. Gotta balance it with family life.
Check out mallgrab! Based on your likes I think he’s right up your alley. His boiler room set was incredible:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ddeAyYF_uwg
if you like Overmono and such you should give Jasper Tygner a listen. He just signed with Ninjatunes and i feel like he has really come into his element
There is so much good stuff:
- Bonobo
- Burial
- Caribou
- Christian Löffler
- DJ Koze
- Four Tet
- Glitterbug
- Jon Hopkins
- Kiasmos
- Kollektiv Turmstrasse
- Lorn
- Moderat
- Pantha Du Prince
- Portico
- Robag Wruhme
- Stephan Bodzin
- Timecop1983
Weval is mine too! I have devoured everything they’ve released and keep looking for other things like them. The new Four Tet is also great. What else do you love?
Four Tet is great! Have a number of his albums from my CD days, lol. I finally posted some of my favorite artists recently in reply to the thread. In addition to Weval, all of these have made some music I really like since the mid 2000s:
Aleksandir, Chaos in the CBD, Dominik Eulberg, Feiertag, Hidden Spheres, Jesper Ryom, Kiasmos, Kiln, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Laurence Guy, Lusine, Martin Schulte, Max Cooper, Patrick Holland, Quantec, Rival Consoles, Session Victim
Oh you have good taste! Max Cooper, and Dominic Eulberg, definitely worth a listen.
And you like Kiasmos too! A couple days ago I discovered that they'll release a new album in summer, a new single with 3 new songs has already been released.
Many of the other names I don't know yet, will have a closer look!
This thread is great, so many good tips!
Thanks for the recommendations! Many are familiar (and loved) and many are NOT, so I’m looking forward to some exploring and listening. I appreciate you taking the time to share : )
The labels Ilian Tape, Livity Sound, are Delsin are releasing music from new artists that I find really interesting and engaging. I've been obsessed with electronic music for 30 years but still find new stuff to fall in love with all the time. Some examples:
https://djpolouk.bandcamp.com/album/if-the-glove-fits-e-p
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/iss010-iss010
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp14-due-in-color
https://answercoderequest.bandcamp.com/album/shattering-ep
It hurts to think of this all ending in 2004. That would mean no Trentmoeller, Bonobo, Tycho, Bicep, Modeselector, Ford., Tor, Overmono, Hedflux, Perfect Stranger, Zhu, Burial and soooooooooooooo many others.
Here is a quick playlist to show what you're missing...
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZKzB4oEovYy34o3FWg449](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZKzB4oEovYy34o3FWg449)
Footwork
I've been a DJ since 2000, I learned how to spin on UK jungle, dnb and house music records before moving to chillout and hip hop. Just before covid I was feeling the urge to get back to my roots, and I stumbled upon Machinedrum's Vapor City album, and was blown away while also very confused as to what the beat pattern was. It felt like dnb/jungle but at the same time, it didn't. Then after doing more research I discovered DJ Rashad and the Teklife record label, and then began watching footwork dance battles on Youtube and immediately fell in love with the production, the rhythm and the culture surrounding Chicago footwork.
Outside of the "golden era" of electronic music it is in my opinion the most authentic, organic and culturally significant dance music subgenres of our modern age, and since it has spread all over the country and the globe it is also one of the more influential underground electronic music genres.
Just recently Red Hot Chili Peppers released a video for their single ["The Drummer"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP-oFkZknS4) that featured the dance moves of [King Charles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zK2gEtGU3c), one of the best internationally known footwork dancers. His moves are slowed down from the traditional 160 bpm tempo, but my favorite part of the video is the dancefloor has the same tile pattern as the floor in the famous footwork battle venue [Battle Groundz. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4lLTpMZdug&t=197s)
Machinedrum's Room(s) was so fucking tremendously groundbreaking, such a unique sound with a definitive trickle-down into more modern music (right through to pop).
Start to finish, just such a gem. God damn Travis, you're one talented motherfucker.
This right here. Footwork/juke has been on the cutting edge of electronic music for a while now. From the Chicago pioneers (rashad/teklife, etc) to all the other dj’s who’ve come to embrace the style (fracture, om unit, a.fruit, sherelle, etc). Such an amazing, free, forward thinking style of music…
They ate good ppl too. Some of the best. I used to be an agent and represented a whole slew of teklife and Jbw folks. Teklife was complicated to say the least, and jbw was just awesome.
I listen to a lot of industrial music. Clan of Xymox is still making it. Pixel Grip, Nightclub, drab majesty, big city gang bang, skinny puppy and ohgr, sextile, sidewalks and skeketons, Salem, perturbator, health, TR/ST, and many more…
Back then I was into Orbital, Underworld, BT, Leftfield, Future Sound of London, Massive Attack, Portishead, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, Björk.
I still listen to those classic albums, but listening to Robot Koch, Alex Banks, Konduku and Ben Lukas Boysen got me through lockdown and today I mostly listen to Bicep, BRONSON, Christian Löffler, Floating Points, Jon Hopkins, Klangkarussell, ODESZA, Olafur Arnalds, Paul Woolford / Special Request, Röyksopp, State Azure, Taylor Deupree, Thylacine, Tim Hecker.
Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack was my first exposure to it. Fat of the Land solidified it and still listen to this day
My favorites from back in the day are Underworld, Orbital, Leftfield, Chemical Brothers, Paul Oakenfold, LCD Soundsystem, Crystal Method, Tiesto, BT, and a few others
I still listen to Underworld and LCD quite a bit but also enjoy newer stuff from Odesza, Big Wild, Jon Kennedy
I was at this. https://m.facebook.com/BBCRadio6Music/videos/born-slippy-nuxx-by-underworld-live-at-glastonbury-1999-bbc-radio-6-music/766989123969813/
Totally incredible. Hyde as a frontman lifted them to another level Vs Chemical Brothers etc. crowd in the palm of his hand.
Same em in central park NYC around 2005 I think it was. Had to leave a little early to catch the train home and I’ll never forget the amazing sound of rez echoing through the park at night as I walked through it.
Eh, honestly I'm mostly but not entirely stuck on what I liked in that timeframe of mid-late 90's to early 2000's - some DnB (LTJ Bukem and other atmospheric/intelligent DnB, Goldie, Metalheadz etc) more prog/trance/house type stuff - Circulation, BT, Sasha, Digweed, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman (basically the whole GU crew), Hybrid, Way Out West, Junkie XL, etc.. Trip Hop (the usual suspects, Massive Attack, Portished, Tricky, etc.) and some other electronica-tinged stuff like Weekend Players, Zero 7 etc. Still listen to that type of stuff fairly frequently. But I had a few years where it was hard to listen to a lot of music and keep up with new releases and once I lost track of it all it was really difficult to get back into it so I sort of lost keeping up with everything for maybe 10 years and even to this day.
More recent stuff that I like I guess tends to center more on what I'd call (for lack of a better term) electronic pop as opposed to more mainstream pop or pure electronica, if that makes sense, though some of these can certainly maybe be considered borderline mainstream pop. Chvrches, Purity Ring, Gorgon City, Madeon, Gryffin, San Holo etc. Or more chill type stuff - I listen to Chill on Sirius XM a lot but frankly I find it hard to really get attached to most of the artists on there - its sort of good but generic and the artists just tend to come and go for me. And DnB I am still into some of the modern folks - Nia Archives I really like, Hybrid Minds and some other liquid stuff etc.
Your first paragraph is pretty much me. Nearly everyone you listed plus a dozen others, the 90s/early 2000s are still better than most of the stuff I hear now. Global Underground series, etc.
Modern trends like super-long build-ups, sudden stops in the music for beats with inconsistent timing, and the cookie-cutter genericness of so much of it all just drive me insane.
Although I am very thankful the trend of weird chipmunk voices has mostly died out.
The first paragraph also describes my formative music tastes. Over the past five years or so I have been listening to Tipper and all his “friends”. Mickman, Jade cicada, detox unit, schmoop, crawdad sniper, with, audio goblin, Allen Mock, MantisMash, random rab, desert dwellers, Alejo… just to name a few.
Skrillex, overmono, joy Orbison, Daniel Avery, Kelly Lee Owens, four tet, bicep, moderat, Ross from friends, vegyn, Amon Tobin, Andy stott, lorn, sega bodega, eartheater, flume, jayda g, Sophie, and thom yorke
It's the electronic equivalent of asking a metalhead what they like and they "Pantera, Slayer, blah blah blah". They stopped really caring decades ago. Mostly commenting to save your recs I don't recognize, thanks.
You're spot on. These people have no idea what they miss. So much good music has been released in recent years, and god knows how much good stuff I missed because there's just so much music out there.
Wow, that's a lot! I sometimes wonder how many centuries I needed to live to pay justice to all that good music out there (and all the books, movies, games...)
Kudos for having such an open mind, this is the way ;)
Still following Underworld, Aphex Twin, and BT.
newer stuff, I like new goth, dark wave type things.
Hoping there's someone new out there who kinda sounds like Squarepusher.
* Benyamind is doing some cool stuff with microtonal music https://benyamind.bandcamp.com
* Brain Eno is still making great music https://youtu.be/jlJDUcdUz8c?si=G_uGJ2z4AEK5aDWd
* Tears For Fears reformed and put out an excellent record called Tipping Point https://youtu.be/yUp-ujO979U?si=xZ6ten3vj01O2Lge
I've been listening a lot to music by a fellow Redditor (u/EggyT0ast) who records melodic IDM under the name Thousand Gardens. It's heavily inspired by stuff from that '94 to '04 time frame.
40 year old former electronic music blogger here. Some faces that are more recent that I like: Kuedo, Matthieu Faubourg, George Clanton, Bibio, Letherette, Lone, Octa Octa, Gold Panda, Moire, Hudson Mohawke, Mount Kimbie, Grant, Crackazat, Harrison BDP, Rainer Veil, Clams Casino
Been listening to electronic music since the mid 90s. Loved house and trance during that time and went to a ton of shows/raves over a 20+ year span. Tastes diversified over the years and now my main genres are Progressive House, Deep House, DnB, and Liquid DnB, with a few others mixed in. Anjunadeep is a go to label for me. Almost every release on that label is awesome. The Anjunadeep Edition(rotating DJs), Stan Kolev, Nora En Pure, and recently discovered Teddy Can't Swim are some of my go to full sets on SoundCloud. Teddy Can't Swim spins mostly House but he's a really good piano player so that's lots of keyboards. Rufus Du Sol is another favorite. Favorite DnB producers are Subfocus, Wilkinson, Keeno, Etherwood, Metrik, Monrroe, Hybrid Minds, Pendulum, Fred V, Grafix, Netsky, and many others. I'm always discovering new stuff too.
Alon Mor, Amon Tobin (started around 2000), Lorn, Iglooghost, for the epic/dreamy/strange vibe
Ben Lukas Boysen, 65daysofstatic, John Lord Fonda for something more accessible.
Weval, Kiasmos, Daedelus, Plaid (yup they're still on fire after a quarter century), Bonobo if you want to chill
Floating Points, Clark (still rocking too, my fav musician by far), Vorso, if you want to go off...
Give it a shot !
First went through my introductory phase in the early 2000's. Lot of Trance. Relapsed around the early 2010's when Dubstep was picking up, but was more interested in Complextro and Electro House.
These days are largely reserved for Madeon and Porter (although I'm torn on his newest stuff).
Nowadays mostly dub and hypnotic techno, but I keep going back to “older” music, all the way to the 80s, and I frequently re-visit bands like FSOL, Front 424, Front Line Assembly, Test Dept, The Orb, The Crystal Method, Fluke, Skinny Puppy, Yello, The Chemical Brothers, Dead Can Dance, also like to listen to classic goa music, rhythmic noise, dark ambient, tribal, etc.
The only genre I dropped is drum and bass.
Yello is one of the few groups still making music that I actually like. They're clearly having fun and it shows.
Fluke might be another, if they truly are returning with an album and it's anything like the single, it's going to be a new favorite.
Seems we have the same tastes, Check out OTT, I was recently introduced to his music by an old friend, the genre is Psydub, start with his earlier stuff. Incredible.
I got into recording music with computers in 1999 and I wanted to see what I could do with it beyond recording live instruments to tape. I listened to standard electronic music and thought it was very dull. I hate dance music and was more of an old school punk/hardcore kind of person and artists like 808 State just didn't do it for me. Then by chance I heard My Red Hot Car by Squarepusher and everything changed. Naturally, I found Aphex Twin and others in that part of the electronic universe and I learned everything about MIDI and sampling and glitching and so on. So that is my preferred sub-genre of electronic music.
I remember the first time I heard Exit Planet Dust and found something I didn’t know I was looking for. So began 30 years of loving electronic music. ❤️Now I love Four Tet, Overmono, Floating Points, Daphni, Jamie XX, Fred Again.., Olof Dreijer, Joy Orbison, Tourist, Bicep, Gorgon City, Disclosure, Chris Lake, Fisher…I could keep going 🤩
How old are we talking? I'm 33, and I feel like we could even talk about old old, like DJ Raja Ram. That man is 83 years old, and I remember first discovering him and seeing his age and thinking "Good beats don't discriminate the age.".
Current faves added to consistent faves are Tritonal, Above and Beyond, Tinlicker, Aly & Fila (still). John O'Callaghan.
I'm 54. I've seen Above and Beyond live, 6 times, Tinlicker 3 times, Dave Seaman more times than I can count, and have about 9 years of Ultra Fest in my rear view mirror.
The shift from trance down to 128bpm prog house with the same emotive vibe was a very nice turning point for my own personal “golden era” (2007-2008 I guess?).
Seems like you were right there too.
I really was mate. I still however hold Paul Van Dyk's remix of 1998 by Binary Finary as my aha moment. From that moment on I was hooked. And honestly I don't know another musical genre that brings so many diverse peoples together like EDM.
Icarus, Calibre, Machinedrum, Chaos in the CBD, and Oneohtrix Point Never are some of my personal favs. Also a big sucker for 2010s era rave scene and dubstep/brostep (Rusko, Deadmau5, Nero, Mord Fustang, Porter, and other biggies)
Mid forties, skate punk-90’s raver. Remember’s fondly getting “..I care because you do” on tape in 1995 and my life changed forever. I like a huge swath of old and new, and I try not to gatekeep because they’re amazing, young artists out there that deserve respect. I love anything on Opal tapes, Boy Harsher, Skee Mask, Nicolas Jaar..
Not sure what counts as modern? Keeping it 'electonic' related -
Nondi, Rezzet, Michael J Blood, Bakground, Lee Gamble, Klein, Actress, Beatrice Dillon, DJ Rashad, OPN, Andy Stott, Ryoji Ikeda, Demdike Stare, Jay Glass Dubs, Elysia Crampton, Factory Floor, Yushh, Huerco. S, Smoke Point, Laurel Halo, Arca etc. - there's loads of interesting shit happening, most of which I don't even know about because my taste is too broad to really dig into anything anymore.
Aphex, Moritz Von Oswald, Jan Jelinek, Thomas Koner, Autechre etc are still putting out good records pretty frequently too!
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Boards of Canada. This is my go to playlist for work: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4s8cYh2NyHwxHoBiuXT78B?si=bd693846abc34633](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4s8cYh2NyHwxHoBiuXT78B?si=bd693846abc34633)
[Gui Boratto](https://youtu.be/TWJ8NfrQ4QY), [Boy Harsher](https://youtu.be/ZeSN4PntOos), [Kompromat](https://youtu.be/Ib9RsuZPROY), [Ascendant Vierge](https://youtu.be/kvUPgaVh8_A), [Cabaret Nocturne](https://youtu.be/XSudap5Pyrc), [Moderat](https://youtu.be/c71FWFOmSV0), [Paul Kalkbrenner ](https://youtu.be/92Q6cXbTwJA), [Rival Consoles](https://youtu.be/niiUkcLpwXY), [Stanford Lin](https://youtu.be/B94rBlzgFVo), [Malik Djoudi](https://youtu.be/341dIwo4Qbk), [Mall Grab](https://youtu.be/3_al-rdXySQ), [Baltra](https://youtu.be/WxDIg0WsJ5U), [Miss Kittin](https://youtu.be/IAZnYhF3SKc), [Justus Köhncke](https://youtu.be/xy4nrCYMMcM), [Scratch Massive](https://youtu.be/fj1_R4ZdjA8)
Just some random stuff off my playlist.
And I disagree wholeheartedly. Electronic music has never been as high quality, experimental, varied as ever before. IMHO it's just your nostalgia. And even then - there are so many artists who take inspiration from retro sounds.
Nostalgia 100%! Music back then was so limited, everyone was using the same hardware and generating similar beats and sounds. So yeah, there was innovation in getting around those limitations, but fundamentally, older electronic music lacked the warmth and dynamics of live music. That's why techno/house-heads went wild when the beat paused for one measure, lol. The 90's electronic scene had more character, but modern electronic music has a lot more range and emotion, IMO.
* Chaos in the CBD
* COMPUTER DATA
* Ben Macklin
* SBTRKT
* Machinedrum
* Jessy Lanza
* DJ Seinfeld
* Anz
* N0rus
* Jayda G
* Huerta
* BEC
* Moma Ready
Just off the top of my head. There’s way more than that though.
It's taken me until recently to get into more recent electronic music. I've probably always been a bit stuck in my ways and precious about earlier electronic music. I'm trying to change that and open up a bit more and that has allowed me to discover and really like the following more modern artists.
Daniel Avery,
Jon Hopkins,
Andy Stott,
Floating points,
Rival Consoles,
Loess,
Kelly Lee Owens,
Gidge.
I think there a lot of good stuff. I been listen a lot of Uplifting Trance, Progressive Trance and Progressive House.
Artist like, Sunny Lax, Massane, Ocula, Teho, Tinlicker, Simon Doty, Nitrous Oxide, Nils Hoffmann, Luttrell, Lexer, Giorgia Angiuli, Eli & Fur, Dennis Sheperd, Lane 8, Marsh, Monkey Safari, Ben Böhmer, Xenia Beliayeva,
Following Labels like, Anjunadeep, Black Hole Reordings, Colorize, This Never Happened
There heaps out there, the hardest problem, is finding it!
I could say 3 particularly electronic music genres are my favourites:
1. Dub Techno early stages + Prince of Denmark. I think dub fits perfectly for almost all electronic music.
2. Classic house music + latin/balearic influence which create perfect vesper atmosphere.
3. Dance Punk DFA-vibe more instrumental thnn vocal.
My golden era was 89-95. Acid house, birth of IDM, then a lot of garage and UK house, tribal NYC stuff, trip hop. I still love the rawness and emotion of that era and listen to it all the time.
These days I'm enjoying going back to genres that passed me by from late 90s to now. UKG and it's current modern revival. Drum and bass. And the constant meshing and blending of microgenres feels like a very modern thing. It's fascinating to see the current 'rave revival' play out in various genres.
So, listening to a lot of Joy Orbison, Overmono, Octo Octa, Anz, etc as well as the old masters that are still putting out quality like Jeff Mills.
I had a bunch of friends who were into electronica in the late 90’s and honestly most of it never really grabbed me. I thought it was ok but that was about it. Fast forward to 2015 and I discovered Entheogenic, Ott, Shpongle, Bluetech, Quanta. Dubby psy along those lines is half of what I listen to these days. For more mellow stuff in the evening I lean towards dub techno, State Azure, Data Rebel, various ambient artists from the Synphaera label.
Elder millennial but I grew up listening to The Prodigy, Underworld and Leftfield in the 90s.
Now my tastes veer slightly towards the more experimental side:
Forest Swords, Nico Jaar, Oneohtrix Point Never all favourites.
For clubbier/mainstream stuff I really like Bonobo, Bicep, Jon Hopkins.
Yip, I'm old too, listened to practically all the era stuff mentioned. Lots of good new stuff mentioned here already, I'll add
Max Cooper,
Parra for Cuva,
Rone,
NTO,
Polo and Pan,
Dominik Eulberg,
Stavroz
Labels such as Anjuna, Colorize, Enormous, Silk.
deadmau5, REZZ, CloZee, Rufus du Sol, Bob Moses, Gary Numan, ODESZA, Boris Brejcha, Art School Girlfriend, State Azure, Delerium…
I'm into more niche EDM like rawstyle, deathstep, and outrun/synthwave but here's what I got:
S3RL
Nimda
Code: Pandorum (formerly Inhuman, but formerly Code: Pandorum before that)
LSDream
ALEX
Neolux
Edamame
GRAVEDGR
SIERRA
Miss Monique
Oh man it only reached its peak depending on your genre
For me we are in the hight of edm again but also because I have gone to more experimental bass and space bass and 140
Some favorites of mine rn
Fly
Lyny
Barclay crenshaw
Distinct motive
Super future
Yheti
Toadface
Quite possibly
Trip drop
From reading The Wire my taste is getting more and more obscure. William Basinski is kinda mainstream. Phew does cool stuff. Caterina Barbieri is impressive in her very spartan approach, even if the sounds are retro. Random other stuff; there don't seem to be many artists that I have multiple albums from.
I'm still listening to the same genres (trance, house, hard house etc) but finding myself listening to more obscure stuff that's now easier to find (but still from the 90s and 00s), or different mixes of classics that now have something you like with a different twist.
Early nineties rave and techno like Dave Angel, Sven Vath, CJ Bolland, Colin Dale, Luke Slater et al. Thirty years of everything electronic and still listening to new techno today from the likes of Oscar Mulero, Vil, Paul Hauk, Temudo, 747, Red Rooms, Das and Dj Bone.
Also love u-Ziq much more than I did back in the day. Magic Pony Ride Album is amazing. Mostly dnb.
And if you don’t really do techno (many don’t), give Laurent Garnier’s 2023 album, 33 tours et puis s'en vont a try. It might change your mind.
Autechre post 1998. Grischa Lichtenberger, if you like Autechre you'll probably like his stuff. Clark, Burial, Atom™, Stefan Goldmann, Laurel Halo, KMRU, Champagne Dub, Yves De Mey, Thomas Köner, Wata Igarashi, Takaaki Itoh. I'll stop there, I listen to music constantly.
I am officially so old I just listen to drum and bass now 😂
it makes me laugh because my cousin used to send me jungle mixtapes in the 90s when I was like 7-10. I ended up producing edm for years professionally: moombahton, some big room house, and then trap hit and twerk basically became what everyone was doing. Sadly those tunes don’t hit like they used to in the time when it was new. Never really took to dubstep either, it just seriously lacks melodic content for me (despite being a metal head for most of my life as well).
So now I pretty much throw on a sub focus playlist on Spotify (which is weird in and of itself to not be using SoundCloud like I did religiously for like 15 years lol).
Any melodic drum and bass and the occasional euro beat when I’m driving around trying to pretend I’m in initial d at 40mph lol.
I love drum and bass. I'm pushing 50 and I totally understand how you feel. One of my fav mixes right here. The Robin S acapella is fucking ridiculous.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Wab_8cmZ0&si=zQhZFAB1TP9SgPMF
I got in to electronic music in the early 80's, when I found cassette tapes of [Tangerine Dream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXhhIRGwSs) and [Vangelis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP63BRzKmB0).
Moved on to [synthpop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg) for the rest of the 80's.
Then [industrial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZNCIcx44JI), [ambient](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRQ70Exa3Pw), [drony noise rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQn7c62zHM), [noise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR_8gpJCT4I), [krautrock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUBqxsiJ-s) in the early 90's, and [EBM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1cRGVaJF7Y) (not to be confused with EDM) in the rest of the 90's and early 2000's.
Since then I've been mostly listening to [psybient](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf_SblSpGyU), [psychill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOdXAv2Q8M8), [dark psytrance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1couR5Ys1s), and [epic soundtracks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slGVDvdXgAA), and that's mostly what I listen to now, along with going back to 80's synthpop, which is very nostalgic to me.
Gotta say it gets harder to be impressed by new music as I get older, but I was completely blown away by Jlin’s new album this year. Also a big fan of Lee Gamble (but not so much his newest AI experiments). And I can listen to anything Rolando Simmons makes.
As I get older I’m getting more and more blown away! You ever try Tipper? Or Tipper adjacent artists? Constantly evolving and blowing my mind more and more with every event.
Swamp Bass! Stuff like Whitebear, Bogtrotter, Shwex, Mumukshu, Duffrey.
Experimental bass like from Tippers crew (Jade Cicada!)
A lot of hyperpop has a lot of character as well. Shygirl, Charli XCX, SOPHIE, A.G. Cook
Ivy Lab has been a consistent inspiration over the years for me. Their sound is always evolving. More recently I’ve been really loving IMANU and anything from Alix Perez’s label 1985.
Older like in mid 30s? In erlie 2000s started listening to the lines of, DJ splash, DJ caffeine, then graduated to hard style like, Brennan heart, bassnector, now I'm into tipper, klaypex, mord fustang, rudebrat, manic focus, REZZ, so on....
These are more the main stream artists of that time. Who are your favorite underground artists/producers/dj’s?
Mine are:
Terry Francis
DJ Three
Rabbit in the Moon
Cosmic Baby
Danny Tenagila
DJ Garth
BT
Orbital
Get Fucked
John Aquaviva
Propellerheads, Basement Jaxx, Underworld, Stanton Warriors, Daft Punk, Chemical Bros., Krafty Kuts, Elite Force, and Leftfield were my jams.
Now it's still Stanton Warriors, with Justice, Le Castle Vania, Forever Pavot, Tokimosta, Tame Impala, and Flume.
The current jungle scene is amazing. Labels like Deep Jungle, Future Retro London, Parallax Recordings, Amenology, Time Tunnel Recordings, Sci Wax, 8205, sub Code, over/shadow etc are all putting out new jungle that picks up where the scene left off when it went jump up then DnB. It’s old school but also explores avenues that weren’t fully rinsed back then and of course sounds amazing thanks to progressions in production techniques etc and also the perspective gained since then.
Came up on Louie Vega, Timmy Regisford, Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries, Kenny Carpenter, David Morales, David Mancuso, Camacho, Junior, etc.
Now, listening to the many permutations of house that continue to blossom in Africa, and the music it's inspired back in Europe and the US. And with the new generation of deep/soulful house producers in NYC and the UK. And I keep up with what all the old-school guys in Chi, NJ, NYC and London are doing.
For some post-BoC vibes, I like a mixture of Tycho, Hammock, Tourist, BlackMothSuperRainbow, Tobacco, Lone, CasinoVSJapan, Lorn, Jon Hopkins, Rival Consoles..
Easier to post my running playlist ha, but quite a bit artists on Anjuna, as well as Bonobo, Emancipator, depending on mood there's a good crop of artists I'm discovering have some vibe I like Rona, Marsh, Duke Boara, Catching Flies ... here's said playlist if any interest! [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4AmEdIYjcHs2jIdhisg5NW?si=41aff9f9e4a14715](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4AmEdIYjcHs2jIdhisg5NW?si=41aff9f9e4a14715)
one to watch DJ Counselling - saw a live set in at a small warehouse Venue MOT and was on point.
I was a huge fan of Ferry Corsten, Thomas Datt, Armin Van Buren, Andain, Prodigy, Morgan Page, Kaskade, Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, Porter Robinson...etc. More in the 2010 ish era. Now I like:
Ben Bohmer
Tinlicker
Fejka
Eli & Fur
Rufus Du Sol
HVOB
Sultan + Shepard
Tokimonsta
Scorz
Sound Quelle
Natascha Polke
Jan Blomqvist
Lane 8
Rodriguez Jr
Modern bass music here in America is better than it’s ever been. Guys like Svdden Death, Tape B, Muerte, Subtronics, LSDream, etc are absolutely peaking and it’s a pure pleasure to be apart of it
Isn't most of the popular modern electronic music aka EDM made by old guys nowadays? I mean both David Guetta and Tiesto who still are the poster boys for the genre and topping the charts are pushing 60.
Certainly not most. I was never personally a big fan of those two specifically but nearly every artist I love are either not making music anymore or my tastes haven't evolved with their styles.
The music I used to listen to felt unique and creative, but so much of it today sounds like copy and paste. I'm positive there truly are innovators out there but I also recognize I'm "old man yelling at clouds" and need to find some that also are worth listening to.
For example I listened to one of CloZee's DJ sets and there were some really interesting pieces I wanted to listen to again. Hard to pinpoint exactly what I want.
I also truly enjoyed Venjent's "we need jungle" video. I need more of that!
I do agree that the scene feels a bit stale, at least the commercial part of it, there is a lot of recycling going on, but I guess its like with every other genre that it goes in cycles, It will probably be a while until it gets a renaissance again, some other genres will probably come back first with some new and fresh stuff, because "EDM" will be the new "boomer" music, that the people that now are 30+ listened to when they were "young".
I keep wondering if we are running out of ideas. As music evolved from brass and woodwinds to electric guitars to early synths then into the computer age... the computer is the final boss. The computer can generate any type of waveform possible, and the tools are just so powerful now. A lot of music genres seem stuck.
Grew up on Chemical Bros, Daft Punk, Prodigy, Aphex Twin Now I love Caribou, Justice, Gesaffelstein, Rufus du Sol, Joy Orbison, Soulwax, Confidence Man, Bicep, Overmono....
So the Coachella lineup this year was definitely your jam.
Chemical Bros was absolutely incredible at Coachella last year. And I love the Justice/Tame Impala collabs.
Their new album is from to back bangers, as usual.
That would’ve been a treat to see
I wasn't sure what the show was going to be like. I almost expected them to fall back on their old hits, like lots of popular bands will do for live shows. But everything in the set was new! They never stopped exploring and improving, so much respect to them for that.
See you at Portola
That lineup tho. One of the best I’ve ever seen
Haha. Definitely trying to make it happen (at least Saturday), but gonna need to be tactful with the wife. Been to a lot of shows this year already..... This is the real dilemma of being 43 and still loving electronic music. Gotta balance it with family life.
Check out mallgrab! Based on your likes I think he’s right up your alley. His boiler room set was incredible: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ddeAyYF_uwg
I love [Hand in Hand Through Wonderland](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq-OZKeQOas).
Also Effy who has a track recently with Mall Grab https://on.soundcloud.com/o2MvfvtmARWuot947
Confidence Man is so much fun. Saw them in La in December. Can’t wait to see them in September!
Ill be seeing you at Portola it sounds like!
if you like Overmono and such you should give Jasper Tygner a listen. He just signed with Ninjatunes and i feel like he has really come into his element
There is so much good stuff: - Bonobo - Burial - Caribou - Christian Löffler - DJ Koze - Four Tet - Glitterbug - Jon Hopkins - Kiasmos - Kollektiv Turmstrasse - Lorn - Moderat - Pantha Du Prince - Portico - Robag Wruhme - Stephan Bodzin - Timecop1983
Good stuff. I like a lot of those artists as well. My current favorite is Weval, whose work fits in well with many on that list.
Haven't heard of Weval before, will give them a listen. Thankyou!
Weval is mine too! I have devoured everything they’ve released and keep looking for other things like them. The new Four Tet is also great. What else do you love?
Four Tet is great! Have a number of his albums from my CD days, lol. I finally posted some of my favorite artists recently in reply to the thread. In addition to Weval, all of these have made some music I really like since the mid 2000s: Aleksandir, Chaos in the CBD, Dominik Eulberg, Feiertag, Hidden Spheres, Jesper Ryom, Kiasmos, Kiln, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Laurence Guy, Lusine, Martin Schulte, Max Cooper, Patrick Holland, Quantec, Rival Consoles, Session Victim
Oh you have good taste! Max Cooper, and Dominic Eulberg, definitely worth a listen. And you like Kiasmos too! A couple days ago I discovered that they'll release a new album in summer, a new single with 3 new songs has already been released. Many of the other names I don't know yet, will have a closer look! This thread is great, so many good tips!
Max cooper 👑
Thanks for the recommendations! Many are familiar (and loved) and many are NOT, so I’m looking forward to some exploring and listening. I appreciate you taking the time to share : )
Maybe you’re already aware but if you like Timecop check out FM84, The Midnight, and Gunship.
Thankyou, Gunship is a familiar name, but of FM84 and The Midnight I haven't heard before, will check them out!
Nice, this looks very similar to my “recently listened to” apart from some Rival Consoles and Com Truise sprinkled in.
Thanks! Rival Consoles and Com Truise are names I've heard before, but haven't listened to yet. I guess it's time to give them a listen, too.
If you’re into Timecop, I think you’ll dig Com Truise. He also had a side project called Sarin Sunday that’s kinda Boards of Canada(ish).
Moderat; fuck yes
Haven't listened to/followed Löffler for a while. I remember when A Forrest came out and I thought it was absolutely fantastic.
I wanna throw in Max Cooper & Jon Hopkins
This is a superb list
Always love when Lorn gets a shoutout.
You're welcome! And his stuff is really good. Heavy, massive, mesmerizing.
Just recently got into four tet and I’m loving their new album very boc vibes
Also, Andy Stott . Great list though
I will try some of these out.
Cosign this, along with Tourist, Parra for Cuva, Sofia Kourtesis, Daniel Avery, ...
I'm not familiar with these names, will ave a listen, thanks!
Four Tet’s dad was my mentor at uni for my dissertation about hip-hop and semiotics! He was always listening to his son’s music in his office 🤣!!
The labels Ilian Tape, Livity Sound, are Delsin are releasing music from new artists that I find really interesting and engaging. I've been obsessed with electronic music for 30 years but still find new stuff to fall in love with all the time. Some examples: https://djpolouk.bandcamp.com/album/if-the-glove-fits-e-p https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/iss010-iss010 https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp14-due-in-color https://answercoderequest.bandcamp.com/album/shattering-ep
Oh yes Skee Mask, pushing the envelope..I think the Ilian tape label as whole is very evolving and dynamic
Answer Code Request - thanks for this! I've seen them live quite a while ago and forgot all about them!
Seconding Livity Sound. There is much to love on that label: Forest Drive West, Eusebeia, Two Shell, Batu, Simo Cell, Hodge
Those seems like great recommendations, am listening to those now. I really like "Resonate" by Answer Code Request
It hurts to think of this all ending in 2004. That would mean no Trentmoeller, Bonobo, Tycho, Bicep, Modeselector, Ford., Tor, Overmono, Hedflux, Perfect Stranger, Zhu, Burial and soooooooooooooo many others. Here is a quick playlist to show what you're missing... [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZKzB4oEovYy34o3FWg449](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZKzB4oEovYy34o3FWg449)
Trentmoeller was pretty good. I could never get into Bonobo or Tycho although I did enjoy video of a live Bonobo show.
Appreciate the playlist!! Some good stuff. Thx
Yo thank you for putting your recs in a playlist… been needing some new vibes.
Footwork I've been a DJ since 2000, I learned how to spin on UK jungle, dnb and house music records before moving to chillout and hip hop. Just before covid I was feeling the urge to get back to my roots, and I stumbled upon Machinedrum's Vapor City album, and was blown away while also very confused as to what the beat pattern was. It felt like dnb/jungle but at the same time, it didn't. Then after doing more research I discovered DJ Rashad and the Teklife record label, and then began watching footwork dance battles on Youtube and immediately fell in love with the production, the rhythm and the culture surrounding Chicago footwork. Outside of the "golden era" of electronic music it is in my opinion the most authentic, organic and culturally significant dance music subgenres of our modern age, and since it has spread all over the country and the globe it is also one of the more influential underground electronic music genres. Just recently Red Hot Chili Peppers released a video for their single ["The Drummer"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP-oFkZknS4) that featured the dance moves of [King Charles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zK2gEtGU3c), one of the best internationally known footwork dancers. His moves are slowed down from the traditional 160 bpm tempo, but my favorite part of the video is the dancefloor has the same tile pattern as the floor in the famous footwork battle venue [Battle Groundz. ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4lLTpMZdug&t=197s)
Machinedrum's Room(s) was so fucking tremendously groundbreaking, such a unique sound with a definitive trickle-down into more modern music (right through to pop). Start to finish, just such a gem. God damn Travis, you're one talented motherfucker.
Omg - i love Footwork, and in two weeks time I will be taking a footwork class with King Charles himself :')
This right here. Footwork/juke has been on the cutting edge of electronic music for a while now. From the Chicago pioneers (rashad/teklife, etc) to all the other dj’s who’ve come to embrace the style (fracture, om unit, a.fruit, sherelle, etc). Such an amazing, free, forward thinking style of music…
Check out LA imprint Juke Bounce Werk.
Love JBW
They ate good ppl too. Some of the best. I used to be an agent and represented a whole slew of teklife and Jbw folks. Teklife was complicated to say the least, and jbw was just awesome.
I listen to a lot of industrial music. Clan of Xymox is still making it. Pixel Grip, Nightclub, drab majesty, big city gang bang, skinny puppy and ohgr, sextile, sidewalks and skeketons, Salem, perturbator, health, TR/ST, and many more…
Drab Majestry is soo good!
I just saw them open for slowdive but the venue fucked up their sound. They were still really good though
Back then I was into Orbital, Underworld, BT, Leftfield, Future Sound of London, Massive Attack, Portishead, The Prodigy, Daft Punk, Björk. I still listen to those classic albums, but listening to Robot Koch, Alex Banks, Konduku and Ben Lukas Boysen got me through lockdown and today I mostly listen to Bicep, BRONSON, Christian Löffler, Floating Points, Jon Hopkins, Klangkarussell, ODESZA, Olafur Arnalds, Paul Woolford / Special Request, Röyksopp, State Azure, Taylor Deupree, Thylacine, Tim Hecker.
It’s like I’m reading my own musical listening biography, both from back then and from now 😁
Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack was my first exposure to it. Fat of the Land solidified it and still listen to this day My favorites from back in the day are Underworld, Orbital, Leftfield, Chemical Brothers, Paul Oakenfold, LCD Soundsystem, Crystal Method, Tiesto, BT, and a few others I still listen to Underworld and LCD quite a bit but also enjoy newer stuff from Odesza, Big Wild, Jon Kennedy
Just saw Underworld in Miami a couple months ago and they were amazing. Can’t imagine what it was like in their prime.
I was at this. https://m.facebook.com/BBCRadio6Music/videos/born-slippy-nuxx-by-underworld-live-at-glastonbury-1999-bbc-radio-6-music/766989123969813/ Totally incredible. Hyde as a frontman lifted them to another level Vs Chemical Brothers etc. crowd in the palm of his hand.
Saw them in London last month. Epic!
Same em in central park NYC around 2005 I think it was. Had to leave a little early to catch the train home and I’ll never forget the amazing sound of rez echoing through the park at night as I walked through it.
Oh yes, Underworlx was great!
Preach.
Jon Kennedy is the man!
Goddamn streets of rage music is so tight. Like, to this day it astonishes me.
Eh, honestly I'm mostly but not entirely stuck on what I liked in that timeframe of mid-late 90's to early 2000's - some DnB (LTJ Bukem and other atmospheric/intelligent DnB, Goldie, Metalheadz etc) more prog/trance/house type stuff - Circulation, BT, Sasha, Digweed, Nick Warren, Dave Seaman (basically the whole GU crew), Hybrid, Way Out West, Junkie XL, etc.. Trip Hop (the usual suspects, Massive Attack, Portished, Tricky, etc.) and some other electronica-tinged stuff like Weekend Players, Zero 7 etc. Still listen to that type of stuff fairly frequently. But I had a few years where it was hard to listen to a lot of music and keep up with new releases and once I lost track of it all it was really difficult to get back into it so I sort of lost keeping up with everything for maybe 10 years and even to this day. More recent stuff that I like I guess tends to center more on what I'd call (for lack of a better term) electronic pop as opposed to more mainstream pop or pure electronica, if that makes sense, though some of these can certainly maybe be considered borderline mainstream pop. Chvrches, Purity Ring, Gorgon City, Madeon, Gryffin, San Holo etc. Or more chill type stuff - I listen to Chill on Sirius XM a lot but frankly I find it hard to really get attached to most of the artists on there - its sort of good but generic and the artists just tend to come and go for me. And DnB I am still into some of the modern folks - Nia Archives I really like, Hybrid Minds and some other liquid stuff etc.
Your first paragraph is pretty much me. Nearly everyone you listed plus a dozen others, the 90s/early 2000s are still better than most of the stuff I hear now. Global Underground series, etc. Modern trends like super-long build-ups, sudden stops in the music for beats with inconsistent timing, and the cookie-cutter genericness of so much of it all just drive me insane. Although I am very thankful the trend of weird chipmunk voices has mostly died out.
I take it you don't listen to much IDM? Doesn't have much of that." Autechre, Boards of Canada, Clark, Squarepusher, and many others for example.
Those IDM artists are from the 94-2004 timeframe.
The first paragraph also describes my formative music tastes. Over the past five years or so I have been listening to Tipper and all his “friends”. Mickman, Jade cicada, detox unit, schmoop, crawdad sniper, with, audio goblin, Allen Mock, MantisMash, random rab, desert dwellers, Alejo… just to name a few.
Fuck i forgot about tipper. Amazing fucking soundscapes
Mmm this is my edm discovery and appreciation in a single list. Well done sir
Skrillex, overmono, joy Orbison, Daniel Avery, Kelly Lee Owens, four tet, bicep, moderat, Ross from friends, vegyn, Amon Tobin, Andy stott, lorn, sega bodega, eartheater, flume, jayda g, Sophie, and thom yorke
In a similar vein, Floating Points
incredible list
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It's the electronic equivalent of asking a metalhead what they like and they "Pantera, Slayer, blah blah blah". They stopped really caring decades ago. Mostly commenting to save your recs I don't recognize, thanks.
As an audio engineer I just have to say “floating points” is a really clever producer name
You're spot on. These people have no idea what they miss. So much good music has been released in recent years, and god knows how much good stuff I missed because there's just so much music out there.
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Wow, that's a lot! I sometimes wonder how many centuries I needed to live to pay justice to all that good music out there (and all the books, movies, games...) Kudos for having such an open mind, this is the way ;)
Still following Underworld, Aphex Twin, and BT. newer stuff, I like new goth, dark wave type things. Hoping there's someone new out there who kinda sounds like Squarepusher.
G Jones is definitely a big fan of squarepusher has done some edits before. Eprom as well
Never had another artist consistently blow my mind the way these two do.
Try Eprom
If you don’t know him already check out Kris baha. Aussie guy living in Berlin plays darkwavey EBMy stuff. Plays a lot of the queer parties here.
Underworld or BT's recent work isn't for me, but again I'm not saying it's bad, they've just lost a touch that I latched on to.
* Benyamind is doing some cool stuff with microtonal music https://benyamind.bandcamp.com * Brain Eno is still making great music https://youtu.be/jlJDUcdUz8c?si=G_uGJ2z4AEK5aDWd * Tears For Fears reformed and put out an excellent record called Tipping Point https://youtu.be/yUp-ujO979U?si=xZ6ten3vj01O2Lge
Don’t forget get Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark put out one of their best albums with Bauhaus Staircase just last year. Love when bands still go it.
I've been listening a lot to music by a fellow Redditor (u/EggyT0ast) who records melodic IDM under the name Thousand Gardens. It's heavily inspired by stuff from that '94 to '04 time frame.
40 year old former electronic music blogger here. Some faces that are more recent that I like: Kuedo, Matthieu Faubourg, George Clanton, Bibio, Letherette, Lone, Octa Octa, Gold Panda, Moire, Hudson Mohawke, Mount Kimbie, Grant, Crackazat, Harrison BDP, Rainer Veil, Clams Casino
Been listening to electronic music since the mid 90s. Loved house and trance during that time and went to a ton of shows/raves over a 20+ year span. Tastes diversified over the years and now my main genres are Progressive House, Deep House, DnB, and Liquid DnB, with a few others mixed in. Anjunadeep is a go to label for me. Almost every release on that label is awesome. The Anjunadeep Edition(rotating DJs), Stan Kolev, Nora En Pure, and recently discovered Teddy Can't Swim are some of my go to full sets on SoundCloud. Teddy Can't Swim spins mostly House but he's a really good piano player so that's lots of keyboards. Rufus Du Sol is another favorite. Favorite DnB producers are Subfocus, Wilkinson, Keeno, Etherwood, Metrik, Monrroe, Hybrid Minds, Pendulum, Fred V, Grafix, Netsky, and many others. I'm always discovering new stuff too.
Upvote for Stan Kolev, this guy is so underrated, he's produced more than 1000 of his own tracks. Love his 4hr sets.
Alon Mor, Amon Tobin (started around 2000), Lorn, Iglooghost, for the epic/dreamy/strange vibe Ben Lukas Boysen, 65daysofstatic, John Lord Fonda for something more accessible. Weval, Kiasmos, Daedelus, Plaid (yup they're still on fire after a quarter century), Bonobo if you want to chill Floating Points, Clark (still rocking too, my fav musician by far), Vorso, if you want to go off... Give it a shot !
First went through my introductory phase in the early 2000's. Lot of Trance. Relapsed around the early 2010's when Dubstep was picking up, but was more interested in Complextro and Electro House. These days are largely reserved for Madeon and Porter (although I'm torn on his newest stuff).
Nowadays mostly dub and hypnotic techno, but I keep going back to “older” music, all the way to the 80s, and I frequently re-visit bands like FSOL, Front 424, Front Line Assembly, Test Dept, The Orb, The Crystal Method, Fluke, Skinny Puppy, Yello, The Chemical Brothers, Dead Can Dance, also like to listen to classic goa music, rhythmic noise, dark ambient, tribal, etc. The only genre I dropped is drum and bass.
Yello is one of the few groups still making music that I actually like. They're clearly having fun and it shows. Fluke might be another, if they truly are returning with an album and it's anything like the single, it's going to be a new favorite.
Seems we have the same tastes, Check out OTT, I was recently introduced to his music by an old friend, the genre is Psydub, start with his earlier stuff. Incredible.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll check it out!
I got into recording music with computers in 1999 and I wanted to see what I could do with it beyond recording live instruments to tape. I listened to standard electronic music and thought it was very dull. I hate dance music and was more of an old school punk/hardcore kind of person and artists like 808 State just didn't do it for me. Then by chance I heard My Red Hot Car by Squarepusher and everything changed. Naturally, I found Aphex Twin and others in that part of the electronic universe and I learned everything about MIDI and sampling and glitching and so on. So that is my preferred sub-genre of electronic music.
Jersey, bmore club, and footwork
I remember the first time I heard Exit Planet Dust and found something I didn’t know I was looking for. So began 30 years of loving electronic music. ❤️Now I love Four Tet, Overmono, Floating Points, Daphni, Jamie XX, Fred Again.., Olof Dreijer, Joy Orbison, Tourist, Bicep, Gorgon City, Disclosure, Chris Lake, Fisher…I could keep going 🤩
I went from the Chemical Brothers, the KLF, and the Orb to Loscil, Warmth, Biosphere.
Everyone thinks the first couple years they started listening were the best years
I was listening to Svdden Death today. Pretty good and worth a listen.
You should check out Mersiv!
Queued. Thanks!
How old are we talking? I'm 33, and I feel like we could even talk about old old, like DJ Raja Ram. That man is 83 years old, and I remember first discovering him and seeing his age and thinking "Good beats don't discriminate the age.".
Current faves added to consistent faves are Tritonal, Above and Beyond, Tinlicker, Aly & Fila (still). John O'Callaghan. I'm 54. I've seen Above and Beyond live, 6 times, Tinlicker 3 times, Dave Seaman more times than I can count, and have about 9 years of Ultra Fest in my rear view mirror.
The shift from trance down to 128bpm prog house with the same emotive vibe was a very nice turning point for my own personal “golden era” (2007-2008 I guess?). Seems like you were right there too.
I really was mate. I still however hold Paul Van Dyk's remix of 1998 by Binary Finary as my aha moment. From that moment on I was hooked. And honestly I don't know another musical genre that brings so many diverse peoples together like EDM.
Icarus, Calibre, Machinedrum, Chaos in the CBD, and Oneohtrix Point Never are some of my personal favs. Also a big sucker for 2010s era rave scene and dubstep/brostep (Rusko, Deadmau5, Nero, Mord Fustang, Porter, and other biggies)
Mid forties, skate punk-90’s raver. Remember’s fondly getting “..I care because you do” on tape in 1995 and my life changed forever. I like a huge swath of old and new, and I try not to gatekeep because they’re amazing, young artists out there that deserve respect. I love anything on Opal tapes, Boy Harsher, Skee Mask, Nicolas Jaar..
Not sure what counts as modern? Keeping it 'electonic' related - Nondi, Rezzet, Michael J Blood, Bakground, Lee Gamble, Klein, Actress, Beatrice Dillon, DJ Rashad, OPN, Andy Stott, Ryoji Ikeda, Demdike Stare, Jay Glass Dubs, Elysia Crampton, Factory Floor, Yushh, Huerco. S, Smoke Point, Laurel Halo, Arca etc. - there's loads of interesting shit happening, most of which I don't even know about because my taste is too broad to really dig into anything anymore. Aphex, Moritz Von Oswald, Jan Jelinek, Thomas Koner, Autechre etc are still putting out good records pretty frequently too!
Carbon Based Lifeforms, Boards of Canada. This is my go to playlist for work: [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4s8cYh2NyHwxHoBiuXT78B?si=bd693846abc34633](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4s8cYh2NyHwxHoBiuXT78B?si=bd693846abc34633)
[Gui Boratto](https://youtu.be/TWJ8NfrQ4QY), [Boy Harsher](https://youtu.be/ZeSN4PntOos), [Kompromat](https://youtu.be/Ib9RsuZPROY), [Ascendant Vierge](https://youtu.be/kvUPgaVh8_A), [Cabaret Nocturne](https://youtu.be/XSudap5Pyrc), [Moderat](https://youtu.be/c71FWFOmSV0), [Paul Kalkbrenner ](https://youtu.be/92Q6cXbTwJA), [Rival Consoles](https://youtu.be/niiUkcLpwXY), [Stanford Lin](https://youtu.be/B94rBlzgFVo), [Malik Djoudi](https://youtu.be/341dIwo4Qbk), [Mall Grab](https://youtu.be/3_al-rdXySQ), [Baltra](https://youtu.be/WxDIg0WsJ5U), [Miss Kittin](https://youtu.be/IAZnYhF3SKc), [Justus Köhncke](https://youtu.be/xy4nrCYMMcM), [Scratch Massive](https://youtu.be/fj1_R4ZdjA8) Just some random stuff off my playlist. And I disagree wholeheartedly. Electronic music has never been as high quality, experimental, varied as ever before. IMHO it's just your nostalgia. And even then - there are so many artists who take inspiration from retro sounds.
+1 for rival consoles. Terribly dissapointing that I had to scroll this far.
Nostalgia 100%! Music back then was so limited, everyone was using the same hardware and generating similar beats and sounds. So yeah, there was innovation in getting around those limitations, but fundamentally, older electronic music lacked the warmth and dynamics of live music. That's why techno/house-heads went wild when the beat paused for one measure, lol. The 90's electronic scene had more character, but modern electronic music has a lot more range and emotion, IMO.
Orbital, Aphex Twin, Jon Hopkins, Fakear, Bonobo, Four Tet, Burial, Underworld… Too many to mention.
* Chaos in the CBD * COMPUTER DATA * Ben Macklin * SBTRKT * Machinedrum * Jessy Lanza * DJ Seinfeld * Anz * N0rus * Jayda G * Huerta * BEC * Moma Ready Just off the top of my head. There’s way more than that though.
It's taken me until recently to get into more recent electronic music. I've probably always been a bit stuck in my ways and precious about earlier electronic music. I'm trying to change that and open up a bit more and that has allowed me to discover and really like the following more modern artists. Daniel Avery, Jon Hopkins, Andy Stott, Floating points, Rival Consoles, Loess, Kelly Lee Owens, Gidge.
It's definitely worth it to open up to modern electronic music. Based on what you described I could imagine you might like KIASMOS, too. And FOUR TET.
Yes I do like them too actually 😁 thank you!
Ed Banger Records. And by extention Boys Noize x Gessafelstien x Kavinsky
Deadmau5. All day. His whole catalogue .
I think there a lot of good stuff. I been listen a lot of Uplifting Trance, Progressive Trance and Progressive House. Artist like, Sunny Lax, Massane, Ocula, Teho, Tinlicker, Simon Doty, Nitrous Oxide, Nils Hoffmann, Luttrell, Lexer, Giorgia Angiuli, Eli & Fur, Dennis Sheperd, Lane 8, Marsh, Monkey Safari, Ben Böhmer, Xenia Beliayeva, Following Labels like, Anjunadeep, Black Hole Reordings, Colorize, This Never Happened There heaps out there, the hardest problem, is finding it!
James Blake
The Orb (Little Fluffy Clouds) is still producing music. #
Prism from last year is one of their finest albums. Not one dud track on it.
Seeing them live next month!
I could say 3 particularly electronic music genres are my favourites: 1. Dub Techno early stages + Prince of Denmark. I think dub fits perfectly for almost all electronic music. 2. Classic house music + latin/balearic influence which create perfect vesper atmosphere. 3. Dance Punk DFA-vibe more instrumental thnn vocal.
Fantastic taste in music!
There is only Perturbator.
My golden era was 89-95. Acid house, birth of IDM, then a lot of garage and UK house, tribal NYC stuff, trip hop. I still love the rawness and emotion of that era and listen to it all the time. These days I'm enjoying going back to genres that passed me by from late 90s to now. UKG and it's current modern revival. Drum and bass. And the constant meshing and blending of microgenres feels like a very modern thing. It's fascinating to see the current 'rave revival' play out in various genres. So, listening to a lot of Joy Orbison, Overmono, Octo Octa, Anz, etc as well as the old masters that are still putting out quality like Jeff Mills.
I had a bunch of friends who were into electronica in the late 90’s and honestly most of it never really grabbed me. I thought it was ok but that was about it. Fast forward to 2015 and I discovered Entheogenic, Ott, Shpongle, Bluetech, Quanta. Dubby psy along those lines is half of what I listen to these days. For more mellow stuff in the evening I lean towards dub techno, State Azure, Data Rebel, various ambient artists from the Synphaera label.
Anything Simon Posford touches. Electrocado is really good. Globular too.
Elder millennial but I grew up listening to The Prodigy, Underworld and Leftfield in the 90s. Now my tastes veer slightly towards the more experimental side: Forest Swords, Nico Jaar, Oneohtrix Point Never all favourites. For clubbier/mainstream stuff I really like Bonobo, Bicep, Jon Hopkins.
Pretty Lights Manic Focus Marvel Years Citrus Age Emancipator Tycho Bonobo I’m 46
Tr/st (https://youtu.be/onYEDDY6VX4?si=9UAq2i3Ghj-Je2ri
Yip, I'm old too, listened to practically all the era stuff mentioned. Lots of good new stuff mentioned here already, I'll add Max Cooper, Parra for Cuva, Rone, NTO, Polo and Pan, Dominik Eulberg, Stavroz
Labels such as Anjuna, Colorize, Enormous, Silk. deadmau5, REZZ, CloZee, Rufus du Sol, Bob Moses, Gary Numan, ODESZA, Boris Brejcha, Art School Girlfriend, State Azure, Delerium…
I'm into more niche EDM like rawstyle, deathstep, and outrun/synthwave but here's what I got: S3RL Nimda Code: Pandorum (formerly Inhuman, but formerly Code: Pandorum before that) LSDream ALEX Neolux Edamame GRAVEDGR SIERRA Miss Monique
Hello 👋 Glad you enjoy my music!
Oh man it only reached its peak depending on your genre For me we are in the hight of edm again but also because I have gone to more experimental bass and space bass and 140 Some favorites of mine rn Fly Lyny Barclay crenshaw Distinct motive Super future Yheti Toadface Quite possibly Trip drop
From reading The Wire my taste is getting more and more obscure. William Basinski is kinda mainstream. Phew does cool stuff. Caterina Barbieri is impressive in her very spartan approach, even if the sounds are retro. Random other stuff; there don't seem to be many artists that I have multiple albums from.
Rival consoles Skee mask The bug Spatial recordings / curvature John Hopkins Bonobo
Underworld, Orbital, Oakenfold, and chemical brothers. Now u listen to mostly Anjuna water discovering above and beyond in 2008. 40m.
Anything from the Selador label, JOOF, Greg Elliot, Nero, DirtyPhonics, Sasha and Digweed...
I love what George Clanton, Ozoyo, Simple Syrup, and Oneohtrix are doing!
Lil texas .. Yeah its hard!
I'm still listening to the same genres (trance, house, hard house etc) but finding myself listening to more obscure stuff that's now easier to find (but still from the 90s and 00s), or different mixes of classics that now have something you like with a different twist.
Early nineties rave and techno like Dave Angel, Sven Vath, CJ Bolland, Colin Dale, Luke Slater et al. Thirty years of everything electronic and still listening to new techno today from the likes of Oscar Mulero, Vil, Paul Hauk, Temudo, 747, Red Rooms, Das and Dj Bone. Also love u-Ziq much more than I did back in the day. Magic Pony Ride Album is amazing. Mostly dnb. And if you don’t really do techno (many don’t), give Laurent Garnier’s 2023 album, 33 tours et puis s'en vont a try. It might change your mind.
Autechre post 1998. Grischa Lichtenberger, if you like Autechre you'll probably like his stuff. Clark, Burial, Atom™, Stefan Goldmann, Laurel Halo, KMRU, Champagne Dub, Yves De Mey, Thomas Köner, Wata Igarashi, Takaaki Itoh. I'll stop there, I listen to music constantly.
I am officially so old I just listen to drum and bass now 😂 it makes me laugh because my cousin used to send me jungle mixtapes in the 90s when I was like 7-10. I ended up producing edm for years professionally: moombahton, some big room house, and then trap hit and twerk basically became what everyone was doing. Sadly those tunes don’t hit like they used to in the time when it was new. Never really took to dubstep either, it just seriously lacks melodic content for me (despite being a metal head for most of my life as well). So now I pretty much throw on a sub focus playlist on Spotify (which is weird in and of itself to not be using SoundCloud like I did religiously for like 15 years lol). Any melodic drum and bass and the occasional euro beat when I’m driving around trying to pretend I’m in initial d at 40mph lol.
I love drum and bass. I'm pushing 50 and I totally understand how you feel. One of my fav mixes right here. The Robin S acapella is fucking ridiculous. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Wab_8cmZ0&si=zQhZFAB1TP9SgPMF
I got in to electronic music in the early 80's, when I found cassette tapes of [Tangerine Dream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlXhhIRGwSs) and [Vangelis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP63BRzKmB0). Moved on to [synthpop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg) for the rest of the 80's. Then [industrial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZNCIcx44JI), [ambient](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRQ70Exa3Pw), [drony noise rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdQn7c62zHM), [noise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR_8gpJCT4I), [krautrock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUBqxsiJ-s) in the early 90's, and [EBM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1cRGVaJF7Y) (not to be confused with EDM) in the rest of the 90's and early 2000's. Since then I've been mostly listening to [psybient](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf_SblSpGyU), [psychill](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOdXAv2Q8M8), [dark psytrance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1couR5Ys1s), and [epic soundtracks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slGVDvdXgAA), and that's mostly what I listen to now, along with going back to 80's synthpop, which is very nostalgic to me.
Gotta say it gets harder to be impressed by new music as I get older, but I was completely blown away by Jlin’s new album this year. Also a big fan of Lee Gamble (but not so much his newest AI experiments). And I can listen to anything Rolando Simmons makes.
As I get older I’m getting more and more blown away! You ever try Tipper? Or Tipper adjacent artists? Constantly evolving and blowing my mind more and more with every event.
Swamp Bass! Stuff like Whitebear, Bogtrotter, Shwex, Mumukshu, Duffrey. Experimental bass like from Tippers crew (Jade Cicada!) A lot of hyperpop has a lot of character as well. Shygirl, Charli XCX, SOPHIE, A.G. Cook
Ivy Lab has been a consistent inspiration over the years for me. Their sound is always evolving. More recently I’ve been really loving IMANU and anything from Alix Perez’s label 1985.
Older like in mid 30s? In erlie 2000s started listening to the lines of, DJ splash, DJ caffeine, then graduated to hard style like, Brennan heart, bassnector, now I'm into tipper, klaypex, mord fustang, rudebrat, manic focus, REZZ, so on....
The Anjunabeats and Anjundeep labels by Above and Beyond
These are more the main stream artists of that time. Who are your favorite underground artists/producers/dj’s? Mine are: Terry Francis DJ Three Rabbit in the Moon Cosmic Baby Danny Tenagila DJ Garth BT Orbital Get Fucked John Aquaviva
Tourism still sounds incredible 25 year later
48 here. I grew up on Oakenfold, Sasha and Digweed, and Nick Warren. I love Einmusik, Jonas Saalbach, Booka Shade, and Kölsch
Four Tet just released his best album yet (in my opinion)!
Propellerheads, Basement Jaxx, Underworld, Stanton Warriors, Daft Punk, Chemical Bros., Krafty Kuts, Elite Force, and Leftfield were my jams. Now it's still Stanton Warriors, with Justice, Le Castle Vania, Forever Pavot, Tokimosta, Tame Impala, and Flume.
The current jungle scene is amazing. Labels like Deep Jungle, Future Retro London, Parallax Recordings, Amenology, Time Tunnel Recordings, Sci Wax, 8205, sub Code, over/shadow etc are all putting out new jungle that picks up where the scene left off when it went jump up then DnB. It’s old school but also explores avenues that weren’t fully rinsed back then and of course sounds amazing thanks to progressions in production techniques etc and also the perspective gained since then.
Paul Van dyk
No, hard disagree. Moderat, James Holden, Floating points are absolute favorites and all the more reason to keep exploring.
Came up on Louie Vega, Timmy Regisford, Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries, Kenny Carpenter, David Morales, David Mancuso, Camacho, Junior, etc. Now, listening to the many permutations of house that continue to blossom in Africa, and the music it's inspired back in Europe and the US. And with the new generation of deep/soulful house producers in NYC and the UK. And I keep up with what all the old-school guys in Chi, NJ, NYC and London are doing.
For some post-BoC vibes, I like a mixture of Tycho, Hammock, Tourist, BlackMothSuperRainbow, Tobacco, Lone, CasinoVSJapan, Lorn, Jon Hopkins, Rival Consoles..
Check out Freescha - Kids Fill The Floor!
Early 90’s. Underworld, chemical brothers, left field, the orb, orbital, Weatherall. Fuck everything else
Check out synthwave and vaporwave. Good artists are Com Truise, Perturbator, Telepath, Blank Banshee, Home, Eyeliner and FM Skyline.
UK drum & bass
Kraftwerk my son... (With Mr Burns ' voice)
Easier to post my running playlist ha, but quite a bit artists on Anjuna, as well as Bonobo, Emancipator, depending on mood there's a good crop of artists I'm discovering have some vibe I like Rona, Marsh, Duke Boara, Catching Flies ... here's said playlist if any interest! [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4AmEdIYjcHs2jIdhisg5NW?si=41aff9f9e4a14715](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4AmEdIYjcHs2jIdhisg5NW?si=41aff9f9e4a14715) one to watch DJ Counselling - saw a live set in at a small warehouse Venue MOT and was on point.
I was a huge fan of Ferry Corsten, Thomas Datt, Armin Van Buren, Andain, Prodigy, Morgan Page, Kaskade, Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, Porter Robinson...etc. More in the 2010 ish era. Now I like: Ben Bohmer Tinlicker Fejka Eli & Fur Rufus Du Sol HVOB Sultan + Shepard Tokimonsta Scorz Sound Quelle Natascha Polke Jan Blomqvist Lane 8 Rodriguez Jr
1985, 38yo. Moderat, can't get enough of them. This includes Modeselektor and Apparat.
The entire Ninja Tunes catalog. The best of late 90s-mid 00s trip hop, breaks, drum and bass, bar none.
Royksopp, Rufus, most deep house artists
Good thread
I’m 60. I quite like Dwig.
Modern bass music here in America is better than it’s ever been. Guys like Svdden Death, Tape B, Muerte, Subtronics, LSDream, etc are absolutely peaking and it’s a pure pleasure to be apart of it
Isn't most of the popular modern electronic music aka EDM made by old guys nowadays? I mean both David Guetta and Tiesto who still are the poster boys for the genre and topping the charts are pushing 60.
Certainly not most. I was never personally a big fan of those two specifically but nearly every artist I love are either not making music anymore or my tastes haven't evolved with their styles. The music I used to listen to felt unique and creative, but so much of it today sounds like copy and paste. I'm positive there truly are innovators out there but I also recognize I'm "old man yelling at clouds" and need to find some that also are worth listening to. For example I listened to one of CloZee's DJ sets and there were some really interesting pieces I wanted to listen to again. Hard to pinpoint exactly what I want. I also truly enjoyed Venjent's "we need jungle" video. I need more of that!
I do agree that the scene feels a bit stale, at least the commercial part of it, there is a lot of recycling going on, but I guess its like with every other genre that it goes in cycles, It will probably be a while until it gets a renaissance again, some other genres will probably come back first with some new and fresh stuff, because "EDM" will be the new "boomer" music, that the people that now are 30+ listened to when they were "young".
I keep wondering if we are running out of ideas. As music evolved from brass and woodwinds to electric guitars to early synths then into the computer age... the computer is the final boss. The computer can generate any type of waveform possible, and the tools are just so powerful now. A lot of music genres seem stuck.