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offline Inverted Whale from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2005-01-27 08:10 [#01477336]
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I really like Pram.

The female vocalist is the deal breaker for most people. You
either like or hate her. Museum of Imaginary Animals
might be a good starting point.


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 08:10 [#01477338]
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Why not for this thread? just because they are popular? (in
fact their most innovative album was also the lowest selling
BTW)


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-01-27 08:12 [#01477341]
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they know secrets how to make absolutely "politically
correct" music - my sisters like it, my parents like it, I
like it, my friends like it; it's infantile and grown-up at
one time. They use best inventions in pop music and mildly
mix in some inventions from alternative scene. Their work
seems to use results of some psychological research on what
people like.
This is suspicious.


 

offline sadist from the dark side of the moon on 2005-01-27 08:17 [#01477350]
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institut fur feinmotorik
alva noto
akufen
minimalistic sweden
mokira


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 08:17 [#01477351]
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I'd sooner listen to Air than Venetian Snares or
Squarepusher that's fo shore, but I guess that's not the
point.


 

offline welt on 2005-01-27 08:18 [#01477353]
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yeah, pram!


 

offline welt on 2005-01-27 08:21 [#01477357]
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when i was 14 i heard "mother of pearl" by pram on a mix-cd.
i found it the craziest music i ever heard.


 

offline Matvey from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-01-27 08:22 [#01477361]
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i'm close to agree with you about squarepusher.


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 08:27 [#01477372]
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Maybe check out "The White Noise" a quasi electronic
psychedelic band from the 60's who ironically do actually
sound a little like Air in places, their stuff I would say
is unique and perhaps a little over challenging at times.
And you'll probably hate me for it but I find Sigor Ros's
sound to be fairly unique too.

To give you an idea of what I consider to be unique, I work
in a record store part time and if anyone comes in and wants
something that's like Aphex or like AE or like (insert your
own favourite obscuro electronic artist here) it's actually
pretty easy to find something that is at least similiar, but
if somebody comes in wanting something that's like any of
the artists I have mentioned, well that's a different story,
there just isn't anything, only approximations, and rough
ones at that.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-01-27 09:26 [#01477445]
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hey, i prefer air over much electronic music - moon safar is
one of my fac albums. not to mention vsnares who sucks
deeply imo :)
i get what you're saying, and i agree they're awesome at
what they do, but the outcome is just too similar to so many
other artists eventhough if you give it a better listen you
find out that they are very original. i would recommend kid
loco to people who would be after something similar to air.

i'll also check that pram album and the white nose. cheers!


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 09:40 [#01477479]
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Kid Loco has elements of Air's sound circa Moon Safari but I
for one would be very dissapointed if I took it home
expecting another 10 000 hz legend, it just doesn't compare,
as I said it would just be a rough approximation, remember
Air can get rather deep n dark and fucked up (Wonder Milky
Bitch, Virgin Suicides etc) whereas Kid Loco is just
"pleasant" quasi easy listening music.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-01-27 09:43 [#01477484]
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well, kid loco has quite a variety of stuff as well, for
dark stuff you should check out his mix album he did for dj
kicks, which is quite possibly my fav dj kicks album.

as for 10,000 hz legend - i agree, it does sound completly
different to their other work and it is uniqe!


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 09:48 [#01477496]
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Point taken, I'm only familiar with Kid Loco's first album
which I find just "pleasant", no more, no less, certainly
not unique but I'll check his mix cd, the only DJ kicks
album I really like is the Kruder and Dorfmeister one (again
pleasant but not unique) but I've not heard the Loco one.
bet it ain't as good as 10 000 hz legend though (which is
the album I would refer to as unique, the others are maybe
less so, though Walkie Talkie has it's moments)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-01-27 09:51 [#01477500]
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that dj kicks album sounds nothing like 10.000 HZ tho, it's
just very dark so i mentioned it..just so you won't be
expecting 10.000 :)

as i said, nothing alike that 10.000 hz album comes to mind.


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 09:52 [#01477502]
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which was kind of my point, don't worry I'm pretty much
resigned to the fact that NOTHING will ever sound like 10
000hz legend unfortunately, unless it's got the name Air
stamped on it, oh well!


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-01-27 16:39 [#01477997]
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if someone came into a record store where i worked at and
asked for recommendations related to m83 i could list off a
good twenty artist who i think are much much better in their
area... of course that's very subjective, and you are more
than welcome to disagree... as for m83 being unique... i'm
willing to disagree with that statement a lot more
vehemently... of course the MBV comparison is somewhat
useful, but everyone seems to ignore the fact that this
style of drone-rock was not born with MBV, nor did it cease
to exist until these new glitch-shoegaze artists came along
in the last 2 or 3 years...

tolst: those albums are both cool... there is no wrong
reynols... only different, peculiar shades of right
reynols...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-01-27 16:44 [#01478007]
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oh, im getting more for sure, it's a bit hard to get tho :)


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2005-01-27 16:54 [#01478024]
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I don't know if you've heard any of his stuff, but i guess
i'd say that max tundra makes some of the most unique
music i've heard. There's so much energy and life in
there... really genre-bending stuff, hard to classify. One
of my most favouritestststs music men.

Both of his albums are absolute corkers, highly
recommended.



 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-01-27 17:15 [#01478056]
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yeah, i really dig quirky pop stuff like that... it's
important to balance out all the really abrasive stuff...
you should check out Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti if you
haven't already...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-01-27 17:17 [#01478061]
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hmm, max tundra sounds real familiar, but i can't remember
really. i'll check it out! thanks.


 

offline trentee from Berlin (Germany) on 2005-01-27 17:26 [#01478074]
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Deathprod - Box Set, Biosphere - "Shenzou" and "Subtrata/Man
with a Movie Camera", Johan Johannsson "Viroulegu Forsetar",
Shadow Huntaz "Corrupt Data Instrumentals" and "Vampire EP",
Gonzales "Solo Piano" is grrreat, Laurie Anderson from
"Strange Angels" to "Life on a String"and (of course)
Madonna "Erotica" ;)


 

offline ilfed from / (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 18:16 [#01478127]
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maybe you or anyone else have not encountered/would find
interesting:

current 93
specifically works from the thunder perfect mind album
onwards could be to your taste. live albums like halo and
all dolled up like christ are very good representations,
there are many more though. it has been described as post
apocolyptic folk. much to do with belief as i understand it.
the song 'a song for douglas after he's dead' i really like
and sums up quite well what it all means to me.

He crouches on the floor, there's a mask on the wall.
And he leafs, through the pages of a book.
But wait as he may in the shadow of other leaves.
His heart, in embraces to times long since scorched.

The horizon folds over, with a purple sun rise.
And the wind carries smoke, from a world that is burning.
The smoke locks in his hair, and he's covered with
patterns.
A decent, of life trees, on his camouflaged soul.
With a winter of memories, carved powder bone white.
Beyond his sculls form, a scorpion lies.
In the crunch of the snow, as his darkness increases.
A twilight of ice, encircles his teeth.

This is a song for Douglas, after he's dead.
This is a song for Douglas, his mercury dances.

There's a swastika carved, in the palm of his hand.
There's a crooked cross, that is caught in his mind.
There waits a falling sun, in his eyes.
There's the honour, of violence, on his lips.
His father waits for him, near the towers of silence.
Where they worship the fires, so long ago quenched.
Under two willow trees, with el has inverted.
The fork of life snapped.
They are father and son.
So mingling dust, as if life itself, had been mostly
illusion.
But partially real.
And partially pain.

And over some wall, if you look through the rubble.
Amongst ruins of churches, where life conquers death.
Though empires can not last, where blood and soils
conquest.
The faulted and failed.
A cloud still sows teeth.
As the world disappears.

This is a song for Douglas, after he's dead.
This is a song


 

offline ilfed from / (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 18:18 [#01478129]
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the character counter lies! but that was the end anyway,
enjoy?.


 

offline DeadEight from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-01-27 18:37 [#01478150]
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david tibet is nice... i think currently (HAHAHA) i enjoy
All the Pretty Little Horses the Most... but there are a few
that are up there...


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-01-27 19:36 [#01478185]
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some more random sudgestions:
blue man group (fucking rad use of precussion)
mr. bungle
chumbawumba (not just that tubthumping song that was pretty
big years ago)
mindless self indulgence
almost anything with mike patton
the books
the streets


 

offline welt on 2005-01-29 11:59 [#01480765]
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sun ra and his intergalactic research arkestra

he mixes jazz, traditonal egyptian music and avantgarde
experimentation.

he also had some philosophical ideas and dissed on the
european wordlview and refused to distinguish between body
and soul. he saw "the emptiness of teenage life" as a result
of wrong western ideas or something like that. anyhow his
music is - really - great and unique. it doesnt really have
the same effect as other jazz music. the music is only based
on jazz.


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-02 10:12 [#01485086]
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"if someone came into a record store where i worked at and
asked for recommendations related to m83 i could list off a

good twenty artist who i think are much much better in their

area..."

well do it then...

I'm listening


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-02 10:15 [#01485092]
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Oh and to the guy that mentioned "the Streets", surely Chas
n Dave came before them,
check out "roads" by MC Pitman on his album "Pit Closure"
and then see if you can ever listen to the Streets again,
IMO they(he) are one of the worst acts around at the moment.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-02 11:50 [#01485190]
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i got that album by the heroin sheiks today and im loving
it, thanks r40f!! this album reminds me of the good old
nirvana days :)
kind of a mixture of nirvana&melvins&qotsa sound and i like
all those, so yeah, im very happy about it.

and they even sent me a nice sampler along :)


 

offline stefano_azevedo from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2005-02-02 11:57 [#01485196]
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[speim]

i find my music is unique .)
listen my shit .D

http://www.tramavirtual.com/nacl_escape


 

offline Daveeth on 2005-02-02 12:04 [#01485204]
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Mugison from Iceland. Pretty unique and good.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-02 12:05 [#01485206]
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i agree.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-02-02 12:09 [#01485210]
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oh, i'm so glad you like it! :D


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-09 12:39 [#01493102]
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I'm still waiting for that guy to list 20 acts that are
better in their field than m83


 

offline mimi on 2005-02-09 13:45 [#01493163]
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Autophonic - though who knows if he'll ever come out with
another record!


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-09 14:29 [#01493224]
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will you check them out?


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-16 12:00 [#01501209]
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of course,
I'm here to find out about new and exciting music so a list
like that would be worth it's weight in gold, yet to see it
yet though.


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2005-02-16 12:16 [#01501231]
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i've read a million better examples of interweb hyperbole...


 

offline impakt from where we do not speak of! on 2005-02-16 12:18 [#01501234]
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Add N To X has a lot of great stuff.


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-16 12:38 [#01501242]
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"i've read a million better examples of interweb
hyperbole..."

scuse my ignorance, what is interweb hyperbole?


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-17 13:15 [#01502733]
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ok, i highly recommend 65days of static in that case.


 

offline r40f from qrters tea party on 2005-02-17 13:17 [#01502735]
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are you on soulseek now? (sorry for the o/t post)


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2005-02-17 13:19 [#01502739]
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i am


 

offline plaidzebra from so long, xlt on 2005-02-17 13:42 [#01502775]
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hyperbole: a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used
for emphasis or effect, as in i could sleep for a year or
this book weighs a ton...



 

offline weatheredstoner from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-02-17 13:45 [#01502782]
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NOT UNIQUE


 

offline welt on 2005-02-26 14:25 [#01514217]
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Quasimoto

How did you come up with the idea of changing into
Quasimoto?

I was on drugs and I just wanted to do something different.
I was in the studio by myself with a gang of beats and I
wanted to try something different, with a different voice. I
look at my voice as too low, you know what I'm sayin'?
People understand it more when I do the Quasimoto stuff. I
just did it for myself first and then he [points at PB Wolf]
heard it and then shit came out. I just did it for myself, I
didn't think people would understand it. But that was one of
my best selling records. (laughs)


 

offline hevquip from megagram dusk sect (United States) on 2005-02-26 15:16 [#01514252]
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i don't have time to go through all six pages of posts, so i
don't know if they've been mentioned...but i'd say cLOUDDEAD
is nice. especially after hearing Ten. their first album is
still the better one.


 

offline idle interloper on 2010-10-01 07:26 [#02394548]
Points: 418 Status: Lurker



Bump.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2010-10-01 11:05 [#02394554]
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I have no idea how Mugison can sound unique to anyone.. When
I put it on I got the same cringing feeling I do when I hear
something extremely tedious and similar to 10000000 bands
out there.

As far as my own taste goes, all my favorite artists have
their own sound and that's why I like them cuz of their own
thing.

Autechre - Nothing is alike.
Bola - Soup IS unique no matter what anyone says, one of a
kind one time record.
Beck - Midnite Vultures and Mutations - yay
Plaid - They have their own quirky fairytale melodic sound
Burial - mm
Funckarma - The epitome of "idm" but their production is
quite outstanding and very few come close
Murcof - Did the cinematic + glitch thing perfectly, he may
have been the first
Elegi - Sistereis is a very unique masterpiece
Hybrid - Morning Sci-Fi - science fiction, a bit cheesy but
they pioneered the new breakbeat cinematic thing
Orbital - In Sides and Snivilisation are great and unique
sounding

I guess there is a difference between what YOU have heard
before and what is technically unique.



 


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