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         |  Inverted Whale
             from United States Minor Outlying Islands on 2005-01-27 08:10 [#01477336] Points: 3301 Status: Lurker
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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
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 08:10 [#01477338] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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
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         |  Matvey
             from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-01-27 08:12 [#01477341] Points: 6851 Status: Regular | Followup to Matvey: #01477333
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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.
 
 
 
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         |  sadist
             from the dark side of the moon on 2005-01-27 08:17 [#01477350] Points: 8671 Status: Lurker
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 | institut fur feinmotorik alva noto
 akufen
 minimalistic sweden
 mokira
 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 08:17 [#01477351] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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
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         |  welt
             on 2005-01-27 08:18 [#01477353] Points: 2042 Status: Lurker
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 | yeah, pram! 
 
 
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         |  welt
             on 2005-01-27 08:21 [#01477357] Points: 2042 Status: Lurker
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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.
 
 
 
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         |  Matvey
             from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-01-27 08:22 [#01477361] Points: 6851 Status: Regular | Followup to soundguy: #01477351
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 | i'm close to agree with you about squarepusher. 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 08:27 [#01477372] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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.
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-01-27 09:26 [#01477445] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator
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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!
 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 09:40 [#01477479] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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.
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-01-27 09:43 [#01477484] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator | Followup to soundguy: #01477479
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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!
 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 09:48 [#01477496] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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)
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-01-27 09:51 [#01477500] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator | Followup to soundguy: #01477496
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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.
 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 09:52 [#01477502] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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
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         |  DeadEight
             from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-01-27 16:39 [#01477997] Points: 5437 Status: Regular
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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...
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-01-27 16:44 [#01478007] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator | Followup to DeadEight: #01477997
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 | oh, im getting more for sure, it's a bit hard to get tho :) 
 
 
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         |  deepspace9mm
             from filth on 2005-01-27 16:54 [#01478024] Points: 6846 Status: Addict
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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
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         |  DeadEight
             from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-01-27 17:15 [#01478056] Points: 5437 Status: Regular | Followup to deepspace9mm: #01478024
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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
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-01-27 17:17 [#01478061] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator
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 | hmm, max tundra sounds real familiar, but i can't remember really. i'll check it out! thanks.
 
 
 
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         |  trentee
             from Berlin (Germany) on 2005-01-27 17:26 [#01478074] Points: 1081 Status: Lurker
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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" ;)
 
 
 
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         |  ilfed
             from / (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 18:16 [#01478127] Points: 215 Status: Regular
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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
 
 
 
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         |  ilfed
             from / (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-27 18:18 [#01478129] Points: 215 Status: Regular
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 | the character counter lies! but that was the end anyway, enjoy?.
 
 
 
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         |  DeadEight
             from vancouver (Canada) on 2005-01-27 18:37 [#01478150] Points: 5437 Status: Regular
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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
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         |  hedphukkerr
             from mathbotton (United States) on 2005-01-27 19:36 [#01478185] Points: 8833 Status: Regular
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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
 
 
 
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         |  welt
             on 2005-01-29 11:59 [#01480765] Points: 2042 Status: Lurker
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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.
 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-02 10:12 [#01485086] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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
 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-02 10:15 [#01485092] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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.
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-02-02 11:50 [#01485190] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator
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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 :)
 
 
 
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         |  stefano_azevedo
             from Pindorama (Brazil) on 2005-02-02 11:57 [#01485196] Points: 4396 Status: Regular
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 | [speim] 
 i find my music is unique .)
 listen my shit .D
 
 http://www.tramavirtual.com/nacl_escape
 
 
 
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         |  Daveeth
             on 2005-02-02 12:04 [#01485204] Points: 75 Status: Regular
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 | Mugison from Iceland. Pretty unique and good. 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-02-02 12:05 [#01485206] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator | Followup to Daveeth: #01485204
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 | i agree. 
 
 
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         |  r40f
             from qrters tea party on 2005-02-02 12:09 [#01485210] Points: 14210 Status: Regular | Followup to tolstoyed: #01485190
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 | oh, i'm so glad you like it!  :D 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-09 12:39 [#01493102] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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 | I'm still waiting for that guy to list 20 acts that are better in their field than m83
 
 
 
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         |  mimi
             on 2005-02-09 13:45 [#01493163] Points: 5721 Status: Regular
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 | Autophonic  -  though who knows if he'll ever come out with another record!
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-02-09 14:29 [#01493224] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator | Followup to soundguy: #01493102
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 | will you check them out? 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-16 12:00 [#01501209] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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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
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         |  plaidzebra
             from so long, xlt on 2005-02-16 12:16 [#01501231] Points: 5678 Status: Lurker | Followup to soundguy: #01501209
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 | i've read a million better examples of interweb hyperbole... 
 
 
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         |  impakt
             from where we do not speak of! on 2005-02-16 12:18 [#01501234] Points: 5764 Status: Lurker | Show recordbag
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 | Add N To X has a lot of great stuff. 
 
 
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         |  soundguy
             from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-02-16 12:38 [#01501242] Points: 734 Status: Regular
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 | "i've read a million better examples of interweb hyperbole..."
 
 scuse my ignorance, what is interweb hyperbole?
 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-02-17 13:15 [#01502733] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator | Followup to soundguy: #01501209
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 | ok, i highly recommend 65days of static in that case. 
 
 
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         |  r40f
             from qrters tea party on 2005-02-17 13:17 [#01502735] Points: 14210 Status: Regular | Followup to tolstoyed: #01502733
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 | are you on soulseek now?  (sorry for the o/t post) 
 
 
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         |  tolstoyed
             from the ocean on 2005-02-17 13:19 [#01502739] Points: 50073 Status: Moderator | Followup to r40f: #01502735
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 | i am 
 
 
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         |  plaidzebra
             from so long, xlt on 2005-02-17 13:42 [#01502775] Points: 5678 Status: Lurker | Followup to soundguy: #01501242
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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...
 
 
 
 
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         |  weatheredstoner
             from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-02-17 13:45 [#01502782] Points: 12585 Status: Lurker | Followup to tolstoyed: #01502739
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 | NOT UNIQUE 
 
 
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         |  welt
             on 2005-02-26 14:25 [#01514217] Points: 2042 Status: Lurker
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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
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         |  hevquip
             from megagram dusk sect (United States) on 2005-02-26 15:16 [#01514252] Points: 3412 Status: Lurker
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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.
 
 
 
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         |  idle interloper
             on 2010-10-01 07:26 [#02394548] Points: 418 Status: Lurker
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 | Bump. 
 
 
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         |  cx
             from Norway on 2010-10-01 11:05 [#02394554] Points: 4537 Status: Regular
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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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