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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.
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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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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welt
on 2005-01-27 08:18 [#01477353]
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yeah, pram!
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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.
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Matvey
from Kiev (Ukraine) on 2005-01-27 08:22 [#01477361]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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!
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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...
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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 :)
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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" ;)
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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
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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?.
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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...
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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 :)
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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
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Daveeth
on 2005-02-02 12:04 [#01485204]
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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]
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i agree.
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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
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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
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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!
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tolstoyed
from the ocean on 2005-02-09 14:29 [#01493224]
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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]
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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)
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tolstoyed
from the ocean on 2005-02-17 13:19 [#01502739]
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i am
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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...
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weatheredstoner
from same shit babes. (United States) on 2005-02-17 13:45 [#01502782]
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NOT UNIQUE
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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)
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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.
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idle interloper
on 2010-10-01 07:26 [#02394548]
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Bump.
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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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