Halp me rediscover music!

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I've fallen back into electronica/techno quite a bit, but my collection is rather limited. A few albums by Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, and Derelic7 and uh... That's about it.

Harij, pls don't kill me, but I love your (derelic7s) stuff. I just don't know where to look for more of it (as in, other artists that sound similar).

The daft punk is nice, but I find a bit too soft for my tastes, except for Homework. I love Homework, with a passion. Sorry fellows, but I love accessible music. Go ahead, kill me for it. Again, i'm not too sure where to look for stuff sounding similar.

Halp me! I have no idea where to start with exploring the genre, it's just way too vast. Hardstyles, Darkwave, Trance, Psytrance, Goa, breakbeat, drum and bass, I have no idea where to start. HALP!
 
^This.

sinkoman said:
Thanks! Time to start digging, think i'll start with Tiesto :)

Oh, and i've never tried meth. The dankest depths of the hole that I visited were Morphine and Ritalin. Only way you could get me to touch the stuff is if it were free and right in front of me :p
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Welcome :D You shant be dissapointed with Tiesto mate, almost certainly guaranteed to please!


Also regarding substances, expect a large quantity to come your way soon...
A LARGE QUANTITY OF HUGS, THAT IS! :E
 
sinkoman said:
I've fallen back into electronica/techno quite a bit, but my collection is rather limited. A few albums by Aphex Twin, Daft Punk, and Derelic7 and uh... That's about it.

Harij, pls don't kill me, but I love your (derelic7s) stuff. I just don't know where to look for more of it (as in, other artists that sound similar).

The daft punk is nice, but I find a bit too soft for my tastes, except for Homework. I love Homework, with a passion. Sorry fellows, but I love accessible music. Go ahead, kill me for it. Again, i'm not too sure where to look for stuff sounding similar.

Halp me! I have no idea where to start with exploring the genre, it's just way too vast. Hardstyles, Darkwave, Trance, Psytrance, Goa, breakbeat, drum and bass, I have no idea where to start. HALP!
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How could I not respond? I'm very flattered.
My favourite tool for finding new music and inspiration is online radiostations.
Winamp has a vast collection of stations you can connect to in any genre you can imagine, just download winamp and check out Shoutcast Radio and hit search.
But there's a little gem called Screamer Radio: http://www.screamer-radio.com/

This one has a decent assortment of stations to connect to, and it can play any URL if you happen to run into a station online. But here's the best bit; it can record your music and save the files as separate mp3's.

Now, I know that there's a few like streamripper for winamp, but winamp's having some trouble with antivirusprograms lately (from my experience) while this one works perfectly.

Throw on a station with the music you're looking for, hit record, go to sleep or work or whatever and when you're back, you're gonna have a few hours worth of quality music.

I'd recommend the stations on www.soma.fm , particularly Groove Salad.

Also, check out forums and netlabels, there's always buzz around talent and good music.

www.planet-mu.com
www.watmm.com
www.ninjatune.net

Also, electronic genres have even more variations than trance and hardfloor variations, which by the way don't seem to be entirely your cup of tea. try ambient dub, idm (aphex twin, most of my music), liquid funk, chillout, that sort of stuff.

I love Homework, with a passion. Sorry fellows, but I love accessible music. Go ahead, kill me for it.
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Daft punk are ****ing geniuses, there's no shame in enjoying them :)
 
Well, I signed up at Last.FM, but unless there's a way to scrobble the music I listen to on my ipod, I doubt it'll do much good. I barely ever listen to music on my PC these days, as lately i've spent very little time infront of it. Hell, half the music on my ipod isn't even on my comp.

Really digging the Tiesto though. It's really nice, and I love the energy. 4 on the floor gets irritating after 2 or 3 songs though.

Listening to some Mu-Ziq right now, and it's tickling my pickle pretty nicely. I want to dive into IDM more, but the genre seems just way too broad to really figure out what of it I like. Any artists you guys could recommend?

Right now i'm trying to find more of that, and some Psytrance.
 
^I don't use iTunes, but in the early days of last.fm loads of people voiced exactly the same concern that you have, and iirc there is a mechanism now in place to tally the tracks that you have listened to while out and about. Could be wrong about this, and you may have to dig through FAQs, but maybe someone here can clarify. In the meantime, you may also find Last.fm useful for just typing in band names and finding similar artists.
 
Uh.

Klute
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Autechre
Squarepusher
Boards of Canada
Booka Shade
M.A.N.D.Y.
DJ Shadow
Burial
Diplo
DJ Krush
Four Tet
Ladytron
Zinc
Tubbs
Thom Yorke
Talvin Singh
Spor
Rjd2
Portishead
Pitch Black (Not the rappers)
Mylo
Mr. Scruff
Minuit
Midnight Juggernauts
 
what about drum and bass ?
Pendulum, Black Sun Empire and Logistics are pretty good.

-dodo
 
If you really like Daft Punk's Homework - these should be your next stop:

Alter Ego
SebastiAn
Vitalic
Justic
MSTRKRFT
Danger
Boys Noize
Digitalism
Goose
Para One

More stuff:
Mr. Oizo (very ahead of the curve french electronic music, very electic)
eDIT (hip-hop style beats with a glitchy edge)
Alex Gopher (new French Touch style house.. )
Jackson & His Computer Band (nice glitchy IDM)
Metronomy (two absolutely amazing songs, rest boring imo, but still worth a look)
808 State (acid house)
Altern-8 (more acid house)
Eats Tapes (nice harsh experimental music, vaguely techno)
Holy **** (experiemental instrumental stuff, really worth checking out)
A Mountain Of One (more prog-rock styled, baleric stuff)
Kavinsky (80s tinged synth stuff, lovely, really cool)
Feadz (Uffie's tour DJ, some interesting stuff here - a lot of his older stuff is really nice minimal techno)
Ricardo Villalobos (my fave minimal techno DJ/producer.. awesome stuff)
The Field (minimal atmospheric techno)
Dead Soul Brothers (veers between a fidget house take on garage rock, to more ambient stuff)
Herve / The Count Of Monte Cristal (one half of Dead Soul Brothers, and a fantastic fidget house producer and DJ)
Crookers (my favourite fidget house DJ/producers, absolutely fantastic)
Switch (sick sick sick bassy stuff)
Burial (veers between dubstep and ambient)
Motor (harsh industrial style electro)
Shackleton (fantastic dubstep artists)
Ratatat (probably already heard of them, but they're ace)
Sinden (speed garage styled fidget house)
DatA (as crunchy as Alter Ego etc, but often with a lot of musiciality)
Culture Prophet (more more more crunchy.. not for the fient of heart)
The Bloody Beetroots (crunchy but with a sound all of their own,
Drop The Lime (dubstep/BMore/electro.. lots of bass)

Let me know if this helps, got plenty more to recommend!!

Even more worth a look:
The Presets (aussie electro)
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The Teenagers
Late Of The Pier
Chromeo
GameBoy/Gamegirl
LA Priest
Pirate Soundsystem
Herbert
Tapedeck
Guns N Bombs
Hostage
Skream
Benga & Coki
Dmitry Fyodrov
Jack Beats
Boy 8-Bit
Simian Mobile Disco
The Black Ghosts
Simon Baker
Villains
Bart B More
Japanese Popstars


:D
 
Listen to Kinetic and Comrade, them niggas know their music :D
 
Oh god, i'm finding mu-ziq to be eargasmic. I love it!

Thanks so much for the recommendations guys :)
 
all these (range from ambient to psytrance to idm) are worth checking out:
bolded are my personal favorites

infected mushroom
1200 mics
juno reactor
astral projection
the infinity project
shpongle
hallucinogen
carbon based lifeforms
biosphere
pole
the field
bluetech
boards of canada
squarepusher
autechre
amon tobin
AFX (another project of Aphex Twin / RDJ)
apparat
the chemical brothers
delerium
equinox
four tet
gescom (autechre sideproject)
justice
kelly bailey (HL2 soundtrack)
matmos
monolake
mum
orbital
ott
the prodigy
venetian snares
zero 7
 
ComradeBadger said:
If you really like Daft Punk's Homework - these should be your next stop:

Alter Ego
SebastiAn
Vitalic
Justic
MSTRKRFT
Danger
Boys Noize
Digitalism
Goose
Para One

More stuff:
Mr. Oizo (very ahead of the curve french electronic music, very electic)
eDIT (hip-hop style beats with a glitchy edge)
Alex Gopher (new French Touch style house.. )
Jackson & His Computer Band (nice glitchy IDM)
Metronomy (two absolutely amazing songs, rest boring imo, but still worth a look)
808 State (acid house)
Altern-8 (more acid house)
Eats Tapes (nice harsh experimental music, vaguely techno)
Holy **** (experiemental instrumental stuff, really worth checking out)
A Mountain Of One (more prog-rock styled, baleric stuff)
Kavinsky (80s tinged synth stuff, lovely, really cool)
Feadz (Uffie's tour DJ, some interesting stuff here - a lot of his older stuff is really nice minimal techno)
Ricardo Villalobos (my fave minimal techno DJ/producer.. awesome stuff)
The Field (minimal atmospheric techno)
Dead Soul Brothers (veers between a fidget house take on garage rock, to more ambient stuff)
Herve / The Count Of Monte Cristal (one half of Dead Soul Brothers, and a fantastic fidget house producer and DJ)
Crookers (my favourite fidget house DJ/producers, absolutely fantastic)
Switch (sick sick sick bassy stuff)
Burial (veers between dubstep and ambient)
Motor (harsh industrial style electro)
Shackleton (fantastic dubstep artists)
Ratatat (probably already heard of them, but they're ace)
Sinden (speed garage styled fidget house)
DatA (as crunchy as Alter Ego etc, but often with a lot of musiciality)
Culture Prophet (more more more crunchy.. not for the fient of heart)
The Bloody Beetroots (crunchy but with a sound all of their own,
Drop The Lime (dubstep/BMore/electro.. lots of bass)

Let me know if this helps, got plenty more to recommend!!

Even more worth a look:
The Presets (aussie electro)
Does It Offend You, Yeah?
The Teenagers
Late Of The Pier
Chromeo
GameBoy/Gamegirl
LA Priest
Pirate Soundsystem
Herbert
Tapedeck
Guns N Bombs
Hostage
Skream
Benga & Coki
Dmitry Fyodrov
Jack Beats
Boy 8-Bit
Simian Mobile Disco
The Black Ghosts
Simon Baker
Villains
Bart B More
Japanese Popstars


:D
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Ennui said:
all these (range from ambient to psytrance to idm) are worth checking out:
bolded are my personal favorites

infected mushroom
1200 mics
juno reactor
astral projection
the infinity project
shpongle
hallucinogen
carbon based lifeforms
biosphere
pole
the field
bluetech
boards of canada
squarepusher
autechre
amon tobin
AFX (another project of Aphex Twin / RDJ)
apparat
the chemical brothers
delerium
equinox
four tet
gescom (autechre sideproject)
justice
kelly bailey (HL2 soundtrack)
matmos
monolake
mum
orbital
ott
the prodigy
venetian snares
zero 7
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Hell yeah, cross referenced.
 
Vitalic = much win

Now proceeding to investigate Ennui's listamajig.
 
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