Sob3k's Electronic Music Sampler

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

April 30 2011 02:13 GMT

This post has been inspired by countless messages/posts/threads and blogs. You know, the classic "I don't really listen to any electronic music but I heard a few songs and I wanna get some good stuff but I don't know anything and I hate X genre."

There are a lot of these posts. Everytime I see one I am inspired again to go through my music library and suggest music and link youtube videos, just because I am a compassionate guy and I want people to know that there is a whole world of amazing music out there that isn't boring untz untz untz. Well, I ended up doing this so often that I decided to sort of standardize the entire experience. I want to create a little "Intro to Good Electronic Music" guide for people who are interested to take a look at and find something they appreciate.

IMPORTANT SERIOUS BUSINESS!

1. This sampler is just music I like, I am not intending to be a guide to every major and minor artist or say that anyone or any genre not mentioned is crap or poop or whatnot. This guide's only intention is to serve as my electronic music enthusiast response to people asking for suggestions.

2. I am not concerned with the deep technicalities of genre for this guide. I will classify music in the sampler only to the most basic level needed to navigate the electronic community.

The way this sampler will work is this: I will list several large genres that the music I am experienced with generally falls into, and under each genre I will post some personally suggested artists and one or two examples of their tracks. I recommend you check out each genre. There is a large variety of music here and hopefully you'll find at least something that strikes your fancy. If one genre really isn't doing it for you then just move on.

PROTIP: closing the spoiler stops the youtube videos

Electro

When people say electro they almost always mean electro house. This is an absolutely enormous genre with some really far out artist calling their stuff electro. As a house genre these tracks will have the standard steady 4:4 beat. I like my electro pretty aggressive and partystyle, so if thats not what you're looking for skip this section. NOTE: The long drum intros in some songs are called the "mix-in", they are there to allow for easier transitions when DJing, you can skip them without guilt.

ARTISTS

Wolfgang Gartner
Aggressive stuff with lots of instruments and fast cuts.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_rQ6Av0gMY

Feed Me
Same guy as Spor (DnB artist), great party music with excellent bass. Older music is very hard.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDtw7Iyz5HI

Lazy Rich
As party music as you can possibly get without dying of alcohol poisoning. Newer track are more complex.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LcWuh3CmhY&hd=1

Redial
Uplifting music with some great retro flavor.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDT35gEReqg

The Subs
Crazy catchy music, batshit insane live show.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJMuEB5hFdc

Danger
More retro styled stuff, sort of got some old game soundtrack elements.
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Dilemn
Awesome French electro, classic french filter flavor.
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Mille
Someone posted this guy in this thread...AMAZING, such catchy riffs and variations out the ass. LOVE IT.
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John Lord Fonda
Epic and sort of sad...great production.
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Knife Party
Two of the dudes from Pendulum's new electro-step/party music project....SO GODDAMN COOL!
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OVERWERK
Sometimes electro sometimes a bit slower, tons of arpeggios and good stuff
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Rr6wbqpAg

PrototypeRaptor
Bizarre name, really catchy stuff with some classical themes sometimes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1SpFtOYLKo

DistanTT
Supposedly like 12 years old or something, very snappy mastering, some videogame influence
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D32iHUX1Lys

Also check out:
F.O.O.L
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Trampboat
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Taking the fastcuts style even choppier

Parov Stelar
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DEFEAT
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Neus
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Hip-Hop

Yes, this is a genre apart from rap. There is actually tons of great stuff out there. I prefer more chill and melodic tracks generally. Sampling is common in this genre, if it goes boom......chik.....boomchik, you are reasonably safe calling it hip-hop.

ARTISTS

Pretty Lights
Gotta be number one, produces a massive amount of wonderful quality tunes, all free to download.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrRNV4Z3zok

Blue Sky Black Death
Since I prefer instrumental, their latest album Noir was amazing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFbkoHTk1Dw

Man Mantis
Pretty indie still, great old analog sounds, even got a little bit of ratatat style. Not on youtube but you can still listen!
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http://manmantis.bandcamp.com/track/lost-parade <Listen to me!

Ronald Jenkees
This guy was a Youtube sensation a few years ago, then dropped off the map. His first album wasn't very good bu the second is great.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRnZtn1a9bM

Little People
Not much to say, they rock. (chillishly)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK5I4cTkL-E

The Glitch Mob
I'll put these guys in the hip-hop section. Amazing group, older stuff is more glitchy and aggressive, newer stuff is all their own style.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv2J18MQRQI

Haywyre
Awesome dude, unsigned and releases amazing free albums usually either instrumental hip-hop or dubstep. I'm putting him here.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgYSVs5SDKQ&hd=1

Guts
Nice sample based instrumental stuff, chill
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EE12GidB5o

Tycho
Had some nice stuff in the past, but the latest album, Dive, is pure sex, a must listen release. No all in the hip-hop tempo range but its got a similar feel
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuGO6WHcruU

Also check out:
RJD2
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJeLG8-M5I

Dubstep

Many people think dubstep is shit. There IS a lot of shit dubstep, but here is also tons of amazing dubstep that can be tons of fun. Please don't discount entire genres just because some of the fans and artists are morons. Dubstep elitists call everything aggressive and loud brostep and flame it, I have no time for people like that. There is great chillish dubstep and great angry dubstep, you just have to find it. We'll start with a few chiller artists and move progressively into the harder music.

ARTISTS

Phaeleh
Minimal and gorgeous as fuck.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh4brL7PC2E

Mimosa
Great mastering and sound design, superclean sound.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqyGGW3-bMU&hd=1

Matta
Getting harder now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmKK41aYNB4

Robokop
So much stuff going on, nice soft edged sound.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Lais0y988

Feed Me
Yes, he does dubstep too, and its awesome.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ymuFzsnwU

16bit
This dude does all sorts of stuff, some of It I like a ton, some not, but thats ok.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGDqM5jE2cg

Skism
Some cool tracks, he's got a signature bass sound that sounds great on nice subs. We're getting pretty hard now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uRGOIbGAA0

Dodge and Fuski
Mark my words these guys are the next big thing in dubstep. Amazing variety of sounds. If you get bored listening to a D&F track I don't know what to tell you.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50m9KAoRjR4

Skrillex
Somehow Skrillex has become the posterboy for terrible pop dubstep probably entirely because he was signed by Deadmau5's label. I don't care though, I listen to ALOT of music, indie and mainstream, and Skrillex makes great electro and dubstep. Absolutely nothing to hate on here.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw

Torqux & Twist
Now we are entering the absurdly heavy territory, awesome pump up music.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzLZ0N2DJfE&hd=1

Broken Note
This is about as hard as you can get. My posterboy artist for heavy dubstep with actually a lot of variation that won't bore you.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnDIzHndGl4

Ajapai
Now the actual musicality starts to break down and we just end up with a bunch of cool noises really loud. Still fun if you're in the mood.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPN6pSHrLpk&hd=1

Blackmill
And back to liquid, much prettier and more melodic than ajapai

. Need a bit of help mastering but hopefully that will improve.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAFjgpuWREM&hd=1

Troublegum
Really cool dude actually has some bass sounds that arent totally played out yet!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoyN7t4b_8E&hd=1

Fonik
Wow, this is some dense shit! Crams a melody in there too, I have no idea how. Really neat.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez2MXmhW6pM

Timeline
Very unique dubstep artist, keeps a very cool interplay between melancholic and not through strange tracks. Mastering isn't perfect but I just keep coming back to his music.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQdPY2VBmJU

http://www.beatport.com/track/left-behind-original-mix/3029593
^^^listen to me

Also check out:
Mark Instinct
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Statix
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Akira Kiteshi
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Psytrance/Goa

You know, like Infected Mushroom, except I find IM pretty boring....I haven't been able to add much psy to my library as most of it is pretty repetitive stuff you have to be on X to enjoy. But I have found a few artist who impress me. This stuff is great driving music. Beware the Mix-ins again.

ARTISTS

Space Buddha
Yeah, I really would just describe him as Infected Mushroom on ADD meds, switches up melodies like Tiger Woods does pancake waitresses.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgofUuXxycc

Vibe Tribe
Good Stuff too can sometimes get a bit silly but I still like it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t46Qx-03MeU

The Synthetic Dream Foundation
Epic Orchestral Psy? Yeah, its pretty unique.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmwOunZKCAc

Breakbeat and DnB

According to wikipedia "characterized by the use of a non-straightened 4/4 drum pattern (as opposed to the steady beat of house". Basically a more natural sounding beat you could play on a drumset. Usually people call it Breakbeat if its around 125BPM, and it turns into Drum and Bass if sped up past 150. We'll start with Breakbeat and speed up into DnB.

ARTISTS

Zircon
Good old Zircon. Very melodic.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve3KHazMIT0

Plump DJ's
Good stuff with some retro flavor.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXTywjxix2c

DaVip
One of the many extremely talented russian breaks artists. Pump up track master.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ44BJZa71g

Mars
Yay russians!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6G9SCqs3wk
I'm sneaking in a dubstep track they did together, really just slow breaks right?

The Crystal Method
The ancient masters, veterans of countless movie soundtracks! Actually really really good!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELAMEj59XlY

BreakbeatBuddha
Can anyone guess what genre he produces?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlNJU4o_OIU&hd=1

MOVING INTO DRUM AND BASS

Receptor
Insanely talented, makes every genre from DnB to solo piano and does it well. Also Russian.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl-KbsAE0_o&hd=1

B-Complex
One of the premier artists in the Liquid DnB subgenre (generally more uplifting and melodic).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0prFicLgXxw

Telemetrik
Released a bit of stuff then kind of dissapeared...nice tho.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr_kOavSAl8

Fourward
One of my favorites that nobody seems to know about.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXL6fo52cFY

State of Mind
They make a lot of boring stuff but a few tracks are gold.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQEDygzhpJQ&feature=related

Spor
Same dude as Feed Me, dear lord this man is talented.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru48xfuTzTg&hd=1

^GORGEOUS

Mind Vortex
Great production and hard as well as jazzier tunes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As3XbUe_8iM&hd=1

Also check out:
Shock One
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Kubrak
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Randomer
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Progressive House Mini-Section

Incognet
Its pretty rare for me to find prog house that doesn't bore me. This guy is good.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMSFI8nD2c

Deadmau5
Yes, Deadmau5. I haven't really liked his more recent forays into electro, but his older progressive tracks are occasionally sublime.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5fqEsOS64c

Atlantis Ocean
Woohoo, new prog house! I love these guys I just discovered, keep enough variation to maintain interest and very pretty melodies. I love some nice house to realx with.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5QqhkmG0CI&hd=1

Unclassified

This is not to say you COULDN'T cram this into a genre, mostly I just don't feel like it. If I haven't found anyone else who really sounds like an artist or the artist doesn't stick to a genre they are going in here. Also maybe I'll stuff a few artists who I don't have enough of their genre to make a real section.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND ALL THE FOLLOWING ARTISTS

Royksopp
Love love love these guys, making everything from happy party tunes to the deepest melancholy.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxai9aaxUw

Trentemoller
oh my god, listening to this mans music with headphones on while lying in your dark bed is the closest thing i'll ever have to a religious experience.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNtOB3P4UZU

Siriusmo
Awesome warm sound and lovely happy music.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdSIyz3qyds

Ott
This dude has a genre, its dub and its amazing.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSQ6zQV5xpI

Noisia
Didn't put them in a genre because they do whatever they want. EARGASMS
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INhzlIz4QXA

Amon Tobin
Probably some sort of musical genius, goes out and records stuff and them makes music ranging from extremely experimental to dope ass beats. Jazzy.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jaRA6nGyUg

Vibrasphere
They call themselves psychadelic something, but I call it astoundingly beautiful and relaxing music.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfhI7oPhqQo

Ten Madison
This guys does all sorts of stuff, his latest album has some world flavor, great.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZj4tfpRvAI

Beats Antique
Speaking of world flavor, Beats antique are like belldancing music with sick bass.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9nPKhXZEsQ

Long Arm
Completely unknown Russian dude create amazing instrumental jazz/hip hop. HE SHOULD NOT BE UNKNOWN.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCK_8F6t_H4&hd=1

Moderat
Collab audiovisual project between Apparat and Modselektor, heartbreakingly minimal yet not boring. I would sell both my kidneys to see them live.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoxUiqUpkw4

Jon Hopkins
Amazing piano mixed with glitches and samples so clean you could eat off them. The Album Insides is a MUST HAVE, listening to it while watching a sunrise is a MUST DO.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNa1AZpmndA

Allure
He claims its electro, we don't believe him but we don't really care either.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sj683lrVrI&feature=related

Faux Pas
Kind of like charming hipster stuff but all nice because there are no whining vocals.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQDB7fn9a5E

Bonobo
Hmm, pretty chill, Melodic with a capital M. Excellent. Lots of real instruments.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYZA7pn6WM4

Unicorn Kid
Chiptunes! You know, its like old gameboy music, except orders of magnitude better. The happiness and nostalgia combine for maximum effect!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOP5kIzaWQE

Abakus
Chill, gorgeous, simple but varied.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wrqozz_90o&hd=1

Govinda
Combination of middle eastern influences, live instruments and sick bass. Forgive 240p youtube vid.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymvNV_Os9Hg

Floex
More Russians making impeccably mastered jazzy IDM stuff.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuafNJBr-h0&hd=1

Kalya Scintilla
Eastern influenced semi-minimal bass music, impeccably mastered and super sick, highly recommended.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIoaqTwZZM8&hd=1

Hinkstep
Not sure how to describe this guy, its definitely not dubstep despite his name, very clean, dubbish, deep bass, beautiful understated melodies. You may think meh if you just listen, but lie down with some headphones and really concentrate and its gorgeous with perfect song structure.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIR-fmnUzE&hd=1

Oh my god im done.

There it is, all my musical knowledge and suggestions(i'm sure I forgot all sorts of stuff lol) condensed in a post.

Hopefully a few people will be exposed to some great music that they otherwise never would have known about!

Feel free to contact me via PM if you want any other assistance related to finding certain artist or whatever connected to the music. I have access to pretty much every electronic release and can help you obtain them no problem. Also if one of the youtube links breaks or something.

youngminii

Australia7514 Posts

April 30 2011 02:15 GMT

SO MANY SONGS

<3

xLethargicax

United States469 Posts

April 30 2011 02:24 GMT

I was about to CURSE you for not having Jon Hopkins on there. Then I saw Insides and yes, FUCK YES. I LOVE THAT ALBUM.

Also as a personal request, can you pleeeeease add telefon tel aviv?

Instant classique. Great lists! We have quite similar electronic tastes. Also, Nujabes for hip-hop!

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

April 30 2011 02:30 GMT

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On April 30 2011 11:24 xLethargicax wrote:
I was about to CURSE you for not having Jon Hopkins on there. Then I saw Insides and yes, FUCK YES. I LOVE THAT ALBUM.

Also as a personal request, can you pleeeeease add telefon tel aviv?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYnmP8HOZ00

Instant classique. Great lists! We have quite similar electronic tastes. Also, Nujabes for hip-hop!

I'll listen and add stuff if I like it in a bit, I have to wash some moldy windows right now

AbstractVoid

United States127 Posts

April 30 2011 02:42 GMT

So I'm not the only one who loves Parov Stelar? :D Nice music taste it is the perfect music to just chill out and focus on something. I constantly listen to Parov Stelar or Deadmau5 or many of these artists when I am playing SC2 or trying to finish homework. I don't know how my musical tastes have become so erratic, but good meaningful music is something we can all enjoy and it looks like I am not the only one with these ideas. If I see something I feel needs to be added I'll edit this post.

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Parov Stelar- The Flame

Gatsbi

United States1134 Posts

April 30 2011 02:47 GMT

Dude I fucking love you for putting Vibrasphere on there, seriously I could apply your Trentemoller (who is a fucking genius in his own right) description about a religious experience to Vibrasphere too (listen to Tierra Azul or Breathing Place with your eyes closed with headphones on in a dark room, woooooooooow). It's too bad Vibrasphere broke up recently.

Jon Hopkins, Royksopp, Blue Sky Black Death, omg I know like 99% of the artists you posted and they're all ones I listen to on a regular basis. You have fucking brilliant taste in music. Only thing I don't listen to a lot anymore is electro, and maybe dubstep too. Can't believe you posted Ott and Little People, I don't know anyone else who knows them!

Your Hip-Hop section should be called 'Trip-Hop' cause that's the actual genre, but I know you said you don't really care about naming the genres closely. Pretty Lights was one of the best shows I've ever been to.

edit:

should add an atmospheric DnB section with artists like LTJ Bukem, Source Direct, Artemis etc etc from Good Looking Records. Great genre

Also love that you didn't add a trance section, zzzzzz boring poppy euro vocal trance is BORING

jambam

United States324 Posts

April 30 2011 03:00 GMT

Paroz Stelar is absolutely incredible. I just found them a few days ago and I have been listening to them nonstop. Its perfect for playing games like Starcraft or Blchampions. Awesome thread. Thank you for this.

LambtrOn

United States671 Posts

April 30 2011 03:02 GMT

This is a quite a nice write up. Have you considered adding Booka Shade to the progressive house section?

DivinO

United States4796 Posts

April 30 2011 03:04 GMT

Sick thread, yo. Well done.

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

April 30 2011 03:07 GMT

#10

On April 30 2011 11:47 Gatsbi wrote:
Dude I fucking love you for putting Vibrasphere on there, seriously I could apply your Trentemoller (who is a fucking genius in his own right) description about a religious experience to Vibrasphere too (listen to Tierra Azul or Breathing Place with your eyes closed with headphones on in a dark room, woooooooooow). It's too bad Vibrasphere broke up recently.

Jon Hopkins, Royksopp, Blue Sky Black Death, omg I know like 99% of the artists you posted and they're all ones I listen to on a regular basis. You have fucking brilliant taste in music. Only thing I don't listen to a lot anymore is electro, and maybe dubstep too. Can't believe you posted Ott and Little People, I don't know anyone else who knows them!

Your Hip-Hop section should be called 'Trip-Hop' cause that's the actual genre, but I know you said you don't really care about naming the genres closely. Pretty Lights was one of the best shows I've ever been to.

edit:

should add an atmospheric DnB section with artists like LTJ Bukem, Source Direct, Artemis etc etc from Good Looking Records. Great genre

Also love that you didn't add a trance section, zzzzzz boring poppy euro vocal trance is BORING

Trip-hop usually imples downtempo

Hey I got into electronica on trance!...oh so long ago.. I would actually love to find some actually interesting trance, it has elements I still love, but nobody seems to be making it

Gatsbi

United States1134 Posts

April 30 2011 03:25 GMT

#11

On April 30 2011 12:07 sob3k wrote:

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Yeah you are right, trip hop does usually imply downtempo. I just think of hip hop being heavily vocally influenced, with the rhymes and stuff being the main focus. So it doesn't seem right to me to call guys like Pretty Lights or Little People hip hop. Anyways, who really cares about genres. You should add Nujabes to that section though, he was brilliant. Feather, Luv Sic. Part 3, and Lady Brown are amazing songs.

edit: I did get into electronica on trance too, haha. but i cant really stand the stuff lately.

LaSt)ChAnCe

United States2179 Posts

April 30 2011 15:50 GMT

#12

i'd like to see your opinion on ulrich schnauss - my pandora channel plays them about as much as it plays royksopp, though they definitely play different styles

Belgo

United States721 Posts

April 30 2011 15:59 GMT

#13

Breakbeat could be also defined as a style using breaks, which was a point in the song where the drummer would play on his own. It's also the basis to hip jop/rap.

Awesome thread though!

Axonn

Croatia287 Posts

April 30 2011 16:14 GMT

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amazing song indeed sir

OP great thread and HUGE

for Trentemoller

How about mentioning Prodigy's electronic music and Pendulum for DnB?

Shagg

Finland825 Posts

April 30 2011 16:45 GMT

#15

Epic thread thanks for op!

konadora

Singapore66160 Posts

April 30 2011 17:51 GMT

#16

holy shit i love this thread so much, parov stelar is AWESOME.

you just found me my new favourite study song. <3

fly.stat

United States449 Posts

April 30 2011 18:14 GMT

#17

I love love love that you mentioned Danger, but why only those two songs?

Here's 2 songs that are not only sick, but have awesome videos made for them by fans:

(Make sure they're in 480p and turn it up!!!)

And two more incredible instrumentals for good measure, these are some of my favorites:

BIG tunes here, just GIANT!! ahh, I love it.

http://soundcloud.com/2emedanger/l-roux-rmx-instrumental

http://soundcloud.com/2emedanger/estelle-armageddon-boy-rmx-instrumental

MacroHeroWanabe

France26 Posts

April 30 2011 19:26 GMT

#18

You just made my day bro, and I have to say it was pretty shitty untill i found your thread !
Lot of love for you for giving so many eargasms <3

Cofo

United States1388 Posts

April 30 2011 19:28 GMT

#19

This awesome Sob3k, thanks so much! I actually just recently stumbled on a lot of this stuff myself (Feed Me, Zircon, Parov, Little People), and I've been looking for similar awesomeness. This thread delivers!

It's also nice to have them categorized a bit. As someone who's relatively new to the gigantic umbrella of the "electronic" genre, it's really hard to classify what I like.

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

April 30 2011 20:30 GMT

#20

On May 01 2011 00:50 LaSt)ChAnCe wrote:
i'd like to see your opinion on ulrich schnauss - my pandora channel plays them about as much as it plays royksopp, though they definitely play different styles

In the future if anyone thinks there is an artist I may not have heard who is great, just post a link to one or two songs you think exemplify them. This makes it much easier for me to find the good stuff.

Schnauss I hadn't heard, seems like very nice ambient and I'll go get some of his stuff for my library. I kind of avoided putting ambient stuff on this sampler as I think most people who are getting into electronic aren't looking for it (Subheim/Kuba/Brian Eno/Northcape). If they ask and like some of the crossover material I can suggest it

On May 01 2011 03:14 fly.stat wrote:
I love love love that you mentioned Danger, but why only those two songs?

I only posted like 2 songs for each artist. Just something I thought would describe his style....otherwise the list would get overwhelming.

On May 01 2011 01:14 Axonn wrote:
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amazing song indeed sir

OP great thread and HUGE

for Trentemoller

How about mentioning Prodigy's electronic music and Pendulum for DnB?

While The Prodigy are pioneers and have some great sounds I cant wholeheartedly recommend them, I think a lot of there material is pretty repetitive. Pendulum isn't mentioned as a combination of being so well knows people will find them anyway, and the fact that I actually don't really like most of their DnB material, I much prefer their crossover stuff. I could have put them in unclassified but the list was getting a bit loooong.

Gatsbi

United States1134 Posts

April 30 2011 20:58 GMT

#21

Don't mind me, just following your lead. I don't really feel like breaking it up into genres. Enjoy!

Aphex Twin, the father of modern electronic music!
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Ulrich Schnauss (as mentioned above, beautiful ambient)
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Utah Jazz (Awesome Liquid DnB, with lots of sampling)
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Luke Abbott
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Four Tet
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Eelke Kleijn (Minimal Techno that doesn't bore me? wtf?!)
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Nosaj Thing (Almost forgot about this guy, he was so great live. In the vein of Flying Lotus)
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Nightmares on Wax
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Hudson Mohawke (Sort of like Ronald Jenkees, but not really)
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Netsky (Easy listening pure Liquid DnB, second song is one of his few non-liquid tunes)
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LTJ Bukem (Probably the most ahead of his time DnB producer, very atmospheric, this first song came out in '92, unbelievable)
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Glaven

Canada554 Posts

April 30 2011 21:05 GMT

#22

Some sick sick artists in here for sure. Thanks for putting it all together in one place.... gonna listen to some of these ^.^

SixZ

Iceland35 Posts

April 30 2011 21:28 GMT

#23

I like your taste sob3k (It's very much similar to mine)
Here are some of the less known artists I've come across while searching for electric ear candy:
Ishivu Uses 80's synths, upbeat and giving frequent goosbumps =)
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Jungle Fiction I might be a bit biased towards these guys cuz I know them IRL

But they remind me a great deal of Danger, my favorite artist.
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Coucheron Dubsteppy, trancy, electro-y? Hard to define but I like his work surprisingly much.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYk5_kSw7RQ

Mille Probably the most know of these underdogs but I don't think he receives the attention he deserves. Upbeat, 80's synths, makes me smile. Just the stuff I like!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6qdul8lA6k

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

May 01 2011 04:17 GMT

#24

very nice, ty sob3k

Dude.

United States94 Posts

May 01 2011 06:19 GMT

#25

Wow, I foresee myself spending a ton of time in this thread. Thanks everyone who's posting awesome music! I've recently learned that I loooove the genres being posted, but I really did not know how to go about finding more, and I don't have any extra time right now to weed out the good from the bad. I just want some beautiful music to lubricate my thoughts and imagination. =D

Thank you so much man! I really really appreciate it. =D

PeRk

United States73 Posts

May 01 2011 06:19 GMT

#26

You are a hero. Too much music for one night!

Rotodyne

United States2263 Posts

May 01 2011 06:27 GMT

#27

Thanks dude, I just started listening to trance like last week, I had never really listened to electronic music before. I was starting to get bored of all the trance I downloaded, so this is awesome. I'm gonna try listening to all of it.

mindwarp

United States30 Posts

May 01 2011 18:01 GMT

#28

I've found so many great artists from this thread. Thanks Sob3k

DwmC_Foefen

Belgium2186 Posts

May 01 2011 18:14 GMT

#29

Camo and Krooked

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Netsky (btw glad to see the subs up there :p )
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Aks (still finding their sound I guess, DnB sometimes, Dubstep sometimes, I dunno, mostly chill music^^) Amazing voice btw

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Jombozeus

China1014 Posts

May 05 2011 07:59 GMT

#30

I think this deserves a bump.

Its amazing to say the least, eye-opening.

Found many new amazing artists to add to my currently tiny repertoire

iPlaY.NettleS

Australia4329 Posts

May 05 2011 13:01 GMT

#31

Good stuff , i got into space buddha a year or so ago , they got plenty of good tracks in that style.
Also i saw Infected mushroom live back in 2006 , i don't have any of their tracks on mp3 but the set sounded good at the time.Alot of that sort of stuff is far better mixed than when listened to as single tracks.

I got a couple thousand mostly obscure electronic tunes but i've rediscovered a couple of my favourites.There was a seperate soundtrack CD , containing all the songs from the game , which has some real great electronica on.

Gumbo Gringo
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Swim Like Brick
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Other genres i enjoy
Breakbeat hardcore
Spinback & Storm - Total Confusion (2006)
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Neuromancer - Pennywise (1992)
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Prodigy - Out of Space (1992)
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DJ Solo - Axis (1993)
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Happy Hardcore
Slipmatt vs 3D - Pure Release (1996)
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Mr X - Set my mind free (1995)
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BRISK & VINYLGROOVER Freedom 2 Dance TRIPLE J Remix (1996)
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Blizzard Boys - Outta Control (2004)
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Hard Acid & Psytrance
UR - Astral Apache
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The Geezer - Hold On
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Trapeze Artists - Crazy
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Gabber = Only for the headstrong
Shaftman - Shaftman
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Scott Brown - Mother Fucker
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Scott Brown - 20mm
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Various
Carl Cox - I Want You (Aspin and Dipace Remix)
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Longplayers - Android Reboot
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjwFzx46LcY

Wildchild Experience - Keep it Going
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0x64

Finland4553 Posts

May 05 2011 13:30 GMT

#32

you will love

MightyAtom

Korea (South)1897 Posts

May 05 2011 17:41 GMT

#33

damn,
you rock!

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

May 06 2011 05:37 GMT

#34

On May 05 2011 22:30 0x64 wrote:
you will love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ICcz6kXP0

heard it long time ago, actually I think its too repetitive and doesn't have enough melodic elements for me to put into my library. Great vid tho.

Really liked the Mille posted earlier.

I will update the OP with some new music I have found probably sometime in the next 4 days.

vaL4r

Germany240 Posts

June 13 2011 22:34 GMT

#35

Sob3k you are my hero =), thanks to you I am now in love with The Glitch Mob.

Prior to discovering this thread i was already a big follower of Ronald Jenkees, apparently i like hip hop(?) :o who'd have thought.

mhh.. I haven't listened to all the stuff yet but i also liked Fire Power quite a bit and B-Complex impressed me with Beautiful Lies.

/telling my friends to go look at this thread

This was going to be the part were I ask you a question or two.. but nope not today.

Skamtet

Canada634 Posts

June 13 2011 23:34 GMT

#36

If you like Deadmau5 - Strobe you might like Bleed and HR 8938 Cephei
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtOBHqwuVbg

dafunk

France521 Posts

June 13 2011 23:44 GMT

#37

Since there's some Danger in here :

http://soundcloud.com/daze-1
http://soundcloud.com/shookshookshook
http://soundcloud.com/koltrez
http://soundcloud.com/bestrack
http://www.myspace.com/renegadenow

And for Danger, his newer stuff :

and a mini mix he did last week, must hear if you arn't familiar with his sound :

http://www.inthemix.com.au/fm/50241/Danger_ITMFM_exclusive_mix

This guy's a beast

ranshaked

United States870 Posts

June 13 2011 23:47 GMT

#38

I hate skrillex bc he fucked two girls I know. He's a douche

Stenstyren

Sweden619 Posts

June 14 2011 00:09 GMT

#39

I put together everything into a spotify playlist, if anyone is using spotify. I did break it up into genres as well, can post those playlists too if anyone is interested. The playlist is still work in progress, I have just taken the top rated tracks from every artist now, will change that as time goes.

Linkage

Sinensis

United States2513 Posts

June 14 2011 00:49 GMT

#40

Huge props for this. Excellent effort.

LeperKahn

Romania1839 Posts

June 14 2011 02:28 GMT

#41

This should be spotlighted. Really good post.

Freeheals

United States488 Posts

June 14 2011 19:20 GMT

#42

sudden influx of new music makes me haappy. great thread, I hope you can expand on it in the future when you find the time / inspiration

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

June 14 2011 19:31 GMT

#43

On June 15 2011 04:20 Freeheals wrote:
sudden influx of new music makes me haappy. great thread, I hope you can expand on it in the future when you find the time / inspiration

Im trying to find time/acess to update...I've been without my desktop for a few weeks now

I have definitely found several new and amazing artists to add!

Jombozeus

China1014 Posts

June 14 2011 19:33 GMT

#44

One of my favorite dubstep song at the moment, definitely worth a listen.

And once again thanks to sob3k!

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

June 14 2011 19:42 GMT

#45

On June 15 2011 04:33 Jombozeus wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzwBOQKggkY

One of my favorite dubstep song at the moment, definitely worth a listen.

And once again thanks to sob3k!

Im on my phone so I can't see the title of your video, think I recognize it as the Shem remix of that Helios track right? Yeah I do like that one quite a bit and have it in the library. I looked at shems other stuff though and it was alot less impressive tho.

Jombozeus

China1014 Posts

June 14 2011 19:50 GMT

#46

To be honest, I feel the same way. I listened to a lot of his other stuff and it wasn't great. This was the only one that got any recognition AFAIK

Parametric

Canada1261 Posts

June 14 2011 23:39 GMT

#47

<3

I've been trying to get more into DnB for awhile but i never found many artists i liked, usually just 1/2 songs usually tytyty for the lists

dafunk

France521 Posts

June 15 2011 16:58 GMT

#48

http://soundcloud.com/iamlinksilver/defiant-order-birdy-nam-nam

Produced by Para One

Grettin

42381 Posts

June 15 2011 17:18 GMT

#49

I've completely "missed" this thread. So many artists i prefer with you and so many songs i love also!

sick.thread.sir.

Vain

Netherlands1115 Posts

June 15 2011 20:29 GMT

#50

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKi9Z-f6qX4&feature=player_embedded

Omg, That bitch...

Xevious

United States2086 Posts

June 15 2011 20:32 GMT

#51

Cool, gonna try this out later!

DerNebel

Denmark648 Posts

June 15 2011 20:37 GMT

#52

This thread deserves serious <3

<3<3<3

AGsc

Canada120 Posts

June 15 2011 21:09 GMT

#53

Cool idea, nice OP

Wanted to suggest Zeds Dead to anyone looking for some interesting electronic music. Dance/dubstep production duo from Toronto who use a wide variety of samples and blend the genre lines a bit.

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Blue Foundation Sample

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Massive Attack Sample

Happy listening !!

Sivister

United States11 Posts

June 17 2011 05:58 GMT

#54

Hello!

I'm going to be on holiday for the next week or so, and was wondering if you guys could point towards some more good songs similar to this:

I leave in about 12 hours and would love to have some sweet music to listen to while traveling. Thanks in advance for your help =D.

USK

173 Posts

June 20 2011 04:50 GMT

#55

A personal favorite of mine is this guy Renard. He has many different monikers and his music covers many different genres. I find his sheer amount of output to be incredibly impressive though his songs sometimes seem to have a rushed quality about them, but that could be by design.

Drum n Bass Stuff
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I Dunno, Breakbeat?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUp-gQSRGhE&feature=related

I Really Don't Know
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIGHfpZhWGg&feature=channel_video_title

LeperKahn

Romania1839 Posts

June 23 2011 22:45 GMT

#56

Just checked out the Subs I really like them!

dafunk

France521 Posts

July 05 2011 19:43 GMT

#57

Heldawgo

Canada1 Post

July 22 2011 05:58 GMT

#58

PUT FUCKING DIRTY LOUD ON HERE OR ELSE IT AINT COMPLETE BROHAM

Nacs

United States35 Posts

July 22 2011 06:11 GMT

#59

Thanks for the great post sob3k. It is very much appreciated ^^

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

October 14 2011 22:15 GMT

#60

I finally got around to updating this list a bit.

Adding

ELECTRO
Dilemn
Mille
John Lord Fonda
Knife Party

HIP-HOP
Haywyre

Dubstep
Blackmill

DnB
Mind Vortex

UNCLASSIFIED
Abakus
Govinda
Floex

All new additions are at the end of their section.

Also listen to this song. Its GODDAMN AMAZING:

DeadCell

Canada256 Posts

October 15 2011 03:09 GMT

#61

That song above is KILLER

Thanks for all the links!

I'm a huge fan of electronic music;

This thread is full of win

ChineseWife

United States373 Posts

October 15 2011 03:22 GMT

#62

Check this out

http://warp.net/records/rustie/player/audio/ultra-thizz

Similar to Hudmo but more electro-ish... very cool

WontonFOrce

Canada10 Posts

October 15 2011 07:20 GMT

#63

Awesome Thread!!

Merkd

88 Posts

October 15 2011 07:35 GMT

#64

One of Best trance songs ive heard in a while, so uplifting its unreal!

Lange Ft. Emma Hewitt - Live Forever (Mat Zo Remix)

JieXian

Malaysia4677 Posts

November 14 2011 01:57 GMT

#65

Hi I've just relistened to Hybrid Theory and I've really loving

Cure for the Itch

and Session

Can someone please recommend me/PM me similar artists/songs please? Something like this with crazy non-repetitive, sometimes unpredictable rhythm/syncopations? I've been looking for quite some time but nothing comes close. Thanks.

Don't know if this is Drum and Bass but I've looked through some Drum and bass people in the wikipedia list but nothing comes close to this.

nekoconeco

Australia359 Posts

November 15 2011 00:51 GMT

#66

non-repetitive, sometimes unpredictable rhythm/syncopations

I'm no expert but I think you should look into glitch-hop, breakcore & IDM

Aphex Twin, Glitch Mob, Prefuse 73, u-Ziq, Venetian Snares, Autechre, Squarepusher artists like that

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PBeKzVhWHY

More to the extreme

sob3k

United States7572 Posts

January 30 2012 06:47 GMT

#67

In case anyone is interested I just updated and cleaned up the Sampler, relinking broken vids and adding some new music discoveries.

ELECTRO added :
OVERWERK
PrototypeRaptor
DistanTT
Trampboat

HIP-HOP added:
Guts
Tycho

DUBSTEP added:
Troublegum
Fonik
Timeline

PROGRESSIVE HOUSE added:
Atlantis Ocean

UNCLASSIFIED added:
Kalya Scintilla
Hinkstep

I highly recommend each of these new Artists! I'll leave you with a few great one-off tracks as well:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoLvsFCqA0s&hd=1

and on the much quieter side:

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