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Gold Panda's 'Lucky Shiner' is one of my favourite electronic albums in recent memory.

one of my favourite albums of the last few years. Put headphones on and submerge yourself in it.

obvs

This is the second time I've recommended this in 2 days. While this is definitely edging towards house, if you like the Knife at all, give this a go.

You might also take a peek at Dust Collision by Kate Wax. Its a bit slow, and very minimal compared to the stuff you mentioned, but I've found it very rewarding.

you'll like that. really good record from last year

Orbital - Orbital 2
jeff mills live at the liquid room tokyo
daftpunk - homework
squarepusher - ultravisitor
autechre
luke vibert
ceephax acid crew
bong-ra
remarc
tim exile
wisp
ruby my dear
beatwife
leftfield
atari teenage riot
chris clark
gonjasufi
the orb
the bug
plaid

http://www.last.fm/tag/electronic/artists

...are some of the best electronic artists (see also the page 2). You can't go wrong with most of them.

I'd definitely listen to Severant by Kuedo. One of the best records I've picked up on through DiS.

get the EP too

I'd recommend Mister Lies. There's an EP from last year and the new album is streaming on Pitchfork:

http://pitchfork.com/advance/9-mowgli/

Yesterday and Today is my favourite but From Here We Go Sublime and Looping State of Mind are essential too. Walls are on the same label, their Coracle album also hits the spot.

But I think Amon Tobin's pretty great, I don't know if anyone else does. This is a good track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkjKsLlt7PU

And when Squarepusher's on form it's pretty incredible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtS8onGBYw

the whole "blah blah electronic music is massive this is like asking what guitar music is good" argument (which I'm sure someone will do later), then three favourites that spring to mind are:

Michael Mayer - Immer
Kashiwa Daisuke - April.#02
Blue Sky Black Death - Noir

All 10/10 for sure.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4397976

My favorite DiS topic ever. Almost everything amazing from electronic music is here.

Really nice record, plenty of melodic stuff, not too difficult but really really good.

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

Obviously there's an absolute shit-ton of stuff though, but this is a good album to start with.

Tangerine Dream
Steve Roach
The Orb
FSOL
Ultramarine - Every Man and Woman is a Star
Orbital
808 State
Meat Beat Manifesto
Autechre
Moving Shadow records [early 90`s]
A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
Global Communication - 76:14
Woob - 1194
Seefeel - Quique
Tetsu Inoue - Organic Cloud
Monolake
SubtractiveLAD
Beefcake
Mystical Sun - 26000
Bola - Fyuti
Gas - Nah und Fern
Bvdub

Basic Channel
Drexciya (+ all side projects - Dopplereffekt, Japanese Telecom, Other People Place etc)
Surgeon
Carl Craig

i like how theres a small group of people here who are properly into that album.

last EP was a bit rubbish though

that you love if it ever "clicks" properly for you. I know there are better overall records from 2011, but this remains my favourite for those true moments of realisation I've had with it.

The last EP was a bit poor, I know it's a bit presumptious of me to hope he goes back to his former sound for his next LP...but I don't want him to sully the memory of W/W like Memory Tapes has done for Seek Magic with the rubbish follow ups.

nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfWMv8Y1V5E

i think it's near-perfectly constructed tbh. Just the way it has such a clear identity and stuff. Hope this doesn't put people off, but i haven't really heard an album that does that so well since sigur ros' ( )

Essential listen

It always reminds me of Gamesmaster for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da5FIf77BJ4

Electronic Panorama

http://archive.org/details/agp13

One of the most underrated Orbital songs. Basically a turbocharged version of Funny Break (One Is Enough). While the original version is very nice, this is 100x better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ypai4exl1o

It's simply astonishing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAle0pAJ_zY

It includes almost all subgenres, with short (sometimes funny) descriptions and 30 seconds samples. You will learn a lot about electronic music. Better start with House and Downtempo.

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

adebisi shank
airliner
alaska in winter
album leaf
alias
ametsub
amon tobin
apparat
at last an atlas

and slowly work your way to Zammuto

;)

Because I wouldn't disagree with you at all, I think it's fantastic. I only say there may be a few "better" records from 2011 as there were a couple slightly more ambitious and varied LPs, but W/W remains my personal favourite.

but wasn't sure if thudding repetition was the best way in to electronic

http://meandyoumanchester.co.uk/acteurs-acteurs/

great though

no-one say anything about zzz

i think the disagreement is that i think it's really ambitious. Like, how many artists have the confidence to just go and try to make the most beautiful album they can. Especially for their first one.

Cos i reckon it's very few good ones.

So much arrogance.

The difference being that few, if any, achieve the same level of beauty as W/W does. But that means it is more a question of ability than ambition.

Their album Latin is probably their best one.

And someone else would've done by now because they rule.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd5gVwbRlvk

Actress (RIP is a top 3 from last year for me)
Caribou & Daphni
Moderat / Modeselektor / Apparat
Mouse On Mars
Vex'd
Third Eye Foundation
Dan Deacon

Thanks to the poster who recommended Gold Panda, just downloaded Lucky Shiner & really enjoyed it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTk9VPY_664

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyy82zABHS8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB5Ejv6WE_0

all the tracks just felt so short, i wasn't really sure what i was meant to be listening for if that makes sense.

really great band, always interesting and innovative, yet seem to get overlooked all the time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqkwq8gmaCU

love it!

Red Lights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhaRkWfaq10 (cool video too; cats playing instruments + car chase from Bullitt, but with cats & dogs)
Lovely Allen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HEzy1fdOsQ
Stilettos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvGwtBNIhUU
P.I.G.S.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQvYCbQXDtg

If not, Suicide, first 2 albums esp.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4422955

These are prob the best albums from the last few years tho...

Kuedo - Severant
Actress - Splazsh
Actress - RIP
DJ Rashad - Teklife Vol.1: Welcome To The Chi
LV - Sebenza
LV & Joshua Idehen – Routes
Sully – Carrier
Mix Mup & Kassem Mosse – MM/KM
Ekoplekz – Memowrekz
Bass Clef – Reeling Skullways
Jahilyya Fields – Unicursal Hexagram
LHF – Keepers of the Light
Shackleton – Music For The Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs
DJ Diamond – Flight Muzik
Beatbully – Kosmisk Regn
Anti-G – Kentje`Sz Beatsz
Zomby – Dedication
Rustie – Glass Sword
Shackleton & Pinch – S/T
Ukkonen – The Isolated Rhythms Of...
Darkstar - News From Nowhere
Darkstar - North
Hav Lyfe - Hav Lyfe
MCMXCI - Skogen, Flickan och Flaskan
Pavan – Holy Volt

Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6pouE8YmoQ (a monster of a song)
Rez/Cowgirl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEJ2HZk9L3Q
Pearls Girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2vg_fsY2ow
Two Months Off: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsE9iXoXB6s
Beautiful Burnout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J90oWxtn-yc
Dark Train: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxeN56g2U3k
Jumbo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V4DYB1I2zA
King of Snake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrUIZ0Pw3Gc
Cups: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrNwEc_wseU
MMM... Skyscraper I Love You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KsUzH9x6M4
Born Slippy NUXX: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWv2juM01T0
Dirty Epic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSSF7ozBfGg
Cherry Pie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbyXENGwMqQ
You Do Scribble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVqoGhQlDXs
Crocodile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuMjeiDSCOY
Sola Sistim: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8N8Nj4pFCQ
Mo Move: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DT4PYIqKZY
Moon in Water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAVlz1AVX8A
Something Like a Mama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcl3zdf6JpM
Holding the Moth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGwrConbRnI
M.E.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1u3Udslqc (M.E. = Mother Earth)

Unbelievable that it was this far into the thread before Underworld was first mentioned. Their importance cannot be underestimated even if (if we're being truthful) the newer stuff, while good, isn't quite on a par with the older stuff. Only because the older stuff is incredible.

Its all old people bullshit now, everyone knows it, everyones heard it, they had their critical re-aprasials years and years ago, they where good in their time. Its kinda like going into an indie thread and suggesting Oasis. Come on guys, get with the new shit.

jimitheexploder, nobody stops you to listen to the new stuff. I enjoy SOME of the new stuff, I don't listen only to older artists.

A lot of the new shit may be technically more complex or diverse, but it lacks the melody, the warmth, the catchiness of the old stuff. It's simply too amorphous or cold; almost nothing memorable. Just a bunch of sounds without strong songwriting and arrangements behind. It enters in one ear and exits on the other one.

Few new artists can compare with oldies like Underworld, Orbital, The Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk, FSOL, Global Communication, Spooky, Kraftwerk, Biosphere, Fluke, Apoptygma Berzerk, Covenant, VNV Nation, Tangerine Dream, Leftfield, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Jean Michel Jarre, Faithless, Gary Numan, The Human League, Ritchie Hawtin, Speedy J etc. Those few artists are indeed great.

Artists like Underworld or Kraftwerk deserve to be mentioned often when talking about electronic music in the same way as The Beatles or The Rolling Stones are mentioned in rock music.

"Come on guys, get with the new shit". But don't forget the classics. The new shit is based (sometimes derivative) on the work of those classics.

and its really odd. When people make this thread in 20 years time people like you will be checking out Kuedo and DJ Rashad for teh first time and saying they're classics but they'll be ignored in the day and age they where made. Doesn't it get boring just listening to old shit.

You don't have enough time just to listen to all old stuff ONCE. There's a lot of stuff to listen since the synths were invented.

"there is a strain of electronic music fans that only look back"

Some of them only look back because (surprise, surprise) they find the old stuff to be better. They find the new stuff boring, annoying, or uninspired. Instead Skrillex and Deadmau5, they choose to listen to Daft Punk and Groove Armada for example. They refuse to be hip and cool just for the sake of it.

Groove Armada

I got it: you're too hipster for Groove Armada. You only listen to new obscure shit, that nobody ever heard of it. I guess I'm wasting my precious time explaining you some obvious facts. Sayonara.

What a waste of decibels. Ultra Thizz is the worst thing I've heard in 2011...

With very few exceptions, loads of unknown artists. These names don't tell me anything.

since this is like a recommendation thread for someone just getting into electronic music it makes sense to recommend 'classics'? I mean not that I'm a fan of, say, Underworld

plus listening to new electronic music is total ballache because so much is produced all the time. I mean the rolling dance mongrel thread is on like 350 replies already and february's not even over.

anyway I'm not really sure what my point is. DJ Rashad is amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRjN4rTLl4c

utterly sublime

dry ya eyes mate

That Rustie album is the album Daft Punk should have made instead of Human After All.

I dunno tell us how amazing Fatboy Slim is or something.

I'm just teasing dude. I like a bit of Underworld and Orbital I mean everyone does. Just trying to show that there is a boring nostalgic always looking back mentality with a lot of indie/dance fans. Coming into threads like this can be depressing when there is so much good stuff going on now and the last few years and you see old people coming in and talking about Underworld for the millionth time. Can't wait for twenty years time when you find LCD Soundsystem and Electroclash.

seriously the worst

so we can have a thread like the hip-hop one the other day. Where we get an awsome nieve request for music and give suggestions but then get into a debate about boring old stuff and Groove Armada.

But yeah thats whats so awsome about electronic music so much is being made that you pretty much neevr have to look that far back to be really entertained. IF its dawnting thats good, it means there is a fuck load of stuff to wade thru, its always movign forward and moving fast and thats a big draw for me.

"Can't wait for twenty years time when you find LCD Soundsystem and Electroclash."

Your wait is over. I know very well about LCD Soundsystem & Electroclash. I know a lot of good electronic stuff, old and new. You try way to hard to be sarcastic. And guess what? It doesn't work against me.

Mr. lol? "The worst" what? Seriously, this is the worst comment I've seen today. Learn some English, mr. Luis lol Carruthers. You're terrible.

"just stiring shit up a bit"
Don't stir it too much. You could drown in it...

hip and cool

Many even copied his stupid haircut...

highly entertaining

brought a smile to my face

reminds me of school, when Beaucoup Fish came out and everyone was like whats this strange underground bull shit no one has heard of and I was like what you on about this is the new shit everyone will love it in years to come.

I have odd memories of watering my newly laid lawn at 6am in my pyjamas whilst listening to this.

I'd say "handbag" house is quite popular.

Make allowances...

Amon Tobin
Andy Stott
Apparat
Art Department
Art of Noise
Autechre
Balam Acab
Biosphere
Boards of Canada
Bola
Bonobo
Braille
Brian Eno
British Murder Boys
Brock Van Wey / Bvdub
Brothomstates
Burial
CFCF
D'Arcangelo
d'Eon
Daft Punk
Dead Texan
Deadboy
Depeche Mode
DJ Sprinkles
DMX Krew
Drexciya
Electronic
Ellen Allien
Eluvium
Emeralds
Etienne de Crecy
FaltyDL
Felix Da Housecat
Future Sound of London
Games
Gang Gang Dance
Global Communication
Harmonic 313
Hexstatic
Hot Chip
Icarus
Intrusion
ISAN
Isolee
Jega
K-S.H.E.
KLF
Kuedo
Legowelt
LFO
Lone
LTJ Bukem
Luke Vibert
Lusine
M83
MAchinedrum
Mantronix
Martyn
Matthew Dear
Memory Cassette
Moodymann
Move D
Octo Octa
Oneohtrix Point Never
Onra
Orbital
Other People Place
Pantha Du Prince
Plaid
Polygon Window
Prodigy
Remarc
Rhythm & Sound / Basic Channel
Sabres Of Paradise
Scuba
Sepalcure
Soundmurderer & SK1
Speedy J
Squarepusher
T++ / Monolake
Tim Hecker
Ulrich Schnauss
Venetian Snares
Virgo 4
Zomby
1991
Toasty / Toastyboy
Actress
A Guy Called Gerald
Africa Hittech
Alva Noto
Bibio
Bizzy B
Black Dog
Blondes
Bomb The Bass
The Bug
Bullion
Dillinja
Chris Clark
Chromatics
Clams Casino
Current Value
Dabrye
Disko-ions
DJrum
Essay
Fennesz
Fever Ray
The Field
Floating Points
Flying Lotus
Ford & Lopatin
Four Tet
Fred Everything
Gold Panda
Matthew Herbert
Inner City
John Roberts
John Talabot
Junior Boys
Juan Atkins
Kangding Ray
Kassem Mosse
King Midas Sound
Kraftwerk
Kruder & Dorfmeister
LCD Soundsystem
Leftfield
Linkwood
Machine Code
Manual
Maurizio
Michna
Midland
Pariah
Modeselektor
New Order
Nightmares on Wax
Carl Craig / Paperclip People
Photek
Portishead
Ricardo Villalobos
Richie Hawtin / Plastikman
Rone
Roof LightRoyksopp
Tangerine Dream
808 State
Sand Circles
Stumbleine
Voice From The Lake

..... there are loads I've probably missed but all these are good IMO

 "With very few exceptions, loads of unknown artists".

And many others you list, still going strong.

Less said about Human League the better.

A lot of shits all over new stuff i

It's a singles based culture so grab yourself some label retrospectives and jump on from there. Once you've figured out what you like it's easier to narrow it down a bit.

Can't go wrong with Trax, Nu-Groove, Moving Shadow, Hyperdub, Warp, Hessle Audio, Planet E, Basic Channel as a starter

there's no retrospective for it but anything with DPR should be essential too.

because its how I generally prefer to listen to music. I think the fact that it is a singles based culture is probably why I haven't gotten into electronic as much as other genres, but there are still plenty of full legths worth investigating.

If anything the singles culture made things like house and techno seem really impenetrable, particularly seeing as the genres I got into when I was first getting into music were all album based.

Cos I know thats how people like this want to experience their music. Its tough enough getting people to listen to the good new stuff as it is without posting a million singles or even EPs too.

But generally the best moments of every one of the sub-genres are on eps, white labels, etc. Most of the time when you give an electronic artist an album length, with very few exceptions, it ends up being a bit of a droney ambient mess compareed to the immediacy of the tracks they release as singles.

when I first got into dance music. Generally with dance music once you've found a label you like you can work out from there though. It's less about the producer and more about who's releasing their stuff generally.

This is no bad thing to me ;)

but a lot of it doesn't stand up now a days bar the odd one, maybe some Autechre. The rest are outshadowed by a lot of the new ones I posted. All just opinion tho innit. I can stand listening to The Orb or 808 State nowadays it sounds embarasing and really dated to me. Same with Orbital and Underworld for the most part. If its what moves you its all cool, but yeah there is some insane new shit that deserves a push, since its so current and damn good and its good to play it off the old stuff cos its healthy to move forward and enjoy stuff now.

Got it? They're way too unknown.

Let's take totally random, Jahilyya Fields. On last.fm there are just 679 listeners: http://www.last.fm/music/Jahiliyya+Fields

That means known to you? ;)

just means that more people need to hear it, which is why I post about stuff like that if I find it and like it.

The Jahilyya Fields album is beautiful and really odd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgV6VdDYvfA

http://www.last.fm/music/Ukkonen 739 listeners
http://www.last.fm/music/Pavan 1,247
http://www.last.fm/music/Hav+Lyfe 372
http://www.last.fm/music/Ekoplekz 2,506
http://www.last.fm/music/Anti-G 1,361
http://www.last.fm/music/MCMXCI 223
http://www.last.fm/music/MM+%2F+KM+(Mix+Mup+&+Kassem+Mosse) 447
http://www.last.fm/music/LHF 731
http://www.last.fm/music/LV+&+Joshua+Idehen 2,171
http://www.last.fm/music/DJ+Diamond 5,870

Who listen to these artists? Few fans, the artist himself and his/her family. Unknowns to the point of irrelevance. And this dude (jimitheexploder) give me lessons about Underworld, Orbital etc. Pfffffft.

But it was really necessary to pot your comment(s) on my Underworld sub-topic? Just because they're more mainstream?

XD

depepends how you go into it I guess. If you want to be some kind of completist then its going to be hard. But its so easy just to get the odd single and move around the genres. If you dig what you hear cool, look around. Dunno why anyone would get put off because they're is so much going on. Its prob one of the best things about it if you ask me.

Is revisiting them and also spending time exploring their greater depths. This is almost certainly less the case with singles, I'd imagine fewer people revisit the best singles from, say, 2010 than they do with albums.

But the difference doesn't mean one is good/right and the other is bad/wrong, but they suit individual preferences to varying degrees.

Balls to this old and new stuff, quality on a personal level is what matters. Albums like Orbus Terrarum sound completely out of time and will always be interesting to me.

Some of my favourte labels haven't ever realsesed an album. You still hear singles from whenever in clubs or in mixes. Things come back into trend and fall off again. I mean is there less care in singles on labels like Hessle Audio and Skull Disco? Those two labels haven't released an album, just a comp or two of singles and new stuff.

I think there is to much high esteem and respect for a lot of older artists. I think its fun and necacerry to burst that nostalgic, boring bubble and move on. Make a clean break and see things with fresh eyes again. Espesh with stuff thats already had its reaprasial so many times like Underworld or whoever have. It was good when it happened and if you get joy from it, wicked. Personaly I'm all for moving on and calling it shit, fuck the past and move on.

I reckon seeing stuff as dated is the wrong mentality to have when it comes to music. If it`s good it`s good. I listen to music for it`s abstact/subjective qualities rather the just for the lastest sounds/technical side of things.

Context changes, ideas get played out and watered down, nostalgia fuzzies the idea of what something is or was. Things change, peoples tastes change. Its all good. Some things come and go and sound good again something don't, its just the way of things. Some stuff is very of its time and some stuff isn't. Thats the same for new stuff as it is old stuff.

Why does time have to be so important when it comes to music? Dance/Electronic music is just archaic revival stuff anyway. Technically things change but it`s all just tapping into the same things.

there is always some kinda foot in the past but if you stick to it to rigidly then things get really stale and you end up just listening to The Orb or something. Its just more fun to go with the flow of new stuff and you get the enjoyment of it, get moived along with it. You find the odd bit of old stuff as you go since it always crops up and it shows its self in new ways but you never get to washed up in it and bogged down. Plus there is so much stuff going on right now that I don't reall ysee the point of looking back that much.

The Orb, Underworld, Orbital, Leftfield, etc all sound really dated and played out. The ideas have been run dry, things have moved on and its cool to live it in the past. Plus its fun to play heel against the old guard to give more attention to vital up and comers that deserve way more love.

there are clubs to go to to hear it, a whole social thing going on. You don't get that if you're so nostalgic. Young peeps these days are so happy to be nostalgic and ignore the good shit going on right now. The internet has made it so boring, safe and easy to be nostalgic and dissmiss whats going on right now that people get sucked into it and its a shame. Its a good quality in music to sack off the past some of the best genres have come out of that kind of move. Punk, acid house, grime, whatever all sacked off people before them and it made them better for it.

Yeah but because of this internet malarkey you have the freedom to follow your own path and explore the past and present. You can live in your own little musical world if you choose.

...I think that it is important to recommend some old classics ( though 20 YouTube links to Underworld tracks is a tad farcical) however you can find info about old classics on 101 other websites. What is valuable to be able to use word of mouth to discover recent tunes. I value Dis because I discovered Talabot, Shackleton, Demdike Stare through these forums. This knowledge is far more useful than some halfwit saying You must listen to Groove Armada and the Human League.

Until people like boomkat, bleep etc started letting you buy digital versions of stuff it restricted lots of people who didn't have turntables. Even now, not everything you want to hear is available.

I'm a giant music fan and I probably spend more on music than just about anything, but because I've moved around so much I've never invested in a really decent stereo or turntables. Sacrilege I know, but there are plenty like me who lack the means to do so, let alone to keep up with the rush of singles that get put out on a weekly basis. That's if you've even got access to a good record shop which stocks that kind of stuff. Living away from the UK, there aren't many shops or mailorder places that cover even a portion of the stuff we talk about in rolling dance mongrel.

I love singles and I love the idea of EPs as they are almost always more digestible and higher quality than all but the best albums, but their availability is problematic.

bit of a return to some of his older sounds. Sajtban is a classic

and the new stuff I post now is only gonna be peoples nostalgic shit in years to come and a lot of people will kick themselves in 20 years when they could have lived it instead of just lookign at old stuff all the time.

But does it really matter though if what you`re listening to right now is giving you a buzz/what you want. Plus people are always gonna miss out on good shit because the amount of music out there.

and judging by this thread I'm not alone in that

(Burial, Benga, Skream, 2562, Martyn) and from there I started to delve into singles and EPs, but even to this day I find it kinda overwhelming. That's why I'd always recommend albums to people who are just starting to explore.

Ellen Allien & Apaarat: Orchestra of Bubbles
Gui Boratto: Chromaphobia
Fairmont: Coloured In Memory
Trentemoller: The Last Resort
Alex Smoke: Incommunicado
Michna: Magic Monday
Telefon Tel Aviv: Immolate Yourself
Loco Dice: 7 Dunham Palace
Lone: Galaxy Garden and Emerald Fantasy Tracks

A couple of more recent EPs I love (within the last few years):
Pariah: Safehouses
Space Dimension Controller: Temporary Thrillz

Loads of different styles there, but all pretty accessible.

especially the last couple of records. There is Love in You, Everything Ecstatic and Pink have all been excellent.

Apparat - Sayulita
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVCNb73ALAw

Tycho - Daydream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0MZ-a-Yd3g

Black Strobe - The Abwehr Disco
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0OYcV3GLpI

Floating Points: Vacuum EP / J&W Beat / People's Potential / Shadows EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d38xbAFnCSQ / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNN7vFrkIjw

Pearson Sound / Ramadanman: Blimey / Dayrider / Justify / Ramadanman EP / Work Them / Glut / WoooGlut / WAD / Clutch / Deep Inside.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyq_U4eGbtw / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUrYMxhZo30

Levon Vincent: Invisible Bitchslap EP / Six Figures / Late Night Jam / Double Jointed Sex Freak / Solemn Days EP / Impression Of A Rainstorm / Man Or Mistress / Stereo Systems / Rainstorm II
http://youtu.be/Xg2D5ywXuq4 / http://youtu.be/BdMR5gr0GwM / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVI5cQyuI0

Soundstream: Love Jam / Live Goes On / Julie's Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTwWd7tdNb0 / http://youtu.be/vVzwQLv43iY / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygK2cAWbmBU

MMM: Donna / Nous Sommes MMM / Rio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wORSreFpLIw / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od1JFKQWS1E

Joe: Grimlight / Rut / Claptrap / Studio Power On
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh-KE577_3g&feature=share&list=PLulSvA0yRnus03B1nnjPq8tUkLr-S-S79 / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKhj4veZjUw&feature=share&list=PLulSvA0yRnus03B1nnjPq8tUkLr-S-S79

Kyle Hall: Worx Of Art EP 1 / The Dirty Thouz / Must See EP / Sun Goddess EP / Kaychunk / Zug Island
http://youtu.be/VJjXdsIjsT0 / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxT7_jf7Z0k / http://youtu.be/cX1th7oFWns

Archie Pelago: The Archie Pelago EP / Clan (Archie Pelago Overdub) / Subway Gothic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGsaB-q_adk / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZaRXzyDYNs&feature=share&list=PL6F32DFA42D8CBB3F / http://youtu.be/PbTFZW-YQXk

It's kind of more accessible Boards of Canada

All good stuff

you can easily go wrong with trax and nu-groove - there's some absolute shite on those labels haha. i feel ya though (y)

oh fucking hell. just sack all this off and listen to throbbing gristle, it'll be less hassle.

Love Some1 is astounding.

Cheers, thread.

hey op, i notice that you also have a mclusky themed username, so i assume we're coming at this from similar backgrounds. you've said that you're already familiar with indie-friendly stuff, so i'll assume that it is electronic dance music that you're looking to get into.

this might seem like a strange question, but how familiar are you with the NY no wave scene? i ask because my personal route into dance music was from the noisier no wave stuff like teenage jesus and dna, into the funkier esg and liquid liquid, and from there into funk and disco, and then chicago house, electro and detroit techno.

this might not be the most conventional route, but perhaps it's one you'll be able to relate too! i think some of the suggestions in this thread might be a bit 'in at the deep end', and by taking a more gradual approach you'll gain a better understanding of how different sounds developed and influenced each other. you'll also be able to figure out what particular sounds you're into along the way - i'm 'into electonic music' but i still don't like lots of the stuff suggested in this thread.

they are pretty much wall to wall bangers on there

I'm not familiar with no-wave at all really. I'll give some of them a go. I have been slowly working my way through the reccomendations in this thread and have enjoyed most of them but yeah, I don't really have any understanding of the development of electronic music at all really so maybe your approach will help. Cheers!

they've really branched out beyond just roots and reggae type stuff. Both volumes of Box of Dub are pretty much essential for dubstep and they have tonnes of other electronic stuff.

rather than calculating a root thru history and time. Then you don't get the sense that its some kind of homework and you should really like these artists becuase they're old and respected, important or whatever. If you jump in find something you like then explore out I just find it more fun. That way you come to the history of it as you go along rather than slogging thru some old dudes.

do they do the roots of dubstep and roots of El-B ones I can't remember? they're ace, could have been by rinse.

Thought they released most of the El-B stuff?

The Kevin Martin and Stewart Baker curated dub/dubstep comp is absolutely brilliant. http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=23718

Future Bass is really good too, haven't heard the others like Steppas Delight and Riddim Box.

Came here to post From Here We Go Sublime

Four Tet's Rounds is probably a better entry point into his work tho, no?

is the No New York compilation

it's not really the dancier side though

Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK. Damn near perfect, everything they've done since has been progressively worse (to my ears)

There's loads of noisy techno about right now. Blawan, Karenn, Perc, Truss, Ancient Methods and many others. then there's the classic 90s stuff like Regis, Surgeon, The Black Dog etc.

piano trance is the real shit.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2013/02/sr-mix-151-doubleheart-high-sheen/

They did a mix for us recently its a guy from Optimo who you can't go far wrong with in terms of showing you pretty much every fun bit of dance music history in one set tbh and Niel Landstrumm whoes been making electro for years.

Its an insperation mix full of old electro, kinda odd no wave stuff, post-punk, disco, rock, dub, house and it all sounds seamless like a DJ mix just like dance music should be.

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2013/02/28/listen-to-a-throbbing-mix-from-fresh-lies-signing-vereker/

same company I always forget.

the dub ones are pretty much always ace from what I've heard.

Dunno about the future bass one, its a case of ace artists but not their best tracks like a lot of these dubstep comps. As a jump off point they're good I guess but they might hold people back from going much further. Just like a Radiohead remix album with guys like Blawan, Shed, Objekt, whoever... no one is gonna say those are the best tracks they've done but they're amazing artists.

lot of these guys release their stuff on vinyl so linking to lastfm (scrobbles?) is spectacularly pointless and meaningless

http://open.spotify.com/user/1117980624/playlist/6E910xqxtbqjgJgSvbSIjr

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151382768313145&id=19343183144

did it for me, followed by Music Has The Right To Children by Boards of Canada.

Lable and artsist ones are usualy better than genre ones tho.

Hyperdub - 5
Hessle Audio - 116 & Rising
Punch Drunk - 'Worth the Weight - Bristol Dubstep Classics'
Tectonic - Tectonic Plates Vol.1 to whatever
Deep Medi - Deep Medi Releases Vol.1 to whatever
Terror Danjah - Gremlinz
Ruff Sqwad - White Label Classics

Enjoying this, thanks.

depends how you feel about the acoustic sounding early stuff. It actually put me off originally.

plot twist

I made a big playlist of some of the best songs from electronic music that I know (old and new). For known artists I usually selected a popular song.

So, if someone would like to get into electronic music, I'd suggest this amazing playlist (random order):

Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene Part 4
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Depeche Mode - World in My Eyes
New Order - Blue Monday
Gary Numan - Cars
Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?
Klaus Schulze - The Windy Times
Art of Noise - Moments in Love
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
OMD - Messages
Mike Oldfield - Let There Be Light
Vangelis - Blade Runner (End Titles)
Camouflage - The Great Commandment
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day
Front Line Assembly - Epitaph
Ultravox - Vienna
NEU! - Isi
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Rydeen
Bomb the Bass - Beat Dis
Jan Hammer - Miami Vice (Crockett Theme)
Yello - Tremendous Pain
Underworld - Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love
Orbital - Halcyon + On + On
Covenant - Call the Ships to Port
VNV Nation - Beloved
Apoptygma Berzerk - Eclipse
Mesh - It Scares Me
Daft Punk - Around the World
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
The Chemical Brothers - Leave Home
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Autechre - Eutow
Boards of Canada - Roybiv
Leftfield - Original
Faithless - Insomnia
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Global Communication - 9:25
Fluke - Atom Bomb
The KLF - Last Train to Trancentral
Ulrich Schnauss - In All the Wrong Places
The Grid - Floatation
Chicane - Offshore
Gus Gus - Anthem
William Orbit - Water From a Vine Leaf
Moby - Go
Way Out West - The Gift
Groove Armada - At the River
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm
Biosphere - The Things I Tell You
Air - Kelly Watch the Stars
Paul van Dyk - For an Angel
The Prodigy - Voodoo People
Sunscreem - Release Me
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
Opus III - It's Fine Day
Ultramarine - Weird Gear
Spooky - Little Bullet Part One
Wolfsheim - Find You're Gone
Moloko - Forever More
Hooverphonic - Inhaler
Morcheeba - Shoulder Holster
Portishead - Glory Box
The Crystal Method - Keep Hope Alive
Goldie - Inner City Life
Adam F - Circles
Single Gun Theory - Fall
The Other Two - Selfish
Death in Vegas - Hands Around My Throat
Dreadzone - House of Dread
Sven Väth - L'esperanza
System 7 - Song For the Phoenix
Recoil - Edge to Life
Cybotron - Clear
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Banco De Gaia - Kincajou
808 State - Pacific State
Plaid - Eyen
Assemblage 23
Delerium - Euphoria (Firefly)
Drum Club - Drums Are Dangerous
Lamb - Gorecki
Laika - Uneasy
The Higher Intelligence Agency - Delta
Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream
B12 - Hall of Mirrors
GAS - Pop 3
Tosca - Honey
Reload - Le Soleil et La Mer
BT - Godspeed
Red Snapper - The Sleepless
One Dove - White Love (Guitar Paradise Mix)
Primal Scream - Higher Than the Sun
Wamdue Project - King of My Castle
Robert Miles - Children
Nightmares on Wax - Les Nuits
Fatboy Slim - Rigth Here, Right Now
Propellerheads - Take California
Apollo 440 - Vanishing Point
Tricky - Overcome
Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground
UNKLE - Be There
Thievery Corporation - The Richest Man in Babylon
Ladytron - Destroy Everything Yout Touch
Royksopp - Poor Leno
Phantogram - Don't Move
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Hybrid - Finished Symphony
Crystal Castles - Celestica
Goldfrapp - Utopia
Armin van Buuren - Shiver
Tiesto - Adagio For Strings
Schiller - Leben... I Feel You
Cut Copy - Light and Music
Solar Fields - Sol
Client - Drive
Ellen Allien - Alles Sehen
Kosheen - Catch
Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds
Alpinestars - Carbon Kid
Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed
Sally Shapiro - I'll Be By Your Side
Delphic - Counterpoint
La Roux - Bulletproof
Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows
Bent - Always
Planet Funk - Another Sunrise
The Knife - Heartbeats
Fever Ray - Triange Walks
The Good Natured
Holy Fuck - Latin America
Kraak & Smaak - Il Serpente
Miss Kittin - Batbox
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - 1000 Dreams
Mylo - Emotion 98.6
Lemon Jelly - Elements
Tying Tiffany - Miracle
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Vortex
2 Bit Pie - Fly
Bonobo - Flutter
Enigma - Sadeness, Part 1
Chairlift - Amanaemonesia
High Places - Altos Lugares
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
Shiny Toy Guns - You Are the One
Chew Lips - Solo
The Hundred in the Hands - Sleepwalkers
The Golden Filter - Hide Me
Pendulum - 9,000 Miles
M83 - Reunion
Marsheaux - No Sence
Caribou - Odessa
Bjork - Army of Me
Justice - DVNO
diskJokke - En Fin Tid
Ott - Smoked Glass and Chrome
mind.in.a.box - Control
Little Dragon - Blinking Pigs
Emmon - Secrets & Lies
Burial - Raver
Errors - Pleasure Palaces
Telepathe - So Fine
Conjure One - I Believe
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
PPK - ResuRection
Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
The Field - Sun & Ice
Tycho - Dive
Gorillaz - Tommorow Comes Today
The Avalanches - Flight Tonight
Kleerup - Thank You For Nothing

The Sabres of Paradise - Smokebelch II

i'm definatly a mr shitty

good posting

Nicolas Jaar hasn't been mentioned this WHOLE time. Listen to Space is Only Noise.

and then Ghosting Season