Best electronic music act ever

[dholliday]

yay, another one


Rather than albums, nationalities or decades...it's just the act up for vote. I've discounted synthpop/trip-hop/New Romantic/EDM-pop or anything with more focus on traditional songwriting with regular vocals as that's its own thread.

This thread's about electronic music, so mostly instrumental with the odd case of guest vocalists or voice samplings. Some are borderline as they often have guest vocalists like Juno Reactor & Prodigy, but they're chiefly known as electronic music artists and have a sizeable instrumental back catalogue, rather than say Depeche Mode or Björk who use electronic music as backing for their songwriting.

So anything from Delia Derbyshire to Psykovsky and everything in between.

The best meaning your favourite and/or which one you think will still be hugely admired, influential & listened to in future decades.


Moar links in this thread hopefully, so here's Delia inventing dark ambient musik:




and to the other extreme, here's Psykovsky showing us what a DMT trip sounds like:

 

[ste d' indica]

Live - Underworld.
Impact wise - Kraftwerk probably.

 

[Bluesaint]

No Depeche Mode? No Fad Gadget?

 

[longers]

Best Artists

Massive Attack
Jon Hopkins
Burial
Amon Tobin
Aphex Twin
Boards of Canada
Apparat
Bonobo
Four Tet

Best Albums

Burial - Untrue
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
Aphex Twin - Selected ambient works
Amon Tobin - Out from outwhere
Goldie - Timeless
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children


In b4 someone mentions an “EDM” artist and I get trigggered.

 

[cronullasharks]

Daft punk only cos i haven't heard of 80% of them

 

[maccavennie]

This lass smashes all of the above out of the ball park

 

[Lee Smith]

No Robert Miles? Sacrilege!!!

 

[SerenityNigh]

I really like Sibelius, but I can enjoy Copland too

 

[verreauxi]

Lamb is way up there for me.

Also early Roni Size, Prefuse 73

 

[COYBL25]

No Depeche Mode? No Fad Gadget?

Or New Order either.

But the correct answer, is the ones who started it all - Kraftwerk.

 

[Huyton Layne]

DJ Sammy

 

[Jimishorts]

Leftfield for me

 

[longers]

I’m not really sure groups like Depeche Mode or New Order belong in an electronic music thread. They were basically pop groups with some synths and an electronic drum kit.

 

[Eggs]

...Dean Martin.

 

[dholliday]

But the correct answer, is the ones who started it all - Kraftwerk.

Depends what you mean they started: electronic pop songs busting the mainstream? There was a lot of eletronic musik doing the rounds at the time of, or even before, Kraftwerk. Tangerine Dream were doing the long dreamy pieces, and that famous Popcorn number was late-60's.

I’m not really sure groups like Depeche Mode or New Order belong in an electronic music thread. They were basically pop groups with some synths and an electronic drum kit.

aye, I discounted synthpop/trip-hop/New Romantic/EDM-pop or anything with more focus on traditional songwriting with regular vocals as that's its own thread.

So no Massive Attack or Portishead or Tricky even tho' they're brilliant.