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Re:Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014) by 3131s on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:34AM (#14171658)
> I don't know anything much about music

Some recommendations...

For upbeat, fun electronica try Take's Only Mountain:

https://alphapup.bandcamp.com/album/only-mountain

For minimalistic, meticulously-composed sounds try Jan Jelinek's Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records:

https://janjelinek.bandcamp.com/album/loop-finding-jazz-reco...

For an impressionistic, watery sound try Limalo's Human Bloom:

https://limalo.bandcamp.com/album/human-bloom

For a dark, hazy sound try Lotide's Moonless:

https://lotide.bandcamp.com/album/moonless

For boundary-pushing weirdness try Bunbleman's Anthill (especially the track "Focus Tous" as an introduction):

https://inpuj.bandcamp.com/album/anthill

For chiptune-infused beat music try Snubluck's Square Wave Phonetics:

https://snubluck.bandcamp.com/album/square-wave-phonetics

For pure retro chiptune try cTrix's A for Amiga:

https://bleepstreet.bandcamp.com/album/a-for-amiga

These are pretty random but all are probably different than what people normally associate with electronica. I don't like most of the popular electronica out there.

Re:Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014) by slau on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:48AM (#14171938)
One guy I recently discovered and fell in love with is Jeremy Blake, who is also behind the YouTube channel Red Means Recording [1].

A few weeks ago, he released a song, Reggie's Song [2], which has been like an absolute mind virus. If I'm not playing it on my bike commute to work, I need to get it in during the day somehow. The song was mostly created on a Pocket Operator OP-1 [3]. The whole video is super entertaining, as he annotates the creation process via textual inserts, and has arguments with an alter-ego, Octocat (the GitHub one?).

Another EP that I really enjoyed recently, though not in the same style, is OVERWERK's Canon [4]. The same artist also created a Daft Punk anthology a few months back, which is a great way of going through the many years of Daft Punk's history, all in a single song [5]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChnxLLvzviaR5NeKOevB8iQ

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK5cU9qWRg0 (This video covers the creation of most of the song. The whole song is available at 12m37s)

[3]: https://teenageengineering.com/products/op-1

[4]: https://soundcloud.com/overwerk/sets/canon-ep

[5]: https://soundcloud.com/overwerk/daft-punk

Edit: It's also through issues with playing OVERWERK's and Jeremy Blake's songs that I discovered that SoundCloud appears to have some pretty major issues with their CDN. They've never gotten back to me, but some people can't play a bunch of songs, and the Android app silently skips over them. https://twitter.com/teotwaki/status/847140656715837440

Re:Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014) by amygdyl on Saturday April 22, 2017 @04:12PM (#14174487)
Re: Edit

Wierd. Same thing with Microsoft Groove

Re:Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014) by sleepyams on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:23AM (#14171864)
I really liked some of these, especially Jan Jelinek and Lotide. I 'm not the OP but thanks for the recs! :)
Re:Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014) by 3131s on Saturday April 22, 2017 @07:35AM (#14172027)
No problem! Here's a few more. You might like the first two especially since you like Lotide:

Perfume Advert's +200 Gamma, dreamy with lots of atmosphere:

http://opaltapes.com/album/perfume-advert-200-gamma

Frank Riggio's Psychexcess II - Futurism, intense music that reminds me of highway driving on a rainy night:

https://hymen-records.bandcamp.com/album/psychexcess-ii-futu...

Kristen Zwicker's Hydrazine Dream, impeccable sound design:

https://kristenzwicker.bandcamp.com/album/hydrazine-dream-ep

Telephobia's You Must Feel Strange, uplifting futurebeat:

https://oligopolistrecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-must-feel-...

Teeb's Collections 01, a quite popular artist from LA, but awesome nonetheless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5op3PCB8i0&index=1&list=PL0...

Re:Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014) by rdtsc on Saturday April 22, 2017 @01:40PM (#14173635)
Thank you. Much appreciated. This is first time I heard about most of them.