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Re:The slow death of the electric guitar by kaoD on Sunday June 25, 2017 @07:10AM (#14629526)
I find your links completely soulless and unimaginative (mostly rehashing 80s black music) so to each their own I guess :) Not that I dislike them, they're just... plain (to me).

I really like Todd Terje, which you linked, but I wouldn't call it subtle in any way (it's just generic italo-disco updated to sound like 21st century dance music). It's something I'd play to dance on a night out, not to listen and enjoy as art.

> It's a common thing in electronic music, sampled drumbeats

Well, both links feature live drum beats so... ;) Amongst other instruments (Shpongle's flute is analog, Younger Brother features analog instruments both at the studio and live).

Here's Younger Brother rehearsing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIYH6SXdjE0

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As I expected it's a matter of taste (as expected) more than medium.

I can see you like funk influenced music full of harmonic complexity. You might like some 70s electronic music I guess? Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LF438wbUTI (Beaver & Krause, pioneers on electronic music). There are literally too many productions to chose from until I hit the key that tingles your own personal taste :P

We'll never agree but I'm glad we exchanged opinions (and I'll keep an eye on that Redinho guy!)

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Re:The slow death of the electric guitar by agumonkey on Sunday June 25, 2017 @07:22AM (#14629563)
I do have very strong funk roots, but I've walked extensively into prog, fusion, and recently classical music (which any sophisticated piece of jazz and fusion will go into once they leave the groove sections a bit aside).

Terje beat is subtle, other than that it's as simple as it can get.

It does influence my needs though, Funk, and Jazz have a swing, a tension that I often need in music, unless it's displaced by classical crescendos.

ps: I wonder if Redinho peaked on his first album, I expected more things to come since but .. anyway.

pps: I'll have to relisten to younger brother now

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Re:The slow death of the electric guitar by thirdsun on Monday June 26, 2017 @05:07AM (#14635224)
Have you tried Floating Points? "Eleania" is a beautiful, rather quiet electronic / jazz mixture and one of my favorite albums in recent years:

- https://floatingpointsluakabop.bandcamp.com/album/elaenia

- https://www.discogs.com/Floating-Points-Elaenia/master/90855...

Another suggestion is Azymuth, a brazilian cult band that blends funk, latin, fusion and electronic music. They have a very long discography but their most recent album is a very good starting point:

- https://azymuth.bandcamp.com/album/f-nix

- https://www.discogs.com/Azymuth-F%C3%AAnix/master/1094986

Let's stay in brazil: Music From Memory, a fantastic re-issue label, recently released a fantastic compilation that collects brazilian electronic, avant-garde music from the late 70s to early 90s. It's more on the experimental, difficult end of the spectrum but very rewarding with repeated listenings:

- https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/outro-tempo-ele...

- https://www.discogs.com/Various-Outro-Tempo-Electronic-And-C...

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