Besides the featured artists, who are your faves in the genre?

  On 8/6/2023 at 7:37 PM, cern said:

Richard Devine is probably good... I love hearing some of his tunes he makes with his space machine but have never enjoyed his releases that much. 

they're hit and miss for me but there's a few tracks that really do it for me. i know he's sitting on a mega fuck ton of tracks. years ago i had a chat w/him about it and he said he had 300 or so.. so i imagine he's got a couple thousand by now. lot's of modular fuckery. he seems to have a crazy work ethic.  i saw him in 2014 do a modular set that is still tops for me. watched him patch up the modular for like 4 hours and helped him drag it all to the venue on a dolly.. spilling power supplies onto the sidewalk.  much different set than what he does now. it was back when eurorack modules weren't so fleshed out w/all the samplers and DSP. ya had to patch stuff to get complicated and his set was mind blowing. 

great thread. I'll add Amon Tobin to the list.  His first couple albums put him on top of the mountain with the watmm regulars for me personally.

haven't seen anyone mention SFV Acid except for one thread.. he's up there with the greats for sure

Tatamax/Mantel of Gets

heinrich mueller

Still nobody tops my man Steinvord 

t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者

Brilliant artist not mentioned yet:  Loess

[This is pretty much all oldschool, but to be honest I haven't gotten into a whole lot of newer stuff in the genre, it never leaves much of an impression even if it's really good. Some of these guys are no longer active afaik]. Favourites include Proem, Blamstrain, Ilkae, Funckarma/Quench/Cane/Legiac etc, Machinedrum (his early stuff was more IDM-adjacent) and aliases, Praveen, Lackluster, Manual, Tim Koch, Maps and Diagrams, Galaktlan, Unit 21, Sabi, Aoki Takemasa, Mr. Projectile, Cepia, o9, Kingfisherg/Cupp Cave etc, Lapalux, Ametsub (great tunes, not such a great person it turns out), Dictaphone, Arovane, Christ., Fieldtriqp, RJ Valeo, Kilchhofer, Esem, Frog Pocket, Karsten Pflum, OTTO/Memo Boy, Nick Forte, Kangding Ray, Lusine, Xela/Yasume, Vladislav Delay & aliases, Oval, Phoenecia, Speedy J, Patten, OZY, Kriipis Tulo, Oberman Knocks, MD/Kschzt. Don't love everything these artists have done but they've each made a lasting impression with at least some of their material. Also don't think the obvious Mouse on Mars got mentioned yet; personally I haven't really liked anything they've done since the 90s, but Jan SW has done some pretty interesting solo stuff as Lithops and other names since then. On that note, Microstoria also deserves a mention here.

And yes FSOL absolutely.

drexciya, aleksi perala, kraftwerk, b12 & co, fluxion, gas, h.i.a., biosphere, richard h. kirk, actress, deepchord, intrustion & co, david morley, reload, theo parrish, pete namlook, tetsu inoue, monolake, lfo....

rolando simmons, eod, dave monolith, rx-101 

Bola. The 7th Plain. Nev. Beaumont Hannant. CiM.

A few off the top of my head...

Drexciya, Rolando Simmons/Trackermatte, Dave Monolith/Photodementia, Jega, Special Request, Steinvord, Astrobotnia, Space Dimension Controller, Luke Abbott, Mr. 76ix, OPN, Current Value, Dopplereffekt/Arpanet/etc, DJ Stingray, Actress, Overmono, Simulant, Bitstream, Odan, RX-101, Super Collider, Mr. Oizo, Automat, LFO, Charles Manier, DMX Krew, Cylob, Lanark Artefax.

Dunno how fine this goes under the "featured artists genre" but hey ho these are the few of my favorite things

Rephlex and braindance

Jodey Kendrick/+10/EDM/Lord Of the D...., D'Arcangelo, Odan, Astrobotnia, Beathaven, Chris Moss Acid, Quinoline Yellow, VHS Head, zvλd, Heorge Garrison, Soundmurderer+SK-1, Macc & dgoHn, Liðvarð

Some old skool and detroit

Drexciya (+Shifted Phases & Transllusion & Elecktroids), (early) Underground Resistance (+ X-101 etc.), Humanoid, Ultradyne, Equitek, Wavelan, Missing Channel, Mantrax

Some distorted tehno/acid/electronix

Sparkwave, Hellboii, Lycurgus, Penik Ettek/Datasmok, Klankman, Antsinplot, Pan Sonic, Beverly Hills 808303, D. Carbone, Ye Gods, ANFS/Vofa

+ Huge shout outs to DJ VLR and Royal Subsonic Consortium (RIP)

Aleksi Perälä
Bogdan Raczynski
Clark
Datachi'
Eero Johannes
FM3
Gasman, The
Hrvatski
Intron
Joseph Nothing
Kuedo
Like A Tim
Mr. 76ix
Nautilus
o9
Plaid
Quinoline Yellow
Rival Consoles
Senetian Vnares
Team Doyobi
UTU
VHS Head
Wevie Stonder
Elon Musk 
YMO
ZK
 

  On 8/7/2023 at 6:09 PM, Worlds Most Johnsson said:

Hrvatski

there's a 7 inch he put out in 2000 or 99.. can't recall.. it's called "Raum" i think. it's super dope and maybe my fav thing he's done. top tier shit for me. 

edit: it's dope. i think Kochen Raum is the star of the show though.

Top of my head

Loess

Proswell

EOD

and left-field Team Doyobi for sure

  On 8/7/2023 at 1:43 PM, dcom said:

Bola. The 7th Plain. Nev. Beaumont Hannant. CiM.

I love Bola so much. His sound is very unique. Soup is a classic atmospheric album 
He have been a very important with mastering releases by BoC, Jega etc.. 
The last Album he did was not the best but some tracks were good. 

Yo if anyone wants to explore Rephlex Records I just had the idea of checking out their Discogs page—you can find true gems in there: https://www.discogs.com/label/107-Rephlex?sort=year&sort_order=asc

  On 8/7/2023 at 6:59 PM, logakght said:

Yo if anyone wants to explore Rephlex Records I just had the idea of checking out their Discogs page—you can find true gems in there: https://www.discogs.com/label/107-Rephlex?sort=year&sort_order=asc

Mouse On Mars
Machinedrum
Prefuse 73
Lackluster
Apparat (mostly Duplex - Walls time period)
Amon Tobin
Freescha
Shed (technically techno, but veers into IDM territory a lot)
Casino Versus Japan
D'arcangelo
Lusine
Arovane
Brothomstates
Christian Kleine

 

zvλd

btw, wasn't sure if steinvord and Gescom were eligible but if so, definitely also those two

  On 8/7/2023 at 6:59 PM, logakght said:

Yo if anyone wants to explore Rephlex Records I just had the idea of checking out their Discogs page—you can find true gems in there: https://www.discogs.com/label/107-Rephlex?sort=year&sort_order=asc

why is watmm like this? ^

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I will check out everything everyone listed! so many omg

the people that have always inspired me:

Bogdan R

mr76

quinoline yellow

Bola

vsnares

hrvatski

000

o9

Mr 76ix

Tim Exile (especially the first planet mu album)

Machine Drum (before he was L.A cool)

Deru

Oren Ambarchi

Jim O'Rourke

Datachi

Lusine

Prefuse73

Ed DMX

I'm sure I'll think of more

  On 8/7/2023 at 7:56 PM, Uros said:

btw, wasn't sure if steinvord and Gescom were eligible but if so, definitely also those two

Isn't Gescom like loads of people?

Rough list so far, excluding aliases not listed, Venetian Snares (mentioned in OP), and Steinvord because it's an Aphex/Squarepusher alias (haha). Includes any that are repeated, so I might check the repeated ones first.

Arovane, OPN, Four Tet, Humanoid, Aleksi Perälä, loscil, Qebrus, Ital Tek, Rolando Simmons aka Trackermatte, Alva noto, qebrus, datach'i, coki, emptyset, current value, arca, mark pritchard, mark fell, coil, opn, gabor lazar, xanopticon, tim exile, hudson mohawk, flying lotus, Joy Orbison, Actress, Lee Gamble, Pangaea, Surgeon, Zuli, Sunken Foal, Alva Noto, Surgeon, Datach'i, LFO, dred, cylob, vulva, bogdan, FSOL, Chris Gladwin, Jonathan Sharp, Surachai, Posthuman, Drexciya, MBM, Reid Dunn, vladislav delay, huerco s, loscil,  Trackermatte, Kettel, Datach'i, Bola, Leo Anibaldi, Dave Monolith, Biosphere, ASC, Arovane, Abfahrt Hinwil, Loscil, SDEM, Christ., Jan Jelinek, lovetrip, Vladislav Delay, Proem, Pleq, Phonem, EOD,  Leafar Legov, Gimmick, grischa lichtenberger, SDEM, funckarma, phoenecia, Jega, Mr. 76ix, Bola, Slashing Cousin, LFO, Mira Calix, kanding ray, Brothomstates, Funkstörung, VHS Head, LFO, The Bug, Rey Sapienz & the Congo Techno Ensemble, Team Doyobi, James Shinra, richard devine, Amon Tobin, SFV Acid, Tatamax/Mantel of Gets, heinrich mueller, t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者, Loess, Proem, Blamstrain, Ilkae, Funckarma/Quench/Cane/Legiac etc, Machinedrum, Praveen, Lackluster, Manual, Tim Koch, Maps and Diagrams, Galaktlan, Unit 21, Sabi, Aoki Takemasa, Mr. Projectile, Cepia, o9, Kingfisherg/Cupp Cave, Lapalux, Ametsub, Dictaphone, Arovane, Christ., Fieldtriqp, RJ Valeo, Kilchhofer, Esem, Frog Pocket, Karsten Pflum, OTTO/Memo Boy, Nick Forte, Kangding Ray, Lusine, Xela/Yasume, Vladislav Delay, Oval, Phoenecia, Speedy J, Patten, OZY, Kriipis Tulo, Oberman Knocks, MD/Kschzt, Mouse on Mars, Lithops, Microstoria, FSOL, drexciya, aleksi perala, kraftwerk, b12 & co, fluxion, gas, h.i.a., biosphere, richard h. kirk, actress, deepchord, intrustion & co, david morley, reload, theo parrish, pete namlook, tetsu inoue, monolake, lfo, rolando simmons, eod, dave monolith, rx-101, Bola, The 7th Plain, Nev, Beaumont Hannant, CiM, Drexciya, Rolando Simmons/Trackermatte, Dave Monolith/Photodementia, Jega, Special Request, Astrobotnia, Space Dimension Controller, Luke Abbott, Mr. 76ix, OPN, Current Value, Dopplereffekt/Arpanet/etc, DJ Stingray, Actress, Overmono, Simulant, Bitstream, Odan, RX-101, Super Collider, Mr. Oizo, Automat, LFO, Charles Manier, DMX Krew, Cylob, Lanark Artefax, Jodey Kendrick/+10/EDM/Lord Of the D...., D'Arcangelo, Odan, Astrobotnia, Beathaven, Chris Moss Acid, Quinoline Yellow, VHS Head, zvλd, Heorge Garrison, Soundmurderer+SK-1, Macc & dgoHn, Liðvarð, Drexciya (+Shifted Phases & Transllusion & Elecktroids), Underground Resistance, Humanoid, Ultradyne, Equitek, Wavelan, Missing Channel, Mantrax, Sparkwave, Hellboii, Lycurgus, Penik Ettek/Datasmok, Klankman, Antsinplot, Pan Sonic, Beverly Hills 808303, D. Carbone, Ye Gods, ANFS/Vofa, DJ VLR and Royal Subsonic Consortium, Aleksi Perälä, Bogdan Raczynski, Datachi', Eero Johannes, FM3, Gasman, Hrvatski, Intron, Joseph Nothing, Kuedo, Like A Tim, Mr. 76ix, Nautilus, o9, Quinoline, Yellow, Rival Consoles, Team Doyobi, UTU, VHS Head, Wevie Stonder, Elon Musk, YMO, ZK, Loess, Proswell, EOD, Team Doyobi, Mouse On Mars, Machinedrum, Prefuse 73, Lackluster, Apparat, Amon Tobin, Freescha, Shed, Casino Versus Japan, D'arcangelo, Lusine, Arovane, Brothomstates, Christian Kleine, zvλd, GESCOM, Bogdan R, mr76, quinoline yellow, Bola, hrvatski, 000, o9, Mr 76ix, Tim Exile, Machine Drum, Deru, Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke, Datachi, Lusine, Prefuse73, Ed DMX