recent, lo-fi, dirty, cloudy, psychedelic electronic music

i've been really getting into trying to make electronic music sound more 'natural' lately, i haven't heard much else that is like that, except for 70s electronic stuff where it was unavoidable due to technology limitations. is there much in the way of electronic music that exploits the cloudy, lofi sound of having too many effects in a chain, while still retaining melodic sensibilities? if so, post some!

example:

http://pselodux.bandcamp.com/track/ntiner

song wouldn't play for me for some reason but here's some lo fi ish stuff i've been digging

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_oNzk1q8F8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDryU0_FZw

also you might like some chillwave, i'm hooked on it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvAxnvtyC3o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PL-aqW0HD4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2D-4niMueo

as far as making stuff sound more natural, i've heard good things about mastering with a VCR - adds a nice bit of noisy warmth and a buttload of weird vhs compression. and you can get some interesting effects by maxing out the dBs into the VCR

awesome. thanks for the recommendations! yeah i forgot about chillwave, i've got neon indian's album 'psychic chasms', that comes close to what i'm after. and good call re: mastering to vhs. i was thinking of mastering to cheap audio cassette, but vhs might be a bit better. i love tape compression, regardless. i need to find an old tape recorder though!

http://soundcloud.com/games/midi-drift

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s39joCPL9Nc

you might like some stuff by Nommo Ogo, they are a live oriented synthesizer ensemble group that is more inspired by the process of old 70s electronic music than pure retro fetishism reconstruction of the 70s/80s like com truise or zombi. also check out Strange Life records, Legowelt's label.

might be some nudity up in here

and I am willing to bet you will dig these Mr Mode E!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aN0JQcAsrc

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOqKwpk-Ak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvTMFxZ0SAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdfH_C-CJgc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhM1wq0A4bE

how to dress well - love remains

nice youtube link there bud....

If you mean like Boards of Canada type hazy lo-fi-ness then all I can suggest are Lone and Bibio. Both artists are on the saturated sunshine psychedelia vibe, beautifully filmic and sepia-tinged.

I really like the Hatchback album on Lo. Sounds a bit like Plone, in a good way

Awesome thread, I've got some listening to do!

Nachtsmeer has some good stuff on his webpage that definitely has an early electronica vibe. Many of these sound like background music from early 80s b movies (in a good kind of way). Alien8 was released by Skam, and is one of the hidden gems in their catalog... too bad the full length album never materialized.

Someone posted Matrix Metals a while back with a different (great) video that seems to have disappeared now, but this is the official one:

[vimeo]8965524[/vimeo]

  On 11/21/2010 at 1:00 PM, disparaissant said:

as far as making stuff sound more natural, i've heard good things about mastering with a VCR - adds a nice bit of noisy warmth and a buttload of weird vhs compression. and you can get some interesting effects by maxing out the dBs into the VCR

Yep, but you might need to try out a few different machines. Many later machines don't give you the option of using the linear mono track (which is where the action really is), and they all have different limiters and gain structures. I've been through quite a few decks and they all sound very different.

  On 11/21/2010 at 1:47 PM, modey said:

awesome. thanks for the recommendations! yeah i forgot about chillwave, i've got neon indian's album 'psychic chasms', that comes close to what i'm after. and good call re: mastering to vhs. i was thinking of mastering to cheap audio cassette, but vhs might be a bit better. i love tape compression, regardless. i need to find an old tape recorder though!

More "chillwave" or hypnagogic pop/glo-fi/whatever...I dunno, I agree with Awepittance's discription. If you dug Neon Indian, I'd recommend these (though I actually don't like Neon Indian that much)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSRXbj-mYKc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkslcOhytU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxhLiNypVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fC8UY2jRJI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_WBAlp69bU

^didn't need more Small Black in this thread, but I really dig this track...

Does it have to be recent electronic music?

Broadcast?

  On 11/22/2010 at 9:22 AM, Atop said:

might be some nudity up in here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aN0JQcAsrc

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

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOqKwpk-Ak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvTMFxZ0SAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdfH_C-CJgc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhM1wq0A4bE

repeated for lack of notice, these tracks are fucking amazing

  On 11/26/2010 at 7:48 PM, Atop said:

repeated for lack of notice, these tracks are fucking amazing

yeah sorry i haven't really had the time to check these out, but yeah there's some great stuff there. and in this thread in general! nothing quite like what i had in mind but pretty close. especially that K2 track. a friend recently introduced me to sun araw, i'll have to give it a listen. and the last track in your post is pretty great too.

good post atop. i'm all about hype williams, james ferraro etc, matrix metals. and most of the loads of self released lo-fi cassette drone/hypnogogia is generally surprisingly enjoyable.

modey if you liked the K2 check out james ferraro. i'm pretty sure that dude has made shitloads of music that more or less sounds the same as that.

Pixarni is a recent 2010 one that i thought was pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am_RxW1NmcY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QdPBmHHnec

I love the hype williams track atop,nice choice.

  On 11/29/2010 at 7:10 PM, vamos scorcho said:

good post atop. i'm all about hype williams, james ferraro etc, matrix metals. and most of the loads of self released lo-fi cassette drone/hypnogogia is generally surprisingly enjoyable.

 

modey if you liked the K2 check out james ferraro. i'm pretty sure that dude has made shitloads of music that more or less sounds the same as that.

 

Pixarni is a recent 2010 one that i thought was pretty good.

james f and his skating buddy spencer clarke are exactly what i came into this thread to recommend - glad to see someone already got there. jimmy's probably my favourite artist releasing music at the moment. they're great live, too, and very friendly guys. talk to spence about the coconuts in pacific city and watch his eyes lite up.