Lesser known or forgotten artists / albums

I made a starting list but there's more

'O'Rang - Fields and Waves

Lesser known post-Talk Talk project that sounds like a cross between LSD jam music and live breakbeat techno. I talk about it a lot but it really is one of my favourite albums

Boymerang - loud fuzzy 90s dnb

  On 11/27/2015 at 1:20 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Boymerang - loud fuzzy 90s dnb

oh! Boymerang did a remix for 'O'Rang—I should give it a listen

Tim Tetlow - Beauty Walks a Razor's Edge

OOO - Upon Cycles

Those pmu classics come to mind immediately. I rarely see them talked about.

Tropics - Parodia Flare

OOO - Upon Cycles ahh!

boymerang is nice

Boymerang is a great shout.

Hybryds - Belgian ambient/ritual/SM band

Human Mesh Dance - ambient/techno, kinda softer HIA

Clatterbox - like old plaid

  On 11/27/2015 at 4:20 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

predicting this thread will turn into a crappload of "ppffft they're not obscure, plebs" style posts

 

first band that comes to mind for me are codeine, and the band "fuck" who were probably doomed to obscurity due to their name alone.

Yeah, I was thinking about this album called Spyro. By Alex Twaring, or somesuch. Not enough recognition, methinks. Didn't even win a mercury recently. The horror.

  On 11/29/2015 at 5:32 PM, th555 said:

Clatterbox - like old plaid

Oh man, forgot about them/him/her!

There was also Plod, who did a neat album in a style that reminded me of some Plaid

oh fuck. VLAD. french dude who used to be in a metal band. Really sharp sounds. Malheureusement a lot of it's not on YT

Skolskoly - Architek: From the Surface

This reminded me of what is probably a very little known album from 2001 by an Irish guy who released as Karl Him, only ever did one album as far as I know, Electronic Lament it was called. A fairly maudlin ambient affair, with a smattering of acoustic bits thrown in. It's really beautiful though, one of my favourite albums. Probably fairly hard to find, I lost my cd years ago, still have the rip of it thankfully.

Me :(

And Numb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_NV19Qm2HY

And Beefcake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_UrM2Gv_xQ

  On 11/30/2015 at 1:56 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Me :(

true, you're the best songwriter on watmm, and one of the best I've heard even outside of watmm

Wow, that's really kind of you to say! Thanks man.

It's ridiculous that I still haven't sent you those stems.... It's going on my calendar now. December 4 is "prepare stems for modey". I think I just lost steam for that project for a while, but I'm getting back into it.

haha, no problem. I don't think my remix will be quite as ambitious anymore, perhaps I'll try to deconstruct it in my new project 0F.digital..

.. or re-version it as a ridiculous trance song, heh

cex - role model

utabi - manchurian candy

  On 11/30/2015 at 6:51 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Wow, that's really kind of you to say! Thanks man.

 

It's ridiculous that I still haven't sent you those stems.... It's going on my calendar now. December 4 is "prepare stems for modey". I think I just lost steam for that project for a while, but I'm getting back into it.

I want to hear more Zephyr tracks.... Help =(

  On 11/27/2015 at 12:08 AM, coax said:

Elegi - Sistereis

Good album on Miasmah, always felt drawn to this.

 

Hell yeah, this and Varde are fantastic, unique albums. I wish he'd hurry the fuck up and put out the final piece in the trilogy, as he's pulling a Murcof at the minute.

Archive - Londinium. Never got much into trip-hop but I absolutely love this album.

  On 11/30/2015 at 1:56 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Me :(

 

And Numb.

 

 

And Beefcake.

 

I love beefcake. I'm not as familiar with Numb. But dude, I checked out Shivering Towers and it's nuts. It's like a weird horror world, yet very beautiful, hit me right in the stomach somehow, very direct. also great variety throughout the album

I'd say a "beautiful horror world" pretty much sums up the vibe I get off it as well when I listen back. I'm thrilled that it connected with you in much the same way. Thanks for downloading!

  On 11/30/2015 at 8:10 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 11/30/2015 at 6:51 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Wow, that's really kind of you to say! Thanks man.

 

It's ridiculous that I still haven't sent you those stems.... It's going on my calendar now. December 4 is "prepare stems for modey". I think I just lost steam for that project for a while, but I'm getting back into it.

I want to hear more Zephyr tracks.... Help =(

 

You bet! Here's an album that was released in March 2011, on evive records (looks like they've been inactive more or less since then)

There should be a blue "download" rectangle in the upper right corner of the page --click that and select the "download as zip" option for convenience:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h1re9lypl040t93/AADSGB3m7pNOkwoCP_ynKMjfa?dl=0

It's also still available on bleep, which surely adds to my IDM cred. But I haven't seen a penny from those sales, so fuck it.

I've got a new album on the way, will probably see a January release on bandcamp. Goiter Sanchez is once again doing the album art (he did both Shatterscapes and Shivering Towers, as well as the watmm Boss Battles comp artwork).

Bourbonese Qualk - Used to be able to download all their albums from their website but it has since gone down. Good luck finding anything!

Each of their albums was its own universe.

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Also Dykehouse's Dynamic Obsolescence is amazing

Gorky's Zygotic Mynci were a local band who put out some very quirky psych-rock-pop for a while b4 morphing into side projects. Welsh music has lots of psychedelic elements and they got to the feeling of home that only a few like Gruff Rhys, John Cale, Julian Cope, Steve Strange & Thighpaulsandra hit as richly

Its cheating a bit to say listen to everything, but if you like to absorb and hunt down good records Gorky's were superb & are missed, there was nobody quite like them and i cant stand the Manic St Preachers

Not too much Krautrock pops up on here so Holger Czukay should get a shout. From Can, to his solo work to Jah Wobble to tons of others, Conny Plank too (sp?) but the latter was like a German Martin Hannett, but with much freakier hair.

And the deepest House music? My favourite old suit, so comfy... Larry Heard's "Alien" is a window into something very special. If you make music you'll instantly clock how effortlessly simple these tracks are but......fuck it i'mma gonna put it on now

Severed Heads - Oz meets Devo meets wtf......what a band, strange & glorious.

Richard H Kirk only pops up here from time to time, but i'm a total geek completist with his catalog just cos i does loves it aye. And CV. When they were at their peak and Factory was firing out from across the way, LFO , Guy Called Gerald, true northern legends......but Voodoo Ray is over played. I love it like a long term partner, but i dont seek it out very often. Only v sepcial occasions. Kirk is another matter entirely. Paranoid, dark, groovy, lopsided, festering machine madness.

Temple Records, Psychic TV's label, put out a lot of good music thats worth tracking down. Early acid house, but they had that Fred whatshisface album thats waaaaaay out there

Finally, Bongwater's "Power of Pussy" is a late night unashamedly kinky trip fest and heres the cover just for the o rly

^ great suggestions!

Another suggestion: Yello - Solid Pleasure. I picked it up randomly in a store because of the mini-review the owner wrote on the ident sticker—his reviews are always spot-on—and I was pretty impressed. It's such a crazy genre-mash album, with krauty synth jams, Devo-style post-punk, twangy guitar, dark ambience and a bunch of other stuff. Pretty IDM. Yello doesn't get enough credit around here!