Lesser known or forgotten artists / albums

this has a lovely groove, first heard it played by the legend thats Alfredo of all folks:

smooth, slightly melancholic slo-mo disco, i fuckin love this track

proto-house from Paul McCartney

oh yeah! McCartney II is an awesome record, a friend showed it to me and I couldn't believe how good it was

Gorky’s for sure. Awesome suggestion.

Zoät-Aon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4ekrwAXs_c

They only have two albums, Star Autopsy (2005) and The Triplex Bestial (2006), which are the finest dark ambient albums I have heard. I'm pretty sure my own ambient-ish album was inspired pretty heavily from this, though I was not aware of it at the time. Haunting, beautiful stuff.

Good to see some Gorky's fans on this forum, their catalog is outstanding

Tony Joe White did masses of lp's, but my favourite tune is "I've Got a Thing About You Baby"....super mellow country/proto-house soulful grrrrroover

Kevin Ayers, an extra-ordinary psychedelic warrior of the best kind, did a crackin lp called (!) "The Confessions of Dr Dream" (rather than a window-cleaner) and Irreversible Neural Damage, with Nico on vocals, is the ace outta that pack although this is just the tip of a huuuuuge KA iceberg:

not at home so will try more later

The Durruti Column

Throwing Muses

Armando

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLw2Atz_5a4

  On 12/2/2015 at 9:04 PM, modey said:

^ 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!

yeah Yello, i often forget how great they are too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DxIxZPoH5c

  On 12/4/2015 at 2:53 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Zoät-Aon

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They only have two albums, Star Autopsy (2005) and The Triplex Bestial (2006), which are the finest dark ambient albums I have heard. I'm pretty sure my own ambient-ish album was inspired pretty heavily from this, though I was not aware of it at the time. Haunting, beautiful stuff.

This is great, thanks

Rhythm & Sound - carrier

  On 12/4/2015 at 5:40 PM, WeAreOceans said:

 

  On 12/4/2015 at 2:53 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Zoät-Aon

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They only have two albums, Star Autopsy (2005) and The Triplex Bestial (2006), which are the finest dark ambient albums I have heard. I'm pretty sure my own ambient-ish album was inspired pretty heavily from this, though I was not aware of it at the time. Haunting, beautiful stuff.

 

This is great, thanks

 

Cheers!

Discovered this recently, band called Insides. Reminds me of Seefeel but with more prominent vocals. They were like dream pop / shoegaze but after embracing drum machines. Kind ironic because the same time (1993) Cocteau Twins had embraced real drums and this kind of music in general was about to bow to Britpop (which is when shoegaze "died")

It's crazy how much stuff 15+ years later sounds like this now.

McCartney II is great alright, my favourite is probably another bonus track from it (though Coming Out is great too):

Love Bobby Caldwell as well, this is probably a bit more of an obvious a track of his, but still great:

Here's a little known band from Japan, the rest of the album is only ok, but this is one of my favourite tunes of all time:

Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira, from the album Utakata no Hibi

Love this tune too (despite finding the main vocal mildly annoying, the epicness of the rest of the track more than makes up for it), but never really listened to much else of theirs. This might not be that unknown, think they were fairly popular in the 80s, but I never listened to them anyway.

the chap

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  On 12/10/2015 at 2:38 PM, joshuatx said:

Discovered this recently, band called Insides. Reminds me of Seefeel but with more prominent vocals. They were like dream pop / shoegaze but after embracing drum machines. Kind ironic because the same time (1993) Cocteau Twins had embraced real drums and this kind of music in general was about to bow to Britpop (which is when shoegaze "died")

 

It's crazy how much stuff 15+ years later sounds like this now.

 

Yeah, Euphoria is a pretty nice album, but their standout for me has to be their second record, Clear Skin, a single 38 minute Reich-inspired piece. Absolutely stunning work.

(For some reason it's played twice on that video)

Music for sensuous lovers by "Z".
Sensuous Records 1971

https://youtu.be/si1kbd_ncNA

I had this vinyl, many moons ago, covers with corner cut, from discount bin. It was before internet, so I never really knew who was "Z".

According to ALLMUSIC, "Mort Garson boasts one of the most unique and outright bizarre resumés in popular music, spanning from easy listening to occult-influenced space-age electronic pop."

The "vocals" are maybe mixed too loud, heh ....

Roy Cordu;

http://www.rushhour.nl/store_detailed.php?item=13611

Excellent Scottish band from the mid-00s. Catchy and cheeky lyrics but not out of irony or novelty either, unlike say Electric Six or The Darkness. More like a garage rock-y version of Arab Strap. One of those bands that you record store clerk would probably recommend but they broke up quickly and didn't really get the press coverage they deserved.

Beaumont Hannant, especially the album Texturology: A bit cliched now but still classic Artificial Intelligence era shit

  On 11/27/2015 at 3:20 AM, StephenG said:

Tim Tetlow - Beauty Walks a Razor's Edge

immediately thought of this album as well

  On 5/20/2016 at 1:54 AM, Tricone RC said:

Beaumont Hannant, especially the album Texturology: A bit cliched now but still classic Artificial Intelligence era shit

 

 

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just recently discovered beaumont hannant thru the ignis archives resurrected channel... rly nice sounds.

Astral Engineering - Chronoglide (worm interface) classic ambient! (not far from AB4's "Sloth" sometimes!)

These guys all are underrated and lesser known than they should be, in some cases criminally 

Elite Gymnastics: while they got some attention I feel like more than ever their emotionally laden rave influences electronic music is more in vogue than ever long after they broke up.

Casio Versus Japan: still not getting his due imo, a lot of his work was very prophetic of LA beat scene stuff and of course throwback lo-fi sounds of chillwave and vaporwave 

Club Root: found this guy via WATMM but never seemed to be as talked about as other top future bass / post dubstep producers

Expo 70: really prolific drone / ambient / improv guitarist who plays heavy krautrock / kosmishe sounding pysch rock

VHS Head: I'm still shocked he isn't as big as say Com Truise or any of the chillwave artists that got big in the late 00s

1991: acclaimed via outlets like Boomkat and well regarded here and elsewhere but notably lacking in reviews/promo from tastemaker sights and shockingly not well known among vaporwave fans

Land of The Loops / Grace Period: two great sample heavy "indietronica" groups from the late 90s/early 00s

Angelic Process: easily the most overlooked black metal / extreme metal band that dove into shoegaze and ambient noise, especially considering how much attention Deafheaven have recieved

Early Big Beat - I'll have to come back to rant about this but there's a lot of really good big beat / trip-hop producers I heard in Fatboy Slim and Chemical Brothers mixes that just seemed to have been all but forgotten.

Whatever happened to Cell?

Also, TRST (found them via the SmashTV videos made by Six)

+Minus - A Rainy Koran Verse [uK Live] - this is one of the finest (quiet) improv recordings I've ever heard.. not sure how to classify it, but it's comprised of electronics, woodwind, electric cellotar, and a variety of percussion and pre-recorded elements. Very striking and minimal

Heathered Pearls - Loyal - really calming, sort of 'worn/damaged' sounding ambient/minimal music.. elements of melody and lots of repetition.

AMM - Newfoundland - excellent, 70+ minutes of live electro-acoustic improvisation, recorded in 1992

  On 8/31/2016 at 5:42 AM, barbara planar said:

+Minus - A Rainy Koran Verse [uK Live] - this is one of the finest (quiet) improv recordings I've ever heard.. not sure how to classify it, but it's comprised of electronics, woodwind, electric cellotar, and a variety of percussion and pre-recorded elements. Very striking and minimal

Heathered Pearls - Loyal - really calming, sort of 'worn/damaged' sounding ambient/minimal music.. elements of melody and lots of repetition.

AMM - Newfoundland - excellent, 70+ minutes of live electro-acoustic improvisation, recorded in 1992

Heathered Pearls is still quite active on Ghostly: http://ghostly.com/artists/heathered-pearls

Rumpistol is one I never hear mentioned. It's glitchy, yet melodic mostly-downtempo IDM. His first 3 albums are good stuff, especially Dynamo. I guess there was a release in 2014 I still need to hear myself.