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That boy needs therapy

benzenedream — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:34:19 -0800

What are some of your favorite obscure electronic music singles? I'm looking for the kind of stuff where an otherwise unremarkable or unrecognized artist managed to release one perfect song. I am not interested in one-hit wonders as Wikipedia defines it -- I don't care if the song was ever popular or a club hit, just that it's good and interesting. Songs that creep onto your playlists despite not knowing or liking anything else by the same band are what I'm looking for, perhaps an excellent remix that managed to redeem a weak song. I tend towards artists such as Negativland, Lionrock, Aphex Twin, Prefuse 73, Amon Tobin, Girl Talk, DNTEL, Autechre, Avalanches, Jason Forrest, etc. but am looking for stuff far off the Pandora similarity radar.

What was this song?

dunkadunc — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:34:52 -0800

What was this Superpitcheresque song I heard on late-night college radio the other night? The other night driving home I was listening to the local college station's RoboDJ playing random tracks, when this really cool track came on.
Notable features:
-Sounded a lot like Superpitcher, but after doing some Internet searching it probably wasn't. It had the Superpitcher-trademark sliced guitar and chord changes but was a little less minimal.
-The song contained the lines "Terminator" and "Want to kiss myself".
Any ideas?

Manchester music meanderings

electriccynic — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:17:17 -0800

Where can I take a musically-obsessed American friend around Manchester and London? An American friend of mine is coming to stay with me in Manchester next week, and has expressed a profound interest in all things Mancunian and music, such as Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, The Smiths, electro music, goth music, etc.

Alas, the only things I can think of to show her are the Salford Lads Club and what’s left of the Hacienda. Do you have any better suggestions ?!