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[SD-Ness]

I've been listening to these genres a lot lately and have decided that I most like the lush, ethereal, sleek songs as opposed to the raucous, heavy-beated ones.

M83 is completely awesome and I have all of their stuff. They have a great sound.

Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers are a little too heavy beated for me.

Tiesto is sometimes okay. Aphex Twin is okay too

Postal Service is very "lush." I love that stuff.

Gigi D'Agostino is also "beated."

 

[Nerevar]

tried Orbital? I don't really know what you mean by "lush", but I think they're sort of in that area (although they tend to go back and forth between heavier beats and more ambient trance).

 

[hXc_thugg]

Múm and The Notwist are all you need!

 

[Drinky Crow]

You mean goa trance. Go for Antiloop, or if you want your brain to rot, Ferry Corsten.

 

[Dilbert]

In before beerbelly: Ulrich Schnauss, A Strangely Isolated Place. Best album of last year.

You also might enjoy The Album Leaf.

 

[Azih]

Don't know much about techo, but I heard this tune on the local dance radio station and couldn't get it out of my head and finally tracked it down.

Richard F featuring Samantha Stock "Let the Sun shine through"

don't get the remix. It sucks. Tough to find though.

 

[Eminem]

ATB is RIGHT up your alley.

 

[tetsuoxb]

You mean goa trance. Go for Antiloop, or if you want your brain to rot, Ferry Corsten.

Ferry Corsten made GOA?!?!?! That is so funny it is almost worth emailing him about. Drinky, name one song that Ferry Corsten made that is goa trance. Just one. I think the DS has rotted your brain, and you confused gabba (which is what Ferry spun in the mid 90s in rotterdam) with goa.

If you want GOA/Psytrance - Infected Mushroom from Israel is about as far as you have to look.

 

[Jonnyram]

Assuming I'm understanding what you mean by "lush" try these:
anything by Way Out West
Sasha "airdrawndagger"
any/all Sasha & Digweed mixes - "Northern Exposure" series is a good start
Orbital "In-Sides"
anything by Underworld (92 and after, at least)
anything by Chicane (quite commercial)
Hybrid "Wide Angle"
anything by Salt Tank

 

[argon]

FSOL's Lifeforms album is about as lush as you can get.

for goa, Astral Projection is your best bet

 

[smirkrevenge]

Agreeing with what jinx posted above, The Album Leaf is all you need.

You also might want to check out iso68, Mum, B. Fleishmann, Tristeza, Manitoba/Caribou, Four Tet, Xela, Reverbaphon, Aim (maybe more hip-hop), Bent.

And for the lushest of lush, check out Spiritualized album "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space."

 

[nitewulf]

In before beerbelly: Ulrich Schnauss, A Strangely Isolated Place. Best album of last year.

You also might enjoy The Album Leaf.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
ahem.
it's like you read my mind or something, i just posted what am i listening to in the other thread.

more recommendations:
royksopp, alpinestars, the go find (if you like TPS), the notwist (if you like TPS), thievery corporation (downtempo), claude challe's nirvana lounge seriesa, kruder and dorfmeister, dzihan and kamien.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

M83 is completely awesome and I have all of their stuff. They have a great sound.

The Notwist "Neon Golden" is about as close to M83 as I know.

If you like Aphex, you might as well go further down the pretentious IDM tunnel with stuff like Boards of Canada and Luke Vibert.

 

[FightyF]

GOA is what you want duderz.

I used to listen to it back in the day when trance was trance and not drance.

Astral Projection
Shakta
Man with No Name

There are others like Crop Circles and Lotus Omega...but IMO those 3 groups (well, one group and 2 other solo dudes) represent the best of the genre. Their music really influenced the genre and the rest are almost cookie cutter in comparison IMO. I haven't listened to much lately though...check it out in your winamp radio.

Like, right now

 

[lexy]

If you like M83 and the Postal Service you should check out My Bloody Valentine, the Cocteau Twins, Figurine, Lali Puna and Aleutian. As for your more trance/electronic tastes try out Everything But the Girl or Chicane.

 

[kablooey]

Try Slowdive also, which is in the same vein as My Bloody Valentine...

As for electronica, do you like Four Tet? Check him out, and possibly Prefuse 73 too. I don't really know too much about this genre, so I'll let GAF do the rest for you.

 

[Date of Lies]

I need to check some of these other techno artists but Infected Mushroom has everyone beat from what I've heard.

 

[djtiesto]

I'll second all of Jonnyram's recommendations. I'll also second those who mentioned Thievery Corporation and Ulrich Schnauss. If you want something lush but more uptempo... check out some of LTJ Bukem. Check out The Orb if you want some dub-influenced ambient techno. Boards of Canada is a bit more on the experimental side but pretty interesting to listen to. Thievery Corporation uses a lot of Middle-Eastern and ethnic sounds in their songs, which are like in a downtempo breakbeat style. Also make sure to get Nick Warren - Global Underground:Reykjavik... absolute bliss.

I listen to a lot of prog - music which runs the gamut from cold, tribal beats to a really lush sound. Like what Jonnyram mentioned above - Sasha & Digweed, James Holden, Nick Warren, etc.

 

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