I stopped reading posts after the first mention of MSI, fearing that there would just be a continuance of appreciation for internet popularized garbage, even though I don’t think it could get much worse.
I play many instruments, most of which are organs, keyboards and EIDs/MIDI controllers. I also have 4 gameboys with various cart synths(LSDJ, KorgDS, Pixelh8, etc.) for fun. I’m a fairly accomplished singer and currently taking lessons to be able to accompany myself on the piano. My brother and I perform our own compostions as well as DJ at venues in the area. We record and produce with Ableton8 and ProTools both of which are M-Powered by my 2496Audiophile.
My music collection is currently 42,644 items deep totaling 121 days 20 hours 41 minutes and 21 seconds of audio(not including original compositions and raw audio), a whopping 255.88GB! Thank goodness external Terabytes have become so cheap!
Lately I’ve been into a lot of the electronic music coming out of France like Justice, Busy P, DJ Mehdi, Cassius, Mr Oizo, Breakbot and the rest of the artists on the Daft Punk sponsored Ed Banger label. Speaking of Daft Punk, they’re definitely the greatest musicians of our time by my standards, and oh so underappreciated and underrecognized. If you don’t know who they are or don’t like their music do me a favor and kill yourself and die. Justice makes me bust a nut.
Come stateside and I still like some electronic artists but very few. The Bloody Beetroots, Boyz Noize and MSTRKRFT are cool but us yanks seem to do the downtempo a little better… maybe were just a little slower. MGMT is cool and I even liked their new album “Congratulations” even though it recieved criticism and the band was forced(by Sony, their label) to issue a public apology for not having any single material on it. We’ve also got some good folk music coming out of the good ol’ US of A, stuff like Joanna Newsom keeps me from thinking that Americans have a predisposition for being musically inept. But who am I kidding? Most of the good stuff is coming from across the pond.
M83 is amazing stuff and I’ve been loving everything they put out for years now, they just keep getting better and better. Listen to them and if you don’t like it you just don’t get it.
The XX is another great group based out of London, they’re relatively new and totally kick ass.
You probably haven’t heard of iamamiwhoami, this girl(who is actually Jonna Lee) who has been slowly releasing music videos on youtube anonymously without any label or hype. She’s like a downtempo Lady Gaga without all the bullshit. You also probably havent heard of Toro y Moi an american singer/songwriter putting out some really good stuff too. Both are tres chouette.
I’ve just realized that I could keep typing about awesome new musicians that people should listen to but that would take forever so I’ll just list some of my other fav’s off the top of my head:
Danger, Data, Empire of the Sun, Van She, Crystal Castles, Silversun Pickups, Ratatat, Anoraak, Neon Neon, Pony Pony Run Run, Wake me up for Bro!!, Royksopp, Sebastian Tellier, Kavinsky, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Shiny Toy Guns, The Toxic Avenger, Wu Tang Clan, Beastie Boys, Etienne de Crecy, Justin Timberlake, Le Tigre, Ladytron, Miami Horror, Uffie, Lil Wayne, Radiohead, Sublime, ZAO, Mac Dre, team9, Stereogum, Weezer, Yelle, Camille, AIr, The Beatles, Bjork, The Game, The Knife, Sabrepulse, Nullsleep, Amari, AFX, Basement Jaxx, The Books, CFCF, Classixx, College, Erland Oye, Phoenix, Feist, HEALTH, Hot Chip, Marina and the Diamonds… to name just a teeny tiny few.
