Best Electronic Artists

[Zirconim]

But if you count NIN, definately them.

[Rambhutan]

Probably Kraftwerk are the only band I listen to that meet the criteria, though I am not sure I understand the point of the genre distinction.

[Fellrike]

I don't know where to start. Maor Levi, Moby, Above & Beyond, Markus Schulz, Armin van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk, Deadmau5, Kaskade, Sunlounger, the Thrillseekers, Tiesto, and ATB, just to scratch the surface. I sound like a cliche don't I? These are all on my MP3 player now.I find a lot of great new music on Pandora, You Tube, and BBC Music; I'm an American and our radio and music video channels are mostly just garbage. I really have to go the extra mile to find what I like.
I'm forty-seven years old. And I believe that right now is the best time ever, in the history of man, to be a music lover in this world.

[Scalietti]

Showtek are a very good electronic duo.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

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I don't share musical tastes wið you too strongly, but I completely agree wið:

And I believe that right now is the best time ever, in the history of man, to be a music lover in this world.

Unlike ever before, you don't have an excuse to listen to shit music these days, it's only slightly harder to find underground music than mainstream music, there's gotta be something good somewhere for you, without having a radio director pick for you.

[Warhaven]

My favorite electronic artist is Juno Reactor.

[Cosmopoles]

The Avalanches
Boards of Canada
The Orb
Kraftwerk
Burial
Fennesz
Daft Punk
Aphex Twin
Herbert
Tricky
And dozens of other artists on labels like Kompakt, Warp and Hyperdub.

[Der Teutoniker]

I dunno. I like listening to actual music made with real instruments by actual musicians.

An uncommon preferance these days.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

I dunno. I like listening to actual music made with real instruments by actual musicians.

An uncommon preferance these days.

As electronic musicians are real musicians and as the instruments used to create it also are real, it seems most people prefer real music made by real musicians with real instruments.

[Yootwopia]

For chilling out, Kelley Polar.
For a bit of a dance, Groove Armada.
For dancing like a dickhead, Noisia (esp anything they've done with Foreign Beggars).

[North Wiedna]

Tangerine Dream, KraftWerk, and Vangelis.
Perhaps Daft Punk, though I really only like Discovery.
oh and Jean-Michel Jarre.

[Grandais]

NIN are overrated.
There, I said it.

[Yootwopia]

Oh yeah Black Sun Empire are also top, although I still prefer Noisia because of the greater breadth and general quality of their work.

[Zirconim]

NIN are overrated.
There, I said it.

You haz problem vith Nine Inch Nails? You need taken out back? Heh? Do yeh?!?

How exactly are they overrated? I can see a little bit, but not too much. They brought Industrial Music into the mainstream. If not for them, Techno, Trance, and Electronica would be kept in the clubs where they belong. NIN brought Industrial Metal into the mainstream, which led more mainstream listener to get into people like KMFDM, and eventually, people like Daft Punk. People like Daft Punk would either not exist, or would be an underground club group, were it not for NIN...and YouTube...and Kanye West.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

NIN brought Industrial Metal into the mainstream,

I think you mean Ministry. Trent rode Al Jourgenson's coattails. When The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste came out, NIN was still playing synthpop. Ministry had videos of So What? and Thieves on MTV before Head Like A Hole was released.

[Zirconim]

NIN brought Industrial Metal into the mainstream,

I think you mean Ministry. Trent rode Al Jourgenson's coattails. When The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste came out, NIN was still playing synthpop. Ministry had videos of So What? and Thieves on MTV before Head Like A Hole was released.

Unlike most, I don't see Pretty Hate Machine at all being Synthpop. Maybe EBM mixed with Inustrial Rock/Metal, but I don't see much, if any Synthpop in there. Just because it's on MTV doesn't mean it appeals to a mass mainstream audience.

[The Andromeda Islands]

Either Daft Punk or Dimitri From Paris.

[Soviet Haaregrad]

I think you mean Ministry. Trent rode Al Jourgenson's coattails. When The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste came out, NIN was still playing synthpop. Ministry had videos of So What? and Thieves on MTV before Head Like A Hole was released.

Unlike most, I don't see Pretty Hate Machine at all being Synthpop. Maybe EBM mixed with Inustrial Rock/Metal, but I don't see much, if any Synthpop in there. Just because it's on MTV doesn't mean it appeals to a mass mainstream audience.

Maybe EBM mixed with synthpop, but there's no guitars and very little rock influence to the songs, Broken was the first to change this. Trent didn't really use guitars until after NIN played on Lollapalloza.

If you don't recall the early 90s, Ministry was big and had lots of mainstream exposure, NIN eventually over shadowed this, but before NIN and Marilyn Manson got big Ministry and White Zombie were the two big bands bringing attention to industrial rock/industrial metal influenced alternative.

[Zirconim]

Unlike most, I don't see Pretty Hate Machine at all being Synthpop. Maybe EBM mixed with Inustrial Rock/Metal, but I don't see much, if any Synthpop in there. Just because it's on MTV doesn't mean it appeals to a mass mainstream audience.

Maybe EBM mixed with synthpop, but there's no guitars and very little rock influence to the songs, Broken was the first to change this. Trent didn't really use guitars until after NIN played on Lollapalloza.

If you don't recall the early 90s, Ministry was big and had lots of mainstream exposure, NIN eventually over shadowed this, but before NIN and Marilyn Manson got big Ministry and White Zombie were the two big bands bringing attention to industrial rock/industrial metal influenced alternative.

I don't too well recall the early 90's, seeing as how that was alot of my childhood. I've never heard of Ministry until I started really getting into music around the mid 90's. Probably late 90's I found out who they were. I know MM was late, but NIN had some great Industrial Rock on their debut, guitars or not. I recall White Zombie quite well as being influential, but I always saw them as more of a stepping stone, and closer to Groove, Thrash, and Alternative than really Industrial.

[The Starship Marathon]

Daft Punk, without a second thought. Their soundtrack for Tron Legacy was phenominal, too.

[Miasto Lodz]

I think the Prodigy had a strongest impact on contemporary music. They reminded the masses that electronic instruments are not about pretending there is an orchestra in a box and there is something more than "pads and strings".

Honorable mentions: Tarwater, Mouse on Mars, Depeche Mode, Recoil, Portishead, DJ Shadow, Justice, Aphex Twin, The Future Sound of London, the artists around Ninja Tune, old German masters like Kraftwerk or Klaus Schulze, Godflesh, Ministry...

[Soviet Haaregrad]

Maybe EBM mixed with synthpop, but there's no guitars and very little rock influence to the songs, Broken was the first to change this. Trent didn't really use guitars until after NIN played on Lollapalloza.

If you don't recall the early 90s, Ministry was big and had lots of mainstream exposure, NIN eventually over shadowed this, but before NIN and Marilyn Manson got big Ministry and White Zombie were the two big bands bringing attention to industrial rock/industrial metal influenced alternative.

I don't too well recall the early 90's, seeing as how that was alot of my childhood. I've never heard of Ministry until I started really getting into music around the mid 90's. Probably late 90's I found out who they were. I know MM was late, but NIN had some great Industrial Rock on their debut, guitars or not. I recall White Zombie quite well as being influential, but I always saw them as more of a stepping stone, and closer to Groove, Thrash, and Alternative than really Industrial.

I think your perspective is obscuring things then, Ministry was bigger than NIN until around when Downward Spiral and Filthpig came out, Filthpig didn't do so well, Downward Spiral was huge. White Zombie was more alt metal with industrial influences, but in 1990 no one mainstream (other than Ministry)used samples, so they brought that in from industrial.

[Fellrike]

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I don't share musical tastes wið you too strongly, but I completely agree wið:

And I believe that right now is the best time ever, in the history of man, to be a music lover in this world.

Unlike ever before, you don't have an excuse to listen to shit music these days, it's only slightly harder to find underground music than mainstream music, there's gotta be something good somewhere for you, without having a radio director pick for you.

People today are very lucky, to have so many choices, so much variety, and so many sources of new music. When I was a kid, there was the radio, which then as now played the same ten songs, over and over, every hour, for years at a time, and MTV, which was little better. My sister and her husband have tried to tell me that nowadays music is all crap, the Eighties had the best music, blah blah blah, but I told them that today we have so many more choices, and that's always a good thing. It's a great time to be a music lover.
And radio station music directors, AAARRRGGGHHH! If I ruled the United States, I'd issue an Executive Order, prohibiting radio stations from playing any song more than once a day.

[The REAL Glasers]

The only Electronic music I've ever liked is Krautrock and Venetian Snares.

[Emagna]

Even if it's not my favourite genre, I really like Royksopp and Fever Ray.