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Recommend me some ambient/electronic music....


butterknucket

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Oh, somehow I only read ambient.

 

Easy stuff to get into:

Chemical Brothers, Moby, Crystal Method, Fatboy Slim, Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, Portishead, Sandra Collins, Delerium, Groove Armada

 

Other stuff: Atari Teenage Riot, Autechre, Merzbow, Plasticman, Josh Wink, Royksopp, Hardknox, KMFDM, Mr. Oizo, Akira Yamaoka

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Dude... I know my list will probably run the whole gamut of electronic music, and may at times seem very "Pop"-y and even "Industrial"-ish, neither of which you mention in your question, but regardless:

Massive Attack
Tricky
Portishead
Psapp
The Bird & The Bee
Kraftwerk (!!!)
Underworld
Faithless
cEvin Key
Aphex Twin
Depeche Mode
Front 242
Goldfrapp
Juno Reactor
Meat Beat Manifesto
The Postal Service
The Prodigy
Lords Of Acid
Sneaker Pimps
Teddybears
Sister Machine Gun
B-12
Brian Eno
Bedrock
Leftfield


I think that, for electronica music in general, the Trainspotting soundtrack would be a great place to start, as well as some of the old WaxTrax! compilation CDs - both of which can be found fairly cheaply in a decent used CD bin.... or probably online for free if you do that sorta thing.

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I don't think godspeed or post rock counts as ambient although it does have some brooding ambient passages. I would recomend:

M83
Boards of Canada
Ulrich Schnauss!!! one of the best
The Guest Bedroom - their like broken social scene but better
Sigur Ros is great
If your going to include them though check out Yndi Halda, and Mum
Justice
William Orbit
Amon Tobin - quite possibly my fav electronic artist
Boy in Static
Aphex Twin
Bt
Porcupine Tree
Zero 7
Robin Guthrie
Portishead
Dj Shadow
Thievery Corporation - These guys are awesome!
Sponge
Cinematic Orchestra
Squarepusher
Kid 606
Massive Attack - classic
Unkle
Morcheeba
Sleep Thief
Tricky

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