Top 5 electronic/exp. groups

Can
Faust
Cluster
Ash ra temple
Tangerine Dream

lets here some arguements! A lot of good stuff has been left out including early kraftwerk, guru guru, neu!, popul vuh, agitation free and others.

 

hmmmm looks like i'm going to have to seperate this into categorys


Trance:
1. Smith and Pledger
2. Above and Beyond
3. Super 8
4. GenerationTrance
5. Solar Stone

Chillout/Ambient:
1. Espe
2. River
3. Aphex Twin
4. Healer
5. Tangerine Dream

Experimental (gabber, DnB, hardcore, tech, ect...)
1. Eye-D
2. Squarepusher
3. Hidden
4. Weva
5. Kristoff

Psy:
1. Orbital
2. Schpongle
3. The Orb
4. Infected Mushroom

i'll leave it at that cause i could go on for a while, theres so many awesome artists, its hard to pick my top 5

 

Of all your list, I've only heard Tangerine Dream.

 

Skinny Puppy and diaspora (Front Line Assembly, Download, etc) - Tangerine Dream - Aphex Twin (there's a guy who likes to innovate) - Walter/Wendy Carlos and Yello.

 

Drumsound and Bassline Smith
Drum N' BASS!

 

Danse Society
Cabaret Voltaire
Fad Gadget
Tubeway Army
Human League

 

Tangerine Dream is classic and innovative,even in their Prog Rock days.One can't certainly forget Mr or Ms.Carlos.What about Vangelis...and I'm not talking about his New Age stuff.Goblin in their zany years did alot of awesome stuff(For God's sake they did the soundtrack to Dawn of the Dead.)Kraftwerk is definately there on the list.

But if you want Industrial,I say the top 5 are Throbbing Gristle,Front 242,Skinny Puppy,Ministry,and Front Line Assembly(I was going to put in Nine Inch Nails...but Mr. Reznor strayed away from his electronic roots to pursue a career in Angst Rock.)

 

velvet acid christ
skinny puppy
portishead
orbital
infected mushroom

to bad i can only pick 5...

 

conspirator
lotus
steve reich (lots of diff instruments some are electronic though)
ozric tentacles
PNUMA
maybe--jacob fred jazz odyssey (not elec. but very very out there musically)
Mocean Worker
-to name some electronic ones...Hope this helps, peace

 

5.)Lotus
4.)RJD2
3.)Mark Faraz
2.)DJ Krush
1.)Sound Tribe Sector 9

 

1.Can
2.Brian Eno
3.Tangerine Dream
4.Neu
5.Kraftwerk

 

tangerine dream
eno
curtains for maestro (there's one i'm sure you guys won't know)
steve roach
dreams of dying stars

 

I'm just getting into this scene but have dug STS9, Mocean Worker, Lotus. Brothers Past mixes it into their sound too.

 

1.sts9
2.signal Path
3.hydra
4.particle

 

Lately I've been listening to a lot of:

Steve Roach
Vidna Obmana
Vir Unis

 

Aphex Twin
Schpongle
Squarepusher
Amon Tobin
Dj Shadow

 

1. Richie Hawtin
2. Boards of Canada
3. Plaid
4. Jimmy Edgar
5. The Amino Acids

 

Robert Rich
Morphogenesis
Franke/Froese/Baumann-era TD
Z'eV
MIMEO

 

Orbital
Aphex Twin
Leftfield
Decal
Ceephax Acid Crew

 

1 - Deer Hoof
2 - Amon Tobin
3 - Stereolab
4 - Paradox, drum and bass in general, ragga
5 - Beck