Current Favorites in Electronic Vocal Pop

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For the purposes of this question I'm thinking of, well, any electronic music that relates to traditional vocal pop structures but doesn't just fall into the usual bordering genres (which would be, say, proper club tracks, trad IDM with vocals, plain pop with electronic elements etc). I'm thinking more of stuff like Soft Pink truth covers and Max Tundra and Bpitch pop and Tigerbeat weirdos -- less of stuff like your standard Morr-type laptop indie -- but then really this is more about your favorites than mine.

Alternately we can talk about the new Nathan Michel album.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 2 May 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I like Turner

― wordyrappington (wordyrappington), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Bertine Zetlitz

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

What about Justus Koehncke?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

(Actually, I have to say, though, I like the instrumentals better than the vocal cuts on Doppelleben.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 2 May 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

robert lippok meets barbara morgenstern on Monika Force

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

that vitalic bjork remix if it counts, a song (maybe two) from that boombip album (i'm thinking of the one abt not believing in the power of love featuring indie girl vox), the books's "animated portrait of mr. maps" (i might have the title a bit wrong), maybe these herbert-produced roisin murphy tracks when i get the time to listen to them properly, anything from joakim with vocals ('teenage kiss' especially), the boards of cananda and royksopp beck remixes...

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

ciara

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 2 May 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

'current faves in electronic vocal quasi-pop' would've been a better thread title maybe

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

That last Britney Spears song was so heavily compressed & processed it may as well have been on Bpitch. It certainly sounded inhuman.

"why din't you do sumpthin! blap squarkfzz"

Hmmm... I have a Nujiko Toriko mp3 on another computer which might fit this brief. Gorgeous, and it's so bright & sunny & straightforward vocally that it's not really 'quasi' pop. It's pretty, but bloody noisy. So possibly disqualified on Fennesz-ish qualities.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

the last track on the new superpitcher mix, tellier i think

― rizzx (rizzx), Monday, 2 May 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

(while we're talking processed-beyond-recognition britney, you might be interested in the james holden vocal mix of 'breathe on me', its still up on m'blog...)

(xpost - i was compelled to do a mashup of that tellier track - la ritournelle - which isn't v. electronic btw - with "moment of clarity" today, despite knowing how utterly played black album remixes are, but its just for personal emo jollies anyway)

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 2 May 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

the psychonauts track on the superpitcher mix is great as well

― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

"Bright Lights Fading" (Death in Vegas mix) by Slam

― modernaire, I wanna be, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 02:48 (twenty years ago)

"Lies" by Kilowatts&Vanek

― nique (nique), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Ha, Strongo, there's a reason I didn't explicitly exclude r&b! Anyway I didn't mean this to be some kind of narrowed-down genre-defining test. It just seems to me like there's a certain nebulous field of people making various sorts of computer-pop, of a sort that tries harder to be idiosyncratic (in the sound-of-my-bedroom sense) than to fit entirely into whatever "proper" genre it borders.

Loads of these suggestions are great. Maybe a better thread title would have been something like "What's the most original-sounding electronic pop you've heard lately?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

Ummmm Gustav. And the Beck remix EP.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Mouse On Mars - BTW, there's a really cool interview w/them in the new Tape Op where they discuss their vocal recording process.

― darin (darin), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Tori Alamaze, "Don' Cha."

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

i second the gustav record. also brooks "red tape" from last year is excellent/ if you haven't checked it already.

― pmc, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Bassline House.

― just a bloke, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 07:25 (twenty years ago)

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