SWEDEN will rule experimental house music...

Also, the samples of Hakan Lidbo on the Epitonic page I linked up there is his more commercial material, and unfortunately not a great primer... the April records material is just that much more weird and amazing.

a+

CARI LEKEBUSCH, perverted collection 2002 (Hybrid) (excellent 14 track CD only album from the legendary Cari Lekebusch - varrying from strong, percussive techno to old skool electro to dub influenced vocoded tracks. Inc. collaborations with David Roiseaux and Gene Hunt)

Also how come no one has mentioned, Sven Andersson

Deep tech house

Sven Andersson - Hem Ljuva Hem (Longhaul)

Sven Andersson - Hem Ljuva Hem (Longhaul)

"Sven Andersson follows up his recent '2000-07-07' single for the label with an excellent album from the Swedish underground. His style is like Thomas Brinkmann, Max Ernst, Mike Inc and Ricardo Villalobos crossed with a bass heavy techno-phunk house sound. Unlike the techno sounds of fellow Swedes Adam Beyer and Cari Lekebusch or the deeper vibes of Hakan Lidbo, Sven draws on the organic aspects of electronica alongside original and infectious melodies. Hem Ljuva Hem takes us through deep & dirty electronica, stripped down percussion, throbbing beats and trippy tech-house to form one of the most exciting albums we've heard in a long time."

And I finally discovered that Senghore often creeps under the alias Wackdaddies... and thus "Fear of a Wack Planet" (which I found cheap and used immediately after making this discovery -- like some impulse premonition of a talisman) is now wearing out the needles of my tables as I speak.

One more thing... I now regret using the term "experimental", as this music is certainly not chin stroking and boring...

But I also regret not using the term "EXPERIMENTAL HORSE MUSIC"

What continually surprises and amazes me about the broader "experimental house" (which as a term is at least sufficiently broad") scene is the sheer amount and variety of amazing music being made. After only being really aware of labels like Force Tracks, Kompakt, Perlon and then parts of Ware and Poker Flat etc. discovering the host of other exciting labels (Festplatten, Shitkatapult, Liechtes Horen etc.) is a bit bewildering. This whole scene is like Mary Poppins' magical bag: it looks like it would be quite small and limiting, but the most odd and enormous ideas spanning the length and breadth of popular music keep appearing from within.

Currently in the process of discovering Coloma, a morose glitch- house-pop duo on Ware who somehow manage to channel the spirits of The Blue Nile, Depeche Mode and Bark Psychosis. Brilliant!

Svek is seriously one of the best labels in house music evah, although the last few releases have not impressed me as much...

So. . . tell me about Svek. . .

just cracking myself up at how my ridiculously hyperbolic my decade-younger self was.

Believe it or not, I'm revisiting the thread for more than that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYu_dtSasRQ

This is the best thing I've heard from Tony Senghore in years, and also the best thing Linus Eklow aka Style Of Eye (from Stockholm, see what i did?) I've heard. I hope there's more to come.