Best 00s electronic music solo artist (proper)

shitty polls like this are the reason people do those big elaborate nomination threads btw

Finding this one difficult. I’m totally enchanted by Burial’s output post-‘Untrue’ and Four Tet’s last EP, LP and scattered 12”’s have been fantastic. The Field has been pretty consistent with his albums as well.

Not sure I agree with the inclusion of Basinski mind you, he seems more suited to the modern ambient realm, but fair enough.

I’ll see how the discussion goes and sleep on this one before making a choice. Tempted to go for Burial though I know I’d probably be being a bit short-sighted.

For me it's probably a straight-up fight between Caribou and Four Tet; I love a lot of other stuff on the list, but no one else gets close to those two for consistently exciting me every time they put out a record, and over a full decade each, too. I'm really anticipating new material from them both, too, hopefully this year (sure they both played new tracks at ATP last December).

Would take Ben Frost or Philip Jeck over most of these tbh.

selection in this is both random and poor

Or Oneohtrix Point Never xp

Shit, never saw Caribou there. That's probably my choice.

all these threads look like the Dance CD section in a used record store that doesn't really sell records

For overall output during the 00s?

Luomo, w/o a doubt.

Who is Fog? I know there is 'The Fog' which was Ralph Falcon but that was 1992 or something. Then there is the house producer who put out a 12" on Autoreply and then there is a an act on Ninja Tune.. but they don't sound very electronic to me?

At least a couple of these have basically zero 00s output.

autoreply is a good label!

actually just looking i only know the tracks on stuga musik

What a bizarre list.

It's very Pitchfork dance list, but weirdly if you listened to a playlist of all of them you'd get such a misleading, skewed idea of what dance or even electronic music was like in the 00s.

Yeah, Autoreply have put out some decent 12s. The Baby Ford one definitely. I guess it's the Ninja Tunes act that's on the poll. Electronic solo act is too vast a field.

Hence the bizzareness of the list; 50 options doesn't scratch the surface.

of these, Wm. Basinski

I don't even think I understand what "Electronic Music" even is, based on this list.

Like, I love me some Eraser, but Thom Yorke is about as much an "electronic music artist" as Paul McCartney is. Where do you draw the line between a vocalist who happens to accompany themselves with a laptop, and an electronic music artist? Like Grimes is, but Glasser isn't? IDGI.

Yes it is a strange strange list, but it has Vladislav Delay on it, so the right answer's there.

If you even start thinking about taxonomy it becomes crippling and impossible, so I kind of didn't when compiling the list - I started with a few names I felt were significant, went through allmusic and wiki entries for them to find connected artists, surfed a handful of end-of-decade polls (RA, Stylus, not P4K as it happens, couple of others that google turned up), added a couple for giggles (Guetta, Skrillex), and then I was at practically 50, so I stopped.

And fuck a nomination process. I can't be arsed masterminding all that logistically.

People I could maybe vote for...

Apparat
Ellen Alien
Flying Lotus
Four Tet
Grimes
Lindstrom
Thom Yorke

But this is just so NOT what I think of when I think of "electronic music" in the 00s or any other time. There's whole genres, labels, scenes just missing?

Tell me what you do think of when you think of 'electronic music' in the 00s then.

there's no context in which i'm even gonna compare, say, Basinski to, say, Deadmau5. poll is apples and oranges and aubergines

Are they really that much further apart tham Autechre and Daft Punk?

already on record as saying that poll was ridic too

categorising people by the instruments they use to make their music seems to be the problem, like voting bluegrass vs string quartets or something

Can what Basinski does with, say, Disintegration Loops be defined as electronic? I'm really ignorant here but I thought I remember reading about analogue tape loops.

an attempt to be inclusive but becomes exclusive because its attempts to be inclusive imply totality - if its not here it doesn't count

xp

yes, the whole point of the process is the use of degraded analogue tape

Who is better than Guetta?

Who is better than Guetta?

― mmmm, Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Joseph Yablonski, no?

What's the point of listing Luomo and Vladislav Delay as separate artists?

Also, IMO the list should include at least Burnt Friedman, and Barbara Morgenstern too. Probably Pole too, though he's kind of a borderline case, as his most famous album came out in 1998; he is kind of prototype of the one-guy-on-his-laptop music though.

Ricardo Villalobos

ricky 4 ever

But off to better things like a hip hop forum
Pass me the rock and I'll storm with the crew and
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What you say, Hammer?
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Rap is not pop, if you call it that we'll stop ya.

OMG THESE POLLS FUCKING SUCK GET OUT OF HERE

― the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:38 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HOW ABOUT I START A POLL CALLED BEST MUSIC OF THE LAST

― the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:39 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

CENTURY AND ONLY PUT BASIC CHANNEL AND DREXCIYA ON IT

― the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:39 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Live with it.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:41 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude i can't IT SUCKS SO BAD IT'S KILLING ME

― the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:42 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly how i feel.

HOW ABOUT I START A POLL CALLED BEST MUSIC OF THE LAST

― the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:39 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

CENTURY AND ONLY PUT BASIC CHANNEL AND DREXCIYA ON IT

― the late great, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 09:39 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

exactly the point

haha where was that conversation

Best 00s electronic music solo artist

it's handy the way there's only 30-40 electronic music artists ever and just 331 tracks, makes this kind of poll v easy for anyone to dip into.

Would vote Drexciya in that poll.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

haha this poll is ridiculous at least we could group them by genre.

troll vote for skrillex.

Which is wrong on two accounts because he sucks and he started recording as Skrillex in 2010 so he's a 10's artist not a 00's.

ditto for Nicolas Jaar and Gold Panda who even tho had like one ep released in 2009 they're really more of a this decade thing.

The lack of Actress, Matthew Dear, Shed and Moodyman are breaking my heart.

Voting Skrillex on the basis of no 2000s output.

haha

Theo Parrish

^^^^^^^

From this list, vladlislav delay is the finest

this poll grotesque as fuck

let's all start polls of our favorite music artists

Sick is awesome but the absence of Theo Parrish, Kenny Dixon Jr., Lawrence, Maurice Fulton, Matthew Herbert etc. is o_O.

What is a Klute to Kahlo?

Max Tundra <--- looool

i can't even start to pick apart this list

fog is unbelievably shitty

even if you limit the options to "egghead" electronic music solo artists, this list sucks

Grimes

AFX? tuss? sqrpshr? CYLOB?? DMX krew? clark? wtF

My vagina just made me vote for Thom Yorke.

^^^^^posts very much in character.

why are any and all of these missing from this poll?:
mark fell
blevin blectum
tujiko noriko
kevin drumm
venetian snares
oren ambarchi
atom tm / uwe schmidt
susanne brokesch
tom smith
luke vibert
burnt friedman
hieroglyphic being
morphosis / ra.h
oni ayhun
mika vainio
carlos giffoni
florian hecker
loren chasse
markus popp / oval
evil moisture / andy bolus
actress
alva noto
ryoji ikeda
Thomas köner
shed/ eqd bloke
Madteo
Helge sten / deathprod
MikeQ
Rebolledo
Matias aguayo
Thomas fehlmann
Morgan packard
squarepusher
aaron dilloway
richard d. james?
doesn't make any sense.

oh and dave phillips,
and doubtless others

british, 90s middle class, radiohead, white btw, pitchfork, 00s students, disappointing itunes collections

gonna vote sasu ripatti innit but WHICH ONE. where is jimmy tamborello eh? jesus. your vagina and thom yorke should get their own board

readers of wire magazine list lesser known but similarly disparate "electronic" "music" "solo artists" well done

There is always the This is what I Call Music end of things for those unsatisfied middle class students and their Wire Mag collectors.

pete waterman wire magazine nosearmy smellsign

ha ha, ironic that my vagina's parody thread turned out such a wider representation of the state of "electronic state than the "real" thread.

make your vagina paradoy thread a poll

I'd like it better if someone made it a Spotify playlist but Spodify won't work for me right now.

Wow, it's almost as if a compendium of dance music as selected by shrieking gays n girls is more fun than one selected by 30-something dudes stroking their beards! Who knew?

(no offense to Sick Mouthy who knows I have huge <3 for him, it's just a funny-peculiar poll)

also, no keith fullerton whitman?? *strokes beard*

Serves me righ for doing it in ten minutes rather than ten days!

ffs please stop... stop assuming dance music is tiny. makes me want to puke nails.

Wow, it's almost as if a compendium of dance music as selected by shrieking gays n girls is more fun than one selected by 30-something dudes stroking their beards! Who knew?

ooooooooo ttttttttttt mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I don't know who he is even talking to at this point, but some ppl in this thread gotta stop making assumptions about other ppl's assumptions. Sheesh.

talking about these threads in general.

Well it's not like ILM ever reduces the all-genre-encompassing musical output of an entire country or continent to one thread or anything... oh wait.

yeah i basically think this last week of dance polls has been polls at their worst.

i don't really get how or why someone has the right to say "these acts represent dance music solo artists" nor do i get the desire to try and be comprehensive here.

it's not even about debating it or saying "oh you forgot WHOEVER", the poll smacks of the need to tick the dance music box as if these acts are all that needs discussion, and yet what discussion actually comes from this? none of any worth.

it's all totally contrary to how people actually listen to and consume dance music to just gather whatev artists are supposedly auteuristic enough as if that's the job done.

dance music is about tracks, individual records. nobody who likes dance music wants to have this stupid reductive discussion about it.

So I thought a follow-on poll to the 90s duos face-offs might be interesting. I've gathered nearly 50 options who I think are about the most foremost examples in their respective fields; there are a lot of genres and subgenres captured here, and obviously some names I'll have missed, but hopefully no one too important.

like... i'm sorry but what? you're right yeah, if they're not on your list they're fairly insignificant, there are after all only 11 more artists who ever made dance music.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_abe0p86QmVA/R-OduOkPWaI/AAAAAAAAAqo/FUxV7uIMS3w/s400/grandpa_simpson_yelling_at_cloud.jpg

i'd take that further and say dance music is about DJs i.e. mixes and NOT individual records. i don't need to know the records to love dance music, i don't need to know the artists' names to love dance music, i just need to know who's going to play good stuff

of course that's just me, i'm lazy!

x-post i could respond to that jpg but it would be too easy to cause a gigantic embarrassing fit

Here's an amazing and astonishing fact that I'm surprised it's taken some people TWELVE YEARS on ILX to realise: different people consume music in different ways. Different people enjoy discussing music in different ways. It's stupid and reductive to try and shout at people and tell them that they way they consume or discuss music is the Wrong Way (the right way clearly being however you do it.) Some people like tracks. Some people like mixes. Some people like albums. It's all OK and anyone who tells anyone else that they way they enjoy it is RONG is the reductive idiot who needs to STFU.

I mean, the total irony being, at no point in Nick's original post did he ever even mention *dance* music. It's about "electronic" music which is an even wider field and YOU are the one treating "electronic" music as a tiny itty bitty thing if you want to reduce it to dance music and nothing else.

i think the thread shows some people agree with me and i made my point, i don't recall shouting. that's really enough for me, i'm not intending to have a personal argument with somebody nor am i going to. good day.

ha ha, ironic that my vagina's parody thread turned out such a wider representation of the state of "electronic state than the "real" thread.

― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 April 2012 10:23 (13 hours ago) Permalink

This is not the "real" thread, FYI.

you guys are even worse than the metal crew for arguing about this kind of thing.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Koushik was robbed. who is s/he? should i care?

does instrumental hip-hop w sixties psych and folk instrumentation, kinda like elephant six meets dj premier or something, pretty good IMO but not essential, best album is the sun-themed one

I guess I should be pleased that El-B was included? Instead it just irritates me. Is this a problem with me or the list or both.

it's not you - this list is *proper*