Best artist / musician / band of the 21st century so far?
I'm going with Burial. Been playing his music through my headphones all week after not listening in about a year and I'm still as gobsmacked as when I first heard it. I've never heard electronic music with so much feeling and power before. From his debut album through to the Truant / Rough Sleeper EP has to be one of the best, most consistent periods in any electronic artists category with the Kindred EP and specifically Ashtray Wrap the absolute pinnacle of everything he has done. His last two releases were a little sub par unfortunately but I can ignore that for the sheer volume of excellent music he has released.
11-03-2016, 03:22 PM
Mister Yo
damn sun. burial is the GOAT when it comes to whatever genre he does. i rapped over one his tracks because i love him so much. hahaha. whats his latest anyway? i stay pretty up to date but havent checked in a while...
i think Frank Ocean is making a pretty good case for himself artist wise. raising the bar higher and higher every time and making flawless albums while hes at it.
id post up a track from his latest album but youtube doesnt have any/the one i specifically want.
this'll do. just know that this quality of work is what Frank fucks with so, yeah.
11-03-2016, 05:15 PM
Durag
His last two releases were singles rather than EP's and were both pretty disappointing. Temple Sleeper was average at best, but his split with Zomby, Sweetz was awful. Their styles clearly do not work together. Such a shame, both great artists who work on different feelings and moods within the same soundscapes but those sounds clearly work better interdependently.
Rival Dealer got some stick but I thought it was good apart from the second half of Come Down To Us which went pretty cheesy and 'happy' sounding.
11-03-2016, 05:28 PM
Mister Yo
brah. i thought the second half of come down to us was dopeeeeee hahahaha.
havent heard that zomby split, i like zomby. will have to check it out.
in my opinion he hasnt really topped "Untrue" shit is soooo nice. he has glimmers of hope here and there on everything post Untrue but he hasnt been blending/morphing them samples as nice as he did on Untrue.
a shame.
11-03-2016, 07:49 PM
noel411
Harry Manx
Nobody else I've heard even comes close to offering any kind of competition. Discovering somebody making music that pure in this day and age was a true blessing.
11-03-2016, 07:54 PM
Durag
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Originally Posted by Mister Yo
brah. i thought the second half of come down to us was dopeeeeee hahahaha.
havent heard that zomby split, i like zomby. will have to check it out.
in my opinion he hasnt really topped "Untrue" shit is soooo nice. he has glimmers of hope here and there on everything post Untrue but he hasnt been blending/morphing them samples as nice as he did on Untrue.
a shame.
Nawh, Kindred EP was his pinnacle, specifically Ashtray wrap. Whilst I adore Untrue, sometimes I think he went overboard with the vocal samples. I think he perfected his craft on Street Halo and specifically Kindred. Oh and on the Massive Attack remixes.
In my opinion obviously lol.
11-03-2016, 09:11 PM
Mister Yo
the Massive Attack remixes were ice.
to me, his vocal samples are the highlight of the fucking show. if it werent for them, Kindred would be an annoying ass clank of metal and two step garage drums. hahah. i love the dude but really his drums get annoying to me... but his shit is so dope that i dont give a fuck, thats his thing. but that is also why i really dig on Come Down to Us because the drums arent the typical burial two step uk jungle filth. but a kids a sucker for them haunting female vocal samples... i just cant help it ahahhaha reference 7 minutes and on and dont tell me it aint dope.
thats why him and zomby hooking up to me wasnt a surprise in the slightest. i listened to that track (sweetz) by the way and it wasnt good ahahahha.
funny you made this thread and brought up burial as ive been in a burial type mood as of late.
also funny because i dont know if your familiar with the producing duo Blue Sky Black Death but one half of them just dropped a little seven track ambient project. its pretty tight only listened to it three times so far, heres the playlist.
Nobody else I've heard even comes close to offering any kind of competition. Discovering somebody making music that pure in this day and age was a true blessing.
Just checked out his shit. Never heard of him before and yeah that sounds dope. Thanks for the mention gonna check it out.
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Originally Posted by Mister Yo
the Massive Attack remixes were ice.
to me, his vocal samples are the highlight of the fucking show. if it werent for them, Kindred would be an annoying ass clank of metal and two step garage drums. hahah. i love the dude but really his drums get annoying to me... but his shit is so dope that i dont give a fuck, thats his thing. but that is also why i really dig on Come Down to Us because the drums arent the typical burial two step uk jungle filth. but a kids a sucker for them haunting female vocal samples... i just cant help it ahahhaha reference 7 minutes and on and dont tell me it aint dope.
thats why him and zomby hooking up to me wasnt a surprise in the slightest. i listened to that track (sweetz) by the way and it wasnt good ahahahha.
funny you made this thread and brought up burial as ive been in a burial type mood as of late.
also funny because i dont know if your familiar with the producing duo Blue Sky Black Death but one half of them just dropped a little seven track ambient project. its pretty tight only listened to it three times so far, heres the playlist.
I love Burials uk garage 2 step stuff, it's where he started out. But I do kind of agree in that Kindred was the weakest of the 3 tracks on that EP. And in terms of Come Down To Us, that shit was great till bout the 7 minute mark when it went all 80's and cheesy and happy. That's not Burial to me. As cliched as it is at this stage, Burial IS the 2am rainy depressing lonely streets of London or Dublin and this doesn't fit it. Funny I've walked around Calgary at that time in the morning listening to it and it's not the same. It needs to be a grim rainy city to work lol.
Yeah I love Blue Sky Black Death. I'm a bit behind on their new shit actually.
Yeah Sweetz was horrible man. Zomby is great tho.
11-04-2016, 05:46 AM
rainbow
burial's first album blew my mind when it came out, i got skream's album around the same time and both opened me up to electronic music i'd never conceived of.
loefah and mala, zomby, actress have all made amazing stuff in the last 16 years. jam city and forest swords are another couple of guys who makes flawless music to me. oneohtrixpointnever has been all over the board, but i think he's made a bunch of perfect tracks.
omar s makes sublime techno - i could listen to his tracks all the time.
the band i've liked the most is HTRK probably, i really like DIIV also. i think Sun Kil Moon has made great stuff (and a far bit of trash).
i don't know.
11-04-2016, 10:23 AM
Durag
^Yeah I started listening to Skream, Mala and all of that shit round the same time.
If Young Fathers continue in the same vein as their 5 releases they could be one the best also.
11-04-2016, 03:04 PM
Mister Yo
lots and lots of names upon names in that post yo. will have to sift through and dig.
11-08-2016, 12:38 PM
rainbow
yeah, need to check out more young fathers. UK electronic music has dominated my listening habits for most of the last 10 years in all honesty. germany too.
labels like swamp 81, hemlock, hotflush, hyperdub, nightslugs, aus music, werkdiscs and older labels like ninjatune and r&s have released great stuff since 2000.
the loose genre that guys like oneohtrix point never, james ferraro, hype williams and dean blunts solo stuff, actress and a few others guys fit into, has probably been my favourite thing in music over the period. weird looping, analogue synth sounding, beats with rnb/hip hop/pop/uk garage/grime music influences dropped in sporadically.
