I'm a fashion designer, and I've found the more I expose myself to new sounds and music, the more developed my creative mind becomes. Also, its fun as shit hearing music like you've never heard before. I've begun to crave that feeling.
I want ANY and ALL recommendations of avant garde or overlooked interesting genres and music from EVERYONE reading this.
I hope others can browse this thread and find things they've also never been exposed to. More artistic fashion and music blend together beautifully. I'd recommend watching a popular Rick Owens show if you've never looked into fashion before.
Anything by Coil really, they are my fav band. Formed by a gay pagan couple in the 80's, made some of the most strange music I've ever heard but also beautiful stuff
second this, check out Music to Play in the Dark for some really creative stuff
Juan Parker
Thank you! It's not incredibly abstract, but it's a cool song. interesting combination of sound .
Julian Martin
Hard to tell what you have or haven't heard, but I'll try to give a few recommendations from different genres, in no particular order.
If you haven't heard The Paper Chase (I mean the band, not the other stuff google will throw at you) then definitely go for that. I have yet to hear another band that blends pop with disharmony in a similar manner.
Venetian Snares. Breakcore I guess? The album with a hungarian title is a great place to start.
Dome. Side project of some members of the English punk band Wire, mostly minimalism with various electronic elements.
John Coltrane's Interstellar Space. Free jazz, sounds like utter chaos at first glance (what's the hearing equivalent of glance?) but very rewarding if you get into it. Potentially inspiring even if you don't.
Melt-Banana. Japanese vaguely noise rock-esque band with high pitched female vocals.
Robert White
maybe you could listen to techno, it's not that avant garde for sure but the songs are very well put together, i could recommend some artists if you want
Asher Walker
Not OP but I would appreciate It. I'm probably too late though.
Connor Morris
Thought I'd mention some stuff that gave me that "feeling" of something like I've never heard before.
Allessandro Cortini- Avanti I fell in love with
Radiohead- Kid A
Peter Sotos- Buyer's Market
Yves Tumor- my favorite artist on this list
Dead Texan- please recommend me more drone I love it but feel like I'm missing a lot of the good shit
Anything Whitearmor
Bladee's earlier shit
Ecco2k's more interesting shit, Thaiboy's whitearmor shit
Nails- Abandon All Life
Huerco S- Untitled
I'm a lean fanboy too
Burial- Untrue
Hate to say this because it's lame but Floral Shoppe gave me the unique feeling too initially
Hannah Diamond
Kamixlo
I'm sure I'm missing the majority but this was right off the top of my head.
Dominic Parker
yooooooooooooo this is good this is real good
Wyatt Mitchell
Tale Of Us, Dark Sky, Maceo Plex, Sonic Future, Kiasmos, HVOB, Planetary Assault Systems, Stimming, Len Faki, Reinier Zonneveld, Remco Beekwilder, Martin Roth
you guys are so much nicer than the majority of Sup Forums! lol thank you for all your suggestions please keep them coming! I've already heard some awesome shit and I haven't gotten through hardly any suggestions so far.
Anthony Perez
Arthur Russell - World of Echo
I think this is exactly what you need. Your current list is lacking some actual artistic influence. Try it out. It's on spotify. Let us know.
maybe it is! I'll absolutely let you know. This is good. I really like it. I've listened to 2 songs from the album so far and now I'm off to new suggestions, this one got written down though. Its worth listening all the way through
Mason Morales
100%
Colton Hernandez
eccojams is great I haven't heard it in a while! Thanks for reminding me I would have never stumbled across it. Alva Noto seems really cool so far.
"Novaya Scena" music. A late 80s/early 90s music scene that tried to blend the avant-garde academic world with the punk and folk one. Mostly avant-folk and weird ass post-punk.
No problem man. I find that most innovation in recent music is within electronic music
Isaac Hughes
I should mention that these were made in Kyiv and Kharkiv Ukraine, in case you were wondering why there were so many moonrunes
Jayden Green
Makes sense really. With live instruments there are always limitations imposed by how the instrument is built and what the human body can realistically do whereas in electronic music you can do literally anything. I also think (although I bet a lot of people will disagree there) that in electronic music the sound/tone/timbre/whatever plays a much more pivotal role than in instrument-based music, which again opens up endless possibilities and the only real limit is the artist's imagination.
Yeah, well there obviously is still room for innovation within physical instruments. Limitations of the instrument itself in no way stunts innovation but the possibilities and ideas put forward by the use of electronic equipment is breaths life into modern music really. For example microsound (the use of extremely short clips of sound) is used throughout a lot a modern progressive electronic music. That can't be replicated on physical instruments. But also electronic musicians have been limiting themselves as part of their artistic approach by the extensive use of simple sine waves rather than using electronic equiptment to it's for complex potential. As you said, timbre is one of the main areas of experimentation. Mainly with noise music, following on from a long history of noise music that had previously been limited until the use of electronic equiptment
Leo Hernandez
we're generally nicer to visitors from other boards because we want to show off our favorites to anyone that's definitely going to listen youtube.com/watch?v=N2lvR7Uluuc
Isaiah Young
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives CFCF - The Colours of Life Auscultation - L'étreinte Imaginaire Lnrdcroy - Much Less Normal Julianna Barwick - Nepenthe
Parker Butler
I really wanted to like the Paper Chase at first but as I got further and further into their music it just sounded like Andrew Jackson Jihad trying to be really edgy.
