Who r the best GLITCH artists?

[Alex Maier]

Best glitch album ever: The Notwist - Shrink

[donkey tugger]

Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain, skips like a girl in my Cd player. More IDS than Thatcher the musical.

[aMUSEd]

I like some of the music people describe as "Glitch" but it's such a silly name (even worse than "Crunk") and the "genre", if it can be described as such, means little to me really.

[DWb]

In my opinion most "real" glitch tends to be slightly atonal and a bit nuts (not that any of that is bad )

Really?
OPINION : My impression of most glitch, including Autechre, Richard Devine etc. - is that you strip away the sonic textures, most of it is pretty plain rock-techno-folk chord sructures, not a lot of adventure beyond sonic texture, no jazz, no soul, not much funk, not much melodic invention ... I see a lot of attitude amongst these artists (yes i'm generalising!) in that they see themselves as "experimental" just because they've used a bitsize reducer, but now that this stuff is years old and the textures don't "shock" anymore (and can be bought in countless sample libraries), I just hear a lot of semitone doodling and minor chord progressions ...

Hum, I sort of agree, in that that's a trap that a lot of glitch falls into (particularly the idea that using glitches on your record automatically makes it 'experimental' and thereby obviates the need to do anything to make it interesting, even though you aren't doing anything that Autechre didn't do five years ago) but not all of it does. IMO, a reductionist attitude of 'lets see if any of the parts beyond the sonic textures are interesting' doesn't really apply to glitch - it's often about the atmosphere and the tension, of which the texture is an integral part as is (in some cases) the simplicity of the melodies.

Speaking of funk, though, is anyone familiar with Bisk? I've got his 2000 album 'Moonstruck Parade' which sounds rather like the entire Ninja Tune back catalogue being run through Autechre's Max patch...

[Pantsdown666]

IMO, a reductionist attitude of 'lets see if any of the parts beyond the sonic textures are interesting' doesn't really apply to glitch - it's often about the atmosphere and the tension, of which the texture is an integral part as is (in some cases) the simplicity of the melodies.

Yeah, I guess that comes down to taste and what you want from music ... at this stage I want it all at once! So Autechre can be glitching out all over the place with bursts of white noise and I'm just thinking "I'm bored with these guys playing A-G-C-A" ....

[Ubiety]

Oval

Other than Yasunao Tone's CD experiments from the 80s, Oval invented glitch and made some of the best music of that sort.

You are a kindred spirit!

[Ubiety]

I'll tell you what, this ain't glitch BUT it is one of the hottest tracks that I discovered recently. It's just bananas, I tell you! Prolly not everyones cup of tea but the production, chopped up vocals, rhythm and bass sonics are just sick! Check out the SebastiAn RMX.

[meatwalker]

thanks for all your suggestions have gotten on to some of those titles already

the labels sublight and planet mu r v cool that warp stuff is great too.

let me share with u a band that i recently discovered that absolutely f**king cuts sick:

MESSER CHUPS

its sort of like real quirky surf rock/experimental nu jazz/ electro/glitch

ive listened to 3 of their cds so far and they are incredible. cant speak highly enuf of these guys...

[fusor010]

- AUTECHRE

- VENETIAN SNARES

[Meffy]

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[Chuck E. Jesus]

I'm not really tuned in to genres much, so I may be off base with this suggestion, but how about Mouse on Mars. I really dig a lot of their stuff and some of it sounds very glitchy to me.

i dunno if they are glitch, kind of a mixed bag...seen em three times, good live too!

[fabi]

my absolutely favorite artist roughly in this area, whom i've discovered through coil, is ivan pavlov, going under the name of COH... have any of you listened to his music? it's a shame he doesn't get mentioned more often (well, actually i guess it doesn't really matter, but still), to me it's amazing how mesmerizing his rhytmic buzzings and clicks can be.

[badpioneer]

How about Shitmat or Sickboy or any other mashup breakcore artists?

[cron]

I have a tough time accepting about 80% of the artists named here as having anything to do with glitch. Odd dance music, yes. Glitch, no... Very few of these artists use glitch as anything other than a superficial texture IMO.

Since I, and only I, know what proper glitch is , one of the best (and one of the purest) glitch guys is Alva Noto. Try Prototypes or Transform. Both remind me of an unusually funky broken fluorescent tube. Glitch as pure aesthetic/idea. No frills.

[foosnark]

I have a tough time accepting about 80% of the artists named here as having anything to do with glitch. Odd dance music, yes. Glitch, no... Very few of these artists use glitch as anything other than a superficial texture IMO.

Since I, and only I, know what proper glitch is , one of the best (and one of the purest) glitch guys is Alva Noto. Try Prototypes or Transform. Both remind me of an unusually funky broken fluorescent tube. Glitch as pure aesthetic/idea. No frills.

Yeah, a lot of these are more in the category of IDM or breakcore or whatever. There are huge gaps between actual glitch, glitchy "soft noise" as an element in something else, and the Warp Records whacked-out-beats style.