Throw your music at me

minirhyder

So I've been perusing around Songza lately and realized I like dancy-technoey music. But I don't have any.
Basically I'd like it to be melodic, not just beats, and minimal vocals.
Here's a few that caught my ear that I'd like to hear more of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyQUg8bwLEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLd55YlJgVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXT14NmldA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCja-dHi6NI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjXsc0UjdQ

schuss

Daft Punk if you haven't rocked them before
Stardust (side project of one of Daft)
Justice (first album and live album)
Bag Raiders
White Knight
Surkin
Nero
Tepr
Data
MSTRKRFT
Check out some of the stuff you like on beatport and drill into the genre from there, as you seem to like poppy house/frenchish house (not a critique, there's just a million subgenres)

Raern

There are a million subgenres as schuss said. I mostly listen to trance when it comes to electronic stuff, some vaguely similar to what you mentioned.

Most of this stuff has an intro for mixing, the 'real' track starts around 2 minutes in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WC_DyzTUNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW460WqM3wQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQhSbRyDuVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBw6nEPAByg

Local H Jay

i've been into these guys lately, they have a nice chill effect but i still move to it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE_uJV7Ks0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLgwQpvvcHo

may not be up your alley i just want to share these with everyone

minirhyder

@Schuss I've tried Daft Punk and it's not my thing. Not sure why, just doesn't appeal too much to me. I'm going through your list slowly but surely.

@Raern, I really like Alt+F4, put it on my list!

Thanks so far guys!

Page-

Crystal Castles are often melodic and most songs have minimal vocals or none at all.

Magic Spells
Empathy
Black Panther

I'd also recommend Au Revoir Simone and The Knife, but they've got singing all over their stuff and are more pop than techno.

Maybe some ratatat? Again, more pop or electronic rock than straight techno, but the only time they have lyrics are a few samples and their hip-hop remixes.

Wildcat
17 years

If you want to try something pretty different then I'd suggest Holy Fuck. They aim to recreate much of the standard electronic music sound without actually using programmed keyboards, drum machines, or laptops, so they have a live drummer and a bunch of guys using whatever they can to get the sounds they need.

Lovely Allen
Royal Gregory

minirhyder

By the way thanks for making me aware of Beatport. I've picked up some songs from there

AresProphet

I listen a lot to Digitally Imported and you can probably find a station there that you like.

Dhalphir

Try George + Jonathon - A Beautiful Lifestyle (album)

Its a bit different but you might like it.

example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvOCICALIlk

y2jake215

I really like Flying Lotus, minimal vocals, however while I think there's a lot of variety to his songs you might think its too beat-y, not enough melody. I'd give it a shot though, he makes a lot of music for Adult Swim bumps

schuss

minirhyder wrote: »

By the way thanks for making me aware of Beatport. I've picked up some songs from there

I usually try to buy the songs from elsewhere as beatport can be pricy, but it's good for previews/subgenres, as both apple and amazon are pretty bad at breaking out electronica intelligently. One other thing to look into is live albums and mixes (such as essential mixes), as they're usually well-done extended mixes from bands. The Daft Punk and Justice live albums are the benchmarks.

minirhyder

AresProphet wrote: »

I listen a lot to Digitally Imported and you can probably find a station there that you like.

The site looks pretty shady, but it seems to have a lot of music, so thanks for that!
Though through beatport I've discovered that I like a genre I've never heard of before - trance. And DI's only playlist is only 9 songs.

@Dhalphir, I do like it! It's not as technoey as I imagined, but it's nice and happy, so I'll take it

Raern

minirhyder wrote: »

AresProphet wrote: »

I listen a lot to Digitally Imported and you can probably find a station there that you like.

The site looks pretty shady, but it seems to have a lot of music, so thanks for that!
Though through beatport I've discovered that I like a genre I've never heard of before - trance. And DI's only playlist is only 9 songs.

I'm not sure you're understanding the site. di.fm is internet radio. They don't have playlists, they have stations. Some of the stations play DJ mixes that have a few songs, you may have confused one of those for the station playlist. They've been running for years, that was the site the got me into electronic music in the first place. Pretty sure they're not shady either.

Soulburner

here's a few:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i01u4zgcTU0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-jASTELsow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6qdul8lA6k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZ2eTpYSc0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw3SCMVlqcM

minirhyder

Raern wrote: »

minirhyder wrote: »

AresProphet wrote: »

I listen a lot to Digitally Imported and you can probably find a station there that you like.

The site looks pretty shady, but it seems to have a lot of music, so thanks for that!
Though through beatport I've discovered that I like a genre I've never heard of before - trance. And DI's only playlist is only 9 songs.

I'm not sure you're understanding the site. di.fm is internet radio. They don't have playlists, they have stations. Some of the stations play DJ mixes that have a few songs, you may have confused one of those for the station playlist. They've been running for years, that was the site the got me into electronic music in the first place. Pretty sure they're not shady either.

Oh.
Well like on this page it has a track history except it was there before I even downloaded the file and played it. Guess that's where I got confused.

AresProphet

minirhyder wrote: »

Raern wrote: »

minirhyder wrote: »

AresProphet wrote: »

I listen a lot to Digitally Imported and you can probably find a station there that you like.

The site looks pretty shady, but it seems to have a lot of music, so thanks for that!
Though through beatport I've discovered that I like a genre I've never heard of before - trance. And DI's only playlist is only 9 songs.

I'm not sure you're understanding the site. di.fm is internet radio. They don't have playlists, they have stations. Some of the stations play DJ mixes that have a few songs, you may have confused one of those for the station playlist. They've been running for years, that was the site the got me into electronic music in the first place. Pretty sure they're not shady either.

Oh.
Well like on this page it has a track history except it was there before I even downloaded the file and played it. Guess that's where I got confused.

You'll be on that page a lot because it shows the last 10 tracks played. Although if it's a dj set it won't list everything in the mix, that's when you go to the forum.

The trance station on DI is my favorite and it's fairly renowned, it's also by far their most popular (vocal trance a distant second usually).

There are ads on the station but you can also pay for a higher quality stream and no ads, I did that for a few years until I stopped having enough free time to listen to it while playing video games. But I got into a lot of artists and DJs that I still follow.

Click one of those "listen now" links to get it streaming, the Winamp stream is the best free one and worth taking the 10 minutes or so you'll need to download Winmp (free) and get the streaming plugin, if they don't already include it these days. I recommend Winamp Classic over the new version because it's less cluttered and doesn't try to be a Windows Media Player or iTunes substitute.

Green Dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhYEWWMUK8Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHiKH9CLaas&feature=relmfu