Electronic Artist You'd Most Like To Put In Your... Y'Know

no DJ Rap, no credibility.

Joseph Yablonski

DJ Murdering Jock

I've never heard of electronic artists Benjamin Curtis and Sonic Boom... Who are they?

i'd like to think i'm as polymorphous as the next guy but y're on yr own with Thom Yorke WCC

Sonic Boom does / did analogue knob twiddling for Spacemen 3, Spectrum and E.A.R.

Benjamin Curtis does laptop knob twiddling for School of Seven Bells.

Electronics means anything, apparently so they count!

Poor Thom, it's the ponytail, isn't it? Sigh. Luckily I have enough socks to vote for all of them. (I think?)

i am surprised and slightly disappointed to see a lack of lindstrom here.

(voted b.curtis anyway)

::slaps forehead::

I knew I'd forgotten someone!

What do you want, I made this poll literally sitting up a tree.

k.i.s.s.i.n.g.

(dancing about like a hippie to I Want More, I had the sudden awful thought: are Can the Grateful Dead it's OK to like?)

I have tricked people into listening to the Grateful Dead upon similar pretexts.

WHAT'S. NOT. TO. LOVE.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5239/6917791764_ef5663479c_b.jpg

I really am beginning to think there's something wrong with me that I find that man attractive.

i get really angry when i see guys like b. curtis because i can never have hair like that :/

but i'll vote for him anyway

I know I'm so in the minority on this, but I just don't like what Benjamin Curtis has done to his hair these days. I liked him so much better with longer hair, when he was still in Secret Machines.

NEVER FORGET!!!!

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l86jq6ly1O1qdzn2ko1_500.jpg

haha if i'd first seen benjamin curtis w/longer hair i don't think i'd have ever found him attractive.

xosar more like xosRAWR amirite

http://quitmumbling.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Xosar+IMG_13901024x7411.jpg

Wow get a load of those Rolands!

would smash into tiny little particles of dust

Man that is no way to treat delicate analogue gear.

http://www.mixmag.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/article/images/NINA-KRAVIZ-1.jpg

the big one from boards of canada, whatever he's called.

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/21628821/Boards+of+Canada+BoC.png

but andy barlow from lamb is the beautifulest man.

http://stratamusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/chainmailcrop.jpg
http://media.musicfeeds.com.au/files/1e97c05a5a690d44264a1161db566cd4.jpg

nah she looks like a swedish troll doll next to xosar

i mean she's totally beautiful too obv.

I'm trying to find a recent picture of Aphex Twin that doesn't have Penderecki in it because Penderecki is a major ladyboner killer. :-(

I don't like that second lady, she doesn't have any Rolands, this will not do.

is that nina kraviz, jim? i was wondering how long it'd be before she appeared here.

i'll put in a vote for ben klock. he always gets comments like "too mainstream-looking" or "too conventionally good-looking" or "looks like he works out" as if those are bad things

http://www.boingpoumtchak.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ben-klock-berghain-04.jpeg

that is an xpost

but that BoC pic looks like it could be any of a number of ilx dudes who post on wdyll

that is nina kraviz yeah. ben klock is a good-looking dude, i don't understand "too conventionally good looking" as a criticism.

it's actually kinda funny how klock and dettmann are these sculpted cheek-boney aryan ubermenschen, so appropriate for berghain

I don't like "conventionally good looking" dudes, they're just too square-jawed and even, I like the dudes who are kinda o_0 and ginger and weird looking and actually have interesting faces.

Also, it's the little dark one that is the hott one in BoC.

ben klock's cheekbones look like they've been chiselled out of actual marble. that's exactly what i like.

The one on the left. He's the hott one in BoC:

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Boards-Of-Canada-27-02-12.jpg

It's that beard/pointy Celtic nose combination. Slays me.

but that BoC pic looks like it could be any of a number of ilx dudes who post on wdyll

i could go for some of those guys too.

xp that's not a pointy nose.

I'm so sorry about the Penderecki, but MAAAAANNNN, you want cheekbones chiselled out of actual Cornish granite?

http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/5423/0122krzysztofpenderecki.jpg

^^^^LOOK AT THAT MAN. JUST LOOK AT HIM. SO FUCKEN HOTT I CAN'T STAND IT.

http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Nicolas-jaar-3.22.20121.jpg

can't say i see the appeal of those BoC guys, even correcting for preference

http://www.clr.net/images/large/33.jpg

^^ but dettmann i might switch teams for

click here to check out marcel's nipple

nicolar jaar can keep those glasses on!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KkGYtWH4p0M/TH_kIdntN0I/AAAAAAAAASk/saANbt9BCrs/s1600/todd_terje_456_001.jpg

Jaar would totally be cute if he let his hair grow out a little. I can't stand that closed cropped thing.

Dettmann is a lot closer to what I like, but he's still a bit too chiselled and symmetrical and not strange looking enough.

Wow, when did Todd Terje loose the terrible facial hair? He's good looking under all that!

I mean, he's no Lindstrom, but he's got more of a Beck-ish puckness.

you know what this thread needs is more xosar

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JPP30_art.jpg

yes to dettmann

DEFINITELY yes to jaar who is actually way way way hotter irl

THREAD NEEDS MORE LINDSTROM

http://rcrdlbl.com/files/rblog_images/lindstrom.jpg

that's an old pic of todd terje, i think.

i'd switch then switch back for peter kruder.

http://www.timeoutsingapore.com/contentFiles/image/2010/december/clubbing/02-clubbing-kruder-482x298.jpg

I mean, look at that nose. Look at that hair. Look at that sculptured Viking perfection. Pillage my shores any time, baby.

http://new.assets.thequietus.com/images/articles/8032/Lindstrom_550_1329759049_crop_550x550.jpg

HOW CAN ANY HUMAN BEING HAVE A JAWLINE LIKE THIS?!?!?!?

http://www.magneticmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Lindstrom.jpg

or WKIW, whatever

this picture of nicolas jaar just because his ARMS, holy christ

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/60664863/Nicolas+Jaar+NicolasJaar.png

Is it wrong that the first thing I spotted on looking at that photo was the "it is our pleasure to serve you" Greek diner coffee?

(And I'm going to try not to start stanning for TY again, but his goofy, silly side is something that really gets missed out a lot in representations of his public personna, but seriously - I think he is a fun guy to KIW. I should post the video of him and Nigel Godrich DJ-ing where he's being completely ridiculous and if you don't want to KIW them after seeing that, you hate fun.)

mm, thread is full of love!

Well done all

Oh, Siriusmo, let's get hott together...

http://www.texturemagazine.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/m11_siriusmo.jpg

WKIW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZpDO0iDWwI

WNDJW though (esp not if he went spilling my drinks like that)

Does Hawtin look like Bruno or am I crazy?

http://screencrave.frsucrave.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bruno09-4-3.jpg

ACTRESS:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/68556706/Actress.jpg
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/49995677/Actress+FADER167.png

I don't have a vagina, but if I did I would be cramming Sasu Ripatti all up in that shit in hearty gratitude for the musical gifts he has blessed us with.

and I'd pop Parrish and KDJ in there if I could, might need to relax and breathe slowly in order to achieve this, but by god I will try

Actress is totally buff agreed

I had only listened to Actress, never seen him before. I always assumed he was some feeble, white-boy knob twiddler. With a too much time indoors pallid complexion. Well he certainly isn't!

Maybe doesn't belong, but...

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/34397881/Armand+van+Helden++01.jpg
http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/11/15411082b7e5163f1af59eafd14ae469/l.jpg

I love the transition in this thread from "hrmmm, don't know about this" to "wow, Actress is totes buff!"

His eyebrows kinda spoil it for me. I know I'm weird, that I can get turned off an otherwise completely fit bloke by not liking his eyebrows, but I am really funny about eyebrows.

i knew what armand van helden looked like but i didn't know he looked like THAT, if that makes sense. whew

idg this thread title, put in your... what?

lol i have a crush on raresh doing his little dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZedMLKLgKc

I think I have vagina fatigue. Like, there are so many beautiful artists on this thread I can't even contemplate which ones are attractive any more.

So instead I'm going to do self-indulgent gender theory for a minute... but, for real, I keep thinking about the switch in terminology on this thread.

Like, one of the reasons that I've been so hostile towards "would smash" threads is because I really, really hate that phrase. It just sounds so uncomfortable and painful. If you are the possessor of a vagina, then the idea of having it smashed into atoms or whatever is not sexy, it is knee-crossingly painful and awkward. And that is not the best state to enjoy some perving. So the flip in terminology at the start of the thread, yes, it was a jokey reference to an ILX clusterfuck, but I've decided that it's a worthwhile metaphor, and a different way of looking at sexual attraction - that "would smash" just has such violent and painful associations, but "I want to put that person in (the orifice of my choice)" is much more like how we listen to music, the whole idea of music being this lovely thing we put into our ears and into our brains.

Probably won't catch on, unfortunately.

When I can get Spodify working again, I do want to see if I can make a playlist of this thread. I bet it would be awesome. But YouTubes are great in the meanwhile, because Coal's dancing boys are cuet.

Armand has always looked, at bare minumum, 130% gayer than Tiga has ever seemed

Armand Van Helden sort of looks like he came out of a boy band but I can definitely acknowledge some peeps would be attracted to him.

smash is not so different from nail, screw, bang, etc. even fuck; one of its (contested obv) etymological roots is the germanic fuk/fok which means to strike, with words across the germanic family meaning either striking or sex or both

not that that changes the argument.

i...also had no idea armand looked like that. woooow.

i think carl craig is super-attractive

http://danceproject.info/photos/house/Carl%20Craig.jpg

http://kickkicksnare.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Maya_Jane_Coles.jpg

A blast from the past:

Described by Time Magazine as "a cross between Carl Sagan and Madonna", astrophysicist, author and recording artist Fiorella Terenzi has studied opera and composition at Conservatory G. Verdi, Corsi Popolari Serali and taught mathematics and physics at Liceo Scientifico, Milan. In research at the Computer Audio Research Laboratory, University of California, San Diego, she developed techniques to convert radio waves from galaxies into sound - released by Island Records on her acclaimed CD "Music from the Galaxies".

http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/fiorella_thumb.jpeg

xp mb oh yeah i forgot there was a brief meme about that. i agree "smash" is unflattering but idk about this as an alternative, makes me imagine someone like, shrinking someone and then letting them crawl around inside their vagina??

A Fantastic Voyage.

in search of roughly cylindrical electronic artists between 6 and 12 inches in length

When Thom Yorke sings "I will shrink myself into your pocket" what on earth else could he mean?

Public schoolboys are ~dirty~

I think Carl Craig is a fine looking dude too but he really does love the turtle neck and shitty leather jacket

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Armand Van Helden sort of looks like he came out of a boy band but I can definitely acknowledge some peeps would be attracted to him.

The body might be boy band, but it's that facial blend of (per Wikipedia) Dutch-Indonesian father/French-Lebanese mother that does it for me.

That, and sexy videos like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGRQGm4-A4k

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

My black labrador Dogsby, would have probably got more votes than Pete Kember.

Well. Dear Aphex Twin.

Welcome to my vagina, I suppose.

Again.

i'm so glad benjamin curtis didn't lose to thom yorke!

And yet, some former lust object... turns up out of the blue and says...

8 former lust objects, and I don't think my vagina would fit them all, thank you very much.

Fair enough.

Great thread.

Also, Lindstrom and Todd Terje popped up on my news feed today.

http://distilleryimage0.instagram.com/f2edbc48e17311e19c6622000a1e89ba_7.jpg

Wow, there is just something so crocodilian about Lindstrom's smile.

I must really just be into dudes with slightly scary smiles because I mean, really...

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/480406_10151085069155489_822618422_n.jpg

Just when I think I am so completely ~over~ dudes and they are utterly uninteresting in every way, this thread pops up again to remind me.

In a similar way to Lex getting annoyed that no one had ~told him~ about the Daphni Remix of Emeralds until years later, WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT THIS WAS A REAL THING THAT HAPPENED IN THIS WORLD?

http://soundcloud.com/smalltownsupersound/lindstrom-lovesick-four-tet-remix

I just did!

Two years after it happened!

I have about a billion remixes of that song! Why did I never have that one?

Or did I find about it and my brain just chose to ignore it because the immense ladyboner power of the idea of Lindstrom and Four Tet making beautiful wibble together melted my memory creation circuits?

I did say I thought it was probbaly stupid to point it out to you; can't believe you didn't know it!

the exotic xosar

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1761

you know what this thread needs is more xosar

― the late great, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:41 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Prophetic and perpetually OTM.

While trying to restore all the bookmarks I lost overnight, I re-found this thread. Kinda sad (RIP), kinda LOL.

Aphex Twin is back and hotter than ever.

Benjamin is obviously no longer with us but I've got a super-crush on the guitarist from his brother's current band. (But I don't think he can be included as an "electronic artist" until he records an album full of SAWs. I'm not holding my breath.)

Thom Yorke finally shed all of his hottness by starting a shitty, shitty band with dude from RHCP and growing a Santa Claus beard *shudders*.

Who are the hottest dudes working in Electronic Music today. Enquiring Minds want to know.