ElectroSoul in the same vein as Jamie Liddell, Hot Chip, etc.

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I'm also thinking of stuff like Kelley Polar or the Junior Boys. Basically electronic music with an R n' B twist. I've been really into the groups listed lately and hate to think there's someone I'm missing out on. Anyone else fit this profile who's not that well-known? Thanks in advance.

Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

aaaaaaaaaaargh

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Basically electronic music with an R n' B twist

What about, like, r&b?

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Jay Haze
Jimmy Edgar??

Smash TV - Queen of Men
Alexanar Kowalski (feat Raz o'Hara) - I Will Find You
Raz o'Hara probably has some solo material too

(I don't have a great deal of use for this stuff I gotta say)

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Chelonis R Jones will probably be too gay for you

Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link

KUDOS for this thread though, it's a doozy!

Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link

If that's directed at me(?) I love the Chelonis track on the Royksopp album :0

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Bobby Digital

naw, i'm just kidding around

harshaw (jube), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

check out these guys called postal service.

grady (grady), Thursday, 9 March 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

(some nice dick comments here. cool kids.)

tynan, i'm not really sure what you're getting at with your 'r&b twist' but the first things in my head were giorgio moroder and arthur russel. timbaland is the jump off tho. for sad whiteys maybe jeans team - musik van oben, justus kohncke, bunch of stuff on kitsune, lawerence, luomo, the field - though vs. action, trentemoller - beta boy ep, khonnor, klaus nomi(uh), yeh.


{apal jamp, Thursday, 9 March 2006 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link

two ells.

{apal jamp, Thursday, 9 March 2006 01:56 (eighteen years ago) link

thank you for the tips. I just wanted know some similar minded groups.

Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link

not exactly teh same ballpark but maybe check some of SA-Ra's remixes

grapple (grapple), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link

or the plant life album...

grady (grady), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:39 (eighteen years ago) link

ELECTROSOUL?!?!

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah and about half of that Skeletons and the Girl Faced Boys record that came out the same time as the jamie lidell one.

grady (grady), Thursday, 9 March 2006 03:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Herbert - Scale
Coloma - Dovetail

I don't hear much "soul" is Jeans Team - Musik von Oben, but it was my favorite album of last year and it's at least electro, so I'll second it.

Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 9 March 2006 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link

jay haze? postal service? trentemoller? lawrence?

maybe luomo can come close...but not really...

have you guys even hear the jamie lidell cd? the man is asking a honest question..... i don't frequent this board at all..but this is kinda irresponsible to give misleading info.

i listen to a lot of electronic music. but i cannot say i have heard anything from the "electronic music" world that is like jamie lidell's album before. your best bet is to just go with the real thing. the old school funky r n b....which i have to be honest..i know nothing about...

as far as kelly polar...check out metro area (the guys that run environ which kelly has stuff out on) i mean a simple search on italo disco will come up with a lot of stuff. also check out daniel wang who also have stuff out on environ, ghostly, playhouse. and if you don't already know about the international sensation that is the DFA...well that whole disco punk thing...they take that disco sound throw in some rock sense...and the rest is hipster history.

i don't come here at all, Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:07 (eighteen years ago) link

"have you guys even hear the jamie lidell cd? the man is asking a honest question..... i don't frequent this board at all..but this is kinda irresponsible to give misleading info."
"i mean a simple search on italo disco will come up with a lot of stuff."

Is this some kind of a joke ?

snowballing (snowballing), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:09 (eighteen years ago) link

do you have any Phoenix stuff? they are also playful and faux with old genres but write wellcrafted stuff- seems to be the common denominator?

also, i would not recommend trad. rnb to someone who likes jamie lidell and esp. kelly polar.

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i should say old styles, not genres.

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Tyler James might hit the spot if you like Jamie Lidell.

brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I've really enjoyed Chelonis R Jones's album, gayness and all. Esp. 'i don't know', If only I could get kids to dance to it.

Jacobs (LolVStein), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link

no it's not a joke. i'm just surprised that people would recomend jay haze, trentmoller, postal service, lawrence, to someone asking for artists similar to jamie lidell's last album

i don't come here at all, Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm probably way off in what I imagined the rest of Jay Haze's material to sound like it appears!

The other ones there, distinctly wtf indeed.

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link

postal service was just me being a dick.

do you have any Phoenix stuff?

perfect reccomendation. but probably just the first record... the second kind of wanders into interpol/ beta band territory.

grady (grady), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Jimmy Edgar can be pretty soulful. It's a lot more chopped up than Jamie though and not at all R and B.

Joe Dunthorne (JoseMaria), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

vellela vellela new track alex boom selector is 21st century soul to my ears : http://www.velella.net/

Mr Monket (apn99), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I second the WTF on the Lawrence mention - to my ears they sound nothing like Jamie Lidell or Junior Boys.

I think Jamie Lidell - not to knock his originality - is coming out of an earlier tradition of songs like Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" and Squarepusher's "Red Hot Car" - both of which did the IDM/skittery beats/electro/R&B fusion thing a few years ago - so if you haven't heard those songs yet, I'd say check em out.

o. nate (onate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link

dear ilm! i'm looking for music that sounds like rnb but wasnt made by negroes! tia, clueless in oregon!

,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Um, maybe try some Justin Timberlake?

o. nate (onate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.noordzeefm.nl/data/media/db_images/big/11747.jpg

Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

haha jordan otm

mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link

what's wrong with you bitches? dude was just asking for some advice, if you don't like his taste in music or his question, get back to your cubicles, or blogs and shut the fuck up

this place houses the most sour never-made-it musicians/music critics ever

wtf, Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Timbabland etc Vs. Lidell RNBnIDM are kind of different aesthetics, but I'm really not able to delineate much further than them having US/EU locational differences in influence & audience... it's worth flagging up, but not in a twattish way (I hope. This thread is probably going to hell already).

fandango (fandango), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

this place houses the most sour never-made-it musicians/music critics ever

we have made it--made it harder for jerkoffs like tynan delong to post.

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously what is wrong with you?

wtf, Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Timbaland etc Vs. Lidell RNBnIDM are kind of different aesthetics

Well, yeah, one is hip-hop and the other is electro-R&B. They sound totally different to me too.

o. nate (onate), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:26 (eighteen years ago) link

snd

dmx krew?

seymour bits?

more fun that that other stuff at any rate

ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

seriously what is wrong with you?

we've been watching you.

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

whole lot of white guilt transference up in this place.

tynan isn't trying to replace 'authentic' black 'soul' (dumb concepts) with cynical white replacements. there isn't a black equivalent of the junior boys he SHOULD be listening to instead; as a band they have different influences and end up with entirely seperate results. y'all be jumping down his throats for something he ain't done, and (tellingly) for something this place habitually acts out.

[apal darkie, Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

sweet timing.

{apal maybes, Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

no credibility

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that suede? looks nice

b'angelo, Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link

as for the lawerence rec, no he don't sound like liddell (thank fuck) but he does cover the same ground as polar and parts of t'boys in tracks like 'swap', 'happy together' etc. few things are perfect fit and tynan's net net is cast way wide anyhow.

{apal defense, Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

do we really want this guy listening to electrosoul in that jacket?

coloma really does fit into this category though, i love their latest.

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I second the Skeletons and the Girl Faced Boys recommendation.

You might also like Chromeo and the last record from The National Trust.

Jeff Reguil0n (Talent Explosion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

if my prefs would run

polar>>hot chip>>>>>>lidell>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>junior boys

should i check coloma out?

b'angelo, Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

do you like bryan ferry? then yes

cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Lewis Taylor maybe ?

snowballing (snowballing), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Speaking of Liddell, here's a new video http://www.warprecords.com/newsletter/2006/03/movies/Yougotmeup_web.mov

jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Jimi Tenor is my mainman. Give him a try!

Jean Tully de Molinaire (Jean Tully de Molinaire), Saturday, 11 March 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9178/orly1rk.jpg

cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 11 March 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
"this place houses the most sour... musicians/music critics ever"
dude had a point.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 2 April 2006 05:03 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

worst genre ever

deej, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link

thank you for the tips. I just wanted know some similar minded groups.

-- Tynan DeLong (TynanTynan!), Wednesday, March 8, 2006 9:03 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Alex in Baltimore, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link

such a classic thread

deej, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link

not especially relevant but NeoSoul is pretty shite too

The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link

worst genre ever

-- deej, Monday, February 18, 2008 6:26 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

fuck a hot chip.

That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link

not especially relevant but NeoSoul is pretty shite too

-- The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, February 18, 2008 12:47 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

not especially accurate

deej, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link

maybe i should have added IMHO

or maybe i should have said fuck john legend and fuck that obama song

The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link

start a new thread, this thread is for ELECTROSOUL

deej, Monday, 18 February 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link

i like some john legend....is badu neo-soul? cuz if so, then neo-soul def. pwns whatever this thread is about

M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 18 February 2008 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link

you are cruising, dude.

max, Monday, 18 February 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link

listened to that old jamie lidell single the other day for the first time in awhile, lol @ the idea that there was anything 'electro' about it

deej, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link

<i>you are cruising, dude.

-- max, Monday, February 18, 2008 7:52 PM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Link</i>

i haven't picked up any gay dudes on this thread...yet

M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

Octet - Feels Good to Give Up (feat. Taylor Savvy & Yasmine Mohammed)

http://www.deezer.com/track/46762

Bodrick III, Monday, 18 February 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link

im pretty sure this dude has a video resume on youtube, but i could be years behind the lulz on that one

J0rdan S., Monday, 18 February 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link

this thread made me think of "Simple People" by Milosh, kind of like Boards of Canada soul??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8G8f9PtGJs

zappi, Monday, 18 February 2008 23:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Schneider TM's Zoomer and Erlend Oye's Unrest maybe? Perhaps more "indie" than "soul". Love the former to bits.

mmmm, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago) link

Are Sa-Ra, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Owusu & Hannibal, etc. a part of this genre? If so it's not so bad.

The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link

it seems like it's whatever you want it to be

winston, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link

im pretty sure this dude has a video resume on youtube, but i could be years behind the lulz on that one

-- J0rdan S., Monday, February 18, 2008 5:29 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

dude has a whole tribute thread on noize man

deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 02:14 (sixteen years ago) link

"do you have any Phoenix stuff?"

electrosoul pioneers.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 02:21 (sixteen years ago) link

WHITE PEOPLE LOL

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link

hall n oates

Gavin, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiy2bv88xpA
ELECTROSOUL

deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 02:47 (sixteen years ago) link

If you're thinking of what I call twisted electro funk (like what Prince should've done had his musical taste lived past 1988), here are some recommendations that I find blend well with Jamie Lidell;s "You Got Me Up" style:

The later material of Khan / Captain Comatose might make you happy. Related to that is the KAOS album on !K7, which has some Khan / Snax appearances. Snax & IanEQ also have a nice single in this vein with MANDY remixes out there. Plus there's a couple of Zwicker singles on Compost Black Label.

For inventiveness, I second the Herbert recommendation, though I don't personally feel Scale is the best work... Check Bodily Functions and earlier albums plus some Dr. Rockit stuff.

DJ Logan5, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 08:38 (sixteen years ago) link

Martian 2.0?

The Reverend, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link

This is certainly good, but the title is somewhat misleading in that it lacks an Rn'B Twist

mehlt, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link

"Electro-MOR" is a better term for this stuff. If we're gonna talk about stuff like Phoenix, Zoot Woman, Daft Punk's poppier side, Junior Boys...

Hot Chip are rubbish, though.

Bodrick III, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link

'rnb twist' for some reason makes me think of flavored liquor drinks. >XP hated it

deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry sugary-flavored is what i meant

deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link

i still love that jamie lidell album so much

gr8080, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago) link

born slippy >>>>> jamie lidell

deej, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link

hey guys

i'm looking for music that sounds like hip hop smoothed out on the R&B tip with a pop feel appeal to it...any ideas?

M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago) link

^ban this fake flo rida

J0rdan S., Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link

whatever happened to these guys:

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7219/b00004yr4u01lzzzzzzzwp1.jpg

i loved that album. pothead's delight.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link

never mind. wiki sez they are making a new album.

scott seward, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link

i've never been banned!

M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago) link

I really like half of the new Hot Chip album. The other half I really don't like.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

saw jamie lidell dj for a few minutes last nite (kinda boring generic funk/soul stuff, some of it was alright) but lol he looks like a skinnier tynan delong

joe 40oz (deej), Thursday, 9 October 2008 18:49 (fifteen years ago) link

this is one of the most off the mark posts i've ever read on ILM. dude should have been recommended Amp Fiddler, Ayro/Jeremy Ellis, some Recloose, some vocal broken beat stuff like the Seiji remix of Amy Winehouse....but all the hating...jesus christ!

mikebee (BATTAGS), Thursday, 9 October 2008 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link

five years pass...

2006

mattresslessness, Monday, 26 May 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link

This thread is like Skynet version 1.0.

Tim F, Monday, 26 May 2014 23:27 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

never forget

corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link

I'm marking next March 9 down on my calendar - to think, ten years since we lost our innocence re: ElectroSoul

EDB, Thursday, 23 July 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link

http://bewithrecords.com/product/cassie-cassie-lp-180gram/

The first ever vinyl release of Cassie’s chilly electro-soul debut.

gr8080, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:04 (eight years ago) link

they love music

dead (Lamp), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link


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