Well, whatever happened, let's start fixing it now by posting electronic music of all kinds. Techno, IDM, downtempo, breakcore, industrial, witch house (*cough*Sybyll*cough*) and whatever else - if it's made primarily on a synthesiser or laptop, chances are it'll fit in this thread. This chart, too big to fit in IMG tags on this forum, is a good guide to the various subgenres of electronic music. The only restriction I'd make is that hip-hop should generally go into the dedicated hip-hop thread unless it's one of the instrumental subgenres, but since the experimental thread died (;___;) I'll accept even the most bizarre and left-field of stuff in here.
Now I'll get us started by posting, first of all, what I'm listening to as I type this:
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime:
This didn't really stick the first time I heard it, but on the second time it definitely is. Perhaps that's because I'm more in the mood this time, having been listening to a lot of fairly minimal techno lately. It's soulful and gorgeous, and perfectly suited for headphone listening, but I can just as well imagine dancing to that beat.
I can theoretically see it being possible to dance to this next one, but I somehow get the impression nobody has...
Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Religious Icons
Bam! Industrial techno. As put by a reviewer on RYM: "It feels sometimes as if the industrial machine is caught in a broken loop, a neverending cycle of horrors, however distant they may be." The more it repeats, the more subtleties you notice, and the sounds are pretty goddamn nice to start with. I love me some good techno.
One genre not represented on that chart - probably because it isn't really a definable genre - is IDM. Yes, it does stand for "Intelligent Dance Music", and yes, that is a horrendously pretentious abortion of a genre name (though it originally stems from the label a lot of early artists were signed onto), but don't fear - the music itself is only slightly horrendously pretentious.
patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO
To be honest, I have trouble describing what it is about a lot of IDM that makes it so enjoyable for me. I guess the rhythms are really cool and I like the way it develops, and the atmospheres it creates - but then most of that goes for all electronic music. Perhaps I should just throw another video at you and leave it up to you:
Autechre - Gantz Graf EP
"Autechre records are purchased solely by bald men in expensive anoraks who would masturbate to a car alarm if it was re-mixed by a German", say NME. Well, NME also said the new Arctic Monkeys album was the best album of the decade so far, so they can go fuck themselves. Autechre may have popularised that really annoying obsession in IDM with made-up words for song titles, but that doesn't stop all their songs from being absolutely captivating.
I'll turn it over to you guys at this point. Since we've had so little discussion of this stuff I'm interested to see what comes up. Unless of course it turns out that nobody here likes any of it and the thread just sinks into the ground...