Avant Garde/Progressive/Experimental Popular Music

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23 May 2014, 1:21 pm

So post your examples of "popular music" artists (electronic rock etc) who break boundaries. By popular artists I mean those who produce music which doesnt fall within the classical or jazz tradition
. The idea is to find examples of "genre music" which is usurping the space reserved for classical and jazz. That is this thread should be a showcase for indie/metal/dubstep/garage/prog/krautrock/psychedelic/hiphop etc which shows evidence of higher musical principles or which experiments with structure rhythm harmony etc

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk3tURx8a2Q[/youtube]

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23 May 2014, 2:02 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBRQksDgm2A[/youtube]

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23 May 2014, 4:45 pm

All the obscure music I listen to is by obscure artists, not popular ones, will that do?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng5F7eUiGe4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUMX0aLBOqQ[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRiL01ix_gw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzrbV5-Pu2M[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpH4ulJfiwg[/youtube]

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23 May 2014, 5:20 pm

Avant-garde/progressive/experimental music that breaks boundaries....hmm. Also you put a bit of an oxymoron in your post...it's hard to find popular music by popular artists that is also OBSCURE.

I don't endorse this clip, but it seems to be exactly what you're asking for:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zmi2EVb7kQU[/youtube]

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23 May 2014, 6:29 pm

I thought this post was about avant-garde classical music... I love it
oh, well

don't understand the point of the topic though. why does it have to be obscure?

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23 May 2014, 6:29 pm

Quote:

popular music is a catch all term for music which falls outside the bracket of "intellectual music" (jazz classical) its a sorry term with sorrier connotations awesome post btw

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23 May 2014, 7:10 pm

linatet wrote:

I thought this post was about avant-garde classical music... I love it
oh, well

don't understand the point of the topic though. why does it have to be obscure?

Ah the point is to find obscure work within the genres of rock soul electronic music etc which experiments with style form harmony rhythm context etc. It doesnt have to be obscure though. Grizzly bear are far from obscure for instance

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20 Jun 2014, 5:15 am

I find Hypnopaedic really pushes the boundaries.

He produces Trance, House, and Drum and Bass, but his music often crosses into all these genres in varying degrees.

soundcloud.com/hypnopaedic/hypnopaedic-wake-up-call
soundcloud.com/hypnopaedic/parallel
soundcloud.com/hypnopaedic/hypnopaedic-power-force
soundcloud.com/hypnopaedic/sonic-kingdom
www.youtube.com/watch?v=56jYK3UMQGw

Digital Pulse pushes the limits for Dubstep, Trance & Moombahcore and managed to combine all 3 into a bit of a hybrid genre.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE81uc5qWkk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2-GNUsUnJg

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18 Jul 2014, 5:19 pm

Tod Dockstader and Tim Hecker springs to mind.

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19 Jul 2014, 3:47 am

I can't speak to it's Higher Principles or anything like that -- I'm not a very good musician -- but I really like anything by Steven Wilson and his various bands. It's prog, right?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycYewhiaVBk[/youtube]

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