Recommended Independent Artists

A selection of my current favourite independent IDM, Ambient electronic music producers more than worthy of your attention. Find them all on LastFM.  

May 2008

Suddenspace
Suddenspace is a downtempo / ambient dub group from Toronto, Canada. They have performed live at festivals and clubs in various locations around the world.

Koordinate of Wonders
Named after a short story by science fiction writer, Robert Sheckley. is a two person project with Yuri creating most of the music and Anton focused on promotion. They first started their music making experiments together back in 1998. The results were and still are highly melodic and tending toward IDM.

Playb
Playb is a young electronic music composer/producer. In 2007 Playb published his first commercial work “Odd Snapshots” -a cinematic EP- which is distinguished essentially by Down-Tempo grooves along with psychedelic soundscapes.

NaokiApri
Naoki/Apri was born 1983, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia and now living in Moscow. His current musical output is under the general IDM banner but with a distinct flavour (possibly influenced by the Russian scene) - excellent!.

Neoteric Research Unit
NEOTERIC RESEARCH UNIT is a London based electronic, ambient and experimental music project of Bernie Scranney. The music is mainly Ambient; inhabiting the zone of between 90 to 120 bpm.

Curium
Evan Sornstein may be most at home working under the name of Curium, which he has espoused for almost 20 years. During that time he has released fourteen suites of music ranging from the haunting and histrionic to the audacious and alchemical. Evan has long been a staple of the San Francisco electronic music scene and has enjoyed contributing to several bands of varying genres, including Battery, Nux Vomica, Sinjin, and Axoe. Quirky, glitchy and inventive!

David Newlyn
David Newlyn is an electronic music artist based in Durham, England. Newlyn is no stranger to music, aside from running the CDR label October Man Recordings, he has appeared on several Boltfish compilations and previously released the Didn’t Know Where I Was EP and the debut album, Wait Here With Me.

Disinterested
Unfortunately I currently have no information on this, however, I’ll update if I can find some. In the meantime take a listen to “What You Wanted”, some brilliant ambient ‘blissed-out’ guitar which conveys a heartfelt message aimed no doubt at someone - wonderful.

Max Richter
OK - I know Max is no longer strictly an independent, but the quality of his music deserves more exposure!

More in a few weeks!