I love the Chemical Brothers style music...are there any suggestions out there for similar style and coolness that I should check out?



-ChemDiva

Ain't nobody quite like the Chems, but here's some suggestions:



Plump DJ's

Underworld

Groove Armada

Fatboy Slim

Leftfield

Crystal Method

DJ Shadow

Timo Maas



etc.etc.etc.etc. :D



And there's a ton more but that should get you started, and I'm sure plenty of people here will pop off with some more suggestions! Happy listening!

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I would have to suggest Fatboy Slim as being as good as the CB.



I would also like to suggest you in trying Moloko. The albums they have released are totally different to Sing it back.



I would like to see Roisin from Moloko collabrate with the Chemical Brothers

New Order, they're like the chems of the 80's

I agree with Biff. New Order, Daft Punk, Fat boy slim, Prodigy, Crystal Method, Orbital (some what) , Underworld, Leftfield.

But Chems are the God.

How is/are Junkie XL?

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I would recommend:

Kraftwerk

Moby



Not like the chems but still good:7

Lemon jelly

Royksopp

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Kraftwerk and New Order.Period. No one beats them not even Chems.....















































only kiddin

Not sure if they are as good as the chems, but they are all very good:



RJD2

DJ Shadow

Cinematic Orchestra

Basement Jaxx

Groove Armada

Zero 7

Royksopp

Dynamo Productions (former Portishead tour dj)

Mr Scruff

DJ Format

N.E.R.D.

Massive Attack



If you like the Chemical Brothers these should be somewhere up your street!

Boards of Canada

Crystal Method

Autechre

Amon Tobin

The Future Sound of London

Mu-sic

Orbital (Ofcourse!)

Fatboy Slim

Kraftwerk

KMFDM (somewhat)

Daft Punk

Prodigy

Squarepusher

Omni Trio

ROYKSOPP





Thats all I can think of at the moment, so many good ones...







Also, I think that with out the Prodigys 'Experience' and 'Music for the jilted generation', techno would not be the same...

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Yeah, Orbital, Prodigy, the Plumps and FBS are about the only people that can compare musically (style wise). Less so FBS, he's more house than the chems.

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Orbital are the fathers of electronica. I love their old stuff like Chime and The Box.

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ooooooo. Nice one! Good topic for debate.



About the term 'electronica' - it's so broad and so vague, a lot of acts fit the electronica bill. Maybe it's because I worked in a record store for so long, I shied away from lumping acts into such a broad genre such as electronica and its former, techno but that's just me. It just sounded so vanilla and watered down, a good way for record stores to categorize which kinds of music go where in the store.



I wouldn't necessarily say that Orbital are the fathers of electronica, or electronic music. Those roots are deeper than most people think. To be honest I don't know who would essentially fit the bill as the father or grandfather of electronic music. I think a safe guess would be Kraftwerk because they really worked to help shape what we know as electronic music today... That "father of electronica" suggestion perplexes me... I mean, we can safely guess who the fathers of big beat are (or at least who helped revolutionize it) or the father of ambient is, or the founding fathers of acid house might be, the fathers of trip-hop, etc.... but electronic music as a whole? That's a toughie! Anyone have any other thoughts on who the rightful founding fathers or grandfathers of electronic music might be?

Well it depends who you are asking this question to. We all have different opinions. I think Kraftwerk is and most people might agree with me. Even if they don't like the band. Oribital hmmmmmmm... most bands nowdays are for sure inspired by Orbital's experimental work. New Order is another. I can't say who holds the official title.

I don't really care. ;)



But I do think that it all has something to do with the Beatles. A lot of electronic music has a very similar structure... Same kind of sound on some records.. Think of Tomorrow Never Knows for instance.



But something I like to say is "Fuck genres". For me, they're only good to refer to crappy music.. (and don't shout about opinions! Crappy music is that stripped down crap that lacks creativity and intelligence.)

I agree with both of you guys. Weird, eh?



I agree that at this time it's hard to say who holds the official spot as the father of electronic music, and I agree that Kraftwerk and New Order as mentioned in chemicalreaction's post were definitely a driving influence in what we hear today when it comes to electronic music.



But then again.. and this is a serious but here, I'm an 80's kid and when I hear the stuff I used to listen to back in the 80's, I can hear it's influence all over the newer tracks I listen to today.



I think the Beatles were definately revolutionary in the sense that they changed rock n'roll forever and introduced a formula that a lot of acts emulate today. (I've heard and tend to agree that Tomorrow Never Knows could very possibly be the first Big Beat song!) Anyway - their music starting with what went on during Revolver managed to transgress musical boundaries thanks to their interest in eastern music.



And don't forget the Beach Boys, they were the first to use a theramin in the radio hit Good Vibrations. ;)



I'm split when it comes to genre defining. I think it can be helpful in some instances, but people that are not so enlightened when it comes to musical differences can be bogged down by all the sub-genres. Like I said, I think they were more or less invented by record stores to easier seperate one kind of music from another.