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16 years ago
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Band/musician names are wikipedia links, so click away!

I'm going to kick it off with one of my favorite genre's of all time, Goa trance !
Astral Projection - Aurora Borealis http://youtube.com/watch?v=M6GRhco-Q5U

Just let it play in the background as you browse for a while and see if you enjoy it. Hopefully you'll pick up on a bit of the difference between this and that mainstream techno sound you might characterize as such.

Contrast that with something that's a bit different, an IDM , downtempo triphop, ambient:
Boards of Canada - Music is Math http://youtube.com/watch?v=F7bKe_Zgk4o

Another IDM, drum and bass:
Amon Tobin - Proper Hoodidge http://youtube.com/watch?v=JtWasI8CpQ8

An ambient:
M83 - Carresses http://youtube.com/watch?v=iENl3L-5QU8

Downtempo, triphop:
Bonobo - Kota http://youtube.com/watch?v=lTrzTk7vXM0

Ambient, downtempo, triphop:
Air - Run http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZT9t6oMBhI

Goa:
Juno Reactor - Masters of the Universe http://youtube.com/watch?v=n01oW4bMA4E

Triphop, ambient, chillout:
Massive Attack - Teardrop http://youtube.com/watch?v=fG8eQBSp9Ao

Most of the ones I just posted are artists/bands who I have been keeping track of for quite a while. Boards of Canada might be the most recent addition.

It's difficult to find a subdivision of electronic music to like. Personally a lot of trance doesn't do it for me. I also don't very much like industrial, hardcore, techno, or jungle. I prefer the tunes along the lines of the genre's attached to the aforementioned songs.
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16 years ago
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ah fuck, I missed a colon:

Astral Projection

edit: now with revisions, I updated the original post ;)
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16 years ago
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Downtempo, triphop:
yksopp - Poor Leno http://youtube.com/watch?v=-_jhdZoPW1Q
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16 years ago
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Here's a Goa trance/psytrance streaming audio station via di.fm

http://www.di.fm/mp3/goapsy.pls (*.pls file for winamp/xmms)
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15 years ago
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Awesome Goa trance youtube channel:
http://youtube.com/user/PsycloneD
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15 years ago
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One of my current favorite chill-out, ambient artists: Ulrich Schnauss - Suddenly the Trees are Giving Away http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Cmq2VSkpQ0
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15 years ago
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now that i have healed my waffles ratio imma check some of this out.
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15 years ago
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Another awesome downtempo trip-hop artist: Jon Hopkins

Lost in Thought - http://youtube.com/watch?v=77VqzpvE1zg&feature=related
Private Universe - http://youtube.com/watch?v=6SFSRZqdZtA&feature=related
Second Sense (feat. Imogen Heap) - http://youtube.com/watch?v=DS1wuFoYqqI&feature=related
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15 years ago
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I like the first Jon Hopkins one you linked!
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15 years ago
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=zALQ5KBOpfg&am … re=related

Beat kicks in ~2:00
AWESOME kicks in ~ 2:35

Disclaimer: Don't auto-trust the interesting factoids. I noticed several spelling/grammatical errors just watching a short blip.
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15 years ago
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Beat actually kicks in around 1:20

Also this is Peace Orchestra's Who Am I?
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15 years ago
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dj riz does a good job on kexp (www.kexp.org)

he gave me a shoutout tonight \o/
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15 years ago
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http://www.psypix.org/
http://deepgoa.wordpress.com/
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15 years ago
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I doubt this counts as real electronica, but fuck it...I love this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3WG4zP4VM
September - Cry For You
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It's been a while, and I have some really good ones! :]

Wippenberg - Chakalaka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohANuTRWcGE
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Thrillseekers - The Last Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO51Lgk0pEI
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Here's a type of IDM

ediT - Twenty minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRcH2thfLTQ
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Funkagenda - What the Fuck (Kim Fai remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjDEu1YLz14
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This is an old track, featured on the Mortal Kombat OST :]

Traci Lords - Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxC77fdEADs
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Kaskade & Deadmau5 - Move For Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTedx7l8wg

kaskade vocals on deadmouse progressive!!
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BSOD - Last Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvr4FCt7WlA
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15 years ago
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whoa, i just stumbled upon a etrangere (favorite?) song on my own accord:
FC Kahuna - Hayling
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15 years ago
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<3 Hayling :)
Miss subwoofer :(
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15 years ago
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what happened to it?
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15 years ago
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It's in San Jose. ;)
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15 years ago
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oh, that one
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15 years ago
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getting a lot of use too, neighbors might appreciate it the least.
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15 years ago
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now i understand how the heartless rebane thrives---
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15 years ago
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:o

neighbor blasts mexican music all day!