It’s tough to say whether they are obscure or not, they are “obscure” in the West but I believe all these artists are moderately well-known in Eastern Europe: I love Воровайкии, Uamee (Hardbass) and Молчат Дома, to be fair I think Molchat Doma is kinda known in the West also bc of Sudno memes.
Comrade, I am so happy that you enjoy Hardbass. In the west, the whole genre may seem obscure, however, it was (maybe is) popular in UK (called Scouse House, maybe not exactly Hardbass but very similar), it is very popular still in Spain and Basque Country, still known in Poland (sadly, less and less, but we have good DJs like Clubbasse or Gopnik McByat), they are some good DJs from France. There are excellent DJs active, but the best club player for me is Sonic Mine from Sankt Petersburg, now sadly not active much. When I will have some spare time, I will upload somewhere his podcasts which I downloaded from some obscure Russian website, which is down now probably.
Awesome! I liked Gopnik McBlyat but I thought the name was a tad on the nose lol. It’s like if an American artist was named “Hipster O’Yankee” so I figured they weren’t actually from Eastern Europe, I’m glad to be wrong about that one 😂
Actually, you are not far from truth. The word "Gopnik" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopnik is not in use in Poland, we have a similar notion of "dresiarz" (one who wear only tracksuit, likes to beat people), but not many Polish people even know the word "Gopnik". Poland is a strange country, which is not fully Eastern, but also not fully western, even if many politicians want it. There is artist from Spain, as I remember, called Sukahard, while "suka" is popular word in Slavic languages, meaning "removed", and Spanish artists also frequently borrow the gopnik culture elements. BTW, this is one of the best, in my subjective taste, and most hardcore sets of Gopnik McBlyat, unless you already know it: https://m.soundcloud.com/tri-poloski-records/gopnik-mcblyat-at-tri-poloski-utrecht-04-02-23
Ahh! Три Полоски🤣 I love this one, I used to play this one to my Polish friends and they liked it, I bet none of us knew we were listening to Polish music lol. Do u mind if I PM u some of my fav Hardbass songs?
Do u mind if I PM u some of my fav Hardbass songs?
I would be very grateful, I make a collection of good Hardbass music, as it would be a genre on extinction 😁 the collection is ony disc, maybe when I finally have some spare time, I will share it in some way publicly
Well John Zorn is a true innovator and knew how to mix all of the vanguardism stuff with the punk/grindcore scene, it's something completely natural if you like to listen to music that breaks boundaries.
I do enjoy his shenanigans, at least the (by his standards) more approachable stuff.
I remember asking about the concert after my cousin saw Zorn for a forth time, ages ago and he just said "Well, I'm not sure it's really music anymore".
I really like Danny Schmidt and Satellite High but the Nightvale Weather Report has some 240 very high quality songs each from a small group or individual musicians. Might be worth a look on shuffle and you'll likely find a couple small artists you really enjoy. Jerusalem and "Bill and Annie" have completely different vibes to illustrate how diverse the playlist is.
Definitely found a few artists I listen to often from WTNV! Weirdly enough, I saw Caged Animals open for Darwin Deez a good 7-10 years ago, loved them, then saw them become involved with WTNV / Night Vale Presents. A fun coincidence!
I would also throw out that Dane Terry, aka the guy behind Dreamboy on Night Vale Presents, was in an amazing band from Columbus called Swarming Branch (fka Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch). Can't recommend them enough.
That's a hard one because the majority of my music taste is pretty obscure, I am a huge music nerd. Here are a couple:
Comus - First Utterance fucking dope dark/psych/acoustic folky band from the early 70's. Think like, evil Jethro Tull. One of my favorite albums, highly recommend
Elizabeth Color Wheel - Nocebo Seen this band 3 times and they always make me cry, so good. Heavy noisy wall of sound chaotic melodic hardcoreish goodness. If you like My Bloody Valentine this might be up your alley, they are heavier.
Pinnochio - S/T Fast, fun, femme vocal punk rock that makes you wanna pogo
Made somewhat popular by Pyrocynical from his use of their song Beachwalk in his outro, along with Whitewoods revolutionizing Vaporwave by basically founding the genre. However many of their songs are extremely obscure and I assume that absolutely no one knows who they are.
I don't know how obscure they are, but the band Naked City made quite an obscure album called Leng Tch'e (not the band called something similar) that I simply love. I wouldn't call it easy listening, but there's just something about it that hits the spot for me. I can recommend Naked City in general if you're down for some jazz-grindcore-surfer-metal. Yeah, they don't really fit into any one genre, or any five even.
There is this super obscure Australian prog metal band (in a King Crimson kind of way, not the Dream Theater kind) called Serious Beak that released this awesome album 9 years ago called Huxwhukw. It's some early djenty stuff in there too, I think it sounds amazing. I've always tried to get people into it but with no luck.
I listen to a lot of metal and some of the genres and bands I like are kind of obscure to people who aren't familiar with the genre. I really like Mongolian folk metal (i.e., Nine Treasures) but Vvilderness released a great album I basically listen to on repeat lol
I loved Slugabed's and Samuel Organ's collaborative project Peter Talisman. There's only one album out though and I don't know if they're going to make more. I've never heard music like that and so hasn't the Internet, because neither spotify, youtube or last fm is able to give me something similar to it.
Probably Nothingface. I feel like my music taste is mostly stuff that’s avant-garde in a popular way (say Limp Bizkit, or Xxxtentacion). That’s why I’d say nothingface, because it’s like what I generally like, but I’ve never heard anyone mention it, irl or online (I found it in a search result for the word communist). In additions Sankara’s great, and only known online.
Hmm, not sure how obscure some of these are but excluding super well known artists, I still have a huge list of oddball stuff, here's just some of them:
Atari Teenage Riot (and Alec Empire's solo stuff, in spite of his politics),
Ayria,
Black Dresses (and both girls' solo work)
The Birthday Massacre,
Chiasm,
Corlyx,
Darling Violetta,
Das Präparat,
Dead When I found her,
Electric Six (and Dick's solo material),
Gost,
Information Society (specifically Don't Be Afraid),
Kælan Mikla,
The Mad Capsule Markets (and Kyono's subsequent solo stuff - Wagdug Futuristic Unity and KYONO),
Night Club,
Patriarchy,
Perturbator,
Rabbit Junk,
The Unquiet Void,
Velvet Acid Christ.
As you can see it's mostly dark, synthy, industrial stuff, sometimes very loud punky things like ATR or MCM, and E6 as a weird lighthearted rock band cause those guys just rock.
Oh and since I completely failed to answer the question, probably the most obscure artist I listen to regularly would be May Leitz, who does uh... a weird mix of rock, metal, indie, electronic... stuff. She also is a youtuber and a novelist.
Too add some Indian indie flavor to the mix, MALFNKTION is relatively obscure, the guy samples dialogues from old Bollywood movies to make funky electronic tracks.
I really like Planning for Burial
Desideratum is awesome.
Thom is such a nice dude! Love him so much
Might not be that obscure but Ratatat. No idea why it's not a mainstream success.
Helped make Pursuit of Happiness an absolute banger
Yes, Ratatat! I learned about them through Kevin Rose back in the Diggnation days.
Try Karst - E.VAX, it's another project from one of the ratatat boys.
I see Ratatat, I hear feline growl 🐯 love ‘em!
Try E.VAX, it's another project from one of the Ratatat boys. My favorite is called Karst, it's very similar to their style.
I've listened to Wildcat so much
Yea that one is such a classic. I recommend you listening to Abrasive, Cream on chrome and Karst.
It’s tough to say whether they are obscure or not, they are “obscure” in the West but I believe all these artists are moderately well-known in Eastern Europe: I love Воровайкии, Uamee (Hardbass) and Молчат Дома, to be fair I think Molchat Doma is kinda known in the West also bc of Sudno memes.
Comrade, I am so happy that you enjoy Hardbass. In the west, the whole genre may seem obscure, however, it was (maybe is) popular in UK (called Scouse House, maybe not exactly Hardbass but very similar), it is very popular still in Spain and Basque Country, still known in Poland (sadly, less and less, but we have good DJs like Clubbasse or Gopnik McByat), they are some good DJs from France. There are excellent DJs active, but the best club player for me is Sonic Mine from Sankt Petersburg, now sadly not active much. When I will have some spare time, I will upload somewhere his podcasts which I downloaded from some obscure Russian website, which is down now probably.
Awesome! I liked Gopnik McBlyat but I thought the name was a tad on the nose lol. It’s like if an American artist was named “Hipster O’Yankee” so I figured they weren’t actually from Eastern Europe, I’m glad to be wrong about that one 😂
Actually, you are not far from truth. The word "Gopnik" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopnik is not in use in Poland, we have a similar notion of "dresiarz" (one who wear only tracksuit, likes to beat people), but not many Polish people even know the word "Gopnik". Poland is a strange country, which is not fully Eastern, but also not fully western, even if many politicians want it. There is artist from Spain, as I remember, called Sukahard, while "suka" is popular word in Slavic languages, meaning "removed", and Spanish artists also frequently borrow the gopnik culture elements. BTW, this is one of the best, in my subjective taste, and most hardcore sets of Gopnik McBlyat, unless you already know it: https://m.soundcloud.com/tri-poloski-records/gopnik-mcblyat-at-tri-poloski-utrecht-04-02-23
Ahh! Три Полоски🤣 I love this one, I used to play this one to my Polish friends and they liked it, I bet none of us knew we were listening to Polish music lol. Do u mind if I PM u some of my fav Hardbass songs?
I would be very grateful, I make a collection of good Hardbass music, as it would be a genre on extinction 😁 the collection is ony disc, maybe when I finally have some spare time, I will share it in some way publicly
I guess Igorrr and Naked City are some of the most, I don't know if exactly obscure, but hard to listen to, for sure.
Made a comment myself and then found yours, I also mentioned Naked City.For some reason I really like them, it could just be my brand of madness.
Well John Zorn is a true innovator and knew how to mix all of the vanguardism stuff with the punk/grindcore scene, it's something completely natural if you like to listen to music that breaks boundaries.
I do enjoy his shenanigans, at least the (by his standards) more approachable stuff.
I remember asking about the concert after my cousin saw Zorn for a forth time, ages ago and he just said "Well, I'm not sure it's really music anymore".
best song of Lehrer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdtAFIl2jhc
Pete Seeger is most definitely NOT obscure in any sense of the word, but i wanna share my favorite song of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJBksL69gX4
Derek Messink. YT algorithm recommended one of their tracks one time and I listen to their music since then.
I really like Danny Schmidt and Satellite High but the Nightvale Weather Report has some 240 very high quality songs each from a small group or individual musicians. Might be worth a look on shuffle and you'll likely find a couple small artists you really enjoy. Jerusalem and "Bill and Annie" have completely different vibes to illustrate how diverse the playlist is.
The Bus is Late is one of my top 10 tracks
Definitely found a few artists I listen to often from WTNV! Weirdly enough, I saw Caged Animals open for Darwin Deez a good 7-10 years ago, loved them, then saw them become involved with WTNV / Night Vale Presents. A fun coincidence!
I would also throw out that Dane Terry, aka the guy behind Dreamboy on Night Vale Presents, was in an amazing band from Columbus called Swarming Branch (fka Andrew Graham & Swarming Branch). Can't recommend them enough.
I dont know how obscure these bands actually are, but i havent met anyone irl who listens to them...
King gizzard and the lizard wizard
Kikagaku Moyo
And
Altin Gün
Are some of my favorites
Kikagaku Moyo are do amazing. Sad that they broke up and I never got a chance to see them!!
Although it is sad they broke up, that last album was great, and a welcomed addition to their discography.
Nice PFP :)
That's a hard one because the majority of my music taste is pretty obscure, I am a huge music nerd. Here are a couple:
Comus - First Utterance fucking dope dark/psych/acoustic folky band from the early 70's. Think like, evil Jethro Tull. One of my favorite albums, highly recommend
Elizabeth Color Wheel - Nocebo Seen this band 3 times and they always make me cry, so good. Heavy noisy wall of sound chaotic melodic hardcoreish goodness. If you like My Bloody Valentine this might be up your alley, they are heavier.
Pinnochio - S/T Fast, fun, femme vocal punk rock that makes you wanna pogo
I used to jam Songs for Moms constantly! SOOOOOO CATCHY
Whitewoods, also known as Bug Your Parents.
Made somewhat popular by Pyrocynical from his use of their song Beachwalk in his outro, along with Whitewoods revolutionizing Vaporwave by basically founding the genre. However many of their songs are extremely obscure and I assume that absolutely no one knows who they are.
Beachwalk: https://youtu.be/oF9yHO-UUws
12 million views, so definitely a hit, but they are overall very small and obscure in the grander scheme of things.
Theeeeeere's
Antimony Arsenic Aluminum Selenium
Faux Fiction. They are a garage rock band from Minnesota in the US, love them.
John prine
His live performances of Sam Stone are heartshatteringly good.
I don't know how obscure they are, but the band Naked City made quite an obscure album called Leng Tch'e (not the band called something similar) that I simply love. I wouldn't call it easy listening, but there's just something about it that hits the spot for me. I can recommend Naked City in general if you're down for some jazz-grindcore-surfer-metal. Yeah, they don't really fit into any one genre, or any five even.
There is this super obscure Australian prog metal band (in a King Crimson kind of way, not the Dream Theater kind) called Serious Beak that released this awesome album 9 years ago called Huxwhukw. It's some early djenty stuff in there too, I think it sounds amazing. I've always tried to get people into it but with no luck.
Serious Beak - Huxwhukw
I listen to a lot of metal and some of the genres and bands I like are kind of obscure to people who aren't familiar with the genre. I really like Mongolian folk metal (i.e., Nine Treasures) but Vvilderness released a great album I basically listen to on repeat lol
I also like Lana Del Rey though.
Lana is probably the most mainstream artist in this thread
Chicajo he mostly did System Shock remixes and C&C inspired music. Sadly, he stopped making music after his stroke in 2016 and his website has been down for years.
Chicajo - Drone
Playlist of Chicajo's System Shock Remixes
Chicajo - Bog 2004, ignore the anime picture this is actually a remake of the C&C Red Alert 1 track by Frank Klepacki of the same name.
Bizarrely, the channel that exclusively uses completely unrelated anime pictures has the most complete collection of his original tracks on youtube.
I have a few but The Private Sector is a good one.
https://youtu.be/N90dxcCmfOU
I doubt they're considered obscure, just a bunch of indie bands, but some of my top listened to artists of the past few years have been these:
Scale the summit is pretty good if you like instrumental music focused around the guitar
I loved Slugabed's and Samuel Organ's collaborative project Peter Talisman. There's only one album out though and I don't know if they're going to make more. I've never heard music like that and so hasn't the Internet, because neither spotify, youtube or last fm is able to give me something similar to it.
I wonder if you'll enjoy Groundislava. Try "Creeper Shit" and "Young Lava"
Interested to know who else knows of the following:
Are those separate artists? If so, the punctuation is confusing.
Sorry, formatting behaved badly
Probably Nothingface. I feel like my music taste is mostly stuff that’s avant-garde in a popular way (say Limp Bizkit, or Xxxtentacion). That’s why I’d say nothingface, because it’s like what I generally like, but I’ve never heard anyone mention it, irl or online (I found it in a search result for the word communist). In additions Sankara’s great, and only known online.
Hmm, not sure how obscure some of these are but excluding super well known artists, I still have a huge list of oddball stuff, here's just some of them:
Atari Teenage Riot (and Alec Empire's solo stuff, in spite of his politics), Ayria, Black Dresses (and both girls' solo work) The Birthday Massacre, Chiasm, Corlyx, Darling Violetta, Das Präparat, Dead When I found her, Electric Six (and Dick's solo material), Gost, Information Society (specifically Don't Be Afraid), Kælan Mikla, The Mad Capsule Markets (and Kyono's subsequent solo stuff - Wagdug Futuristic Unity and KYONO), Night Club, Patriarchy, Perturbator, Rabbit Junk, The Unquiet Void, Velvet Acid Christ.
As you can see it's mostly dark, synthy, industrial stuff, sometimes very loud punky things like ATR or MCM, and E6 as a weird lighthearted rock band cause those guys just rock.
Oh and since I completely failed to answer the question, probably the most obscure artist I listen to regularly would be May Leitz, who does uh... a weird mix of rock, metal, indie, electronic... stuff. She also is a youtuber and a novelist.
This is the only artist in this entire comment thread I've actually listened to lol
Nice, I figured of all the stuff I listed they were near the top in terms of getting recognised. :)
Eyedea
Lawrence
Phoebe Katis
Been listening to Trousdale recently.
Too add some Indian indie flavor to the mix, MALFNKTION is relatively obscure, the guy samples dialogues from old Bollywood movies to make funky electronic tracks.
not
One of my favorites is Frederic Rzewski. He's a pianist and composer. His 36 variations on The People United Will Never be Defeated is just incredible.