Curious how people are using electric guitar in electronic music—especially darker, moody stuff.
Any good examples of guitar being integrated in an interesting/unorthodox way?
Also interested in seeing people’s hybrid setups that include guitar.
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Darkside with Nicolas Jaar, Dave Harrington and Tlacael Esparza (since 2022). Their last Album, Nothing, is amazing.
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Just came back from my Hike listening to Kim Gordon’s The Collective. Not bad for a 71 year old!
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqNMzxfdkFgcGMVgRiRsDRo4uQo7unUer
I like this album by Bob Moses.
kinda, maybe?
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Yeah, her latest stuff is great.
I think it’s more about bringing synths/drum machines into rock though than bringing guitar into electro.
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I’m interested in this - I think it can be very hard to do successfully so it’s nice to get some inspiration (I try to have some guitar, even if it’s only one line, on everything I make).
I think Bibio does guitar + electronic really well, but it’s not really the darker stuff.
Artists moving from traditional guitar / bass / drums into something more hybrid with electronics is quite common, particularly in heavier genres so it’s weird it doesn’t happen as often the other way
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Yeah - though listening to an interview with her it seems she was not intentionally out to make an album at the time and she got sent dirty beats which got the whole thing going.
Massive Attack’s Mezzanine has a lot of texturally awesome use of guitar for that purpose.
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Underworld (back in the day …)
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I saw Massive Attack live in November, I was surprised at how guitar heavy the show was… it was done so well.
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I like how many Animal Collective songs feel like they’re acoustic campfire songs performed with synths or vice versa.
Krautrock obviously is a good reference in general.
Floating Points‘ Mojave Desert project is excellent and gave us a glimpse of what a modern Floyd would sound like. There’s some great videos, including the KEXP live show.
I like how Yves Tumor went from rather abstract and more ambient sound to embracing cheesy guitar solos. But that darker, more experimental side is still felt in the music.
Shout out to our very own @Python who always finds cool ways to weave guitars into electronic compositions.
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There are some very good electronic focused Radiohead stuff with guitars, Amnesiac and Kid A springs to mind.
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How could I forget!!! Hail to the Thief and King of Limbs should also be mentioned.
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are also obvious examples of people who make synths sound like guitars and guitars like synths. My favorite song is probably „North“ from Fever Ray‘s „Radical Romantics“, they helped produce that song. Fever Ray also uses guitar as great texture, especially on their self titled debut.
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Trentemøller latest Albums.
Like the Dreamweaver Album (2024).
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDhajrZgo0TIJDYVNdfNS9llnw6b61TgW&si=FBGeLy0Z23gR-T7Y
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Also earlier ones
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Plaid has nice and often subtle use of guitar. For example on the last album. Or on the absolute anthem Eyen.
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The Portishead guitarist is a master of minimal guitar playing over eletronic/sampled music, as is the guy from Depeche Mode. Boards of Canada’s The Campfire Headphase has some good acoustic guitar licks in it, in my opinion, though some BoC fans hate that album.
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As for successfully blending electronic beats with traditional heavy guitar music, this is a classic album mashing up DnB and Metal/Punk:
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