[GarfieldModo]

I want to get in touch with some really innovative music:

There's classical ones like Pink Floyd, Beatles, Telelvision, Sonic Youth Tom Waits etc
There's obvious newer ones like Animal Collective, Deerhunter, Black Dice, The Knife
And local ones(im swedish) like Gösta Berlings Saga, Burst, Slagsmålsklubben

I want to know about some others. You're maybe Australian, Latin American, French or something and know about a really cool, innovative band coming up. Please let me know!

[purple]

Suicide - Suicide
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden / Laughing Stock
Slint - Spiderland
Portishead - Dummy
Nas - Illmatic
DJ Shadow - Entroducing.....
Galaxie 500 - On Fire / Red House Painters - Down Colorful Hill

[Happymeal]

Masturbate in the praise of black satan.

[videoheadcleaner]

Australian artist Oren Ambarchi is a multi-instrumentalist that works within jazz, drone and ambient.

And the classic innovative Australian release is Since I Left You by The Avalanches. Hugely original and creative.

[thejoj96]

The album I have as my avatar (Death- Symbolic)
Swans
Good Kid MAAD City is one of the more innovative hip-hop albums of recent years
Ornette Coleman- The Shape of Jazz to Come
Kraftwerk
Burial
Krautrock in general
Talking Heads- Remain in Light
Brian Eno- Another Green World
Madvillain- Madvillainy
A Tribe Called Quest
Wire- Chairs Missing
R.E.M.- Murmur (helpful in the movement away from 80s tripe)
Mindless Self Indulgence- Frankenstein Girls May Seem Strangely Sexy

[Yourselfisntsteam]

There is so much stuff from the past that deserves credit, it would take a very long list to sum everything up....

Thejoj has a good list though, I'd also point out Black Sabbath, Aphex Twin, Autechre, and specifically from the Krautrock scene: Can and Faust.

Innovation in the last ten or so years that deserves some attention:

Gnaw Their Tongues- harsh noise and black metal and horror movie soundtracks mixed in a ambient/sound collage sort of way, all to create the most disturbing, most evil music possible.

Boxhead Ensemble- combination of group improvisation with chamber music, elements of post-rock and ambient, and traditional folk/americana sounds, occasionally with a little electronic manipulation.

Ryoji Ikeda- hyper minimal and very rhythmic electronic music, sometimes constructed from proccessed computer data (or something like that) with a tendency to be use super high and low pitched sounds that can make your ears feel very very uncomfortable, or disoriented, or just strange.

[Le_Samurai]

Scott Walker. His first four albums (Scott 1-4) are incredible, but I don't know if I would call them inovative, just absolutely genius. However, everything studio album he's released since 1995 has easily been at the forefront of art rock/avant garde and sound like nothing else.

David Bowie, specifically, Berlin trilogy. Each record is incredible pop/krautrock/ambient. Get all three, not just "Heroes" and "Low". "Lodger" doesn't get nearly enough credit, especially considering it's an early example of world music.

Others (not all, but some favorites):
My Bloody Valentine
Aphex Twin
Oneohtrix Point Never
Boards of Canada
Monks (Black Monk Time is easily one of the most underrated albums ever)
The Orb

[Jasonconfused]

Van Halen got everyone to start trying out the whole guitar tapping thing.

[L Lawliet]

[L Lawliet]

Talking heads - 77
The Stooges - Self Titled
Frank Zappa - Most albums
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Silver Apples - Self Titled
Anything German
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