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Old 08-02-2016, 11:08 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Accessible Avant-Garde/Experimental Music

Obviously a big problem people have with a lot of this music is that they find it inaccessible. What are some examples of experimental music that you'd call accessible?

While some might get turned off by the vocal style, I think Sun City Girls is a pretty good example.

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Old 08-02-2016, 03:43 PM   #2 (permalink)
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I love how Sonic Youth can play harsh noise pop hits
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Often when I recommend people something, when they try to venture into this music, I suggest they start at the rock spectrum (or any other popular music spectrum). It's accessible because it's still familiar. There are enough avant garde/experimental tendencies that it transcends the genre, but not overwhelmingly so to break it all apart and create something completely new, and therefore unknown and scary.

Early Swans/Sonic Youth, no wave and kraut rock was my ticket. Personally I find repetition very accessible, so kraut rock was always appealing.

So I wanted to post Neu! - Negativland, but it's blocked in my country. Ah well, I hope it works for the rest of you (who still haven't heard it)



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The Shaggs Philosophy of the World may not really be accessible but it's probably the friendliest true avant garde record ever made and a serious contender for top 20 all time all genres.
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Sorry, didn't realize that the image was so large XD.
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Is Autechre an example of such music ?
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Old 02-03-2017, 04:47 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I always have a hard time determining what's accessible and what's just not since I'm so desensitized to jarringly strange music. I mean obviously I know not to play, like, Coil or Basinski's Disintegration Loops at a party. (unless said "party" is actually a Gnostic ritual inside of a cave) But I'm often surprised by what's considered avant-garde on sites like Lastfm.

Let's see... Maybe The Books? Ensemble Economique? Dirty Beaches? Maybe even Moondog?






And also artists like Bill Laswell and Hector Zazou (since their discographies are so varied and enormous)
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