[ihatefatties]

Hey,
I've been really keen on korean house and electronica lately, so far i recommend and own/have listened to:

blue sorbet
humming urban stereo
portable groove 09 (do these guys have an album? can't find anything...)
fortune cookie
casker
clazziquai
house rulez
romantic couch
instant romantic floor
hourmelts

[Malice_Kaiser]

You already named the ones that (IMO) are best but there's also Braincandy. I like them, they have a hip-hop feel too in some of their songs. Also Fanny Fink and Rollercoaster are okay, I don't listen to them much.

[EricXL]

try out banana girl, if you're into electronic dance music.
they're like a girly, happier version of basement jaxx... kinda.

[ihatefatties]

try out banana girl, if you're into electronic dance music.
they're like a girly, happier version of basement jaxx... kinda.

lol their mv's are pure asian. I can see what you mean by your description though haha. Thanks

You already named the ones that (IMO) are best but there's also Braincandy. I like them, they have a hip-hop feel too in some of their songs. Also Fanny Fink and Rollercoaster are okay, I don't listen to them much.

Lava tea by Braincandy was awesome, thanks!

[FLY HIGHHH]

there is this japanese singer "free tempo".. i dont know if you've ever heard of him or not but his voice is really beautiful and his songs and beats are great. he sings in ENGLISH with a perfect accent as well.

his songs "sky high" and "immaterial white" are beautiful.

[ihatefatties]

Just got my hands on "sounds" Really liking it, Thanks
Astro bits is good as well.
If your looking for non-asian electronic acts, krafty kuts, tortured soul, ben westbeech, anything gilles peterson plays on his radio show, bugz in the attic, house compilations are good. I used to know so much more....

[Take Five]

roller coaster is the only one i can think of that you haven't named.

[strawberry78]

Since all the main one have basically been mentioned already, I'd reccommend Ryohei (Yamamoto) ...he's got that Korean electronica type feel to his music, IMO.

[indieROK]

Hmm... IMO one of the best electronic flavored albums out of Korea is/was the first solo album by Lee Yoon Jeong (이윤정). Amazingly it's 10 years old, I think it came out in 1997; it's called 進化 (or 진화 - JinHwa/Evolution).

Even though it came out way back, I haven't heard anything I thought was much better than that. And believe me, it's not like I haven't been looking. If you're looking for electronic music in a K context and haven't checked this yet, you should try to find it and give it a listen. Here's a video, although I think there's better tracks on the album.

Good production, really intense vocals (she's kind of known for this as a previous member of PipiBand), the album has elements of techno, ambient, d+b throughout. Her 2nd solo had some songs that were more mainstream in sound, but still had some electronic tracks. These days she's been appearing with House Rulez, and, er, promoting club nights I guess? She's also guested on tracks by Fortune Cookie and LeeSsang. Anyway, she's got a pretty unique style. I don't know if she got much attention for it at the time, but I've always felt that it's a pretty underrated album. I don't quite recall, but I think some of the guys involved with the recording of this album were also originally from PipiBand, and realeased stuff as Dalparan... but I never really got into that as much (except I thought the DyE ep was OK).

I remember when Lee Junghyun started coming out (and made everyone believe in a future of techno/gayo crossover and outrageous scifi stage props), that her songs just seemed kinda like a smoothed out or 'lite' version of Lee Yoon Jeong.

Other k-lectronic prospects: I kind of dig Gazaebal - Sound Ship and DJ Unkle is worth a look sometimes. And then bluedawn sometimes had some decently glitchy tracks on their otherwise indie/folktronic albums, like in this video (gotta mention my favorite band somehow).

[orienkorean]

^yeah, Lee Yoon Jeong's first album was pretty underrated. And, yeah, Dalparan produced that album and was with her in Pipi Band. There's a lot more Korean electronic music out there, but it seems most people are just interested in the more pop stuff... (which is why i didn't bother contributing anything to this thread before...) - Not that i have anything against it, but they've all been mentioned many times here before and i didn't see any point.

If you guys have an imeem account, you can check out some stuff here: http://orienkorean.imeem.com/

If you like Lee Yoon Jeong and Dye, you might like Moodstone. It's mostly trip-hop. The one Moodstone song that i put up on imeem doesn't reflect the rest of the album that well though - it's the most lightest, brightest song on the album. I put that one in the 'Electronic-Pop' category.

As for what's out there right now, i think Telicob (and anything else by the Protostars group) is alright.

[indieROK]

Cool, thanks for the imeem link. I didn't know you had that out there. Lots of listening to do...

How is the rest of the toxicbiasfleurivy stuff? I've only heard a couple tracks around but what I've heard sounds good.

[ihatefatties]

Since all the main one have basically been mentioned already, I'd reccommend Ryohei (Yamamoto) ...he's got that Korean electronica type feel to his music, IMO.

ohhhhhhhhh, very nice.
I'm really diggin some of the japanese artists.
Crue-L orchestra http://x.imeem.com/0aGAgx7dCv
Check them out, that song is one of the best deep house songs i've heard, really unique.

Though im having trouble finding my style of dance in japanese artists, alot of their artists like capsule are not to my liking

[yushui]

I'd recommend Oldfish. ( : It's light electronic-pop sort of music.

Here's his 2nd album if you want to listen:
http://jie-yi.imeem.com/playlist/lfZ0tK6f/...music_playlist/

Also, here's a music video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9y0Heh4hRGk

I love Oldfish. *_*

[strawberry78]

ohhhhhhhhh, very nice.
I'm really diggin some of the japanese artists.
Crue-L orchestra http://x.imeem.com/0aGAgx7dCv
Check them out, that song is one of the best deep house songs i've heard, really unique.

Though im having trouble finding my style of dance in japanese artists, alot of their artists like capsule are not to my liking

Nice I hadn't heard of the Crue-L Orchestra. I've been having trouble finding my syle of japanese electronica type music too...

Um another I'd reccommend is The Shanghai Restoration Project which I just recently got into.
Here's a sample http://groups.imeem.com/1ZSZveas/music/-p5..._miss_shanghai/

[chromatic]

check out oriental funk stew as well. ^^
promo from this debut album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqnOXXBjAb8

[CChen82]

Looking for some IDM or Ambient (obviously minus lyrics).  Any recommendations?

[ant23]

I really like clazziquai !!!
I think they are really nice !
and Horan's + Alex's voice WOW!!
Fave songs : 핑,the road, 집작!!
ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
it's nice to get away from kpop with their songs once in a while (or more)!

[Shuling]

No no no... I beg to differ... not all the good stuff has been named yet!

Youtube links are to some of my favorite songs.

Epitone Project (youtube - song only)
Azito
Postino (youtube)
Sentimental Scenery
Where the Story Ends
W&Whale
Fractal
Brownie Speaks
이음
Vinyls

I can think of more... but these are the artists I'd actually recommend.

[BKJSuh]

Mind Cube

[dooooooor]

EE - "Imperfect, I'mperfect" is fantastic. Sorta like a Korean Casker.