Crystal Castles

Trance

Does anyone know of any similar artists? Their music reminds me of Metroid and I'm as addicted to it as I used to be to that game as a child. It's amazing. Not many artists can make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up because I'm very picky when it comes to music.

Anyway, I know of You Love Her Coz She's Dead and other somewhat similar(ish) artists like Uffie, Digitalism and Deastro. The later three however don't gimme enough (or any) of those really addictive MIDI sounds — you know those ones that eventually turn your brain into a cabbage and you into a zombie if you listen to for too long — well that's really the sort of thing I'm lookin' for. I need more of it! (CC and YLHCSD just aren't producing fast enough!)

Anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR3XB-982Bg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xnIDAwsg58

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welcomeinjam

Try Heartsrevolution they're pretty much a clone copy of Crystal Castles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QioM5W8JupI

t0mm

Both CC and YLHCSD are influenced by a type of music known as chiptune or 8-bit. Proper chiptune is made using the soundcards from old Nintendo SNES', Gameboys, Comadore 64's, anything like that, though some newer producers are using modern programmes instead.

This is an example of proper chiptune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHmYC8a_4cI

Trance

Yeah I've searched through quite a lot of 8-bit music. None of it is really the sort of stuff I'm lookin' for though. I guess it's the mixture of 8-bit and indie that I'm likin'. 8-bit alone doesn't really do it for me. I like Heartsrevolution though, thanks welcomeinjam.

I've since found Sexy Sushi - A French band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZfiRLINnI

^ That sounds a bit rough on youtube but the full quality is much better. It reverberates around your head.

Edit : Haven't decided whether I like them or not yet though. They're a bit cheesy and remind me too much of happy hardcore.

Four-Percent

What's the similarity between Uffie, Digitalism and Crystal Castles?


Sounds like you like the general Kitsuné sound. Go to www.beatport.com and search for the Kitsuné label.

pakblue

Four-Percent wrote: »

What's the similarity between Uffie, Digitalism and Crystal Castles?


Sounds like you like the general Kitsuné sound. Go to www.beatport.com and search for the Kitsuné label.

Great site, always use it to find new music.

I love Kitsuné always have great music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCzUbJGSx4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qj_5nRnjx8

Trance

Four-Percent wrote: »

What's the similarity between Uffie, Digitalism and Crystal Castles?

Crystal Castles and Uffie both use vocoders, MIDI sounds and synthesizers similarly?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGYO43l5H40&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG-brC_NGNU&feature=related

.. and both Crystal Castles and Digitalism both produce electronic indie / punk?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ZUQxPcx7E&feature=related


... and thanks, I'll have look round for Kitsuné.

Four-Percent

Trance wrote: »

Crystal Castles and Uffie both use vocoders, MIDI sounds and synthesizers similarly?

Eh, right. Most people who makes electronic music uses midi/synths of some kind. Not really narrowing it down there at all.

Trance wrote: »

.. and both Crystal Castles and Digitalism both produce electronic indie / punk?

I dunno about you, but I'd say digitalism are a long, long way from electronic punk... but enough about genres, they are still good producers!

Trance wrote: »

... and thanks, I'll have look round for Kitsuné.

No probs:D

Hamiltonion

The kitsune Maison Tour comes around everynow and again, geb the Button factory, I saw punks jump up, Riot in Belgium, Autokratz and HeartsRevolution last Xmass at it, top night for E15

Trance

Oh no! I was hoping I'd slip by avoiding an electronic music genre-dividing pedant. Well I guess that's impossible on music forums. Digitalism produce mostly punk-funk. Guitars, bass, percussion, drums, and synthesizers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw4J0Go_4rg&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGI_UA18RsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ZUQxPcx7E

and,

Me wrote:

Crystal Castles and Uffie both use their vocoders, MIDI sounds and synthesizers similarly.

Dragan

Just wanted to say if you like Crystal Castles, maybe get on Soundcloud and start following them there.

They do some interesting things that they don't always put out, and it's a good way to find plenty of other similar style acts.

Four-Percent

Trance wrote: »

Oh no! I was hoping I'd slip by avoiding an electronic music genre-dividing pedant. Well I guess that's impossible on music forums. Digitalism produce mostly punk-funk.. whether you like it or not. Guitars, bass, percussion, drums, and synthesizers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw4J0Go_4rg&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGI_UA18RsI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83ZUQxPcx7E

and,

Didn't mean to offend... I can honestly say I've never heard them described as "punk-funk" though so more power to you. Where is the punk influence in their music? Or the funk?


Also, Last.fm is good for finding similar artists.

Trance

Haha I don't get offended over the internet.

.. and I don't know I guess living in Berlin or Hamburg or wherever it was they lived influenced them somewhat? Might have caught on a bit to the Neue Deutsche Welle? .. and also didn't they do a cover version or a remake or something of a song by The Cure? They were a big post-punk band.

... and I dunno about the funk bit. I guess it might be just one of those cases of a misleading title.. like how dream house is actually trance music and doesn't use the bassdrum at all.

Edit: punk-funk

Edit again: the mother of all misleading genre names.

Scubadevils

Completely different but reminded me of an album called 'Foundation Bit' by Disrupt when I saw the Tron video (that brings back memories of childhood!) on the first track.

Foundation Bit is an electronic dub album but also draws on the 8 bit elements and is a cracking album if you enjoy a bit of dub.

The comments on discogs read...

This album is full of samples from classic movies such as Alien, Tron, Dark Star, THX-1138 and Rockers.
Track 6 uses the vocals from LFO's 'We Are Back'.

http://www.discogs.com/Disrupt-Foundation-Bit/release/1102917

What Boomkat said about it...

Probably the most talked-about BASS transmission of recent months (bar the forthcoming Burial and Pinch albums, of course) - the long awaited debut album from Disrupt is with us and is doing things to our woofers we didn't think quite possible. Make no mistake - this is just about the best appropriation of Jamaican dub and 8-bit dancehall you'll likely hear this year - with a slow paced skank and a filthy, uber-bassy production style that has more in common with king Tubby, Black Art and, for that matter, black magic than with any half-arsed wobble presets and lazy dubplates you just might have picked up these last twelve months. Once inside Disrupt's rugged echo-chamber you'll find yourself immersed in a heady, narcotic cloud of smoke, moved by staggered delays, endless reverberations and a tranquilizing cluster of distant instruments and digital detritus all colluding to lull you in and f*ck with your mind good and proper. This is music designed for complete and utter sensory intoxication, tweaked and honed for intense stupefied skanking - and is quite simply one of the most beautifully heavy, chemically enhanced albums you'll hear this year. ESSENTIAL PURCHASE!
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=96179

Some tracks...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkGNEToYzQg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJuAcvHDvNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rODmlqpHY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZl4RG8ITuY

May or may not be your cuppa but worth a mention none the less :pac:

Trance

Aw I think I've fallen in love with the middle two there. So relaxin'. I do listen to a fair bit of dub too yeah. Thanks.

iGotAquestion

Maybe try the likes of Cut Copy, The Presets, Metronomy, Does it Offend You Yeah?, Holy ****, Boys noize, The Bloody Beetroots. Possibly not what you're looking for but are all great bands!!

t0mm

The Japanese Popstars would defo be one to check out, they're from the North and play in Dublin a few times during the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AknY-tcKE-s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtSwMaOs0FM

A_Fitz

Trance wrote: »

Does anyone know of any similar artists? Their music reminds me of Metroid and I'm as addicted to it as I used to be to that game as a child. It's amazing. Not many artists can make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up because I'm very picky when it comes to music.

Anyway, I know of You Love Her Coz She's Dead and other somewhat similar(ish) artists like Uffie, Digitalism and Deastro. The later three however don't gimme enough (or any) of those really addictive MIDI sounds — you know those ones that eventually turn your brain into a cabbage and you into a zombie if you listen to for too long — well that's really the sort of thing I'm lookin' for. I need more of it! (CC and YLHCSD just aren't producing fast enough!)

Anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR3XB-982Bg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xnIDAwsg58

Unbelievable rubbish

A V A

alryt check dese groups ou:
YOU LOVE HER CAUSE SHES DEAD,the presets,bagraiders,mstrkrft,boys noize,bloody beetroots,felix cartal,SEXY SUSHI,KAP BAMBINO,NAD MIKA,ADULT(wen ur typin adult in its in capital letters),cut copy, soul wax,tiga,2manydj's,fake blood,yelle,the toxic avenger,the whip ders loads more the ones in capital r the ones lik crystal castles the list can go on n on for ever

gluck man

A V A

Four-Percent

Someone may not have read the thread

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four - ercent was that directed at me ahah just tryna help the dude , der all in similiar context i clearly stated the bands in bold are the ones most lik
C/R/Y/S/T/A/L-C/A/S/T/L/E/S

THANKS

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