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Check out DJ Ugly Katz!

Disclaimer: That's one of my own projects...

Ever check out some jam bands? They all have vocals but stretch the music out in interesting ways.

moe, Umphrey’s McGee, Aqueous, Phish, etc

Onward & Upward (22:48) • Umphrey's McGee • 2017-07-23 • CEFCU Center Stage at The Landing, Peoria, Illinois https://relisten.net/umphreys/2017/07/23/onward-upward?source=67144

plini, an addition to all the rock/metal listed

Little People
Rival Consoles

stuff i've been listening to lately:

• andy stott
• gas
• forest swords
• boards of canada
• tortoise

If you like guitar, Tom Anello.

Little People

• Jon Hopkins
• Carpenter Brut
• Black Lung
• Dance with the Dead
• DEADLIFE
• Soma
• Perturbator
• Com Truise

Listened to these two albums today, both fantastic
https://youtu.be/5w6_D-jrt6s
https://youtu.be/2GhWimO54YE

I feel like this describes most electronica, but since you're looking for an artist: Blank Mass.

Infected Mushroom

Zircon

Eskimo

Khruangbin

If These Trees Could Talk. Polyphia. Those are two I like quite a bit. Explosions In the Sky. This Will Destroy You.

Polyphia is a pretty incredible instrumental band.

https://youtu.be/9_gkpYORQLU?si=eiTMnGJSydj5TKQc

Maybe not quite contemporary, but

YYZ by Rush

Slabo Day by Peter Green

GoGo Penguin is a jazzy trio from the UK that makes midern jazz that is really engaging. I'm really a progmetalhead, but this band is ficking epic.

Bersarin Quartett is another band that I love. It's is a bit tough to get into, but it's really rewarding if you like slowish dreamy complex music. All song titles are in German, but luckily there's no lyrics.

Daliborovo Granje (Epic Croate Psychedelia)

Tommy Guerrero

Estas Tonne

Sure, just Odesza we were young Two feet just felt like playing the guitar and not singing Odesza kusangi Odesza koto Brock Berrigan Making Up (70s inspired music) Hippie Sabotage enlightened energy Hippie Sabotage smoke room Hippie Sabotage drifter

Not everyonea cup of tea, alternative/edm but yes let me know your thoughts

If you like proggy stuff I'd definitely check out Arch Echo, they're incredible. If you like acoustic stuff then Rodrigo y Gabriela are also a great listen, and so is Kaki King (though I mostly only know her older stuff)

beastie boys have some really great instrumental tracks in their catalogue

If you like solar fields, try Asura (also on ultimae records)! Also, hinkstep is pretty nice but has vocals some of the time.

Lustre

Rival Consoles

Look up Nox Arcana if you want something Gothic. Might be a bit too orchestral for your needs, but it's a dark version that's unlike anything I've heard.

Jade Cicada, Tipper, Spoonbill.

Zoe Keating https://music.zoekeating.com/album/into-the-trees

A few more for you that I don't think I've seen mentioned: Kalaido Tycho Worakls The Cinematic Orchestra

Browsed the comments really quickly and couldn’t see that anyone had mentioned Plini, so there’s my recommendation.

Well, I happen to quite like upbeat, 8-bit-style music, but here's concrete artists nonetheless:

• Tremeschin
• Parnikkapore

Marconi Union, Mord Fustang, Caravan Palace, Pkch, Siriusmo, Jacob Mann Big Band, Shubh Saran.

That should get you a wide variety.

I've been listening to a lot of music that is featured on the NPR shows Hearts of Space and Echos, which i highly recommend. The following artists/bands are of that type, instrumental, chill, "slow music for fast times", and all are available on Bandcamp.

Hollan Holmes

Kiasmos

Lars Leonhard

Michael Stearns

Röyksopp

Tauk

"Times Up"

Feint, Matt Large, and especially Gregory David are awesome.

Additionally, Bernth is really cool if you like guitar.

Meute is a "techno marching band" - they mostly do covers/reworkings but they have some original works too. My fave tracks atm:

• holy harbour
• you & me
• infinite
• endling