looking for stuff like...
 

toshimaru nakamura
oren ambarchi
keith rowe
taku sugimoto
tetuzi akiyama

and all their collaborators/side projects (four gentlemen of guitar being the best and also has fennesz!).

All that super minimal, usually guitar-based (except in Nakamura's case where he's using a no-input mixing board), improvised, usually featuring high pitched ringing stuff, mostly released through Erstwhile Records it seems like. If you're familiar with the above artists you'll know what I'm talking about. And don't reccomend Derek Bailey, he rules but he doesn't sound like what I'm looking for.

Apparently, the term applied to many of these artists is "Onkyokei"...

(batreleaser, heeeelp!!!)

Haha.

No, batreleaser probably finds the above stuff boring. I'm guessing Dead-Air, stu666, Nefeli, or some other weirdo (who I love! :)) will help me.

Derek Bailey

























hah, I kid. I have no idea what these guys sound like.

Abstract, ringing textures, minimal, quiet almost to the point of being completely silent (and sometimes being completely silent). A lot of it is similiar to what Ryoji Ikeda does but it isn't "electronic music", it's made with processed guitar noises and scrapes. Really amazing stuff.

try these:

amabo kcarab
yukushi yamamoto
sekuida shoopinoo
ki ki poo poo
shi shi anobobo
akuna matata

thanks, me.

I don't know about any of this, but thanks asp for opening a new door for me...

This stuff sounds really cool, but I can't find it anywhere to give it a listen. =[

I dunno! He has so many albums! Haha. Currently I'm just checking out some of the collabs he's done with Toshimaru Nakamaru.

yoshi wada is the first one to come to my mind. i like him. honestly im really not into much minimalist music. im obsessed with lamonte young (probably for theatere of eternal music more than anything, that shit still sounds heavier than anything double leapords did) and keith rowe and some others, but its a genre that i am not very well versed in. Cooley, I'm almost positive you'd no more about this shit than anyone else on here.

True. Always lookin' for more though haha.

These are some sort of minimal records (though all of them fall more into musique concrete, noise, drone, etc...) that I feel have been pushing the limits of sound:

Idea Fire Company-The Island of Taste (seriously, the areas that Scott Foust is taking noise, drone, and sound art into is astounding. Pop this in and you shall hear high end, low end, drones, cut ups, squeals, squiggles, blah blah all morpihnh and mutating and colliding in with one another, creating a seismic force that is totally inpenetrable. I wish I heard this last year because its definitely my favorite record of 08.)

Graham Lambkin-The Breadwinner (musical genius or idiot or both, either way there is no denying that since the early days of the Shadow Ring that Lambkin has been making avant-clatter no music in a style that is totally impossible to re-create. This is my favorite solo record by him so far.)

Jason Lescaleet-Matrelessness (is it minimal techno? is it minimal noise? is it even minimal? is it music at all? no probably not. But it certainly is wierd and very very awesome if you can stand this sort of thing. I honestly can't get through the whole album unless I'm totally totally baked and not in the mood to have one thought cross my mind)

Lambkin/Lescalleet-the Breadwinner (inspired collab, pretty minimal I guess, I duno, its just awesome, my fifth favorite album of 08, but sadly I wasn't turned on to it untill Februrary.)

Never heard of any of these. As usual, they sound interesting as fuck and right up my alley. Will check em out immediately.

rhodri davies
angharad davies
mark wastell
john butcher
kaffe matthews
eliane radigue
bernhard gunter
graham halliwell
max eastley
burkhard stangl
annette krebs
sachiko m
eddie prevost
richard chartier
william basinski
taylor deupree
rosy parlane

check out this radio show/podcast
http://www.auditionradio.info/

I like Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M together.
Axel Dorner (trumpet)
Voice Crack?
AMM?

Damn, thanks!

Oh, and yeah I already love william basinski.

this message board http://ihatemusic.noquam.com/ is largely centered around that kind of music, although it touches on more or less everything else too.

sachico is actally pretty cool. i was hesitant because i really cant stand things like ground zero anymore (yknow, that technical, virtuosic, jazz-grind thing, sounded awesome when i was first gettin into this shit, but its just like, meh)

the lambkin solo record is actualy called "salmon run", sorry.