Add to your "to check" list:
KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF
DATASHOCK
FOVEA HEX
STARGAZER'S ASSISTANT
TOC (France)
XENIS EMPUTAE TRAVELLING BAND
SENYAWA
DEMDIKE STARE
BLACK ZONE MAGICK CHANT
BLAMEFUL ISLES
This one is a tough call and they aren't exactly brand new to folks here, but Brandt Brauer Frick comes to mind...techno done sans computers. I'd argue it's process as much as product in a case like this, but I find them pretty impressive:
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Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
Again, repeat from elsewhere but it's awesome and I feel like re-sharing
Anna Meredith. Again, electronica at the core but with a pretty fascinating reconfiguration for live acoustic instruments (I've seen her twice and they're the real deal), plus fun experimenting with doses of minimalism, odd time signatures/syncopation, and more. Also...she gets that music can be wonky, weird but also fun as hell.
The one thing that doesn't fit your initial description though...totally not rolling the windows up for this one. BLAST IT
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
Evolved=Weird=Avant-garde=Difficult to Listen to?
I still don't quite understand the intention of this thread based upon "Evolved".
For the Avant-Guarde, look no further than the difficult to listen to "Art Bears"
I have never heard a band of any genre so beloved and dismissed at the same time.
Art Bears - sans quotation marks - are a household name here at PE, at least with a few dozen prominent contributors. So are pretty much some 200 other artists in a considerably close proximity to their aesthetic, and there's nothing particularly "difficult" about this approach unless you're rather unversed in the annales of progressive rock development from 1968 and on.
Whoever dismisses Art Bears? And on what grounds? Strange.
Unless… I feel zum tightnet Svet pettin' ma crettin outlet.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
If we're not looking just for new artists creating genuinely new progressive music, I'd throw Squarepusher into the mix.
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
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Never hurts to ask!
Ben Neill is interesting in that regard for me; I agree he would fit our semi-nebulous bill, but I also first encountered him in the late 90's via the fairly awesome album Goldbug. So, there's a time aspect to this I guess...when someone discovers someone for the first time *shrug*
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
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I had a Ben Neill album "Mainspring" back when it came out -- 1980s? -- but it went away when I sold my record collection. I rediscovered him recently, and I think the trip-hop thing he's doing now is new since I knew him (my local CD store had him filed under "Dance"(!))
Been looking for a download of "Mainspring" to refresh my memory. So far unsuccessful.
I haven't got that one, so I'm not sure I can help with that. But both Goldbug and Tryptical from the late 90's are stellar, especially the former.
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
I'll take the plunge and risk an eyeroll emoticon(.
Skalpel is a duo of Polish musicians/DJ's who put out this cd(Skalpel) about 15 years ago.I dug it at the time, bought the cd and recently dusted it off for a listen.
These guys sample Polish jazz from the 60's/70's.Maybe this'll float yer boat.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
One more from Skalpel.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Yeah that's nice stuff.
Another "evolved" pocket of musicians (IMO) is the Bill Laswell/Aiyb Dieng/Nicky Skopelitis/Wayne Shorter/Pharoah Sanders/Bernie Worrell/Jonas Hellborg coterie. Some fascinating mashups coming out of that crew.
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You must lump Nick Bärtsch Ronin in too?
There are only two kinds of music in the world: What I like and what I don't like. Enjoy your version of it for yourself and ignore all critics. It's music, it ain't some fundamentalist religion.
Mongrel dog soils actor's feet
^ Thanks for setting everyone straight. It was absolutely called for. One can never receive too much elevated moral from above; we surely need that to fight off such sickening spectacle as on display in this completely horrible thread.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Feel free not to participate if the subject doesn't interest you.
As evolved as I get is Moondog, Harry Partch, and Sun Ra, and that stuff is decades old.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
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