What/Who is the most obscure music(ian) you enjoy?

I really like Planning for Burial

Desideratum is awesome.
Thom is such a nice dude! Love him so much
- Yeah! I like his insta posts about what he listens to too.

Not truly obscure but I've never seen anyone speak of his music. Haircuts For Men.

Might not be that obscure but Ratatat. No idea why it's not a mainstream success.

Helped make Pursuit of Happiness an absolute banger
I see Ratatat, I hear feline growl 🐯 love ‘em!
- Try E.VAX, it's another project from one of the Ratatat boys. My favorite is called Karst, it's very similar to their style.
I've listened to Wildcat so much
- Yea that one is such a classic. I recommend you listening to Abrasive, Cream on chrome and Karst.
Yes, Ratatat! I learned about them through Kevin Rose back in the Diggnation days.
- Try Karst - E.VAX, it's another project from one of the ratatat boys.

I guess Igorrr and Naked City are some of the most, I don't know if exactly obscure, but hard to listen to, for sure.

Made a comment myself and then found yours, I also mentioned Naked City.For some reason I really like them, it could just be my brand of madness.
- Well John Zorn is a true innovator and knew how to mix all of the vanguardism stuff with the punk/grindcore scene, it's something completely natural if you like to listen to music that breaks boundaries.

best song of Lehrer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdtAFIl2jhc

It’s tough to say whether they are obscure or not, they are “obscure” in the West but I believe all these artists are moderately well-known in Eastern Europe: I love Воровайкии, Uamee (Hardbass) and Молчат Дома, to be fair I think Molchat Doma is kinda known in the West also bc of Sudno memes.

Comrade, I am so happy that you enjoy Hardbass. In the west, the whole genre may seem obscure, however, it was (maybe is) popular in UK (called Scouse House, maybe not exactly Hardbass but very similar), it is very popular still in Spain and Basque Country, still known in Poland (sadly, less and less, but we have good DJs like Clubbasse or Gopnik McByat), they are some good DJs from France. There are excellent DJs active, but the best club player for me is Sonic Mine from Sankt Petersburg, now sadly not active much. When I will have some spare time, I will upload somewhere his podcasts which I downloaded from some obscure Russian website, which is down now probably.
- Awesome! I liked Gopnik McBlyat but I thought the name was a tad on the nose lol. It’s like if an American artist was named “Hipster O’Yankee” so I figured they weren’t actually from Eastern Europe, I’m glad to be wrong about that one 😂

death's dynamic shroud. I don't do vaporwave much anymore, but I can sit there and listen to a dds.wmv tape for an entire week on repeat. Personal recommendations are the "Evangelis" tape, and the "I'll Try Living Like This" album.

Derek Messink. YT algorithm recommended one of their tracks one time and I listen to their music since then.

Pete Seeger is most definitely NOT obscure in any sense of the word, but i wanna share my favorite song of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJBksL69gX4

I dont know how obscure these bands actually are, but i havent met anyone irl who listens to them...

King gizzard and the lizard wizard

Kikagaku Moyo

And

Altin Gün

Are some of my favorites

King gizzard and the lizard wizard
Nice PFP :)
Kikagaku Moyo are do amazing. Sad that they broke up and I never got a chance to see them!!
- Although it is sad they broke up, that last album was great, and a welcomed addition to their discography.

Whitewoods, also known as Bug Your Parents.

Made somewhat popular by Pyrocynical from his use of their song Beachwalk in his outro, along with Whitewoods revolutionizing Vaporwave by basically founding the genre. However many of their songs are extremely obscure and I assume that absolutely no one knows who they are.

Beachwalk: https://youtu.be/oF9yHO-UUws

12 million views, so definitely a hit, but they are overall very small and obscure in the grander scheme of things.

That's a hard one because the majority of my music taste is pretty obscure, I am a huge music nerd. Here are a couple:

Comus - First Utterance fucking dope dark/psych/acoustic folky band from the early 70's. Think like, evil Jethro Tull. One of my favorite albums, highly recommend

Elizabeth Color Wheel - Nocebo Seen this band 3 times and they always make me cry, so good. Heavy noisy wall of sound chaotic melodic hardcoreish goodness. If you like My Bloody Valentine this might be up your alley, they are heavier.

Pinnochio - S/T Fast, fun, femme vocal punk rock that makes you wanna pogo

I really like Danny Schmidt and Satellite High but the Nightvale Weather Report has some 240 very high quality songs each from a small group or individual musicians. Might be worth a look on shuffle and you'll likely find a couple small artists you really enjoy. Jerusalem and "Bill and Annie" have completely different vibes to illustrate how diverse the playlist is.

The Bus is Late is one of my top 10 tracks

Theeeeeere's
\ Antimony Arsenic Aluminum Selenium

I used to jam Songs for Moms constantly! SOOOOOO CATCHY

I don't know how obscure they are, but the band Naked City made quite an obscure album called Leng Tch'e (not the band called something similar) that I simply love. I wouldn't call it easy listening, but there's just something about it that hits the spot for me. I can recommend Naked City in general if you're down for some jazz-grindcore-surfer-metal. Yeah, they don't really fit into any one genre, or any five even.

Faux Fiction. They are a garage rock band from Minnesota in the US, love them.

I doubt they're considered obscure, just a bunch of indie bands, but some of my top listened to artists of the past few years have been these:

There is this super obscure Australian prog metal band (in a King Crimson kind of way, not the Dream Theater kind) called Serious Beak that released this awesome album 9 years ago called Huxwhukw. It's some early djenty stuff in there too, I think it sounds amazing. I've always tried to get people into it but with no luck.

Serious Beak - Huxwhukw

John prine

His live performances of Sam Stone are heartshatteringly good.
John Prine's the man!

Interested to know who else knows of the following:

Lightning Bolt
Iglooghost
Dorian Concept
Speaker
Ladies of Sport

Are those separate artists? If so, the punctuation is confusing.
- Sorry, formatting behaved badly

Probably Nothingface. I feel like my music taste is mostly stuff that’s avant-garde in a popular way (say Limp Bizkit, or Xxxtentacion). That’s why I’d say nothingface, because it’s like what I generally like, but I’ve never heard anyone mention it, irl or online (I found it in a search result for the word communist). In additions Sankara’s great, and only known online.

I listen to a lot of metal and some of the genres and bands I like are kind of obscure to people who aren't familiar with the genre. I really like Mongolian folk metal (i.e., Nine Treasures) but Vvilderness released a great album I basically listen to on repeat lol

I also like Lana Del Rey though.

Lana is probably the most mainstream artist in this thread

Chicajo he mostly did System Shock remixes and C&C inspired music. Sadly, he stopped making music after his stroke in 2016 and his website has been down for years.

Chicajo - Drone

Playlist of Chicajo's System Shock Remixes

Chicajo - Bog 2004, ignore the anime picture this is actually a remake of the C&C Red Alert 1 track by Frank Klepacki of the same name.

Bizarrely, the channel that exclusively uses completely unrelated anime pictures has the most complete collection of his original tracks on youtube.

Scale the summit is pretty good if you like instrumental music focused around the guitar

I have a few but The Private Sector is a good one.

https://youtu.be/N90dxcCmfOU

I loved Slugabed's and Samuel Organ's collaborative project Peter Talisman. There's only one album out though and I don't know if they're going to make more. I've never heard music like that and so hasn't the Internet, because neither spotify, youtube or last fm is able to give me something similar to it.

I wonder if you'll enjoy Groundislava. Try "Creeper Shit" and "Young Lava"
- it pains me to tell you that I don't enjoy lo-fi chiptune music 😔 but alas, I have to be truthful

Too add some Indian indie flavor to the mix, MALFNKTION is relatively obscure, the guy samples dialogues from old Bollywood movies to make funky electronic tracks.

Lawrence

Phoebe Katis

Been listening to Trousdale recently.

I could get more obscure but I personally know them and I'm trying to be anonymous on Lemmy.

Eyedea

Hmm, not sure how obscure some of these are but excluding super well known artists, I still have a huge list of oddball stuff, here's just some of them:

Atari Teenage Riot (and Alec Empire's solo stuff, in spite of his politics), Ayria, Black Dresses (and both girls' solo work) The Birthday Massacre, Chiasm, Corlyx, Darling Violetta, Das Präparat, Dead When I found her, Electric Six (and Dick's solo material), Gost, Information Society (specifically Don't Be Afraid), Kælan Mikla, The Mad Capsule Markets (and Kyono's subsequent solo stuff - Wagdug Futuristic Unity and KYONO), Night Club, Patriarchy, Perturbator, Rabbit Junk, The Unquiet Void, Velvet Acid Christ.

As you can see it's mostly dark, synthy, industrial stuff, sometimes very loud punky things like ATR or MCM, and E6 as a weird lighthearted rock band cause those guys just rock.

Oh and since I completely failed to answer the question, probably the most obscure artist I listen to regularly would be May Leitz, who does uh... a weird mix of rock, metal, indie, electronic... stuff. She also is a youtuber and a novelist.

The Birthday Massacre
This is the only artist in this entire comment thread I've actually listened to lol
- Nice, I figured of all the stuff I listed they were near the top in terms of getting recognised. :)

I personally enjoy Boogie Belgique. As an American it's highly likely that no one on this side of the Atlantic would know about them if I asked a random person lol

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Skope
Ithaca
Djunah
Codespeaker
Kowloon Walled City