This is a list of some of the better stuff I know of to check if you haven’t already, at least the stuff you have a chance of ever finding. It hasn't been significantly updated in ages, but I would expect everything noted here to hold up over time quite well. I haven't bought an actual piece of vinyl in ages, and am selling most of mine. I do all my acquisition digitally, from online bellyflops of interconnected obsessiveness, mainly beatport.com.

DJ Olive stop what you're doing and go to theagriculture.com and buy his CD Bodega. Words fail; fukkit. Permit me that wise nod after you've listened to it fifty times and still keep pressing play. For that matter, just randomly buy pretty much anything from that label and do just fine.

Rich Panciera, aka Lloop and Barry Manalog; a fine producer, got the greasy basslines you can't escape, everlasting illness. longtime host of the SHARE parties, laptop jams/digital salons where the geniuses go to pollinate and grind gears. heard him there spring 08 before he moved to Vienna with his sporty new wife, and man does his sound have a burnished thick patina, so lush, so scuffed.

Emiliano Hernandez, aka The Human Isolated Bacteria; we might have to work on the name, but the kid is so doing the right thing on that wee rack of bedroom gear. His new label/project is Microbio. He's at the top of this list for a reason.

Spacemen 3 Perfect Prescription is a record that changed my life, a major inspiration to me. adamantly narcotic walls of fuzz, scorched ethers, lost fumes of no agenda (Sonic Boom's website).

Dead Voices on Air
-New Words Machine (Cleopatra/Hypnotic)
-Hafted Maul, Shap, How Hollow Heart, Drug Test, others (Invisible)
really fierce pure neuronal otherness, some of the most psychedelic sounds I have heard outside my head, all the more remarkable as he is adamantly anti-drug.
Sorry, that’s not at ALL how it will be used...

Raz Mesinai, aka Badawi, The Bedouin, also part of SubDub
-Final Warning (12") (Asphodel) brutal mix of Middle Eastern percussion and studio mange
-The Heretic of Ether (Asphodel) really exquisite, like a score to a heart-rending timeless dream
-Jerusalem Under Fire (ROIR) just buy it, nothing like it.
and he's putting out new stuff all the time: buy all of it
TheAgriculture is re-releasing some old SubDub stuff; jump on it.

Labradford, various (Kranky) monsters of the hyperdirge.
I still like Prazision LP (their first) best, very VERY essential

Square Root of Sub (Kormplastics/Staalplaat) aka Self-Transforming Machine Elves
great droney weirdness
Staalplaat also does an excellent e-newsletter, full of great reviews of experimental stuff

Ultrasound (12") (Kormplastics/Staalplaat) related to Stars of the Lid, also great droney guitar blasts

Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) some of the rockstar antics are a little played, but the slash and burn junglism is about as overwhelming as it gets. First time I saw Alec Empire DJ I seriously considered chucking all my records and starting from scratch. Will probably think that way again next time I see him spin.

Aaron Spectre back when I knew him, he was just another of the dozens of DJs/producers lurking around the NYC scene. While I was sleeping, he's apparently become the primo raggacore source, well done man!! Raggacore, doesn't get much better than that, shredded dancehall riddim run through a woodchipper, knock your hips right out. Loads of great links on his site too.

Jason Sloan and friends. guitar drones stretched out so fine, glossy voids. pretty prolific.

-Incursions in Illbient (Asphodel)
timeless and essential compilation by four of the Illbient scene’s finest: SubDub, Byzar, DJ Spooky, and WE™, all of whom are worth checking, with additional recordings on Asphodel and elsewhere

WE™
-As Is (Asphodel) brilliant first album by some of the ex-Illbient scene’s finest.
-Square Root of Negative One (Asphodel) wondrous
-DeCentertainment (Liquid Sky) nice continuous mix
-Lots of remixes and other tracks on various compilations.
solo projects by DJ Olive, Lloop, and Once 11 out on The Agriculture

Tim Hecker, aka Radio Amor, Jetone; abrasive drones, tubey beats, great glitch.

The ORB it is possible that there are people who still don't know Live 93? are you one? such a lovely strange chunk in the soup of sonic history of our world, trippy, lost, delightful, the Pink Floyd of the ecstasy generation. Stuff from recent years, I'd say they've gone off the shrooms a good ways, has gotten rather banal.

The Presets my new favorite electropop band, slick and sleazy, so much fun. Find the Ascii-Disko remix of "I Go Hard I Go Home", yum.

Khan aka who-knows-how-many names, frighteningly prolific (you have NO idea): El Turco Loco, Bizz OD, Gizz TV, etc. Current incarnation: Captain Comatose
-4E Blue Note (Liquid Sky) modern classic of electro-funk, ultra smooth
-4E4ME4YOU (Mille Plateaux) lovely and skanky
-Orgien I-IV (label?) awesome collage of ambient nonsense, really fine
-Sexy Bolero, retakes on Ravel, so lush and dreamy
-1-900-GET-KHAN w/Julee Cruise, and tons of porn ads all over the cover
as well as LOADS of collaborations with U.M.O, H.E.A.D., Walker/Jammin’ Unit (Air Liquide)
He's put out more records than many DJs even OWN. I'm constantly digging up old records of his in my boxes and finding out they're some of my most favorite classics, and he's always coming up with new ways to blow my mind. Some ambitious sperm bank ought to make him a rich man and create armies of insane sexy geniuses. Find him and buy him a drink or several; try Berlin.

Mego (label, Vienna) excellent out-there electronix, great website for listening/ordering. Pita live is just devastating.

The FALL (no label has the sense/deathwish to hold them for long, must be at least 40 records out by now, plus the recent crates of bootlegs) the ever-inimitable Mark E. Smith in all his incomparable punkass brilliance. Rock and Roll is dead and this man is the only one who can carry it into the future; he’ll always find something to do a piss-take against, born for derision, just TITS!!! sample lyric, as I heard/remember it: "your Napoleon is resplendent in Richtoffen rashes, sideboard-like" also, "you hog the bathroom, and then put your hand in your pocket, you are GLAM, Rickee..."

M.I.A. Galang
forget the hype, this record is infectious.

unfoundsound awesome microhouse label out of Philly, where you can download a boggling amount (#200+?) of really well-produced stuff, and not just mp3s, they give up uncompressed versions even. I had to buy a new CD wallet just to hold them all.

-Gez Varley presents Tony Montana (Studio K7)
embroidered with such delicate textures, madly Klassic

Timeblind, aka Chris Sattinger
what one absurdly clever fellow can do with a some AC power, a powerbook, and some obscure tweaked software. I think he has about 25 12"s out; you could easily do a whole amazing alloverthedamnplace set with just his tracks.

Erinys Manhattan Dwelling is a stark but crystalline exploration based from field recordings of NYC, some of the best dark drones I have. also a couple EPs and things, get all of it. seriously.

Umm Khultuum (Oum Khalsoum, etc.); a widely-worshipped traditional Arabic singer, recently passed on...absolutely stunning, really rips the ancient ghosts. supposedly a major ether fiend, which might explain how she taps into such chilling stuff. Once I get her beatmatched, she stays locked, often eerily so.

Happy Flowers nuts deep/post/punk, the angst of a three year old at full ODD setting
look for mp3s or the compilation on Homestead, try to find "I Said, I Wanna Watch Cartoons"

Deee-Lite, don't overlook them, three albums and some juicy remixes, pure love from the peak of the ecstasy years, so real, so thick and juicy. Supa DJ Dmitry is still producing, some brilliant stuff actually.

Public Enemy, I really shouldn't have to put this here but a lot of my friends somehow don't know "Fear of a Black Planet", are you one? Stop that right now, like right now, go buy it and hurry back, i'll wait.

Keane at this point in history I'm about as sick as I could be of sentimental songs meant to herd you gently through whatever emotional salad bar, and I don't really need to hear another overblown heartstrings-plucker soon again either, but this simple trio (piano, vox, drums) just seems so simple and real, and the vocals actually grab me. wistful, romantic, stuff I still like but all that's usually available is the koolaid version. This feels like what was missing. and surprise surprise, (at least in Europe anyway) they are getting mad recognition: they opened for U2.

Pamelia Kurstin which should I mention first, that she's a major squirrelly babe or that she's a true master of the theremin? watch her play, you won't blink, really outstanding.

Dr. Atmo
-Man Made Motion (Mille Plateaux) double vinyl, great ambient, mixes with anything
apparently a complete ripoff of Slow and Low by Tetsu Inoue, just pitch shifted it and added some effects.
what balls. still a seriously good record.

Andrew Weatherall/Two Lone Swordsmen/etc.
-Tiny Reminders (WARP) okay, we know to expect depth and diversity from the man, but this record is packed to the brim...triple vinyl even
-i need to dig into his catalog, but his electro shit is funked-out overkill, really all you could ask for on a dancefloor

Robert Ashley (Lovely Music)
-Automatic Writing, barely audible, guddomm creepy as hell, yeuuuuch and yummy

Alan Lamb
-Archival Recordings, naked sounds of huge vacant powerlines oscillating heavily, quite intense

Sonambient (label/series)
10 or 12 records ("Sounds Beyond" is the best I’ve heard) of intense clattering sculptures, pretty relentless

-Isolationism/Ambient 4 (Virgin), classic dark ambient compilation, kinda essential

-Macro Dub Infection, Parts 1 & 2 (Virgin), excellent compilations, experimental dub and whatever

-Throne of Drones (Asphodel) first of a total six-disc set, all good, but this one’s the best

Audio (German label)
nice gritty techno with a tribal edge

e-com/electracom (label) supercrunchy techno

Force, Inc. for a long time they put out so much filler, but a few years ago was putting out a ton of excellent minimal glitchy stuff from all the stars, really atmospheric, miles deep in reverb and tiny bits.

Dylan Drazen's website has links to a huge number of techno labels

-Jesse Norman doing R.Strauss' "Four Last Songs"; as he wrapped up his life, such perfect wistful release, and she drinks it deeply...and lets it all just go...

(Sporangia, when he releases anything)

see also list of favorite DJs