Burial

(thanks allmusic.com)

My roommate Chris showed me this guy. I don't know anything about this artist, because everything I read said that he went through a lot of trouble to remain anonymous until late last year. I like the approach, and it's great music.

Anyhow, the music is what they call "dubstep," and is probably all sample-based, taking samples from things like lighters and the game "Chrono Trigger." It's slow, it's more rhythmically complex than bass drum quarternotes, and it still makes you dance. I like how dark it is, and how infrequently you get 16 bars of the same thing. The vocal processing is crazy in a really interesting and androgenous way, where he succeeds in making the women sound like men, and the men sound like women. Many of the samples don't line up to beats, there's some pretty funky swinging and syncopation, and it's all real dark. : )

Check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burial_(musician)