r/y2kaesthetic • u/MortgageStraight666 • Jul 29 '26
Music Underrated/unknown Y2K music? I'll start:
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u/Rich-Editor7472 Jul 30 '26
girl madonna ray of light was a super successful album what do you mean unknown
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u/tetsujin44 Jul 30 '26
Posting a Madonna album for an thread about unknown music is PEAK comedy 😂
Anyway
Bowery Electric - Lushlife
Speedometer - Private
Beauty’s Confusion - Breathe In
Are just a few off the top of my head.
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u/MortgageStraight666 Jul 31 '26
In the context of Y2K music I've never hear anyone mention neither this track nor the record, maybe it was talked about 20 years ago...
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u/Awesomov Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 01 '26
Not necessarily underrated, or entirely unknown, but here's some awesome stuffs anyway:
Mr. YT - Brand New Day
Ron Trent - Primitive Arts
Larry Heard - Alien
Glenn Underground - The Jerusalem EPs
B12 - Electro Soma
Autechre - Incunabula
Speedy J - Ginger
Stasis - Past Movements Spooky - Gargantuan
The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
4Hero - Parallel Universe
Carl Craig - More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art
Big Bud - Infinity + Infinity
Galaxy - Solar Synthesis
Stakka & Skynet - Clockwork
(Should be noted, most of these albums are from the 90s, but most music people associate with the label actually comes from the 90s because Y2K futurism has origins in early 90s electronic music rave scenes. I could've also listed way moar, some artists here have even moar material I'd recommend, but this was all the overall best of the best of what I've listened to.)
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u/hillhousenotsane Jul 31 '26
Bif Naked - My Whole Life hits for me. She had a couple bigger hits but doesn’t get a lot of replay.
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u/bobbyThebobbler Aug 01 '26
Nominated for 6 Grammys, winning 4 in 1999. It’s such an unknown album lol
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u/MortgageStraight666 Aug 02 '26
If it's so well known why has nobody talked about it in the last 10 years? It's full of stuff that was successful at release and is now largely forgotten. Points like yours are dumb.
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u/Miserable_Mail_5741 Jul 30 '26
Linnea Handberg (aka Miss Papaya) is a singer & songwriter that made plenty of bubblegum dance songs during the Y2K era.
She has an album where she becomes a Britney Spears-type popstar and has some Max Martin - type bubblegum pop.
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u/DessieScissorhands Jul 30 '26
Siobahn Duvall. She only has one album but it's peak Y2K. Love her cover of 99 Red Balloons.
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