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If you like proggy stuff I'd definitely check out Arch Echo, they're incredible. If you like acoustic stuff then Rodrigo y Gabriela are also a great listen, and so is Kaki King (though I mostly only know her older stuff)
Badbadnotgood
If you like solar fields, try Asura (also on ultimae records)! Also, hinkstep is pretty nice but has vocals some of the time.
Maybe not quite contemporary, but
YYZ by Rush
Slabo Day by Peter Green
Sure, just Odesza we were young Two feet just felt like playing the guitar and not singing Odesza kusangi Odesza koto Brock Berrigan Making Up (70s inspired music) Hippie Sabotage enlightened energy Hippie Sabotage smoke room Hippie Sabotage drifter
Not everyonea cup of tea, alternative/edm but yes let me know your thoughts
Little People
Rival Consoles
GoGo Penguin is a jazzy trio from the UK that makes midern jazz that is really engaging. I'm really a progmetalhead, but this band is ficking epic.
Bersarin Quartett is another band that I love. It's is a bit tough to get into, but it's really rewarding if you like slowish dreamy complex music. All song titles are in German, but luckily there's no lyrics.
Rival Consoles
Listened to these two albums today, both fantastic
https://youtu.be/5w6_D-jrt6s
https://youtu.be/2GhWimO54YE
If the reason you want something without lyrics is so that you can focus on other stuff, you could consider songs in other languages. There's so much content out there to explore, and you might be able to find stuff in a genre that you already enjoy. I don't find it distracting, and it's fun finding new artists I otherwise would have never tried.
When I want pure instrumental, I usually go "instrumental {{genre}}" and just save the playlists.
If you like guitar, Tom Anello.
Carpenter Brut. Though I only really listen to the trilogy from them.
Check out ENV -- Some of my favorite lyric-less music. There are a couple of playlists on YouTube with their albums. Firefrost is a good song to start with.
Khruangbin
HOME, the anthem of speedrunning is by them too.
Los Bitchos
Opiuo, Ott and Griz are probably my favorites.
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beastie boys have some really great instrumental tracks in their catalogue
stuff i've been listening to lately:
- andy stott
- gas
- forest swords
- boards of canada
- tortoise
Peter Gundry, Adrian von Ziegler
I'd recommend Solo by RiveR idk about the rest of their songs though I've only listened to Solo.
Chapelier Fou, but kinda went into a "symphonic direction" over the years I guess, but maybe you still like the older stuff? My personal favorite.
I like to listen to the genres Synthwave and Dark Ambiance. Spotify is pretty good to find new music in that regard. Since you asked for artist recommendations and not genres:
Judge Bitch β their Album Horse Blood is pretty good.
Perturbator β sounds like you're driving on some rainy highway at night to your cyberpunk destination
There's also Instrumental Nu Metal, for example:
Andromeda β start with their song Synthesis
MASTER BOOT RECORD β it's just riffs and booms, usually no vocals
A. Yarmak β has some nice metal remixes, for example Hydrogen from the game Hotline Miami
Then there's Dubstep and Breakbeat, for example:
The Prodigy β uses samples heavily, but also has a few tracks without spoken words
Lindsey Stirling β Dubstep and violin, interesting combination.
videogame OST [β¦] either really well known or fall into the orchestral and/or βepic music scoreβ Iβm not looking for
Well, there are tons of videogames and many of them don't have an orchestral/epic soundtrack, and even more of them are not very well known. I think you're limiting yourself here.
Covet, Chon, Scale the Summit, Caspian, Mouse on the keys, God is an astronaut, Weekend Plans, DJ Williams projekt
I guess you might like ambient music. It's a huge genre, but since you have start somewhere https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJFai85mu8M&list=OLAK5uy_kK7tukxLd8mVVTU1LdBAqIuDQIIalolvU (he died 5 days ago btw, may he RIP)