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Abortive Gasp - Psychogod. Someone posted this to [email protected] last year. I was the only person to upvote and comment on it. 1K people upvoted it on youtube, but that's over 6 years. I don't know anything else about this group.

The Forgetting Room by Seeming

My favourite "obscure" artist right now is a Vancouver band called Slightest Clue. Post/Punk alternative group.

https://youtu.be/i_wSb2B6h-Q

Alopecia by Why? (Surprise it's an entire album)

But if you only want one song from it try Torpedo or Chron's

Ramsey Midwood, Feed my Monkey

Damn near every song by Joshua Ray Walker

Yannis and the Yaw, Clementine

Showing my age here, but Michael Caine by Madness.

Everything Everything - Photoshop Handsome

I like a number of songs by Sid Maudlin. However, some years ago she and her music entirely vanished from the internet. From what little information I could find, she retired and tried to erase that part of her past, along with every single one of her songs.

She was super aggressive with DMCA takedowns and would hit just about anything and everything that mentioned her name or her music. But the internet being what it is, it never truly went away. I think she's either relaxed a bit or given up trying to take everything down.

Not massively into D&B but this is one of my favourites:

Keeno (feat. Rou Reynolds) - Shelter From The Storm

Shefferville, le dernier train by Michel Rivard

Coq Gage by Caribbean Sextet

Eh el ibara by Masar

Not sure if the last one counts as a song since there's no singing, but Def one of my favourite musiques ever.

CunninLynguists - "The Format" (Feat. Masta Ace & Mr. SOS)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T2EDljd3tsE

Anxiety - Optimus Rhyme

Wheelie Cyberman is one of my favorite obscure artists, and both Optimus Rhyme and his current band Supercommuter are great if you're into nerdrap and/or chiptune music (Supercommuter is much more chiptune than Optimus, but there's still a lot of influence there)! A couple more good tracks from both:

Unusual habits - Supercommuter

Bad ideas - Supercommuter

Reel Estate - Optimus Rhyme

Coded and United - Optimus Rhyme

Brand New Key by The Dollyrots

and the original version by Melanie

Cupcakes by Terri O'Mason

I got introduced to Brazilian Disco a few weeks ago:

Famks - Labirinto

Nada Nada by Avial I suppose it's obscure cuz it's not in English

A great one for your Halloween playlists is "The Crazy" by The Children MacNuggits.

But if you want even more obscure, a college friend of mine started a homebrew record label and got every band on campus to submit their best track for a compilation... and then he did it five more times

Twenty years later, I still listen to some of these songs daily, but especially: (warning, these are download links, not streaming)

Cold Heaven - "Eurydice"

The Heavy Pets - "(A Dragon's Just) A Dinosaur in Drag"

Zinc Finger and the Major Groove - "Too Much of a Girl"

The Passerines - "Young"

I don't know how obscure this is because it was on the Skate 3 soundtrack. However, I've never met a person that knew the song, and it's not on any music streaming services, so I think it's a little obscure.

Gunfight by The Mighty Underdogs ft. MF DOOM

"I Hate Everyone" by Get Set Go

Grand Comander - fuck you im going underground

Probably not obscure per se, as it is the main theme of Raziel and Kain's conflict in Soul Reaver, but Ozar Midrashim - Information Society, is one piece that I deeply enjoy.

There's a metal cover of the game's music, "Between the Zones", with Wasteland Midrashim and Forgotten Lament being some I enjoy a lot.

Sleepwalking by the Jaguar Club. https://youtu.be/EZU3zV33tYM

One Must Fall 2097 theme. https://youtu.be/pdVnKYcYi3g?si=g3DMymI7KQV8Vifh

Anything from the 1974 anime Jack and the Beanstalk OST but this: https://youtu.be/Ehqopzmx258?si=jQaKJRglCZkSLwFt

https://open.spotify.com/track/7uhfJ11SoxlwREvTV80QA5? Lucy(Hurt People Hurt People) by Olivver the Kid

Decapitated Camels by Simon Swerwer

Jonathan Coulton - Re: Your Brains

The President Called all the Artists by Micah Sommersmith

There are so many:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaNI0Mt_kLY&t=4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8&t=26
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAexp0w3H3c&t=2
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtyWNsy5Lrk&t=0
• https://youtu.be/OaSEGZ3Xe_E?si=Yp3pSZaNATdunFQu
• https://youtu.be/gZa4yre0uEk?si=LZsWU1nALkrzVECy
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qNn5xnRl5A&t=3

Bo Burnham - Welcome to the Internet

https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

You can thank ~~me~~ Bo later.

Yine, by Kurban (Turkish band) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=edxm5-boYGA&pp=ygULeWluZSBrdXJiYW4%3D

Transmissor - Janela

Burrito Mojado, the Fabulous Hedgehogs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqfanMci3-A&t=0

Kind of well-known these days, but also obscure as we literally don't know who made it or even what it's called: "The most mysterious song on the internet"

Been following this band for a while now and every now and again they release a banger.

They never draw huge numbers which doesn't make sense to me given their songs.

Thousand Thoughts - Jelly

I dunno if it would be classed as obscure any more seen as it now has over 2m plays, but when I first heard it 4 years ago it was for sure obscure.

Clown Core - Earth