Electronic Music Recommendations

[Peter]

LOUISE: i need to find some elctronic shit that's tight enough to catch my attention, but none of that long-winded shit that just tires me out.



RECOMMENDATIONS PLEASE!

[Herr Lipp]

Aphex Twin. Albums: "I Care Because You Do" and "Drukqs" are okay for people new to the sound.

Audiobullys: More dancey but still great IMO. Try downloading the singles: "Baby Shot Me Down" or "We Dont Care". We Dont Care is funny :yes:

Then breakbeat/d 'n' b artists/tunes you might enjoy:

Adam F - Circles (cant recommend this enough)
Logistics - Together
Commix - Herbie
Codename John - The Pussy

[Bob]

Go get some Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman, Second Toughest in the Infants and Beaucoup Fish are all outstanding, or just buy the Singles collection.
Leftism by Leftfield is also utterly bloody essential, and I'd also recommend 'In Sides' by Orbital for the more psychedelic stuff :yes:

[vaya con dios]

You're an audio engineer, so the first thing I recommend is an album by cEvin Key, called The Ghost Of Each Room. He uses Reaktor, Korgs, and some old synthesizers so well you wouldn't believe it's all recent (2001). It's on Metropolis Records, and you can find it anywhere in Chicago, really (but mostly smaller shops).

Also, do look into anything by the group Twilight Circus. They are more dub, but they're great. There's also a group called Venetian Snares that's great, the songs are hit-or-miss but holy shit, when he hits...

[TheImplodingVoice]

Aphex Twin (Of course) and Gary Numan

[Nak Nak]

What do you mean by electronic music?
Electronica? Trance? House? What!

[Tago Mago]

Look into some Nobukazu Takemura.

[Fab]

Gary Numan! Start at the start (ok, no not the very start, but near enough).

[TheImplodingVoice]

Talking about start, you should listen to Krafwerk..they are one of my all time favourite bands.

Also if you're looking for something a little bit more "experimental" (hate that term) check Otomo Yoshide and Ikue Mori!

[Tago Mago]

And if you like Kraftwerk, don't hesitate to check out Bruce Haack.

[Six Ways]

Frank, you didn't say The Faint....I's confuzzled. But yeah, Gary Numan!

[Fab]

I thought someone else had, but whilst I'm thinking about them, you absolutely have to get some Broken Spindles, it's a one man affair and it's absolutely amazing.

[vaya con dios]

Off the top of my head --

Spectrum
Experimental Audio Research
Juan Atkins
Mauritz von Ozwald
Amon Tobin (actually look into this first)
Sonic Boom
Luke Vibert
Sun Electric
Meat Beat Manifesto
Orb
Muzlimguaze
Carl Craig
Spiritualized
Richard Kirk (solo stuff is fantastic)
Neu
Spacemen 3
Suicide
Slowdive
Tricky
Cylob
Add N to (X)

Anything else? Amazon those first, lemme know what you think..

[Fab]

Devo!!

[vaya con dios]

ARE WE NOT MEN???

[Krisp]

Also, if you like Kraftwerk you might want to kill yourself for being such a boring tit.

[Nak Nak]

Ladytron
Add N to X (seconded)
Soulwax
Joy electric
Goldfrapp
Mount Sims
Miss Kittin
Fischerspooner
Freezepop
Death in Vegas
WIT (Whatever it takes)
Lords of Acid
Vive La Fete
Console
Soylent Gringo
Solex
Chicks on Speed
Cut Copy
Alice in Videoland

[Fab]

How could I forget Goldfrapp!? Twist gives me a happyness in my special place :cool: .

[It's Harry!]

Pete, if you can do your research, look up Mahi Mahi. Excellent electronica band that's fucking dancable.

[vaya con dios]

I forgot to mention Mouse On Mars, especially their first two albums.
Download is also a given, as is Chicks On Speed (tres awesome).

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by Kris K
Also, if you like Kraftwerk you might want to kill yourself for being such a boring tit.

I love it when people who do not listen to electronic music, and probably even Kraftwerk, throw half-assed generalizations on the people who listen to both. Godspeed you little internet, godspeed.

[Static Split Screen]

Originally posted by Nak Nak
Ladytron
Soulwax
Goldfrapp
Mount Sims
Fischerspooner
Freezepop
Vive La Fete
Soylent Gringo
Alice in Videoland

Especially these ones.

[Fab]

I love Alisson Goldfrapp, she's not the hottest of women, but damn she's sexy, I go weak at the knees.

[Nak Nak]

Felix Da Housecat


About Kris' Kraftcheese's kraftwerk comment:
He does't like Kraftwerk because they don't have solos or quasi meaningful lyrics about being sad or angry.

[Reginald I. Perrin]

Originally posted by Kris K
Also, if you like Kraftwerk you might want to kill yourself for being such a boring tit.

Oh, sod off.

[Nak Nak]

Originally posted by Reginald I. Perrin
Oh, sod off.

He is a complete philistine.

[TheImplodingVoice]

I think Kris thinks of music as a vulgar circus, instead of an art form, therefore his criteria for judging a song includes silly stuff like finger velocity.If he really cared about musical habilities exclusevely, he should be analyzing harmony instead of technique though...

[Nak Nak]

Originally posted by TheImplodingVoice
I think Kris thinks of music as a vulgar circus, instead of an art form, therefore his criteria for judging a song includes silly stuff like finger velocity.If he really cared about musical habilities exclusevely, he should be analyzing harmony instead of technique though...

yes. although it can be said that a lot of the bands he likes are not particularly technically gifted.

[TheImplodingVoice]

Right like all the happy punk and the mainstream rap..

[Krisp]

I love it how when any of you try to put me down you never have any facts. I know I shouldn't expect much from a Mexican, but shame on the rest of you.

I don't like music that relies too heavily on computers rather than actual instruments. Sue me, if you still can't get over it, suck my dick.

[TheImplodingVoice]

I wasnt trying to put you down, though! I know you're very proud of your musical taste...I was just sayin'

[TheImplodingVoice]

I mean, YER MAMA SUCKED ME DICK!11 :lol: :) :-D :bop: :birthday:

[Kelly Kapowski]

LOL



um i've been listening to a lot of Prefuse 73, Luke Vibert, Broadcast and fucking Jackson and His Computer Band's single, "radio caca" that's been playing on Warp's site for the time being, WTFWTF

i might see Four Tet tonight but i don't know if i can be arsed, really.

[vaya con dios]

Originally posted by Kris K
I love it how when any of you try to put me down you never have any facts. I know I shouldn't expect much from a Mexican, but shame on the rest of you.

I don't like music that relies too heavily on computers rather than actual instruments. Sue me, if you still can't get over it, suck my dick.

Gee, I didn't know a synthesizer was a computer.

Nice racial jab, btw.
What a fucking moron you are.

[Krisp]

Originally posted by vaya con dios
Gee, I didn't know a synthesizer was a computer.

Nice racial jab, btw.
What a fucking moron you are.

You knew what I meant, dummy.

Synths=lame

[Reginald I. Perrin]

I suppose you'll be throwing away all your rap records, then...seeing as all those synths and samplers that they use are so lame. Those rap records that rely almost entirely on "computers". Eh?

[Tago Mago]

I'd also love to hear what makes a synthesizer any less of an actual instrument than an electric guitar.

[TheImplodingVoice]

Originally posted by Dan-E
I'd also love to hear what makes a synthesizer any less of an actual instrument than an electric guitar.

That's what I was thinking..what the fuck is a Real instrument?

[Fab]

oh no, I've heard that argument against using synths a million times and i just can't be bothered anymore. one of my friends tried to convince me that a synth was in fact a poor man's piano, and wouldn't have it that synths were in fact different instuments.

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by Kris K
Also, if you like Kraftwerk you might want to kill yourself for being such a boring tit. I'm going to be honest here, Kris.

You lost the right to call anything boring when you started liking Damien Rice.

[Nak Nak]

I can't believe this.

Kris! a xylophone isn't an instrument because it doesn't have strings, right?!

[Static Split Screen]

Why are you not online, sir.

[Kelly Kapowski]

Originally posted by Atomsk Iscariot
I'm going to be honest here, Kris.

You lost the right to call anything boring when you started liking Damien Rice.
i love damien.

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Originally posted by Kelly Kapowski
i love damien. "Cannonball" is the worst song ever written.

Though I do admit to liking the second side of O.

Which is why I don't call anything boring.

[Krisp]

Originally posted by Reginald I. Perrin
I suppose you'll be throwing away all your rap records, then...seeing as all those synths and samplers that they use are so lame. Those rap records that rely almost entirely on "computers". Eh?

It's an entirely different genre of music.

I don't like synths in rock and roll for the most part.

[Nak Nak]

Originally posted by Kris K
It's an entirely different genre of music.

I don't like synths in rock and roll for the most part.

Are Kraftwerk rock and roll?

[Static Split Screen]

"Yeah, it'll be Kraftwerk unplugged" -High Fidelity

[TheImplodingVoice]

What the hell is rock and roll? someone should answer me clearly cause they lost me after Little Richard

[homer j. simpson]

Originally posted by Static Split Screen
"Yeah, it'll be Kraftwerk unplugged" -High Fidelity

[Static Split Screen]

Originally posted by SuckerLove


Do you like that CD I lent you?

[homer j. simpson]

Originally posted by Static Split Screen
Do you like that CD I lent you?

oh shite i forgot that i have it. i'll listen to it tonight!

[Static Split Screen]

Originally posted by SuckerLove
oh shite i forgot that i have it. i'll listen to it tonight!

I miss it you know

[homer j. simpson]

Originally posted by Static Split Screen
I miss it you know

you could have taken it home with you, bitch! not my fault you chose to leave it. you can have it back tomorrow.

[Nak Nak]

Tracy + the Plastics
Ping Pong Bitches

[Six Ways]

Originally posted by Nak Nak
Ping Pong Bitches

Isn't it The Magnificent Ping Pong Bitches? At least, that's what it says on the credits for the single 'Girls' by the Prodigy.

[Nak Nak]

Originally posted by Six Ways
Isn't it The Magnificent Ping Pong Bitches? At least, that's what it says on the credits for the single 'Girls' by the Prodigy.

Nah, it's Ping Pong Bitches as far as I know. It's likely that "the magnificent" and the shorter version are the same though.

[Nak Nak]

armand van helden
jan hammer

[Suede]

baby d.

[Static Split Screen]

Originally posted by SuckerLove
you could have taken it home with you, bitch! not my fault you chose to leave it. you can have it back tomorrow.

You asked to borrow it, slag!

And I think I'm too sick still to go anywhere tomorrow. :\ I have half-minute long loud coughing/hacking sessions too, I would interrupt Trischa's dancing.

[Tralala]

This is the kind of thread I always end up discovering new music from.... it's the best thing about the "long tail" and music.... before u had to read in a magazine or hunt around in a record store to find something cool -- which made the choices always subject to the "gatekeeping" of editors and music store buyers and etc... -- which would lead inevitably to mediocrity and the prevalence of "poser music" -- i.e. stuff that you want to like because you think it's cool, not because you really like it. Music journalism especially creates high-profiles for really lame stuff, because journalists are always looking behind their backs, trying to profile something that they think in 2 years people will think they were cool for liking "way back when".... I GREATLY prefer the democratic nature of threads like these, where people simply list their tastes and you can just look something up on itunes or youtube and check it out for yourself....

These days I'm really into techno and techno/rock and stuff like that -- try searching for these songs:

Thomas Falke "Revolution On The Dance Floor"
Groove Cutter "My Shooter"
Control One "Just A Little Bit"
Ian Carey "Redlight"
Kevin Weg "Dead Radio"

I don't usually go for techno but these are sort of like a wierd crossover between rock and techno/trance.

Here are also some downloads with some other cool stuff too -- http://www.electricfilebox.com/tracks

[Atomsk Iscariot]

Oh man, this thread is so old school.

No one said the KLF in this thread!

The KLF! Chill Out in particular!