Electronic music recommendations

no one mentioned Pole, though the new one is more hip-hop beats. Burnt Friedman\Flanger for the jazzy\dub beat stuff. Blue States are quite mellow. Anyone for Tim "Love" Lee?

Did anyone buy the new Snow Patrol? Not exactly mellow beats but in the same mould as Manitoba - probably better in my opinion..

"Dogs have owners but Cats have staff"

These Records

I think it only exists in theory, as I have been to the stop down in the Elephant & Castle three times, and it has never been open! I peered though the window, and I did see some records, but couldn't buy any.

E-mails send to them never got a reply?

So, I use Smallfish and Pelican Neck / Boomkat.

DS

OTD - Tomorrowland - Sequence of the negative space changes

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Originally posted by alexgerrard:
If this is downtempo, I shudder to think of your uptempo stuff. It's nice, but downtempo? No.

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Wey hey Alex BABY - someone else who's actually heard it AND on this forum - I wander how rare the thing is? I'm on the lookout for the original issue as the one I have has been remastered by the Infected Mushroom guys...

It IS downtempo compared to stuff like GMS - according to the back cover (if you have the original your artwork might be different) it's from 142bpm to 155 bpm - GMS is easily >155, as is a lot of other stuff I've heard psy-trance wise.

Mind you, my mate Kenton's well into his techno, and he brought round this Jap techno CD called Terrordrome - they got THAT right - unlistenable! Must have been 200+ bpm - I doubt even a gerbil on crystal meth could keep up with that!!!

Out of curiosity, how did you find out about Dark Soho? I heard the album round a mate's on the night that changed my life, back in September 2002, but we won't go into details

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.

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Originally posted by David Slater:
These Records

I think it only exists in theory, as I have been to the stop down in the Elephant & Castle three times, and it has never been open! I peered though the window, and I did see some records, but couldn't buy any.

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David, all you need to do is knock on the door. They like to assume the characteristics of a shop that's closed, even when they're open. Friendly people, just a bit shy and retiring.

-- Ian

Also try the 3-CD set

OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music 1948-1980

Another beautifully packaged and annotated set, with pioneers like Robert Ashley , John Cage , Holger Czukay , Charles Dodge , Milton Babbitt , Terry Riley , Olivier Messaien , Morton Subotnik , Pierre Schaeffer and of course Raymond Scott

or the double compilation on Rough Trade Electronic 01 which has the likes of Can , Eno , Kraftwerk , Thomas Leer & Robert Rental , Stereolab and Faust .

If you are into the really dark stuff, I can recommend the mighty Throbbing Gristle , especially "20 Jazz-Funk Greats", "DoA" and "Second Annual Report".

Happy bleeping

Kevin (blip)

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Originally posted by alexgerrard:
Dom

I heard of it.....from YOU! I saw your recommendation, and tracked it down.

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Aha I did wander actually - must be a relatively well kept secret then - wish I'd managed to see them live in EQ, Hackney Wick, last December as they break out the guitars and jam live over the sequenced stuff - my clubbing "guru" mate saw them in Bristol the night of the infamous storm last October and said it was a blinding experience, with a scary as you like ride back home, dodging falling trees - madness...

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.

"wish I'd managed to see them live in EQ, Hackney Wick"

Christ they must be good. Having lived there a couple of years ago, very little could persuade me back!!
Seriously though, this thread is producing some excellent recommendations. I currently have DNTEL on the headphones, and Global Communications and Notwist winging their way to me courtesy of Amazon.
Cheers
Simon

Really useful thread this one.

As a long time Tangerine Dream fan I wanted to venture into contemporary electronica. Already own a couple of Aphex Twin's early sets. So I've taken the plunge and ordered;

Boards of Canada Music has the right to children
Twoism
Geogaddi
Autechre Amber
Incunabula

Piccadilly Records in Manchester are having a January sale on some of the above.

Will keep you posted.


regards

Richard S

Warp have a promo on in a few places, I guess. Boomkat have a load of Warp promo deals.

This a a excellent thread! Have you tried the Raster No-ton website? It's a German label. Here's the link: http://www.raster-noton.de/start.html

Have fun!

willem

Simon (and others),

You might have to check out Tony Conrad as well. He worked with John Cale and La Monte Young and (later) with Faust.

Here's some information on him and his work: http://www.geocities.com/hstencil/tonyconradintro.html

I'd like to thank Ubik for the link to the excellent theserecords website.

willem

Pow!

I came across this fine thread while searching for electronic/dance music.

Any glitchy semi-uptempo-without-being-all-out-crazy recommendations?

Hello unregistered, nice use of name!

I would add Decomposed Subsonic to the list of easy - glitch - house, which they do very well.

Also, Wuzzlebud 'KK' by Robag Wrumhe is one of the freshest electronic records on the year so far.

DS

OTD - Micheal Mayer - Pensum

Fennesz album "Endless Summer" has been mentioned already in this thread. It is beautiful.

Tujiko Noriko is somewhere along the same line. Somewhat.

I also find analog synth records sounding more powerful. Tangerine Dreams film music to Michael Manns "Thief" (1981) is a good example (or just rent the movie - its worth the time).

try the new album by monolake and rhythm and sound "the versions" if you're into sparse, dubby electronic schnitz.

there's always the entire kraftwerk back catalogue. even the latest album is really good. my faves are:

autobahn
radioactivity
trans europe express
the man machine
computerworld

I have this album on Turnabout (TV 34004AS, there's also a Library of Congress number: R65-2400). It is called 'Electronic Music' and contains compositions by Andres Lewin-Richter, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Tzvi Avni and Walter Carlos. It has probaby been released in 1965, before Carlos' operation.

The music is mainly electro-acoustic.

My copy is a bit battered and full of clicks and plops, but then, so is the music . It is quite a nice record. Don't know if it is still available in any format.

Hope this info is any use to anyone on this thread?

willem

[This message was edited by willem on Mon 02 August 2004 at 19:42.]

I would humbly like to add Jan Jelinek Avec The Exposures to this list; the album La Nouvelle Pauvrete is a real gem of this genre (from the same label as Pole, '~scape'). It features a somewhat cineastic atmosphere.

Also worth watching out for IMHO are some releases from the 'CityCentreOffices' label, namely Flavor Has No Name by Static and A Strangely Isolated Place by Ulrich Schnauss; Static kicks some nice clickety-clickety vibes, Schnauss is on a retro-trip. Slightly reminiscent of Slowdive and other Creation acts... just totally mellowed out.

If you're in for some real "data pop" watch out for Si Begg's Director's Cut_ (underscore intended); try Airports as a teaser and make sure it's loud enough.

The more rough-and-ready oriented listener might like some of the stuff from the German 'Kanzleramt' label; Offshore Funk by Heiko Laux will surely annoy the neighbours, as will Response by Alexander Kowalski.

A lot of this stuff can be found on the excellent opensource.code compilations (URL).

BTW, any opinions on the new Prodigy album yet?

Best regards,

Oliver

Willem,
I have seen Tony Conrad perform live at the RFH in London. He was supporting Pan American I think. His performance involved violently bowing a violin at high volume for oooh, about an hour, with NO LET UP. At the beginning it was hilarious. After 15 minutes it was boring. After 30 minutes torture. By the end I wanted to torture him!
Is this representative?
Simon

Recent electronic-type purchases include The Remote Viewer and Global Goon.
I love all the records I bought that were recommended to me in this thread, other than the Manitoba Up in Flames, which I just don't get.

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Originally posted by Simon Perry:
Willem,
I have seen Tony Conrad perform live at the RFH in London. By the end I wanted to torture him!
Is this representative?

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Simon,

Conrad is not for the faint hearted I guess. I use his 'Fantastic Glissando' (1969) to scare away visitors who overstay their welcome .

I'm actually jealous, would have loved to have been at that concert! Pan American are also a favourite.

Have fun!

willem

"I would humbly like to add Jan Jelinek Avec The Exposures to this list; the album La Nouvelle Pauvrete is a real gem of this genre"

Agreed. It's a must for all lovers of the ambient/organic end of glitchy/laptoppy genre.

Matthew

A few months ago i purchased a CD by ASCII discotheque, which is part of the EBM, German 80's electronic movement.
However, it's not like anything that ive heard the track 'Jack your body' is simply the best trance track i have ever heard.
The CD is varied in style and difficult to nail down but well worth buying just for track 8 !

Not sure if anyone has been here yet?
Probably old hat to most of you, have just finished reading this for the first time and cant wait to listen to some of this new stuff..

http://www.synthmusicdirect.com/

Anyone into early TD should listen to the 'Redshift' site to..

For classic electronica Sheffield's Caberet Voltaire and Germany's DAF are a must have. The back cat of either neatly captures the early to mid Eighties

CV are near to complusory if you like Throbbibg Gristle.

Jono

howie b - music for babies - very good recording too.