NEED some suggestion for electro music

Hello cyu,

Are you after the American meaning of electro = modern electronic dance music

or the

English meaning = Hip Hop derived skippy beat music, like Planet Rock.

I may be able to help with both.

DS

OTD - Heat - Heat Vol. 2

Wauvenfold, Future 3 and Jhno

New Sherwood - v dissappointing only managed to listen to it 1ce; don't think it's a grower neither

thanks David Slater and j8hn. I am looking for more of "modern electronic dance music", but am interested in others "i.e. English meaning".
Not interested in mainstream mass marketed crap, but something original and "underground" stuff.

Too bad that Adrian Sherwood's new release is not good as I assumed. But I am going to check that out. I was and still am a big fan of Tackhead, Keith LeBlanc, On-U-Sound System, and FatsComet (spelling ?) from back in the 80's underground electronic music (not sure about in Britin).

Too bad that I can't seem to find anybody sound like them these days..

cyu - send me a PM and i can give a long list of both types of electro.

off the top of my head i would recommend:

electronica:
aphex twin - i care because you do and the richard d james album
squarepusher - go plastic and feed me weird things
boards of canada - pretty much anything

electro:
reggie griffin - mirda rock
jonzun crew - space is the place
planet patrol - play at your own risk
al nayafish - the soul

electrofunk:
zapp - more bounce to the ounce
parliament - flashlight

Hi cyu

Why not try a few label samplers or v/a comps, then you may want to try albums by individual artists later?

eg labels

Morr Music
Neo Ouija
Leaf
Rephlex
~scape
Skam

Morr Music: V/a 'Putting the Morr back in Morrisey' or 'Blue Skied An' Clear' Rephlex sampler: 'Braindance Coincidence'
Skam sampler: 'Skampler'

Artists:

Arovane: 'Atol Scrap' & 'Tides'
Isan: 'Clockwork Menagerie', 'Salamander', 'Salle d'Isan'
Styrofoam: 'The Point Misser'
Phonem: 'Ilisu'

All relatively easily obtainable from:

carbondisks.com
smallfish.co.uk
opalmusic.com
boomkat.com

cheers
Lee

Cyu, one man's hard and fast is another man's soft and medium, so to set the ball rolling towards the harder and faster end, not the namby pamby, wishy washy electronica side ...

For Hard, Fast and Underground electronic music, I would look for

Labels:

Pounding Grooves
Planet Rhythm
Tortured
Intec
Hydraulix
4x4
Fragrant

moving towards Gabba:

Industrial Strength
Mokum
Drop Bass Network
Earache
Hazchem

And then across to London Acid City:

Routemaster
Stay Up Forever
TEC
Pull the Strings
Chocis Chewns
Prolekult
Cluster
Bosca Beats

Ans the artists? try

Adama Beyer
Vector
Lenk
Gaetek
Lenny Dee
Disintegrator
Temper Tantrum
Ultraviolence
Chris Liberator
D.A.V.E the Drummer
Geezer
Punk Floyd
Bill Nasty
Halidated
Kektex
Pulsedriver

I will have a think about modern electro recommendations, but the key player is Anthony Rother, particularly ' Don't Stop the Beat' and Bitstream and thier offshoots.

DS

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Am I the only one who's completely mystified by the last few posts?

I am afraid my knowledge stops at Leftfield, Underworld and K&D.

Colin Lorenson
Old Fart and proud of it

David said:

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Cyu, one man's hard and fast is another man's soft and medium, so to set the ball rolling towards the harder and faster end, not the namby pamby, wishy washy electronica side ...

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Erm...you're right! Having re-read Cyu's post I realise that I've suggested lots of mellow ('namby pamby' - harumph! ) stuff and not the harder electro he requested (well I was trying to post just before leaving work so I was in a bit of a rush!).

I suppose something like Radioactive Man or Two Lone Swordsmen would count as harder electro?

cheers
Lee

Lee - me too

i would say that most of the stuff suggested by david slater is only listenable once you have necked a gram or two of wiz.

but, is that the point?

Wiz?

No, I didn't like that Musical?

I forgot to mention another classic label,

Labworks Germany,

and some of thier artists, who produce hard as nails, pin you to the wall and clean out your ears thumping modern electronic music.

Of particular note are:

Cym Dimension - Memory of God / Mental Scream
4D - Crying is Devine / Hidden
GD Mof - Ventec
Drax - The Mad cap laughs

Another label:

Drum Code

A compliation series :

Technohead 1, 2 & 3: louder , harder and faster

Another artist who appears on several labels is Frederik Almquist, aka RND, RND Technologies, 40ft Puma, etc His works are are brutal, pounding, almost tribal fast paced rhytmic assaults, well worth seeking out.

Not 'ardcore though

DS

OTD - Invexis - Deux ex Machina
[Swedish tightly focussed hard and fast modern electroic dance music]

Thanks all for your suggestion. D. Slater I will definetly check them out and I really appreciate you took time to give some suggestions.