Electronica recommendations?

Apparat is well worth a look particularly his 2011 album the devils walk. 

YouTube the track goodbye it's haunting electronic at its best. Breaking bad fans will recognise the tune! 

Great choice Debs! I too have ordered the vinyl box set and am waiting impatiently. Only got I Com on CD so far and love it

Just got a s/h copy of this on CD. Can't get over how much better it sounds than my early 1990s cassette.

This is a great piece of electronic music and modern! in a retro style

Daniel Avery Drone Logic

Just ordered 'Interiors' by Glasser

Lot's of music for a worthy cause...

Touched  by Various (122 tracks)

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Some of the planet's greatest Electronic, Ambient & Modern Classical musicians come together for this amazing cause. 
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Haha -  a thread that possibly got out of control !   ;-)

There are some truly fabulous recommendations amidst the above.  I have been into electronica more or less from its beginnings, with Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream etc.  Current favourites in the realm of 'pure' electronica (ie less crossover) would be;

- Deep Dive Corp. (eg Some Funky Fish, Beats n Things & Melodies, More Bass)

- Chicane (still going great, try Giants)

- Way Out West (also still going great, try We Love Machine)

- Cicada (current, "poppy" to an extent, but talented and know their craft really well)

Enjoy the voyage of exploration.  I will also be latching on to some recommendations in the thread.... :-)

Worth giving 'Chemical Brothers - We are the night' a listen. It's great.

Regards,

Elkman

Psychic by Darkside

A new addition to the collection is this collaboration by electronic musician Nicolas Jaar and guitarist Nick Harrington. The album opens with an 11-minute intro that finds the musicians "misremembering the ground rules for music neither of them were alive to hear the first time around" (excerpt from the Pitchfork review). The duo achieve lift off about 9 minutes into the track, and from there it's a fascinating ride.

Listen here on Rdio :

http://www.rdio.com/artist/Darkside/album/Psychic/

There's also a great review on the Rdio site.

Not really my field of knowledge but try Mouse on Mars. Soundscapes and beats. All rather fun and worth it. Samples can be easily found on Utube etc.

james

This and David Sylvian's output post-Japan might be of interest.

Interesting recommendations here. I see a lot of stuff which I think of as simply pop, or electronic pop, but pop nonetheless.. Nowadays almost anything contemporary has electronics, synths and electronic beats, sequencing etc, so you could even count London Grammar as Electronica by the recommendations I've seen here. 

For me, electronica is more soundscape-y:

• Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene and Equinoxe are his most famous but all his stuff is electronica.
• Tangerine Dream - I prefer their late 70s through to late 80s period.There's a box set called The Virgin Years 1977-1983 which contains most of their best work in my view. Unfortunately the label was stingy and split albums to fit discs which is intensely annoying when you know the albums themselves, but I only bought the CD boxset to store on my iPod since I have all the vinyl anyway. If this bothers you then Force Majeure, Tangram and White Eagle would be my choices.
• Roedelius - Gift of the moment. This is my favourite of HJ Roedelius' very experimental introspective work. Way out there mixing electronics with natural instruments put through loops and messed around with. Recently remastered quite faithfully. For his more experimental stuff look at Selbsportrait (I, II and III). You can hear snatches of the songs and buy the albums from fye.com it seems.
• Eno, Moebius and Roedelius - After The Heat - good luck with finding that one.
• Suzanne Ciani - Seven Waves, Velocity of Love, Neverland, History of my Heart
• Vangelis - Chariots of Fire, Heaven and Hell, China
• Cluster - too way out for me, but highly rated by the conoscienti

Electronica-ish:

• Brian Eno - Another Green World, Another Day On Earth, although tbh I'd not really consider this electronica per se. Apparently, Music for Airports is very 'electronica', but I've not heard it. Makes sense though, since that's the period he got involved with Cluster.
• Radiohead - Kid A, Amnesiac, In Rainbows. For me, the earlier stuff is simply pop.

Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.

Fever Ray and her earlier band The Knife. Koop for some electronic jazz. Daft Punk. Bjork.

The new Matt Berry album is well worth a listen if you like big soundscapes ! Yes it's the Matt Berry from the IT Crowd 

The album is called 'Music For Insomniacs 

Hi Hook,

Yes it seems difficult to know quite what you are looking for in this ocean of sound, but I would reluctantly put Tricky in this genre, not completely and more on the side of 'alternative electronica', certainly not electronica, per se. But as there seems to be some diversification on the thread, this guy should be on you list...and near the top.

The actual genre to be pigeon holed is TripHop, see wicki for the definition.

If ever the 90's produced an urban poet in the vein of a modern Gill Scott Heron, perhaps Tricky is he, although from a culturally British perspective. Deeply powerful lyrics coupled with moody bassy and electronic loops, a unique vocal expression, probably attributed to a natural gruff voice affected by many years of smoking pot as a youth. A wondrously moody/dark realism to his song writing with a definite nod to the hedonistic lifestyle often attested to modern living... to quote Francis Bacon,"I am optimistic about nothing".

All in all moody and fantastically powerful music.

You could start with this album released in 2002 (above) as a brilliant introduction to his best stuff incorporating some other gems, like 'Tricky Kid' and 'For Real'.

Or you can head straight for the superb 1995 debut album Maxinqaye.

Hope this helps.

Jason.

Tangerine Dream - Of course, these guys are the kings and as someone has already said there are some great bargains on their stuff right now.

Tontos Expanding Headband - "Zero" I have an original copy of this in vinyl, a truly brilliant album.  These guys go back to the 70s too.

Nine Inch Nails - Browse around on archive.org and you can download Ghosts I-IV in glorious 24/96 digital for free.  It is wonderful.

Roller Trio - A superb newish British jazz trio (surprisingly) who use lots of electronics and are superb, extremely tight.

Portico Quartet -  Don't forget this superb group, listen to their live album which is brilliant.

Thinking of Portico Quartet who are Rock or Jazz or Minimalist Classical - well one or all of the three, there are also some artists thought of as being classical composers/artists.  I am thinking of the likes of Terry Riley - listen to 'Rainbow in Curved Air' or 'In C', or Steve Reich.

But maybe my love of classical is giving an unrealistic recco here.

I would also suggest Pink Floyd but I am sure everyone has heard them play.

ps When I started writing this I put on 'Portico Quartet Live' and it ain't 'arf good you know.

This *may* be of interest to those who are fans of Yello - it probably is worthy of a thread on it's own, but..

Boris Blank is releasing 58 as of yet un released tracks for film/ost.

It is a box set, limited to 1500 worldwide, and is on 'Kickstarter'.

Obviously aimed at fans, but it is all electronica, and may just tempt you.

Cheap it certainly isn't.

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...is-blank-electrified

If the link is non allowable and removed - just hunt for Boris Blank, Electrified, on Kickstarter & you will get there.

If you want to hear what's on offer - a whole bunch are on soundcloud, and will also be available for download @ 24/96 on the kickstarter site.

https://soundcloud.com/boris-blank-electrified

Of course their greatest achievement Music Has a Right to Children.  One of the best albums I've ever heard.

Sbtrkt I love!

I downloaded Perimeters by AES Dana, and after several listens I still can't get into it. I find the beats insistent and the overtones cold. In this sub genre of electronic music, I would recommend Bliss, either They Made History or No One Built This Moment. Both show a high degree of sophistication in the arrangement and production. Sophie Barker's vocals on the final track of No One Built This Moment are alone worth the price of entry.

Music Has the Right to Children playing at the moment through the Hugo into the SN2. It's like moving to a high-resolution version.

Happy Cycling !

Jan

Another couple of drops in the ocean

and the mighty KLF

If you like your early Tangerine Dream with those fantastic sequenced bass lines - Din 45 - UMBRA - Ian Boddy & Mark Shreeve playing together as Arc is most definitely for you. Real wall warping bass lines.

http://www.din.org.uk/din/node/484

Submotion orchestra

Portico Quartet

Schmoov

Kruder & dorfmeister

royksopp

rae & christian

speedy J

hidden orchestra

bonobo

this could go on and on...