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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: theyellowchair on September 17, 2008, 10:33:11 AM
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Wondering if anyone is into IDM/glitch/electronic. I hate genre terms in music so I'm not necessarily sure how to put it, but here are some albums I've been listening to of late and I'm hoping to get some suggestions/open a dialogue on this music:
-autechre: lp5, quaristice
-prefuse 73: preparations
-thom yorke: the eraser/spitting feathers
-squarepusher: burningn'n tree
-safety scissors: parts water
-kit clayton vs. safety scissors: ping pong
-air: talkie walkie
looking forward to some suggestions!
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Broadcast's The Noise Made By People is incredible, like the kind of pop music people in the mid '60s thought we'd be listening to in 2000.
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In terms of the low-key glitchy stuff, I like Nobukazu Takemura and Christian Fennesz a lot.
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Broadcast's The Noise Made By People is incredible, like the kind of pop music people in the mid '60s thought we'd be listening to in 2000.
This. Though all of their work is worth a spin at some point.
I'm not really as much of a clicks, whirrs and cuts fan as I once was but I like, from past and present, Flying Lotus, Boards of Canada, Mira Calix, Chris Clark and Plaid. When it comes to techno, I much prefer Kompakt and Bpitch.
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Astrobotnia
Cylob
Etc
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You guys are awesome!
Now my playlist will be filled for the next 3-4 months -- thanks!
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Clark's recent couple of records are really excellent. Check this out ;
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYNBt4uiook[/youtube]
'Ted', Body Riddle
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM1lLuOz-58[/youtube]
'Herr Barr', Body Riddle
His Turning Dragon record is excellent too.
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I don't know where to begin... at least these should be pretty easy to find:
Boards of Canada is one of my favorite groups, full-stop. Seek out everything, but most importantly Geogaddi and Music Has the Right to Children.
Early Prefuse 73 is fantastic, especially his first two albums, Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives and One Word Extinguisher. If you can, seek out Scott Herren's releases under other monikers such as Delarosa & Asora, Savath & Savalas, etc.
Flying Lotus has really impressed me lately, his latest album Los Angeles sounds a lot like Prefuse's earlier stuff.
Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) is not for everyone, but he's made so much varied music over the years you're bound to find something you like. I suggest the Selected Ambient Works compilations, and I Care Because You Do.
The German label Kompakt is indeed great, as Gibby noted. For a summary of what they're about (minimal tech-house, mostly), check out the Total series. They also have a great ambient series out called Pop Ambient.
For more militant techno, look no further than Underground Resistance, which is a label, movement, and more rolled into one entity. Acts include Drexciya, DJ Rolando, Galaxy 2 Galaxy, and all their various aliases. It's deep and messy and mostly available on vinyl, but they do have a few compilations out.
Akufen produces fantastic, chopped-up tech-house. Look up the album My Way.
More on the ambient side of things: Christ. Look up Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle.
It's such a large spectrum of music that it's actually hard to recommend stuff, but check back here and tell us what you like of what you've been recommended so far, and I can give you more recos in either direction (more to the soulful side of things, more hardcore tech stuff, breakbeat influence, house-y, etc).
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My theory.
Electronic music was really good in the mid nineties, and I was one of the maniacs who basically bought everything on Warp, Rephlex, and a number of other labels in that period. (I remember thinking that Tango'n'Vectif was how the music of the future would sound. Turns out that drum machines run through distortion pedals was not the future of music.)
Then electronic music started to get really, really bad, when new software led musicians to do the musical equivalent of applying random photoshop filters in order to makes things "weird." I think it takes a while for people to adjust to using new technology. I got off board the techno train at around this time. Too much infatuation with breakbeats was also unhealthy and led to a lot of repetition. I think Warp must have sensed that their bread and butter was getting moldy and rancid because this is about when they really started putting out more different styles of music.
A bunch of musicians have come around since that have been really good, but I can't say that I'm a fan of the scene as a whole. Now, I look at electronic music as just one style among many, not as this innovative avante garde style that it once was. There's plenty of good techno still, I think, but mainstream hip-hop can be just as "weird" as the weirdest IDM now.
All that said, I'm also a fan of:
Global Goon
D'Arcangelo
Chris Clark
Vitalic
Bochum Welt
Kid Spatula
every acid song, because acid is the world's most constrained genre
edit: listen to Martin
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My favorite warp artist is this guy:
(http://images.meredith.com/wood/images/issuepreview/170/warpedboard_bg.jpg)
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I'm listening to Double Night Time, the new album by Morgan Geist (one of the guys from Metro Area). It's pretty good, in a trippy, electro-pop kind of way. Lots of vocals. Some shades of late 80s Detroit too. The vocals remind me of Schneider TM, and the DJ-Kicks mix CD from Erlend Øye (from Kings of Convenience).
(I'm thinking this thread might aswell function as a catch-all for electronic music recommendations.)
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I like electronica that has an organic feel, and is really ethereal. Thom Yorke's stuff and Air fit into that catagory. Try all of Black Moth Super Rainbow's albums, any Broadcast album, Mum's Loksins Erum Vid Engin , anything by Greg Davis, anything by Sebastian Roux, and Fennesz' Endless Summer. Older pop electronica that has a similar feel would be many of the artists from the 1980s heyday of 4AD records, like Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, and This Mortal Coil. Also recommend the album Cochin Moon by Haruomi Hosono & Tadanori Yokoo.
If you want electronic ambient drone-y stuff (which, granted, is only appropriate for certain situations, but can be wonderfully meditative) try composers like Elaine Radigue, Keith Fullerton Whitman and Toshimuru Nakamura. Actually erstwhile records (http://erstwhilerecords.com (http://erstwhilerecords.com)) is a great place to find droni-er, noisier electronica. Lots and lots of good artists on there.
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god you guys are awesome
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The Nobukazu Takemura album "Signs" and the Fennesz "Endless Summer" EP are awesome.
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Non-electronica it may be, this feels appropriate - then again, I am drunk.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu1fTcGdS8A[/youtube]
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Definitely Broadcast. They are really more of a pop band than a proper IDM act though.
Non-Warp, try out Somatic Responses (http://www.myspace.com/somaticresponses), or just about anything on the Hymen label for that matter.
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Reel Big Fish, Rancid and lately Against Me!
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Mush records seems happening. I liked the Pedro Album You, Me and Everyone, and also Eliot Lipp's Outside.
A high-water point for me was u-ziq's Royal Astronomy, I especially enjoy that record even when I listen to it now.
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Plone.
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Broadcast's The Noise Made By People is incredible, like the kind of pop music people in the mid '60s thought we'd be listening to in 2000.
I've been listening nonstop to this album for last two months. Thanks for such an influential recommendation.