Innovative Dance music

[spoone]

that i would like to see.

simon cowells face when they do "fuck the macarana"


i would say prodigy but i don't know a lot about dance music.

even so... tiesto? i wouldnt really say he was innovative

 

[Flavour]

2 Bad mice
FSOL
Venetian Snares
Squarepusher
Aphex Twin
808 state
Kid 606
Amon Tobin
Burial
Vex'd
Mouse on mars
Equinox
Cinematic Orchestra
ATR/EC8OR/Shizuo/Alec Empire's lot
Hellfish
Cybotron

the list goes on and on and on

 

[Orang Utan]

I dunno, they were one of the first dance acts to actually make decent albums, as opposed to one off club/rave tracks that were boring unless you were on e. The crucial thing was Orbital made some of the first non-ambient credible dance albums (unlike say selected ambient works 1). And they more 'played' the synths live more than others, who just fucked around with sequencers and dats. Belfast was release around 1990 i think, and that still sounds fresh today, and was nothing like anything else at the time. I just think their productions had a sophistication (not in a pretentious way, just they sounded more polished) that many others didn't.

Hmm possibly though I would argue that watering down a sound to make it more palatable to the masses is not what I would call innovative. What you call 'one-off club tracks' are my bread and butter - it's these tracks that were innovative not albums. Albums are an irrelevance in dance music anyway.

 

[Dask]

Without getting into a discussion about Orbital all I will say is, Chime was/is one of the most innovative tunes of acid house era.

 

[milesy]

definetely agree with John B, but he seriously fell off imo.

nah, john b is cool. i love the way he is still big in the drumnbass world but looks completely out of place, and doesn't just stick to drum n bass in his sets - he has 80s stuff, electro, new wave, indie...

 

[erasmus]

=Albums are an irrelevance in dance music anyway.

Well, before Orbital came along, maybe .

 

[Orang Utan]

Well, before Orbital came along, maybe .

No, they still are - it's all about the 12"s innit?
Albums are for listening to at home

 

[erasmus]

You don't dance around your living room??

 

[jodal]

Goldfrapp?

<scarpers>

 

[Orang Utan]

You don't dance around your living room??

To mixes of 12"s!
Orbital aren't that danceable

 

[Gmart]

Aren't that danceable!!!! Bloody 'ell makes me go berserk!!!

Like Prodigy did after the first album...

Anyone remember Lab 4??

 

[Orang Utan]

Anyone remember Lab 4??

Trying to forget about them

 

[kakuma]

nah, john b is cool. i love the way he is still big in the drumnbass world but looks completely out of place, and doesn't just stick to drum n bass in his sets - he has 80s stuff, electro, new wave, indie...

i always think 'fair play' to john b for doing his own thing, but redux is one of my favourite dnb albums ever, and then on mercury skies he replaced that lass who was singing with himself, made me a bit

haven't followed him since then.....

 

[killer b]

has anyone mentioned shut up and dance yet?

my selections:

richie hawtin
speedy j
dj hell
mr de

i've been listening to some french electro recently which sounds like nothing on earth, but i can't remember any names. anyway, thats good...

 

[erasmus]

The main about Orbital was the live performances anyway. Glastonbury 2004 was one of the best performances by any band I've ever seen.

 

[andy2002]

Gideon Sperm
DJ Extraterrestrial
Monkey vs Robot
Angie Spatchcock
Ali Babar and the 40 Thieves