music id: the best electronica ever made?
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Fez909
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clandestino
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I quite like the term electronica. It's certainly far preferable to IDM. And to me it means something specific - soundtracky, laptoppy, lush - rather than just a blanket term for all dance music.
But then this really isn't my field, so don't ask me.
My favourite electronica album, for example, is "Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK" by Mum, which may not even be an electronica album. Here's "I'm 9 Today" from that record:
I've tried to find stuff similar to this, and while bits of Aphex etc are similar, there's nothing quite as tuneful yet glitchy. If you know an album that's like this, please recommend it.
But then this really isn't my field, so don't ask me.
My favourite electronica album, for example, is "Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today Is OK" by Mum, which may not even be an electronica album. Here's "I'm 9 Today" from that record:
I've tried to find stuff similar to this, and while bits of Aphex etc are similar, there's nothing quite as tuneful yet glitchy. If you know an album that's like this, please recommend it.
DJWrongspeed
radio eros
Yup i'd say that was electronica. I doubt much of this stuff will really stand the test of time. There is so much music software & boogie boxes that just make this stuff really easily it lessens the original ideas. Boards of Canada ? I just don't get what's so special, sounds really dated now.
clandestino
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The whole album is just lovely, and works brilliantly as an entire piece of music - I can understand how that fragment might leave you nonplussed, as it's just part of the whole thing.
Plus it was the first album of this "type" that I really got into. It came out in 2000 and I still love it nine years later, so I guess it's stood the test of time for me.
I've listened to BoC and just haven't found anything half as good as Mum. Maybe I haven't listened enough. It's all sounded a bit meh to me.
Plus it was the first album of this "type" that I really got into. It came out in 2000 and I still love it nine years later, so I guess it's stood the test of time for me.
I've listened to BoC and just haven't found anything half as good as Mum. Maybe I haven't listened enough. It's all sounded a bit meh to me.
i used to work in replay records in bristol and whenever we put 'MHTRTC' on at least one person would ask what it was. personally i love all the boc stuff but there's plenty else out there too.
Fez909
toilet expert
You might like if you don't know them?
clandestino
no llevar papel
Just been to check my vinyl and I have that very album. I can't remember being that impressed, but I probably only gave it one cursory listen eight years ago. I might stick it on again and see how it sounds.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Never heard of them, but I'll investigate. Thanks! Is there a particular album by each I should go for?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
ten days of blue by beltran and bitstream's one third standard lux are well lush
Fez909
toilet expert
My favourites are John Beltran's 10 Days of Blue, and Bitstream's One Third Standard Lux.
Those links above were for YouTube videos of tracks from these albums.
Fez909
toilet expert
personally i think it's one of those albums that can just 'click', so you may be surprised. track 14 - pete standing alone - is one of my all time faves, although that might not be too helpful(!)
anyway, you have it on vinyl so it'll sound even better
'hecq' is also someone that's consistently impressed me. all his albums are mostly great but his fouth - '0000' - is particularly excellent.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hecq
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hecq
i'd also advise anyone to check out the (now sadly defunct) 'merck' label, they released some really amazing melodic electronic music. my top albums are -
proem - socially inept
mr projectile - sinking
deru - trying to remember
tycho - past is prologue
adam johnson - chigliak
can't recommend these highly enough
proem - socially inept
mr projectile - sinking
deru - trying to remember
tycho - past is prologue
adam johnson - chigliak
can't recommend these highly enough
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
clandestino
no llevar papel
personally i think it's one of those albums that can just 'click', so you may be surprised. track 14 - pete standing alone - is one of my all time faves, although that might not be too helpful(!)
anyway, you have it on vinyl so it'll sound even better
just listened to most of the first side of the first record. it was just a bit boring really. the beats were so straightforward and the ambient bits were just ok. compared to the intricacies and tiny details and interesting glitchy beats of mum, it feels like...well, listening to someone next door playing house. it was just muffled dance music. i don't want dance music really - maybe that's my problem with this stuff. mum is more like folk played on electronics, with organic bits and pieces thrown in too, and so evocative and atmospheric.
i'll give pete standing alone a whirl though.
and actually it's pretty old vinyl so it sounded a bit crackly. the crackles were the best bits.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
have you listened to fridge and four tet, ian? you may like them
also track 10 - roygbiv - a classic boc track of about 3 mins long
p.s. the second half is definitely more accessible than the first, fwiw.
clandestino
no llevar papel
Just listening to Bitstream. This is better. It does sounds like Mum with all the interesting bits taken out, but I can see how it might build and build over an entire album.
clandestino
no llevar papel
yes, i like four tet.
i think i saw him be fridge live once and wasn't that fussed.
clandestino
no llevar papel
my problem is that i thought the bit i listened to from the first half was too accessible, if you see what i mean. it was boring and straightforward. i wanted a bit more imagination.
stethoscope
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I've been meaning to hunt out some more Seefeel for ages, the only thing I've got by them is the Time To Find Me 12", which is gorgeous.
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