Electronic

This is a topic where we discuss Electronic music in all its myriad varieties. So, IDM, ambient, industrial, breakcore, techno, house, trip-hop, all that stuffz.

To start.

I LOVE FLYING LOTUS MAN COSMOGRAMMA IS 2010 AOTY (and is in fact my #1 album of 2010.)

Also, I like Coil, Royksopp, Boards of Canada, Justice, Massive Attack, The Flashbulb, Plaid, Portishead, Crystal Castles, Future Sound of London, some Aphex Twin, a little Venetian Snares, etc.

edited 2nd Jan '11 11:58:04 AM by Neccy60

Autechre are beginning to grow on you, apparently. olo

It's great you've started this thread; when it's you that makes a thread, it magically gets a longer lifespan.

Cosmogramma is good eh? Then let's discuss how great Warp Records are. How do these guys have such an ear for talent I don't even

edited 2nd Jan '11 12:53:18 PM by Litis

Portishead are supposed to release something this year. I wonder if they'll get around to doing it...

So.

For an electronic noob (which is me, in my own opinion)

what are good starting points for all the big Electronic genres?

I'm not an electronic expert by any means, but here are some notable electronic artists that I like:

• Portishead (trip-hop)
• Björk (hard to describe; her music goes all over the place)
• Boards Of Canada (ambient/IDM)
• Aphex Twin (like Björk, his music goes all over the place)
• Daft Punk (dance)
• Kraftwerk (Synth-Pop)
• Crystal Castles (their first album is Chiptune...I don't know how to describe their second album.)

edited 2nd Jan '11 1:13:37 PM by SoapMagic

Depeche Mode are also a pretty much essential Synth-Pop band, if you ask me. Go for Violator or Music for the Masses. Or Playing the Angel, which is my 12-year-old MCR-loving self's favorite. Still a favorite, not the favorite.

edited 2nd Jan '11 1:16:44 PM by Litis

@Litis: This is true. Must be my aura of...Chicagoness.

Yeah, I've finally gotten into Autechre after I was impressed by Oversteps. then I heard Tri Repeate againa nd enjoyed it much more than I did at first. Yay!

Warp is soooo legit. I would've gotten a Bo C shirt from them (well, considering)...then I heard that the shirts were from American Apparel. do not want :/

@ Soap: Portishead is NEVER on time. >=(

@Spain: Pretty sure you know the basic ones. But go listen to Coil and The Future Sound of London if you haven't already, both are worthy indeed.

My taste in electronica is still somewhat underdeveloped, but I mostly got in through trance (Andy Blueman, PPK, Armin Van Buuren, Paul Oakenfeld, that kind of thing) and then discovered more downtempo and ambient stuff (found two of my favourite acts, Skyway and Indigo 7, on a badass 50-track compilation and one of my current favourite musicians ever, Helios, though random poking around the interwebs).

Outside of that the stuff I like is more eclectic, ranging from Hybrid and E Nomine to Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares. Nice to have a mix, I guess.

Trance, eh. Thoughts on BT?

Only just checking him out. I lean more towards the atmospheric/uplifting sides of trance, but BT seems pretty cool; definitely knows how to structure his stuff from what I've heard so far.

first of all

• BT is one person?

• Is that the guy who made "Satellite"?

Future Sound of London is great. I don't know why I keep being surprised by the Blade Runner samples.

Boards of Canada is good too, besides that Dead Dogs Two remix, Geogaddi is awesome.

edited 2nd Jan '11 5:43:02 PM by TZETZE

I've heard some of FSOL. I think I got a few songs off of their (his?) first album from somewhere.

Their. Apparently. I don't bother looking up who do these things...

BT is one person, and yes, he did Satellite. FSOL is a duo. Listen to their album Lifeforms. It's their best IMO (obviously).

Boards of Canada is god-tier, as anyone who knows me here already knows I think.

edited 2nd Jan '11 6:30:14 PM by Neccy60

What album was "Satellite" off of?

It's among my favorite songs ever, and I don't know where to get it.

Chiasm and Portishead are the ones I listen to the most. I'm not that familiar with electronic music. I can appreciate it, however, if I find songs that can affect me in some way.

I'm very much a neophyte, but I owe my interest in electronic music to video games. The Genesis Sonic The Hedgehog music stuck in my head for years, and trying to find decent mp3's of those led me to Overclocked Remix, which convinced me that techno was not all stupid and repetative as I had thought it was.

I guess exposure to Joy Electric (who was basically trying to be Kraftwerk, but with songwriting influences from The Smiths and New Order) helped as well.

Let's see, who do I like that hasn't been mentioned already...

Emeralds, Oneohtrix Point Never, Pantha Du Prince, Four Tet, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Chris Clark, Fridge, ... does Ben Frost count?

Hmm, that's all that comes to mind for the time being.

Skinny Puppy Electro-Industrial forever!!! (Luv Tangerine Dream & Juno Reactor too.) :3

Does Grime count?

Oh God, Juno Reactor are AWESOME

Oh damn, how could I forget Orbital?

Holy Fuck are also really good.

Rob Dougan. He only ever released one album, Furious Angels (2001). Also, The Glitch Mob's debut album, Drink the Sea, is a must try for fans of really bassy music.

Drink the Sea made a potentially nightmarish trek at three in the morning fucking awesome.