Electronic

Rob Dougan... oh yeah, the guy who did a bunch of stuff for The Matrix.

As for Glitch Mob, guess I might as well give them a listen.

I like Holy Fuck when they aren't being this. "Choppers" from the same album is quite good. Actually the whole album is good, but the reviewer above got my feelings about "Lovely Allen" spot on. It just screams "use me in a car commercial you guys".

I'm getting interested in Schranz after having heard Chris Liebing jamming with Speedy J. Any recs?

edited 4th Jan '11 2:39:38 PM by Litis

I really love Diary of Dreams.

edited 4th Jan '11 3:40:15 PM by Nikkolas

Oh, I really like Loscil, too. I kind of wanted to mention Stars of the Lid as well, but they're more on the "modern classical" side of drone than the electronic side. I'm a real sucker for the ambient stuff.

edited 4th Jan '11 3:46:50 PM by Zudak

Yes. Love In Sides and The Middle of Nowhere. (Snivilisation, not so much.) Need to get more albums by them.

Keita Kiriyama's free stuff is pure ear candy.

So. On a whim, I picked up Dig Your Own Hole the other day. I was aware of the Chemical Bros. (who doesn't know "Block Rockin' Beats"?) and am also aware that they're probably long out of style by now, but damn that is a good album.

I picked up Transglobal Underground's "Dream of 100 Nations" on the same day and had similar thoughts, but they're more World music, I imagine.

edited 6th Jan '11 3:17:12 PM by SpainSun

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Venetian Snares is probably my favourite electronic artist. Amazing variation of stuff he does, and I just love 7/4. :3 Other IDM stuff I like includes The Flashbulb, Aphex Twin, Marumari, Nero's Day at Disneyland, Xanopticon, and µ-Ziq... Ambient stuff is great too. The aforementioned Loscil is really good (I have Plume, it's excellent), and I also love Arovane, Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb under his own name), The Black Dog, Celer, and dark ambienty stuff, like Sleep Research Facility, Northaunt and Lull.

Also, to the guy who mentioned Helios. YES. YES. Eingya is fantastic.

edited 6th Jan '11 5:09:46 PM by SunshineWerewolf

^ I actually prefer Caesura (my favourite Helios tracks are A Mountain Of Ice and Fourteen Drawings), but Eingya is a phenomenon in its own right. Beautiful music.

Also, funny you should mention Sleep Research Facility. I'm not normally a fan of dark ambient, but his conceptual approach is interesting on all kinds of levels. The man seems to be a genius.

edited 6th Jan '11 5:16:15 PM by AsTheAnointed

Because I choose to.

A Mountain of Ice is pretty amazing. But I'm fairly sure I had some sort of religious experience during the transition from Paper Tiger to First Dream Called Ocean. Just on the bus, as you do. It was a weird sensation, like I'd been gone for twenty years and had come back home, and I just felt inexplicably happy and peaceful about everything. I was in a truly awesome mood for the rest of the day. You heard any of his stuff under the name Goldmund? It's really beautiful too.

SRF is great. Deep Frieze especially, though Nostromo is good as well.

Venetian Snares has some stuff I enjoy, like Winter in the Belly of a Snake, Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding, Rossz csillag alatt született, and My Downfall, but most of his stuff I don't care for.

I never really got into Huge Chrome Cylinder Box (though it's been a while since I've listened to it, I should really give it another chance now). Those other three are three of his best, I'll give you that. I happen to like his sillier stuff too, though. His last album was a complete piece of fluff for the most part (although the title track should be good to you if you like his classical-esque stuff), but I still enjoyed it. I'm fine with Aaron having fun just as much as depressed Aaron.

MIKE PARADINAS IN YOUR PUNANI

... I seriously cracked up the first time I listened to Welfare Wednesday.

By his latest do you mean "My So-Called Life"?

'cause I haven't heard that one yet.

Yep. That's the one I mean. It's a bit of an odd one. Half the album is pretty similar to Detrimentalist, and the other half leans more towards his classical-breakcore material (though I don't think it's as good as Rossz).

And from that new album, Welfare Wednesday... just Welfare Wednesday.

that certainly is... a thing. @_____@

Might as well post here, but it will basically be a duplication of everything Zudak's posted because I've only really listened to more electronic stuff since he's been on the boards. I wonder why that might be...

Anyway, stuff I like:

• Arms And Sleepers
• Boards Of Canada
• Caribou
• Daft Punk (obvs)
• Emeralds
• Flying Lotus
• Four Tet
• Holy Fuck
• Hood
• Luke Abbott
• Oneohtrix Point Never
• Pantha Du Prince

Hmm, strange, nothing after P in my electronic alphabet.

Listen to Music with Tropers at The Troper Turntable!

>:?

No one else likes the Chemical Bros.?

Aw.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Dude with a laptop and a bunch of instruments who creates blissfully poppy electronica. Is good. Latest album (Swim) was much more headed in a dance-floor direction, but his 2007 effort Andorra is full on indietronica wonderfulness.

Listen to Music with Tropers at The Troper Turntable!

Oooh. Sounds like fun.

I only recently discovered Cosmogramma and now I'm addicted to it. It's really great.

I LOVE Boards of Canada. They're fucking amazing. I wish they'd release more! :(

I know very little about electronic music, although what I do like is pretty much entirely French for some reason aka Daft Punk and Justice, and I'm not sure whether stuff like Pump up the Volume and the Paid in Full remix count as electronic. Has anyone got any reccomendations for stuff to listen to based on those?

edited 9th Jan '11 8:21:53 PM by Drpepperfan

Not many people realize, 50 Cent is half man, half cossack. - Ross Noble

I have no idea what you meant by the latter two things, but based on Justice and Daft Punk I'd recommend Digitalism and Simian Mobile Disco.

They do, well somewhat, anyway, but that's an irrelevant argument that I'm not going to get into here. The group that put out the former never released anything else (to my knowledge), but Coldcut, the group that did the Paid In Full remix has also done some other amazing work.

Example;

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Thanks for the reccomendations, especially the Coldcut one! I love sample heavy dance songs, the Double Dee & Steinski lessons are awesome as well!

Not many people realize, 50 Cent is half man, half cossack. - Ross Noble

Coldcut seems pretty good. I suppose I'll have to check them out. By the way, Venetian Snares' 2010 album was the disappointment of a lifetime.

http://www.last.fm/user/BlueGhost60