The Downbeat / Electronica Music Thread
Decided it was probably wisest to start a new thread based on the discussions that came about as a result from the "OS X Installer Thread", which because of its title is sure to die a premature death.
So, whoever is into this kind of music by all means discuss, post your favorite artists, whatever....
Jonathon: I downloaded a few songs from Theivery Corporation and like them quite a bit. Even though they use more vocal samples than I am used to / thought I would like, I've gotten used to the tracks already and fine them a nice change of pace over my other stuff. The Mirror Conspiracy and Transcendence are both really good tracks, among others.
Thanks for the tips, dude.
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So, whoever is into this kind of music by all means discuss, post your favorite artists, whatever....
Jonathon: I downloaded a few songs from Theivery Corporation and like them quite a bit. Even though they use more vocal samples than I am used to / thought I would like, I've gotten used to the tracks already and fine them a nice change of pace over my other stuff. The Mirror Conspiracy and Transcendence are both really good tracks, among others.
Thanks for the tips, dude.
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i dunno, there's a bunch... thunderball - solar...
1. Humanity (Ashley Beedle Mix)/Struggle For Pleasure - A Guy Called Gerald/Minimalistics
2. Spiritualized (Francois K. Mix) - Finlay Quaye
Re rest of the CD is pretty awesome too. Then there is always Underworld. But it's been a long time since I've liked anything new. I'll be glad to hear what people suggest.
Squarepusher - stuff off of budakahn mindphone, maximum priest, feed me wierd things, music is rotted one note
Cornelius- Point
lali puna- tridicorder
Aphex twin - selected ambient works volumes I & II
there are many others I could suggest but this is some great stuff
The following are my personal favs
Aphex Twin - On (play that on the 11th floor of a building in a corporate secor with wind howling at 12am. Its a magical experience, at least until that irritating bass sound kicks in).
Aphex Twin - Flim
Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubble Bath
Squarepusher - Port Rhombus
Squarepusher - I wish you could talk
Squarepusher - Beep Street (my fav SP song)
Cosmic Baby - Traume (though I dont like the rest of his stuff)
To tell you the truth, these are about the only people that I listen to in this genre. I have so much trouble finding other stuff that I like. I am actually like Autechre, and Boards of Canada but they dont captivate me like this stuff (especially Aphex Twin, that guy is a musical genious).
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<strong>Wrong Robot, you are the man!
The following are my personal favs
Aphex Twin - On (play that on the 11th floor of a building in a corporate secor with wind howling at 12am. Its a magical experience, at least until that irritating bass sound kicks in).
Aphex Twin - Flim
Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubble Bath
Squarepusher - Port Rhombus
Squarepusher - I wish you could talk
Squarepusher - Beep Street (my fav SP song)
Cosmic Baby - Traume (though I dont like the rest of his stuff)
To tell you the truth, these are about the only people that I listen to in this genre. I have so much trouble finding other stuff that I like. I am actually like Autechre, and Boards of Canada but they dont captivate me like this stuff (especially Aphex Twin, that guy is a musical genious).
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On is such a ****ing awesome track....have you heard the remixes?
richard d james is a genius...you should check out
Cornelius(absolute genius...this guy is the **** )
Add n to (x)(an army of moog!)
µ-ziq(the former teammate of Richard D.)
beep street...such a great track...My favorite squarepusher(hard to say sinec he is my favorite electronic artist at the moment)
but
iambic5 poetry is probably my all time fav
followed closely by
don't go plastic
my red hot car
theme
beep street
two bass hit dub
port rhombus
its so hard to choose....SP is like who I want to be when I am an adult....I want to make techno music incorporating as much live stuff as possible...I play bass and drums, as does SP....he is an awesome bassist too. I really want to do that stuff....breaking the boundries and producing amazing songs....maybe someday.
I also want to be a rapper
Monolake - Gravity
Arovane - Atol Scrap
Monolake - Interstate
Gislain Poirier - Il n'ya Pas De Sud
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
Plaid - Not For Threes
Also agree with the already-mentioned Autechre and Boards of Canada.
<strong>thievery corp - indra or shaolin satellite
i dunno, there's a bunch... thunderball - solar...</strong><hr></blockquote>
I meant the actual tracks, but I did download Shaolin Satellite the other night and it too have vocal samples (actually the most of the four I downloaded - "Get down evryBODy")
Maybe I'll check out this Aphex Twin and Monolake stuff too. Sooner or later, I WILL figure out which of these artists leans towards the sound I seek (Thivery Corp is good but so far they seem a little more "dance-like" than some of the other stuff I've heard).
All I know is I like that Sofa Rockers track (which is from the Sofa Surfers I think - or maybe Kruder and Dorfmeister originally)...and I DO like some of this Thievery Corp. stuff too...I just was thinking more along the lines of stuff that doesn't have a persistent, heavy base-grove or a lot of vocal samples.
Thing is, Jonathon seemed to be saying that this is how most of TC's music is - just not the most popular tracks (the ones I downloaded - Shaolin Satellite, Illumnination, The MIrror Conspiracy, Transcedance).
What are your recommendations, Sizzle?
If you want downtempo "chill" club music then I don't really have any good recommendations for you.
If you want trippy electronica, mid-tempo and slightly rhythmic, then a lot of the recommendations listed above will work for you.
If you like it slower and more abstract, then you're looking for ambient. There's some debate as to whether music with at least SOME rhythm can even fairly be called ambient at all -- my own feeling is that ambient is mostly abstract & atmospheric.
Only one, maximum electronica, which was good, but seemed to lack the heart of hte original.
As I said before, stand on the top of a building in the wee hours of the morning (so that the city has that odd new day smell) and listen to that song. Its frikin... amazing. It would be the perfect soundtrack to a Neuromancer movie.
hard to say sinec he is my favorite electronic artist at the moment
Damn it man, you have the exact same tastes as me
I think that overall Aphex Twin is the best, a true master, but at the moment I am enjoying Squarepusher more (I think Ive overlistened Aphex Twin)
theme
Which one? Ernest Borgies (sp?) has to be one of the best Squarepusher Songs ever.
SP is like who I want to be when I am an adult... I also want to be a rapper
When your an adult?
Well I guess that I DID start listening to all this when I was 17...
A rapper? One thing Im going to tell you right now, the same thing that I told my friend when he started. Make sure that you can write verse (standard romantic era or whatever) REALLY well. The problem with most rappers these days (not just the MTV ones) is that they cant write worth sh!t, and so their metaphores get mixed up, their imaging becomes vague and obtuse, and their meanings get jumbled by cool sounding words.
If I remember correctly there was one track that my friend played for me talking about stepping into his own third eye as a metaphore for his sorrow (or osmething like that). The image just didnt work, it may have if hed played a little longer on it, but he assumed that it was an obvious metaphore. Also images HAVE to have meanings.
Wow, im off topic.
For the purposes of keeping it simple, I'm going to define all of this stuff as instrumental music so we don't get caught up in semantic confusions.
My favorite instrumental CDs (some of which are not in the same category as the others IMO, and some of which have more percussion / beats than others):
Tangerine Dream - Optical Race
Tangerine Dream - Oasis
Patrick O'Hearn - River's Gonna Rise
Pat Matheny - Almost all of them, but Secret Story is the best one recently
One artist I listed to that I DIDNT like, was Steven Roach - The Magnificent Void. That music had absolutely to soul it it. Sounded to me like a random generation of noises produced by a computer simulation or something. While those above have no words to speak of, at least they all have an element of humanity to their sounds.
Gotta go - Rink opens in an hour. Look forward to any suggestions these artists might bring in terms of this other stuff we're talking about (Theivery Corp, Sofa Surfers, K&D, etc.).
Well, after perusing various releases by some of the afore-mentioned artists that Jonathon and Sizzle liked, I decided to go on an Amazon binge - just bought like 6 CD's! *lol* Pitiful.
Anyway, I ordered
The Mirror Conspiracy - Theivery Corp.
Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi - Thievery Corp.
Gravity - Monolake
Suzuki - Tosca
Those are the downbeat types. And the best news of all - Path Matheny Group has joined together once again (this time with a couple new members) to produce a new CD - "Speaking of Now." Psyched about that one as well. Matheny has been doing solo / duet stuff for like four years now....
I thought maybe I could illegally compile a few CD's, but after burning some 192 kbps and 256 kbps (i.e. what AG claims to be "near CD quality") MP3s to disc, I quickly found out what a load that is. Sizzle had warned me about this earlier in another thread if I recall, and he was right - put an MP3 CD on a good Hi-Fi system and it sounds like crap. Even if it sounds pretty good on a pair of Monsoon computer speakers....