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ManoliIsFat posted:I thought they figured this out like it could've only been aphex cuz of the synth they used. I'm pretty sure its him and whoever else he wants to make a track with, and that's a cool idea. Also if anyone's making a statement about celebrity idolization in electronic music, it's funny that it's Aphex. Yeah, The Tuss uses some really rare kajillion dollar synthesizer that like 4 people in the world own, one being Aphex. Aphex and Rephlex still vehemently deny that it's him, for whatever reason.
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You can also look up The Tuss song titles in the BMI database and they're all registered to "JAMES RICHARD DAVID" http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=8997471&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=8997467&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID http://repertoire.bmi.com/title.asp?blnWriter=True&blnPublisher=True&blnArtist=True&keyID=8997472&ShowNbr=0&ShowSeqNbr=0&querytype=WorkID etc
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O. Ferfuxaik posted:Amon Tobin Makes pretty active/catchy music with a much greater focus on samples than on synthesized sounds. Get your snack on Slowly 4 ton mantis Out of curiosity, anyone happen to know the sample source for the above track? It's also been used by Big Justoleum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c812iTWApIU VVV Oh, hey, it's the Popcorn guys! Sweet. woodenchicken fucked around with this message at 21:43 on May 23, 2010 |
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insomne posted:Yeah, The Tuss uses some really rare kajillion dollar synthesizer that like 4 people in the world own, one being Aphex. Aphex and Rephlex still vehemently deny that it's him, for whatever reason. GX-1 Solo is a Yamaha GX-1. Slightly more than 4 people own one, but it did cost over $70,000 new in the mid 70's. I remember hearing rumors that RDJ's Ebay username was "the rave colonel" or something to that effect, and he had bought one on there for $160,000. Either way, the sound is definitely a GX-1, so it's definitely someone who had $150k+ to blow on a pretty limited analog polysynth.
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insomne posted:Yeah, The Tuss uses some really rare kajillion dollar synthesizer that like 4 people in the world own, one being Aphex. Aphex and Rephlex still vehemently deny that it's him, for whatever reason. Well because they don't want to play in to this college kid game of idol worship. The idea is that's its supposed to be anonymous and mysterious. They're defending it vehemently and kids should be down with that. It's like everyone flipping out to find out who Burial was: that poo poo is stupid as hell, let him be anonymous. Just because you want to put a poster of him over your bed doesn't mean he wants that.
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woodenchicken posted:Supermodified is his magnum opus and is basically a perfect electronica record. Beautiful, explosively energetic and unique. Dug the CD out of the pile today, and it's still awesome as hell. That's Apollo 100 - Mad Mountain King.
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Can I talk about the new Ellen Allien album "Dust" in here? I gave it a few spins today and I still don't know what to think of it for the most part. It's definitely a little all over the place stylistically. I really like all of her stuff (Orchestra of Bubbles is how I found out about Apparat). I think I'm digging it but It'll take some more listening to solidify how I feel. Anyone else listening to it? Also, been totally getting back into the electronic/glitch/IDM/whatever mood lately, listening to a lot of Apparat and Telefon Tel Aviv. So this thread is awesome. I have some Ambient/IDM kind of album by Ulver called Perdition City, wiki says they used to be a Black Metal band?? It's pretty cool though, I don't really know anything about them. tuwhitt fucked around with this message at 00:25 on May 23, 2010 |
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have a lot of respect for artists who don't try to form a cult of personality.
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Really can't stress Kettel enough. I would highly recommend his album Myam James Pt. 2 if you are new to this kind of music and prefer a more ambient, chilled out feel. Then, if you want something that's harder and more Aphex's thoughtful drill n bass type of style, go for Myam James Pt. 1. Then, when you're ready for something even harder please, please check out the album My Dogan. I really feel like Kettel is picking up where Aphex left off with the Richard D. James album (some people say that the album title Myam James is a reference to Richard D. James) although in a very different way. I think the main reason I associate Kettel and Aphex in my mind is their use of the 303, that their musics give me a similar feeling, and that they both have a kind of "classical" (as in Bach, Mozart, Chopin, etc.) type of sound. Very emotional, expressive, thoughtful acid music. He does a great job of making his beats accessible when he wants to and just gently caress-all weird when he wants to... He also made a wonderful album Through Friendly Waters and an early singles compilation Whisper Me Wishes which are a bit more ambient and experimental and less acid. Who am I kidding? I recommend everything this man has ever made. *Some* favorite songs --------------------- The Wombat (Myam James pt. 1) Verkens in London (Myam James pt. 2) My Dogan (My Dogan) Through Friendly Waters (Through Friendly Waters) Any Waken Sly Blonda (Whisper Me Wishes) LUV the 303 FOEVA hobbitkiller fucked around with this message at 13:50 on May 24, 2010 |
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New Autechre track/preview droppin' today kids. http://soundcloud.com/warp-records/autechre-y7-move-of-ten/s-7Qeuo http://autechre.ws/move-of-ten/ It sounds pretty cool. Very 303 acid, but with that disjointed Autechre sound. Seems like the ideas are very similar to what was on Oversteps but seems more raw.
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while still not -quite- in the genre, the new Kid606, "Songs About loving Steve Albini" wins album title of the year. http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/Kid606-Songs-About-loving-Steve-Albini
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Genesis P-Ownage posted:New Autechre track/preview droppin' today kids. edgy and not slapping you around like the past few releases have done. Complicated music for complicated people
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eckoelab posted:while still not -quite- in the genre, the new Kid606, "Songs About loving Steve Albini" wins album title of the year. I actually just started listening to that last night. I'm about half way through and I don't even know what to make of it yet. Should probably sit down and listen to the album the whole way through. I've actually been listening to a lot of Mu lately. What a great song to start the summer.
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toadee posted:GX-1 Solo is a Yamaha GX-1. Slightly more than 4 people own one, but it did cost over $70,000 new in the mid 70's. I remember hearing rumors that RDJ's Ebay username was "the rave colonel" or something to that effect, and he had bought one on there for $160,000. Either way, the sound is definitely a GX-1, so it's definitely someone who had $150k+ to blow on a pretty limited analog polysynth. How is the sound "definitely" a GX-1?
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AvidAcid posted:How is the sound "definitely" a GX-1? Because it sounds exactly like the GX-1 on Rick Van Der Linden's 1977 LP 'GX1'. Even the drum machine sounds exactly the same.
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insomne posted:Jesus, I'm laughing at these headphones. They're so dorky but so cool at the same time. Also here's some more from that Metz set. He plays a slowed down version of Vordhosbn at 4 minutes and it sounds pretty awesome. In that youtube link it sounds like he is playing some hard techno kind of stuff in the vein of Surgeon/Regis etc. (for instance at 1:30) I haven't listened to AFX in a bit but is he doing that stuff now? Either way, I'm really liking this as well as that youtube link that was posted on Pitchfork.
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Lump Shaker posted:In that youtube link it sounds like he is playing some hard techno kind of stuff in the vein of Surgeon/Regis etc. (for instance at 1:30) I haven't listened to AFX in a bit but is he doing that stuff now? Either way, I'm really liking this as well as that youtube link that was posted on Pitchfork. It's really a crapshoot as to what rdj will play between classics, new stuff, acid, drill & bass, and yeah sometimes harder tekno like that. He's supposed to be working on a new album right now tho so my guess is next time he tours itll be kind of inspired by whatever that turns out to be like. Are you familiar with Ceephax Acid Crew? The guy is Squarepusher's brother, but don't let that fool ya :p He does more 'idm-y' a la warp / planet mu type stuff but then some to me has a more 'dancey' edge like techno and house that i like.
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insomne posted:I actually just started listening to that last night. I'm about half way through and I don't even know what to make of it yet. Should probably sit down and listen to the album the whole way through. muziq is the absolute fuckin man
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O. Ferfuxaik posted:Ed Harrison Made a really kickass soundtrack for the HL2 mod Neotokyo. It's a steal at $10 for over 2 hours of great music. I googled to see if this had been mentioned anywhere on this forum and I'm glad your post is so recent. This is the only album I've consistently listened to for the past year and I've been kicking myself for never buying the disc when it was on cdbaby. I just bought it off some German reseller on Amazon for £24/$35 and I don't care because its so good. edit: Also if anyone can recommend anything similar to this at all I would like to hear it.
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   top that nerds e: no played out amen breaks neither Fayez Butts fucked around with this message at 05:46 on May 31, 2010 |
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My pal just showed me Dimlite, if you dig Flying Lotus and J Dilla than have a listen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nSmof4OLNo
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Fayez Butts posted:top that nerds Kelpe rules but I dunno man, I don't think it has anything on The Flashbulb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFfAdvGuXoU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Q-y9RxATQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aq9YGCsdSE
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Great IDM release, or Greatest IDM release ever? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ercHzfvT6qY
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Loads of great mentions in this thread and great post to start the thread! An artist that I like and that I think is worth mentioning is Point 7 (http://www.last.fm/music/Point%25207?ac=Point%207) As far as I'm aware this artist has only made one full length album called ''What?'' This is a song from the album that I like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmWO7sP3_Vo
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Hey guys. So I just submitted a playlist to a pretty huge radio station's "chill" block. Let me know what you guys think, I want to impress them! The Flashbulb - Undiscovered Colors Memoryhouse - Bonfire Nosaj Thing - Aquarium Plaid - Eyen Aphex Twin - Xtal Groove Armada - At the River sayCeT - 15 Aether - Orfeu Negro Free the Robots - Diary Lone - Karen Loves Kate insomne fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jun 5, 2010 |
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New Flashbulb. http://theflashbulb.bandcamp.com/album/arboreal
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Jewellers posted:Is Four Tet considered IDM? I've been listening to his latest, There is Love in You, and am really loving it. Any recommendations for other albums of his to listen? I would go listen to Rounds, then Dialogue, then Everything Ecstatic, in that order. Pause is okay, but at that point you've listened to like eighty percent of the guy's album catalogue, and if you really aren't digging it, you should just skip it. Otherwise make sure you check out the Ringer EP and the split he did with Burial recently, then you can go all nerdy and start scouring for everything. Rounds is the closest to the latest album, but I wouldn't call it a retread. It just has the same softness that I felt with There Is Love In You. It gets a little soggy and repetitive in a track or two, but Hands and Unspoken make everything worthwhile. Dialogue is fantastic, and really it has become my favorite the more I go back and listen to it. The focus is definitely shaped by jazz styled percussion, but it's not a pastiche or anything, and easy to overlook the first listen or two. Everything Ecstatic can be pretty hit or miss, and it's definitely the furthest departure from the norm, but if you're trying to get into it you should give it a listen, just for context. Other artists that have been mentioned in here are good places to go from there, especially Manitoba/Caribou and Bibio.
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Where's a good place to start with The Black Dog / Plaid. Their back catalogue is so giant it's hard to tell. If if helps i'm massively into Aphex Twin and all his assorted aliases, Boards Of Canada, Autechre, Flying Lotus, Prefuse 73 and everything in between. Warp is pretty much the best thing in the world is really what I'm saying here. On a similar note I recently purchased this book and am now waiting for it to arrive. Can't wait.
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Taz posted:Where's a good place to start with The Black Dog / Plaid. Their back catalogue is so giant it's hard to tell. For sure, you and I both, although I quite think I'm more into Boards than RDJ. I think I'm basically the biggest Warp nerd ever and I hate myself for it, although I did get to meet Plastikman cause of my Warp shirt, so that's a plus! For Plaid, I personally like Heaven's Door, and then from there I'd go to Double Figure and the Booc EP. For Black Dog, I have no idea, but I've always heard good things about Spanners. I guess that's right around the time that Plaid left, too.
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The new Autechre 10 track is out on bleep. http://bleep.com/index.php?page=release_details&releaseid=25108 I've only listened to a couple tracks but I like what I've heard. Much more beat-oriented then Oversteps, while retaining a pretty similar sound palette. rew(1) is funky as hell. It's practically a FlyLo track!
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Taz posted:Where's a good place to start with The Black Dog / Plaid. Their back catalogue is so giant it's hard to tell. The Warp album 'Spanners', credited to The Black Dog, was my introduction. It doesn't sound super-flash or anything, because this was 1994 and like the earliest Autechre records, plenty of its tracks are stitched together onto tape from a pile of synths in someone's living room, with no ProTools or whatever. But like 'Incunabula', it has a really absorbing atmosphere to it, if a bit more sonic variety, and I'd recommend it readily. 'Bytes' is strictly a compilation and sounds like one, but it's got a nice flow to it, though some of the tracks are audibly a bit lo-fi (not a problem for me). One problem for someone approaching them is understanding all the different names. The original Black Dog (Ken Downie, Andy Turner, Ed Handley) did two records ('Bytes' and 'Spanners') for Warp and at least another two for labels like GPR. After Turner & Handley split from Downie, records released as The Black Dog are Ken Downie working with various people, while Turner & Handley mostly recorded as Plaid, a name they'd already been using since the late 1980s. Plaid have a fairly huge discog, some of which I like more than others. A consistent bitch I have is that their studio albums often seem about 20-30% longer than they need to be. But any of 'Rest Proof Clockwork', 'Double Figure', or 'Not For Threes' has at least four or five heart-stoppingly stunning tracks on them (for 'stunning', think 'abstract melodies and phrases that meet in really emotional ways, I'd-never-have-thought-of-that ways'). I haven't been super-wild about their stuff from 'Spokes' onwards. 'Spokes' itself is not a bad album, but I find it depresses me somewhat: its tunes are fraught and tangled in a way that no longer really appeals. So start with the Warp anthology 'Trainer', which is diverse enough that you're more or less guaranteed to really like -something- on it, and then wander through the other records in any order you like. Ken's work as The Black Dog I'm not so well-acquainted with, it's seemed less to my tastes overall - busier, tougher, denser. You could try 'Silenced', which is new and very reasonably priced, or if you dig around you should find an old copy of 'Music For Adverts', which is thick and disorienting. dfglove fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jun 15, 2010 |
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beepstreet posted:The new Autechre 10 track is out on bleep. Haha what the hell, that's awesome. Probably going to get this, sounds crazy.
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Thanks for the suggestions on those artists guys. Thought I'd give back by noting a semi-local act I really like, Seekae. They're from Sydney and apparently play gigs around uni schedules so I still haven't managed to see them live (I'm in Melbourne) but as soon as they're down here I'm going to be straight on that. As a whole they're pretty chilled, not entirely typical IDM. But then what is typical IDM really. I should point out youtube audio doesn't do these justice, the album's actually really well produced. Some Songs : Stampede - This one builds fairly gradually but when it gets there its great. Bord - Quite BoC influenced I feel. Yurai - I just like this :3 Also he was mentioned in the first post but Tycho isn't getting enough love either, can't wait for his next album which he's said isn't too far off: http://blog.iso50.com/2010/05/19/tycho-album-progress/
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If anybody likes Bibio and Joy Orbison, you should check out Mount Kimbie's new album, Crooks and Lovers! It's not really like the other stuff in this thread, but it fits better here than it does anywhere else. Here's Maybes (not from the new album, and a bit different, but judging by its top spot on last.fm, a good place to start).
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I found some guys named Depth Affect making waves down here in SD and I reallllly am liking them. The style is a bit messy, and in a couple of songs they feature a few MCs, but I think it works quite well. So I guess this is probably the best place to post this. They aren't really well known I don't think so give them a shot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUAaOomV5S0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPgqX-SWgvI
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Daisuke Tanabe is making some pretty awesome ambienty-IDM stuff right now. Sample from his newest album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lPVCLk2yAg Since they haven't been mentioned yet, Mouse on Mars. They've made albums of a lot of different flavors, but Radical Connector is just the catchiest album ever. Sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OiM81jwims Captain Canada fucked around with this message at 10:21 on Jun 21, 2010 |
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It's a disgrace The Flashbulb is listed in the OP as a godfather of IDM. There couldn't be a more derivative and generic sounding copycat that somehow got popular than Mr. Benn Jordan. Believe me I have tried listening to his stuff, but it all comes out sounding empty and devoid of any kind of soul. Music for car ads and National Geographic documentaries is what comes to mind. He has slick production skills, but that's about it. And his "deep and introspective" spiel comes of as insincere and rubs me the wrong way. But I guess it has reeled in enough angst-ridden teens, who also think he's some kind of IDM god, to continue to churn out generic crap. Sorry for the rant. I probably come of as a bitter old fart, but what can you do. With that over, I'd like to echo the appreciation of the unfortunately named genre of IDM. While never a real huge fan Aphex Twin, I preferred the sounds of Squarepusher, who should be in the OP post instead of the goddamn Flashbulb, for the crazy "drill'n'bass" sound. And he plays a mean bass too. Stand out albums by Mr. Tom Jenkinson are Hard Normal Daddy, Ultravisitor and Go Plastic Boards of Canada really hit home and I was once one of those rabid fanboys who examined every little crackle and backmasked voice sample on Geogaddi to find out hidden easter eggs. Still one of the most dense and atmospheric albums to come out from this genre and along with Music Has the Right to Children should be essential listening to anyone who say they like electronic music. The Campfire Headphase is also well worth a listen, even if some people think they went too poppy for that one. I love it. A big fan of Autechre, especially the later stuff that came after Confield. But the Artificial Intelligence era stuff is great in its own right. Still the more abstract and crazy material rocks my boat the most. Was lucky to catch them while living in Ireland during their Untitled tour and it was excellent to hear the pounding machine gun beats in a complete dark room. I think Draft 7.30 is my favourite album of theirs. If the rumours are true that it was sequenced by hand, it's all the more impressive. I think Autechre are at the ones that are still pushing the envelope of this genre. Worth mentioning is that the EP's by them have some of the strongest tracks by them and all well worth checking out. There's a boatload of other artists that I like and some of them have already been mentioned. The now defunct Merck label released some really great albums and there aren't that many misses at all on it. Sending Orbs is probably one of the labels that I keep an eye on now, they release Kettel and Secede and other stuff that is more of the melodic variant. Never been that keen on the crazy beats a'la Venetian Snares and the likes (who IMO is horribly overrated).
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