The Official Electronic Music Thread v. Bring yer glowsticks!

[Volk9]

I searched to see if we had a thread dedicated to electronic music, but alas, we didnt.

But now we do

Anyways, techno and trance were two of the first genres of music that I really got into. From there I moved into DJ/breakbeat stuff, and finally into trip hop, acid jazz, and other downtempo music.

Favorite artists are below

Techno/Trance

Ferry Corsten
ATB
Tiesto

House

Daft Punk
Les Rythmes Digitales

Breakbeat

DJ Krush
DJ Shadow

Other

Boards of Canada
Massive Attack
Thievery Corporation
Cinematic Orchastra
Telepopmusik
Portishead
Goldfrapp

[In The Wake Of Poseidon]

Best electronic album evah, BT - This Binary Universe. That album really is something else, get it in 5.1 if you can. It is just one of those albums that is beyond simple explanations and classifications.

[Gwii]

PENDULUM!

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I just got their live CD/DVD and it's amazing.  If you've never heard them, go look up the song "The Tempest" on youtube.



Other bands:

Daft Punk (I enjoy them a little, but they're overrated/there's much better electronic music out there)
Massive Attack
Shpongle
Venetian Snares




I expected that list to be longer... which means I need more of this style of music.  Recommendations anyone? 

[LTE]

I don't REALLY like most electronic music.

But I REALLY like anything by

Aphex Twin (specifically his ambient stuff)
and Massive Attack

Also I found this guy Benn Jordan, I guess he has an alias Flashbulb?, but yeah he did this INCREDIBLE ambient album that was a tribute to Carl Sagan.

[Sigz]

Aphex Twin is great. I saw Infected Mushroom live last year, they were fantastic. I don't really know anything else, I have to get some of the stuff in this thread.

[Volk9]

I expected that list to be longer... which means I need more of this style of music.  Recommendations anyone?  

Well, depends on what you're looking for.

A great French house artist named Les Rhythmes Digitales is fantastic. His music sounds retro, and yet modern. The samples are playful and add a lot to the music, and he has a great sound all around. Definately check out the album Darkdancer (the cover looks cheesy, but its worth it. Highly recommended)

Since you like Massive Attack, you may like Portishead also (though they dont have much in common. Check out their self-titled album. Also, you may like Tricky, who is on of the members of Massive Attack. His album Maxinquaye is a great place to start.

Also, I'd recommend Boards of Canada. Very experimental and they come up with some crazy stuff. Geogaddi or Music has a Right to Children are both good places to start.

[Gwii]

Thanks I'll check those out 



@ Sigz: I like Infected Mushroom too (although I don't have any of their music anymore).

[In The Wake Of Poseidon]

Here are my favorite electronic albums:

BT - This Binary Universe
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Portishead - S/T, 3
Massive Attack - Mezzanine, Blue Lines
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... (This can be considered Hip Hop more than electronic)
Supersilent - 6 (Free Improvisation, Electronic, Experimental Rock, Ambient, Avant-Garde Jazz, Electronic, what more could a man want?)
 

[ariich]

Major lack of Shpongle in your list Volk.

[Zantera]

Pendulum - might be considered Drum N Bass, or just Electronic-Rock.
Anyways, they're legen...wait for it... dary (as Barney Stinson would have put it).
In Silico is an amazing album, and worth checking out actualleh. (The Tempest, Visions espec.)

Radiohead/Thom Yorke - the electronic albums. (Kid A/Amnesiac, parts of Hail to the thief/In Rainbows)
Might also mention The Eraser by RH-frontman Thom Yorke, it's an electronic-masterpiece.

Bass Communion - Ambient/noisy/dark etc, this sideproject by SW is a pearl.
Ghosts On Magnetic Tape and Molotov And Haze are 2 amazing albums.

Pure Reason Revolution - Progressive Rock, but a very electronic sound. they rock.

[Volk9]

Massive Attack - Mezzanine, Blue Lines
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing..... (This can be considered Hip Hop more than electronic)

Three of my favorite albums right there

Major lack of Shpongle in your list Volk.

I still havent really tried them out too much yet. Which of their many albums would you recommend?

Bass Communion - Ambient/noisy/dark etc, this sideproject by SW is a pearl.
Ghosts On Magnetic Tape and Molotov And Haze are 2 amazing albums.

I really like his first self-titled. The long version of Drugged is phenomenal!

[YtseBitsySpider]

Do Ozric Tentacles count?
Maxxess
Access Maxxess

[ariich]

Major lack of Shpongle in your list Volk.

I still havent really tried them out too much yet. Which of their many albums would you recommend?

Well, they only have four, plus a remix album. They're all pretty great, I'm not such a fan of their first album (Are You Shpongled) but some hardcore electronica fans seem to prefer it, presumably because they don't like their music "diluted" with other styles and ideas. But my favourite is definitely Tales of the Inexpressible, and Nothing Lasts... and the new one, Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland are also great.

[Volk9]

Major lack of Shpongle in your list Volk.

I still havent really tried them out too much yet. Which of their many albums would you recommend?

Well, they only have four, plus a remix album. They're all pretty great, I'm not such a fan of their first album (Are You Shpongled) but some hardcore electronica fans seem to prefer it, presumably because they don't like their music "diluted" with other styles and ideas. But my favourite is definitely Tales of the Inexpressible, and Nothing Lasts... and the new one, Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland are also great.

I listened to the first two songs in their secondd album. Not bad at all. I may look into the rest.

[FiberglassMoon]

Airbase
Tiesto
Chicane
Infected Mushroom are a few of my favs

[jag66]

Pendulum - might be considered Drum N Bass, or just Electronic-Rock.
Anyways, they're legen...wait for it... dary (as Barney Stinson would have put it).
In Silico is an amazing album, and worth checking out actualleh. (The Tempest, Visions espec.)

I much prefered the first album "hold your colour".

I just got their live CD/DVD and it's amazing.  If you've never heard them, go look up the song "The Tempest" on youtube.

Yeah, that's sweet.. a biref master of puppets cover even! Plus their live standards "blood sugar" and voodoo people cover are  .


Anyone got any Aphex twin recommendations.. I have Richard D James (and come to daddy, windowlicker and the like on mp3).

I keep meaning to get that DJ shadow album. Similar stuff, anyone like UNKLE?

[Volk9]

Yeah, I have UNKLE's album Psyence Fiction. Great album. My favorite song off there is definately Bloodstain; haunting, beautiful, dark. Everything I love

[In The Wake Of Poseidon]

If anyone is interested I wrote a review of This Binary Universe. If you love electronic music I highly recommend that album.

[Jamesman42]

SQUAREPUSHER!

Also:

Boards of Canada
Aphex Twin
Mira Calix

[Volk9]

Anyone have any good recommendations for dance techno/trance?

[ben_1112]

Been getting really into the whole electro scene lately, plus I love dancing so it was bound to happen eventually.  I'm more into the progressive house/trance than straight up house or trance, but it's all good.  I'm assuming most people know the bigger names like Tiesto and Armin van Buuren, so here's some from other great producers...

Trance:

Gareth Emery is a sick DJ... saw him spin on New Year's Eve, most epic experience of my life, no joke.  Check out "Metropolis" and "Mistral", pumpin tunes!
Ashley Wallbridge - Chimera, Shotokan, Harrier
Alex M.O.R.P.H. - Sunset Boulevard
Sander van Doorn - Bliksem, Ninety
Arnej - The Return, Dust In The Wind
Ferry Corsten - Twice In A Blue Moon, Shanti, hell most of his stuff is top notch
Menno de Jong - Last Light Tonight

House:

Armand Van Helden, great dancing music!
Pryda - Waves, Genesis
Jerome Isma-Ae - Hold That Sucker Down (intense track!)
Wippenberg - Chakalaka, Pong, both catchy as fuck
Deadmau5 - not a huge fan of most of his stuff, but he's got some good tunes.  "Faxing Berlin", "Arguru", "Strobe"

I could go on and on, but that should do for starters.

[Volk9]

Not "exactly" the right place for this, but a Massive Attack-Mezzanine Survivor is up now

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=9705.0

[Gwii]

Anyone want to try to explain some of the differences between the sub genres of electronic music?

[Portrucci]

I'd really like some dark ambient electronic stuff (hard to describe). Does anyone know of stuff remotely like that? 

[Gwii]

I'd really like some dark ambient electronic stuff (hard to describe). Does anyone know of stuff remotely like that? 

Ulver - Perdition City

[Portrucci]

I'd really like some dark ambient electronic stuff (hard to describe). Does anyone know of stuff remotely like that? 

Ulver - Perdition City

Great suggestion. Unfortunately that is already one of my favourite albums of all time  Something similar though would be excellent

[Gwii]

Check out Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett and My Downfall by Venetian Snares.  It's more breakbeat influenced, but very dark.


edit: here's a song to check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9beA88_66c

[Portrucci]

Check out Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett and My Downfall by Venetian Snares.  It's more breakbeat influenced, but very dark.


edit: here's a song to check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9beA88_66c

cheers for that Gwii! really liking this album (Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett) 

[Volk9]

Anyone else here like Brian Eno?

My favorite album is Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, my favorite song off there being An Ending (Ascent)

[Portrucci]

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[Gwii]

Check out Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett and My Downfall by Venetian Snares.  It's more breakbeat influenced, but very dark.


edit: here's a song to check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9beA88_66c

cheers for that Gwii! really liking this album (Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett) 

Awesome 

My Downfall is sort of sequel/response to RCAS, so I would recommend checking that out later on, once RCAS sinks in a bit.

[Nihil-Morari]

Wow, some great names here: I love electronic music, mostly the ambient side of it:

Bass Communion
Brian Eno
Klaus Schulze
Steve Roach
Robert Rich

But I've recently gotten into somewhat harder electronics:
Otto Von Schirach
The Quemists
Merzbow
LeLe

For anyone wanting to get into some light electronic ambience, try the Fahrenheit Project CD's. They're mixtapes of great ambient pieces, all flowing into one another. Which results in one massive, hour long ambient trip. With names like Chi-AD, Aes Dana, Solar Fields, Hol Baumann, Robert Rich a.o.

[Volk9]

Brian Eno

Whats your favorite album from him?

[Nihil-Morari]

Thursday Afternoon

by far. I can listen to that every night.

[Super Dude]

myspace.com/deadmau5

End of story.

Though I also found this quite catchy/cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zherMkcXdo