Best Ever Albums

Re: Electronica

Charicature — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:36:01 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 06/15/2009 12:36

Jesus Jones, which should be known I like them by now. Particularly good electronica from them are February (off their 4th album Already), Motion (also from Already), all of their 3rd album Perverse (especially The Devil You Know, Zeroes and Ones, Magazine, The Right Decision, and Idiot Stare), and b-sides Natural State of Gray and Change of Seasons.

Also like some of Tricky, Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Crystal Method. Pop Will Eat Itself is a little more sampling than pure electronica, but close enough, and they're great at it. Really like Gary Numan, going old school. I'm willing to bet he's one of the biggest influences on all the groups in the 90s - I know a large number of them contributed to the Gary Numan tribute album (Random) which was a double-CD jobber.

Tops of all, though, is Depeche Mode, particularly pre-90s.

Re: Electronica

Norman Bates — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:58:35 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 06/15/2009 10:58

Björk - Homogenic.
Boards Of Canada - Music has the right to children.
The Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole.
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James lp.
Richard Davis - Details.
Superpitcher - Here comes love.
Ivan Smagghe & Chloé - The Dysfunctional family.
Daft Punk - Homework.
Autechre - ep7.
Leila - Courtesy of choice.

Re: Electronica

teodor_matz — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:48:07 GMT

Author: teodor_matz

Posted: 04/15/2009 20:48

yeah i have to get that one to, haven't heard it yet... They actualy had a idea that The Black Room would be a collaboration with Extreme Noise Terror and they even performed together at the Brit Awards.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_WJmllicQU

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:21:07 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 04/14/2009 17:21

Also, I want to get "Chill Out" (the album that came before The White Room) a lot. It's much more ambient oriented than the house/dance music of The White Room.

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 13:20:01 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 04/14/2009 17:20

I know! When i read about that it made me a little sad. I love the KLF's work but there personalities were so explosive, diverse, and far out from the norm that there was no way they could have put up with the money-making centered big labels forever. They even deleted all the master tracks and backing tracks from their albums on the computers.

Re: Electronica

teodor_matz — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:16:38 GMT

Author: teodor_matz

Posted: 04/13/2009 17:16

Yeah it's really great, they were working on a follow up called The Black Room that was going to be an Hardcore techno album, but they retired from music before they finished it 🙁

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:41:05 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 04/13/2009 12:41

I love that album. What Time is Love?, Last to Transcentral, and Justified and Ancient are my favorites on there.

Re: Electronica

teodor_matz — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 15:58:51 GMT

Author: teodor_matz

Posted: 04/12/2009 19:58

The White Room by The KLF is my favourite electronica album for the moment

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:16:53 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 04/12/2009 02:16

I got U.F.Orb by The Orb this morning and just had my first full listen through of the album and it's fantastic. It's almost 120 minutes long, another double LP following their debut which is about the same length, and it follows the debut by less 8 months. It seems unreal that a band was able to make 2 double LPs both close to 2 hours that are both fantastic albums. The Orb's Adventures... invented Ambient House and U.F.Orb further defined Ambient House and created a new form of Ambient Dub.

Both are highly recommended

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:02:42 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 04/11/2009 20:02

Yea, they are very different to same the least but it seems as though every artist who makes a great album in the electronica genre is not your average every day person.

Re: Electronica

joannajewsom — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:53:39 GMT

Author: joannajewsom

Posted: 04/11/2009 19:53

Homogenic is brilliant. One of the best albums of the 90s.

And the KLF sounds freaking awesome.

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:06:25 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 04/11/2009 18:06

I just got:

Basement Jaxx - Remedy
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
Bjork - Homogenic
The Orb - U.F.Orb
Apehx Twin - Richard D. James Album
Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
Plastikman - Musik
Plastikman - Consumed

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Thu, 9 Apr 2009 22:48:16 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 04/10/2009 02:48

Here's something interesting i just read about The KLF, a highly popular electronic band in Britian between 1988 to 1994.

"From the outset, they adopted the philosophy espoused by esoteric novel series The Illuminatus! Trilogy, gaining notoriety for various anarchic situationist manifestations, including the defacement of billboard adverts, the posting of prominent cryptic advertisements in NME magazine and the mainstream press, and highly distinctive and unusual performances on Top of the Pops. Their most notorious performance was at the February 1992 BRIT Awards, where they fired machine gun blanks into the audience and dumped a dead sheep at the aftershow party. This performance announced The KLF's departure from the music business, and in May 1992 the duo deleted their entire back catalogue."

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_klf

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:28:44 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 04/07/2009 17:28

I've been listening to more techno lately (basically 90s electronica/rave sped up really fast) and i really like it. Techno seems to get a bad wrap for whatever reason but theres some really talent in the genre. In particular I like:

Moby
Plastikman
Derrick May
Juan Atkins
Inner City
The Black Dog (AKA Black Dog Productions)
Frankie Knuckles
Moodymann
Underworld

Re: Electronica

NowhereMan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:17:42 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 03/31/2009 09:17

I shall check out a few of the artists, thanks... 😄

Re: Electronica

bc1991 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:02:36 GMT

Author: bc1991

Posted: 03/30/2009 23:02

The term electronica can be a little confusing, but I think lastfm did a great job on the definition:

http://www.last.fm/tag/electronica/wiki

Anyway, there are so many great artists, a few I really like:

Autrechre
Aphex Twin
Squarepusher
Venetian Snares
Stars of the Lid
Gas
Alva Noto
Beefcake
Black Sun Empire
Boards of Canada
Byetone
Global Communication
Tim Hecker
Oval
Proem
Amon Tobin

Re: Electronica

RFNAPLES — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:24:56 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 03/30/2009 19:24

Check these out:

Basement Jaxx-Remedy
Björk-Homogenic
Daft Punk-Homework
DJ Shadow-Endtroducing...
Kraftwerk-Autobahn
Massive Attack-Blue Lines
Massive Attack-Mezzanine
The Chemical Brothers-Dig Your Own Hole
The Orb-The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Tricky-Maxinquaye

Re: Electronica

Mr.Music — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:43:02 GMT

Author: Mr.Music

Posted: 03/30/2009 17:43

Ricardo Villalobos - Achso EP
Its my all time favorite.

Re: Electronica

JohnnyRocketFingers — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:15:37 GMT

Author: JohnnyRocketFingers

Posted: 03/30/2009 17:15

Not really. To get an idea of what is electronica look at it on AllMusic.com under genres. The following artists are some of the best from the genre.

The Orb
Goldie
The KLF
Orbital
Oval
Autechre
Boards of Canada
Primal Scream
Mouse on Mars
u-ziq
Chemical Brothers
Basement Jaxx
Aphex Twin
Amon Tobin
Prodigy
Leftfield

Re: Electronica

NowhereMan — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:02:52 GMT

Author: NowhereMan

Posted: 03/30/2009 09:02

Could you class the Gorillaz as Electronica?

As I am fond of them 😄