Electronic Music Appreciation Topic

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DeepR

Discussion Starter · Mar 9, 2015

There are several topics where electronic music can be posted and discussed, but these topics are still related to genres and I feel that is limiting.

In here you can post and talk about anything you like that is (largely) electronic. Just two rules:
1. Post one piece at a time
2. Say in a few words why you like it

Go!

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DeepR

Discussion Starter · #2 · Mar 9, 2015

I will start.
Here's a piece I like very much from a relatively obscure electronic/synth composer Paul Ellis. It's obviously inspired by the "Berlin School" music from the 70s, but it adds something fresh.
This is music you have to listen to with headphones, loud. It's a very visceral experience to me. I love its sounds and the way it slowly evolves and grows ever more intense, with added and changing layers. It creates structures.
Harmonically it may be monotonous, repetitive, without key changes, but I don't have a problem with that as long as the rest is so exciting.

Paul Ellis - Shining (with a cool video as well)

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DeepR

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 9, 2015

Pete Namlook (R.I.P.) & Move D - "Hardwired - Hypotenuse"

Some sort of deep techno track, has a really cool and peculiar vibe to it.

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MagneticGhost

· #4 · Mar 9, 2015 (Edited)

^^^ was enjoyable and I agree with what you say re. Build up and layers. But a few harmonic shifts would have worked wonders for me. But thanks for posting. I'm on iPhone so will have to wait till I can post any vids.

Referring to post#2

Albert7

· #5 · Mar 9, 2015

This piece makes me zone out so well. Anything on Warp Records means quality to me.

Plone is incredible. Subtle colors and just lovely lovely melodic lines.

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G

· #6 · Mar 10, 2015

My bid for obscure album:

Orr

by Gilbert/Hampson/Kendall

Dim7

· #7 · Mar 10, 2015

This is what I listened to in my early teens:

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G

· #8 · Mar 10, 2015

Dim7 said:
This is what I listened to in my early teens:

Good grief! I had his first two albums. Damned groovy stuff!

quack

· #9 · Mar 10, 2015

I love me some electronica but I seem doomed to forever forget the names of good artists.

Stroboscopic Artefacts is a great German label for some deep dubby techno:

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Albert7

· #10 · Mar 10, 2015

I consider acid jazz to be electronic music although perhaps too traditional? Here is a lovely album for your enjoyment guys.

Samples and turntables used I think for Mark Farina?

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Tristan

· #11 · Mar 20, 2015

I tend to like electronic dance music more than other types of electronic, but it's a very large genre and plenty I haven't heard. It's all about the different textures in electronic music for me. It all may be one instrument, the synthesizer, but it's a very capable instrument. People underestimate the effort that goes into producing electronic music. This is one of my favorite songs, mainly because of the pentatonic themes used in it:

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mogsie

· #12 · Mar 20, 2015 (Edited)

personally ime not a big fan of electronic music in general but i am however a fan of kraftwerk, and also as a longtime radiohead fan, theit later albums which where touching on the electro side, i do also plan at sometime to have a listen to kiasmos, but thats only because ime a big fan of olafur arnaulds.

Albert7

· #13 · Mar 21, 2015

Here is the next volume of Mushroom Jazz that I dig.

MJongo

· #14 · Mar 21, 2015

I looooooove space music.
BTW, DeepR, are you a fan of Steve Roach? Your avatar looks like one of his albums.

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Weston

· #15 · Mar 21, 2015 (Edited)

Hey, Albert. DeepR asked for one piece at a time. It's easy to forget in all the excitement, but I understand the reason.

I've grown to love electronica now that it has more sug-genres than there are stars in the galaxy. I don't care at all for the type of dance music that goes THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP mmm THUMP

, but other stuff is really fun for this older codger who remembers when synths were so new they actually frightened people.

So, though I love glitch, dubstep, ambient and newer stuff I don't even have a name for I'll start with really old school. Though it incorporates a little acoustic piano too, here's what electronica was for us in the 70s. (There are three pieces in the video, but the first one is representative and all I intended.)

[Edit: YT videos are starting to sound harsh and glaringly digital to my ears lately. What have they done? Compressed everything to death?]

Oh - I'm supposed to say why I like it. It's one of the first pieces I ever heard using completely synthesized percussion. I'm sure it's not THE first. Just the first I heard., and I have fond memories of hearing it surrounded by black light posters in a haze of incense and other smolderings. Also I think it's in 6/8? which is a little unusual for any kind of non-classical. No - I think it's polyrhythmic. Or maybe just 4/4 with triplets or different accents. Okay, I give up.

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DeepR

Discussion Starter · #16 · Mar 21, 2015

"The Dark Side of the Moog" series by Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook are worth checking out. Here is the lush and laidback part IX:

Could've been a soundtrack for soft erotica or something, but in a good way.

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DeepR

Discussion Starter · #17 · Mar 21, 2015

MJongo said:
I looooooove space music.
BTW, DeepR, are you a fan of Steve Roach? Your avatar looks like one of his albums.

Yes I am, yes it is.

I love the Constance Demby piece you posted as well. It has a soul stirring climax. It's largely improvised and made with the first generation of digital sampler synths. I posted it some time on the classical forums and it got trashed. Posting it in that forum was a bad idea, perhaps. But it's a pity some people are so biased against ambient, new age etc. and can't recognize its qualities. If you listen only once you're not going to hear it.

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Weston

· #18 · Mar 21, 2015

Here's a piece by Bluetech that combines an almost ambient or chill mood with some of the cool sounds I enjoy from the glitch sub-genre, but not overly harsh and a lot more melodically then say Autechre has done lately. (Although I really enjoy Autechre too.)

On a side note, it's getting hard to find single tracks on YT lately. People want to post full albums. I almost miss the days before 3 and 4 hour videos were allowed. It should be more about promoting than piracy.

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quack

· #19 · Mar 21, 2015

For some beautiful minimal electronica Alva Noto is a good place to listen. His collaborations with Ryuichi Sakamoto on Satie-like delicate piano works are great.

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DeepR

Discussion Starter · #20 · Mar 21, 2015

Dim7 said:
This is what I listened to in my early teens:

I was super hyped about Shpongle for a while (=Simon Posford (Hallucinogen) and some other hippie). It has largely lost its appeal to me. This track however still holds up today. It's just a fantastic journey with an incredible amount of detail.

And The Day Turned To Night

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