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Can anyone out there recommend any good Electronica for jaded ears, the last one i enjoyed was Four Tet's futuristichorticulturism!

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ooooohh... any electronica?

I was going to start 100 best electronica albums today and then i forgot to.

I've been pretty behind on it myself considering I was a Warp fanatic only a couple of years ago. It's when it all started splitting off into glitch and microhouse that i got put off.

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't think fourtet is electronica?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

what is it then? metal?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Electronica is rather, er, broad... you looking for Four Tet-type stuff? Beats and melodies?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Laptronica. Folktronica. He uses a laptop and samples and real instruments - 'electronica' is a good catch-all term, I'd say. Certainly better than any of the shite, too=specific neologisms, or 'IDM'.

Anyway. I'd make a list seeing as I love Four Tet, but my mind's a blank. Look into Manitoba's last album.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahah, surprise surprise, Nick & Mark both pop up on a Four Tet thread within seconds.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

fourtet is mostly acoustic sounds and samples. electronica makes me think of the chemical brothers.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

check out icarus - i tweet the birdy electric

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

btw, kieren hebden of fourtet is a big fan of icarus, so it may be right up your alley

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:53 (twenty-one years ago)

mum - finally we are no-one
brian eno - apollo
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92 / volume 2
future sound of london - lifeforms
global communication - 76 : 14
susuma yokota - sakura
mu-ziq - royal astronomy
autechre - amber and incunabula
boards of canada - music has the right to children and geogaddi
plaid - double figure
two lone swordsmen - blue bag of sparks ep
black dog - bytes
the orb - adventures beyond the ultraworld

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Bands and artists that I like and who are similar to Four Tet;

Manitoba (more guitars)
Susumu Yokota (more ambient)
Plaid (more electronic)
Mouse On Mars (more German)
Fennesz (more abstract)
Prefuse 73 (more hiphop)
Orbital (more house/rave/epic)
Luke Vibert (more acid)
The Postal Service (more indie - see also Music A.M)
Adem (more folk)
Aphex twin (more nuts)
Boards Of Canada (more scary)
Junior Boys (more pop)

x-post

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

SN totally and utterly OTM.

Imagine all that in a tent in one evening.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 6 May 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Telefon Tel Aviv's first album (Fahrenheit Fair Enough) is gold.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Ulrich Schnauss is my favorite new electronic artist in ages. Real melodic stuff with HOOKS... if Boards were less into glitch and hip hop and more into OMD perhaps?

Also, Colleen on Leaf... the loop manipulation is stunning.

― hector savage, Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Try various things at boomkat.com

they have a flash player that'll play you snippets of tracks.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

also:

m83 - dead cities...
biosphere - substrata

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that ulrich schnauss stuff is all beautiful and shoegazery

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

third eye foundation - you guys kill me

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

everything off the inflatabl label has been pretty good so far, including:

rip off artist - new clear days
vauxhall 44 - sub-i
hdj tom - taste

― twelve, Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

try some of the stuff on Benbecula Records - christ., frogpocket, reverbaphon, that kind of thing

also, a bit of bovine life or si-cut.db

― coco, Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.melodic.co.uk kinda fills this hole in my life. pedro. minotaur shock, lucky pierre .. all fine fine stuff. sure there are good to go mp3's on the labels website.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that tracks for horses comp, mark. no mention of it on ILM until now.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no good electronica because there is no electronica because IT'S THE DUMBEST GENRE NAME EVER FFS.

Anyway.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, ned. electronic music, please.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

no electronica thread should be a miss without links to:

http://www.tefosav.co.uk
and
http://www.zebox.com/autofire

:-)

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

cutty. then you should grab the labels first comp .. Roomful of Tuneful .. tis a better set of tracks methinks. and the new baikonour remix ep is superb stuff (details and interviews with pedro/mino shock @ usual place) .. just glad to see some Melodic love on ILM ..

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i will check it out.. FOR SURE

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder how much the difficulty of talking about this stuff (b/c no one has come up w/ widely accepted genre labels) has held it back. We've been going back and forth about what to call this music for years.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the finest electronic albums of 2004:

Claro Intelecto - Neurofibro
http://www.boomkat.com/artist.cfm?artist=CLARO%20INTELECTO

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

If you like Four Tet, you should check out 310. "After All", their latest LP, is their most accessible and trip-hoppy work. Their previous LPs are more experimental/ambient, but great anyway. 310 have an uncanny ability to produce music that's both abstract and emotional, melancholic soundscapes with kicking beats.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 6 May 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Metamatics!
+
Sk/um í Þágu fallsins
Deaf Center Neon City
Ambidextrous Errorism
Kuchen Kids with Sticks
Kazumasa Hashimoto Yupi
Fizzarum Monochrome Plural

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 6 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

electronica's a better name than IDM, ned

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with Industrial Dance Music?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 May 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Vladislav Delay!

― ghostbusta, Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

While possessing not even a tenuous connection to electronica, The Books are likely to appeal to most fans of what is being discussed here, whatever that may be.

― minolta (minolta), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

fourtet is more like the books than electronica.

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 6 May 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Via Boomkat, I recently discovered Xela. I think his "For Frosty Mornings and Summer Nights" was one of their faves of 2003, and it is very lovely. There's a more recent album called "Tangled Wool" but I think I prefer FFMaSN.

The recent Remote Viewer album is nice too.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Thursday, 6 May 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

You know about Funckarma?

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 6 May 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the new remote viewer makes it sound like they've been listening to mum.
random numbers 'towards the forlorn society', another great hood side project.
when's the next hood album come out then?

― keith m (keithmcl), Thursday, 6 May 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Names electronical is better than:

-IDM
-Micro-house
-Undie Rap

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 7 May 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Plej

― the Amoral Jawn, Friday, 7 May 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

gamers in exile (!!)

― will bruce, Friday, 7 May 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Hans Appelqvist is sometimes trespassing Four Tets territory. Sometimes not. But if you're into this kind of "folktronica" or whateveryoucallit, you have to check it out now.

― Kaiser of Köln (Kaiser of Köln), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, a new Christian Kleine album!

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?merchID=13665

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

HOLA YO RIGHT-CLICK ON DIS LINK 4 SUM K-COOL AMBIENT TEHCNO ISH MANG I JUST NEED A DJ NAME NOW!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

more love for the rather ace Styrofoam (on Morr, natch) please

― the 'surface' 'noise' (electricsound), Saturday, 8 May 2004 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anybody else get the Starving But Happier! compilation? Brilliant Four-Tet-like indietronica, featuring Wixel, Hans Appleqvist, Calamarshape Superashtray, Flim and loads of other artists worthy of yr attention. I was gonna link it, but it looks like it's been taken down.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 8 May 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

here's the link that works: http://sbh.gs.b34tz.net/www/pages/album.php?id_album=22

― roland, Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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