Aphex Twin / Boards of Canada

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Hello. I just wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of any good artists/bands. I'm looking for stuff that's along the lines of 'Boards of Canada'/'Aphex Twin'. Any recommended tunes, albums, bands or whatever would be most welcome.

Thank you.

― $50 (Relish), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd start at www.boomkat.com. It's a specialist electronica / weirdness shop. They have snippets of tracks from most things they stock so it'd be a good place to start checking things out without having to buy. check.

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

is it intelligent dance music you are after?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

autechre - amber and incunabula
susuma yokota - sakura
black dog - bytes
plaid - double figure
biosphere - substrata
mu-ziq - royal astronomy
two lone swordsmen - blue bag of sparks ep
third eye foundation - you guys kill me

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

you'll like christ, certainly. there's an LP called something like metamorphic reproduction miracle. get that.

and then go back in time to the 1970s for these four, all of which are easily available on CD:

tangerine dream: phaedra and rubycon
the human league: reproduction and travelogue

that should keep you in happy awe for a wee bit.

― grimly fiendish, Friday, 24 September 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

f.o.y. - silicon vortex
laurent garnier - cycles d'opposition
brothom states - dozeinaday
kinesthesia - kobal
ulrich schnauss - knuddlemauss

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Go to the Warp Records site -- look and listen. You will probably like a lot of it.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

the first isan ablum.

― :| (....), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

also, for aphex style drill n bass go to http://planet-mu.com and listen to everythign.

― :| (....), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

or if you're into boards of canada drill'n'bass go to the first animals on wheels cd and ep/

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

and the Amen andrews stuff on Rephlex records. In fact check Rephlex too. http://www.rephlex.com/

― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

wot have you actually heard that you like? i mean spec recrds

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't remember specific Aphex Twin song titles (i'd like to know who can)that i like except Alberto Balsalm, Xtal, Analogue Bubblebath...that kind of stuff. I suppose Ambient would be the best word to use, but i'm not keen on that word. Stuff that sounds like it could be a film soundtrack, that has some sort of melody but also plays with sound and doesn't have any vocals. I know that sounds a bit wanky, but that's what i like (like some Royksopp stuff eg. 'So Easy' - i'm a big fan of that record).

I'm open to all sorts of music in that general direction and the answers so far have been brilliant - just what i needed as i do need to broaden my limited scope!

Thank you.

― Steve Blackwell (Relish), Friday, 24 September 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i find Funfair by Child's View very very pretty.

or even 94diskont by Oval

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 24 September 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

At boomkat.com, check out the new Kelpe - Sea Inside Body. On his blog, Philip Sherburne calls it something like the best album BoC hasn't made in years. He's right.

― Curt (cgould), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Bola on Skam have 2 awesome albums. very much in the vain of BoC but somehow come across a bit more reflective, not as childish (well, no samples of children). you also want to find the As One - Relfections CD and the first two B.12 albums. good luck.

― biznotic, Friday, 24 September 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the maps and diagrams album "polyuft-tech" as well.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

SERIOUSLY, check out Telefon Tel Aviv on Hefty. Great beats and programming, fantastic melodies, and a soothing atmosphere while still being interesting. Oh, only the first album though, the second one is a vocal album and kinda sucks. Also, *cough*.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Bola's "Soup" 2nded

― oops (Oops), Friday, 24 September 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

check out those two tracks that sherburne has up on his site the Ekkehard Ehlers things.

http://phs.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004108.html

Also check out Ulrich Schnauss both the albums are good as far as I am concerned.

― hector (hector), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Squarepusher, "Big Loada" CD

― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHA today is all about IDM revivalism on ILM.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

www.igloomag.com

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 25 September 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHA today is all about IDM revivalism on ILM.
-- Disco Nihilist (current31...), September 25th, 2004.

IDMs NOT DEAD (aphex logo in place of anarchy symbol)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

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