C90: Best of New Electro

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broaden my horizons.

fritz, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i like fischerspooner a lot...("emerge" was my single of this year and last year when it was on a white label) their lp is loads of fun but hard to come by.i prefer them to ladytron who are a bit too retro- futurist for my liking (sounding like visage in places). dave clarke`s world service mix has a full cds worth of modern electro, which is pretty damn spiffing. other than that and his electro boogie mixes, new electro seems very scarce on the ground. so c`mon folks where can i get my hands on some modern QUALITY electro/synth pop?

nelly, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

'Harlot' - Felix da Housecat; 'Frank Sinatra' - Miss Kittin & The Hacker; 'Eye Contact' - The Other People Place; new Drexciya and Japanese Telecom albums supposed to be great though I haven't heard them yet, so can't vouch for them. Also would add Air's 'Electronic Performers' as good example of New Electro.

Omar, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm not vouching for their comprehensiveness, but XLR8R did an issue on electro not long ago, and you can probably see at least a list of artist names on their mag website.

Mickey Black Eyes, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Definitely second Dave Clarke's World Service comp - the Fischerspooner track is classic '80s electro updated for the future w/o ironic trappings. Mind you, the GD Luxxe effort trumps even that.

baboon, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

This new electro thing is kind of new synthpop yes, not another electro revival a la Jedi Knights?

I heard that Fischerspooner track. They've got the music down pat but I don't think they've got the voices for it.

"Ironic trappings" are of course the great Satan of this revival but they're actually very hard to find, in practise - I can't think of any of this stuff which sounds 'ironic' (maybe Zoot Woman are, not heard them!)

Tom, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I haven't heard any of this stuff. I've just read a couple of articles touting Fischerspooner et al. I imagine it as being a cross between the two reference points Tom mentions (synthpop & early hip hop), perhaps? I might be way off. I'm picturing The Normal remixed by The Egyptian Lover.

fritz, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Harlot is great. Justin Robertsons remix is great too. Alot of Kittenz and the Glitz is what I thought New Electro was. Am I right? Silver Screen Shower Scene prime example.

Ronan, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Ladomat label.

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dopplereffekt were an interesting nu-electro group from a while ago. Most of their output was compiled on the 1999 album "Gesamkunstwerk" on International Deejay Gigolo Records. Tracks such as "Pornoviewer" predate the current vogue for sleazy electro by a few years. However I'm very wary of some of their other songtitles. Let's hope they were being ironic when they came up with titles such as "Eugenics" and "Sterilization".

Mark Dixon, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Haven't heard it myself, but word is that Adult album is awesome.

Tim, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Check out the albums from Radioactive Man (by the way this was voted the best electronic album of the year by Hot Press magazine in Ireland) - a favourite track is uranium - strange intro vocal style and deep electro grooves, the whole album for me evokes a future utopian other world where cutting edge modern architecture exists.

Bolz Bolz - Human Race - from Germany (there is excellent track on the album called Take a Walk - that has massive epic slabs of electronic sounds - the whole album is futuristic, uptempo and highly addictive)

and The Advent - Time Trap Technik (yep you can hear the German influences on this instrumental album - Kraftwerk/ Anthony Rother - but I rate this album as an excellent sandwich between 2000 Two Lone Swordsmen album and 2001 Radioactive album.

I have heard a few tracks by Adult, a Detroit based - although yet to hear the album, Resusciation - a few others on ILM e.g Brian M rates Adult highly. Imagine Ladytron but with more of darker and deeper edge. I noticed that NME name checked them this week - as ones to watch in 2002.

DJ Martian, Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The Adult. compilation that came out last year is my latest fave in the nu electro scene, but I've been obsessing over the Disco Nouveau compilation on Ghostly International a great deal lately, so Adult. are about to be dethroned. (The live review that ran in the NME a couple wks bk was from Disco Nouveau's release party, which the article failed to mention -- Adult. are on the disc.)

As Mike Taylor will tell you, the I-F fella has been doing it for a looong time, and his Mixed Up at the Hague mix is like a Nuggets for electro freaks.

Other faves: Aux 88, Ectomorph, the aforementioned D'effekt, and... of course... the almighty Drexciya.

Does Monifah's "Touch It" qualify as nu electro? If you sample Laid Back that liberally, I'd say so.

Andy K., Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I like the Other People Place record that came out this year, but I haven't heard it talked about AT ALL! Does anyone else like it? Have you all heard it?

Clarke B., Wednesday, 2 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Monifah's "Touch It" is excellent! But you don't really appreciate it until you've seen a drag performance of it.

Tim, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

anything on / clone (http://www.clone.nl) / bunker (http://www.bunker- records.com)/ international dj gigolos (http://www.gigolo- records.de/

anything from rotterdam http://www.globaldarkness.com/

jk, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i liked the other people place album, clarke, and put it in my 'best 5 of 2001' on my site

gareth, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yikes! A Google search for "adult. electro" took me to a site selling cockrings capable of emitting mild electric shocks!

fritz, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is Adult the same as Le Car? Because I've got a Le Car 12" and it's great - very squelchy, aggressive, and dark. Yawning gaps. Like an impatient robot that's learned to live with his malfunction.

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

C90 - :
Dexter - I don't care. There's more, I just don't know what they're called.
Parrallax Corporation - Lift Off (original version)
I-f - Space Invaders are Smoking Grass
Legowelt - ??????
Bag of Sparks EP - Two Lone Swordsmen, one of the Leone-esque tracks
Skanfrom - Mr Robot is....
Tracks from the CLONE LP with the gritty 70's film cover, or the Musique Concrete compilation from 2000.
er.. that EP by the scandinavian bloke from Berlin.

I really have no idea who half the tracks I like are by, but are you sure anyone's going to need a C90 of this stuff, can't we stick some Euro-pop on the other side to lighten things up.

K-reg, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

other labels:

heimelektro ulm

festplatten

it's not all gloom and doom, K! i guess it is all pretty.. gritty though. Khan should be on that C90. His latest album has Kid Congo Power on it!

Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Power = Powers --> he is multiple

Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

this would be a song-filled tape since so many of these songs are so short!

tracy and the plastics, 'city' s process, 'spring garden' holland, 'foram koten' kitty craft, 'how long' the grace period, 'et in arcadia ego' triangle, 'political song' the microwaves, 'robot monster' gerty farish, 'bad receptionist' adult., 'human wreck'

maura, Friday, 4 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...
suction records

www.suctionrecords.com

l, Wednesday, 13 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

www.electroradio.com

DJ SkYYlite, Monday, 18 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...
A1 People - Fresh Juice (Hydrogen Dukebox)

a few years old now (when this style of music was called NuSkool Breaks) but essential.

Not forgetting -

Add n To x - anything but especially Revenge of the Black Regent Cylob - Rewind DMX Krew - anything Rennie Pilgrim Octagon Records Some Bochit and Scarper Lectrogirl

digitonal, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

A1 People was always electro revival, never Nu Skool Breaks... along with DMX Krew etc

michael, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Isn't Rennie Pilgrem nu skool breaks too?

Ronan, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There's a compilation CD out now on Ministry of Sound called This Is Tech-Pop that covers this pretty well in case anybody is still interested.

Curt, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...
can some one recommend some artists for a "roots of electro" cd-r?

, Tuesday, 9 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

seven months pass...
New electro: Two lone swordsmen, I-F, Anthony Rother, Andrea Parker.
Skam & Intuit-Solar labels

Old school _fer --maryjane..
Man Parish, Mantronix, Cybotron, Kraftwerk(big duh), A.Bambaataa, Newcleus.

R.I.P - electro-empire.com

Hayden (Hayden), Thursday, 13 February 2003 08:35 (twenty-one years ago) link


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