Delving deeper into dance/electronic...

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Felixdhc wrote:

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Ouch! Read it last night. Surely it'll be cached in Google or something?

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BaZmO* wrote:

Ouch! Read it last night. Surely it'll be cached in Google or something?

Nice one Bazmo, I posted the message on my laptop and went to edit on the pc...found the page in history on the laptop Fecked if I was to type all that again!...

I'm on a quest at the moment to catch up with a lot of dance/electronic from the early '90s that I never got back then. There really is such a massive amount that I managed to miss and I can't believe the amount of amazing music that I am getting now from then.

I started buying dance/electronic in about 1992 and was mainly chasing labels over the next couple of years such as Noom, Limbo, Prolekult, Soma, R&S, Music Man, Eye Q, Rising High etc etc - really whatever was handed over to me in Abbey and the other records stores of the time. I suppose I mainly looked for trance or techno back then and didn't really understand the various genres of dance or basically what to be looking for as a young lad with a new musical discovery

So over the years I ended up with thousands of records covering numerous styles and genres in everything from hip-hop to acid trance. A vocal house tune back then didn't cut the mustard and in my mind was only fit for the Harp or somewhere similar (no offence to anyone who went to the Harp, to me the e was about bangin music of whatever variety - but had to be bangin!). I now love a lot of vocal house and have done for a few years but as a teenager it was completely out.

I still love a lot of the trance I was into back then and also the heavier techno but find I do listen to it less. Its not that I don't appreciate its quality but I just can't seem to listen to a full-on acid trancer anymore while sitting in traffic on the M50 - equally I don't feel as inclined to stick on a Billy Nasty mix when I get in from a hards days work and put the kettle on! A bit of something from say the Higher Intelligence Agency just seems more fitting now.

Anyway, the point of this waffle is to highlight some of what I have started hunting down now more so. I feel I missed a lot of really amazing music over the years and thankfully because of the internet I am now tracking buckets of it down. I am going to list a combination of some labels and artists below and would love if anyone can suggest others that I should investigate. A lot of these below I would have known some tracks but never had the full album or bought many more 12" releases - an example is Speedy J; I have a few 12"s ranging from "Something for Your Mind" to "Pepper" but had never heard Ginger the album until about a year ago...what an amazing album. I did have "Artifical Intelligence 1" from the same Warp series and loved it over the years but have only now started to track down more of the early Warp IDM releases.

I will need to add to this list as I go as there has been a huge amount of Soulseek, gem.com, discogs, City Discs (what a shop) etc etc and I have more music now than time to listen!

So in no particular order, the following is the start of a list of my musical hunt for the last couple of years...

Most releases from Warp up to about '96 or so where it seemed to go wrong except for a couple of releases -

http://www.discogs.com/label/Warp+Records

This Fax label that seems to only release everything in very limited numbers -

http://www.discogs.com/label/Fax+%2B49-69%2F450464

Anything from The Higher Intelligence Agency -

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Higher+Intelligence+Agency%2C+The

A good bit from Biosphere but some stuff is a bit too ambient -

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Biosphere

R&S - I thought I knew this label back then but there is a serious amount I had never heard

http://www.discogs.com/label/R+%26+S+Records

Tresor - again, thought I knew a good bit about Tresor but really have got to learn a lot!

http://www.discogs.com/label/Tresor

Global Communication - for some ambient music, you can't beat them.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Global+Communication

Dreamfish - again, amazing ambient - on both Fax as listed further up but originally on Rising High

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Dreamfish

Monolake - only got a couple of albums but well impressed, took a couple of listens though to click

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Monolake

Eat Static - always liked them but only had a few tracks on vinyl

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Eat+Static

Carl Craig - amazing stuff, some not so amazing...loved his work as 69 and Carl Craig but not so impressed by more recent album Programmed as Innerzone Orchestra

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Carl+Craig

http://www.discogs.com/release/247349

FSOL - I knew lots of their work as FSOL but didnt know half the aliases they had; take this compilation even to see such a wide variety...

http://www.discogs.com/release/73490

Underground Resistance - unreal stuff from both the artists and their label. Anyone who hasn't got into this detroit techno should make a start with this excellent compilation -

http://www.discogs.com/release/567134

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Underground+Resistance

Beaumont Hannant - again amazing stuff in the IDM field...IDM/downtempo is so much bigger a genre than I could have ever imagined; there seems to be endless releases from the early 90's that I knew nothing about till more recent years

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Beaumont+Hannant

Alter Ego - some excellet stuff and the album Decoding the Hacker Myth is really amazing. Also, the Acid Jesus alias album is brilliant

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Alter+Ego

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Acid+Jesus

Children of the Bong - Sirius Sounds, what an album...

http://www.discogs.com/release/146622

to be continued as I have to go out! But basically I would like to hear others views on some of the best electronic music from over the years...especially favourite electronic/dance/ambient etc albums

Executive Steve

Goldie - Timeless

Ltj Bukem presents: Logical Progression volume 1 and 2

Platinum Breaks 1 + 2

Photek - Modus Operandi


for starters!

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[cm]tyranny wrote:

Goldie - Timeless

Ltj Bukem presents: Logical Progression volume 1 and 2

Platinum Breaks 1 + 2

Photek - Modus Operandi


for starters!

Good stuff, I actually meant to point out that I could do with some drum and bass suggestions...I have Logical Progression Volume 1 for years now and always loved it. Another compilation I have called Hard Leaders 4...

http://www.discogs.com/release/66863

Amazing compilation.

Cheers, will check out the others. Always meant to pick up the Goldie one alright - I worked in HMV the year it was released and Inner City Life always reminds me of that summer.

Now, off to soulseek

jonny68

Im constantly searching for and hearing new tracks from the early days that are excellent and of course some of todays tunage is very good but it appears in a lot of cases people are running out of ideas and just remixing older tunes,that's not to say these remixes are all bad in fact some of the recent remixes of some older tunes are quite good.

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I was reading Jonny in the minimal thread what you were saying about "Intelligent Dance Music" and the stupid name...I dont like the name either and prefer to refer to it as IDM Have you listened to any? Say Beaumont Hannant for example? I would be amazed if you didnt like it. I stuck a track actually in the minimal thread...check it out.

monkey tennis

You want some early Autechre, particularly InCunaBula:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uIDoGFukQlA

cornbb

monkey tennis wrote: »

You want some early Autechre, particularly InCunaBula:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uIDoGFukQlA

Yes! great suggestion. Also try some 808 State, Bassomatic or LFO - very different to Autechre but still a great early 90s vibe. Or check out Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, The Orb, μ-Ziq, Squarepusher and of course more Autechre for the "big names" in IDM.

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cornbb wrote: »

Yes! great suggestion. Also try some 808 State, Bassomatic or LFO - very different to Autechre but still a great early 90s vibe. Or check out Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, The Orb, μ-Ziq, Squarepusher and of course more Autechre for the "big names" in IDM.

Funny, was only listening to Incunabula today, what an amazing album.

Have all the rest alright with the exceptions being μ-Ziq and Bassomatic...any suggestions for first albums to start with there?

Regarding 808 State, just bought two of the early acid releases a couple of months ago, Prebuild and Newbuild...excellent stuff.

cornbb

Felixdhc wrote: »

Have all the rest alright with the exceptions being μ-Ziq and Bassomatic...any suggestions for first albums to start with there?

Haven't a clue to be quite honest, I've heard a lot of single tracks of theirs but don't own any albums.

Knowing where to look next when you're trying to broaden your musical horizons can be a real bitch, I'm relatively new to electronic/dance music myself and never know where to look next... Ishkur's guide is always a good start though: http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

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cornbb wrote: »

Haven't a clue to be quite honest, I've heard a lot of single tracks of theirs but don't own any albums.

Knowing where to look next when you're trying to broaden your musical horizons can be a real bitch, I'm relatively new to electronic/dance music myself and never know where to look next... Ishkur's guide is always a good start though: http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

Cheers, discogs will do the trick for a start.