Best Electronic Albums - (with more info)

Speedy J - Ginger

An absolutely amazing album and part of the Artificial Intelligence series from Warp...



http://www.discogs.com/Speedy-J-Ginger/release/3613

Tracklisting:

1 Ginger (7:17)
2 Fill 4 (2:11)
3 Beam Me Up! (5:41)
4 R2 D2 (5:47)
5 Fill 14 (4:07)
6 Jackpot (1:06)
7 Basic Design (7:53)
8 Perfect Pitch (7:15)
9 Flashback (6:02)
10 Fill 15 (2:40)
11 Pepper (7:42)
12 De-Orbit (6:12)

De-Orbit



Pepper



Beam Me Up!

The Source Experience - Different Journeys

R & S - 1994



http://www.discogs.com/Source-Experience-Different-Journeys/release/34239

Tracklisting:

1 Unknown Territory (11:48)
2 Point Zero (8:24)
3 Pressure Drop (6:36)
4 Diatonic Shift (6:04)
5 Intruder (8:45)
6 X-Ray (12:26)
7 Nightshift (11:19)
8 Voices Of The Spirit (8:09)

Point Zero



Intruder



Real Name: Robert Leiner

Profile:

One of the great tracks to be heard on R&S Records in 1992 was the deeply mysterious "Neuromancer" track. The name "SOURCE" had not yet appeared on any R&S release list, yet the man behind the Source, immensely gifted Swede Robert Leiner, had been studio manager and engineer of the labels’ own recording facility for some time. Robert had been DJ’ing from the age of 15 and had built his own recording studio in his hometown Gothenburg, combining the two great passions in his life; electronics and dance music. His work for Swedish record companies and artists brought him recognition and an underground reputation in Scandinavia, however he relocated to Belgium in the early nineties to broaden his artistic scope.

Robert’s first recording for R&S was released in summer 1992 as an untitled blue label promo and resulted from a live jam. It immediately found it’s way to the worlds influential DJ’s and is now highly sought after, as only a few hundred copies were pressed. But it was the 1993 album "Organized Noise" that really turned Robert’s moniker "Source" into a household name, including a unique blend of thunderous beats, sparkling acid and trance ingredients that was greeted with rave reviews and set alight dance floors all over the global techno village, which launced Robert on the live front across Europe and the States. This was uncompromising, organic and brimming with pure undiluted energy. Nurtured by a wide variety of influences, Robert has never confined himself to a single genre. His interest in electronic music was aroused by artists such as Brian Eno, Can, Jon Hassel, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, George Clinton, YMO and Tangerine Dream, but when acid and house started to happen he was one of the first DJ’s in Scandinavia to spin the latest discs from Detroit, Chicago, New York and London. THE SOURCE EXPERIENCE (the Source banner was dropped when an English pop/dance combo carrying the same name threatened action) comes as the tech/trance emanation of the aspiration, as the eponymously titled double 12-inch which appeared late 1993.

On the other hand, the more subdued side of Robert’s musical personality was first displayed on the 12-inch/CD "Dream Or Reality". The track, taken from his album "Visions of The Past" and coupled with two brilliant alternative mixes, proved an impressive foretaste of this epic masterpiece, which since its release has acquired mythical proportions in the record collections of cognoscenti of electronic listening music all over the world. As Mixmaster Morris described the album in the January issue of i-D: "Lighter than a soufflé, sleeker than a panther, this fine offering from the man behind Source drifts from airy techno to pure ambience with supreme confidence". NME coined the phrase "Fireballs to melt the snow away…" Robert next adopted his Source Experience guise for another devastating work: with an aural arsenal ranging from analogue terror tones to layers of digital refinement, "Different Journeys" and the single "Point Zero" contained the ultimate in sensurround techno. This widely acclaimed album launched Robert on a heavy schedule of live and DJ dates around the globe.

Over the three years since Robert parted company with R&S –due to a lack of artistic freedom – he built a new studio in Gothenburg, Sweden, prepared a new album and kept up with his work-load of remixes and software development. But more especially he has used this period (after 14 years of hectic deejaying and live commitments) to collect new energy. He has also taken care of the pre mastering for Samuel L's recording label SLS. His commitment to exposing us all to stimulating and challenging music marks Robert Leiner as a major figure in modern music. In Robert’s own words:

"It has always been there, you just have to discover it".

URLs:

http://leinermedia.net
http://www.myspace.com/leinermedia

Aliases:

Andromatic, Cantrip People, Manpower, Source, Source Experience, The, Spirit

In Groups:

3 Wise Primates, 4 Every 1, B.C., R.A.S.

Name Variations:

Robert Leiner | R Leiner | R. Leiner | Robert Leiner "Source" | Robert Liener

Spacetime Continuum - Emit Ecaps

Astralwerks - 1996



http://www.discogs.com/Spacetime-Continuum-Emit-Ecaps/release/8405

Tracklisting:

1 Iform (6:42)
2 Kairo (11:48)
3 Simm City (2:51)
4 Funkyar (5:36)
5 Swing Fantasy (6:58)
6 Out Here (4:39)
7 Vertigo (7:29)
8 Twister (4:19)
9 Pod (6:26)
10 String Of Pearls (6:42)

Swing Fantasy



Kairo (only a shorter version on youtube, not the full track)



Real Name: Jonah Sharp

Profile:

Jonah Sharp aka Spacetime Continuum signed to Astralwerks in 1991 and is established as one of the premier underground dance artists in America. The album "Double Fine Zone" out on Astralwerks features London based saxophonist Brian Iddenden and shows a move to a more organic Jazz influenced recording, which is why Loosegroove Records asked him to remix "Ponga". It seemed like a logical choice! With at least 14 albums out as Spacetime Continuum or as collaborations with the likes of Terrance Mckenna, Tetsu Inoue and Bill Laswell, the Spacetime sound seems ripe for mass acceptance.

URLs:

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/stc/

Aliases:

Emit Ecaps, Future Life, Jonah Sharp, Strange Attractor

Name Variations:

Spacetime Continuum | Space Time Continuum | Spacetime Continum

F.U.S.E. - Dimension Intrusion

Warp - 1993 (No. 5 in the Artificial Intelligence Series)



http://www.discogs.com/FUSE-Dimension-Intrusion/release/554

Tracklisting:

1 A New Day (3:57)
2 F.U. (7:41)
3 Slac (3:13)
4 Dimension Intrusion (4:02)
5 Substance Abuse (5:02)
6 Train-Trac.1 (6:40)
7 Another Time (Revisited) (6:21)
8 Theychx (13:25)
9 UVA (8:05)
10 Mantrax (7:59)
11 Nitedrive (3:28)
12 Into The Space (5:02)
13 Logikal Nonsense (1:13)

Substance Abuse



F.U.



Real Name: Richard Michael Hawtin

Profile:

Born June 4, 1970.
Canadian (British born) producer, label boss & Dj. Although mainly influenced by Detroit techno, Hawtin developed his own style ranging from harder noisy techno to deep minimal abstract acid, particularly under his best known alias Plastikman. Was involved in the development of the Final Scratch digital Dj technology and has continued to use new technology as it becomes available.

Founded the Plus 8 Records Ltd., M_nus and Probe Records techno labels.

URLs:

http://www.richiehawtin.com
http://www.myspace.com/plasstikmaan
http://www.myspace.com/richiehawtin

Aliases:

Chrome, Circuit Breaker, Concept 1, F.U.S.E., Forcept 1, Jack Master, Plastikman, R.H.X., Richard Michaels, Robotman, Spark, UP!, Xenon
In Groups: 0733, Cybersonik, Final Exposure, From Within, Hard Brothers, The, Hard Trax, Just For Fun, Spawn, States Of Mind, Two Guys In The Basement

[cm]tyranny wrote: »

interesting, knew about chameleon, global communications and the jedi knights never of the others.

My favourite mark pritchard related stuff is the few 12's he put out on Dropping Science... "mojo woman" had the earliest stuff he did as "harmonic 33" on the flip as well...

such a versatile producer though...

I've been meaning to get that Harmonic 33 album he did, heard some tracks from it recently and really excellent. Haven't heard his stuff on Dropping Science, must look out for them.

http://www.discogs.com/Harmonic-33-Music-For-Film-Television-And-Radio-Volume-1/release/375590

Yeah they have both been consistently excellent over the years... some of their early work as Global Communication goes for serious money now, especially the remix of the Chapterhouse album 'Blood Music' - amazing ambient release..

http://www.discogs.com/Chapterhouse-Retranslated-By-Global-Communication-Blood-Music-Pentamerous-Metamorphosis/release/1082722

Reload tended to be more techno and ambient in the early 90's - they reissued several tracks a couple of years back, an essential purchase...

http://www.discogs.com/Reload-Evolution/release/845847

Some tunes from the above...

Peschi



The Biosphere



Nemm



Can't Wait Tonight

francois wrote: »

Also E2-E4 Manuel Göttsching, here's a sampler from the brilliant record

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcEOdwB9ns

Wrecking my head what house track in the early 90's completely ripped that off?

Must get that album, really great track there. I heard some of the more recent collab album and didn't really like it so it put me off looking any further...

http://www.discogs.com/Manuel-Göttsching-Joaquin-Joe-Claussell-Meets-Manuel-Göttsching/release/683571

I obviously should have gone straight for his own earlier work.

Ravenholm wrote: »

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Got that... nice one.