Best Electronic Albums - (with more info)

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Cluster

Real Name: Dieter Moebius & Hans-Joachim Roedelius

Cluster was one of the pioneering electronic music groups which popped out of Germany's electrical grid in the late 1960's. While Kraftwerk motored down the Autobahn, and Tangerine Dream used sequencers to explore the subconscious mind, Cluster sought out the secret musical language of factory machinery.

Cluster took form in the late 1960's as Kluster, and consisted of Conrad Schnitzler (known to some as Con), Dieter Moebius, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius. After the recording of three LPs, Schnitzler parted ways with Moebius & Roedelius. Schnitzler retained the rights to the Kluster name and Moebius and Roedlius continued as "Cluster", briefly joined by Conny Plank on their first album. Cluster would prove itself to be very durable and innovative. Before long, their reputation was such that Brian Eno opted to make two recordings with the group. Cluster also merged with Michael Rother (of NEU! and early Kraftwerk fame) to form Harmonia, which Brian Eno dubbed "the world's most important rock group".

Cluster's compositions cover a broad portion of the experimental electronic musical spectrum. The music is sometimes a sonic tint, sometimes a nineteenth century dreamscape superimposed on the present, sometimes sounds like electrons pondering the course of their orbits, and at other times resembles a factory playing its own music, cloaked by the secretiveness of night.

URLs: http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/cluster.html
Members: Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Cluster

Brian Eno

Real Name: Brian Peter George St John Le Baptiste De La Salle Eno

Brian Peter George St. Jean Le Baptiste De La Salle Eno, sometimes simply Eno, (born May 15, 1948), is an electronic musician who started his musical career with Roxy Music. He then went on to produce a number of highly eclectic and increasingly ambient electronic and acoustic albums. He is widely cited as coining the term "ambient music" in his Ambient series (Music for Airports, The Plateaux of Mirror, Day of Radiance and On Land). He collaborated with David Byrne, formerly of Talking Heads, on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts which was one of the first albums not in the rap or hip hop genres to extensively feature sampling. Eno collaborated with David Bowie as a writer and musician on Bowie's influential "Berlin trilogy" of albums, Low, Heroes and Lodger, on Bowie's later album 1. Outside, and on the song "I'm Afraid of Americans". Eno has also collaborated with Robert Fripp of King Crimson, Robert Wyatt on his Shleep CD, with Jon Hassell and with the German duo Cluster. Eno has acted as a producer for a number of bands, including U2 and James. He won the best producer award at the 1994 and 1996 BRIT awards. He is an innovator across many fields of music and recently he has collaborated on the development of the Koan algorithmic music generator. He has also been involved in the field of visual arts. The band A Certain Ratio took their name from the lyrics of Eno's song "The True Wheel" (on Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)). In 1996 Brian Eno, and others, started the Long Now Foundation to educate the public into thinking about the very long term future of society. Brian Eno is also a columnist for the British newspaper, The Observer.

URLs:

http://www.enoweb.co.uk
http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno
http://www.myspace.com/enobrian

Aliases: CSJ Bofop

In Groups: 801, Fripp & Eno, Harmonia 76, MDH Band, The, Passengers, Portsmouth Sinfonia, Roxy Music, Scratch Orchestra, The
Name Variations: All | Brian Eno | B Eno | B. Eno | BE | Brian | Brian 'Sweetdome' Eno | Brian Eno / Peter George | Brian Peter George St John Le Batiste De La Salle | ENA | Eno | Eno Brian Peter Georges | Ibn'Aroen | ONE
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Brian+Eno

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Real Name: Susumu Yokota

Born : Japan

URLs: http://www.susumuyokota.org

Aliases:

246, Anima Mundi (2), Ebi, Frankfurt-Tokio-Connection, Prism, Ringo, Stevia, Tenshin, Yin & Yang

In Groups:

Bamboo Data, Mantaray, Sonic Sufi

Name Variations: All | Susumu Yokota | Susumo Yokota | Susumu | Yokota
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Susumu+Yokota

Susumu Yokota (横田進 Yokota Susumu, or ススム・ヨコタ Susumu Yokota) is an electronic artist from Japan and widely accepted as one of the most talented composers and producers in electronic music today. His roots are in house and techno, DJing at events like “I Love Techno” in the early 90’s. Over the years his music has progressed into ambient and ambient-techno genres. He became quite famous around 2000-2001. Today, his discography includes some 30+ albums, encompassing 7 or 8 different genres of electronic music within them. On his most wellknown albums he uses spinning samples of piano, voice, guitar and rhythmic components to create a musical landscape filled with everchanging moods and complex songstructure.

His best albums are said to be: “Symbol” where he used samples of classical music pieces, melodies from vivaldi, shostakovich, mahler, albinoni are found within it, “Sakura” (LEAF 2000) “Grinning Cat” (LEAF 2001), “The Boy and the tree” (LEAF 2002) and his last CD (with Vocals) “Wonder Waltz” (LO 2006). On “Wonder Waltz” he co-operated with Czech avant-garde violinist and singer Iva Bittová.

Albums:

Frankfurt Tokyo Connection (1993) - Released under the alias “Yokota”
Zen (1994) - Released under the alias “Ebi”
Acid Mt. Fuji (1994)
Plantation (1995) - Released under the alias “Ringo”
Metronome Melody (1995) - Released under the alias “Prism”
http://www.last.fm/music/Susumu+Yokota

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Real Name: James Marcel Stinson

Project produced by at least one half of Drexciya. Stinson died one year after the release of the Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe.

Born on September 14, 1969, James Stinson grew up on Detroit's east side and graduated from Kettering in 1989. He died September 3, 2002 of heart complications in Newnan, Georgia, where he had moved earlier that year for health reasons. A memorial service was held at the James H. Cole Funeral Home, 2624 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit.

"Now there's a whole resurgence of electro, and James was the life force of it. He had a fascination with the ocean, and aquatic things, and African-American history, and the voyage African people had to make. He was fascinated with the strength and endurance you have to have to make a voyage. His best feature was that good enough wasn't enough. He always pushed the envelope. Even at UR, where pushing the envelope is the norm, he pushed it harder than any artist on the label. He would expect us to keep living on the edge." Mad Mike Banks

"I was just informed today that one of my UR brothers is not with us anymore. James "Drexciya" Stinson died last night of heart complication.. It is a big loss for his friends, fans, and family. He will be greatly missed. One of the true brothers of the Underground." Mike Clark

Aliases: Abstract Thought, Clarence G, Drexciya, James Stinson, L.A.M., Lab Rat XL, Shifted Phases, Transllusion

http://www.discogs.com/artist/James+Stinson

jonny68 wrote: »

Don't suppose you got a copy of those albums mate id love to hear them?