Am I the only one here who enjoys electronica?

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This one by Amon Tobin is mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

"La Geode". 2006. of "Slowly":

[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCuUcTi_iSg[/YouTube]
Thank you whoever recommended Tobin.

PS: Anyone who can't link directly to a clip, here's the http:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCuUcTi_ ... re=related

I like this little bit too:

[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlwG3DSESyE&feature=related[/YouTube]

Part 2 of a trailer for Tobin's recent album "Foley Room".

Oh yeah, I love Amon Tobin, especially Out from Out Where

Sorry list is so long-that's how it is with enthusiasms !
MC 900 Foot Jesus "Dancing Barefoot"
Thievery Corp. "Warning Shots"
Orbital "Funny Break"
Crystal Method "Keep Hope Alive"
Trisomie 21 "Bamboo (2)"
Underworld "Banstyle/Sappy's Curry"
Opus 3 "Alzir"
Mighty Force "Antarctica"
Boards of Canada "1969"
Michael Brook "Ultramarine"

from NinjaTune sampler cds (Xen cuts, FunKungFusion, et al):
Amon Tobin "Sordid"
Up Bustle & Out "Hip Hop Barrio"
Neotropic "Vacetious Blooms"
DJ Vadim "Theme from Conquest of the Irrational"
Wild Palms "Kickin' Back"
Journeyman "Spy"
Ryuichi Sakamoto "Anger (remix)"
Override "Pac 3"
Irresistable Force "The Lie-in King"
DJ Food "The Crow"
The Herbaliser "It's Just For You"
and Coldcut-"Journeys by DJ-special release" cd (mixes other artist's tracks).

Favorite artists & songs that I've been exposed to from the cable music channel:
TJ Rehmi "Dear Earthling"
WE "Hang/on"
Fatboy Slim "The Weekend Starts Here"
Rhinocerose "I Love my Guitare"
Static Revenger "Happy People"
Gooding "Dreams Without Humans"
Mujaji "Joyride"
Numatic Soul "Dry Clean"
Flunk "I Love Music"
LTJ Bukem "Unconditional Love"
Erwin van Moll "The Great Lover"
Tim Juke "Grounded in Fargo"
Desmond Williams "Comeback Dub"
Baby Mammoth "Retold"
DJ Icey "The Air is Full of Sound"
Deep Dish "San Francisco"
Massive Attack "Blue Lines"
Cordovan "Goldiggin'"
J'matra "Turbulence"
Native Budz "Bruthas"
Delerium "Euphoria"
Slowdeck "Soft Halucination"
Lazyboyz "Sticky Fruit"
Vertigo Deluxe "Everything is"
Jettatura "Tight Corner"
Lulu Mushi "Camden"
Smith & Mighty "Same"
Blue States "Trainer Shuffle"
Pigeonhed & Lo Fi Allstars "Battle Flag"
Swordfish "Twilight Whirl"
Jakatta "American Dream"
Reborn "Right to Be"
Skye "What's Wrong with me ?"
Chicane "Offshore"
Slowdeck "Ill World"
Dakesh York "Moonlight Sonata"
Swirlbent " Nikita's Dream"
T-Disco "Angie Fa Above the Sky"
UNKLE "Reign"
Psychic TV "Wrongs of Spring"
Alexkid "I Think"
Saru "Something Stronger"
Dubtribe Sound System "Sunshine's Theme"
Garsaaidi "Frank Zaffa"
Fussible "Trip to Ensenada"
Airlock "Drystar"
Magic Sound Fabric "My Thoughts Have Become Visible"
Anugama "Ocean & Tambura"
Q-Burns Abstract Message "A.S.T."
Luke Vibert & DJ Cole "Fly Hawaii"
DJ Krush "Song 2"
Gusgus "Gun"
Tosca "The Key"
Banco De Gaia "B2"
Language Lab "Burning Disaster"
Pronoia "Janine"
Andre Castano "Night Train"
Robert Miles "Dreamchild"
Kamien & Dzihan "Gutenmorgenduft"
Spaceways "Rice"
David Holmes "Rodney Yates" (used in 'Oceans 11' remake)
Earl Grey "The Lick"
Autechre "Slip"
Bask "Si Commandante !"
Zero 7 "You're My Flame"
Strangebrew "Easy Way Out"
Alex Gordon "Eternity"
Fila Brazillia "Simple Man"
Hydra "Zooplankton"
DJ Tiesto "Flight 643"
J-Punch "Temple"
Mirwais "Disco Science" (song from "Snatch" during the hare chase)
Soma Sonic "Twenty Past Midnight"
Insanity Sect "Solar Prophet"
Benjy Wertheimer "Remembrance"
Bugge Wesseltoft "Existence" (Bugge Wesseltoft-that's such a fun name for me to say, hope I'm not being insensitive in saying so !)

Good calls sir. I'd heard of the rest of them (don't worry!) but they weren't to my tastes.

Check out:

AUX 88
Arpanet
Underground Resistance
Heiko Laux
Octave One
DJ Rolando

and

http://www.discogs.com/release/397671 for some awesome chill.

Underground Resistance - I AM UR is such an awesome song. Their repertoire is a bit spotty though. Not that big of a fan of Mad Mike, to be honest. AUX 88 has some ok tunes, but it's pretty eh, I say. Not a fan of the MCing that goes on his sets either.

Edit:

I have to say that I'm someone who was inspired by electronic sounds and purely electronic sounds, devoid of organic sounds. The only organis music I enjoy anymore is classical music, the rest just remind me too much of gospel music or music that I just have a hard time enjoying.

Does anyone know where I could listen online to the whole 21 minutes ( not just a 30 second sample) of Harold Budd's "Gypsy Violin" from "Lovely Thunder" ( 1996) ? Not to download, just listen, in streaming. PS: I don't know how to do mp3's and haven't the faintest idea what Torrent is or how it works.

I first heard "Gypsy Violin" last year on "Ambiance for the Masses" radio, and fell in love with it, and used the rewind function for as long as possible on the stream, but it passed out of my life and now I am reminded of how much I loved it by the gorgeous Tobin track "Slowly" above. ( which I've played at least ten times now in the last couple of hours while looking all over the net for this Budd music ).

The lists of titles look scrumptious but have to go to bed now it's almost 3 am here, after one last listen to "Slowly"! .... three last listens.... zzzz..... now i'm going, goodnight

I'm into dark electronica, electrogoth, industrial, synthpop, teeny tiny bit of trip hop...rarely pure electronica though.

Here are some of the more electronic-y artists I like (some only sort of count):

And One (I'm not crazy about them but "Military Fashion Show" kicks ass)
Android Lust
Angelspit
Apoptygma Berzerk
Aural Vampire (I'm only just getting into them though)
The Birthday Massacre
Blaqk Audio
Blue Foundation
Blutengel
Celldweller
Chiasm (mainly "Isolated")
Collide
Combichrist (I don't love all their stuff but there are about 5 songs by them I totally freaking love)
Covenant (just a little bit...I really love "Call the Ships to Port"!)
The Cruxshadows
Curve
Diary of Dreams
Die Form
Dr. Steel (okay, industrial/hip-hop/opera...but whatever! Look him up! He's awesome!)
E Nomine (yay!)
Emilie Autumn
The Gothsicles
Helium Vola
I Monster
I:Scintilla (though again, not consistantly..."Cursive Eve" is lovely though)
The Knife
L'Ame Immortelle
Lunascape
Massive Attack
NIN (though they don't really count...)
Orgy
Otto Dix
Rob Dougan
Royksopp (What else is there besides Royksopp's "What Else Is There"?)
She Wants Revenge
Skinny Puppy
Snakeskin
UNKLE
VNV Nation
:Wumpscut: (these past 4 are all inconsistant, though)
Zeromancer
Zombie Girl

As I said in another thread, I've worked with Zombie Girl - but don't like the band's style all that much - too burlesque for my taste.

I've been working my way through Xelebe's and Belfast's lists but the funny thing is that the ones on Xelebe's list are ( almost all ) too pure/hard machine/electro for my taste and most of those, in the first two sections anyway, on Belfast's list are too full of voices which often do my head in. ( Does that also apply to the long third list of bands/tracks aswell, or are there more pure instrumentals in those?)

Feel a bit like Goldilocks trying out the three chairs etc. I shall try Veresae's list next.

One I like, from Peekay's recommendeds, is "Knights of the Jaguar" by DJ Rolando:

[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxQMxjX56-8[/YouTube]

Also want to say that what I have been able to find/listen to from the Amon Tobin album "Out from Out Where" is great. Thanks, Hector.

I wish I could hear more of Michael Brook's recent album "Rock Paper Scissors" online; what I've managed to listen to so far sounds pretty gorgeous.

I also think Boards of Canada are pretty dreamy. And I quite liked this; "La Fete Triste" by Trisomie 21:

[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfxf8PQi5B4[/YouTube]

mmmmmmmmmm ! I like electronic music which is on the cusp between organic and non-organic, where the "natural" noise has almost become abstract, but not quite.

Last edited by ouinon on 21 May 2008, 6:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Really? Still, that's awesome. What did you do with them?

I'm not SUPER into them--I agree about the burlesqueness--but if I hear a song by them play on the dance floor it's fun to dance to. ^_^

Does this count as electronica ???

"Tyger" (2006) by Guilherme Marcondes, music by Zeroum :

[YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIGEfCL7UD0[/YouTube]
I adore this.

I don't know-can't really listen to music online since my connection is dial-up (which is why I never see/hear the YouTube videos people put up everywhere-sorry). Recognize artist's name, heard few things by him on radio around 1990 (and taped on cassettes) & liked a few pieces.
"Memory Gongs" with the Cocteau Twins. "The Child with the Lion". "Eyes are Mosaics".

Went through & deleted ones I'm certain have lotsa' vocals. The bottom-most (longest) list is one in which I'm more sure the songs lack singing. There's bit of diffuse atmospheric singing on the three songs (in top/short list)-dunno' your reaction to them.

I'm sorry. Does it help if put the actual URL/http address? Or is it a question of cost for connection etc? I don't know exactly what difference dial-up makes.

Thank you very much for doing that. I was feeling a bit discouraged after only finding three I liked in the first couple of dozen, and it ( the "not liking") being because of the voices. So thanks heaps for clarifying. I will do some more listening!

Ref: Trisomie 21, Brooks, and Alzir; I couldn't find any of the specific tracks you listed so I don't know.
I did like a couple of pieces that I found by both Brooks and Trisomie as I posted above, but several tracks by Trisomie unfortunately reminded me a bit too much of The Cure whose music I have loved, and seemed like a pale reflection/rip off/derivative.

Most of the electronca I've heard in places are a little irritating and redundant. There are some I've lately been introduced to...

Air- Sexy Boy and other stuff off that chart. Most favorite.

Beck- I don't know if that counts but there's definitely electronica in Beck's albums.

Aphex Twin- an unusual sound I like.

Shake It- Rebecca

As long as it has a melodious sound to it...I will usually go for that genre.

Dial up is too slow to listen to things, period-so it doesn't matter how a link is listed because what it leads to is unavailable for me to see/hear (except in 3 second bursts, after waiting a minute or two for each 3 second piece to load). Usually isn't worth the hassle-and my browser isn't really up to the task (too pricey to "upgrade"). I have been able to tolerate this sort of "insanity" at sites where there's only 30 seconds total (of song clip) when hunting for song (such as when trying to identify "is this the song I'm crazy about-nope, maybe that one").
The music I access through cable service is via my television-completely separate from my computer & online connection/service. Dial up is way cheap-I pay less than $5 a month for it.

My tastes were mostly formed in the late 80's/early to mid 90's, so much of what I list is from that time, and my knowledge/familiarity with artists is from certain albums or tracks of that era. Also, works by most artists is a mixed bag, so recommending them (whichever ones) doesn't mean I like all their stuff. (The music via cable tv is exception-that can be from late 90's up to current/recent vintage). Obviously, not all artists are consistent throughout their careers, so I may like one thing & loathe another thing-thus it's tough to make blanket recommendation of any artist. I only know a song or two from many of the artists from the cable tv music channel, for instance (those in the last, longest list).

These are from cd's I have:
T21 cd (some tracks not so great, some super cool) is called "T21 Plays the Pictures". Haven't heard anything of theirs that was reminiscent of the Cure, but then again I haven't heard al their stuff. Again, late 80's-early 90's is when much of my info. is from.
Brook's track is from soundtrack to movie "Heat" & is on the cd soundtrack-though I'd heard it on radio few years before & always had wondered "what was that nifty song ?"
"Alzir" is from the Opus3 cd "Mind Fruit".

Also, I suggest William Orbit's "Strange Cargo" cds-lotsa' instrumentals (like The Weather Channel's "local on the 8's" music)-and I know that 30-second clips of a bunch of his songs are available for listening at Last.fm:
http://www.last.fm/music/William+Orbit/+charts
As I mentioned in an earlier post, track "The Last Lagoon" & several others from "Strange Cargo 2" were excellent (to my ear).

This is for that song from movie "Snatch" (by guy I'd never heard of before):
http://www.last.fm/music/Mirwais/_/Disco+Science