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Originally posted by The Furnace Is Fiery:
After you get the soundtrack(and you'll love his sound, no doubt) I advise you to get one of his own CD's. He is unique, and if you DO LIKE, I know you'll own his back catologue in no time...

Exactly...after i got bricolage...and was blown the fuck away.I went out and bought everything i could find and just sat there and basically listened to those albums for a month or so.They still do not get tiring.

Well, you guys have convinced me. I don't live in a place where I can buy one of his CD's from a store, but I'll order something. I'll let you know what I think when it comes and I get a few listens in.

which one ya gonna order??

I was thinking I'd go with Splinter Cell, but since you guys have raved about his other stuff I think I might buy Bricolage used and go from there.

I have been into electronic music for about 7yrs now, I like all genre's for the most part; but I go through phases ussually. My favorite ever include:

1. Crystal Method - Vegas
2. Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
3. William Orbit - Strange Cargo Hinterland
4. Badboy Bill - Bangin the Box Vol. 4
5. Josh Wink - Profound Sounds Vol. 1
6. John Digweed - Live at Delta Heavy
7. Sasha - GUO13 (Global Under Ground)
8. Kosheen - Resist
9. Thievery Corporation - Richest Man in Babylon
10. Dj Dara - Renegade Continuum

If you like all variety of electronic, you might check some of these out, I love so many different artists it's hard to choose the best...

What would the crystal method and chemical brothers be considered under the electronica catagory?

I love both! Anybody know any other good sounding groups like these two?

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I was thinking I'd go with Splinter Cell, but since you guys have raved about his other stuff I think I might buy Bricolage used and go from there.

RavingLunatic...If you are into dark electronica and less into jazz I would advise you to check out "Out From Out Where" first. This album is a huge departure from his earlier drum and bass work. A very dark encompassing electronica album that can leave you breathless by the time it's over. However, do get Bricolage, which is probably one of the best drum and bass albums put to disc, especially the last song...a full assault of drums. The jazz is minimal yet quite effective.

Electronic Albums in No Order...

*Fennesz...Endless Summer and Venice (the best of its kind!)
*Marz....Wir Sind Hier (Germany's answer to Four Tet) Gorgeous!
*Manual...Azure Vista and any other hard to find release (beautiful cascades of electronic sounds (Denmarks answer to M83 and so much better)
*Jaga Jazzist...The Stix and What We Must (for fans of early Amon Tobin)
*Keith Fullerton Whitman....Playthroughs (experimental music built on various sine waves...a minimalist electronic classic!!)
*Mouse on Mars....some might have disregarded these guys from the bases of one album. Everyone of their albums is different from the next. So the two best albums that I can't get enough of that most probably don't have is IAORA TAHITI and Autoditacker. These guys know the fine line between experimental and accessible.
*Four Tet....Rounds and Pause (the creators of Folk Electronica)
*Max Richter....The Blue Notebooks Amazing!!!(imagine Four Tet adding strings with a minimalist approach)
*Ryan Teague....Six Preludes (This one came out this year. Neo Classical/Electronic. As good as Max Richter's The Blue Notebook! One of my top 5 releases of 2005)
*Sweet Trip...velocity:design:comfort (The best forgotten piece of work in 2003....Caribou meets Stereolab meets Slowdive)
*The Avalanchies...Since I left You (The best DJ piece of work since Endtroducing)
*Mum...Yesterday was dramatic-Today is OK (Best peace inducing work of electronic today)
*Bjork....Anything
*Amon Tobin......Anything
*Autechre.....LP5, tri repetae++ and Amber
*Prefuse 73....One Word Extinguisher
*Boards of Canada....Geogaddi
*DJ Shadow....Endtroducing Still a Classic!!

I'm bored so I'm bringing this thread back

Prefuse 73 - One word Extinguisher
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Autechre - LP5
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-93
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
The Books - Thought for Food
The Avalanches - Since I left you

Thought For Food? Not sure I'd call that electronic or dance. Plus, Lemon of Pink blows it straight out of the water. And maybe into a boat. And let's face it, who listens to electronic music in a boat? Sorry, subrock, but that kind of logic is incontrovertible. I gotta call bullshit.

And speaking of things jumping into boats: check this shit out.

well people listed mum and four tet so I figured what the hell. It's folktronica or something.

I didn't like lemon of pink as much for some reason.

I's just messin' with ya. I'm a fan of folktronica. For some reason, it's got a bad reputation. It seems like it's almots a dirty word in a lot of indie and electronic circles. I really want Four Tet to go back to his old Pause/Rounds style. Everything Ecstatic wasn't bad, but it just doesn't stand up to his earlier stuff. And he's gotta quit his damn jazz drumming obsession. I can't stand that stuff. Sound like he's just randomly beating on different percussion instruments to me. I'll buy a wind chime if I want that stuff.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I's just messin' with ya. I'm a fan of folktronica. For some reason, it's got a bad reputation. It seems like it's almots a dirty word in a lot of indie and electronic circles.

Every review I read for Four Tet, Caribou, or anything like that always has at least one reference to how stupid the critic thinks the word "folktronica" is. Yet not one of them has actually come up with a better word.
So I make sure to use it all the time and without any irony. It's just a word.
By the way, Caribou (Manitoba)'s first two albums have been rereleased. Those are now must-haves.

I loved The Milk of Human Kindness, but Up In Flames just sounds too messy to me. What was his first album like? I've never heard much about it. Was it closer to Up In Flames or Milk of Human Kindness?

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I loved The Milk of Human Kindness, but Up In Flames just sounds too messy to me. What was his first album like? I've never heard much about it. Was it closer to Up In Flames or Milk of Human Kindness?

Neither. It's way more electronic (programmed and synthesized). He hardly sounds anything like that any more; no shoegaze to be found. I really like it. It's probably my fave but that's where I am these days. I still really like Up In Flames for its challenge.

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Neither. It's way more electronic (programmed and synthesized). He hardly sounds anything like that any more; no shoegaze to be found. I really like it. It's probably my fave but that's where I am these days. I still really like Up In Flames for its challenge.

Start Breaking My Heart is definitely the most underrated in his catalogue. I wasn't really a fan of the milk of human kindness. There wasn't enough going on most of the time, and the couple tracks I did enjoy (year of the leopard, and the really short one I can't remember the name) were too freaking short, plus they don't mix well at ALL with his more kraut inspired stuff. But SBMH is great IDM/folktronic stuff. I think it goes well with four tet's first couple albums, as well as boards of canada and other guys like that.

Also, I've been enjoying Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity (Italian - did the soundtrack to Scarface, American Gigolo, and a new score for Fritz Lang's Metropolis), and Luomo - Vocalcity (Finnish, also goes by vladislav delay and uusitalo).

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Originally posted by vitunkrapula:
Also, I've been enjoying Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity (Italian - did the soundtrack to Scarface, American Gigolo, and a new score for Fritz Lang's Metropolis)...

Jeff Mills redid the score for Metropolis a couple years back too.

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Jeff Mills redid the score for Metropolis a couple years back too.

Cool. I'll have to check that out. What's the style on that? 'cos I imagine he would probably not take the same approach that Moroder would.

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Originally posted by vitunkrapula:

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Jeff Mills redid the score for Metropolis a couple years back too.

Cool. I'll have to check that out. What's the style on that? 'cos I imagine he would probably not take the same approach that Moroder would.

Mills' is kinda ambient techno in the veign of Cristian Vogel. It's not my favourite Mills album but, truth be told, I've never actually seen Metropolis.

hehehe. They have a copy at my university library so I watched it. It was kind of hard to sit through. I think I watched the silent version.