Favourite Electronic Albums

Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants

Fluke - Risotto

The Orb - U.F.Off: The Best Of The Orb

Orbital - In Sides

Future Sound of London - Accelerator, Lifeforms, and several others

And for something more modern...

Mat Zo - Damage Control

Porter Robinson - Worlds

Probably missed a bunch I can't think of at the moment, I'll update if they come to me :)

Daft Punk - RAM

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Mogwai - Rave Tapes (Ish)

Off the top of my head. I listen to a lot of ambient bullsh*t, but I can't remember half of it.

(I'm from Canada so FAVOURITE is how the UK and Canada spell FAVORITE for America in case you thought it was a spelling mistake)

not all Americans are provincial idiots

so 'colour' me offended

Kraftwerk - The Man Machine Daft Punk - Homework Giorgio Moroder - From here to eternity Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk 2

Good Good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meat Beat Manifesto - actual sounds and voices

Frontline Assembly - implode

Depeche Mode - Violator

Suicide - Suicide

Future Sound of London - accelerator

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: music for airports

Alec Empire - generation starwars

Skinny Puppy - the process

I dunno really, I have so much of this shit in my record collection, I am just listing stuff I've bothered to listen to lately

I just started getting into Aphex Twin, Drukqs is a masterpiece.

I may be showing my age, but there's a really great Aphex Twin track on the PI soundtrack that's uncredited. Clint Mansell did a great job curating an eclectic but appropriate techno soundscape for that film....

https://youtu.be/cQdhzQkddCc

I seriously think this that track is James' best work. And yes, everyone knowsits an aphex twin track now, but at the time I saw the film at the Ritz during its first run (with my friends Steve and Red Shawn.... whatever happened to you 2 rivet-head motherfuckers anyway?) it was mysterious!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KssoedqV20

Haven't listened to this in some time now, but still a guaranteed favourite of mine.

That Aphex Twin song is intense...

wow 2D

wow 2D

?

I guess you have defective ears.... which I have suspected from your guitar/bass BS

Or perhaps I'm unsure as to what you mean when you made your statement?

you are deaf... listen with your EARS, not your teenaged insecurity

though stereo represents a binaural source, every recording with a comlex interaction of instruments (even playing Gregorian unison) will represent front to back as well as left to right space... if it desn't? it has failed (unless everyone was standing in a 5 meter line)... in artificial music this must be simulated, but in many instances the 'producer' fails to establish a sense of space and just leans on the 'ol digital verb...the track you posted has gobs of ambiance but no front to back depth, it feels ike everyone stood in a line, played into a DI or mic, and got varying amounts of lexicon reverb applied at the sends of the console...

https://youtu.be/TBv3_0j0y_4

your ears are not rejecting it because its synthesizers, they are rejecting it because it is artificially 2 dimensional

Oh, I see. That's why that Aphex Twin track sounded so different from Trente. It still doesn't change my opinion of Trente on how I feel about his music, but I guess I have one new criteria to wath out for when explorig electronic music.

A bit callous though, Jim. I'm open to learning as much as everyone else here.

https://youtu.be/tbd4t-ua-WQ

I'm not going to apologize on this one because if it doesn't sound painfully wrong the you need a doctor appointment

the terminology is a lesson, your ears should get it immediately with or without terminology

being untutored is one thing, contemptible, but whatever... I guess I'll hand out knowledge I acquired through years of study and careful experiment to folks who lack my inquisitive, intuitive and deductive nature

https://youtu.be/gaXigSu72A4

listening with your eyes is another

Jim, I did hear the difference. I just didn't understand what you meant by 2D. I was going to say what you said, but I wanted to be sure.

For the record, I've listened to Aphex before. There was sone waves track or something he made that I found some time ago on this album with a number list for song names. If I could, I'd research it, but I my phone already froze once... I don't want to push it anymore.

Not that Richard James' stuff has as much front to back space as some other electronic artists... but, anyway

whatever

I was just grumpy from having to read the same 5 page book to my son over and over for what seemed like an eternity (but was likely just an hour or two)... and also because, like an idiot I opened this remix I'm doing for Whorse while Lucian was awake and he grabbed the mouse and keyboard... and something is wrong with my backup file now.... tons of work mangled