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#1
11-16-2005, 11:04 PM
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The Essential Music Library: Electronica
The Essential Music Library project is an attempt to get the many musical minds of the SDMB to sit down and discuss what works are absolutely necessary for a well-stocked musical library. There will be roughly 20 threads detailing a variety of genres so that we can get the depth that would be missing from a single-threaded discussion and the breadth necessary to cover what's out there.
This thread's topic is electronica. Previous threads: Project Planning | Classical | Rock | Jazz | Modern Rock | Blues | Punk/Post-Punk/New Wave | Opera/Choral Music | Rap/Hip-Hop | Gospel 
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#2
11-16-2005, 11:23 PM
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Tricky: Maxinquaye
Massive Attack: Blue Lines and Mezzanine Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation orFat of the Land Moby: Play Kraftwerk: Man Machine Everything But the Girl: Amplified Heart, though it's not really an electronica album, it does have the remix of "Like the Deserts Miss the Rain" which was a Huge dance hit.
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11-17-2005, 01:47 AM
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11-17-2005, 03:01 AM
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#9
11-17-2005, 09:48 AM
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Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 1
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#10
11-17-2005, 11:19 AM
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A Tangerine Dream selection should be on the list, I think.
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#12
11-17-2005, 08:52 PM
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Subtech
 Hey, we were signed by Tricky, and some of our stuff is electronica-ish. It's most certainly essential. How close are we dicing the genres here? Does mellower drum and bass or trip-hop have a place in this thread? Might be a waste to give them they're own, too small a thread. I'll mention Baxter Lamb Portishead Massive Attack
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#14
11-17-2005, 09:31 PM
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Pretty much anything that's made with computers should go here, be it downtempo, or gabba, or ambient, or techno, or....
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#15
11-17-2005, 09:41 PM
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Add.... Spacetime continium Amon Tobin (must, must have)
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#17
11-18-2005, 12:47 AM
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This has been a really bad list, so far. I'm not trying to start a fight or anything, but this is way nineties dance-centric; hopefully, I'll be able to offer a less myopic and more informed overview of essential recordings. I'm just saying!
Kraftwerk - "The Man-Machine" - the album that defines the band, as it's entirely synthetic, electronic, and has entirely moved away from the band's Krautrock origins. Joe Meek and the Blue Men - "I hear a new world - an outer space music fantasy" (possibly the first "electronica" record, in that it's an exoticism-heavy record made with primitive synthesizer and studio equipment, and it's also actually listenable and good instead of just valuable as a cultural artifact) Jean Michel Jarre - "Oxygène" Silver Apples - self-titled; "Oscillations" may be the first electronic pop song. Tangerine Dream - probably "Rubicon" or "Phaedra" Synergy - "Electronic Realizations for rock orchestra" Walter Carlos - "Switched-on Back" and "The Well-Tempered Synthesizer" Giorgio Moroder - all production work, esp. "I feel love" and "Love to love you baby" for Donna Summer, solo album "From here to eternity" Isao Tomita - "Snowflakes are falling" (the serious "switched-on Bach") The Human League - "Travelogue" and "Reproduction" - people often forget these records because the band essentially became a jokey New Wave band later on, but these are basically "If Kraftwerk made pop records" - incredibly lo-fi, minimal, and experimental electronic pop music. Morton Subotnick - all Cabaret Voltaire - "Mix-Up" - like the Human League, it's easy to forget that the band who later made such innocuous and gimmicky music was once an amazingly dense and experimental project - this is true industrial dub music, all echoes and contact microphones and tape effects. Suicide - s/t Cybotron - "Enter"/ "Clear" (re-release) - The Nevermind the bollocks... of Detroit Techno. John Foxx - "Metamatic" Ultravox - "Systems of Romance", probably Fad Gadget - all Nuno Canavarro - "Plux Quba" Luc Ferrari - any number of important works, like " Presque Rien" Neu! - we can argue over their place in Krautrock, but the use of studio techniques makes them one of the the earliest "electronica" bands. Mantronix - all singles, really. Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Solid State Survivor" (the Japanese Kraftwerk) Steve Roach - "Dreamtime Return" (the album that people should be listening to and mentioning when they instead mention Aphex Twin's S.A.W. II) Orbital - "orbital II" - the best one. the Orb - "The Orb's adventures beyond the ultra-world" Hopefully, that will fill in a lot of the gaps before all the rave stuff that came later.
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#18
11-18-2005, 01:13 PM
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I'll go along with a lot of the suggestions here. Here's my (very incomplete list):
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation Moby - Play Moby - Moby Kraftwerk (pretty much anything) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 The Crystal Method - Vegas Paul Oakenfold - Another World or Tranceport Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure Portishead - Dummy Tiësto - In Search of Sunrise 2 or Nyana Armin van Buuren - Boundaries of Imagination Sasha - Involver Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars Orbital - Orbital 2 Chemical Brothers - Come With Us Deep Dish - Moscow The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld Brian Eno - Music for Airports Hallucinogen - The Lone Deranger Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
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#19
11-18-2005, 02:12 PM
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It's old and hard to find, but stay on the look out for Human Mesh dance.
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#21
11-19-2005, 12:21 AM
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I don't know if all of this fits into the concept of electronica, but it's all electronic, so here are some of my favorites (one or two have been mentioned above, so I'm seconding these) ...
The Echoing Green The Winter of our Discontent Iris Awakening Covenant Northern Light Anything Box Worth Depeche Mode Violator Depeche Mode Black Celebration mesh Who Watches Over Me? VNV Nation Empires Assemblage 23 Failure Apoptygma Berzerk Welcome to Earth Empirion Advanced Technology BT Movement in Still Life
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#22
11-19-2005, 09:37 AM
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FWIW, Interface, I was going to recommend Movements in Still Life as well. Considering the first half the album is Big Beat and the rest is more hardcore clubby, I think it goes into the generic Electronica genre rather than Dance, altho you could make the case for that as well.
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#23
11-19-2005, 04:41 PM
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vco3
see, here's the way I see it. I'm not a huge electronica fan, and that means that the electronica I do listen to has to be either A) very popular, or B) very influential, like influential enough to goose the cortex of non-electronica musicians. So, while I can't say anythng about your selections (I'm sure they're all very fine), please don't trash talk what I like, K?
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#24
11-19-2005, 04:54 PM
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What about Yaz and The Eurythmics? It's not like they invented the two-person band idea, but it was kinda new having one singer, and one keyboardist/programmer. Actually, Yello and DAF were doing it too.
Then there's Thomas Dolby who made it cool to do everything yourself.
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#25
11-19-2005, 05:32 PM
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The whole idea that you can neatly divide music into genres is flawed, IMO, so I doubt that this exercise has much value. For example, you're lumping together hundreds of years of progress in many different styles under the heading "Classical", but meanwhile microcategorising contemporary music into "rock", "modern rock", "blues", "new wave", and so on. Someone born before maybe 1920 might categorise all these recent types of music as "late 20th century pop" or something. Are they really more different from each other than, I don't know, Palestrina is from Tchaikovsky?
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#26
11-19-2005, 05:44 PM
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Apologies, that comment should have been posted in ultrafilter's main Essential Music Library: Project Planning thread. I had both threads open, posted to the wrong one.
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#27
11-19-2005, 05:48 PM
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It's an interesting discussion, but it probably deserves a thread of its own.
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