# Favorite Electronic Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 4, 2002, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925 "2002-09-04T06:22:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/41 "2002-09-10T03:14:19Z")
I get to chime in with one glaring oversight in a thread that seems to be very, very well represented: **Squarepusher** Similar in approach and sensibility to Aphex Twin, please go seek him out. He builds his own instruments, plays drums, plays bass, and does everything too well. Has anyone heard **Ponga**? As I understand it, it was a one-off assembly of several notable jazz musicians, recorded and released as an album, with the understanding that the album would be turned over to a dozen electronic musicians who would remix it. The two albums are pretty stellar; it’s where I first heard Amon Tobin, whose track is worth the price all by itself. It can be found at Loosegroove records, at [www.willrecords.com](http://www.willrecords.com) , I believe. I have to concur with longjohn, and everyone he concurred with. How about **Cinematic Orchestra**? If Tortoise can count, I think these guys should be included. Their new album, Everyday, is fantastic. How about **Euphone**? I like their live show better than their albums, but who-wee what a live show… Also, if you haven’t bought the **Siguor Ros** album, turn your computer off now and go find it. It’s simply one of my favorite albums ever. I don’t think electronics are really a part of it, so I wouldn’t necessarily put it on my list, but go buy it all the same. I have a great story about meeting **Meat Beat Manifesto** , but it’s way, way too long. Spent an afternoon with Jack, he bought me a beer, snuck me into his show, and chatted with me during the set. This was in the Satyricon era, when he was still a band. Jack produces some of the most wicked, twisted drum loops I’ve ever heard. For some reason I’m still listening to **Prodigy** Fat of the Land. It’s a great album to run to. Also, no one’s mentioned **DJ Spooky**! Travesty! Am I still making a list? I guess I should include **DJ Shadow, LTJ Bukem, Roni Size** and **Photek**. End it with **The Avalanches**. A great album you can play during the party and after the party. Great Thread! As long as we’re on topic, are any midwest dopers going to Amon Tobin at the Metro in Chicago on October 18th? ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/42 "2002-09-10T06:05:27Z")
Wow, only top-of-their-game artists have been mentioned. As message boards go, I’d say we have pretty damn good taste in music. My Favorites: DJ Shadow- Entroducing Dusted- When We Were Young Prefuse 73- Vocal Studies And Uprock Narratives Syrup- Different Flavours Thievery Corporation- The Mirror Conspiracy Fila Brazilia- Power Clown Howie B- Music for Babies; …with Sly and Robbie- Drum & Bass Strip To The Bone Peace Orchestra- Peace Orchestra Air- Premiers Symptomes Bobby Hughes Experience- Fusa Riot Boozoo Bajou- Satta! Coldcut- Let Us Play DJ Spooky- Riddim WarfareKid Loco- Jesus Life For Children Under 12 Inches Kruder & Dorfmeister- The K&D Sessions Massive Attack- Mezzanine Nightmares On Wax- Carboot Soul Tosca- Suzuki] Up, Bustle & Out- One Colour Just Reflects Another The Avalanches- Since I Left You Underworld- Dubnobasswithmyheadman **Narrad** - Midnight Vultures is so underrated, “Nicotine and Gravy” was a great track. ---
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/43 "2002-09-10T06:06:58Z")
doh. I even previewed. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/44 "2002-09-10T15:24:41Z")
Oh hey, I forgot about Leftfield – _Rhythm & Stealth_. And I definitely agree with **Ich Bin’s** about Siguor Ros. Lots of good stuff listed here, plus many an artist I’ve never heard of. Feeling the urge to go to a CD store now! ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/45 "2002-09-10T15:38:09Z")
I’ve thought of a few others that deserve mention. **Jan Jenlinek** - Loop-Finding Jazz Records A bit of a misleading name, but it’s hard to tell the source material so it may be correct. Very mininal and sparse, has been called essential by a few **To Rococo Rot and I-Pan** Music is a Hungry Ghost The pairing a German blip group and New York DJ, also very ambient with no turntable showiness. A quiet album that has really grown on me **Fog** Fog Yet another Ninja Tune heavy. Minimal turntable showmanship, but heavily layered and modified, this has been called a bit more pop, but don’t let that scare you. A different approach to the turntable than percussive scratching, think Kid Koala. **Farben** Textstar Jelinek’s dance alter ego, a collection of singles and EP’s, but his minimalist sensibility comes through. To his credit is flows like one album. Think of the minimalism of the percussion on Radiohead’s Idioteque (static tones for snare and hi-hat) and you have an idea. **Herbert** Bodily Functions While this swerves once or twice into the poppy region, this is great, understated album, made noticeable by some beautiful female vocals throughout. **Posthuman** Don’t Fear the Monkey Next to avalaches, one of the best IDM records I own. Hard to find but worth it. (Sorry, not to sound snooty, but for those who don’t know, IDM means Intelligent Dance Music, which I guess means that it avoid using those same damn three cords and by-the-book breakdowns you’ve heard once if you’ve heard a thousand times… ) ---
**Author:** ![murky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@murky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murky)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/46 "2002-10-02T19:30:21Z")
bumping this thread to add my two cents. My personal favorite electronic group is Underworld, hands down. I loved Beaucoup Fish but I am completely hooked on their new one “100 Days Off.” It’s great stuff all around and “two months off” never fails to lift me out of a bad mood. On a different note, I picked up the Conjure One cd on a bit of a whim and was incredibly pleased with the results. Rhys Fulber’s movement into the ambient genre has worked out well. The cd is solid and I don’ t think there’s a single throwaway track on there. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/47 "2002-10-02T23:03:37Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by murky:_ > **On a different note, I picked up the Conjure One cd on a bit of a whim and was incredibly pleased with the results. Rhys Fulber’s movement into the ambient genre has worked out well. The cd is solid and I don’ t think there’s a single throwaway track on there.** Funny, I was just about to say the same damn thing! That cd is pretty freakin’ good. My favorite tracks are _Center of the Sun_, _Manic Star_, and _Premonition (reprise)_. Only thing that kind of annoys me about this cd is that while Marie Claire D’Ubaldo can sing like nobody’s business, a lyricist she is not. But, overall, a very strong cd and the ltd. edition second disc is pretty good, as well. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/48 "2002-10-03T00:48:38Z")
Can’t name complete albums, mainly because I deal only in singles or mixes but here is my list: **Paul Okenfold** : Angel **Pragah Khan** : Breakfast In Vegas **Skinny Puppy** : Addiction (KMFDM Mix) **My Life With The Thrill Kill Cult** : Sex on Wheels my own trance mix) **Tori Amos** : Professional Widow (Raspberry Swirl mix) **Book of Love** : I Touch Roses (Trance mix) ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/49 "2002-10-03T07:34:27Z")
Recent lessons in electronic music: One, the new Blue States album is rubbish. Two, the new DJ Shadow album is not a patch on his first one. Three, a React CD is not automatically good - gah, to think I spent money on a three CD-set that had half a good CD of music on it (I’m not even touching the “Belgian trance” one again). ---
**Author:** ![murky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@murky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/50 "2002-10-07T16:19:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by interface2x \* > \*\* Only thing that kind of annoys me about this cd is that while Marie Claire D’Ubaldo can sing like nobody’s business, a lyricist she is not. > > But, overall, a very strong cd and the ltd. edition second disc is pretty good, as well. \*\* Not a fan of Marie? That’s interesting. Why do you think so? Manic Star is probably one of my favorite tracks on the CD and I thought she did a fantastic job on Sleep as well. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/51 "2002-10-07T16:34:39Z")
One vote for **Happy Hardcore** one of my all essential beat clutch groups. Personally I cannot get enough of the Who the Fuck is Alice Mix as I work out. ---
**Author:** ![murky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@murky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/52 "2002-10-07T18:43:33Z")
would this be a mix of the song I always hear shouted at Irish bars? alice? alice? who the fuck is alice? ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/53 "2002-10-08T00:12:39Z")
OK, here’s mine… should be an interesting mix here. A few I’ve already seen on the list. Tangerine Dream - _Ricochet_ Art of Noise - _The Seduction of Claude Debussy_ Delerium - _Semantic Spaces_ Crystal Method - _Vegas_ Dust Brothers - _Fight Club_ soundtrack Orbital - _Orbital 2_ Moby - _Play_ Opus III - _Guru Mother_ Underworld - _Beaucoup Fish_ Thomas Dolby - _The Golden Age of Wireless_ For that last one… can’t be serious all the time, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/54 "2002-10-08T01:00:29Z")
Cult of Xymox and Skinny Puppy ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/55 "2002-10-08T05:27:02Z")
Oh man! Following the recommendations in this thread I could easily spend five thousand dollars on CDs at HMV or the lamented Sam’s (now, sadly, a shadow of its former self). This is definitely a print-and-save thread. So much good stuff has already been mentioned, but I’ll add: **Heldon** : _Stand By_ I found this and another Heldon album on vinyl at the Brampton Public Library in '84, and taped them. I’ve only ever found one CD of theirs. **Neu** : _'75_ This album includes “E-Musik”. A great piece of music. More, please. I’m not sure whether **Can** would fit in this context… Another vote for **Apoptygma Berzerk**. I wandered into Sam’s last year and they were playing it. So I bought it. More, please. **Solotronik**. I have their _Polimorfia Arkiteknia_ CD, but apparently their label [Vinilkosmo](http://www.vinilkosmo.com/) has released more. **Isao Tomita**. **Kitaro**. As others have mentioned, **Larry Fast and Synergy** , early **OMD** … **Vangelis**! It was _The Music of Cosmos_ that opened my eyes to this music at _just_ the right age. **Tangerine Dream** (I saw them live at Massey Hall), **The Art of Noise** … **Delerium**. **Jam & Spoon**. **Enigma**. And on and on… And for obscurity: _The Copper Plated Integrated Circuit_. An experimental compilation disc, vinyl, from 1969, featuring cover versions of things like _Hey Jude_ plus original works. Sounds like it was done a Commodore 64 at times. Ah for the days when the Toronto radio station The Edge advertised itself as “CFNY 102.1, the spirit of radio” and played all this kind of stuff after midnight… something died a little bit when they started playing the Beastie Boys. _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/56 "2002-10-08T07:21:09Z")
Some old school electronic stuff: M - Official Secrets Telex - Pretty much any of it Gardening by Moonlight - any Gary Numan - Anything (except that crap he put out in the late 80’s early 90’s) Kraftwerk - Yup. Can’t forget those guys. Walter/Wendy Carlos - Yup can’t forget him,. Err… Her. Tangerine Dream - Blinky blinky Nash the Slash - Blip blip The Normal - Warm leatherette anyone? Komputer - any of it Buggles/Art of Noise/Trevor Horn - Pretty much anything Trevor touched back then was cool. Seal was a Trevor project and his first CD was kind of cool. Devo - How can we forget these guys? Some random electronic stuff: Shriekback - Great stuff, heavy keyboard focus -80’s sound on some tracks. Killing Joke - This in on the verge of not being electronic, but they used lots of keyboards and FX. Machines of Loving Grace - any of it Pop Will Eat Itself - Not so much electronic in genre then by production. Sample-o-rama. Japan - These guys had some cool, moody, new romantic music. Laurie Anderson - Her early stuff was cool. Had an interesting look at music. Those are just a few off the top of my head. I’m sure in a few moments I’ll think of a billion others. And of course, now is the PERFECT time to say _myself_ and my band The Tic Tok Men. [Http://www.ampcast.com/tictok](Http://www.ampcast.com/tictok) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![longjohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@longjohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/longjohn)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/57 "2002-10-08T10:22:58Z")
Well, all you Sigur Ros fans don’t have long to wait, the new album drops on October 28th. Back to the thread, a pioneer who hasn’t been given his dues yet is Brian Eno. Maybe not music, possibly not even tunes, but one of the giants in the history of electronic music. Also, in the old school, for the wilful obscurists: Pierre Henry. Made excellent electronic music way back in the 60s. I don’t know where you’d find his stuff these days, but Fatboy Slim’s remix of Psych Rock is fairly common. BBC Radiophonic Workshop. These guys were the daddies. Namechecked by Aphex Twin and many others as major influences, they pioneered sound manipulation. Delia Darbyshire produced the Dr Who Theme which is wonderful, fantastic stuff that sounds fresh 30 years after it was written. Orbital have been using this as part of their live set for years, and their version of it is the highlight of their recent “Altogether” live CD. Karlheinz Stockhausen. Not necessarily my favourite musician, but can probably lay claim to being the composer of the first wholly electronic piece of music. Until, at least someone else comes along in two posts time and proves that this was actually someone playing a theremin recorded onto wax cylinder. Prince Jammy and King Tubby – along with Scratch Perry, the inventors of dub. I think this counts, although the source material was live instumentation, the music produced was all filtered through studio effects. Anyway, since I got a subwoofer, this stuff is rocking my couch and my world. Some more modern stuff that deserves a mention – Banco De Gaia and Transglobal Underground. Trance, but aimed more at the chill out room than the dance floor. Zero 7 – if you live Thievery Corp. or Air, you’ll love these guys. In fact, if you like well crafted tunes, you’ll love the album. Atari Teenage Riot / Alec Empire. On a label called Digital Hardcore. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Talvin Singh and Nitin Sawnhey. Pioneers of the Asian electronic scene. Although both have deep roots in classical Indian music, they produce amazing fusions of tablas, sitars, loops and breaks. Boards of Canada – actually a couple of Scottish guys who produce intricate, layered soundscapes, that seem to change depending on your mood when you listen. Have we mentioned Massive Attack? Reading this thread, people seem to have very deep knowledge of this genre, but if somehow anyone missed “Blue Lines”, or indeed “Dummy” by Portishead, do your ears a favour. ---
**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925/58 "2002-10-21T21:59:53Z")
What great suggestions! Portishead’s “Dummy” is one of my favorite albums of all time. May I humbly submit Allison Goldfrapp? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-electronic-music/126925.md?page=2)