"Emotionally Charged Electronica" & The Ineffable Sadness of Woops

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41. Mercury Rev - Frittering

Great chord progression, great lyric and vocal production, great full-scale epic track which like all the best of this kind of stuff is never showy or flashy and never over-reaches itself. At the time I thought there must be hundreds of albums of music like this out there waiting for me to discover them (maybe there are?).


I hate the stuff this turned into, on principle, like the Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, fuck off, indulging all the worst aspects of the fanbase and creating Pitchfork as I imagine, but the early stuff could be brilliant.

 

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42. Füxa - City and Metro

Somehow part of the space rock wave, but unlike most of the delay-drowned droning (some of which was more or less pleasant, like Stars of the Lid). One of their many albums was (a double or triple LP) called Very Well Organised, which gives you some indication. Of course, it's not the sickest, most insane sonics, more ecccentric and charming.

 

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43. Designer - Gebarck Star

Once more I'd missed out on jungle up in Lancashire and never been a continuum guy but it started to get released on the Stereolab label so of course I was listening. Is this too intelligent or parodic for the real headz?


thirdform?!

 

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Once more I'd missed out on jungle up in Lancashire and never been a continuum guy but it started to get released on the Stereolab label so of course I was listening. Is this too intelligent or parodic for the real headz?


thirdform?!

Earnestly parodic would be about right.

shite if you wanted to know my undiplomatic opinion

 

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44. The Remote Viewer, untitled

probably the label that crossed over best from indie to electronica was 555 recordings. i thought they were the best label in the world at that time. released a load of lo-fi punk bands and a few lo-fi electronic indie kids like the following. it's easily as good as the autechre records of that period (1999) in my book.

 

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45. Kid606 - 808 mate

I'm not gonna defend some of this guy's stuff, he ended up sounding like the chemical brothers. the beats sound dated but the glitch stuff was cutting edge to my innocent mind. he was releasing on 555 to which led me to the Fat Cat split 12" series which is almost bringing this list within the bounds of dissensus acceptability...

 

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46. Ad Vanz v Gescom - Viral

...i mean they released Gescom for god's sake...

 

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deliberately bad keyboard playing I like to imagine performed by Mark E himself.

Surely he'd never lower himself to actually playing an instrument?

 

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46. Com.A - Welcome Com.A

...and Com.A via which I'd be off on a different trip into Japanese electronica and eventually going out to play there...

 

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47. Cow'P - 5 Days Floor (Sleep Mix)

...with the people from the label that realised this kind of thing. made on gameboy nanoloop and the world's best nanoloop musician for my money. but no one listens to this music.

 

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48. Utabi - Wave Ladder

oops the label was called 19-t, another one of that crew

 

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write ups are getting a bit minimal aren't they

 

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...with the people from the label that realised this kind of thing. made on gameboy nanoloop and the world's best nanoloop musician for my money. but no one listens to this music.

Oh yeah! remember this one from my 'idm' phase. should trawl through those records, there are good ones buried amongst the 'we-wanna-sound-like-autechre but can't ppull it off' boffins.

 

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49. Takeshi Muto - Mello. Me

Well, I think the time and effort it's taken me to get as far as 50 tunes shows I'm not a natural DJ. I can understand that. I tried, but any time anyone let me near some turntables I'd be trying to play this kind of stuff. It's melodic and its complicated and I loved it at home on my own

Edited - the breakdown at the end is wicked

 

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there are good ones buried amongst the 'we-wanna-sound-like-autechre but can't ppull it off' boffins.

I think this thread proves I liked both sides of that equation

 

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Well, I think the time and effort it's taken me to get as far as 50 tunes shows I'm not a natural DJ

most people could do 100 in a week, or a day if thirdform

 

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Surely he'd never lower himself to actually playing an instrument?

according to the fall autobiographies he (Mark E Smith) would play guitar, sometimes a toy one, and a disreputable violin

 

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I like that yours and John's go at their own pace tbh. It's nice to have them pop up from time to time.

 

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here's the playlist

 

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oops the label was called 19-t, another one of that crew

im afraid i cant vibe with this right now, but too glitchy. but maybe another time