Electronic Body Music

IdleRich

IdleRich
paradaig already mentioned them, but Ill second An-i
I love it but when I'm in Portugal and I get to dj I'm more likely to reach for stuff from his other alias - this John Carpenter disco track is great fun (could have a thread on this sound too really).


Edit - it's not posting properly but it was Lee Douglass - New York Story if you wanna check.
 
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IdleRich

IdleRich
ebm crossing into newbeat.

Classic. I do like new beat stuff a lot though I think the hit rate is one of the lowest out of any music... it's just when it's good it's exactly right for me.

Did any of you see that documentary Sound of Belgium which was online for free for a while? It was really good, it went from people dancing to fairground organs through popcorn to newbeat and then techno and it was sort of saying that all scenes were joined by the fact that Belgians like to drive everywhere and these bars/clubs were by the road or something. Either way it was very interesting. There has to be some reason why popcorn and new beat are both scenes where they slowed the tempo and played 33rpm records at 45 (or 45 plus eight or whatever).
 
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WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
If you’re going for Join in the Chant, go for the instrumental


They were big among the Depeche Mode contingent and school and college, think they were a supporting band for them on one of those huge tours from 88-91ish. Still rocks, but I’m not expert.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
With new beat, a lot of it is so silly (and about half of it is made by the same people). If you don't know the story behind the sample on this it's quite interesting though
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I think of this as aligned with these kind of sounds but it surely comes from a different place?


What about this? I love it anyway.

 

john eden

male pale and stale
I was sure there was a decent Front Line Assembly track but I can't find it. The North Americans turned it all into industrial rock bascially, which is where Marilyn Manson came from.

Saw Front 242 and Skinny Puppy in the 80s and they were great shows.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I was sure there was a decent Front Line Assembly track but I can't find it. The North Americans turned it all into industrial rock bascially, which is where Marilyn Manson came from.

Saw Front 242 and Skinny Puppy in the 80s and they were great shows.
Some of the early Ministry stuff is pretty good.
Also from US I love Crash Course in Science. This one AND Flying Turns are on the same twelve!


But yeah, Lords of Acid are too silly even for me.
 

blissblogger

Well-known member
I remember it (from late 80s, going to clubs with names like Hard) as being tiring to dance to - it was missing something, a wiggle in its walk, that house had. Belgian teknohaus took the sounds and vibe of EBM but added the wiggle.
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
as some people noted, I both posted most of my favorite tunes in this vein and said what I had to say about it in the other thread

but to go into a bit more detail - a brief of history of EBM

the origins of EBM aren't just northern European, they are specifically German - DAF, Liaisons Dangereuses, Tommi Stumpf, Keine Ahnung

its key figure, and sonic architect, was actually Conny Plank, the krautrock super-producer and electronics pioneer, via his work with DAF

DAF is EBM and EBM is DAF - all that follows, follows them

DAF formed in 78 - their first LP, only one not produced by Plank, is basically a German take on Chrome and/or a late 70s update of Faust and Neu!

their 2nd LP is a cross between the German Chrome sound and proto-EBM. it's almost like a weirder, much more aggressive Gang of Four.

this is the most EBMish track on it

by their 3rd and best LP, Alles Ist Gut, DAF has fully realized the sound of EBM - Sato-Sato, Der Mussolini, Als Wär's Das Letzte Mal, etc

here's Der Mussolini live roughly around the time Alles Ist Gut out came, Gorl on actual drumset with nothing (it looks like) electronic

at exactly the same time, Plank is making this very EBMish, but also clearly post-Berlin School, record with Dieter Moebius of Cluster
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
the second DAF LP also featured Chrislo Haas, who left right after to form CHBB with Beate Bartel (a founding member of Einstürzende Neubauten)


once Krishna Goineau joined, CHBB turned into Liaisons Dangereuses, the second obvious early EBM touchstone after DAF
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
Plank also produced records for the third German pillar of EBM, Tommi Stumpff

posted this in the other thread, but whatever

Stumpff as noted in the other thread went on to produce (with random spare studio time, supposedly) the great Silvia LP

EBM's answer to early Italo-disco
 
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