I've listened to the Tim Hecker just once or twice so far, need to give it some more time.
Totes. My feeling is that first thru fifth impressions of an album are worthless, and should be ignored.
Jonman wrote:Totes. My feeling is that first thru fifth impressions of an album are worthless, and should be ignored.
I swear for me it's like 10 repeats at least before I start to like something. I'm that way with everything though. Most of my favorite games, TV shows, etc, I had a rather lengthy period of time at the start where I was undecided on if I even liked them or not. And often, the more that I end up liking something, the more that thing had to struggle to capture my interest at the beginning.
Yup. Autechre are my all-time favorite artists (and to a certain extent poster-boys for having to listen to a bunch of times before "getting it"). The first album of theirs I had sat on my shelf gathering dust for the first couple of years I owned it because I'd written it off as un-listenable garbage on the first couple of listens. Then one day I put it on and was all like "WTF? How did I miss how amazing this is?"
I like it. I like it a lot.
I really like having mixes like these while I'm cooking, cleaning around the house, etc.
I recently found out that there was a track on the Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 2 album that was only on the vinyl and not the CD version. And it's pure bliss:
Arise, electronic music thread!
Me likey.
Wish it was a "full" song.
I recently found out that there was a track on the Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 2 album that was only on the vinyl and not the CD version. And it's pure bliss:
Still kicking myself for selling my copy of that when I was slimming down my record collection to emigrate. I HAD THE BROWN VINYL!
Better news - new Sylvan Esso album is out!
Yeah the tracks on that Resting State album are pretty short, but the album as a whole flows together nicely.
If synthwave falls under this banner, then thanks also to the cyberpunk music thread for turning me on to that, and darkwave in particular. Pertubator may be the best, but I'm also wearing out GosT and Dan Terminus:
Two years later, but as someone finally getting up to speed on darkwave, yes, yes, and yes.
I find Dance with the Dead and Carpenter Brut to also be quite delicious.
More to the original intent of the thread, I think my all-time favorite electronic album is Not for Threes by Plaid, from back in '97:
Boards of Canada and Early-ish Autechre are right up there, too.
Boards of Canada has already been determined by consensus to be the
absolute pinnacle of electronic musicbare minimum of cultural touchstones for the genre .
*Legion* wrote:Boards of Canada has already been determined by consensus to be the
absolute pinnacle of electronic musicbare minimum of cultural touchstones for the genrebest music website of 2001.
Arise, thread!
Just saw this linked, and really enjoyed it:
This isn't from the PC game Unreal (what I originally thought it was), but from a demo called Unreal on the Amiga, years before.
If you play it on Youtube, it leads to this track:
... which is epic. I never heard this one, back in the day. Man, it would have been so amazing to listen to floppies gronking away for awhile, and for the computer to then suddenly light up and start doing that. Jeeze, that would have been exciting.
It's maybe not that impressive to modern people, because nowadays, of course computers can duplicate any music you can imagine. It hasn't always been that way. Back in the late 80s/early 90s, having the slab of plastic sitting on your desk start putting out sound like that would have been toe-tingling.
a demo called Unreal on the Amiga, years before.
If you play it on Youtube, it leads to this track:
... which is epic.
Ah, so that's the source of this Rochard track:
Connection made; mind blown.
This isn't from the PC game Unreal (what I originally thought it was), but from a demo called Unreal on the Amiga, years before.
Considering Unreal (and the original version of the Unreal Engine) used a tracker based music system I wouldn't be half surprised if there's some connection. Plus, most of the musicians who worked on the game got their start in the C64 and Amiga demo scenes.
Malor wrote:a demo called Unreal on the Amiga, years before.
If you play it on Youtube, it leads to this track:
... which is epic.
Ah, so that's the source of this Rochard track:
Connection made; mind blown.
I can't believe anyone just made a reference to Rochard.
76:14 by Global Communication
How the heck have I not heard about this album until now? (It's even featured in the image that tops this thread). This beautiful album from 1994 gets its title from its length and each of the tracks is also similarly titled. Everything I read about it talks about how it's one of the best, a must listen to ambient album, greatest of all time. As someone who has everything they can find by Aphex Twin, and Brian Eno and gone down a few other alleys in search of good ambient, I'm shocked that I missed this. I almost feel like there must be some aspect of the Mandela Effect at work here- where I came from an alternate dimension where this album didn't exist to this wonderful dimension where it does. I'm making up for missing out of on this for 20+ years, because I've been listening to it at least twice a day since I found out about it a few days ago.
Tracks and Traces by Brian Eno and Harmonia '76
This has recently turned into a go-to ambient album for me. I don't even recall when or where I picked this up. Most likely bought with several other of Eno's work when I was working on expanding my knowledge of Brian Eno, and somehow was overlooked in favor of other more well known Eno works. Recently, one late night I put this on and everything clicked and I'm regularly putting this on at night when I'm browsing the internet instead of sleeping (like now).
Yeah. My current thought process is that the name "Global Communication" seems so generic to my brain that any mention I may have seen about it in the past was glossed over in favor of cooler sounding names like Aphex Twin, Orbital, Orb, Moby, etc.
I also dipped into post-rock for my ambient fix too in the 90s. The most memorable for me was Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die. Especially the opening 20 min long track Djed which is quite a head trip:
Hey all, I'm looking for recommendations for new stuff to listen to at work. When I'm not in the mood for video game OSTs, I primarily do downtempo/trip-hop (Kruder & Dorfmeister, Bonobo, dZihan & Kamien, Funki Porcini) with the occasional side of big beat (Crystal Method, Chemical Brothers, Fluke) and synthwave (Perturbator, Protector 101, Action Jackson). Any suggestions of other acts or albums I should seek out?
Album bought. Great work & chill music.
I've had it on repeat for days at work.
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