Greatest Electronica of EPIC proportion

[Jbravo]

KLF - The Blue Room

Don't you mean the white room? (the blue room was a track by the Orb). I'm sure you knew that!

Orbital are my all-time fave band but snivilisation was their dreariest, sloppiest, most disappointing release ever imho

[scuzzphut]

apart from "I wish I had duck feet" which I find very emotional , for some reason

I consider Middle of Nowhere to be their crowning glory - I think I said that already.

[Pseudo]

My fave album is Androgenous Amorphous - Tales of Ephidrina.

Classic FSOL with a bit more of a beat. Mind you once listened to it whilst tripping back in my naughty days with the cd player accidently on repeat play.

Listened to it for over four hours with out realising it had looped at least six times.

[emdot_ambient]

Louis & Bebe Barron: Soundtrack to Forbidden Planet
Morton Subotnick: The Wild Bull
Klaus Schulze: Mirage, Irrlicht
Edgar Froese: Aqua
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra, Stratosfear
Kraftwerk: Radioactivity, Trans-Europe Express, Man Machine, Computer World and Electric Cafe'
Jean Michel Jarre: Oxygene
Vangelis: Heven and Hell, Albeto 0.39
Georgio Moroder: Einzelganger (published under the band name Einzelganger)
Tonto's Expanding Head Band: Zero Time
Synergy: Sequencer
Fripp & Eno: No Pussyfooting, Evening Star
Steve Hillage: Rainbow Dome Music
Aphex Twin: Ambient Works Vol. 2
Amorphous Androgenous: Tales of Ephidrina (thanks for the reminder, Pseudo!)
Nitzer Ebb: Belief (well, all the music IS electronic!)
Orbital: Orbital, Orbital 2
Robert Rich & Lustmord: Stalker
Robert Rich: Numena/Geometry

Um . . . that's about it.

Although I have to correct you, Pink Floyd The Wall? No way, Dark Side (though personally I'll take Meddle any day).

[emdot_ambient]

tim blake-the crystal machine
autechre-incunabula

D'oh! I almost put Crystal Machine down except . . . Last Ride of the Boogie Child is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO lame! Even when the LP came out it was lame.

But I forgot Autechre: Incunabula, Amber (definitely)

[emdot_ambient]

Ashra: New Age Of Earth

Oh, excellent call! Forgot about that one too

I used to play that to people who wouldn't be caught dead listening to electronic music and to a person, they all loved it.

[emdot_ambient]

In 1979, a guy came along called Gary Numan and in the guise of Tubeway Army brought electronica into the spotlight, with the album Replicas...check it out, its a beauty.

I would have put this on my list only I don't consider it electronic music. Yeah, there are keyboards all over it, but drums, bass & guitar are 3/4 of the mix at least. I included Nitzer Ebb because all the music including drums were electronic. I excluded such things as David Bowie Low, for even though nearly half the album is all electronic, the other half is drums/guitar based. Several of artists mentioned throughout this thread aren't really what I'd consider electronic. New Order, Mike Oldfield . . . very heavy in the non-electronic music category.

Okay, I added Fripp & Eno . . . couldn't help meself!

[valley]

apart from "I wish I had duck feet" which I find very emotional , for some reason

For some reason I always seem to be in a crowd of one when it comes to sniv.

Are We Here is a great song, and Kein Trink Wasser is just ridiculously cool.

Some of the rest of the album fails to work though.

I consider Middle of Nowhere to be their crowning glory - I think I said that already.

I love MON, but InSides, if only on the strength of The Box 1/2, is my personal favourite.

[tetraplan]

But I forgot Autechre: Incunabula, Amber (definitely)

I'd add LP5 to that list, mainly because it's an insanely brilliant piece of work.

Groet, Erik

[mystahr]

argggh so many,

this years:
ochre - midsummernice dream

[digitalmessiah]

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra, Stratosfear
Vangelis: Heven and Hell, Albeto 0.39
Aphex Twin: Ambient Works Vol. 2
Amorphous Androgenous: Tales of Ephidrina (thanks for the reminder, Pseudo!)
Robert Rich & Lustmord: Stalker
Robert Rich: Numena/Geometry

how could i forget Stratosphere by TD. also, i seem to like 80's Vangelis stuff like "The City" and "Direct" - don't know why. i recently got Selected Ambient Works vol. 2 and i think the tracks are good - creepy at times. i have yet to check out Amorphous Androgenous. how good is it? and the Robert Rich's albums you mentioned. i have Propagation and Seven Veils, which are good.

[emdot_ambient]

...Amorphous Androgenous. how good is it?

Well, as someone else put it, it's like FSOL with more beat and conscious structure. It's sound is a little dated but It's a very seminal piece of hardware sampler-based IDM. Lots of loopology going on in the beats, and a lot of Orbital-like dance structures. Heavy on the sound FX and interspersed with sampled voices and percs (mostly without recognizable words). Very familiar kinds of structures (FX lead into bass/drum loop parts overlaid with more FX and sample madness) but never badly repetitious or overly cliche'. These guys know how to mix stuff up.

[emdot_ambient]

Holy crap, how could I forget . . .

Hardfloor!?!: Home Run, Da Damn Phreak Noize Phunk, TB Resuscitation (for true bare bones, hardcore, screaming TB-303 style acid 4-on-the-floor madness)

Autechre: Tri Repetae++
Terry Riley: Shri Camel
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.: Like A Duck To Water
S.E.T.I: Pharos (incredible zoned out ambience)
Human Mesh Dance: Hyaline (lush and lovely ambient beat stuff from 1/2 of S.E.T.I.)
Richie Hawtin (aka F.U.S.E.): F.U.S.E. (more beat oriented IDM/ambient than his later Plastikman releases)
Omicron: The Generation And Motion Of A Pulse (the other 1/2 of S.E.T.I. doing more S.E.T.I.-like stuff)

And my favorite "compilation" from a bunch of artists I've never seen from again ("All trax are mastered and developed by Erik Kirton at Sub 3x Studio Würzburg, Germany" compiled by Torben Schmidt)--all I know is that the instrumentation/production is so unified that I'd bet all these were tracks by the same artist:

INTERFERENCE, The Hypnotic Acid Inferno In The 21st CenturyGreat title, eh? Sounds like Duck Dodgers of the 24th & 1/2 Century. But excellent, excellent tracks ranging from hardcore to Goa.

[hoffy]

younger brother - a flock of beeps

i also really like daft punk