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Exit Zero · Post by **Exit Zero** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:33 pm

I'm listening to "Shango" by Juno Reactor right now and it's a masterpiece. You know, the guys behind the Matrix soundtracks!

Another is "Exit Planet Dust" by Chemical Bros.

What's yours?

I know maybe not everyone who visits KVR is into electronica, but try to pick an album that features some electronic sounds perhaps. (Also, maybe indicate if it's available on vinyl or CD or both.)

This might make good research for everyone's holiday list!

3*s · Post by **3*s** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:49 pm

BT - Movement in Still Life & ESCM

Crystal Method - Legion of Boom

Prodigy - Fat of the land

Chicane - Behind the Sun & FFTMC

Robert Miles - Dreamland & 23AM

Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

Earlier Pet Shop Boys

Artful Dodger - It's All About the Stragglers

tetraplan · Post by **tetraplan** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 10:51 pm

Way back when:
Autobahn by Kraftwerk. Warped my little mind for good.
Recent: Hmmm. I suppose Scatology by Coil. Opened up a whole new world.

Groet, Erik

Meffy · Post by **Meffy** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:06 pm

It was 1968. But I don't suppose "Switched-On Bach" qualifies as electronica... *blush* What can I say? When I got started in this stuff, there wasn't yet even one genre for electronic music.

More recently, KW's "Autobahn" and JMJ's "Oxygene." Oh, and Isao Tomita's "Pictures at an Exhibition."

Every one of these albums knocked my socks off. And I don't even wear socks.

Meffy

ahja · Post by **ahja** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:11 pm

Probably...

Skinny Puppy - Rabies / Brap / Too Dark Park
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Wumpscut - Music for a slaughtering Tribe.

...and different but...

Hallucinogen - Twisted

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:13 pm

Well, Vangelis's Hevean and Hell was the first all-electronic piece I ever heard and liked (at 2:00 a.m. half asleep--mmm, dreamstate visuals!) and that made me search out others. Soon after, I found Tangerine Dream's Stratosfear that really set my mind aflame with electronic music, so I guess I'll go with that even though Froese's Aqua gave me better visuals and Rubycon/Phaedra made me love sound for sound's sake.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:23 pm

LEAETHER STRIP - Solitary Confinement
A-HEAD - Deep Down [CDsingle]

These two releases opened up a whole new world of electronic possibilities which allowed me to ditch sampled guitars without going girly. I got Deep Down out of a bargain bin for $2. It was the first Zoth Ommog release I had ever seen/heard.

origami · Post by **origami** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:28 pm

Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park

Front 242: Front by Front

Leather Strip: the Rebirth of the Agony

Nitzer Ebb: Belief

DAF: Für Immer

Front Line Assembly: Tactical Neural Implant

The Young Gods: Second Nature

Cobalt 60: Elemental

Shane Sanders · Post by **Shane Sanders** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:30 pm

anything by Depeche Mode, but especially the later stuff

Ivoux and their only album "Frozen"

Miro · Post by **Miro** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:30 pm

Autoditacker by Mouse On Mars for me in 1997.

I had never heard programming like it - I had been a strictly TDream genre fan before that. Autoditacker completely changed my attitude to listening to/making electronica. Suddenly everything else seemed so lazy!

splattabreakz · Post by **splattabreakz** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:31 pm

dj shadow - endtroducing

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:32 pm

Electronica, blimey!

Simple minds - Sons and Fascination (yes, they were f**king great once.....)

Cabaret Voltaire - Microphonies

Public Enemy - It Takes a nation of millions to hold us back (cos the Bomb Squad were superbly creative with the early akai samplers, plus.... Chuck D

)

Human League - Dare (Top pop, and of course the fact that some bloke I once knew beat Phil Oakey up in a chippy once; Did I ever say that?)

The Prodigy - Experience (I like this one best of theirs still, even though it's a bit 'cheesy'. It's fun!)

Ouuf and New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies, because it's f**king superb.

Emerald Tablet · Post by **Emerald Tablet** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:40 pm

portishead - dummy

origami · Post by **origami** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:44 pm

oh I forgot one of the most interesting recent electronic albums:

Portion Control: 'wellcome'

fishbowl.tucson.az · Post by **fishbowl.tucson.az** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:48 pm

Meffy wrote:It was 1968. But I don't suppose "Switched-On Bach" qualifies as electronica...

Sure it does. And if you've ever played with a Moog Modular, or even Arturia, you will come to quite a new level of respect for Carlos, and what heshe did with the tools available.

I might be able to emulate George Harrison's "No Time or Space" (shoot me if I do), but to orchestrate a baroque concerto? On a Modular? With a 4-track, quarter inch deck? ?? ??? DAMN!

Your Most Influencial Electronica Album