Your Most Influencial Electronica Album

[SecondSkin]

My first post here...


8. The Durutti Column - Vini Reilly
8b. The Durutti Column - The Guitar and Other Machines
8c. The Durutti Column - Sporadic Recordings
11. Xymox - Twist of Shadows
11a. Clan of Xymox
11b. Clan of Xymox - Medusa
16. Moby - Everything is Wrong
19. Hooverphonic - Stereophonic Sound Spectacular

21a. BT - ESCM

Great calls...especially Duritti Column. Not exacty what most people would call electronic, but Vini was def. doing something to those guitars.

[vurt]

bbc radiphonic stuff
stockhausen
whitenoise

[SecondSkin]

My "early" electronic influences:

Shock Therapy - "Shock Therapy" EP
Sisters of Mercy - "First and Last..." "Floodland"
Ministry -- "Twitch"

Later influences:
Tricky -- "Maxinquaye"
Massive Attack -- "Mezzanine"
Underworld -- "DubNoBass..."

Techno Dept:
Ritchie Hawtin/Plastikman -- "Sheet One", "Dex, FX & 909", "Consumed"
Swayzak -- "Snowboarding in Argentina"

Man, everything I just listed is very DARK, innit???

[Pepe]

Hey, ciao a tutti, I'm back

I can't tell much about a certain "electronic" album... only a few maybe.

My main influences were when I first noticed the use of synths and delay FX in songs by:

ELO
ABBA
Alan Parsons Project

Later when I started to use deodorants:

Ultravox - Vienna
Visage - Visage
OMD - first ones
Front 242 - most by them

Later when I started to use colorants:

Underworld - Everything, everything
and The Pixies, hm, not what I'd call Electronica

Of course I always loved Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Massive Attack, NIN and much others stated in this great thread... but they didn't really influence me.

[Dave Peachey]

Hmmm, where to start! Probably a third of my 30-year old record/CD collection is electronica of one sort or another ... all of which has influenced my listening/playing at some time or other.

Turntable/CD player regulars over the years (bought many of them on vinyl when they first appeared) have included JMJarre, TDream, Tomita, Orb, Kraftwerk, Heldon/Pinhas, Synergy, Vangelis, Steve Roach and Klaus Schulze, Art of Noise, Fripp/Eno.

More recently, this has been supplemented by Add NtoX, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Der Spyra, Ian Boddy, Keller & Schonwalder, System 7, etc.

Personal favourites (in no particular order):
Vangelis - Beauborg
Steve Roach - Structures from Silence; Dreamtime Return
Tangerine Dream - Zeit; Rubycon
Bernard Xolotl - Procession
Der Spyra - Future of the Past; Invisible Fields
Richard Pinhas - Iceland; L'Ethique
Didier Bocquet - Sequences
Synergy - Cords; Audion
Klaus Schulze - Picture Music; Live (1979)
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
Keller & Schonwalder - Sakrale Tone
Fripp/Eno - No Pussyfooting

But, then again, I could also add much of Terry Riley's early keyboard-based stuff, bits of the 1960s/early 1970s output of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (so glad someone mentioned The White Noise!) and selected bits of Stockhausen, Varese and others in that vein.

Cheers
Dave

[MDMAchine]

Ahh yes it vert important not to forget Stockhausen and the like in the 50's who really made a good contrabution to evolving electronic oriented music. Although there were plenty more than Stockhausen he seems to take the lead in that era, IMO.

I find it actually kinda of brave for them to do what they did in a time when it was very novelty at best and obscure.. Forward thinkers do usally tend to fall into that catagory.

[projectdan]

Few more just came to mind

Luke Slater's 7th Plain - My Yellow Wise Rug (Minimalist, wonderfully ambiguous)


U ziq - Tango & Vectif & Bluff Limbo ( naive playfull techno)

[nebulae]

My first post here...


8. The Durutti Column - Vini Reilly
8b. The Durutti Column - The Guitar and Other Machines
8c. The Durutti Column - Sporadic Recordings
11. Xymox - Twist of Shadows
11a. Clan of Xymox
11b. Clan of Xymox - Medusa
16. Moby - Everything is Wrong
19. Hooverphonic - Stereophonic Sound Spectacular

21a. BT - ESCM

Great calls...especially Duritti Column. Not exacty what most people would call electronic, but Vini was def. doing something to those guitars.

He did a lot of experimental electronic stuff underneath what he called "avant guarde jazz classical" Pretty great stuff - the riffs and sounds still stay with me even as most of my recent songs have been electronic in nature.

[nBeat]

It's hard to mention one particular album but these
albums have always had a big impact on me
(I still listen to them every now and then):

Human League - Reproduction
Human League - Travelogue
Human League - Dare!
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark - Organisation
Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark - Architecture And Morality
Rupert Hine - Immunity
Rupert Hine - Waving Not Drowning
Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields

[SLiC]

Any one mentioned Craig Armstrong?
I'll vote for 'as if to nothoing'.

[ouroboros]

Ghostbuster's Soundtrack: Thompson Twins In the name of love.

I know it's not particularly high-brow, but it was the first synthy stuff I had heard. It made me interested, so I looked for a little more and more. Found Erasure, YAZ, others fromthe era and just continued on.

Other than that, probably the Who. I still love their synth stuff!

[kara]

My first musical here was Jean Michel Jarre.

He still is

Rony

[MackTuesday]

The albums the have influenced me musically aren't all the same as the ones that I enjoy listening to the most. Does that make sense? I started with

Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's

Then it was

Yaz - You and Me Both

Then I discovered Depeche Mode. Ahhh... Their most important work for me has been

Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
(Great early sampling and sequencer work)
Depeche Mode - Violator
(Flawless synthpop)

After Alan left the band they were never the same again. (Still quite good though)

I bought Erasure's Wonderland when it first came out, but was disappointed. Later I learned that they had greatly improved. Their most important works for me are

Erasure - The Innocents
(Flawless synthpop)
Erasure - Chorus
(Flawless synthpop)

Long live King Vince.

The rest of the albums that have influenced me:

Alphaville - Afternoons in Utopia
(I like the chord progressions)
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
(Bucephalus Bouncing Ball -- damn)
Natasha Barrett - (no particular album)
(Electronic art music)
David Bowie - Low
(Quirky early new wave and brilliant ambient/new age)
Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk
(Lush production and catchy tunes)
Ochre - (no particular album)
(Exquisite use of timbre, rhythm, and harmony)
Pet Shop Boys - Very
(Strong song writing)
Curtis Roads - (live performances)
(Electronic art music)
Soul Coughing - El Oso
(Interesting sampler work)
Synergy - Metropolitan Suite
(Moving new age)
Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea
(Moving new age)


Is it just me or does this guy look like he's saying "Mahmoha mahmoha mahmoha mahmoha..."? That's not what I say when I'm angry.

[pricer]

Air - The Virgin Suicides
Amon Tobin - Supermodified
Aphex Twin - Richard D James/SAW2
Autechre - Amber
Bjork - Homogenic/Vespertine
BoC - Music Has The Right To Children
Brian Eno - Ambient 1
BT - Ima
Cibo Matto - Viva La Woman
Crystal Method - Vegas
Death In Vegas - Contino Sessions
Dot Allison - Afterglow
Dusted - When We Were Young
Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time of Science
Faint - Danse Macabre
Fischerspooner - #1
Lamb - Lamb/What Sound
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Matmos - The Civil War
Matthew Herbert - Bodily Functions
Mira Calix - Skimskitta
Mum - Finally We Are No-One
NIN - The Downward Spiral/Still
Plaid - Not For Threes
Postal Service - Give Up
Radiohead - Kid A/Amnesiac
Sigur Ros - Agoetis Byrjun/()
Stafrænn Hákon - Skvettir Edik Á Ref/Ventill-Poki
Stereolab - Switched On
Trespassers William - Different Stars
Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders
Venetian Snares - Winter In The Belly Of A Snake

[Ocean Zen]

I'll keep mine simple,

Vangelis - BladeRunner Soundtrack,
Orbital - InSides