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dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:15 am

Xenakis 'Persepolis'
TG 'D.O.A.'
Whitehouse 'Erector'

Three records that warped my fragile little mind when I was a wee lad of 14. Never looked back.

Cabinfever · Post by **Cabinfever** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:23 am

20 jazz funk greats - by throbbing gristle
replicas - gary numan
empire state human - human league
systems of romance - ultravox
man machine - kraftwerk
metamatic - john foxx

these i think are very influential. a lot of the later alnums people are posting here i think really had very little "influence" as the electronica market was already fragmented and well understood.

the early artists were influential because they *created* this market and were listened to by a much broader audience.

smp · Post by **smp** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:30 am

There are many I love, but the first one I listened to that made me think "Woah...I wanna do that!" was Apollo 440 - Electro Glide in Blue.

In fact, everytime I listen to that I still think "Woah...I wanna do that!".

-s

Raphaelle · Post by **Raphaelle** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:31 am

Lessee.... The stuff that got me turned on to electronic music in the first place would be industrial. So them first:

Skinny Puppy- Too Dark Park

Cabaret Voltaire- I can't actually pick one that's more influetial to me, they're too good.

Front Line Assembly- Gashed Senses & Crossfire, and Tactical Neural Implant. Hell, I still have Gashed Senses & Crossfire in my 3-disc changer!

Front 242- Front by Front. Headhunter and Welcome to Paradise were the first electronic music I ever heard.

Err, now for other stuff:

DJ Dieselboy- Err, I dunno. It's just that he's good. He turned me on to Dn'B and that whole area of music.

Aphex Twin- Classics, Selected Ambient Works 85-92, and Come to Daddy. This guy does -everything-, and does it damn well too.

My Bloody Valentine- Loveless. Because, well, it's Loveless! What the hell else can you say?

New Order- Power, Corruption, and Lies.

Cocteau Twins- All their stuff.

BT- Movement in Still Life.

Infected Mushroom- B.P. Empire.

Sasha- Xpander.

Xome- I don't know which one really, I can't remember.

Kraftwerk- Computer World(yeah, I know it was just mentioned), and Electric Cafe. Oh, about 'It's More Fun to Compute': The first time I put it on was at a party, and people kept coming up to me and asking me what was wrong with my speakers.

Sigur Ros- Agaetis Byrjun, and (). These guys are basically the inspiration for the droney slow ambient stuff I've been doing lately.

Okay, I'll stop talking now, because I think that was everything.

edit: Ooh, damn it. I forgot Throbbing Gristle- 20 Jazz Funk Greats, Mouse on Mars-Niun Niggung and Iaora Tahiti and Audiotacker, Philip Glass, and John Cage. Oh well. I already said way too much.

Soniccat · Post by **Soniccat** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:38 am

bugs wrote

Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon 1967! (Buchla synth)

This is an amazing piece--highly recommend it!

Yes this was one of the first but it is hard to say for sure, (1967 was a great year for underground radio here in the states-yes I am that old) I was also hearing Stockhausen, Cage, Riley, and those of that generation. Also Hendrix (Electric Ladyland has some killer sounds done on guitar, George Harrison Wonderwall, and The United States of America.
But the biggest influences for me were Tangerine Dream (Rubycon and Phaedra) Fripp and Eno, Laurie Anderson (Let X=X, I got this out of an art magazine and it mesmerized me for weeks) and an album called Zero from 1978, don't know the artist.
The nineties turned me onto Banco de Gaia and Orbital and I have been listening to alot of Ian Boddy lately.
And here at Kvr I have a big fondness for Vurt's music altho I hesitate to let it influence my work now, he might sue me for plagerism

Soniccat · Post by **Soniccat** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:44 am

Oh I for got another major big influence WXPN radio which had two programs I listened to religiously in the seventies Diaspar (mostly euro progressive music-no Yes in the equasion) and Stars End which is still going strong especially here at KVR

Sicklecell666 · Post by **Sicklecell666** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:53 am

Massive Attack's Mezzanine.

Portishead's Dummy

Sneakerpimp's Splinter

Death in Vegas' first album

PI soundtrack

Skinny Puppy's Too Dark Park

Ministy's Land of Rape & Honey

FaX · Post by **FaX** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:55 am

Monolake - Anything and everything he's released.
Richard H.Kirk - Ditto but I do have a soft spot for
"The Number of Magic"
Cabaret Voltaire - can't pick just one.
Human League - Dare
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again , Black celebration ,Violator ,Music for the Masses
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman & SecondToughestintheInfants.
SigourRos - ()
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
808 State - First three Releases
Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms and DeadCities
Orbital - Snivilization and the Brown Album
The Orb - Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
KLF - The Blue Room
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
John FoXX - Metamatic
Aphex Twin - selected Ambient works Vols. I & II
This Mortail Coil - Philigree and Shadow
M people - Northern Soul (the first and only decent album they ever made IMHO still a classic)
Inner City -ditto for first major album.
LFO - pretty much anything.
BOC - Music has the right to ......
Bjork - Vespertine , Homogenic , Post
David Sylvian - Blemish
Tomita , Wendy Carlos , Vangelis ,Sakamoto,John cage,
SteveReich.
NIN - The Downward Spiral

Lots of individual tracks by various artists...
ie: BabyFord -OochieKoochie ,A Guy Called Gerald - VoodooRay ,FSOL - Papua New Guniea , BassHeads - Is there Anybody Out There , Bizzare Inc - Playing With Knifes.
Etc etc etc etc ....

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:04 am

CAN!!!

emdot_ambient · Post by **emdot_ambient** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:07 am

Oh, well, if you want to just go naming everything that's been inluential to me, then . . .

Todd Dockstader (Apocalypse/Quartermass)

I'll second Morton Subotnick (Wild Bull/Silver Apples)

Vladimir Ussachevsky (Film Music)

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. (Like a Duck to Water--the first group to tour live with a Minimoog?)

Terry Riley (Shri Camel/Persian Surgery Dervishes)

Steve Reich (Music for 18 Musicial--saw it live at the Building Museum aka Pension Building in DC AMAZING space! I want an IR from there)

Philip Glass (Music in 12 Parts/North Star/Einstien on the Beach--saw it live at BAM on mushrooms WHOAH!--Music in Changing Parts/Music in Fifths/Music in Similar Motion)

David Bowie (Low--the electronic work on this is moving enough to make you cry)

Eno--plus Fripp &--(uh, like everything)

Heldon -- everything

Sensation's Fix (Portable Madness--very rare, unknown and under rated; great string synth parts)

Einzelganger (Georgio Moroder's early Kraftwerk-esque work, very unusual)

JM Jarre (obvious)

Klaus "God" Schulze (everything up to and including half of Dune)

I'll second Gary Numan Replicas

Devo (first 3 or 4 albums, but especial #1--saw it live in Olens Mills MD in the round, first use of wireless mics/guitars I ever saw and on kick ass show!)

Hardfloor; gotta love 'em

Orbital (before Snivilization)

S.E.T.I. (all)

Plastikman (all)

That's way more than enough, though I'm sure I forgot tons.

Gwydi · Post by **Gwydi** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:18 am

A mixture of tracks and albums, I know ...

Old:
JMJ - Zoolook
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Vangelis - China
Sky - Toccata
Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Recent:
Tweaker - 2am Wakeup Call
Bass Communion - Ghosts on magnetic tape
Joy Electric - The White Songbook

And, surprised that nobody else seems to have mentioned this - a shitload of computer and videogame music, especially from the early 80's and early 90's (when the MOD scene was huge).

G.

dystonia_ek · Post by **dystonia_ek** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:22 am

emdot_ambient wrote: Todd Dockstader (Apocalypse/Quartermass)

Beardedone · Post by **Beardedone** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:32 am

Jazz From Hell - FZ

reprznt · Post by **reprznt** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:38 am

Daft Punk "Homework"

For me, I find that nothing compares with this record.

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 3:42 am

Beardedone wrote:Jazz From Hell - FZ

'g-spot tornado' remains one of the most impressive examples of programming i've ever run across ...

Your Most Influencial Electronica Album