Conquer Club

I am just about to download autechre's new album from bleep.com and i am quite excited. Has anyone listened to it yet?

Basically I thought it might be good to have a thread of recommendations cos it's always good to listen to new stuff. And I fear I am getting a bit parochial.

Suggestions?

*yawn*

btownmeggy wrote:*yawn*

Listen - i downloaded coheed and fookin cambria the other day after reading about them on THESE BOARDS. And that is half an hour of my life that i will never get back. Some of you have a lot to answer for.

boards of canada - geogaddi

plaid - anything early

the 6ths - wasps nests

stereolab - anything early

and

air - moon safari

console - mono

heavycola wrote:I am just about to download autechre's new album from bleep.com and i am quite excited. Has anyone listened to it yet?

Basically I thought it might be good to have a thread of recommendations cos it's always good to listen to new stuff. And I fear I am getting a bit parochial.

Suggestions?

I don't like them. They sound too electrical to me and basically I regard them as a bad copy of Kraftwerk on drugs.

Kraftwerk, maybe (early) Laibach and Daft Punk are OK to me. But other than that i don't like that kind of music.

khazalid wrote:boards of canada - geogaddi

plaid - anything early

the 6ths - wasps nests

stereolab - anything early

I much prefer Music has the right
Going to see Plaid in April at BANGFACE! Canne wait! Stereolab i need to listen to at some stage. Cheers.

btownmeggy wrote:*yawn*

Seconded. (For the most part.)

music has the right aint got no soul. but BoC bore the shit out of me these days anyway, like most electronica. you live you learn

khazalid wrote:music has the right aint got no soul. but BoC bore the shit out of me these days anyway, like most electronica. you live you learn

BoC wrote Happy Cycling, which has been a favourite track of mine for years and years. Goes on every mix I make just about.

if you've got all jaded I recommend Clark, Warp's new wunderkind. Pretty special IMO

warp? haha, maybe 3 years ago. try out grizzly bear's new 'friend ep' on the same label. will make a pleasant change from yawn inducing IDM my son. (although i have a soft spot for those seagull samples too)

oh yeah, and the ukulele in this kinda reminds me of an organic version of everything you do is a balloon, in a very roundabout kind of way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjeh6P4sRfw

khazalid wrote:warp? haha, maybe 3 years ago. try out grizzly bear's new 'friend ep' on the same label. will make a pleasant change from yawn inducing IDM my son. (although i have a soft spot for those seagull samples too)

I hate that label. IDM is the worst. It is meaningless. I'd say that 80% of electrinic music i have listened to is shite, but maybe that's becasue it's easy to make badly. There is no doubt that people like autechre and aphex twin and kraftwerk before them took the tech of the age and ran with it. Who has teh inclination or the time to listen to yawn-inducing music?? I'll try your recommendation. But Clark is really doing nice things to my head

I do appreciate a good ukelele, however

I do appreciate a good ukelele, however[/quote]

Check out some George Formby. He's the dogs balearics.

haven't heard Autechre's new stuff yet either. I'm still kicking myself for being broke in August and missing the Daft Punk show

Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
Planet Mu 2005

Here's one of the tracks from it.

Everything I like that is at least vaguely electronic:
DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin, Praveen, Cut Chemist, Depeche Mode (of course), Lightning Bolt, Kill Me Tomorrow. Not much but I like some of these more than I like some of my favorite rock bands.

Gaudi & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Dub Qawwali
Six Degrees Records 2007

This is a sublime album. It's not purely electronic, it's a dub album made from old recordings of Fateh Ali Khan from the late 60s. Here's the first track, enjoy.

Adrian Sherwood - Never Trust A Hippy
Real World Records 2003

Another dub album. This is his first album under his own name. He's got another one called Becoming A Cliché (2006) which is good, but not as consistently good as NTAH. Here's track 5.

Sheep On Drugs - Greatest Hits
Island Records 1993

I was listening to this earlier, it's a cracking album.
track 3

If you're up for a laugh, check out The Moog Cookbook. Here they are doing Whole Lotta Love

Foetus (aka J.G. Thirlwell) is worth checking out. His music can get pretty intense and it is an acquired taste. Here's one of his more accessible songs, Verklemmt, taken from the album Gash (Big Cat Records 1995)

heavycola wrote:

btownmeggy wrote:*yawn*

Listen - i downloaded coheed and fookin cambria the other day after reading about them on THESE BOARDS. And that is half an hour of my life that i will never get back. Some of you have a lot to answer for.

I'm glad you downloaded Co&Ca, but you must apologise for that insult!

P.S, where did you read them?

P.S.S I'm doing a marathon of Co&Ca right now :] Only 3.something hours to go!

Genghis Khant wrote:Gaudi & Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Dub Qawwali
Six Degrees Records 2007

This is a sublime album. It's not purely electronic, it's a dub album made from old recordings of Fateh Ali Khan from the late 60s. Here's the first track, enjoy.

One of my favourite tracks fvrom last year was called Qawwali, by Pinch. Gorgeous dubstep.
I'll have a listen. Cheers.

A friend of mine recently gave me a copy of Part One by Astrobotnia. If you like Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 1, then you should definitely check it out.

Also worth checking out if you haven't already;
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Luke Vibert & BJ Cole - Stop The Panic
Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich
Nine Inch Nails - Fixed
William Orbit - Strange Cargo III
The KLF - Chill Out
Orbital - II (the one with the brown cover)