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36. Black Dog Productions - Bytes (Warp Records, 1993)
85 points, 5 votes.

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fucking listen to "bytes" already goddamit, you son of a !#$KO!$%JKO

― amon (eman), 15. lokakuuta 2005 6:20

so i've never heard bytes, until now. close up over! wow! lovely

― lfam, 7. toukokuuta 2007 0:2

as far as actual albums that you listen to, even though it's near the beginning of IDM and not something great for dance party time, I think Black Dog Production's Bytes is the best techno album of all time. It's diversity, it's consistency, it's flow, everything.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), 6. toukokuuta 2005 19:09

So I'm listening to Bytes by Black Dog Productions, and the pads sound distorted on a lot of the tracks. Also, during "The Clan (Mongol Hordes)" theres a whispy, very high pitched sound throughout.

What the hell is up with this? Is my CD fucked up (it's not my computer or speakers), is this on others copies/the re-released version?

― mehlt, 21. kesäkuuta 2008 17:57

no, they all sound like that. IIRC a lot of it was done on fucked-up hand-me-down equipment, dubbed to cassette tape, mastered from vinyl and on top of that mastered to be murky on purpose.

― moonship journey to baja, 21. kesäkuuta 2008 23:41

Ahh that sucks, don't know why I didn't notice it 'till now. Reminds me of reading that original tapes for Selected Ambient Works were mangled by a cat.

― mehlt, 22. kesäkuuta 2008 3:40

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link

35. Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich (Planet E, 1996)
86 points, 4 votes.

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Well, there were actually three of us, but after hitting the bars in Nashville over the holidays we headed back to the apartment of a friend and proceeded thus:

1. Programmed the two Sony mega-changers to crossfade between 'Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich' by Paperclip People and 'Analog Worms Attack' by Mr. Oizo, one track after another in order

2. Watched 'The Neverending Story' muted with English subtitles on while listening to the results of 1, above

3. Occasionally read the dialogue off the screen to the beat of the music as if it were a freestyle

It was FUCKING WICKED, YEAH

― Millar (Millar), 24. tammikuuta 2003 2:08

Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes Of Dr. Eich

Earthlings, I will not be troubled by your pointless headlines and silly love stories, I will not be moved by your trite summaries of miracles, I will not sully my consciousness with ruminations on the fate of the ozone layer or the impossible questions of justice. I will not be fooled by advertising, I will not be distracted by politics, and I will not weep into a bottled beer over some smile I'll never see again.

What I will do is think about what it would be like to be a flawless being from the future where none of this shit matters anymore because the beats are so perfect and unstoppable and people and machines are a seamless fusion in constant motion as far as the eye can see and even the sirens on the ambulances play the refrain from "The Climax."

Then I will take my headphones off because someone is talking at me and everything will suck again. Just for a little while.

― TOMBOT, 26. heinäkuuta 2004 18:57

Screw Songs About Food. Get that Paperclip People disc first.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), 27. syyskuuta 2004 22:00

think the Paperclip People album is still my favourite.

― millmeister, 3. toukokuuta 2012 18:34

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link

never 'eard of it. what is it?

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link

Carl Craig in world destroying house mode.

Tim F, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link

cool.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link

That was my #4. Back in 1994, my 15-year old brain was blown by "Throw". Before that, I'd never considered a track so minimal could be so fulfilling. I was disappointed that I couldn't find any other tunes by PP in the local record stores, but I learned the guy behind the name was Carl Craig, and he'd done some other cool stuff too. Still, PP remained my first true love among his pseudonyms. Then, a couple of years later, I spotted the album at a store, and and bought it immediately. I do think it loses some steam after "Steam", but tracks from "Oscillator" to that one are among the best house music ever made: so much space and emotion in those simple grooves. And the bassline of "Paperclip Man" is still the roughest I've ever come across; not even techstep drum'n'bass topped it, IMO.

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link

Yay Paperclip People.

Hard Normal Showaddywaddy (Mr Andy M), Monday, 29 October 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link

p sure Rest Proof Clockwork is 2 spondees (spondaic?) not iambic

had an English friend back when who insisted on pronouncing Plaid as "played" instead of "pladd". is that a British thing or was he just confused?

Plasmon, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link

34. Goldie - Timeless (FFRR, 1995)
89 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/timeless.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/0MbeekWXeO9BFjImhNH5gf

Yeah the beats themselves on Timeless are super super memorable, they're like hooks in a way that just wasn't the case on Parallel Universe (or, if I'm honest, BST).

― Tim F, 5. syyskuuta 2012 12:25

As a stand alone cut, I could see how Sea of Tears would underwhelm, maybe sound too watered down in the context of its genre. But I do love how spacious the beatless sections are. And I think it fits well as a deep cut in the album.

― azaera, 7. syyskuuta 2012 0:02

mystique is like the perfect goldie tune title too. i've never really been able to get past the sludgy sound of BST. Jah the seventh seal is the best thing for me on either record. can't believe someone called goldie's production flat upthread, that track sounds like it's coming from another dimension.

― jed_, 11. syyskuuta 2012 3:14

"Jah The Seventh Seal" is great but I think I would always have to go with "Angel" or (possibly)
"Kemistry" as best - the incongruous mixture of light and dark that Goldie managed on those tunes seems like his greatest contribution IMO.

― Tim F, 11. syyskuuta 2012 3:16

yeah what as it bjork said about jungle? "exploding with fierce joy" or something. describes a lot of timeless, imo

― blank, 11. syyskuuta 2012 3:21

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link

I think the mispronunciation of plaid is because most people use the words tartan or tweed instead, so it's just unfamiliarity.

Chewshabadoo, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link

Whoops, actually Timeless is supposed to be #33, and this is the real #34:

34. The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (Virgin, 1994)
89 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/lifeforms.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/0UcHfoo7KMso767JwePBMh

I hate to be the fucker to point this out, but 'alpha'-state = AWAKE. Methinks (if I can remember anything from my brief college years) that the deep-sleep-state brainwave patterns are referred to as "theta" waves.

And, as for the thread question, put on that Bill Laswell/Talvin Singh ambient album or Future Sound of London's Lifeforms or Buckethead's Electric Tears, and you. are. gone.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), 2. toukokuuta 2003 14:51

future sound of london's "lifeforms". disc 1 is the most indescribably beautiful piece of musical lushness evah. disc 2 is OK.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), 28. elokuuta 2003 0:58

I would have voted for dead cities a few years back but since reinvesting in these dudes I would have to agree Lifeforms is definitely the best album

― TOMBOT, 4. joulukuuta 2008 20:49

Since 76:14 is getting most of the (deserved) love, I'll come to Lifeforms' defense... Agree with f.hazel. It's a pretty adventurous ambient album; it doesn't coast on a pretty melody or atmosphere, the way many ambient albums do. Which is both one of its strengths and weaknesses. I find 76:14 easier to listen to; Lifeforms requires a sharper attention to keep up with all the microscopic activity.

While some tracks work better than others (though the quality is pretty consistent), and there are plenty of 90s touchstones, I would argue that 76:14's synths sound more dated - both in terms of texture and composition. And while 76:14's compositions are beautifully crafted with just the right amount of discipline, to these ears, the techniques employed throughout Lifeforms - in which they build vast, ever-changing organic structures through the layering of samples - are nothing short of virtuoso.

― azaera, 26. heinäkuuta 2012 5:28

But I will rep for Lifeforms some more. In addition to being playful, it also very much has the feeling of happening in a city, or some place full of people, and that makes it delightful to me... I get this same thrill from the KLF's Chill Out. Although like WCC, I usually want my ambient albums to knock me out of time and space, or take me to some natural landscape bereft of people... but Lifeforms doesn't do that and still works.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), 26. heinäkuuta 2012 19:27

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link

Didn't 4hero program most of the beats on Timeless? Anyway, great album.

millmeister, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link

32. Autechre - EP7 (Warp Records, 1999)
92 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/ep7.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/1KaTIdAepIJDxbSEEL3M2z

I've always found them strangely dissapointing. I do like most of Tri Repeate, but I find Amber dull (hard for me to imagine how so many consider that classic) and the post-Tri stuff I've heard generally just slides by me. I ADMIRE what they're doing with the thick sounds on EP7 -- it sounds very complicated and new -- but it's just not enjoyable listening for me. I keep it around, though, because I figure some day it just might click.

― Mark, 23. huhtikuuta 2001 3:00

mom are the flaming lips, ae are james brown, ep7 is cold sweat, DEATH TO MELODY

― simon trife (simon_tr), 24. syyskuuta 2002 9:15

Definitely EP7 by Autechre. Get mashed, headphones on, lie down - and prepare to "feel" sound in a very physical way.

― dog latin (dog latin), 23. huhtikuuta 2004 1:53

Incunabula - Your typical sci-fi aliens exploring space
Amber - Aliens touch down in an isolated desert and mess shit up.
Tri Repetae - They send their findings back to the spacecraft
Chiastic Slide - Alien leaders hear word of things going on on Earth but there's a lot of crap going on over there.
LP5 - Essential maintenance and alien army going to war
EP7 - the epic battle that ensues between aliens and earthlings
Confield - Recolonising the Earth

and everything after is the aliens going about their daily business.

― dog latin (dog latin), 27. kesäkuuta 2006 13:23

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link

Didn't 4hero program most of the beats on Timeless? Anyway, great album.

― millmeister, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:25 (41 minutes ago) Permalink

Both 4 Hero and Rob Playford (formerly of 2 Bad Mice) worked on it, while Dillinja worked on a few tracks as well ("This Is A Bad"; "Jah The Seventh Seal").

The best, most memorable beats ("Timeless", "Saint Angel", "Angel", "Kemistry") were either Playford or Playford reworks of original Metalheads tunes (Goldie/Mark Rutherford).

But obviously if you took the best most memorable 4 Hero beats generally (rather than on Parallel Universe specifically) then you'd match them - thinking of stuff like "London Sum'Ting" etc. here.

Tim F, Monday, 29 October 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link

Breathed a sigh of relief when it turned out that Timeless finishing below Lifeforms was actually a mistake.

Hard Normal Showaddywaddy (Mr Andy M), Monday, 29 October 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link

I never knew Dillinja was involved. Are you sure about 'Angel' though Tim? Discogs credits Dego & Marc Mac exclusively and it seems to have the trademark 4hero beats to my ears. Not to be pedantic or anything.

millmeister, Monday, 29 October 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link

No you're right - "Angel" is 4 Hero though curious "Saint Angel" (which has the better version of the same beat) is not. I was meaning to write "Sensual" above.

Tim F, Monday, 29 October 2012 23:36 (eleven years ago) link

I feel really bad about not participating now. So many great albums.

EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link

31. Coldcut - Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness (Music Unites, 1995)
94 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote.

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I've got to admit that Coldcut's "Journeys By DJ" is a fave, I'm a bit of a sucker for pointless eclecticism.

― Mike Ratford, 21. elokuuta 2002 22:19

I still reckon that its decent - I've noticed that since the re-release their seems to have been a bit of a backlash against it that I don't quite understand. I find it strange that people who heap praise upon 2 many DJs + DJ Rupture criticize this for being eclectic for eclectics sake, or a bit of a gimmick. Still, I guess that it ultimately comes down to taste - I love the coldcut and DJ Rupture, but find the 2 many DJs a bit grating for the novelty aspect!

― Robin Goad (rgoad), 7. tammikuuta 2003 13:34

also, whereas 'as heard on radio soulwax' is unquestionably designed as a great party mix, '70 minutes of madness' is not - its designed as a general listening experience and exploration - granted this leaves it harder to pidgeonhole and its even frustrating that as Matt says, the first 15-20 minutes are probably the most full-on part of it with the dub and drum n bass followe by techno mixing, and you could definitely dance to that as much as Vitalic or whatever else...but then yeh an enforced lull sets in, everything goes weird - the direction of the mix is totally shifted and you're somewhere else...i dont really see that as a flaw as such - as long as you remember that its strictly not a dance mix

― stevem (blueski), 7. tammikuuta 2003 13:50

i think eclecticism for eclecticism's sake as a criticism is rubbish because in these cynical times it seems to be applicable to anything that features several genres/styles together, which has always been for me a fundamental advantage to any performance, whether on an album, a dj mix, a party soundtrack, movie soundtrack...so its very natural and intuitive for me to want to hear that eclecticism and want to practise it myself. its not about saying 'oh i want everyone to know i like a bit of everything' (then again, whats wrong with that?) - for many people (most in fact) its an HONEST reflection of their musical outlook...i find it far more annoying when these people restrict themselves too much to one thing (e.g. checked out 45 minutes of Tom Middleton at Glasto last yaer but got totally bored because the 4/4 beat and tempo didnt seem to change at all for that entire time)...but i guess what that boils down to is i'm just not cut out for clubbing

― stevem (blueski), 7. tammikuuta 2003 14:22

Yeah this is what I meant by 'too vague'. I think you're completely right steve in that most people do listen to lots of stuff - what I was criticising was the kind of eclecticism that would only work by assuming that they *didn't*. Mixes where you get the idea that the DJs are sitting there thinking "hey I bet you never thought this would go with THIS" and obviously you did think that cos that's how you listen to stuff.

Now obviously 2ManyDJs does exactly this and that's not what I like about it, but for me they go to places Coldcut didn't - with Coldcut I found myself thinking in the second half of the mix, well if you're so fucking eclectic put on some handbag or rock or gabba or, I don't know, hip-hop with actual vocals in it then. So maybe what I'm criticising is acts who seem to make a virtue of their eclecticism when they're less 'eclectic' than most of the people I know.

― Tom (Groke), 7. tammikuuta 2003 14:31

i got the reissue and missed it the first time round, but it does have that feeling of being of its time. so i agree that it's prob unfair to compare this with 2mdjs (or yr dj yodas). we're now interested in different things -- not that we're listening differently (perhaps we are), but that we've moved on and embedded the attitude of the time and built on it. it's certainly not a dud for its content.

― Alan (Alan), 7. tammikuuta 2003 15:56

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 08:10 (eleven years ago) link

30. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album (Warp Records, 1996)
94 points, 6 votes.

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Aphex is classic, of course. I actually used to see him as a model for making a virtue of geographical isolation as a means of artistically refining yourself, so it's appropriate that K-reg said that. I think "Richard D. James Album" is his best work, as well, whereas FWIW I think "Bryter Layter" is Drake's weakest.

― Robin Carmody, 8. toukokuuta 2001 3:00

someone said aphex had cold landscapes, this is only partially true for me. richard d james album conjures a nick drake-esque sun rising oxfordshire landscape to me (and i've only been to oxfordshire maybe twice...)

― gareth, 28. toukokuuta 2001 3:00

The Richard D James album is more happy, wacky, ultra-caffeinated beat seizures with bonky, funky video-game melodies zinging around the place. (Seriously- sometimes they're on a lead synth, but just as often the melody passes to the tuned drum hits or the unidentifiable chunks of noise)

― rob geary (rgeary), 18. lokakuuta 2003 8:09

after listening to the richard d. james album for the first time, i'm a lot less hostile towards the notion of drum machines.

― lieutenant jimmy john (kelpolaris), 15. syyskuuta 2010 20:47

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link

ban kelpolaris

chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 10:45 (eleven years ago) link

EP7 and RDJ Album = two of my very favourite albums of all time - certainly had an enormous impact on me at the time. EP7 is probably the closest I've ever come to having a transcendental musical experience. Those last four tracks are the electronic equivalent of something like Scott Walker's The Drift - freeform, beautiful and terrifying.

RDJ Album isn't his very best, but it's nevertheless wonderful. RDJ at the time said he wanted to fit as many ideas into the shortest space possible without sounding messy, and he pulled it off.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:36 (eleven years ago) link

Was EP7 your intro to autechre or had you heard their previous stuff?

itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link

Coming late to this… I placed Haunted Dancehall very high. I don't know another record like it. I love the evening-to-dawn trajectory. It's one of my favourite London albums.

Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:54 (eleven years ago) link

Was EP7 your intro to autechre or had you heard their previous stuff?

― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 11:51 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm almost certain LP5 (which I also love) was the first one I heard. Maybe EP7 came second? LP5 is a bit more listenable, but I've never had such a visceral, almost tangible musical experience as listening to EP7 in the dark on headphones.

Haunted Dancehall is incredible, has it appeared yet?

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link

Yes. Too low. Only three votes.

Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:10 (eleven years ago) link

I'm trying to track down an alternative version of Wilmot with a different bassline. I used to own it, but I can't find it.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link

I must have forgotten to vote for HAunted Dancehall. Somehow Weatherall completely skipped my mind while voting and I'm kicking myself for it.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link

oh wait, no i did vote for it - my number 6

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link

no two lone swordsmen though :-(

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link

29. David Holmes - Let's Get Killed (Go! Beat, 1997)
95 points, 6 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/letsgetkilled.jpg

Interesting point made by James Murphy recently. I'd always heard that he and Tim Goldsworthy despised Holmes's lack of musical chops while making Bow Down to the Exit Sign but Murphy now says that he actually admired it:

"David was this guy who wasn’t really an engineer, he wasn’t a musician, he was just an ideas guy. I was flabbergasted. Here he was calling people like Richard Maguire from Liquid Liquid and getting that done. I was dumbfounded! You just called? And he was like yeah. It was really an eye-opener: why am I not just doing these things I want to do? Why am I sitting around moaning about how things aren't the way I want them to be when I should just fucking do it? It just seems easy. David was a real role model in a way. He just does things. He’s got balls. He was like, fuck it, I’ll do it. I was like, 'I’ll practice with my band for 6 months before we’ll play a show and you don’t even play an instrument and you’re making your third album! I’m an idiot.’"

Like James Lavelle, Holmes just went "Well I like all this cool shit and I'm pretty personable so I'll just corral a load of talent and get them to make the record while I sit there directing it." Obviously that can only go so far - it strikes me as a very late 90s dance-scenester approach to recordmaking that doesn't really happen now. At least, I can't think of an example off the top of my head. But I like the idea that Holmes's chutzpah was one of the springboards for the DFA, LCD, etc.

Re: Let's Get Killed, the remix album had some great stuff on it: Arab Strap's Don't Die Just Yet (aka The Holiday Girl) and Fridge's Head Rush on Lafayette, which sounded like Orbital. Both reissued on the recent best of.

― Haunted Clocks For Sale (Dorianlynskey), 16. toukokuuta 2010 19:31

listening to it for the first time since 2000 except for one time when it was on at a friend's place and I said "oh, what is this" and he showed me it and I sheepishly admitted to myself that for all I used to love it I could probably only recognise one or two tracks off it

I wish I'd been slightly proactive regarding sending out demos in the late 90s - seems like the golden age of labels going "oh shit, we need some electronica, stat" and throwing money at people who have a vague knowledge of electronic music and a slightly cool record collection and (possibly) nothing else. If this really is a case of that, then it's a case where it's worked pretty well.

― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), 16. toukokuuta 2010 21:00

I met the guy who is sampled saying 'i don't mosh...release this energy'. He moved to New Orleans from NYC after this album. He was coming to our night at Cafe Brazil and I recognized his voice. Crazy coincidence.

I love this album. David Holmes is still underrated.

― brotherlovesdub, 17. toukokuuta 2010 2:00

v illuminating post by dorian upthread

an extremely late-90s kind of bro, david holmes

wonder who actually produced this lp. some of it's right good, like 'my mate paul'

he was obviously a hustler, getting the 'out of sight' soundtrack and stuff, but i reckon he was more adept than james lavelle. lavelle got terrible reviews as a dj: holmes i saw, and he was good. not that i had that much to compare him against.

― all i wanna do is poll poll poll poll and zing and discuss mia (history mayne), 17. toukokuuta 2010 13:00

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:24 (eleven years ago) link

EP7 was my #3 and highest placed Autechre. Definitely one of their more varied and adventurous efforts, and not at the cost of consistency, there really isn't a skippable track on it.

itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:24 (eleven years ago) link

Sorry if the discussion quoted sounds a bit negative, but those pretty much the only in-depth comments I could find on the subject. FWIW, in dance music there have always been records released under the name of DJs who were mostly "ideas men", where the bulk of the technical production work was done by others: examples of this include Afrika Bambaataa, Westbam, Goldie, etc. I don't think there's anything wrong with it (ideas are pretty important!), as long as they properly credit their collaborators.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link

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Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:34 (eleven years ago) link

28. Saint Etienne - So Tough (Heavenly, 1993)
97 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/sotough.jpg

I voted for So Tough in the end, but that was without going home and listening to it first. It was the first St. Etienne album I bought and it brings back so many good memories. I like all the samples; one of the joys was finding out where they all came from (some I knew already, like the Lord of the Flies excerpt and Rush's Spirit of Radio).

― Grandpont Genie, 15. toukokuuta 2007 11:44

'so tough' is their masterpiece for certain, it is perfect in it's idle observations and at the same time it's ability to move in different ways.

― keith (keithmcl), 1. joulukuuta 2002 22:47

It's weird how Foxbase Alpha seems to be regarded as A Classic London Album cause surely So Tough is SO MUCH MORE so? London Belongs To Me, point taken, but she sounds almost touristy and adventuring on that whereas on Mario's Cafe it is their routine and she/they are absolutely living it and it is glory.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), 30. tammikuuta 2004 0:36

"So Tough" is my personal favourite; those spoken samples... the whole gloriously *placed* ambience.

― Tom May (Tom May), 16. toukokuuta 2004 4:58

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link

I'm familiar with the name, but I don't think I've ever heard anything by Saint Etienne. For some reason I thought they were an indie rock band or something, but apparently not...?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link

Indie by nature, but not really indie rock. Definitely song-based music, but more an assimilation of references from disco to sixties British cinema. St Etienne are/were their own little universe of a particular kind of cool that hadn't really been done quite like that before or after. They do get lumped in with indie rock of the time, but it was largely sample-based music. Tuomas, you might remember "He's On The Phone" from the mid-'90s which was almost euro-dance in its execution.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:54 (eleven years ago) link

Let's Get Killed is one of my all time fav album names, by the way.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link

One think that struck me while compiling the results for the album poll was how utterly Brit-centric they were. I guess American producers didn't release a lot of albums in the 90s, and as for albums from other major electronic music countries (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Japan, etc), it seems ILXors don't much care or know about them.

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link

Wow, two albums I own and would have voted for.

That "mosh" guy, is his band called "ICU" (over-used name there) or "I See You" (not so much) ?

Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link

Mark, you did vote for those two albums, have you forgotten?

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link

I love the story of Let's Get Killed - how Holmes and his mate (possibly Paul) took acid and wandered around New York shouting "Let's get killed!" and it got quite dark and fucked up and then they stumbled across a piece of graffiti on a wall that said "Don't die just yet," which turned the trip around, hence the name of the last track (which I thought was one of the greatest things ever until I heard Melodie Nelson).

Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link

Oh, yeah, it was 'tracks' I didn't vote for, yeah?

Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link

the last track (which I thought was one of the greatest things ever until I heard Melodie Nelson).

ditto, there.

Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link

Right, checked up:

It was 'nominating' I didn't do.

Fair enough, you guys know what qualifies and what doesn't, and I'm here to pick the ones I likes.

Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link

I expected there to be a fair bit of Warp in this poll but not for it to dominate to this extent.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link

higher echelons though Matt. Orbital/Prodigy etc will dominate.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link

and ..

Mark G, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link

Burger/Ink - Las Vegas (Harvest, 1996)
101 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/lasvegas.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/2e9288yxNdFTCKO6MitcDy

Burger/Ink's Las Vegas is unstoppable, easily one of the best dance full-lengths ever release.

― Bill in Chicago, 28. huhtikuuta 2007 1:06

[las vegas]by Burger/Ink, one of the best albums of the 90's and still sounds so fresh. I think Kompakt could release it now and it would still seem brand new.

― jed_ (jed), 21. marraskuuta 2004 17:51

there's a palpable difference between wolfgang voigt being lazy (gas) and burger/ink: las vegas

the main difference being laziness, which tends to plague a lot of ambient music. just because it doesn't have beats and lyrics doesn't mean you can get away with being boring on purpose, or that all concepts hold water (TOMBOT: granular synthesis ate my balls, coming out in 2007)

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), 18. heinäkuuta 2006 17:27

Burger/Ink is essential. For a few years I was buying used copies and giving them to friends. It's that kind of record.

― brotherlovesdub, 27. huhtikuuta 2010 20:02

gotta go home but Gas AND Burger/Ink = I love you guyz <3 <3

― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), 29. huhtikuuta 2010 18:53

Tuomas, Tuesday, 30 October 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link


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