Best 90 electronic music duo: THE FINAL BATTLE

Please note that this match is based on their 90s output only!

Mouse on Mars! Mouse on Mars!

the childish German electro hippies

glass houses, etc

based on 90s only: MoM

Feel like I don't give a shit about either of these artists enough to vote for either of 'em.

I really do love a lot of what they've both done, but I these days I probably like Drexciya more than either of them

not really a fan of this poll, both groups are two sides of the same coin imo

i would've predicted the FINAL BATTLE to be Daft Punk vs Basic Channel, which would've been a far weirder comparison for a poll

I don't see how these two are "two sides of the same coin"? To me they don't sound the same at all.

the aphex twin

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For me, this is a choice between the funnest electronic act of the 90s, versus one of the most boring ones, so it's not a hard choice.

impossible, love them both, had a mouse on mars binge this morning, found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGuZrhxLtq8

but i dunno, my cold hard technoid heart is leaning towards autechre

Should have added the 2nd and maybe even 3rd place winners to the poll, peeps who voted for the lower ranks could change the final results drastically. Maybe Daft Punk could win by gathering the votes from chemical bros and basement jaxx sympatyhizers per example.

Autechre
Mouse on Mars
Daft Punk
LFO
Boards of Canada
The Orb

The way it is now Autechre will win by double.

sympathizers, too.

easiest vote ever. i'd rather have my toe nails pulled out with pliers than listen to autechre.

how can you not find this gorgeous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7Mu8YJbSU

I guess Mouse On Mars by default but couldn't give a F about either of these TBF

Boards of Canada 4 lyfe

but i dunno, my cold hard technoid heart is leaning towards autechre

otm

Autechre really needs to put out at least one remix compilation

def.

jeez, this is such a nice track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtQ7c_8s5YI

listening to these is making me want to change my vote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OoLr2YIfjQ

funky!

little louie vega and kenny dope gonzales

― the late great, Tuesday, April 3, 2012 8:21 AM Bookmark

it's almost as if this poll was based on some idiosyncratic horseshite version of music

Mouse on Mars always seemed like electronic music for indie rock kids. I've never heard them though. What album is the one that will make me a fan?

Iaora Tahiti

Mouse on Mars always seemed like electronic music for indie rock kids

nails it

electronic music for indie rock kids is really good music though

mouse on mars always makes me think of industrious little elves working in a factory

it's not terrible music

putting the morr back in opinions(morr)u

maybe i am jaded by tuomas' relentless stannery

neway itp im voting for 'spirit guide to low-tech'

like MoM in a league table of electronic music peeps of the 90s wd be midway down whether y're counting duos, solos or whatevs

b-but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oU7wzzvYrU

i mean i worship autechs more than an unspiteful listener might but as a summary of any era this is one of the most depressing polls i can imagine

eg siding with either of the partisans on here = grim prospectus

why do u h8 elves

love mouse on mars but they are electronic music for (90s) indie kids.

brotherlovesdub: start with instrumentals or glam if you like dubby stuff. vulvaland if you're into kompakt. iaora tahiti if you want something in between.

i dun't hate elves i just want them to smash the means of xmas present production and flit in the woods

still so weird that matador started putting out this stuff btw

matador had a whole swathe of indie kidtronica if i understand their shtick correct

'dont blame me i voted for cristian vogel!' - some german

what was it that henry james said about venice and matador records again??

has anyone heard the shoegaze band Four Square Logos that Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma were in before forming MoM?

http://daniellespencer.com/graphics/design/music/blip/blip_cover.jpg

International Center for Comparative Sound

its hard 2 believe that all the genius of blip hop could be contained in one record...

i think this is my favorite ilm thread in months thank u toumas

omg blip hop

i like "science" labels on shonky 90s IDM stuff, cf. Macro Dub Infection comps

hmmm... spotify sez this cristian vogel album was made in 1900:

http://open.spotify.com/album/2MhsMCK4lOzabLssyFmsHf

very ahead of its time imo

http://www.phinnweb.org/jsk/saversus.gif

wish i had a copy of this

I like two lone swordsmen but never quite made up my mind about andrew weatherall.

alright, now absolute time is on. http://www.dormibella.nl/forum/Smileys/dormibella/headbang.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZcPbN78Gi0

I like two lone swordsmen but never quite made up my mind about andrew weatherall.

weatherall has been on fire w/ the remixes over the last few years imo, big classic-rock style "return to form"

I don't get how Mouse on Mars was "electronic music for (90s) indie kids". They don't sound like anything like indie rock, and their first album was trance, for chrissakes! If you mean that indie kids listened to their albums, what does that have to do with how good/bad their music was? Also, how is Autechre different in that regard? Warp Records and IDM in general were big among 90s indie kids too.

To add to that: maybe Idiology sounds a bit like indie rock, but that was in the 00s.

Really like Iaora Tahiti and Autoditacker, plus some of the earlier singles (Bib and Frosch). Can't be arsed with Autechre.

i have a copy of that lamp, most of the mixes are kinda redundant BUT the in the nursery remix is gold

also WTF is david byrne doing on this thread get out of here w/ that indie shit

this thread is shit enough without one of the shittest record labels of all time shitting up the place

Love both of these, but voted for the cold steel of Autechre over the softer charms of MoM.

http://www.craftsandmorestore.com/images/MOMDADDAY/momdad%2002.jpg

I've never liked a single things by Mouse on Mars. I listened to Iahora Tahiti like 1.5 times before selling it. Autechre on the other hand, I voted for in the other thread, so...

Iaora Tahiti is their worst 90s album, IMO: kinda too simplistic and bleepy, but it doesn't have the trance pleasures of its predecessor either. With Autoditacker they managed to refine that new sound into something more detailed and idiosyncratic. So I wouldn't give up on them based on IT alone.

Warp Records and IDM in general were big among 90s indie kids too.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:28 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah idm was big w/indies i guess is the point, because it was intelligent and therefor ok to like lmao

worst music genre name EVER

drumNbass was indie big too

i know because i was an indie, the shame

i like both iaora tahiti and vulvaland and own them, sold my copy of autoditacker, might buy it back BUT i also went and saw them on their tour w/ the live drummer and it was deeply embarrassing watching a room full of like sea and cake fans do the fug to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyuWFl8Kaug

^^ voting autechre

That tune is from the 00s though.

yeah but the germ of that tune was there in the 90s

the part reflects the whole DO YOU SEE

I agree that MoM took a deep dive downwards in the turn of the decade, but the stuff between Vulvaland and Glam is unfuckable-with (and Niun Niggung has its moments too).

(xx-post)

i kinda tune out after autoditacker but i agree, the first couple albums are pretty great in their own way

it's just too ... slight (?) for my liking, kinda like audio wallpaper or a poor man's atom heart

Haha, that's funny, because "audio wallpaper" is how I'd describe Autechre. After the initial, more technoish tunes (which I actually like), they just went overtly abstract, like some pointless geometric patterns on a wall. I can admire how their tunes are constructed, but because they seems to about the construction itself and nothing more, they don't move me in any way, but their music is still too busy to form the sort of directionless ambience one can immerse in, so it just feels pointless. Whereas MoM, even though they're always busy too, at least have some kind of a point, some emotional drive to all the vectors in their tunes.

later Autechre is best appreciated on headphones out in the open air i think. the austerity and the abstraction aren't the point, for me, but they help to create this thick textural sound wherein lies the pleasure. i listen to it more like i'd listen to noise stuff or Nurse With Wound or other sound collagists - and great moments emerge from within the initial rush of sound, but i guess it isn't really about the journey from A to B for me

I have always found Mouse on Mars to be really, really boring

it would be like some kind of op-art wallpaper that would fuck with your brain and make it hard to think though, i find it hard to focus on latter-day autechre (post ganz graf) but also impossible to ignore (in a bad way, all that excessive MSP fuckery and grating noises drives me up the wall, it's like an endless feedback squeal)

that's why it reminds me of Merzbow i suppose

(I will say though that I hadn't realized Panacea sampled MoM's "Elli Im Wunderland" on his bad-ass "Untitled B Side"; that is the first thing about them I've found interesting)

this thread is shit enough without one of the shittest record labels of all time shitting up the place

gtfo this thread is perfect

voted for mouse on mars cuz of von sudenfed and i don't know shit abt electronic music really

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLXzSefzVWU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqKOISC-kd8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KrDF0VTb8o

autechre youtubes are so sad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zix0nqrRrJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZFmZ0gZNZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-os-GlHIJSE

^^^ All '90s output, all beautiful without the "abstraction" strawmanning (which is definitely more applicable to their '00s stuff).

i had no idea autechre had so many songs

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