pastiche maybe, but it doesn't sound a damn thing like its inspirations. and the transformation c. 3:40 is one of the most amazing moments the 90s produced, genre notwithstanding
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
they're kinda like a techno version of tortoise
― the late great, Thursday, 5 April 2012 07:20 (twelve years ago) link
do not say such terrible things
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2012 07:21 (twelve years ago) link
i mean yeah, w the insistent subtleties, but listen to the way the bounceback echoes complete the melodic phrases in the 2nd half, so nice
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2012 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
and tortise never jammed half as hard, unless remixed by sensible people
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 April 2012 07:24 (twelve years ago) link
negative jamming going on here but still one of my fave ae mixes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkHIVu06Nh8
― i remember when there was time for klax (ledge), Thursday, 5 April 2012 08:16 (twelve years ago) link
I really like Plaid, or big chunks of their first three albums at least at least (wildly inconsistent), but I don't think you can deny the tweeness, or at least the playfulness. I mean bits of Not For Threes sound like they're actually trying to make their equipment sound like a petting zoo.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 April 2012 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 5 April 2012 08:48 (twelve years ago) link
So many fine electronic music duos here! (but not The Crystal Method) - Based on 90s work alone, tho, I think these would be my POV+1
Boards of Canada - my vote; their 90s shit was dope & MHTRTC can't really be topped here imoAir - early singles + Moon Safari are all-timeAutechre - def the best overall 90s career arcDaft Punk - Homework, I mean..Basement Jaxx - not as good as Homework, but nevertheless quite good. Plaid - if these guys are underrated, they shouldn't be.
I would also have ranked Mouse on Mars & maybe Kruder & Dorfmeister among these prob
― picture jean rollin (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 April 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago) link
Incredibly I've never heard an Orbital album. I'm assuming the earlier stuff is more detroit-y/bleepy? What should I get?
you really should hear a couple. Orbital 2 is their first "classic" album and yeah it is more straight acidhouse/detroit, but way more complex than their early works. Snivilisation and In Sides are more symphonic and experimental, and IMO those are the ones they'll be remembered for. You should probably pick up one of those three tanuki
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
thanks!
― tanuki, Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago) link
I think genre boundaries don't really matter in terms of home listening, but they're important in clubs. Differences in dance genres tend to be rhythmic rather than sonic
just a massive no. this, like a horribly large chunk of the stuff upthread, is just incessant pandering to some normative midpoint between all genres.
you don't have to be a purist to acknowledge that purism is a large part of dance music and that lots of great dance music is born from its ideals.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 5 April 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
Lots of great choices here. Would've gone for Ae but felt TLS needed a vote.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
Plaid haterz can go suck a fuck tbh.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
gross
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Thursday, 5 April 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
love that autechre/tortise track so much! haven't heard it in years.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
the late great is saying all the things I know to be true but try to deny about late-period artists. the guy who still releases as "the black dog" has some mixes on his site that are by far home listening "dark" stuff that I kind of like but I really have little to no interest in his original work :/
that collection of early black dog stuff from the last few years was good
― mh, Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
chez & ron
― coal, Thursday, 5 April 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
just a massive no. this, like a horribly large chunk of the stuff upthread, is just incessant pandering to some normative midpoint between all genres
Yeah I mean the worst of this stuff (looking at you late Chemical Brothers albums) is appalling for this sort of self-conscious middleground positioning but at the same time "is this technically deep house or minimal?" is not the sort of question that really matters if you're just vibing out to something at home.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
you don't have to be a purist to acknowledge that purism is a large part of dance music and that lots of great dance music is born from its ideals
Yeah I kinda acknowledged this in my point about scenes like funky as well.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
chez and ron is a great answer
― the late great, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 8 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
missed this as i was offline.have to say the gang i listen to the most out of this lot has to be FSOL, hence the count of one they will probably get in this.oh, and as for the grid, the best thing they ever released was the remix by global communication.total ambient perfection that fits in very well with the global communication vs chapterhouse album.
― mark e, Sunday, 8 April 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
autechre bc (even tho this sounds a little weird due to their 'dour' image) i've had more fun diving deep into their catalog than with anyone else on the list. a lot of it appeals to me immediately but a big part of this is evaluating and re-evaluating and re-re-evaluating albums. the nerd in me loves this stuff. fer instance, i'm still not sure if i like tri-repeatae all that much and it was the first one i heard!
orbital get a respectable 2nd place nod. and i probably like 'in sides' more than any ae release tbh.
― original bgm, Sunday, 8 April 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone interested in latter day Black Dog should check out Radio Scarecrow.
Very respectable digital techno for nerds with a dubstep influence ie catnip for me.
― pattern loader, Sunday, 8 April 2012 07:40 (twelve years ago) link
The chem. bros wins for me
power,precision and grace with acid friendly touch.
as a trance hater rock guy in 90's isra(trance)hell ,the chems, along with aphex,prodigy &meat beat manifesto were my electronica of choise
― nakamura, Sunday, 8 April 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 9 April 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
pff
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 9 April 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― jed_, Monday, 9 April 2012 00:23 (twelve years ago) link
if this poll was done on ilx ten years ago daft punk takes it over basement jaxx w/ autechre maybe not even getting third over boc right?
― balls, Monday, 9 April 2012 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
i never vote in any of these polls, despite commenting.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Monday, 9 April 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
WOT NO MIKE N RICH but really I couldn't let this stand:
haha none of the ones i was expecting to see are in the list, i automatically thought of male/female trip-hop duos like portishead, moloko etc― lex pretend, Monday, April 2, 2012 12:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Monday, April 2, 2012 12:23 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Portishead were 3+ people! (Barrows, Gibbons, and Utley, and maybe MacDonald.)
― Où sont le Lord Custos d'antan? (Leee), Monday, 9 April 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds about right. I didn't really see this result coming at all, there are one or two Autechre tracks I've liked but generally I find the early stuff pleasant but not particularly interesting whilst not really able to find a way into anything from Tri Repeatae onwards.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Monday, 9 April 2012 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
whereas i only deeply love the stuff from LP 5 onwards. the problem with the poll is that Ae are some prog/avant crunchy head music for me - "head" isn't the right word, what i love about the later stuff is its physicality of sound - but comparing them to say anybody making genuine dance music is a category mistake really
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 April 2012 10:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's not an unexpected result, given the commenting. But still. It feels kind of unfair that people went for the head music over the dance music. (Though despite all the cavilling on the thread, it was about "electronic" acts, not about "dance" acts so there you go.)
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
there is plenty of "dance" music i wd choose over "head" music depending on what day it is but it didn't appear in this poll really
― red is hungry green is jawless (Noodle Vague), Monday, 9 April 2012 10:55 (twelve years ago) link
Well it's a bit stymied by being specifically and only duos.
(And I'm not just saying that because I think Mr Twin would have wiped the floor with Autechre.)
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 11:14 (twelve years ago) link
Be an interesting one that - I kinda feel like a lot of aphex records haven't dated so good tho
― coal, Monday, 9 April 2012 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
That's not a poll I would trust myself to make.
Aphex Twin or Autechre pick only one:
o Aphex Twino I am stupid and should have rusty nails driven through my eardrums, but I prefer Autechre
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
perhaps SAWII is timeless but yes, some of his later, more famous records haven't exactly held up
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
I rest my case.
― Popcorn Supergay Receiver (Masonic Boom), Monday, 9 April 2012 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
the aphex twins were the best electronic music duo of the 90s
― crüt, Monday, 9 April 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
I still encounter people who still think "they" are two people.
― tanuki, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
what is your case, exactly?
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
― mh, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah its probably actually the later 90s stuff that hasn't help as well
― coal, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
that was supposed to say "hasn't held up as well"
― coal, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
exactly, I do feel as though Autechre will probably hold up better. with Aphex, I'm hearing a lot of really cool or unique ideas that aren't really that much fun to listen to
― Estimate the percent chance that a whale has ever been to the moon? (frogbs), Monday, 9 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
I'm probably in the minority in thinking RDJ's post-2005 acid techno turn is the best stuff he's done
― tanuki, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
I'd agree with that. I enjoy the analord stuff way more than his 90s stuff, which hasn't really aged that well for me.
― silverfish, Monday, 9 April 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link