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I enjoy Aphex Twin quite a lot and do consider him to be a progressive artist under the electronic music umbrella, but he's not "progressive electronic" as per PA's definition. The albums that he's released so far that have the closest resemblance to progressive electronic on PA are his two Selected Ambient Works albums, but even so, it's rarely progressive (though beautiful).
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Posted: July 03 2012 at 11:18
Yeah, I enjoy the energy on his later albums. He's recently been doing some live remixes of Penderecki compositions and something else, which sound really good and are available on youtube.
Big Aphex Twin fan here as well, although I must admit liking his early albums far more. His ambient works are just sky-soaring beauties.
Getting back on track here, I saw Redshift mentioned and I would just like to say that I too really like this band. Been listening to Ether the past two weeks, and I am seriously loving every second of it.
Think I'm going on an electronic review spree in a little while, although I have so many Kraut and avant ones I wanna do as well
One album I feel gets little or no attention is Wolfgang Riechman's Wunderbar. I love the simplicity and easy to follow melodies of this release, and I may well review it one of these days. This is the selftitled opening cut, which I currently have an enormous crush on:
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
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Posted: July 06 2012 at 07:39
My Aphex Twin preference is definitely for his earlier stuff. The two Selected Ambient Works albums are nothing short of genius by my reckoning. Heliosphan in particular is incredible. All the Analogue Bubblebath tracks are fantastic too. I find Drugqs a difficult listen, but I respect it's genius.
Has anybody heard the Global Communication album 76:14. Now there's an incredible electronic album that in my view is truly progressive. I know the guidelines that state why the likes of AFX do not qualify for PA but surely Global Communication do. I'm not going there though .
With regard to FSOL, the irony is that whilst they are not on PA , one of their albums is . FSOL have been rejected before, however by way of a technicality, one of their albums, Fields of Ephidrina is. This was recorded under the name Amorphous Androgynous before they branched off as a separate project in the direction of psych rock (alienating a great many of their fans ). It is an FSOL album, pure IDM and you will find that on the 'chives . Pretty good it is too, though not as good as the seminal Lifeforms.
An FSOL album I would totally recommend is Environments 2. Very much in the vein of Lifeforms but dare I say it, even better. A truly stunning album of beautiful ambience and textures that is as good as I've heard in a long long time.
Finally, my other half kindly bought me a cd as a gift, and it's only Redshift's new album Colder. I'm really looking forward to hear this and will get the chance to do so over the weekend. I'll report back next week with my initial verdict.
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Posted: July 06 2012 at 11:29
I've actually never really gotten into Squarepusher much, but his new album sounds like it is interesting based on some videos I've seen. He's a really great bassist, anyway.
Is anyone else here besides David a F**k Buttons fan?
I need to write a review of the Steve Moore album I've been listening to lately. I haven't done an electronic review in a long time :\
Uhhhhmmmm Feck Buttons......'insert drool here'
I have The Henge from Steve Moore and like it quite a bit. Not as much as Zombi though.
BTW there's a Scottish, I believe, electronic artist from the 80s called Steve Moore as well. Pretty cool stuff, and perhaps suited for this site as well.
I am listening to Aqua by Edgar Froese at the moment. I still love your review of it Alan - very floating and picturesque, befitting the music quite brilliantly.
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Black metal is a pretty far cry from Berlin school, but then again I've been listening a lot to Magma lately... Eclectic music tastes sport a healthy soul, good lad
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Though, I must say that a vast portion of my Berlin School albums reside somewhere in the deep blue waters. There's that watery feel to them - maybe even the genre itself. It slushes and bobs very elegantly, which is one of the predominant reasons it speaks to me on such a personal level I guess. I've always been drawn to the sea - I love swimming, diving, sailing, walking on the beach listening to the waves crash - or maybe just spending the afternoon beside a running stream.
Reminds me of this actually(For the uninitiated - just wait a few minutes, and the track suddenly commences its watery electronic theme):
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
I was a huge fan of Electronic music in America (as a child), and that began when my 4th grade music teacher introduced me to "Switched On Bach" by Wendy Carlos. She played it for the class and I was an instant fan at age 9. I was a strange child attempting to con my parents for money in return for duties such as mowing the lawn and house cleaning. I bought Beaver & Krause "Ragnorok", "In A Wild Sanctuary", Ruth White titles, Pauline Oliveros, Mort Garson, Wendy Carlos' Sonic Seasonings and many more. I had also experienced hearing electronic sounds recorded with string quartet during the invasion of experimental 20th century composers during the 60's. This all began for me in 66' and continued into the early 70's until by accident, I discovered the Electronic music scene in Berlin.
I spent astronomical amounts of cash collecting import albums of Electronic music. Walter Christian Rothe, Edgar Froese, Klaus Schulze. and the list is long. However, what I found interesting back then, was the more unknown Electronic artists who perhaps had ties with the ones who had hit the surface of popularity. It was so deep and I must have had more than 2000 import albums of Electronic music...YET! During that time and in recent decades, I can't believe all the discoveries I had left behind. It was a realization for me to plough through a wealthy person's Electronic music collection. As the years progressed, I collected prog and discovered those cross-over artists who experimented with Electronic music such as Goblin did on their soundtrack to "Zombi" or Steve Hillage with his "Rainbow Dome Music".
I collected all of the Neuronium LP'S and when I discovered they were from Spain, it intrigued me. I discovered that musicians like Jorge Reyes...who had spent his time in the 70's playing progressive rock were now recording Electronic music. I investigated this so called "Electronic Music" scene in Mexico and was enthraled with it. To think there was an actual Electronic music scene there and that artists were releasing cd's of their music simply amazed me. They had a unique approach to Electronic music and I bought everything I could locate on disc. I discussed their music with vendors being informed that most of these artists were poverty stricken. I wanted to move there and strip myself of everything in my life just to become one of them. I was amazed by the fact that many of them had spent years in Mexican prog bands prior to releasing Electronic music of their own.
I too have an affinity for the peeps who come from rock prior to diving in at the deep end of electronics. Hell, most of the German pioneers came from Krautrock bands - one could even state that the out there mentality of those early progressive spirited bands ploughed the way for many an artists who relied on electronics. Schulze started out as a drummer, Froese as a guitarist - and I think a lot of other artists did this as well.
The whole notion of 'knowing' instruments - but moreover how they feel and what they can do - goes hand in hand with the electronic world methinks, because you need to arrange the music to bear, at least, some traces with familiar music foundations. Bass, treble and rhythm - melodic segments and how you wish to portray them, -that is if you want that stuff - some artists went for the abstract stagnant floating universe, that ever so slowly sculpted itself so to speak. Schulze's Cyborg springs to mind for instance.
I am definitely reading up on Mexican artists though... Thanks for the thoughtful post!
“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Allright shifting from my Solar Bears album to something more in the vicinity of this thread: Radio Massacre International, and Alan if you are reading this, this band also counts as a rec from me
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hellogoodbye wrote:
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. FSOL have been rejected before, however by way of a technicality, one of their albums, Fields of Ephidrina is. This was recorded under the name Amorphous Androgynous before they branched off as a separate project in the direction of psych rock (alienating a great many of their fans 
. Pretty good it is too, though not as good as the seminal Lifeforms. 
. I'm really looking forward to hear this and will get the chance to do so over the weekend. I'll report back next week with my initial verdict.
I agree David. My old uncle Duffy used to say "Kid, don't try to name music by another name than music !" 
(For the uninitiated - just wait a few minutes, and the track suddenly commences its watery electronic theme):
