Interactive poll 41b - Welcome to the machines!

Snicolette wrote: Lewian wrote: I have much fun listening to Lothar and the Hand People. I had never heard of them but they seem to be synthesizer pioneers among rock bands; thanks for bringing them up!   Glad you enjoyed them, I was worried they wouldn't sound sophisticated enough, but they are certainly a bit of electronic music history.  This record was produced by Robert Margouleff, and they enjoyed some small underground success with a 10-minute piece called "Space Hymn," from that self-titled second release.  I'm not sure whether "Machines," suits for "electronic music," (you'll have to let me know) but since it's a kind of obscure piece, am going to post it also here, at least for fun, if it's not eligible.  Video is also pretty clever.

Lewian wrote: Logan wrote: * EDIT: Since I did five (even if allowed), to save time for others, I think I will go straight to my nomination and nominate Giorigio Moroder - "(Theme From) Midnight Express" even if it is well known. Egisto Macchi is my favourite artist of those I listed, but I prefer his music as full albums. ]Well, you can do what you want, but how on earth is that supposed to help with the number of suggestions?

How on earth? Perhaps "there are more things in heaven and Earth ... than are dreamt of in your philosophy" (Hamlet).

Save time for others because they might skip straight to my nominated choice and not feel any need to post their thoughts on five "potential nominations' or listen to and consider those non-Moroder ones at all (out of consideration for the competition). I know some will dislike the disco qualities of the Moroder, and some will know it too well.

I wouldn't have phrased things the way you have, and I'm happy if people choose to listen to all five and comment on them. To use the "suggestions" phrasing since I do like parallelism: This is intended to help with the number of suggestions because while I have mentioned five, I am not suggesting five as potential candidates; therefore, no one need feel compelled or obligated to listen to all five, or two or three or four and suggest which one of mine they think best as my nomination, or which they like best of my mentions. I skipped suggesting ones for nomination and went straight to my nomination. I kept the other four in for anyone who might be interested. I know one doesn't need to, and one can wait until the nominations are up to listen to the choices, but I have felt like I should try to listen to all that people were considering for nomination in the past to give my opinion. I haven't always done so, but giving your opinion on the potential nominations has been part of this series for a long time-- then one might decide after being influenced by what others think of your choices.

I should have said too that I likely won't have much opportunity to properly listen to all of the potential nominations and comment on them. I love music in the electronic sphere, but I'm very busy and when I'm busy I don't like to visit the forum much (too distracting). This topic likely will be my last participation in one of these polls. I tend to listen via the post embeds, but because the playlist is up and has my five mentions (mentions being the better word for me than suggestions in this case), various people likely will play through all of those. If people want to listen and comment and suggest that I nominate another of my five, that's fine too. And then I might change my mind. My thinking (and decisions) is often subject to change as new thoughts and perspectives come along and as people come up with convincing counter-arguments and interesting/ thoughtful insights.

My mind is on other things now, but I hope that clarifies my thinking some what.

Edited by Logan - September 30 2020 at 15:01

My nominations:

Edited by jamesbaldwin - September 30 2020 at 16:51

Breaking the 'rules' and posting some more. These are my alternates to first four I posted by the same artists. The earlier four track were on the longer side, ranging from 6:40 to 8:57 minutes. These are shorter, ranging from 3:41 to 4:54 but probably more 'electronic' than the first four. Notes to follow.

suitkees wrote: dr wu23 wrote: This band came to mind for me...always liked them.. Except that the video doesn't show up for me. And since you mention artist nor title, I don't know what to look for (Because of this youtube unreliability it is always better to also mention artist name and title in the text...)...

moshkito wrote: Hi, I'll nominate DAVESAX ... although I'm not sure that he will like it ... you can't talk "machines" without seeing his rig and all the stuff he builds. He was just born 50 years too late ... TD would have appreciated him and then some! Instead, we get to!

Edited by Cristi - October 01 2020 at 07:21

Meltdowner wrote: ^ Either way, he (Brotherhood of the Machine) is on PA so it wouldn't be a valid nomination.

Logan wrote: Giorigio Moroder - "(Theme From) Midnight Express"*

I was only familiar with "The Chase" from that soundtrack, I love the 13 minute version. I had to stop the song at the beginning to figure out which Prog song had a similar melody. It's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEnrUkDdCxw

moshkito wrote: Hi, I'll nominate DAVESAX ... although I'm not sure that he will like it ... you can't talk "machines" without seeing his rig and all the stuff he builds. He was just born 50 years too late ... TD would have appreciated him and then some! Instead, we get to!