RAPOON
This is Robin Storey's project after Zoviet France disbanded. He's
really good at making repetitive loops sound not so repetitive. Often
it's loops of "world music" percussion along with drones. Good discs
are "I am a foreigner", "Tin of Drum" and "Cold War Drum n Bass"
TUJIKO NORIKO
A Japanese woman living in Paris, who makes ballads out of chunky
glitch music. As weird as anything by Oval, but also very pretty.
ALOG / PHONOPHANI
Alog is a Norwegian duo, and Phonophani is the solo project of one of
the members. It's instrumental, electronic glitch music, but with very
expressive, almost vocal-like elements. The Alog disc "Duck Rabbit" is
excellent, as well as the Phonophani disc "Genetic Engineering".
KLAUS SCHULZE
A recent inspiration - he's one of the original "Space Music" people.
He did lots of 20 minute compositions in the 70s for synths and tape
machines. Check out discs like "Moondawn" and "Picture Music".
ATOM TM
This guy is hard to find, because almost every disc he releases is
under a different band name. Highly recommended projects of his:
Geeez N Gosh (glitch gospel)
Flanger (glitch jazz)
Midisport (glitch Brazilian tropicalismo)
Los Samplers (very damaged glitch Latin music)
Senor Coconut "Yellow Fever" (mambo covers of Yellow Magic Orchestra)
--
Matt Davignon
www.ribosomemusic.com
Clifford Novey wrote:
".......No I liked it- check out bands like RADIAN and LOSCIL and LOESS for
other examples of glitch rhythms."
Hey Clifford,
thanks a lot for the recommendations. I hadn't heard any of these groups
and am having a wonderful night
listening to them on Rhapsody (Loscil and Loess are both here) and
LastFM.com (Radian)
I was just thinking that it would be cool to find out what everyone is
listening to in the world
of electronica that is having an influence on the music they are making and
the loops they are creating.
I'll just mention things I"ve deeply loved in the past 10 years or so to get
the ball rolling.
Most of this stuff is in the Abstract Electronica category (though Loess
fits in perfectly
with some of this stuff). A lot of it is also 10 years old now (if not
more) but I just loved
this phase of composition in electronica and it's really deeply influenced
my own work.
APHEX TWIN A wonderful and incredibly inventive artist but for me, the
Desert Island Disc is
"Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2" which
though it has ambient elements is NOT an ambient
record. His 'remix' track on a Nine Inch Nails
EP singlehandely made me stop playing
World Beat music, buy a computer and start an
entirely new musical life back in '99. It wasn't
really a remix at all. Trent Reznor sent him
tracks to remix, he didn't like anything he heard so
he just sent him in one of his own tracks.
Reznor liked it so much that he put it on the EP.
AUTECHRE I think an early one of their's "Tri Repetae" is a
masterpiece
(I appreciate everything the've done but they got
glitchier and glitchier
in recent projects and further away from traditional
musical form which just isn't my thing).
BOARDS of CANADA There first three lps I just love..........I'm not as
into their last
(and they've slowed down in recent years)
BOLA They have many lps and eps but their first 'Soup' is still my
favorite
FOUR TET Almost everything I've heard I like by this guy. He uses a
lot of real instruments in the mix of his electronics.
TO ROCOCO ROT "Hotel Morgen" "The Amateur View" and "Music is a
Hungry Ghost" (the latter a collaboration with i-sound)
TRENTE MOLLER Probably the most commercial of these releases. I just
love "The Last Resort". He was a successful
Dance producer and delivered this record to
his record company with nothing remotely danceable
on it. I believe it was the first non dance
electronica record to hit number one on the electronic music charts
TWINE "Violets"
WAUVENFOLD "3Fold"
okay, that's enough for now...............I've been inspired by dozens of
things in different genres but these are some of my
favorite purely electronica listens.
Rick Walker