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Re: What Electronica is Inspiring your Looping



In my recent playlist has been Squarepusher, Younger Brother,  
Prometheus, and and Four Tet..

And I'm very excited to be seeing Shpongle on the 30th.. :)

-cpr

Quoting Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.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