What Electronica is Inspiring your Looping

[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