Re: What Electronica is Inspiring your Looping

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@gmail.com>]

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
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>