Re: What Electronica is Inspiring your Looping

[cpr@musetrap.com]

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