Guest Page 99 Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Looking for any recommendations along the lines of Confield era Autechre or, the Speedranch + Venetian Snares Collaborative release. Any help is much appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Donald Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 Some ideas for you....V/VM-"Sometimes Good Things Happen". I have two versions of this with different coloured covers, one is pretty harsh, one is sort of ambient. V/VM seem to make a habit of being "difficult" like this. You could also try their "Hate You" album which has a wide variety of artists from their label.Venetian Snares-"Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits" or anthing else he's done is at least worth a listen.Speedranch/Jansky Noise-"Welcome To Execrate"Techno Animal-"Re-Entry". J.K. Broadrick (Godflesh,Jesu,Final etc) and Kevin Martin from God (who you'd probably like if you've never heard them. Try their "Possesion" album) do dub/ambient/dark hip-hop.Scorn-Can't remember the albums name just now. Will get back to you on that one. Mick Harris from Napalm Death anyway.Autechre-"Chiastic Slide" or "LP5". I find these less hit or miss than "Confield"This may be a bit more varied than what you originally asked for, but it's all stuff you might like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Page 99 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Cheers mate. Got the Scorn, Snares and Techno animal stuff, but I shall seek out the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bifta23 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 One of my favourte labels at the moment is Raster Noton and the Ryoji Ikeda album "Dataplex" is essential listening for fans of minimal electro and glitch. It's a stunning peice of work. Those who saw him perform at Instal will know how good he is. Also worth checking out is COH and Pan Sonic. Here is blurb on Ikeda from SecondLayer...‘Dataplex’ is the much-anticipated new release from leading Japanese electronic composer Ryoji Ikeda. Since the mid 1990s, Ikeda has pioneered a radical and highly influential minimalist approach in the worlds of electronic and contemporary music. His seventh solo album and the first musical composition in the Datamatics series - a new body of work across various media that uses data as both its material and its theme - Dataplex presents a significant and stunning progression in Ikeda's career.Aside from demonstrating Ikeda's unrivalled standards of technical precision, minute sound construction and engineering, the album also introduces an extraordinary and fascinating overall structure… The first eight tracks of Dataplex consist mostly of high-frequency raw data. Their structures are located clearly outside the cosmos of music. Instead, these linear tracks seem to be source code transformed into an audible medium; a constant stream of data, they represent the basic material of the album.The following pieces become longer, increasingly complex and distinctly inter-related, before the rhythmic structure itself metamorphoses. Rhythms and tones are refracted progressively, until, with track 18, Data.Vortex, Ikeda opens up an apparently infinite acoustic space with an expansive piece that contrasts dramatically with all that precedes it.Following this caesura the album almost ends in the way it started, sinking back into the data flow. The last track (Data.Adaplex) contains specific waveform data that subtly reveals the tolerances involved in processing digital signals. It will cause some CD players to experience unpredictable playback errors; this will not damage equipment in any way.Through meticulous attention to detail and the most minimal of gestures, Ikeda succeeds in expanding and enhancing his sound design to reveal a new universe to the listener. Dataplex opens up avenues of pure musical abstraction whilst simultaneously embracing complex, unique and elegant individual composition.In its entirety, Dataplex remains inscrutable; a mystery whose secrets require individual investigation and discovery. Its defiance of appropriate definition, description or comparison, ultimately underpins the pioneering nature of this long-awaited release.Dataplex is the first musical composition in the Datamatics series, a new body of works by Ryoji Ikeda that explores the aesthetic potentials of data by using data itself - from its transparency to its materiality, from its ultra-speed to hyper-diffusion. The project derives the hidden constants of data-ness from the vast data ocean that ranges from DNA and the everyday world to the universe and pure mathematics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragudave Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Give shows like The Breezeblock on R1 a listen. They plays loads of cool electronica. Apart from that subscribe to The Wire or borrow the free Cds that come with the mag from a mate. Apart from that have a look on various music blogs, where there are no end of recommendations...Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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