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Swan
06-12-16, 11:28 AM
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I love electronic music. It's my favorite genre. In this thread I'm going to share my own knowledge, philosophies, and experiences with the genre.

I'm making it on a whim because I've been having the idea lately for two things:

- A guide to Autechre, my favorite electronic act. Incredibly complex in every way you can imagine, their music evolves and progresses. Each album is "next level". But with so many different evolutions and stylistic motions toward that next level, it's bound to be confusing as to which album to start with. I want to make a guide to help anyone interested in the group to find that album that suits them best. To be honest I'm still evaluating their discography as a whole, but I have an idea of how I will start this guide.

- A top electronic albums list. Pretty self-explanatory, but I need to do it. I want to do it, too, partly because it will encourage me to seek out even more electronic music in developing the list.

Anyway, that's it. We'll see where this thread goes. It's possible I won't post anything major here for a while, but when I do, I hope some of you will take the time to read. If not, no worries. I just want to do this for my own satisfaction.

Anyway, we'll start with my general philosophy about electronic music. This is one of my core values regarding the genre. It's taken from a PM between myself and the ever-disappearing-and-reappearing Captain Spaulding (miss that bitch). I didn't think much about it at the time I wrote it, but later would realize it represented how I think of electronic music on a very essential level.

It's taking these calculated computer sounds and trying to make something human with it. It's finding humanity in something that is inherently inhuman. We're becoming an increasingly technological people, and I think as humans we're trying to find our humanity through that technology. That's all this electronic music is. It's humanistic exploration, it's progressive, and in my opinion is essential to us better understanding ourselves in an increasingly electronic and inhuman world.

NexusSix
06-12-16, 12:39 PM
Sweet. As an avid listener of the genre and it's subsets, I'm quite interested to see where this thread goes.

Been listening to Venetian Snares ' latest album from 2016 "Traditional Synthesizer Music" all week, and it's quite enthralling. It's a throwback to analog, more specifically when Moog Modulars were commonly used. Strongly recommended if you haven't given it a spin already.

Swan
06-12-16, 12:54 PM
Sweet. As an avid listener of the genre and it's subsets, I'm quite interested to see where this thread goes.

Been listening to Venetian Snares ' latest album from 2016 "Traditional Synthesizer Music" all week, and it's quite enthralling. It's a throwback to analog, more specifically when Moog Modulars were commonly used. Strongly recommended if you haven't given it a spin already.

Thanks. To be honest I have yet to explore Venetian Snares' discography yet, I have only listened to Rossz csillag alatt született and of course that album is fascinating. I've been curious about his most recent work, and I'll bump it up on my wishlist based on your rec. :)

I'm guessing it's fully modular, then?

NexusSix
06-12-16, 01:38 PM
Thanks. To be honest I have yet to explore Venetian Snares' discography yet, I have only listened to Rossz csillag alatt született and of course that album is fascinating. I've been curious about his most recent work, and I'll bump it up on my wishlist based on your rec. :)

I'm guessing it's fully modular, then?

Well it's a homemade synthesizer that Aaron made himself and he recorded most of the album live. I believe that he started out by creating a percussion module and later experimented w/ modular parts. The bulk of it is modular-based but he also uses organic instrumentation and a drum machine peripheral ... but those inputs are subtle.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbLt0S0W5jE


Indeed Rossz csillag alatt született is a cathartic and masterful album . I love the orchestral feel to it which was always a trademark of his work but never utilized to this extent as a conceptual piece. Detrimental and Fifth are faves of mine as well but have more of a chaotic Jungles/Breakcore feel to them.