Electronica and the like...

[Mucman]

Originally posted by: skace
Electronica like uh... Orbital? MMmm Orbital Frenetics. I don't really know what classifies Electronica.

Someday I am going to organize all my music into 1 big circle that shows each genre and the songs spilling into other genres until the next song is completely of another genre. I think it would be a cool circle.

Trance is usually repetitive music. Which is why it puts you into a trance.

I like almost all music which is why I never understood people who just randomly *hate* a genre. I am glad you gave this stuff another chance and found it to your liking. If I was at home, I would give you a long list of good music.... but I can't think of anything right now.

I am pretty much open to anything. There's very little music that I don't like. New style country I loathe, and some forms of rap/hip-hop
doesn't seem to do it for me. I understand the talent of some of it, but I just don't take pleasure listening to it. I would say that 75% of
top 40 music if awful. Of course top 40 isn't a genre, but it does seem to contain a lot of bad music.

 

[Encryptic]

Electronica just sounds stupid (as a genre title, that is). I pretty much just listen to whatever I like and don't strain myself trying to classify it into one genre or another. I just don't find mainstream stuff to be very interesting anymore, so most of the stuff I do listen to/used to listen to is electronic. Brief list that doesn't cover everything:

AK1200
Dieselboy
Front Line Assembly
Front 242
Future Sound of London
Sasha and Digweed
Nightmares On Wax
Thievery Corporation
Kruder and Dorfmeister
Paul Oakenfold
Leftfield

I've more or less wandered all over the map as far as taste in electronic music. I used to listen to a lot of harder stuff like Front Line Assembly when I was in high school, then I was into Sasha and Digweed, etc. for a while after high school. I still am, to some degree, but lately I've drifted more towards mellower, more kick-back stuff like Thievery Corporation, Nightmares On Wax, etc. I've been listening to Drone Zone (Internet radio station that plays mostly ambient/atmospheric stuff) a lot lately while at home.

 

[amnesiac]

I like downtempo / trip-hop / chillout, but some forms of electronica I can't stand, like breakbeat and the more "abstract" offshoots, namely glitch. I'm sorry, but it's just completely retarded and unlistenable.

Here's what I find myself listening to:

Zero 7
Morcheeba
Leftfield
Underworld
Thievery Corporation
Nightmares on Wax
Kruder & Dorfmeister

Also some others that I cant recall directly.

 

[DigDug]

the term electronica started to be used when that whole electronic-invasion (for like 2 months!) hit America with the Prodigy "Smack my bitch up" sh1t.

I'd suggest you pick up, for an instant dive into the heyday of IDM:

Download - III <-- one of the most sophisticated well-written electronic albums ever written.
Global Communications 76:14
Autechre - Tri Repetae++
Orb - U.F.Orb
Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

These are classics. Start here.