Best electronic music act ever

[dholliday]

Have you heard Alan Vega's new (posthumous) album? One of his best solo ones.

It's like The Fall never happened lol

 

[Blue 1]

Have you heard Alan Vega's new (posthumous) album? One of his best solo ones.

No. I haven't. Nice one.

I've got a funny story about Alan Vega. Was at ATP one year and me and my mate Bez were stood by Bobby Gillespie. There was a guy stood near us wearing leather, wearing shades and clicking his fingers to whoever was playing and Bez says to Bobby "Who does that guy think he is? Alan Vega?" only for Bobby to give him a look of withering contempt and sneer "That IS Alan Vega, you f______ tw__!".

 

[dholliday]

Suicide were like punk with electronics, they were way ahead of their time, they used to regularly get bottled off stage by punk audiences. There's a legendary live tape "23 minutes over Brussels" where exactly that happens. Their self-titled album is amazing, "Frankie Teardrop" in particular is terrifying. They were a massive influence on Spacemen 3 and the likes.

Silver Apples was a chap called Simeon, who built his own instrument out of a huge bank of oscillators and called it "The Simeon", which he controlled with various footswitches as well as his hands, and a drummer called Dan Taylor, whose funkified beats on some of their tracks make them sound almost contemporary, if it wasn't for the banjo and hippy mysticism on others.

ha, always enjoy these little details.

Simon Posford has done some cool stuff as Younger Brother as well. More proggy than Hallucinogen.

Haven't heard of this project, will have to check it out. Tho' the term "prog" in EDM is a bland-label, when you look at prog-house/prog-psy. Very boring too-cool-for-school stuff.

Speaking of (proper) proggy psy, have you heard the 25-minute epic from Vasily's new album?

 

[Blue 1]

ha, always enjoy these little details.




Haven't heard of this project, will have to check it out. Tho' the term "prog" in EDM is a bland-label, when you look at prog-house/prog-psy. Very boring too-cool-for-school stuff.

Speaking of (proper) proggy psy, have you heard the 25-minute epic from Vasily's new album?

No, not been listening to much psy lately. Thanks, like the sound of this.

The Younger Brother stuff is still pretty twisted, it's just a bit slower and chunkier. It's not minimal, too cool for school stuff at all. Check out the album "Even Dwarves Start Small". It's pretty old, but it's great.

 

[marnie]

Heaven 17.

 

[Mcdrewson]

Orbital for me, particularly live sets from Glastonbury 94, 95 & 99.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Heaven 17.

Good shout
Still touring
Loyal following

 

[magicjuan]

Heaven 17.

B.E.F.

 

[COYBL25]

Heaven 17.

Never a big fan, but credit were credit`s due, they`ve never stopped and still put the hours in.

Much preferred the early Human League stuff, off the likes of the Travelogue album.

 

[dholliday]

Much preferred the early Human League stuff, off the likes of the Travelogue album.

My favourite Human League, almost totally instrumental...this is a staple on goa festival campsites, funnily enough:

 

[Huyton Layne]

SL2



and what?

 

[marnie]

Heaven 17's Penthouse and Pavement album .... was ahead of it's time.

 

[COYBL25]

My favourite Human League, almost totally instrumental...this is a staple on goa festival campsites, funnily enough:

Tuuuuuuuune

The sounds of my early yoof.

Reproduction and Travelogue , aren`t fashionable anymore, as people just think of the Human League, as " Don`t you want me baby ".

But they`re both belting albums, real dark synth and just Phil Oakey, as he hadn`t split from the rest who become Heaven 17 / the girls hadn`t joined yet.

In saying that, I love the Dare album too. ( the Sound of the Crowd etc )

Have you heard Gary Numan`s new album - Savage ( songs from a broken world ) ?.

It`s a cracker and reminds me very much of the early Human league

 

[dholliday]

SL2



and what?

injected with a poison!
i'm the one & only dominator
james brown is dead
music maestro, please!

Tuuuuuuuune

The sounds of my early yoof.

Reproduction and Travelogue , aren`t fashionable anymore, as people just think of the Human League, as " Don`t you want me baby ".

But they`re both belting albums, real dark synth and just Phil Oakey, as he hadn`t split from the rest who become Heaven 17 / the girls hadn`t joined yet.

In saying that, I love the Dare album too. ( the Sound of the Crowd etc )

Have you heard Gary Numan`s new album - Savage ( songs from a broken world ) ?.

It`s a cracker and reminds me very much of the early Human league

i love the synths in Cars, it's a Polymoog and i've always fancied bagging one but the ones on Ebay are either always totally knackered, or it's the low-spec one with hardly any knobs/sliders. i'll have to check his newer work out.

 

[COYBL25]

injected with a poison!
i'm the one & only dominator
james brown is dead
music maestro, please!




i love the synths in Cars, it's a Polymoog and i've always fancied bagging one but the ones on Ebay are either always totally knackered, or it's the low-spec one with hardly any knobs/sliders. i'll have to check his newer work out.

Have a look at - " My name is ruin " - current single off the album

Ps - the girl doing backing, is his eleven year old daughter, her voice is incredible.