Know of any good "Electronica" bands?

MY OPINION OF THE BEST 70S ELECTRONIC BANDS....


EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER......RICK WAKEMAN OF YES, AINT TO SHABBY EITHER..

NEW ONES? I CANT HELP YOU

REGARDS,
BRUCE

 

I also like electronica (many hours listening to Kitaro and such as a kid). A good band that's hot right now is called The Postal Service, kind of "pop-synth ballads." It has vocals but is very catchy.

There's a group called Air that I think is French but has jazz-groove type electronic (sans vocals).

The soundtrack from Lost in Translation has a great mix of electronica and alternative music with vocals (but heavy on synth).

Robert Miles is good but is sooo 1997 .

You might want to check out "trance" music too. It's the melodic and mellow dance/club music with typically minimal vocals.

A good place to look for new names is Billboard Magazine's Top 10 or whatever -- they have an electronica section (which is generally used for all dance/electronic music).http://www.billboard.com/bb/charts/electronic.jsp

 

Tiesto is among the biggest names. Paul Oakenfold is good too. I love Ian Van Dahl, but he has vocals on his tracks (girl singing).

 

Zero Seven. Although a few tracks have vocals, they're not irritating. Spin magazine called their first release, Simple Things, the baby-making CD of 2002. Some great, great bass lines!

KevFla

 

I have a bunch of disks from the Ministry of Sound that have a good variety of trance. Amazon has some samples:

Vol. 2-Trance Nation America

Ministry of Sound: Trance Nation Anthems

Ministry of Sound's Trance Nation America

Ministry of Sound: Trance Nation America 3

 

In all your spare time.. try this out. I have it installed on my pc.

http://www.spinner.com/download.html

This pipes in music from ALL SORTS of genre's. There's a section of Electronica music that breaks down into sub genre's. It's pure uninterupted music that streams endlessly. If you like a song, there's a tab that will let you wiew the CD and buy it if you wish. Cool stuff.

 

Ok here goes (in no particular order)...

Dzihan & Kamien
Tosca
Kruder & Dorfmeister
Caia
Massive Attack (classic)
Portishead (classic)
Kid Loco
Louie Devito
Merkin Dream
Murgatroyd Trio
Halou
Tricky
Boozoo Bajou
Soulstice
Boards of Canada
Esthero
Boom Boom Satellites (if you can find it)
Projections
Air
Airlock
Badmarsh & Shri
Bonobo
Amon Tobin
DJ Keoki (not sure if he's done anything new lately though)
DJ Shadow
Junior Jack
Sneaker Pimps
Ken Ishi
Lemon Jelly
Motorcycle
RJD2
The Streets (kinda Brit-garage-hiphop)
TV on the Radio
Ima Robot
Waldeck
Weekend Players
Zero 7
Armand Van Helden
Ian Van Dahl

Whew! That's a nice varied list of some of the better acts out there which range from downtempo to house & trance. I guess that'll suffice for now....

 

What, nobody likes Kraftwerk??

The mellow Meat Beat Manifesto is excellent.

Some of the Ibiza mixes are good too.

 

I would check out Kosheen, and PureTone!

 

Kraftwerk! is the greatest.
My favorite...NEW ORDER!

Of course there are some vocals..

 

got some of their albums around somewhere, haven't listened for years.

IMHO, some of the best electronica came about in the early 90's, we were just getting past the "everything is moog" phase and we were still before the age of any-****-can-afford-a-full-computer-studio.

i was pretty heavily into the rave scene back then, so trance, techno and rave were my staple diet. there's a million artists worth mentioning, but it's easier to just grab some various LP's from the period.

Trance Europe Express was a great label, i've got two of their electronica albums (2 cd's each) and each one came with a fat-ass book with full bio and history of each of the artists.

man, i bet some of the young'uns here feel the same way about me talking of the early 90's - 15 YEARS AGO DAMMIT, AM I DOING MY MATH WRONG!!?? - as i felt back then of old people talking about the late 70's. sigh.

 

okay then.

The Orb and Orbital. (2 separate artists)

i'm confident you will like them.

 

oh, and the Analog Bubblebath series from Aphex Twin is a seriously cool way to spend an evening. don't die without mellowing out to that stuff.

 

The hot stuff right now is Electroclash/Nu Synthpop/Nu New Wave/Electropop/whatever:

Postal Service
Ladytron
Fischerspooner
I Am The World Trade Center
Pop-3 (French group I just discovered, but love)
Scissor Sisters
etc.

 

Yep, good stuff

Great song

 

Well, if you don't understand japanese, lyrics can be just another instrument.

You could look over http://www.jameswong.com/ykproject/disc/music.php with a rather wide variety of styles -- most with vocals, though. And all from the same composer: Yoko Kanno. Or tune into (adult swim) cartoon net saturday night to check out the music on "Ghost in the Shell/Stand Alone Complex", "Cowboy Bebop", and weeknights for "Wolf's Rain".

I'm partial to the Bebop stuff, myself, but "Inner Universe" from GitS/SAC is fairly techno. The site listed above has a sampling of YK's diverse styles on different projects.

 

I tried ordering Kraftwerk last fall and was told it is out of print. Ideas?

I picked up "Love and Rockets, Lift" a while back, more Techno I think.
The first four tracks are really strong and compelling. Good driving music.

 

heh, yeah it's like some kid just got a sampler for his 10th birthday. was really corny even when i first heard it o-so-long-ago, but it's grown on me over time and now i really like it.

i'm gonna find it and have a listen... hmm, appears to be missing, must be downstairs... bah, later.

 

i've got a few Kraftwerk albums laying around somewhere, thing is i don't know where, i still haven't unpacked most of my stuff from 3 moves ago in 2001.