Who here likes electronica?

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I posted this in another thread, but due to its extreme nature I must reiterate.

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Depends what you mean by "electronica"..... If you mean 5 second samples looped indefinitely over a drum machine with some twonk talking over it, then good God, no...... Anything with "DJ" in it has me running for the hills screaming.....

However, I love 70s-sounding synthesizers - its the only instrument barring guitar I've ever had an interest in maybe wanting to play (and now I can via my new Roland GR-33 ). I love Kraftwerk and all the old early 80s synth pop (needless, to say I'm rather a little chuffed with how "de riguer" that stuff all is now post-"Killers" and the rest). I also rather guiltily and sneakily like a lot of "melodic" "modern" "electronica" (urrrgghhh!! !! How I despise the foul need everyone seems to have to have to label musical genres... ) such as "Moby", "The Chemical Brothers" etc. The new "Fischerspooner" album, in particular, is rather fabby too!

I *heart* lots of forms of electronic music, including synthpop, old New Wave, industrial, electroclash, powernoise, EBM, old techno, and the like... W00t!

I HIGHLY recommend "Impossible Recording Machine". Check them out.

I *heart* IDM, downtempo, ambient, chill, and lounge. I recommend ppl check out Groove Salad on SomaFM.com.

I'll listen to some every once in a while, though a lot of the stuff that I listen to is more decidedly on the darker more goth/ industrial End of the spectrum.
Here's some of the stuff that I listen to:
Pigface
Aphex Twin
Crystal Method
Atari Teenage Riot
Laika
Hanzel und Gretyl
Wumpscut

Aphex Twin rocks... I keep meaning to download some Wumpscut but haven't got round to it yet. I like a lot of darkwave type stuff as well - current favourites include Lycia and Mortiis.

Dunc

Scooter Techno!

I dig Crystal Castles, Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin, and Daft Punk. That's about as far as I go.

I like a lot of the indie-rock-tinged genre-blending stuff that's DnB and Hip-Hop influenced; Portishead, LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, Archive. etc... I also like Radiohead's Kid A era stuff, though it's a bit more on the clinical side, less quirky beats and more enigmatic moodiness. Then there's those dark-ambient influenced artists with a flair for creating genuinely unique emotionally evocative soundscapes; Brian Eno, Boards of Canada, Mum, etc...

I was totally agin it when I heard the first examples of "techno" as it was called in the early nineties.

But then I heard a techno version of "Smells Like Teenspirit" by Abigail Van Zsiga ( known simply as 'Abigail').

Hearing a song that I was used to hearing as guitar grunge turned on its head and redone as night club techno blew my mind, and I became an instant convert.

Now I listen to quite a bit of it.

A current duo I like is the British team called "Poetica" . a boy producer, and an exotic looking girl singer with a sultry voice, who do a dreamy digestible pop style of techno.

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