<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">VD’s Four Quarters and Anima are fantastic as well. Also side project Luomo - Tessio is such a classic. <br><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite"><br>On 4 Apr 2023, at 7:15 pm, Luis Marta <luis.marta@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Chris,</div><div><br></div>Try Vladislav Delay, start with the albums "Entain" and "Multila". <div>They induce you into a dreamlike state, perfect for reading. And I found them really great as a soundtrack to William Gibson novels.</div><div>After some listens, pieces start to fall into place, your subconscious will love it :)</div><div><br></div><div>Luis Marta. </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 2:06 AM Chris Taylor <<a href="mailto:christaylor415@gmail.com">christaylor415@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>cheers - thank you all!</div><div><br></div><div>yes, those noto+sakamoto records were/are huge for me. Definitely spent some time with Sakamoto today - Esperanto & Smoochy specifically. Incredible discography - at one point I felt like I exhausted those first two noto+sakamoto albums from listening to them so much but i'm due for a revisit. <br></div><div><br></div><div>never listened past the first xerox - thanks for the reminder. good call. that's the sort of mechanical spirit I'm seeking! :-)<br></div><div><br></div><div>don't know that lusine - always dug his poppy stuff on ghostly and was vaguely aware that he did more technoid stuff for Ant-Zen/Hymen under that name variation- will check</div><div><br></div><div>Kayn rec is good actually. he's got so much stuff it's intimidating so I never properly got started but what little I heard was super dense. looking forward to it</div><div><br></div><div>ok cracking The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster and putting this to the test. Thanks again and keep the recs coming! <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 4:26 PM kawayama <<a href="mailto:kawayama@gmail.com" target="_blank">kawayama@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>today, i recommend alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto (RIP).</div><div>my favourites are the first two albums, vrioon and insen.</div>but also alva noto solo, especially the xerox series?<div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>k</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Den mån 3 apr. 2023 kl 00:40 skrev Connor Higgins <<a href="mailto:connor1higgins@gmail.com" target="_blank">connor1higgins@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Just noticed you mentioned Kayn already, sorry haha</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 3:33 PM Connor Higgins <<a href="mailto:connor1higgins@gmail.com" target="_blank">connor1higgins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Ooh I have a good one for ya that worked for me while getting through the Dune series recently: Tektra by Roland Kayn <div><br></div><div><a href="
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3ct08sRjDEo&ab_channel=oviiw" target="_blank">youtube.com/watch?v=3ct08sRjDEo&ab_channel=oviiw</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 1:51 PM Chris Taylor <<a href="mailto:christaylor415@gmail.com" target="_blank">christaylor415@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>this list has been mad quiet so let me ask a potentially off-topic question:</div><div><br></div><div>I've been spending more and more time reading sci fi and am looking for suitable music to soundtrack it<br></div><div><br></div><div>the parallels between idm and SF are obvious and need no explanation. however Autechre/Dalglish/other IDM I'm still excited by is too hype to read to and I'm not really into the Boards of Canada-influenced strain of *lush downtempo* (well I am but I'm just too picky to take recs)<br></div><div><br></div><div>any ideas? something more active than "deep space ambient" but not too distracting <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Bill Laswell & Terre Thaemlitz – Web, some Tetsu Inoue and later Phoenicia all fit the bill</div><div><br></div><div>I love the label ~scape which maybe slots into this but I'm looking for something colder. like a less hardcore Roland Kayn</div><div><br></div><div>thank you all for your service<br></div></div>
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