Obviously, Aphex, Autechre, etc... Bjork & Trent Reznor for the
masses... definitely...
However, I'm feeling somewhat heretic tonight, so here go a few names
that haven't been mentioned (and you'll quickly understand why):
- Snap: the Power - Tight beat with the sixteenth note hi-hats
quantized in triplets... I seem to remember that it was considered as
novelty back in the days. And that was before Bobby Brown and the
whole new jack shit thing.
- Technotronic: Pump Up The Jam - The first club track with a louder
thump !!... (or so I recall once again).
- Janet Jackson: Rhythm Nation - Hectic breaks all over the place in
the drum patterns... check the remixes circa the same era and also
the album by the same name. (by the way, Technotronic and the latter
are '89 - but sue me I'm slow).
I could mention Sigue Sigue Sputnik of course for the total abuse of
samples, sound effects and reverbs of all kind, or even Propaganda,
but we'd definitely be talking about the 80's.
Otherwise, we obviously owe it all to the older ones: Kraftwerk,
Tangerine Dream, the Detroit techno scene, Brian Eno, the Belgian New
Beat and Acid House, the new wave scene (Depeche Mode, Yaz(oo),
etc...), the industrial scene (Front 242, Mark Ickx & Verhaeghen (X
10, The Klinik, Front Line Assembly, A Split Second), Ministry, Young
Gods, ... )
What do we now ?
How about trying to become the most important artists of the
beginning of the century ? ;-)
Topher.
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