Perhaps you ought to take a shot at Anvil Vapre and Garbage if melody is
what you want from Autechre.
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997 EvilIzzo@aol.com wrote:
quoted 26 lines I'm new to the list, so please bear with my ignorance............> I'm new to the list, so please bear with my ignorance............
> It seems to me that Autechre and AFX are among favorites here. I have
> "I care.." and only like the first, fourth, and last tracks (strings, melody)
> I also own "Amber," and only listened to it once when I first got it about
> a year ago. You might think me a fool, but I found it to be mostly bleeps
> and fx, it was OK-- but no real "songs." Can anyone recommend anything
> melodic by these folks? Or at least something with a reasonable amount of
> musical structure.
> In my own defense, I am not completely ignorant of this music. I have
> been listening to the likes of Klaus Shulze, Tangering Dream, Synergy, and
> Jean Michelle Jarre for over ten years. Some of my more recent favorites
> include Salt Tank, Astralasia, Amorphous Androgynous (FSOL), Optica, Orbital,
> Cocteau Twins, Bel Canto, Banco De Gaia**, The Beloved, Oliver Lieb**(all
> aliases), Friends Lovers, and Family, Syzygy, Spooky, Koxbox, Robert Miles
> (Don't caugh!), Moodswings, and of course.. Juno Reactor***.
> Considering the bands that I like, am I on the wrong list? Or am I
> missing something. I know that a lot of what I mentioned is more toward the
> side of dance music. So as a last note I will mention that I do have both
> Apollo comps, and like them a lot. I also like excursions in ambience 1 and
> 2, and also ambient dub 2. And also "...from Heaven" by Manna is a very good
> track from a decent disc.
> So considering how fond you all are of Autechre and AFX, can you
> recommend anything from them that I would like???
>
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