quoted 5 lines ...You can argue that she is just selecting producers that have> ...You can argue that she is just selecting producers that have
> been musically innovative (Mark Bell, Matmos, Thomas Knak, Plaid, Herbert)
> but I have to say that the music that was created out of these
> collaborations sounds nothing like the music the artists/producers have
> created on their own.
i'll argue that she's just selecting producers...i was pretty disappointed
when i heard 'heirloom' off of bjork's 'vespertine'. it's a beautiful
song, but it's just console's 'crabcraft' from 'rocket in the pocket' with
her singing over it. and i thought plaid left their mark all over 'post',
and the tracks matt herbert worked on on 'vespertine' have a definite
herbert-y sound to them, at least to these ears.
quoted 1 line I would place her above NIN for that reason.> I would place her above NIN for that reason.
I would place NIN above her for the reason that in countless conversations
i've had, or interveiws read, with djs or producers, NIN, skinny puppy,
other industrial acts are cited as influences much more often. also
because of 'fixed' and 'broken'. the things he did on those records may
have been pioneered by other folks, but he was one of the people that got
those production sounds and ideas out to the masses, including me out in
farmland, wisconsin, yeehaw. track 1 on 'fixed', 'gave up', with those cut
up vocals, damn.
still, i wouldn't put either in my top 5. top 5 artists for the 90s for
me, in no particular order:
Aphex Twin:
Constantly and tirelessly experimented and fooled around with everything
from production techniques and sounds in his music, to music video and
live performance, as well as public persona. (remember, drukqs came out in
the 00s. heh.)
Autechre:
Similar to Aphex, always pushing the envelope, tho sticking more with
music, not so much videos or performance, etc. Where they're trying to
push that envelope i'm sometimes not so sure, but A for effort anyways.
Squarepusher:
This guy has a sense of humor. Or you could pretend that he's really angry
all the time if you want. i consider him responsible for bringing
'drill'n'bass' to the masses (along with a few other usual suspects, of
course) and his experimentation with/satire of certain electronic
subgenres is top-notch (ie speed garage on a lot of the tracks on 'go
plastic').
Boards of Canada:
Sure they had somewhat limited output compared to other artists on this
list, but 'music has the right to children' was the first all-electronic
album to make the music feel consistently warm. They managed to use their
music to take you 'elsewhere', without really telling you where that was,
exactly. it's really a shame they like to touch little children tho.
FSOL / The Orb / Orbital / KLF (4way tie):
All 4 of these groups are trailblazers in some respect, and have
influenced countless others in electronic music. FSOL's 'papua new
guinea', the orb's 'little fluffy clouds' (also some of their many
remixes), orbital's 'chime', klf's '3am eternal' (most of 'the white
room', all of 'chill out')...though some of these sound dated today, all
are still considered classic, classic tracks.
ok.
-z
quoted 27 lines From: "alan flood" <guile133@hotmail.com>> >From: "alan flood" <guile133@hotmail.com>
> >To: idm@hyperreal.org
> >Subject: [idm] 5 most important electronic artists of the 90's
> >Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:03:49 -0400
> >
> >
> >So who would you guys say?
> >
> >here's mine in no particual order:
> >
> >lfo - influenced everyone........ first a.i. style techno?
> >
> >oval- for the introduction of the error or glitch
> >
> >aphex twin- for obvious reasons
> >
> >autechre- also for ovious reasons
> >
> >nine inch nails- for the texture, production, and bringing expermental
> >electronic music to a mass audience through pop song structures, and most
> >importantly to piss off every indie elitest fuck-head on the list (get it
> >right ......majority of the synth patches were a prophet VS)
> >
> >thoughts? i can't sleep....
> >
> >
> >alan flood
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