Recently I've been listening again to some of the "older"
"electronica" CDs I got from around the time when "electronica" was
the next big thing according to music critics. (as for when I got
into this stuff, I honestly entered a store and picked up RDJ Album
with no provocation -I'd never heard of Aphex Twin, never heard of
IDM, never heard of Warp Records. No one said anything to me saying
"get this" - I just saw it and thought it looked interesting. Maybe
it was divine intervention, but that got me into all electronic
music. Previously my favorite artists were Tori Amos and They Might
Be Giants...)
So anyway, sorry for that digression, but my point is that, back
around 1996-1997, "electronica," if you remember, was this big deal,
sort of. Artists like Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, Orbital,
Aphex Twin, The Prodigy, etc, were getting a lot of attention for
nothing. There were a lot of artists then, and many of them are
still around, but I'm wondering what happened to some of the artists
from "electronica's boom years," if you'll forgive my continuing use
of that word. I'm sort of on a nostalgia kick...
For example, I was listening to a CD last night that I haven't heard
in over two years - "Risotto" by Fluke. Whatever happened to Fluke?
They were popular back in 96-97, and had that album on Astralwerks.
They had a lot of other releases, mostly remix EPs, previously, on
other labels somewhere. I liked them. Yeah, they weren't as IDM-ish
as some things, but I think they fit in here loosely...
I always thought of Fluke as very Underworld-ish ... Underworld are
still around (minus one member, of course), but Fluke seem to have
dropped off the face of the planet. I can't find any relatively
up-to-date info on them on the net.
I know bands die all the time, but I don't even see anything about
"they've broken up" or anything like that. It's like all info on
Fluke has been frozen in time...
For that matter, what's up with Future Sound of London? Last I
heard, they were actually working on new material for an album this
year (2000), and then it was delayed to 2001. Does anyone know
anything more about them? Or are they dead now too? Their web pages
on the net appear to have died...
Most importantly, I'm hoping to jump-start a nostalgia thread here.
What artists from the mid-nineties do you fondly remember, preferably
ones that aren't around anymore, or at least haven't released
anything in a long time. And try to keep it to electronic stuff - no
one better mention, like, "Blind Melon" or something dumb like that!
-adam
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