Okay, all you IDM folks... maybe you can all be so kind as to help out
someone who's a newcomer to this list.
I'm relatively not very knowledgeable about IDMish music. I've liked
electronic dance music for a long time, starting with the late '80s with
Nitzer Ebb and Meat Beat Manifesto which was then called "industrial," and
then in '94 I got into stuff like the Orb and FSOL. And I've got a few
thislisty CDs, like Coldcut, Photek, and Spacetime Continuum. However,
IDM may be a part of my musical tastes, but it's not the primary focus.
Guitar-based indie rock and punk rock has always held a slight edge
over synth/DJ-based music in my listening preferences, and that's still
the case now.
So, I don't know how knowledgable about IDM you'd consider me - I'm
certainly much more so than your typical mainstream listener who likes
Nirvana or Alanis or Hootie, for sure, but I'm completely out of the loop
compared to most of the people here who talk about Warp Records and Plaid.
So, my question is: what do you recommend to me for essential IDMish CD's?
For your reference, here are those electronic-music (not all of which are
really all that IDMish) CD's I already have and like...
- FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON, Lifeforms *and* Dead Cities
- ORB, Live 93 *and* Orbus Terrarum
- TECHNO ANIMAL, Re-Entry (and by the way, to the person who posted about
that, I had little trouble finding it in stock at Other Music in NYC. I
can't imagine that Tower Records wouldn't stock it, either, unless it's
just very recently gone out of print.)
- KEN ISHII, Jelly Tones
- SCORN, Colossus
- MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO, 99% *and* Subliminal Sandwich (fucking *brilliant*
album, by the way! It just does wonders for my mindstate. One of my fave
albums of the last several years and I thought it was a damn shame it
didn't get more respect!)
- MUSLIMGAUZE, Vote Hezbollah
- LTJ BUKEM, Logical Progression
- SPACETIME CONTINUUM, Emit Ecaps
- PHOTEK, Modus Operandi
- COLDCUT, Let Us Play
- CHEMICAL BROTHERS, Exit Planet Dust *and* Dig Your Own Hole
So tell me, what CDs should I be adding to the above list?
You can email me privately if you wish to avoid adding clutter to the
list.
Thank you in advance for your feedback,
- John