In an average month I will purchase music in various formats....
digital, cd, and vinyl.
some recents:
Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto With Ensemble Modern - UTP_ (raster-noton) [cd/dvd]
Ekkehard Ehlers + Paul Wirkus - Ballads (smtg limited) [vinyl]
Anduin + Jasper TX - The Bending Of Light (smtg limited) [vinyl & cd -
cd slipped into the vinyl sleeve]
Stephan Mathieu + Taylor Deupree - Transcriptions (spekk) [cd]
Sublamp - Breathletters (dragons eye) [cd]
Nadja - Numbness (happy prince) [cd]
Clark - Totems Flare (warp) [digital]
Grischa Lichtenberger - ~Treibgut (raster-noton) [vinyl]
Been listening to various albums by Celer allot lately too.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:17 PM, chthonic
streams<chthonic@chthonicstreams.com> wrote:
quoted 64 lines as we know, "IDM" was never truly a genre but came to be associated with a> as we know, "IDM" was never truly a genre but came to be associated with a
> certain "style" of electronic music.
> in electronic music as in everything else, styles come and go and sometimes
> come back again.
>
> even formats change - when IDM was first coming out the CD was
> dominant/ascendant, but vinyl was holding on in electronica and other
> underground genres.
> since then vinyl has reasserted itself while the CD has declined, and mp3s
> and other digital formats have been growing exponentially.
>
> so what electronic music gets frequent play in your music player of choice
> these days? and what is that player/media?
>
>
> me:
>
> i mostly stick to CDs because IMHO they offer the best compromise between
> sound quality (superior to the average mp3 rip) and artwork (smaller than
> vinyl sleeves), while setting each artist and "work" apart by locking it to
> a physical object and contained in a finite piece of media.
> again - just my opinion. not trying to start a format argument thread.
>
> however i recognize the flexibility of digital-only tracks and most of my
> mp3's are of electronic music due to its usual de-emphasis on identity and
> image, as well as being primarily a "singles-based" music.
>
>
> recent most-played electronic CDs
> (in no particular order):
>
> ellen allien/apparat - orchestra of bubbles
> ellen allien - thrills
> burial - (both albums)
> modeselektor - happy birthday, bogeybytes mix
> t. raumschmiere - the great rock'n'roll swindle
> thom yorke - eraser RMXS
> vex'd - degenerate
> venetian snares - detrimentalist, doll doll doll, find candace
> areal records 2rabimmel CD compilation
> autechre - amber
> aphex twin - i care because you do, classics
> basic channel - BCD2
> clark - turning dragon
> kid606 - die soundboy die, kill sound before sound kills you
> enduser - form without function
> front 242 - tyranny for you
> front line assembly - implode
> tresor 100, tresor never sleeps compilations
> joey beltram - the rising sun
>
>
> my itunes "electronic" playlist is 5.5 hours of mostly techno, with some
> dubstep and a bit of breakbeat.
> the artist with the most tracks there is starkey.
> i got most of it from beatport.
>
>
>
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