This list is ridiculous.
I highly recommend you all haul it
down to the Barnes & Noble near you.
The one near where I work (midtown NYC)
seems to be the center of a forgotten
library of old ambient and rave cd's.
On the top picks list from B&N are
"Kickin' Mental Detergent" incl Messiahs
"There is no Law" from 93(?), also very
hot are Moonshines 'Speed Limit 180 BPM'
series which will put the fear into you
like no Kid606 album ever could. And for
the mellower folks, I might recommend
the excellent ambient collections released
on Waveform (geez, just dive into Hearts of
Space and save yourself some time)
IDM was already pretty codified by the time
Warp released Artificial Intelligence 1. While
there have been some interesting innovations
in electronic music in the last 10 years, its
all pretty formulaic. And it is good to know
that Warp was the 4AD of the 90s. Arguing about the
quality of a release detracts from the overall
pleasure of watching (and/or participating) an
abstract artform shape itself over time.
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Peter Lasell - CTRL Design
www.abattoir.com/~flint/
san francisco | brooklyn
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