on 11.2.00 9.51 AM, Adam Piontek at damek@earthling.net wrote:
quoted 61 lines Recently I've been listening again to some of the "older"
> 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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the Future Sound of London made their masterpiece dead cities. but I haven't
seen or heard any thing new from them in years. does anyone know what they
are up to?
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