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Recommendations of authors/groups of electronic music
The Moog Cookbook mention was tongue-in-cheek, mind you :)
Just to name my favourite few albums:
- Air - Moon Safari, Talkie Walkie (though I pretty much love everything they do)
- Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (it's beautiful and the only one I listened to actually, supposedly others are not that good)
- Portishead - Dummy, Portishead
- Moby - Play (can't believe I forgot to mention him)
- Enigma - Enigma 3: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
I could go on, but let's not exaggerate :) Usually, when I want to listen to something new, I just go to last.fm and find artist's most popular album. If I like it, I listen to some more
Happy listening :)
@ivana great, I added them.
@fxn some suggestions
- Aes Dana - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhXFVs9tV3A
- I'm a Robot and Am Proud - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn1wJQUNhQ8&feature=related
- Solvent - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcH-6r9YQHA&feature=related
- Joseph Loibant (At-Moss) -http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=P1TVhDNUNLY this is not precisely new or modern, but I happen to like it a lot ;)
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There's plenty of different stuff here, I've arrived later to the tweets so I skipped the conversation but now I found this, so here it goes:
Air: French guys doing classy, melancholic stuff, easy to listen, the virgin suicides is the OST of the soundtrack of the same name, composed by Air, but I'd go for their best album named Moon Safari.
I won't bother on goldfrapp royksopp telepopmusik or zero 7, this is commercial music based on the works of others, mainly mainstream versions on what Portishead and Massive Attack invented in the late 90s. I definetely both of them to you, awesome music, sometimes dark, sometimes sad, inspired in jazz, dub and other influences. Go for Massive Attacks' Mezzanine and Portishead's Dummy.
Thievery corporation and Groove Armada, are something in the midlle between telepopmusik and massive attack, but have not listened heavily, is music that publicists used to love.
Sigur Ros is not electronic at all, they play a sub genre name Post Rock, most of their music is made with analog instrument, but their music is landscapist and contemplative so probably that's the reason many people associate them with electronic music. I'd recommend them too.
Faithless is comercial but fast and danceable music, don't have a strong opinion either.
The Knife and Fever Ray (since more or less is the same people involved) are quite good, a couple of swedish brother making obscure electronic pop music and sounding different from everybody else, The Knife's album Silent Shout is one of my favorites of the 00's.
Don't go for Verve Remixed, this is some attempt from the guys that now run the mythic Verve Rcordings label to jump on the bandwagon of electronic music, they recruited some famous djs/producers some years ago and pay them to remix awesome jazz songs. Their remix of Nina Simone's sinnerman is awful.
Haven't heard The Moog Cookbook.
I'll recomend you listen to Autechre, specially because their composing techniques: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music, is kind of abstract and hard to get in, but imaginative and new. I'd also go for Four Tet (There is love in you) and Pantha du Prince (Black noise), which are also very rich music but not as hard to listen as Autechre,.
Hope it helps!