So for this class i have to bring in an example of what i consider "electronic music."
I'm pretty sure i'm taking in Autechre.
I know its impossible to present an idea of electronic music with one song...but if you had to pick just one....what would it be?
Saturday, April 11, 2009
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something on draft i think
ReplyDeleteWha' bout Vletrmx (Garbage)? Otherwise, it's an all-way tie between songs from Draft. I think that's a good album to focus on because it's where they really start to push the textural limits of their sound in uncomfortable ways... Only that last track has the wistful melodic qualities of their earlier jams really front-and-center. I guess it's their first work that seems NECESSARILY electronic, y'know, like the London Sinfonietta ain't about to tackle 6IE.CR...
ReplyDeletecrunchy...maybe i'll just pitch that whole record
ReplyDeleteyo, did they give you a definition of electronic music? Like a boiled down to smallest component? Dr. Dorr, one of Gray's lovers in the early years of college, always said that music, in the basic definition, is sound organized in time. Did your teacher give you this type of definition?
ReplyDeleteI have two recommendations- anything off of Selected Ambient II, cause I think some of the non believers can be coned into our cult with this album, even hippies. Also, Journey to Reedham [7AM Mix]. I played this for the post-Dr. Dorr Music theory class as a request similar to your teacher's. I played this, and Gray turned to me and said with an air of disgust "You listen to squarepusher?" and then repeated it a couple of times. Maybe he thought I was a hippy.
Since you mentioned Draft, when I bought my monitors, I brought in Big Loada and Draft to sample the goods at the music store. This guy put on some Lil John or something (I know I rock the krunk hardcore, but I am buying fucking monitors for fucks sake) and I just shook my head and had him put in Draft. Then this other kid ran up in there and asked me who I was. Then I told him I had ties to Broken Fader Cartel, and then said "delicate beats."
Bine or Parhelic Triangle off Confield.
ReplyDeleteBucephalus Bouncing Ball and the 2nd cut on windowlicker are also hard to not mention.
ReplyDeleteoooh damn....bucephalus bouncing ball is a good one.....damn. this is hard.
ReplyDeletenow that you mention it, I played bucephalus BB for one of my humanities classes.
ReplyDeleteI remember syncing that shit up in multiple rooms in Founders. Putting Ian's room across from mine was just a bad look.
ReplyDeleteIf you're going Ae, I'd probably pick something succinct that still gets the point across; I'm thinking 6.ie.cr or dropp or even krib if you feel like reachin way back. But forgetting any concern about length or universality, I'd prolly pick vletrmx21 or characi.
ReplyDeletewoosh...i think i might have to go with dropp.
ReplyDeleteGod, we SLEW Founders Hal with some Bucephalus. You know we made a few 26-year-old education majors with unironic kitten posters lose their places in the "How to Make Black History Month Word-Finds and Other Fun Activites 5th Ed. Revised" text books and have to start over from the beginning.
ReplyDeleteOn a barely related note, Dropp is to me pretty much THE archetypal AE track. Not necessarily my absolute fave, but a perfect introduction to most of what they're about. Good choice
Warp records put out a companion cd to a DVD release of their videos over the years. it's actually a pretty impressive mash of their discography as a label.... but there are some swaths in there that sweep over several different styles and arrangements that are maybe not the most melt-someones-face-off example of "electronic music", but could be a useful little audio aide to a succinct description of the stuff.
ReplyDeletei like the words 'recontextualization' and 'synthesis'... but whatev. i come from the dj end of stuff (read: electro mixes of old beyonce singles playing in the back of mind as i type this).. but the concept of a sampler as a cultural tool... like whoah.
AGL
ps. nice to see y'all online after so long.
you said "whatev" . . . have you been in SoCal lately?
ReplyDeleteNice to see you too, I thought we had lost you. Or that I had ran you off with my overload of odd remix brainscramble wavs I sent to you.