Electronic Music

[chorbalan]

Could anyone suggest any dance, electronic music to me? I'd like something fast paced and I no NOTHING about the genre or it's artists. Thanks.

[Liberi Fatali]

If you want to explore electronic music go to:
http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

It's not perfect, but it'll give you more insight than anybody on here can.

As for genres I suggest you check out from there:
Goa Trance (Trance section)
NRG (Trance section)
Hard Trance (Trance section)
Progressive Trance (Trance section)
Disco House (House section)
Swedish techno (Techno section)
Hardstep (Jungle section)
Jazzstep (Jungle section)
Happy Hardcore (Hardcore section)

Just stay away from crap like metalcore, speedcore, speed garage, coldwave etc.

You should be able to find plenty of sampled artists from the genres I listed to explore. If you're still struggling after all that, then yell again and I'll list some artists.

[Electronic Wolf]

I was excited when I saw this thread because lately I have been listening to a lot of electronic music, but then I saw that you're asking for fast-paced stuff. I do slow.

[AlienEater]

I prefer slow too.

[conselation]

At the end of every week
Each one of us becomes a freak
Tonight the dj makes his move
And then the sweat drops from the roof
Each time you let the base beat hard
To know we'll all stand now apart
Forget your problems and go free
Enjoy this moment come with me

The speaker system brings the sound
And light effects are spinning round
All the people on the floor
They shake their bodies cry for more
Never let this feeling go
And let the music take control
Forget your problems and go free
Enjoy this moment come with me

Happy hxc ftw

[Apocalyptic Raids]

Infected Mushroom are great for starters, if that's fast enough?

but like Electronic Wolf, most of the electronic music I have is slower.

[niobium]

Suicide Commando is like Aggrotech. Pretty rave like, danceable, fast paced.

[TojesDolan]

Would anyone mind telling me the difference between the different electronic musics?

I cna't tell the difference to be quite honest. :|

[AlienEater]

that's a pretty difficult question to answer

[Dr. Jake Destructo]

Shpongle are very psychadelic, but pretty fast paced.

Infected Mushroom's another good one.

I'm not so much into the more 'dance' oriented electronica, but those two are solid bands.

[ATM]

Magnus
Apparat
Nathan Fake
Tipper
Max Tundra

[Amit]

Shpongle are very psychadelic, but pretty fast paced.

Infected Mushroom's another good one.

I'm not so much into the more 'dance' oriented electronica, but those two are solid bands.

shpongle is like ambient psy :-\

hallucinogen, astral projection, and juno reactor are all good picks for the threadstarter

[Yuzz]

Venetian Snares - freaking awesome, insanely fast paced (glitchcore i think they call it but genres are far to restrictive)

Aphex Twin - brilliant electronic music on every level - so diverse

Sufjan Stevens - Enjoy your rabbit is his stand out album (I think alot of his other stuff is **** House)

The Knife - on of THE best electronic duo's in the world today

edIT - an interesting mix of fast beats and yet mellow rythms

Autechre - fantastic British electro (wrongfully labeled IDM (intelligent dance music) along with Apex twin and other artists - again a matter of turdishly forcing music into genre constraints)

NB. This is an awesome genre to explore so much brilliant experimentation is going on in the world of sound sculpting

[Eliminator]

venetian snares are aesome

[Yuzz]

Hecate is also fantastic. She is a Swiss Breakcore artist and did a Joint album with Venetian Snares, "Nymphomatriarch", using samples of the couple's actual sexual experiments throughout the recording. Its a fantastic album.

[Bajs]

i dont get this kind of music...

But tangerine dream are great. not dance, but pre-trance/chillout.

trance without ennoying drums.

[AlienEater]

venetian snares are aesome

I really need more Venetian Snares

[Jawaharal]

2 Many Djs

[Liberi Fatali]

Could anyone suggest any dance, electronic music to me? I'd like something fast paced and I no NOTHING about the genre or it's artists. Thanks.
Make suggestions that fit to the description people.

You people listen to good electronic music, but you suck at advising. :p

[niobium]

I need me some Juno Reactor. Higher Ground is a good song (on the PS2 game Frequency). Any good starter albums?

[Amit]

i love labyrinth :-)

[Zappa]

I think the word "ambient" has been bastardized.

I mean, when Shpongle can be described as "ambient" it basically just means "soft."

[Amit]

haha nice avatar

and no shpongle isn't soft at all but they definitely have characteristics that make it ambient psy

[TojesDolan]

GUYS WOULD YOU MIND TELLING ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSICS PLEASE

[dei]

I don't know about all the different types of electronic dance music, and it would take quite a while to explain them properly without dumbing everything down. It looks like you're gonna need to research this on your own, guy. That's why God made the internet. He also made it so that we could easily share our favorite pron.

[dobey]

New to the sight but not to electronic music, i'v been playing Drum&Bass for about 9yrs and i have my latest cd out just go to http://techmdobey.tradebit.com for the full free download.


Let me know what you think.

[Amit]

GUYS WOULD YOU MIND TELLING ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSICS PLEASE

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

[Iai]

hallucinogen, astral projection, and juno reactor are all good picks for the threadstarter
Funnily enough, they're the three I was thinking of.

haha nice avatar

and no shpongle isn't soft at all but they definitely have characteristics that make it ambient psy

Only on their first album really.

[Amit]

i thought their second album too :>

[TojesDolan]

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html
Thanks a lot. :)

[Iai]

I don't know. The second album makes more of a move towards pop hooks and more regimented song structure, which to me negates any idea of ambience. The point of ambient music is that you should barely notice it, and hooks are, by definition, things that grab our attention. Tales Of The Inexpressible has a stack of them where Are You Shpongled? didn't.

[Amit]

steve reich and harold budd definitely grab my attention :-(

[Iai]

What's Steve Reich done that's meant to be ambient?

[Amit]

music for 18 musicians

or really any of his large ensemble works for hat matter

'Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.'

that sounds rather different from "you should barely notice it"

[Iai]

Wikipedia ftw

'Wallpaper music'. That's the key term. It should be entirely subconscious, and affect your perception of your surroundings without you realising it - that's the very definition of the word 'ambience'.

Don't forget Eno famously got offended at people actually listening to him at a few of his gigs.

[Amit]

i dunno man i must be listening to ambient music all wrong because there are many moments when i am most certainly listening consciously :D

but does it matter? i enjoy it anyway =)

haha i am no purveyor of brian eno trivia; i find his solo work too dull

but when he gets together with budd, fripp, or brook then sparks fly =)

[bleep_bloop]

i cant believe no one has mentioned squarepusher yet. check him out, he is most excellent.

[AlienEater]

Chris Clark is awesome. Not fast paced all the time, but often.

[bleep_bloop]

check out Go Plastic! by squarepusher if you want bpm envelope pushing madness

[Boxman]

cant believe someone said happy hardcore ftw... thats just wrong
happy hardcore is the bane of music, it is satan in audio

if you're into heavier music then check out some later Prodigy, earlier stuff to find some great oldskool rave tunes

Chemical Brothers are also really good, they can be very inyourface and also quite trancy, check out My Elastic Eye, its my favourite of the moment

and tangerine dream are fantastic electronic, if dance isnt your style

also a great website, www.pandora.com
put in a band that you like and it'll find and play tracks that are similar. fantastic

[AlienEater]

Venetian Snares is awesome.

Prodigy mainly sucks

[Boxman]

depends what you're into. their older stuff can get some getting used to, but the rhythms are genius

have to say my favourite stuff would have to be from Jilted Generation or the infamous Fat of the Land, quaility tunes
he took dance, he took hiphop beats and he took that metal edge and made something crazy good

[TheMisterBungle]

I really like Prodigy.
But then again, I haven't heard much.

[Yuzz]

Make suggestions that fit to the description people.

You people listen to good electronic music, but you suck at advising. :p

Hey you CAN dance to IDM its just a teeny-weeny bit schitzo

[Yuzz]

GUYS WOULD YOU MIND TELLING ME THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSICS PLEASE

That question is pretty ridiculous as there are so many different genres and sub-genres (ranging from drone/ambient to 1000BPM speedcore and gabba) and every man and his dog theses days uses different words to describe the different styles and subtleties between artists and genre. So even if someone actually knew all the different kinds of electronic music (which I doubt most people do as they tend to get stuck into one sub-genre) then there explanations would probably differ to other peoples.

Here is a great website I have found that displays the inept pedanticism that is electronic music - it has every genre and sub-genre as well as histories, examples and how they relate to other genres/sub-genres.

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html

Its the closest thing I think you will find to answer your question.

[Montana]

Could anyone suggest any dance, electronic music to me? I'd like something fast paced and I no NOTHING about the genre or it's artists. Thanks.

You will like Ghostland Observatory. They are a great electronic/rock/dance duo from Austin, Texas. "Piano Man" "Shoot 'Em High" "Sad Sad City" "Best Won't Do" are some of my favorite tracks of theirs. you can hear some songs on their myspace page:
http://myspace.com/ghostlandobservatory

[Yuzz]

Monster Zoku Onsomb! (the exclamation mark is party of their name)

Insanely danceable psycho-Drum and Bass group from Brisbane, Australia. Great DJ (The Nam Shubb of Enki) and three singer/dancers who really get into there neo-burlesque showman/woman-ship.

The just completed a European tour and have released 3 full length albums so it should be easy to find their stuff.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

[Hebrew Hammer]

Boards of Canada
Kraftwerk

Meh. I'm not sure if these two occupy the same genre that everyone's talking about, but, nevertheless, they are very good. Check out The Campfire Headphase and Music Has The Right to Children by BoC, and Autobahn, Die Mensch-Maschine, and Trans-Europa Express by Kraftwerk.

[2muchket!]

I'd suggest Mad Capsule Markets there one of my favourite bands and the later stuff is a mash up of jap techno, rap, metal and punk.

Can't go wrong with a bit of DJ Hixxy, DJ Tiesto, Faithless etc.

[Mister Groovy]

Oh man, I forgot all about Kraftwerk. They're pretty awesome. Very chill.

[ronjonsurf21]

I like to play some Prodigy now and then. Besides that Someone over at Marian Records leaked this track and it is killer! You can download it here, and I got a huge crowd response from it in my set last weekend. Has anyone else herd of anything else from this group? I checked Marian’s page and couldn’t find anything?


Download: http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/129124/01--I-Just--Died-In-Your-Arms--Radio--mp3.html

[Mister Groovy]

Nobody like advertising

[Yuzz]

Can't go wrong with a bit of DJ Hixxy, DJ Tiesto, Faithless etc.

Yes you can...very, very wrong - STAY AWAY IT IS NOT MUSIC, IT IS TURD ON ICE!

[Yuzz]

The Nam Shub of Enki in particular his joint album with Kiki.Ill called In The Valley Of Mood - MEGAPHAT beats!