Learning about electronic music
Hello there people!
I was always an "only rock guy". I know a lot about rock from punk to hard rock. I love 90's rock. I always said that electronic music was not form. But since some years I like a lot electronic music.
Problem is that my head is full of rock, and I want to start learning about all related to electronic. So, I started to listen some artist, but I would like to have some suggestions to what is the core of the electronic music.
I'm listen you!
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imho, that is a very hard question to answer as electronic music is just as wide and varied as rock.
One suggestion:
Go here: https://www.beatport.com/
Listen to multiple different genres until you start vibing one of them more than the others.
Listen to many more artists in that genre.
Don't hate on the other genres just because you do not like them as much - we all have different tastes.
Make as much music as possible and have as much fun doing it as possible.
Oh sorry, my english is not enough good to make the question, so here it goes again:
What artist do you recomend to listen to start building a playlist in my head. I mean, create electronic culture on me. I have that on rock, I can speak for hours about it
It might be more difficult to recommend a random artist in all of “electronic” music than in all of rock music. I recommend getting on Spotify and listening to their playlists for things. Can you give me at least one song or artist that you definitely like and want to hear more like them? Or do you know any styles you like? I’m a drum & bass fanatic, but I also like electro, dance, disco, house, hip hop, etc. etc.
If you want to listen to the core of electronic music, listen to Mozart, Beethoven, Bach etc, Einaudi is a great choice too, once you have an appreciation for classical, move to soundtracks, work your way back from modern to the 50s, make sure you check out covers of soundtracks as well as the orignals, Italian soundtracks of the 60s are a particular boon, once you have an appreciation for the soundtracks, listen to dancefloor music from the mid 70s until today
70s Disco
80s Electropop
90s Terrible pop rave
00s Terrible x factor crap
Once you have an appreciation for popular dance culture, start listening to the underground dancefloor culture from the mid 80s to the 2000s.
Electro HipHop
Acid House
Garage
Hardcore
Techno
Jungle
Gabba
DnB
Once you have an appreciation for those, move on to the current throw the kitchen sink at it processed dance genres..............
As you see t can go on and on, who exactly do you like ?
Listen to Kraftwerk.
Listening to the first 10 years of Warp records is a pretty good education.
Includes Aphex Twin, Autechre, Plaid, Boards of Canada, LFO, Squarepusher, etc.
Lots of good releases in 1997/98 if you don't have time to start at the beginning
Go back through the Resident Advisor album reviews and have a listen. So many great releases over the years.
I know Mozzart, Bach and Bethoven, and many others, I'm a musician after all and my daughter is pianist so classic is something exist in my family for years. Maybe you could just say "listen to that artist, I like it"... I asked for recommendations
@tk32 that's a good starting point, thanks!
@GusGranite checking right now, looks nice!
The point of my post was to show the vastness of "Electronic music" as you call it, you have given no indication of the the type of "Electronic music" you have interest in, you just say "Electronic" which basically covers every form of music recorded since the 1950s, rock is "Electronic' unless it is acoustic, so give a bit more insight.
Yes, but because we are mature people, we can think and say, as others said before, what do you like. Man, I'm asking for recomendations, not to get a degree in electronic music
Ok im done, listen to the battles here, thats good enough, good luck
In a more abstract way 5pin is of course correct, but it's a little too 'meta' for what was asked
Besides, nothing upsets people quicker (myself included) than when you point out the fallacy in their line of questioning.
I hope @amunocis gets both some straightforward recommendations from this thread.. and some more intellectual food for thought too
All I'm saying is Gödel, Escher, Bach
It isnt fallacy, just too wide ranging, which was my point, example.....
I really got used to living inside a bubble most my life because i had a breathing deficiency, they cured me and now i love oxygen (oh dont forget to listen to JMJ by the way) please recommend me the best oxygen to go and breath.
The question itself needs some qualifiers...
Im getting in to electronic stuff, loving stuff with synthesized beats.
Im getting in to electronic stuff, loving those detuned sort of lead sounds.
Im getting in to electronic stuff, really loving the pumping basslines.
Etc etc etc.
I dont really want to point him to all the Neuro im in to, for him to hate it, when he could say "Loving slower stuff with chopped vocals" ok go check out early todd edwards.
But ok, ill play
Noisia
Diode
Stakka and skynet
RAM records
Audio
DJ Hazzard
Aphrodite
Roughneck Records
Midtown Records
Stay up forever collective
NWA
Jungle brothers
Run DMC
Hijack (hiphop, not the dance garbage)
Kamanchi Sly
Gunshot
All Britcore in fact
Schooly D
Ghetto boys
Jean Michel Jarre
Meco
Queens soundtrack work
That will do for now, go learn.
Tuff crew
World class reckin cru
King Bee
Magic Mike (miami, not the film)
Scratch pickles
Dr octagon
Scratch perverts
Mixmaster mike
Force Mass Motion
Prodigy
Nile rogers
Bomb da bass
William Orbit
Massive attack
Eurythmics
More to follow
And be sure to let us know what you liked after you listen to all this music hahaha
On the DNB tip lately I’ve been really about Culture Shock, Rockwell, Dawn Wall, Dimension, and we’ll heres my playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/user/djronji/playlist/1a9LWKfzoKpCeuxgY9MfCY?si=0jCNINAVQHWFQcvhj96pkQ
If you live in Chile I would recommend INDURA (http://www.indura.cl/web/cl), since is a company with 50 years, and all the hospitals use their products in Chile. But I think you live in GB.
That's an answer
Also completely proved my point
Ok, I'm done
Why ?
There is a huge list of music given, are you not even going to listen to any of it ?
Can everybody stop being 'done'.
Please.
Dun da dun dun dun.
Ewwwww Walter/Wendy great call !!! (Especially Tron)
That will even get you a pass for Vanilla Ice lol.
Karlheinz Stockhausen.
(Mic drop)
John Cage
Delia Derbyshire
BBC Radiophonic Workshop
White Noise (UK band)
United States of America (US band)
Raymond Scott (Soothing sounds for baby, etc.)
(Note - this is not a response to @MSandoval's question, that would take me longer to figure out
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Not just because it fits perfectly with the question, but because it is awesome too, probably War of the worlds, not strictly electronic, but good enough.
Reload - A Collection of Short Stories.
There’s a Cornish connection to this so have been playing it since the first day I heard the demo tape back in my yout’!
Yeah Jeff wayne
Fuck yeah war of the worlds!! What an album!!
Double brand new original pressings, can't wait to get my sonic vinyl cleaner and encode one of them up.
There was a live show rework a few years back, you can get the DVD, i need to get it, it's supposed to be off the chain.