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[Keiseth]

I haven't seen too much mention of (primarily) electronic music on the board, so I'm curious; who here likes electronic music? I'm using the term in an all-encompassing way; from trance to hardstyle, jumpstyle, IDM, breakcore, gabber, house, and so on.

Currently my favorite related artist is Venetian Snares, though I'm not so well-versed with these genres as much as I am ones like classic rock to the various flavors of metal. A friend of mine introduced me to most of the artists I know here, and I've enjoyed them immensely.

I'd have to say my favorite album by VSnares is Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett, and the song Szamar Madar: http://www.last.fm/music/Venetian+Snares/_/Szam%C3%A1r+Mad%C3%A1r   In my experience it's pretty hit-or-miss on whether people can get into that or not. It'd probably be easier to get into artists like Daft Punk, Rob Dougan, possibly Juno Reactor and so on.

Another really awesome artist I've discovered is Bankai. He's an "open-source" composer. According to the last.fm wiki, he releases the components of his music freely on his website. All of his work, to the best of my knowledge, is also freely available. I find that immensely awesome.

"Faun", off the album "Quarter Circle Punch" is the first I heard and my favorite. http://www.last.fm/music/Bankai/_/Faun   He's remixed songs like Yoko Kanno's "Tank!", the theme of The Lost Vikings and some others. (http://www.bankai.fm/ under Remixes)

Quite a few games have very excellent electronic or similar soundtracks as well. Off hand I particularly enjoyed Synaesthete, as well as its soundtrack.

So yeah, I'm curious if anyone here has an appreciation for the sort of music in general. There's a huge amount of diversity in musical taste on Bay 12, but I haven't seen many mentions of electronic things. Electronic is merely a slice of the many-topping pizza that makes up my musical interest, but it holds a special place in my stomach. It also gets the most pineapple on its side.

And pineapple is awesome.

[DennyTom]

Not exactly, what are you talking about, but I am a big fan of modern 8bit music. You know - something like 6 GameBoys, two Commodores 64 and one NES with custom software playing together.

I like 8bitpeoples, pornophonique and more.

[Armok]

That counts as "electronic music"... I guess that makes sense.
Chip tunes (I think that's what 8 bit and similar music is called? I have very little knowledge of music stuff.) are one of the few types of music I actually enjoy, my favourite is probably the Cave Story soundtrack, and the MSPA music is awesome as well.

[Lord Dakoth]

Dance electronic, Daft Punk for the win. Helmut Fritz is awesome too.

[Footkerchief]

When I listen to lyric-less electronic stuff it's usually ambient/downtempo.  I discovered Aphex Twin's Alberto Balsalm the other day and I love the crap out of it.  I'm not crazy about most 8-bit-influenced stuff, but Copy (Zipper Problems, Remembering Florida) is great.  On the poppier (electroclash?) side, I just got Fever Ray's self-titled album after getting Triangle Walks stuck in my head for like three weeks straight.

[Jude]

I don't listen to that much but Shpongle and Enigma are great. Enigma's I guess straight up trance? Shpongle I usually hear called psytrance or psy-ambient or something, but they're a lot of things. A lot of instruments and vocals as well. They were one of the artists where it took me 3-4 minutes of hearing one of their songs (in this case Dorset Perception) and I knew I was hooked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQyR-FXJCLk Dorset Perception

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0AD2AY9u6w Eppur Si Muove by Enigma

[Keiseth]

Chiptunes are electronic enough, but they're more of their own style; awesome of course, though. I think what I should have said was "electronic dance music" though I'm not sure who could dance to Venetian Snares.

Ah, how did I fail to mention Aphex Twin? Utterly fantastic artist. And I'm going to have to give Shpongle and Enigma a listen in a minute... excellent to hear there's some appreciation for the type here, though!

[Itnetlolor]

Aphex Twin is pretty awesome.

A couple trinkets that I have on my computer is some RJD2 and some DJ Shadow, plus a Samurai Champloo soundtrack (Mostly DJ Tsuchi). Some pretty nice tunes made by those guys. Heck, I have separate Pandora radio stations tuned to them; or at least, learned some of them through one of them. Speaking of Pandora, it's a shame they've been commercial-bombed.

Here's another interesting one. This guy mixes Youtube videos together into songs. Some pretty awesome stuff.

Here's the site: THRU YOU | Kutiman mixes Youtube

My favorite tracks have to be 1 and 3. 4 does have a crazy energy to it.

[carebear]

I like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfCEAz9LBsg

electronic/progressive or whatever.

[Nilocy]

I love my house music. Daft punk ftw indeed. Kraftwerk have to be mentioned as well. Zombie Nations good, but this is getting into DnB areas.

I really need to listen to Aphex twin.

Theres also the prodigy, which are truly amazing. On that note have you listened to Chase and Status's (another good electronic/dance band) remix on Invaders Must Die?

[SHAD0Wdump]

Heheh... This is my territory.

Gaming music? I've got a MASSIVE collection of tunes I listen to, so I can give you some examples.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRkkBJjlHj4 Isotoxin 1995 (UT99)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TCslzBeYOA The River of Souls (Turok 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHVVPq8GLFQ Sulferon (Unreal 2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM0xx94Q_Ik Track 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v2ceggOuWM Track 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwP_QNm12d4 Track 9 (Incoming)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy61r3Qkm6o Triage at Dawn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2nLPDAntRU Route to City 17 (Half Life 2 BETA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rqQe45BPJs PANTS (Orbital (Not a game))

And I've got a ton of other stuff...

[Siquo]

Theres also the prodigy, who were truly amazing.

Fixed that.

To the already awesome list of awesome music (and some I hadn't heard of yet) I'd like to add:

Once upon a time I was apparently a Goth.
What I listened, from industrial to EBM to goth to whatever, but still all "electronic":
Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Funker Vogt, :Wumpscut:, VNV Nation, Hocico, Das ich, Deine Lakeien, Die Krupps (metal/electronic) and no I don't/didn't listen to NiN.
A lot of crap was made in the genre, but also quite some gems.

[Footkerchief]

Oh, if we're talking music from the Unreal Engine games (by Alexander Brandon, mostly), I've got a couple classics to post.

Unreal: Sunspire (really picks up near the end)
Unreal Tournament: Mechanism Eight
Deus Ex: The Synapse

And finally something not from a game soundtrack, the amazing Mr. Tiddles by Sasha.

[KaelGotDwarves]

I'm shamelessly plugging my girlfriend. 

http://www.myspace.com/lirayin

I used to be into trance quite a bit, but now I listen to downtempo and house.

For anyone who wants to get into EDM - www.di.fm

Click on different genres.

[Mr Tk]

I'm not really into electronic music too much, but I do love the Animatrix soundtrack.