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Top 5 Electronic Tracks of all Time..


Andyreww

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Following on from the Pioneers of electronic Music thread:

 

http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=64883

 

How about your top 5 Electronic Tracks of all time?

 

Here's mine:

 

New Order - Blue Monday (Original - 12" Version)

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The Orb - Huge Ever Pulsating..... (Orbital Dance Mix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOjjkcOMNcc

Orbital - Chime

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Leftfield - Not Forgotten (Hard Hands MIx)

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Jean Michelle Jarre - Revolution http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6A-AWkLQk

 

Although not 'original' / Not fully electronic - Sky Toccata would be next...

 

Sky - Toccata

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(Edited - Following divine intervention)

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The most impressive I ever heard is Hurdy Hurry by Phill Niblock:

 

http://www.we7.com/#/song/PHILL-NIBLOCK/Hurdy-Hurry

 

It doesn't have quite the same effect on my home stereo, but when it was played to us through a PA when I was at music college it created amazing psycho-acoustic effects, including me (and a few others) hearing whispering, chattering voices, like demons were talking in my ears. Very few students made it to the end of the recording, and one girl very nearly had a panic attack. THAT is powerful music!

 

Also, any track from Tangerine Dream's "Electronic Meditation" album:

 

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=%22tangerine+dream%22+%22electronic+meditation%22&uni=1

 

And anything from their album "Zeit":

 

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22tangerine+dream%22+zeit&aq=f

 

Plus the whole "entroducing" album by DJ Shadow, here's track 1, the rest are close-by in the side-bar:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5X0HaHZlss

 

Sort of less, and more than, five... but hey :P

 

EDIT: @Andyreww: Your Orbital link is just the Orb link again. Edit that sucka!

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The top two comments on that YouTube page say it all about their fans :lol:

 

Nature vs Nurture at work - I was 6yrs and easily influenced by my parents taste in music.....I'll recover...

 

Andy

 

I know what you mean, I'm cursed with a penchant for Neil Diamond :cry:

 

And, not wanting to harp-on about Tangerine Dream TOO much, but Orbital always remind me of a simpler, more dancy reworking of their 1983 album "Hyperborea". Particularly this tune:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgISgf03JAw

 

I didn't hear it till the 90s, but it must have sounded like it was sent from the future at the time :shock:

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And, not wanting to harp-on about Tangerine Dream TOO much, but Orbital always remind me of a simpler, more dancy reworking of their 1983 album "Hyperborea". Particularly this tune

 

I've been listening to their tracks since the Pioneers post - very progressive for their time. I'm thinking about asking Santa is he can bring me a CD.

 

IMHO 808 State were ahead of their time at the end of the 80's. Their tracks had way more depth to them than the electronic dance music at the time. (Same with Orbital & Leftfield). They easily compare with dance tracks today....I guess that's where the word "Timeless" comes from.

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impossible to make a top five, for me....here's a sampler

 

 

squarepusher - port rhombus

 

 

edIT - ants

 

 

four tet - radiohead scatterbrain remix

 

 

dj shadow - you can't go home again

 

 

boards of canada - music is math

 

 

 

unkle ft radiohead - rabbit in your headlights

 

 

 

bjork - all is full of love

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boards of canada - music is math

 

 

I quite liked Boards of Canada when I first heard Geogaddi and Twoism, but after a short while I found their constant use of slow pitch modulation was masking quite dull music... for me anyways... maybe I should give them another listen...

 

All your other choices were prime though!

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boards of canada - music is math

 

 

I quite liked Boards of Canada when I first heard Geogaddi and Twoism, but after a short while I found their constant use of slow pitch modulation was masking quite dull music... for me anyways... maybe I should give them another listen...

 

All your other choices were prime though!

 

it all went 'tits up', when they rented their studio to someone who thought it would be doing them a favour to fix the reel-to-reel machine :D

 

i do know what you mean..it's way overused.....i do like some of their stripped back compositions, though, like 'olsen' 'bocuma' and 'kaini industries' (all from 'music has the right to children') but it doesn't get me like some of the more intricate edits of artists like 'squarepusher', 'edIT' and 'prefuse'73'....i like music that i have no clue where to start, imitating....

 

i am about to launch myself into 'reaktor', so who knows

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  • 2 weeks later...

Extremely hard to answer, but my rotating five would probably be (based on crowd reactions and goosepumps when played):

 

Goldie - Inner City Life (Rabbit in the Moon Extended Mix)

 

Radiohead - Everything in it's right place (Hybrid Mix)

 

Lusine - Make it Easy

 

HiFi Bugs - Lydian and the Dinosaur

 

Leftfield - Song of Life

 

Others that sneak into the list periodically:

 

Narcotik - Blue

 

Orbital - Belfast

 

Danny Tenaglia - Elements

 

Roni Size / Reprazent - Brown Paper Bag

 

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

 

the list goes on and on and on.....

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