Ennui Cookout
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There's a lot of seriously cool music in this thread. Big fan of prog, trip-hop and anything that at one point involved a synthesizer, especially what was coming out in the early to mid 80s. I will listen to A-Ha and OMD just because of the synths -- I have no shame.
My favorite stuff to get vaked to tends to be IDM/Intelligent Dance Music (guh, never liked that name for it) and more spastic things like breakcore. Not so much a fan of dubstep. I'm not really sure where to begin because to be honest, a lot of it gets well off into pretentious crazyland (which I enjoy, since I'm a total nerd) but a lot of folks have trouble distinguishing from random noise.
Anyway, if I had to pick a single IDM track to sorta throw at someone who never heard the genre before, would pick:
Plaid - Itsu
Itsu is a fun little track that isn't too horribly inaccessible and it has a really excellent video by Pleix who lately has been catching attention for their more recent video work.
I could probably go for hours and hours on and on about Autechre and Orbital, which are my two favorite electronic acts ever. I can strongly suggest a LaunchBox if you ever get a chance to see either of them live, which is easily better than listening to their albums, as amazing as they are.
Orbital in particular was just amazing when I saw them in San Fran last year, though this is a better clip:
Orbital - Doctor? (2010 Live at Glastonbury)
Yes, that's the current Doctor up on stage pretending he's part of their band while they cover the Doctor Who theme.
My favorite stuff to get vaked to tends to be IDM/Intelligent Dance Music (guh, never liked that name for it) and more spastic things like breakcore. Not so much a fan of dubstep. I'm not really sure where to begin because to be honest, a lot of it gets well off into pretentious crazyland (which I enjoy, since I'm a total nerd) but a lot of folks have trouble distinguishing from random noise.
Anyway, if I had to pick a single IDM track to sorta throw at someone who never heard the genre before, would pick:
Plaid - Itsu
Itsu is a fun little track that isn't too horribly inaccessible and it has a really excellent video by Pleix who lately has been catching attention for their more recent video work.
I could probably go for hours and hours on and on about Autechre and Orbital, which are my two favorite electronic acts ever. I can strongly suggest a LaunchBox if you ever get a chance to see either of them live, which is easily better than listening to their albums, as amazing as they are.
Orbital in particular was just amazing when I saw them in San Fran last year, though this is a better clip:
Orbital - Doctor? (2010 Live at Glastonbury)
Yes, that's the current Doctor up on stage pretending he's part of their band while they cover the Doctor Who theme.