Bleep - A Guide to Electronic Music

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Bleep's guide to Electronic Music is a 55 track compilation charting the historical emergence of electronic music by looking at landmark tracks from the 1930s up to present day.

Our aim with this selection of music is to show the length and breadth of the medium, providing a snapshot of the genres forms and styles, and the development of the artform. Whilst there are omissions and compromises that we have had to make, we hope that we achieve our aims and we do some justice to the variety of music that we love.

This compilation developed out of a project to create a Facebook timeline charting the development of electronic music from the late 19th Century until now.

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OH SNAP! I'm listening to William's Mix by John Cage right now! I made a track for my next album that kinda resembles this... only with beats and other sounds and melodies!

Pretty shitty list

Good idea though

Not enough skinny jeans for you?

I kid brothaman! :)

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:15 PM, asymmetrical head said:

Not enough skinny jeans for you?

Haha, not nearly enough!

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:14 PM, Dan C said:

Pretty shitty list

 

Good idea though

Agreed although it's pretty much impossible to make a non-shitty list.

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:19 PM, sweepstakes said:

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:14 PM, Dan C said:

Pretty shitty list

 

Good idea though

Agreed although it's pretty much impossible to make a non-shitty list.

Yeah, but I'd be seriously interested to see what the WATMM collective could come up with.

Good guide to get people into electronic music I suppose. Although no Tangerine Dream and no Kraftwerk (regardless of how neat Bruce Haack was) seem like kind of major misses?

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:34 PM, goDel said:

Yeah, but I'd be seriously interested to see what the WATMM collective could come up with.

every track would be from the early 90s

Pink Floyd's On the run? (1973!)

Yeah... lack of Kraftwerk and Steve Reich is kind of odd. Being that they are pretty much big influences. Hell even early Orb and FSOL isn't there? A lot of omissions in the compilation, but a good listen none the less.

no raymond scott or wendy carlos = bad list

looks intereting.

Dont recognise a lot of them, dunno if thats good or bad.

kraftwerk is in the timeline

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:34 PM, goDel said:

Yeah, but I'd be seriously interested to see what the WATMM collective could come up with.

How 'bout this one from Awepittance - http://forum.watmm.com/topic/64556-fluorescent-grey-antique-electronic-synthesizer-greats-1955-1984-pt-1/

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:35 PM, chenGOD said:

Good guide to get people into electronic music I suppose. Although no Tangerine Dream and no Kraftwerk (regardless of how neat Bruce Haack was) seem like kind of major misses?

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:40 PM, asymmetrical head said:

Yeah... lack of Kraftwerk and Steve Reich is kind of odd. Being that they are pretty much big influences. Hell even early Orb and FSOL isn't there? A lot of omissions in the compilation, but a good listen none the less.

Yeah these are exactly the problems that would emerge in such a list attempt. Maybe licensing and ownership issues - i.e. those artists aren't in the Bleep catalog...

Nonetheless, looks like a good sampler. Probably excellent for people trying to find their way and what they like within electronic musics many genres and styles.

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:44 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:34 PM, goDel said:

Yeah, but I'd be seriously interested to see what the WATMM collective could come up with.

How 'bout this one from Awepittance - http://forum.watmm.c...1955-1984-pt-1/

Did he ever release the 1985 - ? yet? I think I remember him saying he was working on one.

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:40 PM, asymmetrical head said:

Yeah... lack of Kraftwerk and Steve Reich is kind of odd. Being that they are pretty much big influences. Hell even early Orb and FSOL isn't there? A lot of omissions in the compilation, but a good listen none the less.

No Wendy Carlos as well. This list could most definitely have been better. Not bad for being limited to using just the bleep digital catalog.

Am I missing something with Charanjit Singh?

Maybe because I'm from the same ethnic background as him, I can see past the mystique. All he did was take ragas, which are unbelievably beautiful and powerful in their original form, and mutilate them using the latest electronic equipment he could get hold of at the time, and put some disco beats in, the type that were extremely popular in Bollywood music at that time, and earlier. It sounds really tacky to me and I'm not surprised it flopped because I'm sure most Indians would find it tacky.

Is it because of the sound production? I guess that is quite impressive for the time.

Likely that Kraftwerk didn't allow one of their tracks to be used. I think Georgio Moroder should be on there too.

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Scottish duo, Boards of Canada, release their timeless debut on Warp Records and Skam. ‘Music Deserves The Right To Children’ receives rave reviews throughout the international music press - sparse melodies, analogue synthesizers and fragmented speech set the blueprint for one of electronic music’s best loved groups. ""Roygbiv” is an acronym for the sequence of hues in a rainbow. (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green Blue, Indigo ,Violet).

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:07 PM, Roksen Creek said:

Am I missing something with Charanjit Singh?

I think most of the hype boils down to OMG PREHISTORIC ACID because he used a 303 before it was cool

LOL... i read that too thinking WTH?

Ditto on Georgio.

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:26 PM, Cryptowen said:

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:07 PM, Roksen Creek said:

Am I missing something with Charanjit Singh?

I think most of the hype boils down to OMG PREHISTORIC ACID because he used a 303 before it was cool

Yeah, I thought that might be the case. It's quite embarassing really, the album to me is cringeworthy and he seems clueless in interviews. I bet he can't believe his luck!