Bleep - A Guide to Electronic Music

  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/

Thanks for the tip!

Not exactly what I was aiming for, but this is pretty awesome in its own right.

I missed out on a lot of cool tunes but the ones that count at least I found out about.

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:31 PM, Roksen Creek said:

  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!

I'm with you - would much rather hear ragas done with traditional instrumentation.

This comp cheeses out big time when it reaches the 80s!

  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?

LOL, seriously??????????

a guide to electronic music without Kraftwerk...

yeah, won't be getting this!

  On 6/22/2012 at 7:38 PM, Cryptowen 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.

every track would be from the early 90s

no. the mid-late 90's. get it right. hahaha

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:24 PM, crono3 said:

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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).

 

^ that just goes to show - warp these days/who they're employing/why they're putting out what they put out.

Only picking from the Bleep catalogue couldn't work from the start, but I'd love to see this fanmade here at WATMM!

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:10 PM, AnalogueCreamPie said:

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

Did you steal my ava bro???

Definitely some major omissions... No Wendy Carlos or Steve Reich? I guess at least they got Xenakis, Stockhausen, Perry and Cage in there, but yeah the list seems to fall flat on a few things. No Kraftwerk? No 90's big beat artists? (love it or hate it that shit blew up and helped open a lot more people up to electronic music).

No Tangerine Dream. Disgraceful.

The omission of Hugh Le Caine is a glaring one for me... I mean listen to this piece done entirely with a sample of a drop of water and tape machines in 1955 ffs! He did loads of stuff like this!

Tod Dockstader is another massive omission.

Tut tut.

  On 6/22/2012 at 9:07 PM, chenGOD said:

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:31 PM, Roksen Creek said:

  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!

 

I'm with you - would much rather hear ragas done with traditional instrumentation.

i agree as well when looking at this as a raga record. but as an acid record i can see why people dig it.

  On 6/23/2012 at 7:33 AM, Franciscus said:

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:10 PM, AnalogueCreamPie said:

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

Did you steal my ava bro???

Haha!! No... I noticed that after I'd updated my profile. Ya know what, you've been on here longer than me I'm gonna change mine.

  On 6/23/2012 at 6:38 PM, AnalogueCreamPie said:

  On 6/23/2012 at 7:33 AM, Franciscus said:

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:10 PM, AnalogueCreamPie said:

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

Did you steal my ava bro???

 

Haha!! No... I noticed that after I'd updated my profile. Ya know what, you've been on here longer than me I'm gonna change mine.

Cool!

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:31 PM, Roksen Creek said:

  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!

it's hipster bullshit

  On 6/23/2012 at 8:26 PM, vamos scorcho said:

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:31 PM, Roksen Creek said:

  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!

 

it's hipster bullshit

The inclusion of it is hipster bullshit. Intresting story and it sounds neat (imo) but it shouldn't be on the list. It's not important nor influencial, it's a historical curiousity. There are plenty of other examples of this, even beyond the realm of music. The ease of documenting and sharing such things produces all sorts of neat but inconsequential discoveries. At the most superficial it's "hey look American Civil War soldiers that look like Hollywood actors!" and at it's most sincere it's records like this.

If the internet wasn't around, a few people would know of it and maybe one would actually realize the 303 usage was unintentionally ahead of it's time. This album wouldn't even be on the list if it was made 5 years ago. This century has made almost everything in existence impossible to forget in some form or another. The rest of human history is surely full of far more significant losses of knowledge and artifacts in the past.

  On 6/23/2012 at 8:43 PM, joshuatx said:

The inclusion of it is hipster bullshit. Intresting story and it sounds neat (imo) but it shouldn't be on the list.

+1

  On 6/23/2012 at 6:46 PM, Franciscus said:

  On 6/23/2012 at 6:38 PM, AnalogueCreamPie said:

  On 6/23/2012 at 7:33 AM, Franciscus said:

  On 6/22/2012 at 8:10 PM, AnalogueCreamPie said:

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

Did you steal my ava bro???

 

Haha!! No... I noticed that after I'd updated my profile. Ya know what, you've been on here longer than me I'm gonna change mine.

Cool!

Think its still gonna have to be Drexciya though! :)

don't buy this. buy some food/drink instead.

it's ridiculous, the idea that people might pay for all these old tracks. you're a fucking idiot if you buy this.

  On 6/23/2012 at 11:30 PM, sirch said:

don't buy this. buy some food/drink instead.

it's ridiculous, the idea that people might pay for all these old tracks. you're a fucking idiot if you buy this.

hey man not everyone knows who aphex twin is or where he lives

lol

*Sitting with food & drink while listening to John Cage!*

  On 6/23/2012 at 11:30 PM, sirch said:

don't buy this. buy some food/drink instead.

it's ridiculous, the idea that people might pay for all these old tracks. you're a fucking idiot if you buy this.

I think thats a little cynical. You mean because you can download all these?? For free?? (and ILLEGALLY)!!

Some young dude getting into electronic music might wanna buy this to educate him/herself. I might not buy this now coz I've got a lot of the tracks anyway, but I would have bought this when I was a teenager, & I would have got a lot of enjoyment out of it.

I like the Sub Rosa a-chronology comps (or whatever they call them) for the tape/avant/concrete stuff and then of course for house and techno there's a million comps you could try. So yes, don’t buy this.