The Electronic Music Appreciation Thread

[mknell]

MM9 are sick, really like their new stuff, their older NuMetal stuff was pretty rubbish, but I've liked all their stuff since Prosthetic Blvd till now. Really cool

I love all their stuff, I've been a fan for quite a few years now, will you be heading to any upcomming shows?

[jacksplatt11]

Ahh yeah I'll be seeing them at Pyramid Rock over new years, and I already saw them once before earlier this year with Dead Letter Circus

[Doubledealer]

Love this song (In by Ambidextrous/Morkva) but just discovered this awesome video for it on youtube...Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0IfVokV60k

[jaydisc]

Cool thread. Yeah, Ulrich Schauss is beautiful music. I love nearly all electronic. I've been a classically trained pianists since the age of four, and have played numerous other instruments since, and even participated in a few professional orchestras in my teens (playing the French Horn ).

I've come to the conclusion that electronic music adds a proverbial third dimension to music. The true definition of music is something containing the following three parameters: Pitch, Volume and Timbre. While analog instruments are astonishly beautifully and diverse, they are finite in the timbres they can create. Electronic music has no such limits.

I had a massive multi-year fetish with Psytrance, went to lots of outdoor parties across Australia, specifically about 5 x Rainbow Serpent Festivals (the best!), a bunch of Earthcores and even the solar eclipse party in 2002 in the Adelaide desert. The Psytrance scene has an almost sister-like psychedelic chill scene, where many artists cross over, of which the king is Simon Posford. By himself, playing full-on (yet clever) psytrance, he is known as Hallucinogen, but with Raja Ram, they form the duo known as Shpongle.

Shpongle's Tales of the Inexpressible is what I call my "desert island" album. As in, if I was stuck on a desert island with only one album, this would be it. Musical, original, psychedelic, funky, diverse, everything! A truly musical, intellectual psychedelic feast!

[Doubledealer]

Shpongle is unreal! I'm sad to say I haven't been to too many psy-trance events - I would love to have gone to one of those Rainbow Serpent Festivals (is it still on these days?)! Have you ever seen Astrix play live, jay? Love that guys style.

[jaydisc]

Astrix, full-on Israeli. Unfortunately, no. But I had a phase where I was really into him and other similarly banging Israelis. I did win a contest where I got flown to the Victorian bush in a Cessna with a friend to see Alien Project, who was a friend/cohort/collaborator with Astrix. He ended up being a real jerk to the organisers, who were friends, and I lost the taste for him as a result.

Yeah, RSF still runs, but I didn't go this year. However, friends said best eva!

[jaydisc]

Did you know that Astrix is playing in Sydney on Friday and Melbourne on Saturday?

[Doubledealer]

Did you know that Astrix is playing in Sydney on Friday and Melbourne on Saturday?

Oh what, I had no idea! I really should look on inthemix.com.au more often...Ah well, at least I've still got Orbital to look forward to next week. You heading south to see Astrix?

[jaydisc]

No, my days of appreciation of the Israeli banging style of Psytrance have passed.

I'm much more appreciative of the proggy sounds you find in the morning.

[Doubledealer]

Has anyone else heard Underworld's new song? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHs8LxPepKU

Have to say, I'm loving it and hope this new album will be their best since Beaucoup Fish.

Also very much looking forward to Miami Horror in June and *gasp* AUTECHRE next Friday night in Sydney...What a dream come true. Cannot WAIT

So many great tunes in circulation at the moe, what funky beats is everyone else into these days?