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Dissensus crew - I need to harness your music list-making powers for a moment. The problem is this: I'm a TA this term for a course on Western popular music since 1945 and I've been asked to present the final lecture on electronic music. 3 hours to distill 25 years worth of accelerated music culture. Obviously I can't be nearly as comprehensive as I'd like to be but I'd like to make it as meaningful as possible.
Each week we'll be giving the students a list of 5 or 6 tracks to listen to before class. This is the listening list I was given for "Modern popular electronic music" week:
1. Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator 1981
2. Juan Atkins/Model 500: No Ufos 1982
3. Anabolic Frolic: Euphoric State 2000
4. Massive Attack: Inertia Creeps 1998
5. Seefeel: Time To Find Me 1994
6. Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up 1997
Obviously there are problems here. Anabolic Frolic? No acid, ardkore, jungle, etc...? Seefeel rather than Aphex? And there will be no need to go as far back as Kraftwerk since we'll have had "Autobahn" a couple of weeks earlier.
So I'm looking for suggestions. If you had to (try to) sum up a quarter century of electronic music in 5 or 6 six tunes, what would they be? Would you pick quintessential examples of styles or tracks that signalled moments of transition and recombination?
Any thoughts would be well appreciated.
Each week we'll be giving the students a list of 5 or 6 tracks to listen to before class. This is the listening list I was given for "Modern popular electronic music" week:
1. Kraftwerk: Pocket Calculator 1981
2. Juan Atkins/Model 500: No Ufos 1982
3. Anabolic Frolic: Euphoric State 2000
4. Massive Attack: Inertia Creeps 1998
5. Seefeel: Time To Find Me 1994
6. Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up 1997
Obviously there are problems here. Anabolic Frolic? No acid, ardkore, jungle, etc...? Seefeel rather than Aphex? And there will be no need to go as far back as Kraftwerk since we'll have had "Autobahn" a couple of weeks earlier.
So I'm looking for suggestions. If you had to (try to) sum up a quarter century of electronic music in 5 or 6 six tunes, what would they be? Would you pick quintessential examples of styles or tracks that signalled moments of transition and recombination?
Any thoughts would be well appreciated.
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