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Well, there's always the SID-station (www.sidstation.com). Even though it's built on a chip from the early eighties, it still has huge, untapped potentials and still sounds fresh and strange and like nothing else. So much can be done with it's weird internal loops. It's clearly not what you're...

Um, I wouldn't really say that. There's only two records from DHR (Busterman and de Babalon), and they're both rather atypical. Maybe Harmdasher could count as well, even though Catani released it on his own Spite label. It's certainly the most DHR-sounding on the list. His best, and the best...

Well, without going too much into detail (I'll never be satisfied with the ranking anyway), my favorite "dance"-albums of the 90s: 1. Biochip C: Biocalypse 2. The Mover: Frontal Sickeness (1+2 double pack) 3. Alec Empire: Limited Editions 1990-94 4. Spicelab: Spy vs. Spice 5. Like A Tim...

Could any of you guys elaborate a bit on what's so wrong with it? How does it differ from their previous stuff? I liked Benjamenta, but still don't think it's quite as good as the shorts, the Quay magic doesn't translate all that well to longer works I guess. The same with Svankmajer too, to...

Indeed, I've never been able to make up my mind which is his best, One or Sketchbook. Req should be the beginning of a new genre, not trip hop but post hop.

Yes had all the idyllic back-to-nature covers, not to mention Jon Andersons lyrics, but in terms of the music, there's nothing bucolic about it to my ears. What makes it "alien" and sounding like nothing before? Well, first of all I'd say just listen to it, it's so obvious! But basically it's...

Also: Overcasts "3PM Eternal", now that's sampladelia done right.

Where is Req placed in all this? I'd suppose that he is usually seen as part of the sampladelia thing, making sample-heavy, old skool hip hop-referencing beat collages on Skint, but to me he sounds very much like the beginning of hauntology more than anything.

Ever since punk made all things prog forbidden, people have been classifying the prog they like as something else (RIO, art rock, kraut...). It seems to me that most people are defining prog by the punk prejudices, rather than looking at the movement as it happened back then. There's lots of...

Well, how long ago is it that you heard most of the "classic" prog acts? And how much did you actually listen to them? Groups like, say, Yes, King Crimson, Magma, Henry Cow, and Soft Machine (fusion?) didn't share any set of musical conventions (each developed their own over a series of albums)...

How much prog have you actually heard, gek? Your idea of it sounds just like the usual myths and prejudices. Prog was so many different things, and a lot of it sounded nothing like rock at all and was definitely opening doors. Again and again I'm surprised how much Yes sounds like a hippe...

The funny thing is that he actually did make a pop record - "Bass Girl" - with soft and dreamy electronic cover versions of old doo wop tracks and the like, and with Gina v. D'Orio of Ec8or and Cobra Killer on vocals! It sounds nothing like you'd think a collaboration between those two would...

Trance producers getting minimal: Thomas P. Heckmann/Drax, definitely. He made some early, defining trance anthems like "Amphetamine", but made very minimal, Christian Vogel-ish stuff later. And later still he made retro-EBM. Don't know what his doing now. Oliver Lieb got minimal later on as...

Very interesting. I'm always pointing out that the german EBM-scene used the word techno to describe their music at this time, but I've never heard about this before. Anywhere I can get more info?

We got into a lot of this in an old thread: http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3044

Please not this again. A definition of techno that makes it all about what detroit put into it it, also makes it one of the smallest, least innovative and most boring and inhibited genres of music that have ever existed. Detroit is just another piece of the puzzle that lead to the 90s explosion...

Collage? Or is that more of a dada-technique too? I've always thought Pere Ubus "Song of the Bailing Man" (the Ubu album everybody except me hates) is a totally surrealist record, in text as well as music.

Interesting how new age seem to be the one genre that there's absolutely no objective interest in or serious discussion of. Everybody agree that it's not as much crap by definition as it is the definition itself of (a particular kind of) crap. Why not accept that the fine line is simply a line...

Laurie Anderson Req (did a lot of covers for Mo Wax)

I once heard a trance version of Japan's "Ghosts". The melancholic aspect of trance, at least to some degree, comes from the EBM roots. The german trance scene originally developed more or less out of EBM, many of the producers had been part of that eighties german scene (they actually called...