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Good choice, that's pretty much their masterpiece. If anyone think there's something guilty about that they're obviously just snobs. Sure, it have aged (those vocals), but it' still absolutely great! The Initial Command is the one to get, has a much more minimal feel and less vocals, sounds...

are the times finally changeing? Amazing detail in Simon Reynolds Slate piece on Hot Chip and Scritti Politti: "This cruel dilemma—fidelity versus mutation—has convulsed British music repeatedly over the decades: from the schisms of trad jazz vs. free jazz, to blues purism vs. progressives, to...

My reply above is to foret, not gek, if anyone should be in doubt.

So for something to be glitch, it has to use sounds that actually are glitches, rather than just sounding like it? But where to draw the line? Does it have to be sampled from skipping/damaged sources, or is it enough to simply misuse software, abuse it so it makes "wrong" sounds ("glitches")...

'After the Heat' is indeed a good choice, I must admit that I'm pretty surprised that some people here call it non-essential and patchy, I'd say it's one of the best things any of the involved parts - Eno, Roedelius, Moebius, Plank, Czuckay - have ever done. Where 'Cluster and Eno' is very much...

Jegas "Geometry" is one of the greatest and most underrated glitch-albums out there, like the "Frequencies" of post-Autechre electronica. But maybe it's too melodic and electro-rhythmic to be true glitch? I've allways preferred when glitches was used simply as a sound source, a means to an end...

I recently got Danielle Dax' "Jesus Egg that Wept" (1984) and can highly recommend it, one of the best 80s obscurities I've encoutered for a while. The best way to sum it up is probably that it sits somewhere between Kate Bush and The Residents, without really sounding like any of them.

I think you're spot on about the self-fulfilling prophecy at work here. It seems to me that the point where this really started to rot was when the established music media didn't manage to handle the inventions and innovative broadness of rave culture, and classified it all as part of the very...

I was dissapointed by Pink Flag in more or less the same way. It does improve with repeated listenings, but it's nowhere nearly as good as Chairs Missing and 154, which are among the very best post punk albums. Colin Newmans solo A-Z is just as good BTW, don't miss that one either. Their late...

Strange that this type of cover have become so associated with prog nowadays, prog covers of the seventies were so odd, and so much better. It's also a Rush kinda thing, isn't it? And used on a lot of neo prog like Spocks Beard I think, and prog metal crossover stuff. Now Tarkus, THAT was a cover.

Ah yes, my mistake. Heck, I've been arguing about this exact point all thread. And of course, it makes the lack of historic material much, much worse.

You're pretty close already. In some ways it was the european equivalent of early chicago house; a chrysalis in which disco hibernated until acid/house/rave opened up new ways for it.

The lack of Kraftwerk have been noticed several times in this thread actually. But as I wrote, there isn't included anything before the late eighties house explosion (what's the earliest one on the list? KLF?), so I guess that's a deliberate choice they've made. If it isn't, and they really...

and That's actually a very, very interesting point. We often forget the rest of music history when we talk about the horrors of the current mp3-revolution. When the first means to record sound came out, a lot of serious aesthetes were deeply disturbed by it, thought it took away the soul of the...

Don't worry, I wasn't really going to kill him. Yeah, there's a few pleasant surprises here and there, but a lot of it is just crossover-albums for people not really into this music in the first place - stuff that certainly was "massive" when it came out, but didn't have much relevance in the...

I wouldn't say it stinks, but it certainly is uneven. I wouldn't think many people really remember it anymore. What I don't understand is how they can think that it' the most influential dance album of all time. If they claimed it was the best then all right, I suppose that's just their lame...

We had this related thread some time ago: www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=1118

I think it could be argued that there actually is a small micro-lineage showing the Silver Apple-genes potential for development: Silver Apples --> Suicide --> Sigue Sigue Sputnik. They all share this odd funklesness of the beats and sequencers, a detatched linearity that has none of discos...

This reminds me a lot of one of the things Adorne attacks Wagner for - that the so called "infinite melody" is actually not going anywhere at all, or rather, going in circles, returning to its starting point. And that Wagner is exactly using the same strategy as advertisers - getting people...

For the most minimal forms of techno - what edward called "1 to the floor" - you could argue that there isn't a time signature at all! Still, when programming a drum machine like the 909 or 808, you'll usually get snare/clap/hi hat-patterns clearly creating a 4/4-signature, simply because...