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Of course, all this is part of what makes it so great. A rave classic should be slightly embarassing, that's part of what makes it so exciting. 'Energy Flash' is almost tasteful and was still very close to traditional detroit/new york/chicago house, whereas JBiD was something totally new, the...

Hmm, I saw Virus Syndicate with Mark One live this summer, and it was a total rave thing, totally dance music, everybody going berserk on the floor. The three MCs, even when doing the narrative 'hits' from the album, still functioned as classic rave-intensifiers rather that storytellers. Back...

The thing about 'James Brown is Dead' is that it was such a revelation, nothing had sounded so massive and scary and brutally empty before. When I listen back to tracks like 'Energy Flash' and 'Mentasm' today, they sound rather dated. I mean, I can hear why they were influential and important...

I think 'Dummy' and Portishead are responsible for some of the worst things in 90s music: the cult of all things cinematic and the fetishization of "cool"-soundtrack atmospherics. And they made a lot of rock critics able to pretend they were into electronic music and sample culture without ever...

'James Brown is Dead' is still the best track ever.

Well, there's no grime pirates where I live, but I nevertheless feel something similar, because grime 12"s are so obviously dj-tools. In early rave you had lots of labels with exciting profiles - great cultish design and artwork and an almost narrative aspect (Reinforced, PCP, UR, Suburban Base)...

Ehm, yes, that was my point... there'll be more short lived threads on the last pages because they stop pretty fast.

About the statistics: If I'm not mistaken, the threads of the first pages are not just the most recent ones, but also the most active ones, so the majority of short lived threads (grime or otherwise) would probably be on the last pages. It seems to me that a lot of the grime threads are about...

That's one great album. Other personal favorites include Walter Carlos soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange, and an odd one called "Everything You Allways Wanted to Hear on the Moog (but were afraid to ask for)", which is really silly. One of the first electronic records I ever got, and the first...

Player pianos and automatic organs etc, was simply the worlds first sequencers. It's strange nobody used them to make "impossible" stuff before Nancarow.

As mentioned elsewhere, that wasn't Europe but Opus, but they did cover Europes "The Final Countdown" on the album Nato - my choice for the greatest cover album ever.

They're not (well, I don't know Kancheli, but the others are not). I'm becoming more and more fond of Lutoslawski all the time. His stuff is so strange. As for the pre war composers... what about Leos Janacek? The most underrated of them all, totally idiosyncratic and yet totally listenable.

Yeah, that's good stuff (both Stimmung and Hykes). Hykes is part of a tradition of minimal and drone-like music within the most serious/academic end of new age... Stephan Micus and Peter Michal Hamel in particular worth mentioning here. There's also lots of (church) organ composers doing similar...

Hans Werner Henze was into the greek tragedy thing as well as communism.

The Strauss family Leopold and WA Mozart Maurice and Jean Michel Jarre Mike, Sally and Terry Oldfield The later incarnations of Tangerine Dream with Jerome Froese joining his father Brian and Roger Eno Cem and Can Oral (Jammin Unit and Khan) Poka and Stella Michelson ...and there's plenty of...

That's why I love them. But claiming that they're somehow similar makes me wonder if you have even heard Pornography. Faith, surely, is a completely empty monochrome, but Pornography is full of dizzy, labyrinthine detail, really psychedelic.

Pretty much the entire Edelweiss album.

This reminds me of something Martin Damm have said in several interviews: that back then it was actually much easier to earn a living from producing techno, because there were still so few doing it, that you were simply sure to sell a lot just by releasing it.

There's so many rave/techno/electronica/etc. tracks that are directly (through samples or the title) videogame-influenced, that I wouldn't even know where to start looking for them in my collection. Rather, I'd like to point out that huge amounts of 90s techno, and especially rave styles like...

I thought of this one too, but it's not the one. It doesn't have the samples mentioned, only one that goes "thank you for your cooperation". 9-10-Boy was Tanith and Mijk van Dijk, and on Taniths previous record for the Bash-label he had a robocop-themed trakc too, called "5 Seconds 2...