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Oh come on people, this is getting pathetic. Do Simon have to approve of something before you can buy it? How about using your own ears. Recommendations are fine, but they should help you to get ideas of what to check out, not tell you what to like. I haven't got the book yet, but from the...

Yeah, there were also Grauzone. And wasn't Honegger (the composer) swiss too? Didn't know Weltraumforscher was swiss though, I always thought they were one of thouse odd things from Hamburg... Well... there was Vangelis. A lot of people would probably put him on the minus side. I'm not one of...

I actually have a lp from an italian rock group called The Birdmen of Alcatraz, and it's bloody brilliant.

No, apart from that it was also: Leos Janacek, for my money the greatest of all the great east european folk-meets-quirky-modern-classical composers. Jiri Stivin & Rudolf Dasek, the most bizarre jazz duo you'll ever hear. Zdanek Liska, composer of the strange and beautyful music in many Jan...

Stanislaw Lem: Mortal Engines + Memoirs found in a Bathtub Hermann Ebeling: Daisy Day James Morrow: Continent of Lies Ilf and Petrov: 12 Chairs Gogol A H Kohl: Mikrobernes Palas (don't think this one exist in english though)

No, I like them both, and especially Ende Neu, which could be my favorite Neubauten ever. ½ Mensch will probably allways win for me in the end, though. Never got around 'Silence', but Perpetuum Mobile is fabulous, one of the best albums of last year for sure. What post rock really should be.

Christoph was never very productive. But maybe that's a good thing, I think he stopped because he didn't have much more to say... somehow his vision crystalized with If You're Into It I'm Out of It, and I really respect that he didn't just release a lot of reruns of that. (Of course I'm only...

You could say that Empire and Biochip C was pretty much the only non-english artists to make 100% original contributions to break beat rave prior to the jungle breakthrough. They actually made a split/remix-each-other-EP called Das Duell, containing what could be my all time favorite breakbeat...

Yes yes yes!!! Empires five albums for Mille Plateaux are some of the greatest musical treasures of the nineties. My personal favorites are the first two, and Limited Editions in particular... it's so otherworldly strange and sad and dream-like... in a way everything Aphex' Selected Ambient...

No, not really. I've heard a lot of people calling him the best of DHR, and I've never understood why - I have the Shizou vs. Shizor album, and I actually find it a bit boring. And I'm especially puzzled by all this when I think of the total lack of recognition of the real underrated DHR-genius...

Yeah, but this is a thing that really puzzles me. I just can't see why Schönberg should be more difficult or less enjoyable than Varese and Xenakis. I don't have the analytical knowledge to distinguish between a 12 note composition and one of some stochastic method or one of pure "noisemaking" -...

You seem to be confusing convergent evolution with influence here. Do you really think hip hop producers have heard Ives, or modern pop musicians Russolo? Well, maybe a few, but the music certainly developed the way it did independent of that particular past... especially when it's so difficult...

Isn't Schönberg the original austro-german spelling? I have at least two records where it's spelled that way. I doubt anyone would question the variety of new creativity at the beginning of the century. But let's assume the futurists and noisemakers had the same kind of exposure, cultish...

Through the rambler blog I got around this interesting critique of the status of 12 note composition in music history: http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/archives20050301.shtml#98286 Now, I basically agree with the main point - that 12 note music is more a cult of technique than the heroic...

It's a sony.

I've had no problems with mine, and I've had it for years now... and it was even bought second hand. Well, the remote broke when I stepped on it, but no problems except for that. Still use my walkman as well.

Well, I don't know what oz dmc is, but I know he once won some kind of DJ/mixing/scratching contest... is that it? Not really sure about bezerker, don't think I've heard him... but there's lots of hard/speed/noise/break/acid-core in Australia - the Hardliner label, System Corrupt, Null Object...

I actually always thought that the free teknivals was playing the straightforward "hardtek"-stuff rather than the weirdness. Don't know how big the catacomb parties actually were... maybe that was music nerds too... Some activity definitely still going on though, it seems Stella Michelson and La...

Well, both Bounty Killer tracks are on the Nine Deadly Venoms album, and if anything it's the other way round... the one with the measly thousand dollars is the first, and the second is more spooky. There's no "stay real close"-sample on it though.

But isn't this because you equate the techno scene with the british techno scene? I think a german could say something like "well, the british had their own little thing going, but they didn't make any impact on the techno scene per se until '92", because very little british music filtered into...