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i cant stand enigma for the most part but this one i can tolerate

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSVbYVmhv4Q

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TppW925ukU

 

this is a badass track

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beaMRbOnKg0&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJp7bW3O8Lc&feature=related

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a-eWFSWf8A

 

one other i couldnt find on youtube is

 

Springintgut-Precursor (or whatever the track with Kazumi is)

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Those Vibert tracks - I just don't really... get. I recognise this is my failing, not the music's. I recognise that it's good, it just doesn't move me.

 

The other stuff I'm slowly listening through - it's kind of very much of its time, a lot of this stuff. As in, drifting off into early Trance land. I had a lot of time for Banco de Gaia and the like back in the 90s as chillout music. But these days a lot of that ethno-techno-bleeding-into-trance just sounds lazy. I always preferred the frankly mental and out-there Transglobal Underground stuff - and actually come to think of it bits of Natasha Atlas would probably go happily in this thread.

 

It's nice, it just makes me wish I still smoked pot, ha ha. Fila Brazillia I think is giving me flashbacks heh. Actually that's not entirely a bad thing, no not at all.

 

But it makes me realise that what I love about a lot of the stuff that I posted is actually that clockwork, that slightly handmade feel to it.

 

Still! Definitely on the right track and all have been interesting listens (though googling Starseeds brings up some quite wacky o_0 results)

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It's weird how many music snobs at the time told me I shouldn't listen to Kid A "because they're just ripping off Aphex and Autechre!"

I never understood this. They're using electronics so they're ripping off Aphex Twin and Autechre? LOL.

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I don't think Kid A is shit by any stretch.

 

Overhyped and in need of some critical reevaluation (i.e. NOT the album of the 00s by any stretch) but it's not - you know - a *Muse* album or anything. People talk like it reinvented rock or something and I'm sorry, but it just didn't.

 

I can see in the superficial approach to texture and electronic sounds that it might have been "influenced" (ooh that nebulous of words) by late 90s IDM. But it simply isn't within the same genre. Not a value judgement that, just an observation of the limits of genre boundaries.

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cross-post but YEESSSS!!!

 

this was one of my top 10 albums of 2009. It managed to capture that spooky, radiophonic, clockwork kind of feel like little else.

 

It's funny because I saw Broadcast quite a bit in the late 90s/early 00s and was tempted to write them off as simple Stereolab copyists but they've gone on a very different and very intriguing path of their own that did lead to some very interesting places.

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I've never heard of School of Seven Bells before but that half asleep song is awesome!

 

Ok I know you said not really electronic music that use guest vocals but DNTEL's Life is Full of Possibilities is only instrumental on half the tracks, the rest have vocals (all by different singers). This is the album that gave birth to The Postal Service who I also really like but DNTEL is better:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23PmvKXp7fY

 

It's probably one of the best albums ever made and you should own it anyway.

 

Also, a lot more obscure and probably a bit too cutesy for most WATMMites but I really like Astronaut Wife. Can't find anything on youtube, listen to clips on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucer-Astronaut-Wife/dp/B00008WI9V

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