And you're making a serious misjudgment of my character if you think prog is the only music I listen too. But then again, I don't really give a what you think either. I just found two new tracks to add to my collection from this thread, and that's all that matters to me.
Adam420
I am going to flood this thread very soon.
paulversuspaul
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Originally posted by Woony
I already posted Likemind a few posts ago. A shame that the stuff is so hard to track down :/
Luke Slater's 7th Plain is one of his more obscure aliases but "The 4 Cornered Room" is a stunning british techno/early IDM record.
That track is fn amazing!
Woony
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Originally posted by paulversuspaul
That track is fn amazing!
It's pretty eerie how much this track sounds like something Anjuna would've released in 2006 :p
Luke Slater in general made a huge amount of good in the early 90s, though most of it isn't really IDM/Intelligent Techno.
^ I think that's my favorite track by him. Incredible.
Mattsanity.
SYSTEM-J and Zharen, we all registered in 2003 so let's keep hope alive.
sljiva
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Originally posted by Woony
It's pretty eerie how much this track sounds like something Anjuna would've released in 2006 :p
Luke Slater in general made a huge amount of good in the early 90s, though most of it isn't really IDM/Intelligent Techno.
^ I think that's my favorite track by him. Incredible.
His only album under the Morganistic guise - Fluids Amniotic is also well deserving a mention. Dark, minimalistic and pounding, it's an album that stands apart from majority of techno of that era and one that served as a predecessor and possibly an influence (together with very early industrial techno of Pan Sonic) for Regis and Surgeon and their Downwards label in developing their own brand of moody Birmingham techno. Morganistic - Bellows Morganistic - Leaf
It was released on GPR's more straightforward techno offshoot Input Neuron Musique that managed to release only 3 albums before going bankrupt together with its parent label in '95. Other, even better album from the label was Voltage Control by another forgotten legend of UK techno Russ Gabriel (he's actually still active, though he's doing ty tech house these days). His brand of elegant, slowly developing airy techno is still popular to this day - but needless to say, nobody today can match the lightness and atmospherics of track such as Airborne, United Nations, Alpine Air and Peace For Thought. He was also no stranger to music this thread should be about, as evidenced by Rainforest and The Routine.
Don't know why, but some threads make me hungry for music I haven't listened to in a while, and this is one of them. So I went to my obligatory B12 archive, TBD collection and some more obscure stuff and recalled some other tunes worth mentioning:
B12 - Seedoiz (another unreleased gem from 1994 I forgot to mention earlier) B12 - Infosphere (this gem was for far too long available only on cassette, but they saved it from oblivion in 2009, together with other obscure and unreleased stuff) As One - Shambala (Reflected by Balil) (Balil is probably known to everyone, but this is one of the few remixes he's done and it's absolutely sublime. Pretty unusual intro for this kind of music.) Repeat - G-Thing (Repeat is Mark Broom + Plaid + some other guy, though it's pretty obvious that the beautiful melodic passages are again done by Balil) The Black Dog - Psil Cosyin (this is already advanced era BD, pretty removed from sound of Bytes and TOTB, even though the classic mystic atmosphere is still present) Phenomyna - Travellor (Explained by Red Cell) (Stasis remixed by B12 on a Kirk Degiorgio's label. That can only be awesome) Bedouin Ascent - Gait of Power (unfortunately his best stuff from Music For Particles is still not on YT, so here's a dancefloor track of his (with huge ambient passages) that contains a glimpse of his trademark atmosphere)
Woony
Russ Gabriel did a nice track for WPH a while ago.
On topic, Autechre also did some nice lush melodic tracks early on in their career.
PSi
[QUOTE]Originally posted by sljiva
His only album under the Morganistic guise - Fluids Amniotic is also well deserving a mention. Dark, minimalistic and pounding, it's an album that stands apart from majority of techno of that era and one that served as a predecessor and possibly an influence (together with very early industrial techno of Pan Sonic) for Regis and Surgeon and their Downwards label in developing their own brand of moody Birmingham techno. Morganistic - Bellows Morganistic - Leaf
It was released on GPR's more straightforward techno offshoot Input Neuron Musique that managed to release only 3 albums before going bankrupt together with its parent label in '95. Other, even better album from the label was Voltage Control by another forgotten legend of UK techno Russ Gabriel (he's actually still active, though he's doing ty tech house these days). His brand of elegant, slowly developing airy techno is still popular to this day - but needless to say, nobody today can match the lightness and atmospherics of track such as Airborne, United Nations, Alpine Air and Peace For Thought. He was also no stranger to music this thread should be about, as evidenced by Rainforest and The Routine.
Don't know why, but some threads make me hungry for music I haven't listened to in a while, and this is one of them. So I went to my obligatory B12 archive, TBD collection and some more obscure stuff and recalled some other tunes worth mentioning:
B12 - Seedoiz (another unreleased gem from 1994 I forgot to mention earlier) B12 - Infosphere (this gem was for far too long available only on cassette, but they saved it from oblivion in 2009, together with other obscure and unreleased stuff) As One - Shambala (Reflected by Balil) (Balil is probably known to everyone, but this is one of the few remixes he's done and it's absolutely sublime. Pretty unusual intro for this kind of music.) Repeat - G-Thing (Repeat is Mark Broom + Plaid + some other guy, though it's pretty obvious that the beautiful melodic passages are again done by Balil) The Black Dog - Psil Cosyin (this is already advanced era BD, pretty removed from sound of Bytes and TOTB, even though the classic mystic atmosphere is still present) Phenomyna - Travellor (Explained by Red Cell) (Stasis remixed by B12 on a Kirk Degiorgio's label. That can only be awesome) Bedouin Ascent - Gait of Power (unfortunately his best stuff from Music For Particles is still not on YT, so here's a dancefloor track of his (with huge ambient passages) that contains a glimpse of his trademark atmosphere) [/QUOTE
Some really nice tracks here. Thanks.
sljiva
I thought Ae's early stuff was implied without mentioning. But yeah, Incunabula and Amber could easily be considered techno from today's perspective and in relation to their later output, even though the ideas and execution of their music already in '93/'94 differ from the contemporaries and foreshadow the further future progress. My favourite tracks from Incunabula are percussion-crazy 444, anticipating and anthemic Egshell and blissful and neonic Windwind and from Amber robotic Slip and vitreous and freezing Further. Further particularly shows how far from warmth of Detroit techno they already are and how little they are interested in covering and exploring the territory of B12. I love B12 and other mentioned artists doing this kind of music, but they could never match the brilliance of people like Autechre, Aphex Twin and to a lesser degree The Black Dog, who were never really interested in locking themselves to a certain style, but always pushing their sound forward and doing their own thing regardless of the trends. Intelligent techno was for them just a transient phase, unlike the people who made themselves a career out of it.
Beaumont Hannant is the . Discovered him after Leftfield used one of his tracks on their Essential Mix, been wanting to buy his albums for ages.
Woony
I think it's pretty crazy in general how many artists that where so far ahead of their time in the early/mid 90s just dissapeared or de-facto retired.
SYSTEM-J
If they were around today and producing exactly the same records, guys like Beaumont Hannant would be minted due to the RA/Pitchfork/etc. market for leftfield electronic music.
