Electronic music.

[Kushantaiidan]

Originally posted by MacMoney
Some electronic music is really, really great and I don't pay enough attention to it. For example, I love stuff like the four latest Ulver releases but haven't bothered to search for something similiar. Why? I don't know. I'd like to but I don't where to start. Wait a minute! I did know! So can anyone recommend me some music like Ulver's Perdition City or Metamorphosis?

FSOL - ISDN

an amazing album..

greatest electronica of all time IMHO

 

[astarte]

Originally posted by MacMoney
Some electronic music is really, really great and I don't pay enough attention to it. For example, I love stuff like the four latest Ulver releases but haven't bothered to search for something similiar. Why? I don't know. I'd like to but I don't where to start. Wait a minute! I did know! So can anyone recommend me some music like Ulver's Perdition City or Metamorphosis?

You can start by listening the other bands on Jester Records like Esperanza or Origami Galaktika..
also the latest Dødheimsgard, Diablerie (bleh), may not seem similar but there's plenty of neo-ulver fans that like them

i like a lot of elektro but now i can't remember

 

[Slayed Necros]

The only thing I listen to close to electric Music is Burzum..

 

[Morgana]

I don't mind electronic samples used in songs as long as it is well done and not too overdosed.

 

[YaYo]

Originally posted by Belial
Me: You miss the point entirely. Yes, metal requires a great deal of skill, though you severely overestimate Metallica. The fact is, to someone who doesn't like Metal it takes no skill. To them it's just a series of yells over blaring guitars noises that play without rythm in their ears. Like how you think my death-metal is just a series of growls over unrythmic guitar noises. Same with Techno. I enjoy it so I see the complexity involved, you don't so you see it as an outsider.

You make exactly the point i always try to make. Its impossible to judge something you dont get into. People who are against techno here are judging it on the standards that make good metal. Its like looking at a car and saying "shit thats the worst plane ive ever seen, it doesnt even fly!!".

Techno may not use instruments but that allows for more creative ideas, and for more to be done. Now sure you have people who abuse the ease of it and use it to create something shit, but theres also many geniouses out there that use electronic music to its potential. And use it for the right reasons. Electronic music raises the basic level of music, all it does is remove some of the learning process thats involved with music, and as such there are a lot of electronic musicians who never find 'their' music and will release albums before they know who they are (musically speaking).

And once anyone can play anything on guitar its 'easy', 'hard' is defined by what you cant play, 'easy' is defined as what you can play. So may have been hard to learn the techniques (on guitar) i use in my songs but now that i can do them its no harder to include them in songs than it is to put a sample in. The skills of songwriting are still needed in electronic music just as much as in metal or whatever, but obviously electronic stuff is trying to achieve different things so will use different songwriting formulas and skills.

So to conclude, electronic music is easier to start with (allowing it to be heavily abused by people with no idea about music releasing nothing songs) but just as hard to master and use properly.

And as usual the stuff you hear on the radio is the shit commercial stuff.

 

[Katatonic]

well, i do like some electronic stuff, mainly prodigy (who are coming to the big day out here in sydney and I COULDNT GET TICKETS!!!!!! ARRRRGH!!!!)