name your current sounds

**pop** · November 23rd, 2003, 03:40 AM

What is the current sound to you in our beautiful Electronica world?
(Erasure, DM, and other releated sounds are NOT current).

**ericrypt** · November 23rd, 2003, 05:02 AM

I'll tell you what man, if you want honest posts in this thread, I have freakin' TRIED and TRIED, but my sorry butt is STUCK in the 80's with DM and Erasure, Soft Cell, etc...I mean, I got into Apoptygma and VNV for about two albums, but that's about as current as I can get nowadays. Songs have to speak to me and my life they way those "old" bands do so it's really tough for me to find anything out there. But I have to keep trying cause' for all I know, someday there will be something that grabs my ears and makes me collect again! Sorry I could'nt be more help, but hey! To each his/her own, right?

**pop** · November 23rd, 2003, 05:19 AM

Don't worry about it. Most people over 30 don't keep up with the current sounds. That is just a generation gap. Only reason, I keep up is I am a musician. It is part of my job to know and learn new music.

**intervox** · November 23rd, 2003, 05:32 AM

BT
ian van dahl
fatboy slim (weapon of choice video with christopher walken, i never get tired of seeing it)

**Efreak** · November 23rd, 2003, 06:13 AM

Originally posted by pop
Don't worry about it. Most people over 30 don't keep up with the current sounds.

Is that what my problem is? Sheesh.
Glad to see you posting more often pop. I... well... I kinda missed you.

Jamie

**NoirTech** · November 23rd, 2003, 07:42 AM

I'm really into bands like Linkin' Park at the moment. Yeah yeah,..so they are big right now and it's not cool to be "into" bands that are big. To defend my taste though, I liked them since their first album first came out and on sale as a "break through" artist for $6.99 at Best Buy. heh. Anyway...yes...I like their mix of "nu metal" with electronics. I just can't get enough of it. I bought their new live DVD/CD this past tuesday.
Sorry it's not technically synthpop/electronic.

**Alex Ezert** · November 23rd, 2003, 11:43 AM

heheh

i know it may sound like .. oh well...

i just bought RUSH in rio, man it was awesome

, trying to search synthpop bands, and perfidious words is like the only one i'm liking now..

but i'menjoying the 'voxes' hehe and droom

**Dizzyduck** · November 23rd, 2003, 02:53 PM

Wolfsheim are my absolute favourite

and lately I've also been listening to Melotron, VNV and Covenant a lot. Oh, and of course De/Vision.

**cliffwalk** · November 23rd, 2003, 03:47 PM

I've been catching up with some "newer" (to me) acts thanks to some kind donations and suggestions:

Alpine Stars
Kings of Convienience
Royksopp
Erlend Oye (this guy writes some killer songs!)

I listen to BT because he's a boy wonder with the electronics however I am so underwhelmed with his song material.

Lesse... William Orbit. I can't seem to get enough of him lately... older skewl I know but he has a great sense of mood.

There's more and my christmas list is stuff full of new CDs.

I'm looking forward to a few "EGN SCENE" CDs as well... Cosmicity and Color Theory both have new releases in the pipe. I'm sure those will both be pretty damn schaweet.

and I'm saying goofy things. Mid-morning snack time with the babies... by yall!

dave

**CBLifeform** · November 23rd, 2003, 04:57 PM

Too many things to list that I listen to (not all is electronica/synthpop of course):

1. Future Sound Of London
2. Mr. Scruff
3. Radiohead
4. Ladytron
5. Richard H. Kirk (all of his various monikers)
6. Aphex Twin
7. u-ziq
8. Andrew Lagowski
9. Brian Eno (my all time standard)
10. My projects

**Strasser** · November 23rd, 2003, 05:54 PM

For me, it's all about keeping up with Trance. I love it.

**melibita** · November 23rd, 2003, 08:31 PM

I have recently gotten into Rosenstolz, Nukleon, and Ladytron.

**arronc** · November 23rd, 2003, 11:22 PM

Current and funky ?

I would say the following have impresed me recently :

Hybrid : early morning sci-fi
Kylie : Body language
Alvin Lucier : I am sitting in a room
Yello : The eye
Jamie Cullum : twentysomething

**Synthpopalooza** · November 24th, 2003, 01:46 AM

My sounds:

Empire State Human (esp. their latest work. Awesome stuff!)
Wave in Head
Travelogue (our scene needs more of this experimentalism!)
Ganymede (top of the class, folks ... top of the class)
Nukleon
Seven Words

**hornblas** · November 24th, 2003, 01:54 AM

Anything related to 'Breaks'. Breakbeat is the way forward for me. Also been listening to a lot of electro e.g. Two Lone Swordsmen, Dave Clarke and anything else that can be called 'dark' and 'funky'. Also I checked some of the new 'Acid House' stuff e.g. Plastikman, Jon Cater and the new Josh Wink. All three are brilliant.. Very 'dark' and 'minimal'..

**technosapien** · November 25th, 2003, 05:30 AM

hornblas is right on... breaks are very hot right now...

Acid House is also making a small comeback... although it probably wont come back completely

its weird... its like there are strong tracks coming out in alot of genres... good drum'n'bass tracks... great breaks tracks... good downtempo tracks... good house tracks.. decent trance tracks...

its a good time for good music...

for some good house music check out anything by Brett Johnson, JV, Darren DuVall, RedEye, and Demarkus Lewis

for good breaks check out The Carbon Community and Son Of Electric Ghost

**pop** · November 25th, 2003, 08:38 PM

i agree with some of you. breaks and house are sooo freaking HOT right now... trance sounds so outdated now... it feels like 1995 all over again with the commercial pop trance hitting the dance chart. also idm and glitch are making a come back as some people are starting to get sooo sick of current pop trends too...
i noticed lots of people i know are starting to listen to coil, aphex twins, autechre, and others again.. the electro is going through
major changes too. i think lots of people are getting tired of larry tee flavor electro. i think people are seeking electro with more intensity. also, i like to add synthpop seriously needs a facelift..
great idea and concept that can last forever, but it seriously needs more modern lyrics based on the current time and today's rhythm section.

**Kirlian Blue** · November 25th, 2003, 08:42 PM

mmmmm i suppose

Ladytron
White Stripes
voice industrie
ju ju babies
mona k
intervox
luke slater

**CaffeineQueen** · November 27th, 2003, 09:40 PM

mm i suppose i'll pull my half dead body up to reply to this one... Lately it has been mainly BlutEngel, Hocico, Rhea's Obsession, and Funker Vogt, Occasionally with a spice of And One, Convenant, Wolfsheim, Arzt+Pfusch and Apocalyptica... vwee... One of these days Blutengel is going to wear out on me.. I don't know when that'll happen though.. Maybe it'll be when my cds stop working from over usage....
:: collapses on the floor::.. In need of.. Medic...!

**lutz** · November 28th, 2003, 08:34 AM

at the moment its always the same...I have made a tape with songs off Compuphonic (Standing alone and Skulk), all of Disconnect, 4 songs from the new Melotron,a remix of Ganymedes Final Year and Falling into dreams by Xero G.
I ve listened to this constantly for the last few weeks..working,on the train,late at night, I cant get enough of it.