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| Vars Illusional | Nov 19 2006, 04:45 AM Post #1 | |
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Here are some Wikipedia articles involving some artists people have never heard of. Kick back and read. Autechre ![]() Autechre is an English electronic music group consisting of Rob Brown (born c. 1971) and Sean Booth (born c. 1973), both natives of Rochdale. The group is one of the most prominent acts signed with Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music artists. Some journalists and fans consider Autechre to be a paragon of IDM, though Brown and Booth themselves do not consider their sound to belong to any genre. The two members formed the group in 1987 when they both lived in Rochdale. They began their career making and trading mixtapes between each other, but gradually moved on to their own compositions while collecting a handful of cheap equipment, most notably a Casio SK-1 sampler and a Roland TR606 drum machine. By the time their albums on Warp appeared, they were employing a wide variety of electronic instruments to boost their evolving style. Booth and Brown pronounce the name Autechre with a Rochdale accent (IPA [ɔˈtɛk.ə] — approximately "awe-teh-ker"). However, they have explained that the name Autechre can be pronounced in any way anyone sees fit. Booth explains: "The first two letters were intentional, because there was an 'au' sound in the track, and the rest of the letters were bashed randomly on the keyboard. We had this track title for ages, and we had written it on a cassette, with some graphics. It looked good, and we began using it as our name." They are also commonly referred to by the moniker "Ae." Autechre has also recorded under various pseudonyms, possibly as a way of escaping from the attentions of the media and the obsessive Autechre fanbase. One of the duo's earliest recordings was a 12" under the Lego Feet moniker released in 1991 on Skam Records. Various Gescom releases, most on Skam, have been attributed to Booth and Brown, among other artists. Autechre helped initiate the music festival All Tomorrow's Parties in 2000 and was responsible for curating the 2003 festival. Many describe Autechre's music as cold and austere, whereas others perceive a warmth and sentimentality that touches even the most cerebral pieces. Much of Autechre's music has a strong focus on complex rhythm and driving percussion, and more recently, on meticulous sequencing. Later work has been notably experimental and abstract, in contrast to the more club-friendly and conventional early 1990s releases. Due to the inaccessibility of their sound, reactions to their music have varied. Many of their tracks contain complex or chaotic rhythmic figures and close harmonies which some hear as random and noisy. Fans of their recent work tend to find the value of their music to lie in its unique fusion of rhythmic and melodic elements, percussive noises being tweaked to sound like they have pitches, and clustered, often inharmonic synthesizer patches implying numerous melodic lines and chord structures simultaneously. A recurring element in Autechre's work is the use of extremely short snippets of sound to create a fragmented, grainy effect. True to their early techno roots, Autechre utilizes a wide array of analog synths in their production as well as analog and digital drum machines, mixers, effects units and samplers. They have also made extensive use of a variety of computer based sequencers, softsynths, and other applications as a means of controlling those synths and processing the synthesized sounds. Autechre have also used the Max/MSP, Symbolic Composer, SuperCollider, and Kyma development environments from 1997 onwards, though it is unclear which are still in use. In 2005, the Akai MPC1000, Nord Modular G2, and Elektron Machinedrum and Monomachine were used to perform live. Autechre have also said that their current methods involve using "new techniques on old equipment and old techniques on new equipment". Sean Booth once stated that Autechre disassemble and reassemble their studio for every track. They emphasize that their sound comes from combinations of tools and techniques, and "creative routing", more than any single magical machine, although many of their tools possess unusual capabilities. This has been the case since their early days, when, for example, they used a Boss delay that had a pitch/trigger input, allowing it to be used as a realtime sampler. When the square wave input it received for determining pitch had resonance added, the pitch would drift between notes in a special way. If the output was mixed back in as a control pitch, it could produce unusual fractal patterns, something that can not be recreated easily with software, or on an embedded system. Other machines that Autechre have repeatedly mentioned in interviews are appreciated for their interface as much as their sound, including the Roland TR-606 and MC-202, and the Nord Lead. There have been claims that Autechre employ random sequence generation techniques, but Sean Booth has disputed this, saying that randomness doesn't allow for enough control over parameters. Autechre do sometimes use generative algorithms, most notably on Confield, but they claim that this is to a limited degree. In response to comments about their unique sound, Autechre argue that given the incredible range of tools available to modern composers, especially in the electronic genres, it is incomprehensible that any band should "sound like" any other band. -------------------------------------------------- Boards of Canada ![]() Boards of Canada is a Scottish electronic music duo comprising brothers Michael Sandison (b. 10 June 1969) and Marcus Eoin Sandison (b. 21 Sep 1970). They have released a number of works, most notably Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi, with little advertising and few interviews. Their sound has frequently made reference to sounds of the 1970s and the 1980s. It recalls, amongst other things, the warm, scratchy, artificial sounds of 1970s television, and indeed, band members Michael and Marcus admit to being inspired by the documentary films of the National Film Board of Canada, from which the group's name comes. The duo have recorded a few minor works as Hell Interface. Growing up in a musical family, brothers Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin began playing instruments at a young age. They began experimenting with recording techniques at around 10-years-old, using tape machines to layer cut-up samples of found sounds over compositions of their own. They were highly influenced by scratchy and imperfect NFB documentaries, which they watched in the 1970s while they lived in the UK and in Calgary, Canada. In their teens they participating in an number of amateur bands, sometimes together and sometimes separately. However, it wasn't until 1986 when Marcus was invited to Michael's band that Boards of Canada was born. Boards of Canada have said they “began writing and playing music in a more serious way at some point around 1987”. They go on to say, “At first, we experimented without setting ourselves any questions, with whatever means were available to us, then we worked a lot with other musicians and with real instruments, which brought more complexity into our music. Five years ago (1993), we sounded a lot more gothic, much closer to experimental rock, with the occasional vocal. Though it was heading for electronic music; already we were sampling our own instruments. Then we went back to something closer to our original spirit: simple and instinctive, the only difference being that from then on, we could use all the wonders of digital technology, and so it was a lot easier to experiment and to get what we wanted”. The band would have a nebulous roster throughout its early history, encompassing up to fourteen different core members, as well as an unknown number of collaborators (Peter Ian Campbell and S. Goderich are frequently cited as being members of the Hexagon sun collective). By 1989, the band had been reduced to Sandison, Eoin and Christopher Horne. In the early 1990s, a number of collaborations took place and the band was putting on small, fairly regular shows among the “Hexagon Sun” collective. In early 2000, the official website for the band, Music70.com, removed the early discography of Boards of Canada, although some information has been preserved by fans. The early tape releases of the band include Play By Numbers, Acid Memories, Hooper Bay and the earliest known release by the band is titled Catalog 3. None of the material from those days is readily available, and since official BoC sources ignore the existence of this material, there seems to be little hope for the early music of the band to be officially released in the future. -------------------------------------------------- Venetian Snares ![]() Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for making experimental IDM, breakcore and glitchcore often in odd numbered time signatures, and for his prolific recordings, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels. Musical influences include funk, free jazz, metal, gabber and symphonies. Reactions to Venetian Snares' music are diverse. It may prove too erratic for many of those familiar with only popular music, however his music remains very popular within the global breakcore scene. His style has been critically acclaimed, notably by the late British radio disc jockey John Peel. Past interviews with Funk have pointed out his early interest in punk rock and death metal, and he draws from these genres heavily in his approach to music. Much of his work is a reaction to the often repetitive, confined, and streamlined tendencies of rave music and drum and bass, similar to the way in which punk rock musicians challenged established musical trends in the aftermath of arena rock. Venetian Snares composes much of his music with trackers. Before he began to release his music commercially, he worked primarily with OctaMED on an Amiga 500. At some point prior to 2000, he began using a PC and switched to the Windows port of OctaMED, MED Soundstudio. Currently he is mainly working with Renoise. A video of "Vache", a track from Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms, being played through Renoise is available on YouTube. The covers for four of his releases have been illustrated by controversial British artist Trevor Brown. In Brown's usual style, these covers feature airbrushes of young girls in shocking sexual or violent scenes. Other releases feature benign and banal artwork, such as pictures of cats, birds, children's toys or even badminton players. -------------------------------------------------- Aphex Twin ![]() Aphex Twin (Richard David James, born August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is an electronic music artist, credited with pushing forward the genres of techno, ambient, acid, and drum and bass. Richard D. James was born of Welsh parents Lorna and Derek James in 1971 in Limerick Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland. He grew up in Cornwall, enjoying, along with two sisters, a "very happy" childhood where they "were pretty much left to do what [they] wanted." He started producing music at the age of 12 according to Benjamin Middleton, and as a teenager he DJed at the Shire Horse, St Ives, Cornwall, with Tom Middleton at the Bowgie Inn, Crantock, Newquay, Cornwall, and also along the numerous beaches around Cornwall. His first record was the 12" EP Analogue Bubblebath, the last two tracks made with Tom Middleton. Rephlex Records was formed in 1991 by James and his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge to promote "Innovation in the dynamics of Acid - a much loved and misunderstood genre of house music forgotten by some and indeed new to others, especially in Britain." Between 1991 and 1993 Richard James released three Analogue Bubblebath EPs under the AFX name, two Bradley Strider EPs, three Caustic Window EPs. Under the Aphex Twin name he released the Xylem Tube EP and Didgeridoo, a fast paced song designed to tire dancers at the end of a DJ set. These early releases came out on Rephlex Records, Mighty Force of Exeter, and R&S Records of Belgium. Early on in his career James moved to London to take an Electronics Course at Kingston Polytechnic but at the time admitted to David Toop that his "electronics studies were already slipping away as a career in the techno business took precedence". After quitting his course, James remained in London and released a slew of albums and EPs on Warp Records and other labels under many aliases (AFX, Polygon Window, Blue Calx, The Dice Man, Power-Pill, and so on). Local legend has it that James lived in the roundabout in Elephant and Castle, South London during his early years in the capital. The Aphex Twin Logo, present on most Aphex Twin/AFX releases.The first Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was released in 1992 on R&S records. John Bush of allmusic.com described it as a "watershed of ambient music". Pat Blashill of Rolling Stone magazine wrote of the album: "Aphex Twin expanded way beyond the ambient music of Brian Eno by fusing lush soundscapes with oceanic beats and bass lines". A sample of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, "We are the music makers, we are the dreamers of the dreams", was used on one of the songs. Critics also noted that the songs were recorded on cassette and that the sound quality was "relatively poor". Warp Records pressed and released Selected Ambient Works Volume II in 1994. The sound was much less beat driven than the previous volume, and the song names were mainly described with circles and pie diagrams rather than song titles in words. James made unverifiable claims to The Wire magazine and other media that these songs were inspired by lucid dreams and synaesthesia. For his 1995 album, ...I Care Because You Do, James began using images of his face for his album covers, a motif that would continue in his later records. The album was a compilation of songs composed between 1991 and 1994, and represented a mish-mash of Aphex Twin's various music styles. This was Aphex Twin's last mostly analogue synthesizer record of the 90's, as later releases moved to using computers and software synthesizers. Aphex Twin collaborated with minimalist composer Philip Glass to make an orchestral version of one of the songs from I care because you do. The cover to the album ...I Care Because You Do.In 1995 (primarily with Hangable Auto Bulb), he began releasing more material composed on computers, and embraced a more drum and bass sound mixed with a nostalgic childhood theme and strange computer generated acid lines. The early adoption of softsynthesizers predated the later popularity of using computers to make music. The late 1990s saw his music become more popular and mainstream, as he released the Richard D. James Album and two singles, "Come to Daddy", and "Windowlicker", which were shown on MTV and were cover features of music magazines including NME. In 2001 Aphex Twin released his most personal album yet, drukqs, a 2-CD album which featured prepared piano songs under the influence of Erik Satie and John Cage. Also included were abrasive, fast, and meticulously programmed computer-made songs. Rolling Stone described the piano songs as "aimlessly pretty"[12]. drukqs is perhaps Richard's most controversial album to date; the album lacked the novelty found in his other albums, so reviewers guessed this album was released as a contract breaker with Warp Records — a credible guess, as James' next big release came out on his own Rephlex label. It is also rumored that the album drukqs was released as it was because he had almost all of these songs on a Creative Jukebox mp3 player that he accidentally left on a plane, and in fear of all of the tracks being leaked to the internet, its release was rushed as to avoid this. In late 2004, rumours of James' return to a more acid techno based sound were realised with the Analord series. This series concentrated on producing fully analogue pieces of music, written and recorded on analogue equipment and pressed to vinyl. James was very particular about the whole process through recording, mastering and press. However label co-owner Grant Wilson-Claridge convinced James to release a digital CD Chosen Lords which included a selection from the Analord series, some of these tracks were slightly altered to improve the flow of the album. The cover to the Richard D. James Album.For these records, James used his extensive collection of Roland drum machines which he bought when they were still at bargain prices. Also he used one of the rarest, and most desirable synthesizers of his generation, the Synton Fenix, and the notoriously difficult to program Roland MC-4 sequencer (a sequencer with a reputation for excellent timing), as well as the famous Roland TB-303 for his trademark acid melodies. Richard D. James usually does the photography for his releases' artwork himself. A lot of his album artwork photos show James' own face, grinning or slightly distorted in some way. Near the end of the second track on the "Windowlicker" single (commonly referred to as "[Formula]", "[Symbol]", or "[Equation]") a photo of James' face is revealed when run through spectral analysis. The picture illustrates his famous toothy, evil grin (with a spiral also visible at the end of Windowlicker). In addition to this, the cover of "Two Remixes by AFX" is actually contained only on the CD, encoded in SSTV format. |
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| thatmanckid | Nov 19 2006, 11:19 AM Post #2 | |
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Ye, I'v heard of Aphex Twin but, er, ye that's pretty cool <3 xxx |
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| DMG | Nov 19 2006, 12:04 PM Post #3 | |
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I know Aphex Twin....Windowlicker was one of the most incrediblely funny-yet-sick vidoes i had ever seen when it came out. | |
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| Sinion Kabe | Nov 19 2006, 12:21 PM Post #4 | |
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I didn't know any of these bands until Vars let me know about them. Its interesting to read/hear them because its something I would usually avoid when it comes to certain types of music that I am unfamiliar with. Good read. | |
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| Vars Illusional | Nov 19 2006, 08:42 PM Post #5 | |
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Oh Yes, The windowlicker. That was one funny video from Chris Cunningham. Its the typical AFX. Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Venetian Snares and Autechre along with some you may have never heard of either: Plaid, Squarepusher, Delerium, Conjure One, Doormouse, Bong Ra and others. Heres some more that I couldnt put and edit cause it might as well be a little too long. It contains some of the artists I had specified other than the other four. Happy Reading guys. ![]() --------------------------------------------- Squarepusher ![]() Squarepusher, the performing pseudonym of Tom Jenkinson, is an English electronic music artist signed to Warp Records. He specialises in the electronic music genres of drum and bass, musique concrète (sampled digitally rather than by tape), and acid, albeit with a significant jazz influence. Jenkinson was born in Chelmsford, Essex in 1975 and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School. A self-taught drummer and highly skilled bass guitar player, his style of extremely fast, cut-up beats mixed with fusion jazz and interlaced with synth lines and samples has gained him a cult following, which includes Outkast's André 3000 and Thom Yorke of Radiohead. He is a friend of Richard D. James (Aphex Twin), and his albums have been critically acclaimed for their forward-thinking approach to electronic music. Jenkinson performs live, playing with a fretless or fretted bass guitar, a laptop, and other hardware. He appeared twice on BBC Radio 1's The Breezeblock show. On 26 June 2005, Squarepusher played at London's Royal Festival Hall as part of the Show "Songs of Experience" a tribute to Jimi Hendrix. His 12 minute performance was built up of a medley of Hendrix tracks played solely on the bass guitar with the use of effects. One of his brothers, Andy Jenkinson, is also a respected recording artist, under the name Ceephax Acid Crew. A third brother, Jonny, also performs and occasionally supports his siblings on tour as a drum and bass DJ. Squarepusher's latest full-length album, Hello Everything, was released on October 16th, 2006. Squarepusher sequenced his pre-2000 work on a BOSS DR-660 drum machine, which wasn't designed to sequence entire songs. He uses hardware for his electronic music such as King Tubby-style spring reverbs and Akai samplers (S950 for early work, S6000 for later work), and a reel-to-reel player. Around the year 2000, Squarepusher bought a computer with Reaktor and an Eventide Orville for digital processing. He has been known to play Fender, Ernie Ball, and Warwick basses. Squarepusher claims to know more about his music equipment than the manufacturers of the products themselves. --------------------------------------------- Plaid ![]() From the music video Itsu Plaid is a British electronic music duo featuring Andy Turner & Ed Handley, taking their name from the different interweaving threads of plaid cloth. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andrew Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid. They have collaborated with female singers Mara Carlyle, Nicolette and Björk, and have released records on the labels Clear, Warner, Black Dog Productions, and Warp Records. Aside from their own material, Plaid have done extensive remix work for many other artists, including Portishead, Red Snapper, Björk, Goldfrapp, and The Irresistible Force. Parts in the Post (2003) contains just a handful of Plaid's remix work to date. Plaid often works collaboratively with visual artist Bob Jaroc, whose animations often accompanied the music during live performences. They have developed a DVD consisting of new material and video artwork to accompany the music, entitled Greedy Baby. The project was completed on July 20th 2005, and has premiered (in the BFI Imax cinema in Waterloo, London). Greedy Baby was released on DVD from Warp Records on June 26th, 2006. ---------------------------------------------------- Just specifing some more so you guys can become more interested into the electronic musical world. |
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