If you buy only 1 pop cd this decade.....

[Jim Alfredson]

I have to say, I've been listening to this stuff recently and its pretty fascinating, really. Some great harmonies that go beyond what most people probably think of in terms of "electronica" and pop. And she has a killer voice for this type of material.

[Dmitry]

Felt Mountain is the most interesting musically tho she's moved towards electro disco with both the next ones, they're not bad though.

I have this. Music's ok, sort of like Portishead, words are another story. Might as well hire Damo Suzuki as her lyricist.

[clifford_thornton]

Might as well hire Damo Suzuki as her lyricist.

Always been more of a Mooney person myself, but I often get beaned for statements such as this.

[ep1str0phy]

Blasphemy!(?)

[Van Basten II]

Felt Mountain is the most interesting musically tho she's moved towards electro disco with both the next ones, they're not bad though.

Totally agree with you, the live show was amazing .

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

LISTEN TO ME: Felt mt'n is a very good piece of landscape archetecture but SUPERNATURE is the must have album of the decade. then later after that you can go back and get the album in between the two, called BLACK CHERRY

[Rooster_Ties]

LISTEN TO ME: Felt mt'n is a very good piece of landscape archetecture but SUPERNATURE is the must have album of the decade. then later after that you can go back and get the album in between the two, called BLACK CHERRY

Yeah, but you'd have to wait until next decade to pick up that one.

Remember, if you buy only 1 pop CD this decade...

[JSngry]

I have to say, I've been listening to this stuff recently and its pretty fascinating, really. Some great harmonies that go beyond what most people probably think of in terms of "electronica" and pop. And she has a killer voice for this type of material.

Haven't yet heard Goldfrapp, and based on the AMG sound clips I'm in no hurry to, but there I'm finding out that there's a shitload full of (fill-in-the-blank)-house music (which inevitably gets crossed over into "electronica" by the genre police) that fits this description and doesn't have the "icy chill" thing happening, which is more than ok with me.

You wanna hear some impressive shit? Check out

Some really audacious tacts get taken in both songcraft & beatcraft, and there's a variety of damn fine singers as well.

2 CDs, 23 bucks. See Da' Bastids.

[Jim Alfredson]

I think Goldfrapp's stuff must be experienced both aurally and visually. She is, after-all, a visual artist at heart. The videos on youtube are a trip, when combined with the music.

Then again, I used to love shit like Tangerine Dream when I was a kid, so... hey....

[JSngry]

Fair enough, but I'm 50, wear glasses that don't work as well as they used to, and have seen plenty of Fellini movies.

Seriously, no dis meant to the Goldfrapp thing (seems a little "Euro-popp-y" to me, which is cool, just not what I'm looking for at this juncture), just a heads up that there's a lot of musically interesting, "musically" in the sense that you and I know it, going on in the whole house/electronica thing than I had ever imagined. It's underground as hell, apparently (at least for somebody like me), and very little of it is American (London/Tokyo/NY seems to be the main axis of the record labels), but it is going on, and there seems to be plenty of it.

[Dmitry]

Lately I've been fond of this band - Royksopp

This is perhaps their most popular song, known to many for its use in a Geico cave-man tv commercial here in the US.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjbTsPtj8o...bTsPtj8o&NR

There are several of their vidos on youtube. Check 'em out.

Edited December 5, 2006 by Dmitry

[Sundog]

This is the last pop album I bought.

[.:.impossible]

Lately I've been fond of this band - Royksopp

This is perhaps their most popular song, known to many for its use in a Geico cave-man tv commercial here in the US.

http://www.youtube.com/watch_fullscreen?vi...-%20Remind%20Me

There are several of their vidos on youtube. Check 'em out.

I love that commercial.

That's weird. I just typed 'I love that commercial.'

Thanks for giving the band's name. The music really makes it.

[Dmitry]

Lately I've been fond of this band - Royksopp

This is perhaps their most popular song, known to many for its use in a Geico cave-man tv commercial here in the US.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhjbTsPtj8o&NR

There are several of their vidos on youtube. Check 'em out.

I love that commercial.

That's weird. I just typed 'I love that commercial.'

Thanks for giving the band's name. The music really makes it.

You've got to check out some of their videos on youtoob. I got their album. It's good for the car and when we have friends over and when missus is in the mood...man, this is a UNIVERSAL album.

Edited December 5, 2006 by Dmitry

[Man with the Golden Arm]

thought you guys were spoofin' with this thread, but ...

i guess not as this is true genius!

[Jim Alfredson]

I don't know about genius, but its fun!

[Man with the Golden Arm]

my tongue was sticking thru my cheek.

[.:.impossible]

Hey Vint, have you ever heard of Madonna before? If not, you should definitely check them out. Should be pretty easy to find their stuff.

[JSngry]

And if you can't find anything by the Madonnas, look for something by a band called Giorgio Moroder...

[Man with the Golden Arm]

Hey Vint, have you ever heard of Madonna before? If not, you should definitely check them out. Should be pretty easy to find their stuff.

They play out quite a bit up in Gloucester, usually solo. The acoustics from the band shell are otherworldly.

[JSngry]

goldfrapp is musical lightweight i think tho' Jim A is right to note it's a whole presentation, & Jim S. is right not to be that enthused. i'm only in the margins of this, or a little deeper-- ultimately, none of this gets it hot as my fave stuff (be it classical, new york hip-hop, hillbilly blues, Gene Clark etc) but some things are worth hearing for sure. Tex, were you ever able to get a hold of some Pan Sonic? gotta be "in the mood" like Eddie Durham but when you are, it's some powerful, cold hot shit-- perfect for North Tejas ice storms, maybe. playing around with early Cabaret Voltaire is interesting also-- messy melange of Krautrock, early electronic & dub influences, not always (or even often) hitting you in obvious ways but always interesting.

a much feted electronica group, Boards of Canada (from Scotland) i kinda like, & sometimes kinda do not. pretty but... for those of us who gripe hard bop became pro forma, the BULK of electronica (IDM, techno, whatever-its-called-this-year) will wear you out & bust an already slim wallet fast, esp. for head listeners like us.

c

Dude, I'm just not into anything "Eurotronic" right now. Just a personal POV at this moment. I'm old enough to have caught both the first & second wave of it (and to have lost interest by the time the third wave came around). What's hitting me now is stuff like the Broken Beat shit. Some of that stuff is just nuts, swings like a mofo, and yeah, it's costing me money. But it's making me happier about music than I've been in quite a while (even though it's making me realize that I'm probably obsolete now, but oh well, I had my fun and then some, and besides, you never know what kind of freaks you're going to hook up with at some point...), so it's all good like that.

[Dmitry]

Wow, Goldrfrapp really turned to shit, didn't it? As much as I enjoyed their first album, whatever videos of their recent stuff I saw on the youtoob are just dreck, IMO.

[Jim Alfredson]

Wow, Goldrfrapp really turned to shit, didn't it? As much as I enjoyed their first album, whatever videos of their recent stuff I saw on the youtoob are just dreck, IMO.

I still like some of it... a lot of it is over-the-top junk, but the production is neat. I really like the Royksopp you posted. That is some cool stuff... thank you for that.

[JSngry]

ok, i'll bite--- what's 'broken beat'?

I'm still figuring it out myself...

But it seems to be a form of house music where the beat is fragmented like hell, w/all kinds of stops/starts/sputters not unlike Andy Newmark's drumming on "In Time", or the freakier stuff that DG did w/Tower of Power, except there's silences in between the accents. The shit grooves like a motherfucker, I'm telling you, because some cats layer that shit and you got all this polyrhythmic stuttering - with stops and starts - going on in the service of a deepass groove. What ups the ante for me is that the musical sophistication required to program like this means that the form is not at all unfriendly to some equally/relatively sophisticated songwriting, and, in the case of a group called The Society, that goes so far as to use it as a foundation for some "real" "jazz" improvising over some "real jazz" type compositions. Of course, it ain't nowhere near all the way there yet in those terms, but the potential is definitely there for the if/when of real "real" players decide to go stepping into it.

For a good taste of it, check out the KJM side I referenced above, as well as a cut off of Ursula Rucker's Silver Or Lead called "Q&A" that'll damn near dizzify you to death. I'm sure there's a lot more (and maybe better, still haven't really gotten to IG Culture or 4Hero outside of some Monday remixes which certainly caught my attention by the huevos), but that's the thrill of ongoing discovery, no?

[Aggie87]

I liked the Royksopp I heard on youtube, Dmitry, thanks for the links. Is "Melody AM" the best place to start with them?