From Brock Phillips Sent Fri, Oct 16th 1998, 18:32
From Brock Phillips Sent Fri, Oct 16th 1998, 18:32
> There's a compilation that I reckon is really worthwhile called 'Best of > Electro' on Street Sounds. They had comps (just called 'Electro') > happening fairly contemporary to the whole explosion, and the "best of" is > a relatively recent cd release made up of tunes from these. A lot of the > stuff Andrew mentions. There's quite a bit of overlap between this and the > Mastersounds 'Classic Electro' album, which focusses on instrumental > versions, if that's your thing. It also has 'Planet Rock'. Are these Street Sounds (Electro, Best of...) and Mastersounds comps. released on vinyl as well? If so, are they relatively available or long out of print? > For what happened next, which is where I'd put Mantronix - and some pretty > damn obscure, but really exciting stuff - try 'Beat Classic', a comp put > together by J Saul Kane (aka Octagon Man/Depth Charge). Is this on DC/Electron/Vinyl Solution? Or another label? Never even heard of this one, but it sounds dope. Again, out of print or still hanging around? Everyone else beat me to the punch (thanx to Andrew for the mega-list) but I can't recommend these highly enough - Anthony Rother, Drexciya, K-werk. Those are my big three, along with these labels - Electron Industries, Interdimensional Transmissions, Clear (sometimes), and some of the stuff on the new 21/22 label (Cron 12" specifically). All in all, there's some amazing electro out there, and some really sub-par formulaic stuff as well. But you could say that about any genre, I s'pose. It just seems particularly easy to pull off bad electro. Last plea: anyone know of a net source for the Anthony Rother "Sex W/ Machines" LP on Kanzlerant? Been after this one for months, Modern or Bent Crayon can't score it. ____________________________________ Brock Phillips - xxxxx@xxxxx.xxx.xxx WXYC 89.3 FM The New Science Experience Tune in every Sunday night 10-12 AM EST http://www.wxyc.org for live RA broadcast Promos, demos, etc. welcome for submission Email for postal address and details... Trade/sale list at the following address - http://www.unc.edu/~bphil/index.html