From rbc3 Sent Fri, Sep 18th 1998, 07:24
From rbc3 Sent Fri, Sep 18th 1998, 07:24
Brock Phillips wrote: > P.S. Electro/techno labels I haven't checked into yet... > Viewlexx, All the Hotmix labels vary a great deal. Some is hard minimal acid and some is crunchy electro. None of what I have is "vocoder" electro. Here are some reccommendations: If vs. That Nigger (Murdercapital) minimal and slower with kind of a hip hop feel If - Playstation #2 (Viewlexx) damn near one of my favorites at the moment Electronome - No Landscape (Inter-ference) big noisy and a rocker! Electronome - self titled lp (Interr-fered) more distorted electro beats Testpilot Vol 1. (Viewlexx) more on the noisy side The Brothers Fuck and Friend (Clone/Murdercapital) more listening less dance Pametex - Car Demolition (Clone) retro 80's flavor synths like Le Car (I have a LOT more, but it really starts to fall out of the elecro class)\ > Electrolux Don't have any. > Science City Definately not anything like Electron. They have some electro stuff, but I wouldn't class the whole label as such. It's more experimental and has quite a bit of variety. It's damn talented stuff though. I'm surprised so few people have said anything about them. > Electrecord Electrecord is VERY cool stuff. About as pure of an electro label as they come. Some if it is 80's style electro with vocoders, but then some of it sounds Kraftwerkian. Some of it would fit along side Schematic style stuff too... > Formic I only have two Formic records. One is Rootpower & Bolz Bolz who own/run Electrecord, so it's basically like an Electrecord record. And the other is by Spelunk and sounds like Spelunk stuff, which is not at all electro but fantastic none the less. > Nature ??? Haven't even heard of Nature. > Ersatz. Ersatz RULES!!!!!!! All the Ersatz/Monoplaza is like what I image Visage might be doing today if they still had that raw 80's synth talent. They use little to no effects and the analog synth programming shines through. They are truly some of the most original and talented musicians out there at the moment IMO. It's not anything at all like Electron Ind. It's much more... campy feeling than Electron is. It's not even really elecro. It's like retro synth-pop, the way it was in the beginning before Duran-Duran warped the whole thing. If you like Electron and obvious suggestion would be to hunt down more of J Saul Kanes stuff like the Depth Charge stuff on DC. Can't think of anything else that really fits like Electron Ind. Have you tried Pharma? That'd probably be something you like. It's Jammin' Unit's label. What about the Force Inc. electro stuff? Biochip C might be something along these lines. I always felt like Atom Heart had tracks that sounded along the lines of JSK's stuff. Rather Interesting or the Lisa Carbon Trio album on Rephlex might work here. -rbc3