Favourite Trance/Electronica Music

[Robert Maxwell]

I like music where the musicians play the instruments, not program them.

Then maybe this isn't the thread for you, huh?

I'm familiar with most of the artists listed so far, and I dig just about all of them.

Anyone here familiar with Ratatat or Black Moth Super Rainbow?

Here you go, a couple songs.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0VAkPjrnWM[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odNde8wQ5uA[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEBzmrDbJ-I[/yt]

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I like music where the musicians play the instruments, not program them.

Then maybe this isn't the thread for you, huh?

I guess it all depends on one's definitions of "play" and "instruments". Infinite diversity and all that.

I mean, can retuning a guitar or violin be considered programming them?

 

[Brandonv]

The style of trance that I prefer is Uplifting Trance with female vocals. Above&Beyond and Oceanlab are my favorite trance groups, but I have a large variety of artists in my collection.

 

[Brent]

It is impossible to nail down one, or just one group, so i'll post the type and genre I most prefer

NuWave
NuSchool Breaks
Electro Pop

There are many others I am into, too many to list, can't narrow it down.

 

[Rincewiend]

Basement Jaxx:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO9I61gYlms

Cassius:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrzkZalyl6I

The Chemical Brothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM

Daft Punk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFwQoqbWgSs

Enigma:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk_sAHh9s08

Goldfrapp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dehm7EyjW9s

Justice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49esza4eiK4

Moby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw17-BEFb3Y

Morcheeba:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxn-fz9mjo4

Röyksopp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmcPeuf5aXo

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Oh yes, Tangerine Dream! Wonderful stuff! I would also recommend Redshift and AirSculpture.

Tangerine Dream isn't in the "New Age" genre?

It doesn't seem like it would work...but most black metal has opera female vocals...even with some electronic music

It would be Symphonic Metal that usually has the female, opera quality vocals plus an occasional male death grunt vocal, though I've never heard electronic music, but actual symphonic or the synthesized equivalent on top of metal style guitars, drums & bass.

Examples of Symphonic Metal: After Forever, Amberian Dawn, Epica, Kamelot, Within Temptation & many others I don't own yet (from this list only Kamelot has a male vocalist).

I once had a few albums from The Future Sound Of London. Would that be considered Trance/Electronica?

 

[HappyDayRiot]

I was going to say Leftfield but someone beat me to it.

I don't listen to a lot of electronic music, but I'd also second Goldfrapp and the excellent Hybrid from Swansea.

 

[Jetfire]

Oh yes, Tangerine Dream! Wonderful stuff! I would also recommend Redshift and AirSculpture.

Tangerine Dream isn't in the "New Age" genre?

It doesn't seem like it would work...but most black metal has opera female vocals...even with some electronic music

It would be Symphonic Metal that usually has the female, opera quality vocals plus an occasional male death grunt vocal, though I've never heard electronic music, but actual symphonic or the synthesized equivalent on top of metal style guitars, drums & bass.

Examples of Symphonic Metal: After Forever, Amberian Dawn, Epica, Kamelot, Within Temptation & many others I don't own yet (from this list only Kamelot has a male vocalist).

I once had a few albums from The Future Sound Of London. Would that be considered Trance/Electronica?

I love Within Temptation

I haven't heard the mixture I mentioned before...kinda why I want to do it...electronica/death metal male vocals & opera-like female vocals.

 

[Aeon]

Oh yes, Tangerine Dream! Wonderful stuff! I would also recommend Redshift and AirSculpture.

Tangerine Dream isn't in the "New Age" genre?

I wouldn't call it that quite honestly. Sure, there are some fluffy moments and ambient parts, but overall the music is very moody and edgy. Especially all the albums from the '70s. But that's just my opinion and many will no doubt disagree with me.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I was going to say Leftfield but someone beat me to it.

I don't listen to a lot of electronic music, but I'd also second Goldfrapp and the excellent Hybrid from Swansea.

I love Hybrid!! Good stuff.

Also, Cosmic Gate. Any RJD2 fans here?

 

[Marc]

Oh yes, Tangerine Dream! Wonderful stuff! I would also recommend Redshift and AirSculpture.

Tangerine Dream isn't in the "New Age" genre?

I wouldn't call it that quite honestly. Sure, there are some fluffy moments and ambient parts, but overall the music is very moody and edgy. Especially all the albums from the '70s. But that's just my opinion and many will no doubt disagree with me.

Possible some of the stuff from the "Seattle Years" (much of the 1990s basically) could come under that heading but wouldn't cover that much of their discography.

After we're talking about a group that over the past 40 years has done ambient, space, prog-rock, krautrock, music you can't think of a catergory to put in and pioneering work with synths, sequences and samplers and where improvisation was the basis for much of their work for much of the 1970s.

The first TD album was Electronic Mediation in 1970 but the group had existed 3 years earlier playing in underground clubs, jamming Pink Floyd's Interstellar Overdrive.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Yeah, I just remember some Tangerine Dream albums my brother had, which must have been those more New-Agey type ones.
I had no idea they had been around that long.

I mostly listened to New Age music when I had Sirius radio. Other that that, I listen to a lot of Celtic stuff
and the last couple years, Symphonic Metal almost exclusively.