please, oh please come to sydney. you could be head official / judge at the olympics - make sure gold goes to the atheletes you admire! on a different tip, choosing cathy freeman to light tha fire was a most progressive decision by the old guard - it broke and will continue to break many more barriers. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2000 10:44 AM Subject: [313] Let's Talk Techno
Here's something to spark some much needed critical analysis on this list: if you had to name the fifty best AND most important electronic CD's of the past 25-odd years, what would they be? Here are my picks. I've been working on this for a while; believe me, I have considered most albums people are going to point out are absent. However, I'd love to discuss why you think that record is important. And yes, I do know Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Black Dog, and some others are not on here, and I think I can defend my decisions. -- Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2 (Warp) Autechre: Chiastic Slide (Warp) Balil: Parasight (Rising High) Basic Channel (BCP/EFA) Biosphere: Substrata (All Saints) Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children (Matador/Warp/Skam) Brian Eno: Ambient 1 - Music For Airports (EG) Brian Eno & Harold Budd: Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of Mirrors (EG) B12: Electro-Soma (Warp/AI) B12: Prelude Part 1 (B12) Claude Young: DJ Kicks (Stud!o K7) Carl Craig: Landcruising (Blanco Y Negro) Derrick May: Innovator (Transmat) Derrick May: Mix-Up, Volume 5 (Sony Japan) Detroit Escalator Co.: Soundtrack [313] (Ferox) Dettinger: Intershop (Kompakt) DJ Rolando: The Aztec Mystic Mix (Underground Resistance) DJ Shadow: Endtroducing (Mo'Wax) Fumiya Tanaka: I Am Not a DJ (Sony Japan) Fumiya Tanaka: Mix-Up, Volume 4 (Sony Japan) Future Sound of London: Lifeforms (Astralwerks) Gas: Pop (Mille Plateaux) Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity (Repertoire) Global Communication: 76:14 (Dedicated) Harold Budd w/Brian Eno: The Pearl (EG) I-F: Mixed Up in the Hague, Volume 1 (Panama) Isolee: Rest (Playhouse) Jeff Mills: Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo (React) John Beltran: Earth & Nightfall (R&S/Distance) Kraftwerk: Autobahn (EMI) Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express (Capitol) Kruder & Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions (Stud!o K7) Monolake: Interstate (ml/i) Moodymann: A Silent Introduction (Planet E) Negativland: U2 (SST) Paperclip People: The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich (Planet E) Pete Namlook: Air I&II (Instinct) Placid Angels: The Cry (Peacefrog) Plug: Drum 'n' Bass For Papa (Nothing/Blue Planet) Reload: A Collection of Short Stories (Infonet) Sterac: The Secret Life of Machines (100% Pure) Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (Virgin) Tangerine Dream: Rubycon (Virgin) Terrence Parker: Tragedies of a Plastic Soul Junkie (Stud!o K7) Tetsu Inoue: World Receiver (Instinct) The KLF: Chill Out (TVT/Wax Trax) The Martian: LBK-6251876 (Red Planet) Theo Parrish: Sound Signature Sounds (Sound Signature) The Orb's Adventures Through the Ultraworld (Island) The Philosophy of Sound and Machine (A.R.T./Rephlex) Underground Resistance: Revolution For Change (Network) -- This list is _far_ from finished. I haven't gotten these CD's yet, that will in all probability make it on and replace less potent discs: Dettinger: Oasis Thomas Brinkmann: Rosa Moodymann: Forevernevermore Jedi Knights retrospective So, of course, as good albums appear, I will update this, although new releases would have to be something else to break through with CD's of the above caliber. Also, I am not sure whether Drexciya's "The Quest" should be included....if anyone has a good argument either way, let's talk. It's been a while since I remember an intricate, articulate 313 debate. Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
