Great to see electronica being mentioned in audiophile circles. I love my jazz and vocal very much but from an audible and emotional point of view electronic music will truly push the boundaries of your hifi system... make it shine.
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There are a lot of good sounding ones: Orbital - "Wonky" / Tosca - "Dehli9" / Four Tet - "New Energy" / Photek - "DJ-Kicks" / Sven Van Hees - "Svensei" / Amon Tobin - "Fear In A Handful Of Dust" / Bjørn Torske - "Byen " / Phil France - "Circle"
As much as I like Orbital, their releases since 2004’s blue album sound horrible to me. They’ve been using the same mastering engineer. I cannot listen to them without drastically bringing down the upper frequencies. I love the track “Stringy Acid” on Wonky but it hurts my ears.
thank you for not doing another VC Prog episode. Your idea is much better. Very interesting selection of experimental music. A list would be very helpful. The K&D Sessions is a real Electronica classic. thanks
Great stuff Michael and a rarely hit on topic. Some of these were new to me and I took some notes while watching it on repeat. Alva Noto is totally new to me as is Still und Dunkel. After seeing the Still und Dunkel cover again, I had to go off and sample that one. I like it! I am going to be picking that one up for sure. Trentemøller is one of my favorites and I have been following him since almost the start of his career. In the United States, this kind of music is really underground and much of it needs to be imported from Europe. I was lucky enough to get exposed to it living in Russia and then later in Muenchen. I miss that we don't have shops that cater to electronic music. In Muenchen, there were a couple of really good shops that I would frequent on the weekends.
I've had the K&D session on CD for years. On the recommendation from last week I also picked up the 5 disc vinyl edition. Very much looking forward to a listening session once my amp comes back from repair.
Ur gonna be blowed away!! But the vinyl ed. hans't got the mixing flow, where everything is connected and no pause, as u of course has to turn that damn record, every 15-20 min ;-) But the vinyl box-set, is worth every penny.
I'm a little lagging behind with Jarre, Vangelis, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and Glitch Mob. Thank you for these recommendations, will seek them out! Electronica genre is way underappreciated by audiophiles: they can create so deep an atmosphere, that we can literally feel the air changing and reality shifting. (No worries, I only drink tea, but no other "substance" - it's the music playing the magic.) They present us truly transformative experiences. However, an excellent system is a must, most audiofile systems have too strong voicing for specific genres and labels to be able to play these wonderful music. Aloha from Hawaii!
You are so often on point that I have dived in and bought all 4 of the albums you have recommended for a gentle intro - Looking forward to dropping the needle on these albums. I've always been a fan of electronic music but really have quite a conservative or even poppy collection. It's about time I took a proper deep dive into the genre.
Thank you for posting this video. I enjoy watching your videos because of this type of content. I would encourage you to post more videos about well recorded electronic music.
On your recommendation I ordered the Kruder record from a German supplier, arrived a few days ago, sounds incredible and I am not an electronic music fan, absolutely love it !
Thank you for sharing Michael. More of this stuff would be really interesting for next videos! Also to encourage us to collect more electronic music. This music has powerful textures and sounds that allow us to feel music diferent.
Big shout out for the Trentemoller recommendation. Listened to the side with the Nightcrawler for a week straight. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you !! Very enjoyable record. Very much so. Glad to have it in my collection now.
Again appreciate the references to great electronic music. I am exploring it more and more. (I would also be very interested in a prog video of course).
I enjoy Alva Noto very much. I first became aware of him by way of his collatorations with Ryuichi Sakamoto about twenty years ago. I am also a fan of Frank Bretscheider's work.
Michael, I’m new to your channel by way of the UHQR livestream. Your first two here are mind blowing for me, especially Alva Noto. I don’t know ANYONE else who’s ever even heard the UNI triptych, let alone treasured it as much as I do. I have VRS and EQAV on vinyl and they’re wonderful. Thanks for introducing me to XEROX and some of the others in this episode. One I would like to share with you is French artist AES DANA and his Ultimae label. Some of the smartest, most consistent glitch downtempo IDM I’ve ever heard. It was a friend at Ultimae who introduced me to Alva Noto. Try POLLEN or INKS. Cheers.
Thanks as always Michael...Daft Punk RAM ..Good shout from @vinylgourmet.., very important album..I loved the K&D sessions.. thinking very hard whether I want it on vinyl..the CD is glorious
What a great list there Mikael. Krüder/Dorfmeister DJ Kicks is a great collection of fine tuned electronic mixes and music. Tosco u just must have..!! Great that Trentemøller found he's way into your list. Trentemøller's albums sounds really really good on a good system, and he is all over the place, in terms of sounds and genres. Kasper Björk is also an artist to regionalize. But should i pick only one titel over them all, it must be Lulu Rouge/Bless U album, which also is a Danish collaboration. If u wanna know how deep your low ends are...then this album from Lulu Rouge or Kasper Björk is the one! Cheers from Denmark
@@Michael45RPM The K&D Sessions, The Last Resort, and Unfold. I already ordered the Resort and Unfold. Currently looking for a good price on K&D. Edit: I have ordered all 3. These will be a great addition to my collection.
@@Michael45RPM hello I watch all of your videos and enjoy them all. It would be great if you could put in the comments or pinned at the top the artists and albums you recommend here as I would like to listen but can’t find them or know the spelling of the German names or band names.
Really enjoyed the video. Have ordered the Alan Noto and Garbor Lazar. If you get chance have a listen to Felix Laband and his album Dark Days Exit, stunning album in everyway. Thanks for making these videos Michael. I have just been looking at the Jazz ones you have posted and enjoyed them too. I am slowly dipping my toes in the Jazz ocean.
I was desperately striving to keep up with you, while sampling each offering on Tidal! I already have the K+D Sessions, although only the CD box not the vinyl. I'll definitely be picking up the Trentmoller one, and possibly the Autechre too, although I just bought their "5" album and I'm finding it a little impenetrable on first listen. I'm a relatively new convert to the clicky-clicky style, so I may try to find the Alva. Noto Uniqav album. Many thanks for introducing me to all this new electronic music. It can be difficult to just "take a punt" on completely new artistes, so your recommendations are incredibly useful!
I recently watched this inspiring video of electronic music. Though I am still more into CD's, most titles are available on that medium too. I am blown away by Still und Dunkel, what an amazing ambiance they created there. And as mentioned, the sound quality is marvelous.
Hello Micheal , you have a great channel and great taste in music not heard of many of these electronic artists but being from the UK i am a big fan of Autechre and Burial who i think is a youngster from south london,thank you for all the recommendations.
A couple of friends that I grew up with are a duo called Koma & Bones. They did some stuff with Kruder & Dorfmeister, I don't remember if it was remixes or a collaboration, they worked with some really cool people such as Renegade Soundwave and Tranquility bass amongst others. The K&D album you showed is excellent. I only have a CD but even that sounds well above average.
Very surprised about this music style in your collection! Great selection (as always..) my recommendations: Loscil - Equivalents, FSOL - My Kingdom, Boards of Canada is A MUST, maybe start with Geogaddi, Jon Hopkins - Immunity, Rival Consoles - Persona, System - system (scape13LP), Helios - Eingya, Talvin Singh - OK. Well, its a start. Enjoy the dynamics! Cheers
The work of electronic and soundtrack composer Wojciech Golczewski is quite interesting and hypnotic, usually released on vinyl on by the Death Waltz Recording Company.
I have a great 3 Lp compilation set in my collection which i can greatly recommend if you want to get into electronic music. It is called Hungry 5 - the best of 5 years. It includes one lp each of worakls, n’to and joachim pastor and i think this is great for someone just getting into electronic music. Its also a bit more melodic than for instance some of the albums (that are of course also great albums!) that Michael mentioned in the video, which maybe makes for a kind of smoother way into this kind of music.
I must say Thank you for the Trentemøller and Burial albums. I bought them and they are stunning. Just amazing. I also ordered the stil uns dunkel album, but that might take untill april before i get it. Never knew i liked this kind of music.😊
Great selection of yours. I also recommend anything Burial has put out so far, literally anything. "Konstellaatio" by Ø (Mika Vainio) is also a rather impressive piece of ambient/minimal IDM.
As someone whose idea of electronic music begins and ends with names like Brian Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Klaus Schultz, this was a very informative video. I am going sample and explore further these titles and artists. Great video, as usual.
Thank you for a very interesting topic, I don’t have enough electronic music and your video has tempted me once again. One point if I may, it would be useful if you could include the names of the artists and titles below. It would help to make the subsequent search more easy. Thank you once again.
Hi Michael excellent selection all these are new to me. I am listening on tidal will get on vinyl of not too pricey. I playing on my system consisting of Cambridge audio cnx steamer, cxa81 amp into 80s celestion Ditton 2 speakers, for vinyl a regs p3 with ortofon Blue into Graham slee communicator phono preamp . The Trentemollet release excellent. Keep up the great content 🙂
Good to see some electronic and minimal IDM picks. I am a big fan of Vladislav Delay and Jan Jelenik. Maybe some Pole as well for deep dub electronic. Stillnsoumds crisp and fresh today as 20 years ago
Excellent video, thank you I am really looking forward to checking some of those out. Have you heard Ecstatic Computation by Caterina Barbieri? Great sounding album.
The newer electronic releases have incredible bass frequencies. From artists like Monolake, Apex Twin, Planetary Assault Systems or Deadbeat. I know what you mean about letting go of records from my collection. I grew up with Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. To my regret I gave up my Kraftwerk first pressings collection. Something I should never have done in retrospect.
Great selection Michael. On vinyl I also strongly recommend psychic by darkside (nicolas jaar) and the 2013 audio fidelity pressing of Blade Runner (mastered by Kevin Gray)... both sound incredible on a good system.
Picked up a few of these great recommendations thank you. Particularly enjoying Trentemoller and Burial - and they sound great! I have a recommendation for you - check out Roisin Murphy I think you’ll really enjoy her - fantastic stuff. Try ‘Hairless Toys’, ‘Take her up to Monto’, and ‘Roisin Machine.’
Hi Michael Great choices, I have added some to my list I would like to recommend the following Pole - Fading Craven Faults - Erratics and Unconformities Plaid - Polymer Floating Points - Crush Just wondering if you listen to more contemporary jazz artists such as Mammal Hands and Matthew Halsall too? Keep up the great work🙏🏼
yeah.. but everybody has its own genre borders.. for example i never would call the kruder dorfmeister album "electronic" (although still EVERYBODY should have this absolute classic in his collection!) ..and michael.. if you do not call XX electronic, then try the solo album by Jamie XX ..its sort of burial style 😁 fantastic album although at least the first pressings were not that good quality..
Until very recently I was restricting my new vinyl purchases to titles that were obviously analogue in origin (e.g. jazz, classical, etc.). All new electronic purchases were on CD. The logic was that it didn't make sense to spend the extra money on electronic vinyl when the music was obviously digital in origin. I'm beginning to rethink that since watching your video on the Kraftwerk albums. I was pleasantly surprise by the sound quality when I bought them. Now I'm buying more electronic music on vinyl. I'm still very selective as this stuff is expensive but I'm liking the rediscovery of titles I've had for years on CD.
This is an inspired move, as indeed, most people are confused betwwen the concepts of electronic and digital. Electronic doesn't mean digital, but even when it does, it's more complicated than that, as the mixing and mastering in electronic music can be a big part of the artistic creation. An analogue tape pre-mix of a digital recording can be a well thought and informed creative choice.
@@StuntrockConfusion , i do think that all the microdetails and the very low frequencies tend to be not so well reproduced on vinyl. It's very difficult to have a "black blackground"/silence on vinyl, even on very expensive record players.
Greetings from Bochum, thank you again for your recommendations, my favorit Nicolas Jaar is Space Is Only Noise, try also Apparat LP5, or Moderat, Christian Loeffler (Graal or Lys), Hvob trialog, Jon Hopkins Immunity…and shlomo, i.e. bad vibes on vinyl… I will check out the other recommendation here below too…
Hey! I've been away for a while. I broke a shoulder. It will take some months to return to normal life (first thing I'll do will be your coils!). What a great choice! I love Alva Noto's music. Do you have "Live 2002" with Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and Mika Vainio? It's a killer release. Noton releases great quality music for recording quality and vinyl too. Autechre are incredible, as you said they look as if they are from another world. Stay safe and thank you for sharing.
Great video, with a tip or two, even for me as an electronica fan. I understand why such a list is finite and not everyone can make it on it, but would still like to know why the Berlin Moderat did not manage to be mentioned. Especially the completely analog recorded debut album is, in my opinion, at least top 10 in terms of sound. Thanks!
Eine sehr gute Auswahl. Fünf davon kannte ich und fünf habe ich neu für mich entdecken dürfen. An dieser Stelle möchte ich Dir noch zwei audiophille elektronische Platten empfehlen. Zum einen „Sleep“ von Max Richter. Wenn gar nichts mehr geht, kannst Du mit dieser Musik ein Wohlfühlbad in Bass und Klavier nehmen. Absolut fein aufgenommen sind auch die Platten „New Light" und „ Autumn Bells" von Gidge. Viel Spaß am Klang.
Thanks for the recommendations. Always interested in challenging my listening tastes. I feel my tastes may go more obscure with age! The Still Und Dunkel album sounds bleak and gripping. Completely different- I have the red vinyl Blade Runner OST on audio fidelity. An awesome pressing!
Michael, it’s Friday afternoon and I am waiting for a new upload 😊. A specific, highly anticipated upload for the Lush Life One Step 😅. I hope it’s coming today 🤞. And that your copy arrived safely.
oh my god.. i think i need to start a youtube VC channel too.. so much to recommend (although i bet you would already know a lot of it), as electronic music is my main path since 1989, but still i do not know everything and need to check out Alva Noto and Gabor Lazar.. never heard of em before! grüße aus nürnberg
Just bought 3 of these, not heard any of the artists before, but listened on streaming and picked Still Dunk, Trentmoller and K&D. Been into Tdream, Schulze etc for decades, Sasha more recently. Great site, costing a few bob, but got the above 3 all for reasonable prices, and Lou Reed Trans other day on your recommendation, after awful Rca box set recently purchased, my original thin 70's vinyl is far better. Perhaps that's the conundrum, you may already have the best version on your shelf from way back, something I'm coming to realise.
extra comment for recommendations now.. - Apparat - Duplex (Shitkatapult 2003) ..sounds like autechre but way more accessible with its wonderful emotional melodies and here and there some vocals.. also would recommend the follow up albums. although he gets a bit more commercial with every album, "walls" and "the devils walk" are amazing too - Skee Mask - Compro (Ilian Tape 2018) ..if you like burial, please check this out! one of my all time favourites! - Global Communication - 76:14 (Dedicated 1994) ..a chillout CLASSIC masterpiece.. - Christian Löffler - Parallels (Deutsche Grammophon 2021).. electronic reworks of historical classical recordings.. but definitely more an electronic album than classical.. and its an amazing pressing.. double 45rpm! ..also check out his first two albums "A Forest" and "Mare" on his own label Ki records.. BEAUTIFUL emotional deep techno'ish music.. - Rauelsson - Mirall (Sonic Pieces 2018).. the predecessor "Vora" os more neo classical, where as this is way more electronic stuff.. and so on and so forth... lalala.. blahblahblah 🤪
I'd like to suggest Oneohtrix Point Never's (OPN) Magic, Floating Point's Crush and Machinedrum's A View of You. And though not necessarily electronic yesterday i heard digitally the new album by artist Duval Timothy called Help which i thought was wonderful. Looking forward to get hold of the vinyl edition
I feel that Xerox 3 is his best one, with Aleph. 4 has one outstanding track, worth the price of admission alone (even if my copy desn't sound good at all). I do find vol 1 and 2 a bit dull, though, lacking tension. Carsten Nicolai founded Noton, so in a way he co founded Raster-Noton ^^. I will soon do my Autechre video, even if it is difficult for me, as it is the one band I have everything on vinyl they ever did. Gabor Lazar, along with Rian Treanor, he is about the future of music, like Autechre was 20 years ago, the most relevant music around in 2021 if you like the idea that the future is a romantic Sci-Fi idea. Of course I highly object to Trentmoeller, Kruder and Burial LP, but hten again, you did ask, hahaha. Seriously, i find the Kruder seriously outdated and irrelevant. Trentmoeller, I just find it cheesy. Burial, some early EPs of his are nice, but this album sounds super cheap IMHO, even lazy in a way. I get what he's trying to do, but it feels like a blueprint, not something fully accomplished. I know I am in the minority there though, but the RnB vocals sampling ets a little tired, and's been done better elsewhere. Nicholas Jaar, I wish I liked him, but I find it lacking a je ne sais quoi as they say over the pond. I think it's just too nice, not powerfull or ambitious. It's too nice and predictable. Only opinions of course, and not the best way to discuss, but that could be a start. One fantastic sounding record that you might find interesting, highly underlooked nowadays, is Phoenecia's Brownout. But of course, there are hundreds others, and we could fill several volumes of heavy books ^^ Glad to see you speak about all that, though, really so.
Great video, thanks! Plenty of good stuff here, I'm going to check out the ones I don't already know asap. Are you a fan of Tim Hecker?? If you haven't already, a good starting point is his album "Ravedeath, 1972" Cheers!
Hey cool selection. I have an off topic question 😁 Where did you get those openable gatefold sleeves from? I was able to locate a Canadian company manufacturing but no options over here in Europe as far as I know.
My copy of Unieqav has just arrived as well as Moby's Reprise on Deutsche Grammaphon - can't wait to get them on the deck. Unfortunately work needs to be done before :-(
@@Michael45RPM I have now listened to Unieqav, Burial and Forest Swords. Unieqav - I agree it is a great sounding audiophile, brilliantly produced production, you can tell Alva Noto comes from the fine arts rather than from a connection with underground electronica. I listened to disc 1 late at night with the volume [too] low but this needs a good volume to work at its best. Burial - great album, great sound, great production and you can definitely hear the link to to underground music scene and I preferred it to Unieqav. But Forest Swords - wow what a brilliant record. That record took me places Uniqav just isn't capable of doing. Unieqav felt like a walk around a contemporary art gallery ie you are sat thinking that's a nice sound etc but leaves you wondering sometimes. But Forest Swords was able to take me on a journey - just a shame the journey was disturbed when it was time to turn the record over. I'll be looking for his other work now. I also purchased Alva Moto with Ryuichi Sakamoto - Two Live in Sydney - but not listened to it yet. Thanks for the recommendations Michael - they are brilliant. Have you heard/listened to UNKLE?
hat mich dann mal wieder 100 euro gekostet Dein Video und ich wollte mal 30 Tage nichts mehr bestellen und alles mal in Ruhe hören, was noch hier verpackt rumliegt. *heul* aber die Trentmöller war schon lange auf der Liste aber ist irgendwie in Vergessenheit geraten.
just got the Alva Noto - Unieqav....WOW. Absolute sick Vinyl. reminds me a bit of "Assault On Precinct 13" ...80ies synth...pressing is nice. recommend.
So excited about this video of yours and to get some recommendations for electronica from an audiophile perspective. Love the KD Sessions - saw them live in Vienna back in the day and recently got my Vinyl 5-disc copy. Greetings from a fellow German across the pond. Big big fan of your channel - you helped me get through 2020 - and I have been learning so much about pressings, mastering etc PS: left a hidden Groenemeyer “poke” for you in my one and only video.
@@Michael45RPM 😉 after I posted the video got some cold feet - so I added a lengthy message making it known everything I said was 100% in good spirit!!
Nice to see an audiophile music lover having such great taste
Many still turn their nose up at Electronic artists
So I purchased Autechre SIGN.
Wow, I was transported.
Absolutely incredible
Great to see electronica being mentioned in audiophile circles. I love my jazz and vocal very much but from an audible and emotional point of view electronic music will truly push the boundaries of your hifi system... make it shine.
Absolutely
Great picks. I’m happy to see someone bringing Electronic artists in the vinyl community. Too much jazz and rock from the past sometimes.
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There are a lot of good sounding ones: Orbital - "Wonky" / Tosca - "Dehli9" / Four Tet - "New Energy" / Photek - "DJ-Kicks" / Sven Van Hees - "Svensei" / Amon Tobin - "Fear In A Handful Of Dust" / Bjørn Torske - "Byen
" / Phil France - "Circle"
As much as I like Orbital, their releases since 2004’s blue album sound horrible to me. They’ve been using the same mastering engineer. I cannot listen to them without drastically bringing down the upper frequencies. I love the track “Stringy Acid” on Wonky but it hurts my ears.
Thank you for showing me completely new sphere of music that I completely ignored thus far. It is exciting and new for me!
thank you for not doing another VC Prog episode. Your idea is much better. Very interesting selection of experimental music. A list would be very helpful. The K&D Sessions is a real Electronica classic. thanks
Great to see some Autechre on the VC!
I agree we want more Autechre in the VC!
Yep pity elseq was not released on vinyl Ae rule
Great stuff Michael and a rarely hit on topic. Some of these were new to me and I took some notes while watching it on repeat. Alva Noto is totally new to me as is Still und Dunkel. After seeing the Still und Dunkel cover again, I had to go off and sample that one. I like it! I am going to be picking that one up for sure. Trentemøller is one of my favorites and I have been following him since almost the start of his career.
In the United States, this kind of music is really underground and much of it needs to be imported from Europe. I was lucky enough to get exposed to it living in Russia and then later in Muenchen. I miss that we don't have shops that cater to electronic music. In Muenchen, there were a couple of really good shops that I would frequent on the weekends.
I've had the K&D session on CD for years. On the recommendation from last week I also picked up the 5 disc vinyl edition. Very much looking forward to a listening session once my amp comes back from repair.
Ur gonna be blowed away!! But the vinyl ed. hans't got the mixing flow, where everything is connected and no pause, as u of course has to turn that damn record, every 15-20 min ;-) But the vinyl box-set, is worth every penny.
I'm a little lagging behind with Jarre, Vangelis, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, and Glitch Mob. Thank you for these recommendations, will seek them out! Electronica genre is way underappreciated by audiophiles: they can create so deep an atmosphere, that we can literally feel the air changing and reality shifting. (No worries, I only drink tea, but no other "substance" - it's the music playing the magic.) They present us truly transformative experiences. However, an excellent system is a must, most audiofile systems have too strong voicing for specific genres and labels to be able to play these wonderful music. Aloha from Hawaii!
I remember seeing Autechre at an illegal rave in 1989. They were great! Or maybe the ecstasy tablets were great who knows lol??
I've seen Autechre live before and without drugs. It was still quite mind blowing! This was back in the late 90s in Montreal.
Thank you for including Lav & Purl - such a nice surprise!! :-)
i really like your editions
Thank you kindly for these recommendations! This is going to broaden the spectrum of music I enjoy.
Thank you! 🔥❤🔥
You are so often on point that I have dived in and bought all 4 of the albums you have recommended for a gentle intro - Looking forward to dropping the needle on these albums. I've always been a fan of electronic music but really have quite a conservative or even poppy collection. It's about time I took a proper deep dive into the genre.
Did not expect you to be into Autechre, happy to be wrong on this occasion.
Great video Michael. Greetings from Minnesota, USA. You have given me great recommendations, as has this brilliant comments section.
Thank you for posting this video. I enjoy watching your videos because of this type of content. I would encourage you to post more videos about well recorded electronic music.
On your recommendation I ordered the Kruder record from a German supplier, arrived a few days ago, sounds incredible and I am not an electronic music fan, absolutely love it !
Thank you for sharing Michael. More of this stuff would be really interesting for next videos! Also to encourage us to collect more electronic music. This music has powerful textures and sounds that allow us to feel music diferent.
Big shout out for the Trentemoller recommendation. Listened to the side with the Nightcrawler for a week straight. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you !! Very enjoyable record. Very much so. Glad to have it in my collection now.
Again appreciate the references to great electronic music. I am exploring it more and more. (I would also be very interested in a prog video of course).
Thank you for your recommendations. I'll give them all a listen.
I enjoy Alva Noto very much. I first became aware of him by way of his collatorations with Ryuichi Sakamoto about twenty years ago. I am also a fan of Frank Bretscheider's work.
Michael, I’m new to your channel by way of the UHQR livestream. Your first two here are mind blowing for me, especially Alva Noto. I don’t know ANYONE else who’s ever even heard the UNI triptych, let alone treasured it as much as I do. I have VRS and EQAV on vinyl and they’re wonderful. Thanks for introducing me to XEROX and some of the others in this episode. One I would like to share with you is French artist AES DANA and his Ultimae label. Some of the smartest, most consistent glitch downtempo IDM I’ve ever heard. It was a friend at Ultimae who introduced me to Alva Noto. Try POLLEN or INKS. Cheers.
Thank you for the suggestions. I ordered Still und Dunkel - “Abandoned”.
Thank you for the great recommendations, I was in need of some new discoveries!
Thanks as always Michael...Daft Punk RAM ..Good shout from @vinylgourmet.., very important album..I loved the K&D sessions.. thinking very hard whether I want it on vinyl..the CD is glorious
wow, nice Selection of music Michael !
Jetzt erst gesehen! Danke. An den Platten, die ich noch nicht kannte, kann ich mich kaum satthören… Ich bin sehr gespannt auf alva noto auf Vinyl!
What a great list there Mikael. Krüder/Dorfmeister DJ Kicks is a great collection of fine tuned electronic mixes and music. Tosco u just must have..!! Great that Trentemøller found he's way into your list. Trentemøller's albums sounds really really good on a good system, and he is all over the place, in terms of sounds and genres. Kasper Björk is also an artist to regionalize. But should i pick only one titel over them all, it must be Lulu Rouge/Bless U album, which also is a Danish collaboration. If u wanna know how deep your low ends are...then this album from Lulu Rouge or Kasper Björk is the one! Cheers from Denmark
Thank you for showing these. I sampled them all on my streaming service and really liked 3 of them. They are now on my vinyl wishlist.
which Editions did you like?
@@Michael45RPM The K&D Sessions, The Last Resort, and Unfold. I already ordered the Resort and Unfold. Currently looking for a good price on K&D.
Edit: I have ordered all 3. These will be a great addition to my collection.
@@Michael45RPM hello I watch all of your videos and enjoy them all. It would be great if you could put in the comments or pinned at the top the artists and albums you recommend here as I would like to listen but can’t find them or know the spelling of the German names or band names.
Pure passion.
Fantastic.
Intoxicating.
Audiophile delight.
That cannot be avoided.
Neither does woman. :-)
❤️Heike
Really enjoyed the video. Have ordered the Alan Noto and Garbor Lazar. If you get chance have a listen to Felix Laband and his album Dark Days Exit, stunning album in everyway. Thanks for making these videos Michael. I have just been looking at the Jazz ones you have posted and enjoyed them too. I am slowly dipping my toes in the Jazz ocean.
You've really opened m up to electronic music...thanks
Superb! More electronic music Michael! ✊🎯
Magnificent inspiration. Thanks. Six albums ordered. Looking forward to experience them on vinyl. /Claus
Thank you for the recommendations.
I was desperately striving to keep up with you, while sampling each offering on Tidal! I already have the K+D Sessions, although only the CD box not the vinyl. I'll definitely be picking up the Trentmoller one, and possibly the Autechre too, although I just bought their "5" album and I'm finding it a little impenetrable on first listen. I'm a relatively new convert to the clicky-clicky style, so I may try to find the Alva. Noto Uniqav album.
Many thanks for introducing me to all this new electronic music. It can be difficult to just "take a punt" on completely new artistes, so your recommendations are incredibly useful!
I recently watched this inspiring video of electronic music. Though I am still more into CD's, most titles are available on that medium too. I am blown away by Still und Dunkel, what an amazing ambiance they created there. And as mentioned, the sound quality is marvelous.
Hello Micheal , you have a great channel and great taste in music not heard of many of these electronic artists but being from the UK i am a big fan of Autechre and Burial who i think is a youngster from south london,thank you for all the recommendations.
Thanks for the review and recommendations. A few new artists that I will definitely check out!
The Alvo Noto Unieqav album is something quite spectacular!!
A couple of friends that I grew up with are a duo called Koma & Bones. They did some stuff with Kruder & Dorfmeister, I don't remember if it was remixes or a collaboration, they worked with some really cool people such as Renegade Soundwave and Tranquility bass amongst others. The K&D album you showed is excellent. I only have a CD but even that sounds well above average.
Very surprised about this music style in your collection! Great selection (as always..) my recommendations: Loscil - Equivalents, FSOL - My Kingdom, Boards of Canada is A MUST, maybe start with Geogaddi, Jon Hopkins - Immunity, Rival Consoles - Persona, System - system (scape13LP), Helios - Eingya, Talvin Singh - OK. Well, its a start. Enjoy the dynamics! Cheers
The work of electronic and soundtrack composer Wojciech Golczewski is quite interesting and hypnotic, usually released on vinyl on by the Death Waltz Recording Company.
This is indeed a great topic. Especially with all lofi genre today. it's really hard to listen high quality produced eletronic music nowadays
Gerade die Alva Noto gehört - oder besser gesagt genossen. War für ein Klangerlebnis! Wow! Danke ...
I have a great 3 Lp compilation set in my collection which i can greatly recommend if you want to get into electronic music. It is called Hungry 5 - the best of 5 years. It includes one lp each of worakls, n’to and joachim pastor and i think this is great for someone just getting into electronic music. Its also a bit more melodic than for instance some of the albums (that are of course also great albums!) that Michael mentioned in the video, which maybe makes for a kind of smoother way into this kind of music.
I must say Thank you for the Trentemøller and Burial albums. I bought them and they are stunning. Just amazing.
I also ordered the stil uns dunkel album, but that might take untill april before i get it.
Never knew i liked this kind of music.😊
Great video ! I recommend Jon Hopkins / Singularity
Great selection of yours. I also recommend anything Burial has put out so far, literally anything. "Konstellaatio" by Ø (Mika Vainio) is also a rather impressive piece of ambient/minimal IDM.
I love love LOOOOOOVE Burial’s 2020 single “Chemz” but it kinda sounds like sh*t to be honest - lacking in bass and harsh thin sounding treble.
As someone whose idea of electronic music begins and ends with names like Brian Eno, Cluster, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Klaus Schultz, this was a very informative video. I am going sample and explore further these titles and artists. Great video, as usual.
Thank you for a very interesting topic, I don’t have enough electronic music and your video has tempted me once again. One point if I may, it would be useful if you could include the names of the artists and titles below. It would help to make the subsequent search more easy. Thank you once again.
Great video
Hi Michael excellent selection all these are new to me. I am listening on tidal will get on vinyl of not too pricey. I playing on my system consisting of Cambridge audio cnx steamer, cxa81 amp into 80s celestion Ditton 2 speakers, for vinyl a regs p3 with ortofon Blue into Graham slee communicator phono preamp . The Trentemollet release excellent. Keep up the great content 🙂
Good to see some electronic and minimal IDM picks. I am a big fan of Vladislav Delay and Jan Jelenik. Maybe some Pole as well for deep dub electronic. Stillnsoumds crisp and fresh today as 20 years ago
Great to see Autechre but also a little bit surprised that you didn't show any aphex twin.
Excellent video, thank you I am really looking forward to checking some of those out. Have you heard Ecstatic Computation by Caterina Barbieri? Great sounding album.
The newer electronic releases have incredible bass frequencies. From artists like Monolake, Apex Twin, Planetary Assault Systems or Deadbeat. I know what you mean about letting go of records from my collection. I grew up with Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. To my regret I gave up my Kraftwerk first pressings collection. Something I should never have done in retrospect.
Great selection Michael. On vinyl I also strongly recommend psychic by darkside (nicolas jaar) and the 2013 audio fidelity pressing of Blade Runner (mastered by Kevin Gray)... both sound incredible on a good system.
Picked up a few of these great recommendations thank you. Particularly enjoying Trentemoller and Burial - and they sound great! I have a recommendation for you - check out Roisin Murphy I think you’ll really enjoy her - fantastic stuff. Try ‘Hairless Toys’, ‘Take her up to Monto’, and ‘Roisin Machine.’
Hi Michael
Great choices, I have added some to my list
I would like to recommend the following
Pole - Fading
Craven Faults - Erratics and Unconformities
Plaid - Polymer
Floating Points - Crush
Just wondering if you listen to more contemporary jazz artists such as Mammal Hands and Matthew Halsall too?
Keep up the great work🙏🏼
First The XX album on vinyl LP sounds really good, deep, dynamic, full and alive.
I do not think the XX belongs in this ,list, although i really like them!
@@Michael45RPM oh sorry about that, these genres tend to overlap a bit and I didn't realize that ;)
yeah.. but everybody has its own genre borders.. for example i never would call the kruder dorfmeister album "electronic" (although still EVERYBODY should have this absolute classic in his collection!) ..and michael.. if you do not call XX electronic, then try the solo album by Jamie XX ..its sort of burial style 😁 fantastic album although at least the first pressings were not that good quality..
i agree on the Jamie Solo stuft
Until very recently I was restricting my new vinyl purchases to titles that were obviously analogue in origin (e.g. jazz, classical, etc.). All new electronic purchases were on CD. The logic was that it didn't make sense to spend the extra money on electronic vinyl when the music was obviously digital in origin. I'm beginning to rethink that since watching your video on the Kraftwerk albums. I was pleasantly surprise by the sound quality when I bought them. Now I'm buying more electronic music on vinyl. I'm still very selective as this stuff is expensive but I'm liking the rediscovery of titles I've had for years on CD.
You probably will get surprised by some of the titles :-)
This is an inspired move, as indeed, most people are confused betwwen the concepts of electronic and digital. Electronic doesn't mean digital, but even when it does, it's more complicated than that, as the mixing and mastering in electronic music can be a big part of the artistic creation. An analogue tape pre-mix of a digital recording can be a well thought and informed creative choice.
In my opinion, electronic music sounds much better on CD.
@@rasardo1 may I ask what makes you think so?
@@StuntrockConfusion , i do think that all the microdetails and the very low frequencies tend to be not so well reproduced on vinyl. It's very difficult to have a "black blackground"/silence on vinyl, even on very expensive record players.
Some others I would recommend: Tosca Suzuki 2LP / Tycho Dive / and of course Daft Punk Random Access Memories ;)
The Tosca releases on vinyl is also pretty sweet looking art and covers. All Tosca albums sounds good (imo).
I watched this video again this time I bought the Alva Noto that is so important plus Burial, you cost me a lot of money my friend 🤣
Great review
Amazing music sir. Thank you!! Have you found a big difference in the vinyl versions compared to file or CD?
Greetings from Bochum, thank you again for your recommendations, my favorit Nicolas Jaar is Space Is Only Noise, try also Apparat LP5, or Moderat, Christian Loeffler (Graal or Lys), Hvob trialog, Jon Hopkins Immunity…and shlomo, i.e. bad vibes on vinyl…
I will check out the other recommendation here below too…
Hey! I've been away for a while. I broke a shoulder. It will take some months to return to normal life (first thing I'll do will be your coils!). What a great choice! I love Alva Noto's music. Do you have "Live 2002" with Alva Noto, Ryoji Ikeda and Mika Vainio? It's a killer release. Noton releases great quality music for recording quality and vinyl too. Autechre are incredible, as you said they look as if they are from another world. Stay safe and thank you for sharing.
When doing best of lists please list the album/bands in the description. I can’t make out a lot of these names, mostly how to spell them.
Great video, with a tip or two, even for me as an electronica fan. I understand why such a list is finite and not everyone can make it on it, but would still like to know why the Berlin Moderat did not manage to be mentioned. Especially the completely analog recorded debut album is, in my opinion, at least top 10 in terms of sound. Thanks!
Eine sehr gute Auswahl. Fünf davon kannte ich und fünf habe ich neu für mich entdecken dürfen. An dieser Stelle möchte ich Dir noch zwei audiophille elektronische Platten empfehlen. Zum einen „Sleep“ von Max Richter. Wenn gar nichts mehr geht, kannst Du mit dieser Musik ein Wohlfühlbad in Bass und Klavier nehmen. Absolut fein aufgenommen sind auch die Platten „New Light" und „ Autumn Bells" von Gidge. Viel Spaß am Klang.
Thanks for the recommendations. Always interested in challenging my listening tastes. I feel my tastes may go more obscure with age! The Still Und Dunkel album sounds bleak and gripping. Completely different- I have the red vinyl Blade Runner OST on audio fidelity. An awesome pressing!
I’ve been searching for that K&D for a long while. Need to pick that one up!
I would also suggest Oneohtrix Point Never.
I use electronica for evaluating my system
Michael, it’s Friday afternoon and I am waiting for a new upload 😊. A specific, highly anticipated upload for the Lush Life One Step 😅. I hope it’s coming today 🤞.
And that your copy arrived safely.
No its not here yet ....
oh my god.. i think i need to start a youtube VC channel too.. so much to recommend (although i bet you would already know a lot of it), as electronic music is my main path since 1989, but still i do not know everything and need to check out Alva Noto and Gabor Lazar.. never heard of em before! grüße aus nürnberg
Just bought 3 of these, not heard any of the artists before, but listened on streaming and picked Still Dunk, Trentmoller and K&D. Been into Tdream, Schulze etc for decades, Sasha more recently. Great site, costing a few bob, but got the above 3 all for reasonable prices, and Lou Reed Trans other day on your recommendation, after awful Rca box set recently purchased, my original thin 70's vinyl is far better. Perhaps that's the conundrum, you may already have the best version on your shelf from way back, something I'm coming to realise.
extra comment for recommendations now..
- Apparat - Duplex (Shitkatapult 2003) ..sounds like autechre but way more accessible with its wonderful emotional melodies and here and there some vocals.. also would recommend the follow up albums. although he gets a bit more commercial with every album, "walls" and "the devils walk" are amazing too
- Skee Mask - Compro (Ilian Tape 2018) ..if you like burial, please check this out! one of my all time favourites!
- Global Communication - 76:14 (Dedicated 1994) ..a chillout CLASSIC masterpiece..
- Christian Löffler - Parallels (Deutsche Grammophon 2021).. electronic reworks of historical classical recordings.. but definitely more an electronic album than classical.. and its an amazing pressing.. double 45rpm! ..also check out his first two albums "A Forest" and "Mare" on his own label Ki records.. BEAUTIFUL emotional deep techno'ish music..
- Rauelsson - Mirall (Sonic Pieces 2018).. the predecessor "Vora" os more neo classical, where as this is way more electronic stuff..
and so on and so forth... lalala.. blahblahblah 🤪
Hi there, I picked up K&D Sessions , Trentemoller , Alva Noto. Thanks for tips.
I'd like to suggest Oneohtrix Point Never's (OPN) Magic, Floating Point's Crush and Machinedrum's A View of You. And though not necessarily electronic yesterday i heard digitally the new album by artist Duval Timothy called Help which i thought was wonderful. Looking forward to get hold of the vinyl edition
Can you list out the artist and albums in the description to make it easier to search them out.
Buy Tripping With Nils Frahm. Believe me. Great live album. Sounds fantastic.
auch sehr gut ist die lp erstpressung von oxygene von Jarre.
und In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country von Boards of Canada.
Love K&D buy their latest release 1995 just as good love everything they release
I feel that Xerox 3 is his best one, with Aleph. 4 has one outstanding track, worth the price of admission alone (even if my copy desn't sound good at all). I do find vol 1 and 2 a bit dull, though, lacking tension. Carsten Nicolai founded Noton, so in a way he co founded Raster-Noton ^^. I will soon do my Autechre video, even if it is difficult for me, as it is the one band I have everything on vinyl they ever did. Gabor Lazar, along with Rian Treanor, he is about the future of music, like Autechre was 20 years ago, the most relevant music around in 2021 if you like the idea that the future is a romantic Sci-Fi idea. Of course I highly object to Trentmoeller, Kruder and Burial LP, but hten again, you did ask, hahaha. Seriously, i find the Kruder seriously outdated and irrelevant. Trentmoeller, I just find it cheesy. Burial, some early EPs of his are nice, but this album sounds super cheap IMHO, even lazy in a way. I get what he's trying to do, but it feels like a blueprint, not something fully accomplished. I know I am in the minority there though, but the RnB vocals sampling ets a little tired, and's been done better elsewhere. Nicholas Jaar, I wish I liked him, but I find it lacking a je ne sais quoi as they say over the pond. I think it's just too nice, not powerfull or ambitious. It's too nice and predictable. Only opinions of course, and not the best way to discuss, but that could be a start. One fantastic sounding record that you might find interesting, highly underlooked nowadays, is Phoenecia's Brownout. But of course, there are hundreds others, and we could fill several volumes of heavy books ^^
Glad to see you speak about all that, though, really so.
@@FredPutterman oh, you didn’t “sir” me here, hahaha
great!
Alva Noto not accepted by my neighbors. The sub almost crushed the ground floor
Great video, thanks! Plenty of good stuff here, I'm going to check out the ones I don't already know asap. Are you a fan of Tim Hecker?? If you haven't already, a good starting point is his album "Ravedeath, 1972" Cheers!
Tim Hecker is great!!!
Hey cool selection. I have an off topic question 😁 Where did you get those openable gatefold sleeves from? I was able to locate a Canadian company manufacturing but no options over here in Europe as far as I know.
Hey Antonello just look threw my Videos there are 3 about this topic
you should try CONNECT.OHM album 9980, beautiful ambient music and astonishing recording and pressing
My copy of Unieqav has just arrived as well as Moby's Reprise on Deutsche Grammaphon - can't wait to get them on the deck. Unfortunately work needs to be done before :-(
Tell me how you like it :-)
@@Michael45RPM I have now listened to Unieqav, Burial and Forest Swords. Unieqav - I agree it is a great sounding audiophile, brilliantly produced production, you can tell Alva Noto comes from the fine arts rather than from a connection with underground electronica. I listened to disc 1 late at night with the volume [too] low but this needs a good volume to work at its best. Burial - great album, great sound, great production and you can definitely hear the link to to underground music scene and I preferred it to Unieqav. But Forest Swords - wow what a brilliant record. That record took me places Uniqav just isn't capable of doing. Unieqav felt like a walk around a contemporary art gallery ie you are sat thinking that's a nice sound etc but leaves you wondering sometimes. But Forest Swords was able to take me on a journey - just a shame the journey was disturbed when it was time to turn the record over. I'll be looking for his other work now. I also purchased Alva Moto with Ryuichi Sakamoto - Two Live in Sydney - but not listened to it yet.
Thanks for the recommendations Michael - they are brilliant. Have you heard/listened to UNKLE?
All that German electronic and no Ulrich Schnauss? Nice list though, some artists I have never heard of, thanks for the recommendations.
Any of the GAS albums; my personal favourite is POP
hat mich dann mal wieder 100 euro gekostet Dein Video und ich wollte mal 30 Tage nichts mehr bestellen und alles mal in Ruhe hören, was noch hier verpackt rumliegt. *heul* aber die Trentmöller war schon lange auf der Liste aber ist irgendwie in Vergessenheit geraten.
just got the Alva Noto - Unieqav....WOW. Absolute sick Vinyl. reminds me a bit of "Assault On Precinct 13" ...80ies synth...pressing is nice. recommend.
Have you heard Nils Frahms Melody album, soooooo bloody good!
Nils Frahm is great
@@serge96 I watched an amazing sitting gig in Brighton UK the audience was so silent you could hear a pin drop.
@@churchillsliver2259 The guy 's a genius
Vielen dank for the 20 electronic vynils review... is posible a OXIGENE - JMJ .... gracias for chearing your music-vynil contemplations👍
So excited about this video of yours and to get some recommendations for electronica from an audiophile perspective.
Love the KD Sessions - saw them live in Vienna back in the day and recently got my Vinyl 5-disc copy.
Greetings from a fellow German across the pond.
Big big fan of your channel - you helped me get through 2020 - and I have been learning so much about pressings, mastering etc
PS: left a hidden Groenemeyer “poke” for you in my one and only video.
Hello Double Exposure.. have to search the poke :-)
@@Michael45RPM 😉 after I posted the video got some cold feet - so I added a lengthy message making it known everything I said was 100% in good spirit!!
What microphone do you use? Your sound is great.
It is a Sennheiser
das am besten klingende electronica album welches ich kenne ist computerwelt von kraftwerk. und die scheibe ist von 1981 !