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September 25, 2013 12:24 PM   Subscribe

Help me find more electronic music like this, please.

I've never been a fan of dance music (at all), but music like that is beautiful to me, and I have to imagine there is more out there like it. For what it's worth, I am also a huge Blade Runner soundtrack fan.
posted by Steely-eyed Missile Man to Media & Arts (9 answers total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
Check out Hearts of Space
posted by edgeways at 12:28 PM on September 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


Best answer: Tangerine Dream has some tracks like this. You might look at Brian Eno and more Vangelis, too.
posted by jquinby at 12:33 PM on September 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


Your example is very similar to some of Robert Rich's older stuff incl. Electric Ladder but is more melodic and less rhythmic. Also check out Bernard Xolotl's Procession and Steve Roach circa Structures from Silence. Overall I'd categorize it as the type of ambient music that generally gets described as "space" something-or-other.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 12:36 PM on September 25, 2013


Best answer: Does it bother you if the music has any beat at all?

I second the Tangerine Dream - though IMHO really only the first two thirds of the Virgin years are any good - but they're very good indeed.

If you don't mind a bit of a beat, then consider Jean Michel Jarre's "Oxygene" and "Zoolook". I also love The Orb's "Pomme Fritz" but it's pretty weird (though not as dancey as their other material).

The series of collections "A Brief History of Ambient" has lots of different artists and will get you in the right direction.

Oh, here's a real favorite of mine, seems to have dropped off the radar: "ABoneCroneDrone" by Sheila Chandra. (Skip seeing her in concert though... she gives very short shows where she talks a lot and sings a little...)

A little further afield and somewhat more active is "A Rainbow in Curved Air" by Terry Riley or, if you want something more meditative, "Shri Camel".

Oh, dear, I just discovered that Jorge Reyes died. You'd probably really like any of his later works too...
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 2:10 PM on September 25, 2013 [1 favorite]


Oh, and if you were interested I could stream any or all of these on my radio station for you - just say the word!
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 2:35 PM on September 25, 2013


That isn't an example of dance music. Anyway, if you're looking for electronic music similar to your link, the Tangerine Dream suggestion is very good. Maybe start with Phaedra, Stratosfear, Tangram and Force Majeure. Also pretty much any of Klaus Schulze's solo work (he was part of Tangerine Dream). Makeup and Vanity Set's latest work is sort of Vangelis/Blade Runner esque and I think you would like. The first song off of 7.25.2148 and pretty much the entire 88:88 album.
posted by MaryDellamorte at 9:18 PM on September 25, 2013


Looking in the wayback machine, perhaps you'd enjoy Jean Michel Jarre or Vangelis.
posted by under_petticoat_rule at 8:30 AM on September 26, 2013


Maybe some of the SomaFM stations like DroneZone?
posted by barnone at 2:07 PM on September 26, 2013


Response by poster: Thanks, guys. That William Orbit track is great, The World Famous, and it looks like it's finally time for me to dive headfirst into (the first two thirds of the Virgin Years of) Tangerine Dream. Going to check out the rest of the recommendations as time permits, too. Please read the lack of "best answer" as, "I haven't got around to listening to this yet."
posted by Steely-eyed Missile Man at 6:13 AM on September 30, 2013


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