Looking for more ethereal electronic
(is that even what the kids call it these days?) music with a certain feeling to it - sort of happy, sort of sad, slightly otherworldly, all blending to create a dreamy, transcendant feeling.
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posted by lunasol
on Apr 25, 2013 -
52 answers
Hello, I'm trying to get a playlist for my hubbie for him to code to - ideally electronica, drum and bass, EDM or even modern classical like Arvo Part. Only caveat is that there must be no lyrics - I'd love to hear your favourite picks! I've got a bunch up already at blip for him - he listens to my radio station there - user name - emilybear - to give you an idea of what I've got there currently but I need more, so much more as there's a whole lot of coding to be done.
Thanks!
posted by ebear
on Feb 19, 2013 -
28 answers
Which programs do the current batch of electronic music wizz kids use? Any pointers for getting started, forums, etc would be awesome!
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posted by aqueousdan
on Feb 8, 2013 -
8 answers
Is there a better gift in the $40 range for a budding dubstep/electro musician (in his 60s) seeking to get the word out than SoundCloud Premium?
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posted by Shepherd
on Dec 24, 2012 -
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I don't know much about electronic music. I know I like the deep, twisting, inertial sounds and rhythms of stereotypical dubstep. But whenever I go through "best album"-type lists of dubstep albums, almost all of them are more subdued. That's not to say I don't like them -- the oft-recommended London Zoo and Untrue now have a permanent spot in my music rotation -- but they just don't have that intense WUB WUB WUB feel.
Here's a good example of what I'm looking for. What are some great albums with music in this style?
posted by archagon
on Aug 27, 2012 -
10 answers
Searching for "sunrise" sets, albums, and songs: powerful and restorative music to cap an adventure or an epic night.
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posted by PercussivePaul
on Aug 12, 2012 -
35 answers
Help me find electronic music that sounds like machines. Some examples are
Diamond Catalog,
SPK, and
Nate Young. Boards of Canada also comes very close. Unsettling but not aggressive (e.g. not Big Black). Chaotic but not out of control (e.g. not Merzbow's Merzbeat or Pulse Demon). Thanks!
posted by yaymukund
on Apr 6, 2012 -
18 answers
I'd love your recommendations for some upbeat, happy, dance/electronic music (probably from Europe), based on a couple of tracks inside.
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Mar 28, 2012 -
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How do you keep track of and find new DJs and electronic music - the kind you would dance to at clubs and festivals? The rules seem to be different compared to album-based rock/pop music I'm more familiar with.
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posted by PercussivePaul
on Feb 17, 2012 -
17 answers
I'm a drummer in an indie-rock band with a 5-piece kit who is looking to expand my setup to include a drum sampling pad. I want something that has unique percussion sounds (not just cheesy electronic beats), built-in effects, plenty of storage space to upload my own samples, and the ability to record and loop live drumbeats. Any advice?
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posted by jonnyalvarez
on Feb 7, 2012 -
5 answers
I want to learn how to make electronic music. But I need to learn in a way that guides me...very...slowly...and directedly. (Also, as free-of-charge as humanly possible.)
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posted by threeants
on Nov 5, 2011 -
12 answers
Piggybacking on the question below, what are some EDM music shows and festivals worth seeing in Holland / Europe this summer?
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posted by masters2010
on May 9, 2011 -
3 answers
Miller Puckette's
The Theory and Technique of Electronic Music, as a textbook, seems obtuse and unrefined to me. Am I missing something?
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posted by invitapriore
on Apr 21, 2011 -
6 answers
Re-building my electronic music home studio with a new computer at the heart of it. Have lots of pieces but not sure of optimal setup/signal path.
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posted by erebora
on Feb 10, 2011 -
6 answers
What was that music webapp I had on my iPod? Help me remember the site I had saved to my homescreen a while ago. I'm fairly sure it was a webapp and not a proper app. I seem to remember the name for the icon was shortened to a two-letter acronym; I thought it was DI for digitalinspiration.com but googling that shows I was wrong. I'll try to describe it anyway: the app had a series of square, colourful icons down the left-hand side, not unlike the style to the iTunes gift card drawings. Each icon represented a category; I definately remember 'lounge', and the others were mostly dance/electronic music related genres like house, groove etc. probably hip-hop stuff too. Definately a cool and groovy site.
posted by Deor
on Feb 10, 2011 -
2 answers
I´m looking for a way to record electronic music using binaural technology. I already have all the necessary equipment (binaural mics, dummy head, DAW, etc.), but I want to record the sounds DIRECTLY from the source without using the dummy head, is it possible?
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posted by Matrod
on Nov 28, 2010 -
6 answers
What's the bass & drum style of Flight of the Conchords
Sugalumps, particularly 9th through 15th second of the video, called?
Rhapsody's genres has something called Electro-Funk which includes artists like the Bass Mekanik that include test tones on some albums and Bass Transmission. I'm particularly interested in the sustained low low bass "notes," particularly when combined with higher percussion (snare) in a really danceable, but somewhat slow tempo.
posted by morganw
on Oct 13, 2010 -
10 answers
What is it called when a techno/similar artist mixes a song with chunks or samples of rock songs? What are some artists or songs that do this?
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posted by Diplodocus
on Sep 27, 2010 -
20 answers
I need recommendations for a mid-length piece of instrumental music which varies a lot in expressive emotional content to be used in a neural imaging experiment. Please provide links to listenable extracts (i.e. amazon mp3 clips or you tube).
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posted by leibniz
on Jun 4, 2010 -
10 answers
Electronic Music Filter: Help me identify this song. It was played in the Major Lazer set Coachella and I'm pretty sure either Club 75 and/or Erol Alkan played it as well.
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posted by hazyspring
on Apr 20, 2010 -
1 answer
Can anyone help me ID a long dj mix which, using samples, details the history of cocaine?
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posted by mannequito
on Apr 14, 2010 -
1 answer
European Music Nerds!
I'm putting together a show for a local community radio station and am looking for (preferably foreign-language)
not very mainstream music from Europe.
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posted by dunkadunc
on Mar 19, 2010 -
23 answers
What are some of the leading computer music (electronic composition) schools in Canada? What about North America?
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posted by ageispolis
on Mar 2, 2010 -
5 answers
On Friday I'm going to Birmingham (Sutton Coldfield) for three months (until early may) for an engineering internship. What should I know? What's the Birmingham area known for amongst Britons? What should I absolutely not miss in my down time? What social norms (at work or otherwise) might be unusual to me? What do locals do for fun? What parts of the city should I wander around in to get a sense of the place (and in which areas would doing so get me killed or served with an anti-social order)?
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posted by phrontist
on Jan 27, 2010 -
14 answers
My husband mixes dance music using Fruity Loops. I want to get him some CDs for Christmas for samples -- particularly stuff that sounds like Fatboy Slim. Help?
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posted by heatherfl
on Dec 7, 2009 -
16 answers
A little while back I heard a bass guitar player with some kind of amazing live looping set-up - what on earth was it? I keep wondering what he was doing. All I could see was that he was grabbing (sampling) things he was playing, as he was playing them (ie while he was continuing to play), using foot pedals of some sort, and then incorporating those loops into the rest of the track. Amazing. But how?
posted by monster max
on Oct 18, 2009 -
20 answers
IdentifyThisElectronicMusicFilter: Does anybody know the name/artist/album of this minimal electronic
track I found in a
liveset (big mp3)? Or anything similar?
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posted by azarbayejani
on Oct 10, 2009 -
5 answers
Can anyone identify the artist, album, or even subgenre of
this electronic music track?
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posted by 256
on Oct 10, 2009 -
7 answers
