It’s a dance/electro/house mix (or something). It took me a while to put it together. It’s not perfect, but I still think it’s quite good at this point.
It’s called Crackle Crunch Dance because I started off by putting all the grindiest, grittiest, crunchiest sounding electro tracks I had all together in one playlist, and then tried to make a mix out of it. As time making it went on, I added more “normal” dance tracks because 1. they fit well, and 2. constant grindy electronica leads to grind-fatigue, and while a bit of that is fine in my book, the dance-y-er tracks are a nice break. I also added a few chiller, funkier songs for the end as a sort of dénouement.
Intro from Run Lola Run The Worm (Database Rework of Erol Alkan’s Work) by ZZT Momy (Erol Alkan’s Simple, Yet Effective Edit) by SebastiAn Waters of Nazareth (Erol Alkan’s Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr Re-Edit) by Justice Mars by Fake Blood Pop The Glock (Daytone Remix) by Uffie Oh! (A-Trak Remix) by Boys Noize Gravity’s Rainbow (Soulwax Dub, Recreated by Coronium) by Klaxons Kernkraft 400 (DJ Gius Remix) by Zombie Nation Kids (Soulwax Remix) by MGMT Wow by Kylie Minogue Bust This Bust That Pt. 2 by Professor Kliq Stronger (A-Trak Remix) by Kanye West Planisphere (MMMatthias Remix) by Justice Cream by Frederico Franchi Steam Machine by Daft Punk Lower State of Conciousness (Justice Remix) by ZZT Nightvision (Daft Punk Cover) by The Twelves Substracktion by The Subs
One of my favourite musicians right now is Professor Kliq, a little-known but fantastic electronic musician from Chicago area as of now. I found his stuff through Audiosurf: It’s a fantastic indie video game, that’s like a cross between tetris, guitar hero, and a racing game. And you can use any song from your computer that you want to play it!
But about Professor Kliq, his stuff is sort of one of those within-it’s-own-genre areas. It’s extremely hard to describe, but the nice thing is that I don’t have to! Why? Because he releases his stuff all for free, (though donations are great for him). Here‘s his latest offering, “The Scientific Method, Volume II: Experiments in Sound & Perspective”, which is probably one of my favourite albums I have. Check it out. Seriously, even if you don’t like electronica, it’s nothing like the techno and such you’ve heard before. Oh, and his blog is totally in my blogroll over there in the sidebar, under the name “My Advice”
Actually, now that I think of it, TSMV2EiSP (suck it, long album name!) is one of my few “favourite albums of all time” that isn’t a live album. Hmm, if I had to break it down, well, let’s see. (Keep in mind, that this is just favourite albums. Some of my absolute favourite bands aren’t on here, just because I don’t have any full albums by them or because only certain of their songs are my favourite. Oh, and Click album links for a song from each.
Great Big Sea – Courage & Patience & Grit – Great Big Sea’s second live album, it catches them perfectly. Their energetic, often upbeat, sometimes wry and ironic Maritime Celtic-Rock is fantastic, the kind of thing that almost anyone should love!
Daft Punk – Alive2007 – Daft Punk’s most recent album, also a live one. I love their first live album, Alive 1997, but this one is rediculously fantastic. Insane mashups, re-cuts and re-mixes of their three studio albums into one huge, completely interwoven meal of delicious, delicious house/funk/electronica that’s good for all ages! This is also the electronica album that really pushed me into electronic music. Before getting it on a whim, I had some stuff from The New Deal, Xerxes, Will Star, and Alpha Conspiracy, but Daft Punk really pushed me out into this huge area of music I’d never seen before.
Justice - † (Cross)- The next electronica album after Alive 2007 that really pushed my musical interests out. I found this through Pandora in my Daft Punk Pandora Radio Station, ended up downloading the album to see how good it was, and it was SO GOOD that I went to Best Buy and bought it literally immediatley after listening through it once. Seriously, it’s a fantastic record. That’s a Soulwax remix of one of their songs, Phantom Pt. II, playing in the Audiosurf Youtube link up near the top of this post.
Spirit of the West – Open Heart Symphony – Performing live with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, SotW’s Celtic-influenced accoustic rock is a suprisingly fantastic counterpoint to a symphony. Sadly, I couldn’t find any songs from the album itself on youtube, but there’s some seriously fantastic stuff there. Maybe I’ll post a song or two and change the link here later…
Soulwax -Nite Versions Live at Fabric and 120 Other Places – The live CD that comes with Soulwax/2 Many Dj’s/Radio Soulwax’s (It’s complicated) new tour documentary, “Part of the Weekend Never Dies”. They do a fantastic job of recreating their stuff live, reinventing it really, not to mention the songs by Justice, Tiga, Daft Punk, and a few others thrown in for good measure! They remixed the Justice song in the Audiosurf youtube link up near the top of this post too!
Loreena McKennitt -Nights from the Alhambra – Loreena McKennitt has some of the most beautiful songs anywhere. A energized set of Medieval/Early music, with Middle Eastern and Celtic influences, her stuff is fantastic. Amazing music for evoking emotions of yearning, love, and wanderlust.
The New Deal – The New Deal – Just an overall great album. The first album I ever had that was truly an electronic one, with the music and musical philosophy conventions that many have (like transitioning between songs to create one big continuous stream of music), though I didn’t notice these except in retrospect after discovering a bunch of other artists and reading up on music philosophy a bit.
There’s probably a few more I’m missing, but these at least are all fantastic albums! Yeah.
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