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glitch / electronica / idm / dubstep

1 Xerrox Phaser Acat 1 Alva Noto
2 Blown Glass Typewriter Mountains
3 Black Sea Fennesz
4 Sketch Of Sounds ... Liik Viktorija Cop Viky
5 Black Light BJ Nilsen
6 Lightworks Astrobotnia
7 paralel Suns Autechre
8 Forgive Burial
9 All Is Full Of Love Bjork
10 We Share Our Mothers' Health The Knife
11 Lose You Peaches
12 when i grow up Fever Ray
13 My Girls Animal Collective
14 Agoraphobia Deerhunter
15 Bunker DJG
16 Kemancheh Moving Ninja
17 Hamas Rule Shackleton
18 Under The Dancing Feet Clouds
19 The Time Is Now (Bambino Casino Remix) Moloko
20 Suddenly is Sooner than You Think Dntel
21 Sweet Love For Planet Earth Fuck Buttons
22 In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country Boards of Canada
23 Analyse (Acoustic xfm) Thom Yorke
24 Time to find me Seefeel
25 Point and Gaze Thriller
26 Fever Eliot Lipp
27 Hubble Thriller
28 Swarm Thriller
29 Freak For You Thriller
30 Birds Of Prey (Kelpe remix) Architeq
31 Machine Gun Portishead
32 Smartbanging Fulgeance
33 Murder Us feat. Jahcoozi King Cannibal
34 Mmm Skyscraper I Love You Underworld
35 Autobahn Kraftwerk
36 J.W. On A Good Night Martyn
37 Rain Breakage
38 Dominion Benga
39 Rise Up (DJ Pinch Remix) Henry & Louis featuring Steve Harper
40 In for the Kill [Skream's Let's Get Ravey Mix] La Roux
41 DVNO (robot koch Remix) Justice
42 Police feat. Mikey Murka (Disrupt Remix) Mahanee
43 Blinded By The Lights (Nero Remix) The Streets
44 Soles Sweat (feat 215TFK & Stray - Reso remix) DeBruit
45 My Own World Synkro
46 Kontrol 2562
47 Saints 'N' Sinners DJ Distance
48 Attack Of The Giant Robot Spiders Pinch
49 Hide and Seek (Enigma Remix) Imogen Heap
50 Debbitx Marcus Intalex
51 Watch We (Pinch Mix) Ashley Beedle & Horace Andy
52 You & I Pangaea
53 I'm Not A Sound (Akufen Rmx) Sieg uber die Sonne
54 Again The Addiction Actress
55 Piano dust Vector Lovers
56 Drone 1 The Rollercoaster Project

Биография

Orbital - английская группа электронной музыки, созданная братьями Полом и Филом Хартнолл (Paul & Phil Hartnoll) в 1987 году, образовалась в городке Sevenoaks в графстве Kent. Группа распалась в 2004 году, но, почти за 20 лет своего существования, успела произвести настоящий фурор в электронной музыке. Стилистика коллектива была достаточно разнообразной, и в их творчестве можно было услышать элементы присущие таким музыкальным направлениям как idm, ambient, breakbeat и невероятно красивым techno и house мелодиям.

Orbital – один из тех довольно немногочисленных электронных коллективов, что сумели «оторваться от танцпола» и преодолеть приоритет хит-синглов, став (хотя и не сразу) группой альбомной и концертной – прерогатива, до сих пор остающаяся за рокерами. Команда выпустила серию сильных альбомов, сказав свое веское слово в таком направлении «электроники», как эмбиент-техно. Группа Orbital – это два брата: Фил Хартнолл (Phil Hartnoll, род. 9.01.1964) и Пол Хартнолл (Paul Hartnoll, 19.05.1968).

Родились и выросли в Кенте, воспитывались на пост-панке и «новой волне» рубежа 70-80-х. Они начали записываться вместе в 1987 году, имея под рукой лишь четырехдорожечный магнитофон, синтезатор и драм-машину. В 1989 их первая вещь «Chime» вышла на лейбле Jazzy M, а на следующий год с ребятами подписал контракт лейбл FFRR, окрестив их союз Orbital в честь скоростной кольцевой лондонской трассы. В марте 1990 сингл достиг №17 в британских чартах и братьев пригласили в ТВ-шоу «Top of the Pops». Первый LP, одноименный названию группы, вышел в сентябре 1991 и, по законам того времени, был как бы собран из отдельных «кубиков» - техно-композиций. В 1992 году в чартах засветились два ЕР – «Mutations» (ремиксовая работа, выполненная совместно с другими музыкантами, Moby в том числе) и «Radiccio».

Второй полнометражный альбом (1992) тоже не имел названия, но получил определение «коричневый» по цвету обложки альбома. Этому альбому суждено было произвести настоящий переворот в электронной музыке. Теплое, интеллигентное техно было явно тронуто печатью воздействия эмбиента, с одной стороны, и математически-точного электро a la Kraftwerk, с другой. Блестяще «оркестрованная» работа заставляла вслушиваться в перипетии музыкальной драматургии, но, вместе с тем, оставляла все шансы желающим просто потанцевать. Фил и Пол отправились в первое американское турне (с Moby и Aphex Twin), сделав с этой поры концертные выступления главным аспектом своего музицирования и доказав американцам, что для полного «улета» на рейве совершенно необязательно принимать наркотики.

Концерты Orbital сопровождались впечатляющим лайт-шоу (заствалявшими вспомнить Jean Michel Jarre) и импровизацией. В 1994 году группа выступила на Вудстоке и на фестивале в Гластонбёри. В августе того же 1994 года увидел свет их первый «поименованный» LP - «Snivilization», работа очень зрелая, разнообразная, ознаменованная великолепными смешением стилей. В ней братья не постеснялись затронуть социально-политические проблемы, в частности, так называемый Criminal Justice Bill, дававший полиции право разгонять рэйвы при подозрении на употреблении наркотиков.

И вновь группа активно гастролировала, появляясь все больше в «нормальных» концертных залах (включая Royal Albert Hall), нежели на танцполах. Новый альбом «In Sides» вышел в 1996 и опять получился злободневно-концептуальным: на сей раз Orbital поднимали проблемы экологии и разрушения естественных ресурсов. Этот великолепный альбом вновь получил восторженные рецензии не только от экспертов по электронной музыке, но и от рок-критиков. Свои заслуги братья Хартнеллы подтвердили диском «In the middle of nowhere» – альбомом поистине космическим, необычайно красочным, развертывающим перед слушательским взором широчайшую звуковую панораму. Несмотря на то, что признаки техно в нем, как и прежде, сохранялись, Orbital творили музыку прежде всего для слушания, интеллигентную, фантазийную, захватывающую. Танцевально-ориентированный «Altogether» вышел в 2001 году.

Прощальный альбом «Orbital» получился очень ностальгическим и получил название Blue Album, он вышел летом 2004 года и с тех пор братья гастролируют по отдельности.

Но на этом история не заканчивается, в 2009 году братья Hartnoll
объявили о своём возвращении, для начала выпустив 2-й сборник лучьшего и неизданого Orbital 20

Дискография


1989 - Orbital - Chime & Deeper (Vinyl 12 - ZONE 001)
1990 - Orbital - Chime(CDM - FCD 135, 886 977-2)
1990 - Orbital - Omen (CDM - FCD 145, 869 157-2)
1991 - Orbital - Orbital (EU Green Album - 8282482)
1991 - Orbital - Orbital (US Green Album - 162 351 001-2)
1991 - Orbital - Satan III Ep (CDM - FCD 149, 869 279.2)
1992 - Orbital - Mutations (CDM - FCD 181)
1992 - Orbital - Radiccio I (CDM - LIECD 1, 869869.2)
1992 - Orbital - Radiccio II (CDM - 869 899-2)
1993 - Orbital - Lush 3 (CDM - LIECD7, 857237.2)
1993 - Orbital - Orbital 2 (Brown Album - TRUCD2, 828 386.2)
1993 - Orbital - Peel Sessions (CDM - LIECD 12)
1993 - Orbital - Radiccio (Japan EP - POCD-1103)
1994 - Orbital - Are We Here (CDM - LIECD15)
1994 - Orbital - Diversions (Canada EP - 422 828 521-2)
1994 - Orbital - Snivilisation (TRUCD5, 828 536.2)
1995 - Orbital &Therapy - Belfast & Wasted (The Best Of Volume EP - VOLCD1)
1996 - Orbital - In Sides (US 3 x CD Ltd 96 + Bonus CD 97 - 697-124 087-2, 697 124 129-2)
1996 - Orbital - Live Leeds (Live 1996-04-12 - NRK)
1996 - Orbital - Satan Live (CDM One - LIECD 37, 850 806.2)
1996 - Orbital - Satan Live (CDM Three - LIECD 37, 850 808.2)
1996 - Orbital - Satan Live (CDM Two - LICDP 37, 850 810.2)
1996 - Orbital - The Box (CDM Pete's Edit 2 - Orbit 1)
1996 - Orbital - The Box (EU CDM - INTCD 30, 850 578-2)
1996 - Orbital - The Box (UK EP - LICDP 30, 850 587.2)
1997 - Orbital & Michael Kamen - Event Horizon (OST - 422-828 939-2)
1997 - Orbital - Chimes For A New Year (Live 31.12.1996)
1997 - Orbital - The Saint (CDM - 162-531 102-2)
1997 - Orbital Feat Kirk Hammett - Satan (CDM - 422 850 990-2)
1999 - Orbital - Nothing leftCD1 (CDM - FCD 365, 3984 28944-2)
1999 - Orbital - Nothing left CD2 (CDM - FCDP 365, 3984 28945-2)
1999 - Orbital - Style CD1 (CDM - FCD 358, 570 407-2)
1999 - Orbital - Style CD2 (CDM - FCDP 358, 570 409-2)
1999 - Orbital - The Middle of Nowhere (EU FFRR - 3984-27194-2)
2000 - Orbital & Angelo Badalamenti - Beached (CDM - FCD377, 8573 82065 2)
2000 - Orbital & David Gray - Please Forgive Me (Promo CDM - RDJ 60436-2)
2001 - Orbital - Funny Break CD1 (CDM One is Enough - FCD 395, 8573 87715 2)
2001 - Orbital - Funny Break CD2 (CDM One is Enough - FCDP 395, 8573 87716 2)
2001 - Orbital - Illuminate (2xVinyl 12 - FXX 405)
2001 - Orbital - The Altogether (2xCD - FFRR 40678 2)
2002 - Orbital - B-Sides (FFR 756 783 486-2)
2002 - Orbital - Back to Mine (BACKCD10)
2002 - Orbital - Doctor The Best of Orbital (PolyGram CD)
2002 - Orbital - Rest EP (CDM - FCD 407, 0927 472492)
2002 - Orbital - The Bedroom Sessions (MM 030)
2002 - Orbital - Work 1989-2002 (Japan CD - WPCR-11223)
2003 - Orbital - Octane Original Soundtrack Score (OST - 593 785 2)
2004 - Orbital - Blue Album (orbitalCD001)
2004 - Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise CDM1 (OrbitalCD003)
2004 - Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise CDM2 (OrbitalCD03X)
2005 - Orbital - Halcyon (5101-10414-2)
2007 - Long Range - Madness and Me (LRR001)
2007 - Orbital - Live At Glastonbury 1994 - 2004 (2xCD ltd - ATO0041)
2007 - Paul Hartnoll - The Ideal Condition (ACP001)
2009 - Orbital - Orbital 20 (2xCD 2564 68909 3)

I work at a comic book shop. My boss, Jason is a borderline conspiracy theorist who refuses to reveal his last name or age, but likes to tell me about how back in the day he was hip and saw bands like Black Flag and The Plasmatics. He'll also regrettably admit to at one point being into Gary Numan, Kraftwerk and other "simp shit" that he's supposedly forgotten after years and years of substance abuse.
When I work in the back storeroom I listen to music, and Jason usually has something odd to say about whatever's on. Despite not knowing his age, it's obvious he's grown a little crotchety over the years and the music I listen to "doesn't make any fucking sense" to him.

Here's a working list of some of the comments Jason's made about stuff I listen to. The last addition was on 12/05/09. New entries are in red.

• Alela Diane - "The world's going to end soon. You know that, right? This woman's music is proof of it. It doesn't make any sense that someone of this day and age would make music that sounds like that. She's playing some Civil War shit or something. The world moves in circles, and when civilizations start going backwards and retreating to the past, it's a sure sign that we're almost done for."
  
• Big Black - Bazooka Joe - "Is this the Return of The Living Dead soundtrack or something? This sounds like every The B-52's rip off they used in that slew of terrible zombie movies in the 80's."
  
• Charles Bronson - I Lied When I Said I Liked Your Zine - "Damn! This makes me want to bash somthin'."
  
• Danzig - Invocation - "Are they just going to play that one chord the whole damn song? This sounds like the soundtrack to someone dying of starvation. You'd hear this if you saw some evil monks wondering around a dark wood on their way to some sort of bullshit devil ritual. Yeah...this one's a real upbeat number..."
  
• Descendents - Parents - "Are you listening to a recording of a cow groaning out in the wilderness?"
  
• Hellnation - Ride With Me - Mocking indiscernible rabid gibberish
  
• Hüsker Dü - Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill - "This is some fuddy-duddy shit they'd play at the end of a crappy 80's movie, maybe in a scene with a bunch of grandma's dancing around at a bachlor party or something."
  
• Joanna Newsom - "This sounds like Shirley Temple crossed with Gummo".
  
• Korova - My Vietnam - "What the hell is he so angry about?"
  
• Meneguar - Lynch the Swan Bar - This is some of that horror beach twang shit, like The Cramps but not nearly as good. This is the type of shit that Dracula listens to when he grows a vagina and decides he wants to wax his surfboard.
  
• Municipal Waste - "They can't really play that fast. That's not real."
  
• Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song - "This song would be good if it wasn't so depressing that it made me want to kill myself."
  
• PJ Harvey - Down By The Water - "I'd like this song if it didn't make me feel like I was going to Hell."
  
• Rabies - Disease Core - "That sounds like a crazy man is getting beat with a blunt object."
  
• Reversal of Man - "That sounds like a woman screaming bloody murder running from an ax wielding maniac."
  
• Reversal of Man - I'm A New York Detective - "This is what it sounds like when you're being devoured by some otherworldly devil-beast."
  
• Sleep - Dragonaut - "This is one of the best songs ever written. It makes me want to cruise around on my bike and pick off stray cats."
  
• Total Abuse - Writing on the Wall - "This sounds like a bunch of mad Russians running around in a circle beating each other with wooden soup spoons."
  
• Wolves in the Throne Room - Ahrimanic Trance - "That sounds like someone being tortured, like someone shrieking in pain as they're being held down and branded against their will."
  

Seeing as I've just been on a downloading spree of random artists, I thought I'd make a little list of all of the stuff on my MP3 player right now. The actual thing is falling apart - I'm asking for an iPod this Christmas.

Bloc Party - Only two songs from them that I bought ages ago.
Blur - Downloaded these the other night.
Brain Damage - One free last.fm download. Oh yeah.
Chromeo - I bought their Fancy Footwork a while ago, and I still listen to a few of the tracks when I feel like it.
Danny Elfman - Through my obsession with Oingo Boingo, I've started listening to Danny's soundtracks. I've got stuff from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Taking Woodstock, The Nightmare Before Christmas and a few other random tracks.
Devo - Of course. I don't have many of their songs, but I got a few new ones the other night. I just heard Wiggly World for the first time yesterday, and I just had to get it right away.
Dracula Biscuits - Last.fm free downloads, again. ^,____,^
Elastica - After reading about them on Mookychick, I felt like downloading some of their stuff. It's all awesome, but then I always think I've got Wire on my MP3 player.
Green Day - No, not their new stuff. Two songs I quite like - Longview and a live version of Minority.
Kate Bush - Only a few tracks, but really epic ones. I put on some tracks from Aerial that I remember listening to when my dad bought the album. Also, I had to put on Wuthering Heights.
Kraftwerk - Thanks to a particular user here putting the video of Pocket Calculator in a group discussion, I've found that I quite like them. I've only got that and another track, though. I need to try and listen to more of their stuff.
Lemon Demon - I don't listen to them as much now, but I still have a few songs.
Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Science Club - Last.fm free downloads...but very good ones.
Magazine - I only have The Great Beautician in the Sky, but it's awesome.
Messer Chups - Awesome free downloads.
Naughty Zombies - Free downloads.
Oingo Boingo - Ah hah hah hah hah! My favourites. You can probably tell that Boingo dominates my library. I've got over 100 OB tracks on my MP3 player right now. A lot of them are live tracks - the best ones, obviously.
Polysics - From a while back. I bought about three of their albums ages ago.
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Downloaded a few the other night. I think I need to listen to more.
Sparks - I saw Kimono My House in a music store a week ago for £5 and had to get it straight away. It was an awesome buy.
Talking Heads - Two songs I bought a while back.
The B-52's - Bought their self-titled album at the same time I bought the Sparks album. Also a fiver, also awesome.
The CamPanulas - Free downloads. Good free downloads.
The Cure - Another band I need to listen to more. I only have two of their songs.
The Hives - Two songs I bought a while back.
The Specials - I bought one of their albums a while back, but I've gone off ska slightly and I've only got a few songs.
The Sway - Thanks to Audiosurf for introducing me, thanks to last.fm for the downloads.
The Undertones - I put Teenage Kicks on my MP3 player because I think our band are going to be playing this for the school talent show. Also, it's a cool song.
The Waitresses - I only have a few songs because I can't download more. I'll be playing Christmas Wrapping a lot soon...
The White Stripes - Songs I got ages ago, but still listen to now and again.
Tom Tom Club - Remember Vodaphone's Free Music Friday? I got Wordy Rappinghood on impulse and it's still pretty good.
Vampire Weekend - I got their album for Christmas last year. It's neat.
Vernian Process - Free downloads galore!
Wall of Voodoo - A few good tracks.
Weezer - Got some songs a while ago, but I've been listening to them again after playing them too much before. I made myself a little sick of their music, but I'm okay now.
Weird Al Yankovic - Of course, I've got the Devo and Oingo Boingo style parody songs. ^,_____,O
XTC - I figured it was about time I got their songs on my MP3 player.


I've got about 340 tracks...I need more.

2 Many DJ's
A Brand
Admiral Freebee
Air Traffic
Alexisonfire
Anouk
Anti-Flag
Arctic Monkeys
Bart Peeters
Beastie Boys
Billy Talent
Björk
Boys Noize
Busy P
Daan
Das Pop
De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig
dEUS
Diablo Blvd.
Discobar Galaxie
Dr. Lektroluv
Eagles of Death Metal
Enter Shikari
Erol Alkan
Faith No More
Fake Problems
Four Year Strong
Freaky Age
Glasvegas
Goose
Hayseed Dixie
Hercules and Love Affair
Janez Detd.
Jasper Erkens
John Butler Trio
Justice
Kaiser Chiefs
Kevin Seconds
Klaxons
Kraftwerk
La Roux
Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven
Mad Caddies
Magnus
Marilyn Manson
Maxïmo Park
Mike Scott
Millencollin
Mixhell
MSTRKRFT
Muse
My Chemical Romance
N*E*R*D
Panic! At the Disco
Pendulum
Pete & The Pirates
Placebo
Reel Big Fish
Samim
Selah Sue
Soulwax
Streetlight Manifesto
Strike Anywhere
The Blackout
The Galacticos
The Ghost of a Thousand
The hickey underworld
The Kooks
The Maccabees
The Offspring
The Raconteurs
The Rifles
The Ting Tings
Them Crooked Vultures
Thursday
Tiga
Vampire Weekend
Vive la Fête
Yevgueni
Zebrahead

1.UK
1 Joy Division
2 Muse
7 The Cure
8 Placebo
15 Red Snapper
23 Gorillaz
26 The Chameleons
30 New Order
34 Arctic Monkeys
38 Lostprophets
39 Artery
40 Cocteau Twins
42 Public Image Ltd.
47 Gang of Four
48 The Smiths
2.US
5 The Residents
10 The Damage Manual
12 Tool
13 Blue Sky Black Death
16 Cypress Hill
17 Chrome
19 "Weird Al" Yankovic
20 Big D and the Kids Table
24 Jedi Mind Tricks
25 Hüsker Dü
43 Panic at the Disco
3.Japan
3 Melt-Banana
11 Hibari vs Mukuro
33 蜉蝣
36 Dir en grey
37 川井憲次
46 Kamagata Eiichi
49 Rokudo Mukuro
4.South Korea
6 SHINee
9 비
22 Super Junior
27 BIG BANG
35 Epik High
5.Germany
18 Nevada Tan
28 Fehlfarben
29 Kraftwerk
31 Wir sind Helden
32 Museum
6.Belgium
4 The Names
7.Ireland
14 Aphex Twin
8.France
21 Twinkle
44 Yelle
9.Italy
45 noise room


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41 Ò_Ó
50 Rorikiller

21:00 – 23:00

Haujobb – Haujobb’s State
Kraftwerk – Der Telefon Anruf
Spliff – Telefon Terror
Astma – Telephone Terror
Hatbrott – I Am The One
First Aid 4 Souls – The Unborn Child
High Wycombe – Code 74 (Virus Mix)
Front 242 – Animal (Zoo)
Ashtrayhead – Ashtrayhead
Test Dept. – Bang On It (Metal Edit)
Esplendor Geométrico – Michi Michi
Hunting Lodge – Tribal Warning Shot (Studio Version)
Television Overdose – Total System Collapse
Aghast View – Headdross
Anstalt – Dying Tonite
Swamp Terrorists – Rebuff (Remix)
Numb – Desire
Recoil – The Defector
Moby – Natural Blues
Björk – Play Dead