After watching this video (linked from the æ article "Retro") I got an idea to make a much better compilation video about the '80s, only this time about electronic music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Fx9ksBr80

Here are some ideas I have...

1980
Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Behind the Mask": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DSue36BpH8
(hey, if the original video got to count "Cars" under 1980, I get to count this...they're both actually from 1979)

1981
Patrick Cowley - "Menergy": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DiMfrz0bg

1982
Afrikaa Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force - "Planet Rock": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_vLzsG2TCU

1983
Herbie Hancock - "Rockit": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0Pi4wC8Hk
Cybotron - "Clear": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I280cxs2jvA

1984
Digital Emotion - "Go Go Yellow Screen": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClLYw2XZodk
Newcleus - "Jam on It": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXPu32FuE4

1985
Freestyle - "Don't Stop the Rock": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXKkNo7YZ8
Mantronix - "Needle to the Groove": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT4VgyfLPKk

1986
Marshall Jefferson - "Move Your Body": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAR8cq5Bl94
Robert Owens - "Bring Down the Walls": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeYYG_2kYEs

1987
Mr. Fingers - "Can You Feel It": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLQscQ3cyoQ
Rhythim Is Rhythim - "Strings of Life": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pahJh2r8Hg0
Phuture - "Acid Tracks": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKbLI8EufNo

1988
D-Mob - "We Call It Acieed": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEdiOBz4zeM
Inner City - "Big Fun": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omfiVkkJ1OU
The KLF - "What Time Is Love": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frd5YmSjjII
Humanoid - "Stakker Humanoid": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW8TCK7A0Kc
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock - "It Takes Two": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IBRbzf3Fws

1989
Tyree - "Turn Up the Bass": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHEde5U9pXs
Kariya - "Let Me Love You (Rebuilt)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTs_GliroUY
Black Box - "Ride on Time": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lOb799cTxM
Final Cut with True Faith - "Take Me Away": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO3FUfs6iYA
Looney Tunes - "Just As Long As I Got You": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wSfpw2Y16s
808 State - "Pacific 707": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HMt-42LAQE
Nine Inch Nails - "Down in It": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrrEo3hZABU
Meat Beat Manifesto - "Radio Babylon": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ILqfpDD6XE

This list is of course more heavily weighted toward the end of the '80s (nearly half of the 27 tracks came from '88 or '89, nearly a third from just '89) because that's when music was getting better; also I saw a similar video about the '70s but it would be a lot harder to make an electronic-music-themed video for that decade: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVRC5BnNg8A
...and as for the '90s and later? There's enough material to make at least two compilation vidz about just 1997 using only breakbeat electronic music

9/4/2010 6:39:26 PM

i'm not sure what's electronic about "it takes two"

but you could easily make an electronic-themed video about the '70s, you'd just have to get a bit more international

neu!, devo, etc.

9/4/2010 7:26:20 PM

^reliance on loops and sampling

Anyway I think I did get very international: YMO is Japanese, Digital Emotion is Dutch, Black Box is Italian, and D-Mob, The KLF, Humanoid (now known as the Future Sound of London), 808 State, and Meat Beat Manifesto are British; the rest are American.

Then again the acts from neither the US nor the UK were tokens; the bulk of the good stuff comes out of those two nations, with the balance shifting to the UK during the '90s.


On an unrelated note, finally the most underrated track ever by The Bird and the Bee is available on YouTube, "What's in the Middle" from Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future (2009): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmt97DAaE68

[Edited on September 7, 2010 at 5:36 AM. Reason : ...and now for something completely different

9/7/2010 5:34:55 AM

i'm on a trance binge ATM.

listening to http://mixes.dabears.ca/dabears_transcendence.mp3 because it has a lot of cosmic gate on it. i LOVE cosmic gate.

9/17/2010 11:37:56 AM

Avicii & Sebastien Drums - My Feelings For You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqBklUSVKtY

9/17/2010 11:16:22 PM

once you get past the backlash Lady Gaga isn't all that bad, especially if you ignore the videos

9/18/2010 6:42:10 PM

this mix is awesome:

http://www.lowendtheoryclub.com/podcast/episode8_dstyles_glitchmob.mp3

9/18/2010 9:44:02 PM

This song seems fitting for this time of year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVl6BOQXLt0

9/18/2010 10:24:41 PM

heard these on radio 1 the other day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2vWQFHP3D0&feature=channel
Magnetic Man - I Need Air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93AU5IkvDPY
Magnetic Man - Perfect Stranger feat. Katy B

really like it.

9/20/2010 8:07:08 AM

I wish Radio 1 were available in the States, perhaps just an hour as part of the BBC World Service to follow The Strand.

9/20/2010 6:50:35 PM

you can get it on XM/Sirius, but it's syndicated (instead of being played in as it's aired GMT it's played in EST, maybe local but definitely at least EST so 12 noon broadcast there comes on here at noon when it's 5 PM in UK)

9/20/2010 7:34:32 PM

I have never had satellite radio; if I did I'd probably keep it on Sirius|XM Chill.

9/20/2010 7:49:08 PM

I thought I'd list the tracks that I think best represent each year of the '90s, which is IMO the best decade ever for music so far...

1990 Suzanne Vega - "Tom's Diner (DNA Disciples Remix)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXg5pOF2PvY
1991 "Crazy" from Seal - Seal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fc67yQsPqQ
1992 Acen - "Trip II the Moon (Part II)": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMlQJ5SeFo
1993 The Prodigy - "Rhythm of Life": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-5idbKwbdc
1994 "Ruiner" from Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtP_HnZgVGw
1995 "Leave Home" from The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7j-Ndccqaw
1996 "Michael Jackson" from Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hB38uxAihE
1997 "Busy Child" from The Crystal Method - Vegas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6twhXA1Gyw
1998 "Take California" from Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd8WjeK8riE
1999 "Finished Symphony" from Hybrid - Wide Angle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoV9d9y-DdQ

10/14/2010 11:58:40 PM

no C&C MF?

10/15/2010 12:04:27 AM

the folks who were gonna make u sweat don't hold a candle to the dna disciples

10/15/2010 1:59:43 AM

Akira Kiteshi is the fucking man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm9A3r2SosA

10/16/2010 3:19:06 PM

Do you remember when Roni Size remixed Method Man?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx2RD6F3W_k

10/24/2010 12:52:35 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vn1x5/BBC_Radio_1s_Essential_Mix_Nero/

Dubstep, then some house, then a little DnB, and then more dubstep.

11/14/2010 12:14:15 AM

finally checking ^ out

11/19/2010 4:15:54 PM

This song is FILTHY

Spencer & Hill - Dub Disco (Lucky Date Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar6ICXvP6BQ

12/17/2010 12:48:42 PM

^comes on my pandora station from time to time. it's solid.

12/17/2010 6:41:21 PM

"Strobe" by deadmau5 // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKi9Z-f6qX4

12/17/2010 11:16:48 PM

This thread needs some Röyksopp.

Happy Up Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxai9aaxUw

Röyksopp Forever: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_txL43iFM

Triumphant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZtYnDV9mVY

They're playing in DC in march

12/25/2010 1:35:02 AM

classics from Röyksopp ITT

"Eple" from Melody A.M. (2001): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qczr6Z2qtpE


"Remind Me" from Melody A.M. (2001): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq-KyGpNN0Y


"Remind Me (Someone Else's Radio Remix)" (2002): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xhdy9zBEws

12/25/2010 12:07:02 PM

Spencer & Hill feat. Little Jon - Less Go (Porter Robinson Remix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEDXYa9qk9w

12/26/2010 1:32:59 AM

Thanks to Soundhound, I finally discovered who is behind a song I really like on some random CD a friend had in their car: (this is not that song, just the same artist)

Siriusmo - Einmal in der Woche Schreien

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeKgwRKYMTE

1/10/2011 2:22:51 AM

hey what are some good ambient/lounge type streaming stations. i've been wearing out soma.fm groovesalad at work for a while now but it's getting old.

2/3/2011 2:12:14 PM

bump

Emancipator - With Rainy Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4JcJ0xNlDo

2/24/2011 4:41:26 PM

3/25/2011 2:14:44 PM

im the only one posting here anymore

3/29/2011 9:04:01 PM

4/5/2011 10:07:00 PM

Also posted in the Music of 2011 thread, but...



Nice range of producers/acts...Oakenfold to M83 to Glitch Mob. Good shit

4/5/2011 11:39:40 PM

bttt

1/2/2012 12:01:50 AM

Anyone heard Kimball Collins ICU 2000? beatsunc will go down on you for it.

1/2/2012 12:02:14 AM

Freeland - Best Fish Tacos in Ensenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm1QOowD3k8

1/2/2012 1:00:05 AM

GOD FUCKING DAMN IT I HAVE A HEADPHONE BONER

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s4n76ti3Xs

1/2/2012 2:09:10 AM

1/5/2012 11:04:34 PM

http://soundcloud.com/thewhitecascade/downtown-boys

1/22/2012 11:47:58 PM

This is excellent mind music.

[Edited on January 23, 2012 at 6:13 PM. Reason : .]

1/23/2012 6:12:44 PM

http://www.youtube.com/user/UMFTV/featured?v=0K5h25mq9Z8


[Edited on March 24, 2012 at 1:59 PM. Reason : ...]

3/24/2012 1:58:58 PM

Gotta love miami music week

3/24/2012 3:13:44 PM

this is decent moombahton i tried mixing.

8/30/2012 5:58:00 PM

Post some good shit people. My playlist is getting stale.

11/14/2012 11:13:55 PM

Disclosure. just pick any of their songs. or Julio Bashmore. any of his songs.

11/14/2012 11:56:25 PM

11/15/2012 12:15:48 AM

So fucking sick

11/15/2012 3:47:51 AM

anyone subscribe and listen to the youtube channel MrSuicideSheep?

puts together some very chill mixes. Uses some nice artwork and photography for the "video" portion of his mixes. Been really enjoying it lately.

seems he chooses the track list, has it mixed by someone else, and then he publishes the final piece.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MrSuicideSheep

3/4/2013 4:40:00 PM

3/7/2013 1:57:47 PM

3/8/2013 11:14:50 AM

OMG~♥♥♥
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwBwYXS3f8
Here, Dave demolishes the argument that electronic music doesn't require talent and somehow lacks "soul."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ywnAUDz-as
Here, Dave talks essentially about how similar modern pop music is to "serious" electronic dance music.

3/8/2013 5:30:41 PM