Hyperreal
ELECTRONIC, RAVE, TECHNO, TRANCE,
IDM, AMBIENT
Electronic/Techno music is on the rise. This is your source for all the latest artists!
Electronic (i.e. Prodigy)--pulsating synthesizer and beats (100
to 140 bpm), more intricate than club or house
Trance (i.e. Juno Reactor)--very complicated overlapping synthesizers,
can be peaceful or menacing (90 to 160 bpm)
Rave--fast electronic music, simple 4/4 beat (140 bpm to 180
bpm)
Gabber--fastest techno, hardcore, thumping 909 beats (160+ bpm)
IDM (i.e. Autechre)--inteligent dance music, subtle overlapped
sound, might not have beat, similar to ambient
Ambient (i.e. Banco de Gaia)--slow, usually comforting carefully
placed sounds evoking a certain mood, beat is not necessary
Illbient (i.e. DJ Spooky)--menacing, heavily dubbed ambient.
Aphex Twin, Richard
D. James, Polygon Window, AFX--Techno genius with calculated noise
and distortion to throw your mind into loops.
Aphex Twin
(2)
Aphex
Twin (3)
Aphex Twin (4)--The
amazing archive!
Aphex Twin
(sound)--Mess up your head with the Girl/Boy song.
Atari Teeanage
Riot--Delete yourself with techno punk thrashing.
Atari Teenage Riot
(2)--Stop Racism. Bleed your ears out.
Atari
Teenage Riot (3)--Racism and Deutschland have gotta die.
Aux
88
Bazooka
Deluxe
Bochum Welt
Bomb The Bass--Funky
fusion of many electronic genres.
Boymerang--Drum
and bass techno beats.
BPMF
Carl Cox--The
best DJ in the world?
Carl Craig, 69--Respect
due to a great Detroit Techno DJ.
CJ Bolland
Darren
Price
Dave Angel
Dave
Clarke--Techno collaborator with the chem bros.
Dirty Beatniks--Dirty
big beat tripdom.
Disciples of Annihilation--More
super-BPM gabbercore for your head!
Djam Karet--The most impressive
instrumentation since Pink Floyd.
DJ Worx--aka DJ
Trance, a net friend with cool trance and goa mixing stylez.
Drexciya
Dub
Terrorist, Scorn, Lull, Painkiller, Techno Animal, Final--From ambient
dub to industrial, this stuff is cutting-edge.
Dubtribe
Ec8or--More Digital
Hardcore!
808 State--Great
techno originators.
808 State
(2)--A nice discography.
Electric Skychurch
Electroliners
Empirion--Check out single
'Narcotic Influence', the LP 'Advanced Technology' and their remix of Prodigy's
Firestarter.
Empirion
(2)--Official biography.
Empirion (3)--See what they wrote me!
Empty Set
Eskimos &
Egypt--Only if you speak Deutsche.
Fatboy Slim,
Norman Cook, Mighty Dub Katz, Freakpower--"Better Living Through Chemistry"
is one of the best big beat albums ever made!
Fatboy Slim (2)--The
swell Astralwerks page.
Fatboy
Slim (sound)--Here's the song "Michael Jackson."
Fila Brazilia--Some text on their work.
Fila Brazilia (2)--Their superb
record label, Pork. Go there for more info.
Fluke--Baby
got an atom bomb.
Fluke (2)--"Risotto" is
Fluke's bravest electronic accomplishment, placing them in a league with
Underworld.
Full Blown Kirk--A new independent
techno band that incorporates so many fused elements that they cannot be
comtained within one genre.
Future Loop Foundation
Future Sound Of London
Future Sound
Of London (2)
Future Sound
Of London (3)
Future
Sound Of London (sound)--Here's a sample of the amazing "We Have Explosive"
re-mixed again by FSOL.
Global Communication
Greater Than One,
GTO, Technohead, John and Julie, Church of Extasy, Signs of Chaos, Tricky
Disco
The Grid
The Grid
(2)
Hallucinogen--Goa
trance and acid mutation.
Hardfloor--Acid:
Roland 303 on a trip.
Hardknox--What
an appropriate name. This acid big beat will drive you mad! Rave reviews
for the song Hip-Hop Prankster
Higher Intelligence
Agency
Intermix--Leeb + Fulber create
rich ambient techno soundscapes.
Jam
and Spoon
Jeff Mills
Joey Beltram
Jonny
L
Josh Wink
Junkie
XL--Rocktronica that really blows your mind.
Juno Reactor
Ken
Ishii--Japanese DJ extraordinaire
Kenny Larkin
Keoki--DJ Keoki has a remix album
entitled "Inevitable Alien Nation".
Keoki (2)
The KLF
Leftfield--Fusion
of techno and jungle/dub with world flavas.
Leftfield (2)--Please...a
new album ?
LFO--Sample
the LP "Frequencies". Sample
the LP "Advance"
Liquid Todd
Locust
Locust (2)--"Tamed"
by the wild sounds.
Loop Guru
Lords of Acid--The
new album "Our Little Secret" is out. This is amazing techno-industrial
music with their usual crazy synths and sweet shocking vocals. Thank you
Praga Khan for the best LoA album yet!
Lunatic
Asylum
Lunatic Calm--Combine the
old Prodigy with and the sound of old Nine Inch Nails.
Messiah--You're
going insane with rave and gabbercore.
Mind Bender
Mixmaster Morris
Moby--Techno artist unorthodox vegan
Christian animal rights activist and environmentalist.
Moby (2)
Moby (3)
Motion Control--Underground
Norwegian techno.
mu-ziq
New Order--"I
used to think that the day would never come..."
New Order
(2)--New Order, Joy Division and other things related.
N-Joi--The New unofficial
page!
Noise Unit--New
album "Drill" is the best stuff I have heard from the Front Line Assembly
crew in a long while.
One
Inch Punch--Justin Warfield's techno/trip-hop excursion.
the Orb--New official site: the
Ultraworld.
the Orb (2)
the Orb (3)--Discography.
the
Orb (4)--A useful fan page.
the Orb (sound)--Wow,
an mp2 trip with "Toxygene".
Orbital--Every
one of their techno albums is a pure masterpiece.
Orbital (2)
Orbital
(3)--Complete discography.
Orbital (4)
Orbital (5)--On
Dotmusic.
Orbital (sound)--The
sound of "P.E.T.R.O.L."
Paul Van Dyk--Great
remixer and trance artist.
Pigeonhed--Steve
Fisk, Seattle grunge mastermind and funky electronic specialist teams up
with Shawn Smith and Kim Tayil of Soundgarden.
Plastikman--Richie
Hawtin: the original Detroit Techno DJ.
Primal Scream--New
album "Echo Dek" is out in the UK.
Prodigal Sons
Prodigy--Ok ok, so there not
underground anymore. "FAT OF THE LAND" is still amazing!
Prodigy (2)
Prodigy (3)
Prodigy (4)
Propellerheads--An up and coming techno group.
Propellerheads
(2)--A good page by Dotmusic on da props.
Propellerheads
(sound)--The absolutely brilliant concoction: "Take California".
Prophecy of Panic
Rabbit In The
Moon--RITM make tripped-out remixes for Sarah McLachlan and Garbage.
Rabbit In
The Moon (sound)--"Floori.d.a."
Rhythm Saints
Sabres
of Paradise, Two Lone Swordsmen--The genius of Andrew Weatherall. This
site deals with all things related.
Scanner--He uses
samples from cell phone conversations.
Scott Hardkiss--Unbelievable
acid DJ from God Within. "Acid Funk" is one of the best acid house tracks
ever to lay waste to my brain.
Secret Knowledge--Formerly
Delta Lady.
Seefeel--Guitars
and synths...indie rock and ambient techno.
The Shamen--New music is due
out from this progessive techno group.
Shaolin Wooden Men
Shizuo--Japanese
digital hardcore.
Simply Jeff--DJ
mixmastah.
Single Gun Theory--Australian techno/rock
band with impressive blending of samples and beautiful female vocals.
Single Gun Theory (2)--Select
from a menu.
Skylab
Skylab
2000--A trance and acid group from LA.
Slacker--Official
biography.
Slacker (2)
Sol Brothers--Info
on this Big Beat duo from Fresh Records.
Sonic
Subjunkies--DHR Berlin headache music.
Soul Oddity
Soul
Oddity (sound)--Amazing space-hop: "Get Fresh"!
Spacetime
Continuum
Spacetime Continuum
(sound)--40 minutes, recorded live from Chicago!
Speedy
J
Spooky--I
dunno what happened to the official site.
Squarepusher--Techno
drum and bass superbly fused into mindfunkinmuzik!
Sun Electric
Sunscreem--Techno
rock w/ female vocals and fine beats and rhythms.
Surgeon
Symbiosis--Check the amazing
album "Clandestine Electronic Subculture" which is quite a subculture in
itself of beats, samples, and turntablizing.
Synaesthesia--"Ephemeral" ambient
sounds.
System 7
Terre Thaemlitz
Uberzone--Break a little sumthin'
wid botz.
Ultraviolence--Techno
gabber industrial maniac.
Underground Bass Masters--Bass in you face, thumping all over the place.
Underworld
Underworld
(2)--Impressively churning new song "Moaner" is on the Batman &
Robin soundtrack.
Underworld (sound)--Here's
a sample of the amazing song "Born Slippy".
Utah Saints
Violet Arcana
Virus
Westbam--Amazing
acid techno/house. Trance-inducing rhythms.
William Orbit
Woob
Yello--Oh yeah.
Zen
Cowboys
Zeta