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Mix CD help. Please?

 
 
uncle retrospective
23:29 / 27.12.02
Ok. I hate to do this, but I need help. I'm trying to make a CD that covers a indie/post rock sort of sound mixed with the sort of electronica that borders on the post rock sound. (I know, horrible labels but it's the only way of getting what I'm on about across.)

I'm thinking of putting on;
Dead can dance American dreaming
Mogwai Cody
Radiohead You and who's army
the velvets Venus in furs (if I can get it to fit)
GSYBE Dead flag blues
Pavement stop breathin'
And maybe this is hardcore by Pulp (again if it fits)

Basically, I haven't got a clue, especially on the electronica side.
Help!
Oh, and I'd love to put a chilled sonic youth track in there.
Your my only hope.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
02:27 / 28.12.02
Oh man. I don't know where to start.

I guess I'll start with the 'chilled' Sonic Youth. These SY songs may work for you:

Unwind
Saucer-Like
The Diamond Sea
Hoarfrost
Snare, Girl
Anagrama
Free City Rhymes
Disconnection Notice
Sweet Shine
Candle
Kotton Krown
I Dreamed I Dream

Songs by other bands which may be something like what you're going for:

- Damn near the entire Yo La Tengo catalog, but especially songs like "Moby Octopad", "Damage", "Last Days of Disco", "Everyday", "The Crying of Lot G", "How Some Jellyfish Are Born", and "Nowhere Near"

- Blonde Redhead "In Particular"

- Broadcast "Echo's Answer"

- Disco Inferno "It's A Kid's World"

- The Famous Boyfriend "I Woke Up And Remembered What You Had Done"

- Flying Saucer Attack "Standing Stone"

- Gastr Del Sol (pretty much anything they've ever done, but I recommend "The Seasons Reverse" in particular

- Joan Of Arc "Me And America", "Me (Plural)", "If It Feels/Good Do It", "Ne Mosquitos Pass"

- Q and Not U "Soft Pyramids"

- The Notwist "This Room"

- Avey Tare And Panda Bear "Penny Dreadfuls", Avey Tare, Panda Bear and The Geologist "Essplode", "Inside The Music Box"

- Clinic "Mr. Moonlight", "Harmony", "For The Wars", "The Vulture"

- Fugazi "Floating Boy", "Closed Captioned"

- Stereolab "Metronomic Underground", "Brakhage", "Captain Easychord", "Parsec", "Fuses", "Come And Play In The Milky Night", "Barock-Plastik", really most everything they've ever done.

- The Fall "Dr. Buck's Letter", "Cyber-Insekt"

- Acid Mothers Temple "You're Still Now Near Me Everytime"

- Jackie O Motherfucker "Your Cells Are In Motion"

- Tortoise "DJed", "TNT", most things they've done

- Oneida "Number Nine"

- Black Dice "Seabird" and most anything else on Beachs And Canyons

- Add N To X "the Black Regent"

- Cornelius "Point of View Point"

...that should be a good start, anyway.
 
 
bio k9
06:29 / 28.12.02
I'm gonna recommend I Have Known Love by the Silver Apples. Its from '67 or '68 but so is the VU track so what the hell...
 
 
uncle retrospective
16:42 / 28.12.02
Thaks. Flux, that's the second huge help list you given me. Cheers mate.
 
 
uncle retrospective
16:42 / 28.12.02
Oh, still need more help please. Any electronica ideas?
 
 
rizla mission
10:53 / 29.12.02
I second just about everything on Flux's list.

Hows about some Slint? 'Washer' possibly.

Most of the electronica I listen to is the type that sounds like computers exploding and stuff, so it probably wouldn't sit too well with the slightly more, um, relaxed atmosphere you seem to be going for..
 
 
rizla mission
10:55 / 29.12.02
Actually, hang about, I have exactly what you need: Pop Off Tuesday. Lovely, lovely stuff.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:49 / 29.12.02
Suicide! You need some Suicide - they practically invented post-rock and electroclash (allegedly). I'd go for 'Ghost Rider', the opening track off their eponymous album...

AMERICA AMERICA IS KILLING ITS YOUTH.
 
 
rizla mission
14:54 / 30.12.02
Suicide's new album American Supreme is surprisingly great too.

Undoubtedly the most grim, foreboding, disconcerting, bleak, post-911 New World Order disco album yet made.

I find it really interesting that Martin Rev's ultra-primitive electronica on the early Suicide records has been completely replaced with really slick sounding funk/hiphop/disco tracks on the new record, suggesting that presumably the early sound was more down to a lack of equipment than any kind of minimalist punk statement..
 
 
grant
16:48 / 30.12.02
Bauhaus the spy in the cab

Not Air, but that newer band that sounds just like Air, only with a soulful woman singer (a la Dusty Springfield) instead of semi-whispered French-pop. Argh... their name is eluding me.

Followed by dubstar's cover of St. Swithin's Day,

and All About Eve Phased.
 
 
grant
13:57 / 31.12.02
Damn, can't believe I forgot this:

One of my favorite bands ever is Burnside Project, who are almost exactly what you're talking about. Breakbeats and indie guitars.

They're good. See for yourself.

No, really. Download some mp3s and listen.
 
 
De Selby
13:22 / 01.01.03
post rock sounding electronica....

maybe

Squarepusher - Music is Rotted One Note. Anything off of it.

thats the best I can come up with.
 
 
diz
18:59 / 03.01.03
you may want to try:

boards of canada: something off of music has the right to children, maybe "an eagle in your mind" if that's the one i'm thinking of (i'm sort of stuck at the point where i'm thinking "it's the one that goes kind of booboop-booooop-boo which is pretty useless=P )

mum "awake on a train"

though it's more hip-hop then electronica, you may want to try some DJ Shadow, probably "Midnight in a Perfect World" or "What Does Your Soul Look Like?"
 
  
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