Reddit mentions: The best big beat music

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|name|The Avalanches|
|album|Since I Left You, released Nov 2000|
|track|Frontier Psychiatrist|
|about track|"Frontier Psychiatrist" is a song by Australian electronic dance music group The Avalanches. The song was produced by group members Robbie Chater and Darren Seltmann, under their production alias Bobbydazzler, for the group's debut album Since I Left You. The song is built around many sampled elements, much like other tracks from its parent album, including prominent vocal samples of comedy duo Wayne and Shuster and an orchestral background sourced from an Enoch Light version of the composition "My Way of Life" (1968). It was released on 21 August 2000 as the second single from Since I Left You. Upon release, it peaked at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart and number 49 in the group's native Australia, becoming their first single to enjoy commercial success. "Frontier Psychiatrist" was well received by music critics, who praised the Avalanches' utilization of samples in making the song. Background: According to group members, "Frontier Psychiatrist" was not planned beforehand by the group and in his words, "just happened from us just fucking around." Group members Robbie Chater and Darren Seltmann were driving figures in the production of the album's songs, spending months scouring Melbourne's "old record stores for old records" and spending hours sampling music from the records they found to create the songs on the album. The duo primarily worked with a Yamaha Promix 01 and Akai S2000 samplers. Dexter Fabay, turntablist and keyboardist for the band, brainstormed the idea for "Frontier Psychiatrist", and his scratching abilities are heard prominently on the song. Composition: "Frontier Psychiatrist" is built around several elements sampled from other music; Chater and Seltmann, who produced the song, sampled music from several vinyl records in the production and creation of the songs from Since I Left You. The song also makes prominent use of scratching done by the band's turntablist Dexter Fabay. The prominent orchestral sample heard throughout the track is sourced from a recording by the Enoch Light Singers of the 1968 composition "My Way of Life", originally composed by Bert Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein and Carl Sigman. The track also contains several vocal samples of Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster, the most prominent of these samples taken from the duo's comedy routine "Frontier Psychiatrist" Only the aforementioned two samples are credited in the liner notes of Since I Left You; various other uncredited samples are used in the song, with sources ranging from golf instructionals, Christianity records and "Reading for the Blind" tapes. The spoken sample at the beginning ("Is Dexter ill?") comes from the John Waters film Polyester, followed by Maurice Jarre's overture from Lawrence of Arabia. The closing mariachi band played "El negro Zumbon" first performed by Silvana Mangano in the movie Anna. Music Video: The song's music video, directed by Kuntz and Maguire, features various characters re-enacting and playing various elements of the track, including vocal samples, violins, horns and drums. The video was released to critical acclaim. The video was the runner-up in the "Best Music Video" category at the 2002 Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival. Pitchfork Media placed the video at #19 on their list of the "Top 50 Music Videos of the 2000s". An alternative video was made, featuring actors acting out the 'dialogue' of the track in various scenes, including a psychiatrist's office and "Dexter's" bedroom. In addition, Rorschach ink-blots are animated to reflect various samples in the track.|
|images|album image|
|links|lyrics, wikipedia, allmusic, discogs, official homepage, youtube, myspace, twitter, facebook, album on amazon|
|tags|electronica, turntablism, triphop|


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• Sigur Ros, after "Heima" was aired on TV
  
• Fever Ray
  
• Apparat, I knew his work with Ellen Allien but not his own stuff
  
• Telefon Tel Aviv, unfortunately after one member of the duo had died
  
• Friendly Fires
  
• School Of Seven Bells
  
• This year I rediscovered Prodigy. I had pretty much given up on them after "Smack My Bitch Up", which is like 12 years ago, and this year's "Invaders Must Die" and "Take Me To The Hospital" were not to convince me otherwise. But thanks to my nephew I found their album from 2003, "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned", which is really good, especially "Hot Ride", "Medusa's Path" and "More Girls" (the best song is a bonus track, so not all prints include it(!!!)).
  

http://www.amazon.com/Since-I-Left-You-Vinyl/dp/B0002C4IO0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1347422794&sr=8-3&keywords=the+avalanches

They are a popular band and they repress that record all the time. Amazon is pretty sweet for records if you are a student. You can sign up for the student advantage account or whatever that is called so a lot of vinyl is free two day shipping.

Yeah, I agree. And I know the others, I'm one of those who bought Why Make Videos :)

Another interesting one from Gondry is the video of Star Guitar by The Chemical Brothers.

Not a song, but probably the best mix I have ever heard by him. Not very well known either. http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Selection-Slim-Paul-Oakenfold/dp/B00004S7LD

Oh i'm old enough. I'll agree that while , at the time, It would have easily be considered the greatest trance mix, I think that quite a few mixes beat it in the 1996-2002 years, namely the above mentioned (sash and dig, oakenfold) and I would also say:

Tiesto : Magik Two

Dj Micro, Tech Mix 2000

And probably -James Holden - Fear of a Silver Planet

this is the only thing with an orange disk that I own... not drum and bass, no, but amazing nonetheless. floppy disk yall

http://www.amazon.com/Better-Living-Through-Chemistry-Fatboy/dp/B000003RZ0

The only correct answer, is of course, Fatboy Slim, Greatest Hits.

http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Hits-Why-Try-Harder/dp/B000FC2GBE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418698508&sr=8-1&keywords=fatboy+slim+greatest+hits

And an excellent electronica band

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The Avalanches on Amazon about a month ago. I'm still listening to it, especially during my gym workouts. Goddamn great album.

Breakbeat's more about singles than albums. I mostly know old school stuff, I could list singles for days. For a mix CD, definitely check out Icey - Funky Breaks.

This is a long shot, but you might be thinking about Fat Boy Slim - Essential Millenium. Although if I'm not mistaken that opening track samples Walter Wanderley - Summer Samba, rather than Astrud Gilbreto.


That or it could be the Fat Boy Slim / Paul Oakenfold collaberation Essential Selection. Who knows.

Lionrock - An Instinct for Detection - - - best trip-hop album ever made (http://www.amazon.com/Instinct-Detection-Lionrock/dp/B000005ENP/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1260649373&sr=8-3-catcorr)
Future Sound of London - ISDN - - - incredible. just incredible. (http://www.amazon.com/ISDN-Future-Sound-London/dp/B000003RWM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1260649512&sr=1-1)

*totally failed with those links, sorry

It's only $17 on Amazon.

It makes me sad every time Amazon asks if I'd like to buy it.

amazon has price matched

... down to $20.75 now . I finally snagged it

https://www.amazon.com/Since-I-Left-You-Avalanches/dp/B0002C4ILS