Reddit mentions: The best electronica music

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• Well, Haim is one of my favorites right now. I love this whole album. Lots of fun tunes to dance to, and play really loudly in your car. Fleetwood Mac-ish indie pop. This is also their debut album.
  
  
• Lorde dropped her debut album, and it took me a while, but I'm really digging the music. 400 Lux, White Teeth Teens, and Buzzcut Season are a few of my favorites. She grew up with her mother reading poetry to her, so that's how she ended up making her own music. Plus, she is only 16. Bravado is a good song that is not on the album.
  
  
• Little Games by The Colorist is a fun little song. I enjoy playing this song from this new band.
  
  
• Hot Knife by Fiona Apple, because it's Fiona Apple. Strange little tune, but it's catchy and fun. Fiona sounds awesome in her vocals.
  
  
• Fireshrine by Purity Ring is a really strange, but interesting electronic song.
  
  I have a pattern for unusual music choices, but I find they are some times the best treasures.
  
  
• Siberia and it's Acoustic version are my favorite Lights albums. Her first album was pretty good, too, but I enjoy the acoustics from Siberia.
  
  I'm sure I can dig up more, but that should be a good start. :)

Cool!

I hope you don't mind me giving you some feedback. It's always hard to give feedback over the internet because you can never tell if you're too harsh.

Your uke playing is really good! I love the percussion you add, and I think it's really cool you take Pachelbel's Canon and turn it into a jam tune. That's fucking awesome.

I will say that there are a few areas of improvement I'd like to suggest, if you're willing to hear it (I know some people are disheartened by feedback, and that is NOT my intent, I just want you playing to your best ability).

The first thing is tuning.

Your uke is very out of tune. Always make sure your uke is in tune before you play. They will go out of tune every day, and even every few hours. You might have even tuned inside, because slight change in weather conditions can make instruments go out of tune quick. Always use a tuner, and if you don't have one, invest in a good one (the ones that latch onto your uke, for example), or get an app. It's hard for people to enjoy what you have to offer if they are distracted by bad tuning the whole song.

Tips for tuning: My guess is you probably can't hear it that well because you might not have the same training I do. So, train your ear! It's not that hard to do, just take a few minutes to tune your uke by ear before double checking it with a tuner. I use The Tuning CD which my professor suggested to all his students. Each note has a 3m drone of a root fifth and octave, which really gets things in tune. (For years now I prefer the tuning CD over a tuner, because I can get my instruments in tune faster and more reliably than a tuner can.)

I've found one of the tracks on youtube if you don't want to buy the album:

Drone on C:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIq_uGKD7Aw

You can use that for C & G strings at least. Don't tune the E string to it, because of crazy physics stuff. Only tune "perfect intervals," like unisons (obvi), 4ths, 5ths, and 8ves.

But even if you tune the C & G by ear each day using this CD, its great ear training.

The second is tempo.

You are gradually speeding up the whole song until the end. I can't tell if it's an intentional, gradual speed up, or if you are just rushing. Regardless, IMO a consistent tempo is better because your interpretation is like a jam tune, and it'll groove so much better if it sits on one tempo at a time. That said, you could still make an intentional tempo increase, perhaps using two bars to lead in to it, but then stick to that new tempo without rushing. The music at 1:20 is one good spot to do this.

Also, your rhythm is sloppy. I didn't notice it at first, but once things picked up in the middle it was another distraction from your music.

Tips for tempo: How can you make your playing consistent in tempo, and precise in rhythm? Practice with a metronome! I prefer a dedicated metronome device over an app, because I think its more physical and cuts through the air better. The basic idea is to practice so slow there is no way you miss a beat, and then once you are grooving at 100% at that tempo, increase it 5 bpm. Repeat. It takes a lot of patience, but think of the long game instead of the short.

So, take a few measures, especially when you are grooving, and repeat them over and over. Whatever tempo you are playing it at, divide by two. As said before, do not increase tempo until it is perfect rhythm every time

That's all I got, tuning and rhythm

You have some great skill, so don't let these things distract from your playing. Honestly, I wouldn't bother with typing all this shit up so thoroughly if I wasn't impressed by your uke skills, no joke. Your interpretation is awesome, and also attaching the camera to your uke is really cool too. Kinda trippy, I like it. Is that a gopro?

Happy anniversary indeed! I've been on reddit for a while, but not this community but for a month or so. It's a blast, and I certainly hope to be still gifting this time next year! What are your best memories? Maybe something awesome you received in this time, or words of wisdom you've given to others?

Thanks for the contest. This is a suggestion but I do prefer surprises!

My quick list:

SHOW: The Adventure Zone
SONG: Déjà vu
ARTIST: Mort Garson
ALBUM: Ataraxia
LINK HERE to a CD?

On YouTube

Griffin’s explanation of it at The Adventurezone Tumblr

SHOW: Bullseye
SONG: Huddle Formation
ARTIST: The Go! Team
ALBUM: Thunder, Lightning, Strike
LINK to Amazon

Older TSOYA theme here.

SHOW: Bunker Buddies
SONG: Theme to Bunker Buddies
ARTIST: Brent Black / Brentalfloss
ALBUM: n/a
LINK to Brent’s site


SHOW: The Flop House .
SONG: He's The Housecat
ARTIST: Stuart Wellington
ALBUM: n/a
LINK to Soundcloud

SHOW: International Waters
SONG: USA Vs. White Noise
ARTIST: Ladytron
ALBUM: Best Of 00-10 [Deluxe Edition]
LINK to Amazon

SHOW: Jordan, Jesse, Go!
SONG: Love You
ARTIST: The Free Design
ALBUM: Kites Are Fun / Best of
LINK to Amazon

THEIR LIVE OPENER:
SONG: You Dropped A Bomb On Me
ARTIST: The Gap Band
ALBUM: From the Album The Gap Band IV
LINK to Amazon

ADJACENT:
SONG: Hot Tubbin' (On the Late Night)
ARTIST: Ashkon
ALBUM: 2 song EP
LINK to Amazon

SHOW: My Brother, My Brother and Me
SONG: (It's a) Departure
ARTIST: The Long Winters
ALBUM: Putting The Days To Bed
LINK to Amazon

Original opener:
SONG: Take A Chance On Me
ARTIST: ABBA
ALBUM: Gold: Greatest Hits
LINK to Amazon

Older (original?) Closer
SONG: Root to This (with the Shatner sample)
ARTIST: Fear Of Pop (Ben Folds Five)
ALBUM: Volume I
LINK to Amazon

Older Closer
SONG: Your Part (Pt. 2) (“Keep your heart three stacks/sleestaks”)
ARTIST: Girl Talk
ALBUM: Feed the Animals
LINK to Amazon

SONG: "Fugue For Brotherhorns" (Ghost Horse Song) – from Episode 193
ARTIST: MBMBAM and Lin Manuel-Miranda
LINK to YouTube

SHOW: Pop Rocket
SONG: Party Boobytrap
ARTIST: Osymyso
ALBUM: n/a
LINK to Soundcloud

SHOW: Sawbones
SONG: Medicines
ARTIST: The Taxpayers
ALBUM: Exhilarating News
LINK to Amazon

SHOW: Shmanners
SONG: Theme to Shmanners(?)
ARTIST: Brent Black / Brentalfloss
ALBUM: n/a
LINK to Brent’s site

Stop Podcasting Yourself
Dave has a tumblr with songs here.
(My work blocked it, so I can’t verify these.)

SHOW: Trends Like These
SONG: Theme to Trends Like These (?)
ARTIST: Brent Black / Brentalfloss
ALBUM: ?
LINK to song on Brent’s site

SHOW: We Got This
SONG: Podcasts Should (Not) Have a Theme Song
ARTIST: Mike Phirman
ALBUM: n/a
LINK to song on Mike Phirman’s site



ONES I MISSED:
Baby Geniuses
Can I Pet Your Dog?
Dave Hill's Podcasting Incident
Getting Curious
Judge John Hodgman
The Kasper Hauser Podcast
Lady to Lady
Oh No, Ross and Carrie!
One Bad Mother
Still Buffering
Throwing Shade
Wham Bam Pow

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|name|Joonas Hahmo|
|about artist|Only 24 years old, Joonas Hahmo has done this and that… We don’t really want to bore you with all that usual stuff most artist biographies are full of. Honestly. We could briefly mention (just to pay respect for classical art of hyping) that Joonas really did play at such massive events as Love Parade and Ruhr in Love, and got his tracks played on MTV, as well as played around the globe in support of such DJs as Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Appearce & Xspective Sense, James Zabiela, Ferry Corsten and Hernan Cattaneo. ([more on last.fm](http://www.last.fm/music/Joonas Hahmo))|
|track|GT 83|
|images|artist image|
|links|discogs, official homepage, youtube, myspace, twitter, facebook, track on amazon|
|tags|trance, progressivetrance, house, progressivehouse|
|similar|Paul Keeley, Oliver Smith, Jaytech, Komytea, Solarity|
|metrics|lastfm listeners: 34,140, lastfm plays: 232,948, soundcloud plays: 5,591, radd.it score: 3.5|


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Reviews of There Will Be No Armageddon (1995) by UnionJack (discogs):

>If you have never listened to this CD, stop what you are doing and find it, pronto! From start to finish Union Jack pulls you through a sonic soundscape that varies from beautiful and melodic to sinister. Tracks to live by would be "Two Full Moons and a Trout", "Red Herring", "Cactus", er,.....you know what? Id have to list them all!!...Every track is as unique as the last.

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>This is a perfectly designed ambient trance cd that is wonderful on car stereos or surround sound, especially if one has hypersensivity for some reason or another~! But really though, this is one of the best trance cds I have ever heard... it is not like typical dj trance of oakenfold or lawrence, it is much more powerful and yet much more smooth. Its just the best blowup album ever, thats all.

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>This album can help you sleep, wake you up, get you in the mood, get you out of the mood, etc, etc. It has the ability to enhance what you're feeling. If you like trance, Enigma or just music in general, you should give it a try.

Shai Linne is great. He has an amazing gift to put a lot of wonderful theology into a 3-5 minute song. My favorite album is The Atonement. Masterful.

I got to meet him in person one time when I was visiting the church he attends. He's very humble and down to earth, and an extremely friendly guy. He loves the gospel.

I actually used to be a Christian Dj a long time ago, and I've kept up with the music (I actually haven't had time in the last year, so some of this may be older, but hyperlinks to Amazon are included - I'm sure most are on iTunes as well). I broke them down by what I consider the top 6 genres of music that MOST people listen to - I excluded genres like classical, chanting, opera, country, etc. These are all Christian artists that happen to love making music that I enjoy. Many of these artists have additional albums, but I linked the ones I know I like. EXPLORE!!!

Recommendation: hold down the left Control button when you click on a link so it opens in another tab. ;)

Club

• Britt Nicole – Gold
  
• Capital Kings – Capital Kings and II
  
• DJ Tony Foxx – In the Beginning and Faithfulness
  
• G-Powered – Trust
  
• Har Megiddo – Ghost King
  
• Thousand Foot Krutch – Metamorphosiz Vol. 1 and Metamorphosiz Vol. 2
  
• Wow Hits Party Mix – Deluxe Edition
  
  Hip Hop
  
  
• 2edge – Second Wind
  
• Katalyst – Death by Design (especially track 11)
  
• Much Luvv Fam – Luvv to Dance
  
• Sho Baraka – Lions and Liars
  
• Tekulve – Da Antidote and Who Left the Door Open
  
  Pop
  
  
• Britt Nicole – The Lost Get Found
  
• Group 1 Crew – Ordinary Dreamers
  
• Royal Taylor – Black and White
  
• V Rose – Young Dangerous Heart
  
  R&B
  
  
• Chris Searcy – Innovation
  
• Korey Bowie – Life and Love Vol 1
  
• Shonlock – A Night to Remember and Never Odd or Even
  
  Reggae
  
  
• Benjah – The Break Up (not sure why this isn’t available in mp3 but the whole album is good)
  
• Monty G – King’s Highway
  
• Papa San – Higher Heights and God & I and One Blood
  
• Sherwin Gardner – Nascent and Relentless
  
  Rock
  
  
• Family Force 5 – Time Stands Still and Reanimated and III and Dance or Die with a Vengeance
  
• Letter Black – Hanging on by a Thread
  
• Nine Lashes – World We View
  
• Pillar – Confessions
  
• Red – End of Silence and Release the Panic
  
• Skillet – Awake
  
• Thousand Foot Krutch – The End is Where We Begin and Welcome to the Masquerade
  
  Edit: formatting

1. There's an app called Intonation practice(iOS) that will play scales with you. I'm sure there are several similar ones.
   For scales I prefer playing with a drone over moving by notes.
   In school I used The Tuning CD (https://www.amazon.com/Tuning-C-D-440-Richard-Schwartz/dp/B002COP51Q)
   The tuning app Tonal Energy can play back notes and stack chords. It has an analysis tool that graphs your pitch too.
   
   
2. It depends on your progress. Is it memorized? Have you listened to a recording of yourself playing the piece?
   When preparing for recitals I like to follow this http://www.violinmasterclass.com/en/practice-schedules
   I would create a chart with each piece divided into sets, technical set( shifts intonation awkward passages bowing) metronome set (starting slow working up passages) then full speed
   Also practicing backwards helps me too. Starting with the last measure or phrase and systematically moving backwards a section at a time until you're playing all of the piece.
   
   
3. Barbara Barbers Solos for Young Violinst is progression based and a good supplement to those pieces in Suzuki. Although Vol. 1 covers from Suzuki 1-4 in difficulty.
   The ABRSM repertoire is under a graded system too. This syllabus has recommended pieces from beginner to advanced. Along with scale expectations http://us.abrsm.org/fileadmin/user_upload/syllabuses/violinComplete16.pdf

It really depends on the type of job you have:

• If it's something like a: clothing store, record store, deli, or car shop, you could probably get away with something like Daft Punk, Pixies, or (if you want to get more obtuse) Venetian Snares.
  
  
• If it's more of an office environment (or close) that's trying to give off a professional attitude and would prefer more of a low-key atmosphere, I would recommend Massive Attack, Suburban Kids with Biblical Names, The Unicorns(They're also on iTunes if you want MP3 format). Keep in mind, I'm basing this more off of what I enjoy listening to, since I don't really know what the age ranges of the people you are working with is like.
  
  
• If all else fails, you could probably get away with some nice classical, music or Radiohead.

“Rochard” was a lot of fun, though not without a bit of controversy. I'm watching the price of the DLC intently. It's a 2D puzzle platformer, similar in some ways to “Portal: The Flash Version”, but bigger, shinier, with an original plot and quality voice-acting.

“AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome” is a heart-pounding thrill ride. Literally. Well, minus the ride part I suppose—you're just falling.

“Just Cause 2”, currently a daily deal for 80% off, is a sandbox action game—there is a plot, and I actually wanted more of it, but it's decidedly optional. You have a wide variety of guns and vehicles to use against your enemies, and infinite parachutes and grappling hooks by which to navigate. And the soundtrack is called “Music to Blow Shit Up By”. 'Nuff said. (Fair warning: I have the PS3 version. But I've heard good things about it on Windows, usually including a mention of the multiplayer mod.)

“Darwinia” is an RTS with an AI theme. You're rescuing a virtual world of AI people from an infection of computer viruses.

“Beat Hazard” is a 2D space shmup, similar to “Asteroids”, with the twist that the pace of gameplay is determined by your music. When the music gets soft and/or slow, the game slows down. It comes with a selection of electronica tracks to start with, but part of the fun is experimenting with different music—“Mars: Bringer of War” works well, as does most of Zircon's album “Antigravity”.

This MP3, which on the face of it, an MP3 might not seem so cool, but the music video is seriously amazing and honestly, the song lyrics seem entirely appropriate to the sad news received today about our co-worker, who always seemed very outgoing and never upset.

So that's my entry and I'm sticking to it.

Neotokyo has an amazing soundtrack. I love zoning out to it.

I CAN'T EVEN! 'What's Up' by 4 Non Blondes. It came out when I was in High School and besides being played non stop, it was popular with all of the cool kids(which I was not). I swear I grind my teeth when it comes on. Much to my chagrin it made a HUGE comeback with this gem. I am now in love with this.

This isn't a soundtrack to an actual game, but rather a sound track of gaming as a whole. At least, that's my take on it. If you like video game music, I highly recommend this album by Zircon.

Free FLAC download of the album from the artist's website.

And here's his Amazon page where you can buy it and support the guy if you're so inclined.

Such a great album. It's almost a dollar cheaper on amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008L2M5GQ/

I was wondering if they just straight-up stole the title and picture from him Neotokyo was released in 2009 after all, but it sounds like it was done with permission, maybe?

Mezzanine by Massive Attack - the entire album.

In college all my friends, including girls, called this "the boning album."

I got it from amazon.com

youtube

I'm not sure exactly what would classify as "melancholy whisper music", but Purity Ring comes to mind specifically their album Shrines