Double Bass Does anyone here listen to electronic music?

[Jason Sypher]

Jason: Are you living in Japan now?

I lived there for three years when I was younger; amazing place. I've always wanted to move back there...

I've been living in Japan for four years now. Of course, I do travel a lot so I'm in NYC quite a bit still among other places. Still, my wife and my cat are in Japan. I love it so much. It's been a great choice for me and a reprieve from all the madness and strife in the USA.

 

[james condino]

I'm envious of that one. I've wanted to move back since I left. I made great money gigging as much as I wanted there in my early 20s. I watch the real estate shows there and am constantly amazed at what you can get compared to here. I should use you as an excuse to come visit!

 

[Jason Sypher]

I'm envious of that one. I've wanted to move back since I left. I made great money gigging as much as I wanted there in my early 20s. I watch the real estate shows there and am constantly amazed at what you can get compared to here. I should use you as an excuse to come visit!

Anytime! Yes, if you are willing to live outside the major centers you can really live cheaply. Friends of mine live on islands where no young people want to live and they scored some idyllic property for very cheap.

 

[Dirtykeys]

Got into electronic music when I’d my fill of “rock n roll.” This man… I miss dearly. I still get choked up listening and thinking about him. Criminally underrated. His style is unique. You can tell it’s him. Whether straight electronic poopie. Or more stringed instrument works. Tends to play live drums on a number of albums. And live bass (I wish I knew what his main bass.)

And do his daughter a solid… just buy his complete discography. It’s worth it.

Phil Western

Phil Western

Member of Download, Plateau and solo artist with several releases to date. Owner of the Record Company. Based in Vancouver, BC.

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[Jason Sypher]

One of the unexpected benefits of listening to electronic music is that I have discovered I've been listening to it all along in other artists I admire such as Peter Gabriel, Bjork, Thom Yorke etc etc. There are synths literally everywhere and I hardly noticed them before I started really admiring electronic artist's work.

 

[tinyd]

Dawn of Midi aren't electronic as such, but are a kind of "electronic adjacent" jazz trio with acoustic instruments:

 

[Bob_Ross]

I don't consider myself a huge fan of purely electronic music, but it certainly makes up a small part of the gumbo that is my aesthetic stew. Larry Fast's first Synergy LP was one of the formative albums that shaped then teenaged me, and there's a healthy does of synthesizers and ambient goop on many of the records I consider essential.

I often forget about this record, but I would definitely want Ozma's a huge and silent place in my desert island disc collection.

 

[CryingBass]

I don't consider myself a huge fan of purely electronic music, but it certainly makes up a small part of the gumbo that is my aesthetic stew. Larry Fast's first Synergy LP was one of the formative albums that shaped then teenaged me, and there's a healthy does of synthesizers and ambient goop on many of the records I consider essential.

I often forget about this record, but I would definitely want Ozma's a huge and silent place in my desert island disc collection.

Good old low bit! Close enough to analog.

 

[Don Kasper]

Yes. I listen to, learn from, and love me (some) "Electronic Music".
Thx. (First page below is a bass part...second page is for the melodist.)

 

[ctrlzjones]

I don’t get much out of electronic because it is so bound to a mechanical grid an repetitive patterns.

There are some exceptions though that I totally admire. One is Alva Noto, who uses the grid & patterns in a way that makes them transcendent. The other is Ryuichi Ikeda who has a quasi scientific approach to sound as such.

Another musician I was totally impressed with was on a bootleg recording from a venue in New York in the late 90s and I think his name was Hardedge and the label on the tape had something with “oyster geometry”. That tape (sic!) disappeared and I was never able to find more stuff from him.

 

[brianrost]

I listen to a fair amount of electronic music, started in the 60s when I head Switched on Bach.

I’m pretty old school in my tastes, Tangerine Dream, early Kraftwerk, Klaus Schulze, Morton Subotnick, etc. I also like the intersection of EM with jazz elements, like the Acid Jazz movement in the UK which started with DJ remixes of 60s and 70s soul jazz records, early Weather Report and Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi period that preceded the Headhunters band. I never really gelled with modern electronic dance music. Aphex Twin did a lot of that, but his Selected Ambient Works I do enjoy.

I plead guilty to making some EM myself in my man cave for over 30 years, with hundreds of hours that went into the trash bin and very little left worth listening to. It’s probably because my career in the computer industry led me to embrace MIDI early on.

1990

2006

2018…100% computer based, no more hardware instruments.

Today…out of the basement, still a mess...

 

[fdeck]

Well, I do have the Kraftwerk album, see my avatar. I've thought about dipping my toe in, but I kind of feel that if I do, I should build my own gear. The programmable technology that you can get for a few bucks nowadays is just astonishing.