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anyone dig modern classical atall?

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:22 am
by &i ggot $€£¥lemon
yea so i kinda like a couple of albums that I bought from the internet this year...

stuff like...

Peter Broderick - Float
HELIOS - Eingya

just wanted to know if anyone had any reccomendations atall??

thanks in advance!

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:26 am
by automat3000
I have that Helios album after hearing it on Vaccine's mix. Not really listened to it yet but didn't know it was modern classical, more like ambient?

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:32 am
by &i ggot $€£¥lemon
yea more home listening, well thats what its generically stated as on boomkat 8)

im really diggin this vibe at the moment :love:

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:26 am
by d-T-r
check goldmund if you like helios.

must admit i found both of them through reccomendations on here somewhere :)

im quite liking four tet at the moemnt.

not exactly modern classical though.

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 9:31 am
by &i ggot $€£¥lemon
thanks for the reccomendations dTruk!, i can see this forum becoming a good rescource, if anyone else has any ones they reccomend??

I found another one when I purchased "float" however i cant seem to find it again now?>? :cry:

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:10 pm
by hob
Very much so! From the replies so far I can see there's a rather 'broad' definition of what modern classical is, here are a few recommendations:

For spacious orchestral and choral music I like Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki, Giya Kancheli - in fact most releases on the ECM New Series label. Very nice to listen to. There's older stuff on that label to (Bach etc), but it's all really good, well chosen and well recorded.

For atonal but still orchestral music, Horaţiu Rădulescu and Giacinto Scelsi are quite interesting and not too far out to enjoy, especially if atonal music is new. Both are very much inspirations for me at the moment - Rădulescu is famous for spectral music where the overtones and undertones produced by instruments are just as or more important than the melodic progression. Scelsi had a breakdown halfway through his life and got out of it by writing pieces of music based around just one note. "Quattro Pezzi Per Orchestra" is good.

For electronic/electro-acoustic music Iannis Xenakis, Curtis Roads (big inspiration for Autechre), Morton Subotnik, Jean-Claude Risset... All very good. The 2xCD "CCMIX" on the Mode label is a good sample of excellent electro-acoustic and computer music. So is the "OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music" 3xCD on Ellipsis Arts is good too.

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:15 pm
by hob
And the Kranky label has good stuff - Stars of The Lid, Windy & Carl, Raglani. After re-reading the original post these are closer to what was stated there. Stars of The Lid are especially great.

Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:00 pm
by kidcazual
gonzales solo piano , max richter , and pete broderick have all been on heavy rotation here , max richter ''sarevo'' is one of ma all time favs , sends me deep

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:37 am
by little boh peep
There's a new Helios album out next month FYI. It's most like "Eingya" compared to his previous work, but there's electronic touches as well like "Unomia" and "Transmitted Vibrations of Any Frequency". You can preview clips on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Caesura-Helios/dp ... 898&sr=8-2

"Hollie" is my favorite track, and definitely going in my next mix. He named the tune after his wife...

You can also buy a CD-R from him of a recent live performance: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =440173388 We got ours in the mail promptly, and he even included a note thanking us for the support, which I thought was a sweet touch. Can't remember the last time an artist did that!

Right, Helios cheerleading over.

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:18 am
by merkin
Arvo Part is a badman.

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 10:25 am
by &i ggot $€£¥lemon
thanks for the reply's ms boh peep, merkin & kidcazual will be checking out those sweet sweet sounds.. :idea:

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 8:46 pm
by .rar kelly
seriously get on some phillip glass tip. i got like 50 Glass albums/pieces as I was obsessed wit him (and listened to nearly nothing else) last spring.

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 9:52 pm
by the solar constant
Merkin wrote:Arvo Part is a badman.
this is the funniest thing i've ever read on here..

eric satie, luc ferrari, and iannis xenakis make sick tunes with wicked vibes ;)

Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:47 pm
by bagelator
are we talking richard clayderman?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 5:44 am
by kuma
Little Boh Peep wrote:There's a new Helios album out next month FYI. It's most like "Eingya" compared to his previous work, but there's electronic touches as well like "Unomia" and "Transmitted Vibrations of Any Frequency". You can preview clips on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Caesura-Helios/dp ... 898&sr=8-2

"Hollie" is my favorite track, and definitely going in my next mix. He named the tune after his wife...

You can also buy a CD-R from him of a recent live performance: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea ... =440173388 We got ours in the mail promptly, and he even included a note thanking us for the support, which I thought was a sweet touch. Can't remember the last time an artist did that!

Right, Helios cheerleading over.
I was there for the Decibel show, worth every penny for that cd-r!

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:30 am
by jackieboi
Just posted an 'Ez3kiel' appreciation post up. Some of theyre stuff is incredible, not sure what else i would describe it as except modern classical.

Reminds me of a film score.

Fell asleep listening to the 'naphtaline' album the other day it was amazing, i cant normally fall asleep listening to anything at all but managed it quite comfortably with this.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:10 pm
by slothrop
Edgard Varese is awesome. He's not strictly speaking all that modern any more (1st half of the 20th century) but he still sounds insane and cool.

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:06 pm
by merkin
this is the funniest thing i've ever read on here..

eric satie, luc ferrari, and iannis xenakis make sick tunes with wicked vibes
Ya dun kno - Arvo is on sum crazy baldhead gunfinger inna air flex.

'Specially in his Passio LOL

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:50 pm
by __________
isn't 'modern classical' an oxymoron?

Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:46 pm
by little boh peep
Kuma wrote:I was there for the Decibel show,
YOU LUCKY SON OF A GUN.