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(More) Great Electronic Music from Germany

Cool New Musical Finding - Bowery Electric

Bowery Electric is a Manhattan-based dreampop duo. Their music started as droning guitar-based noise rock and became more turntable-based toward the end of their career. (wiki). The "Lush Life" LP is great. "Beat" seems in the same lines. Hard to think of these guys as early progressive rockers. For more on their bio follow the link.

For the Knowledgeable Ear and Mind

Here is another UK band that I have started to listen a lot lately.
ZERO 7
If you like the French guys from AIR..you surely are going to enjoy Zero7 aka "The Bristish Air". Moreover, they also got pretty much recognition with their Grammy nomination and appearances on shows such as CSI, House, Roswell or Sex and the City as well as lounge and downtempo compilations or the soundtrack of "Garden State". I have listen to all four of their albums and they are pretty fly: Simple Things (2001); Another Late Night (2002); Simple Things Remixed (2003); When It Fall (2004) and The Garden (2006). Look for it..where available.

Michael Banabila - The voiz Noiz series

The art of beautiful noise. Rotterdam based musician with a special interest in electronic manipulations of the human voice and for composing / re-arranging sound layers with the use of sampled textual fragments. Besides acoustic instruments , Banabila uses found objects, electronics, field recordings, shortwave /tv/ film recordings, and self made instruments. Banabila's recordings can often be described as 'cinematic' and 'atmospheric'. Composed music for films, documentaries, video-art, theater and dance productions and choreographies (Ben van Lieshout, VPRO, Orkater, Angelika Oei, Marije Meerman, Claudia Hauri.)

Amon Tobin - Foley Room

One of the best electro guys out there. Ninja Tunist. aka Cujo. the guy really knows its stuff. Born in Brazil (bet you didn't know that)..Rio actually.:). His latest..to come in March 2007 is called Foley Room. 12 tracks as follows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_Room. with a special mention for tracks #: 1,4,9,10 and 14 which I enjoyed most.


Release Notes: (credit goes to the authors)
Genius of noise manipulation and uncompromising musical auteur, Amon Tobin is set to release, "Foley Room", his most conceptually satisfying and beautiful album to date. After finishing work on his soundtrack to the video game "Splinter Cell" Tobin decided it as time to re-think his compositional processes. Having made several albums from reconstructed vinyl sources it was time to look at whatelse could be pulled apart and reconfigured. Amon had been told about the work of foley artists and this served as an inspiration. A foley room is where the sound effects are recorded for films.
Foley artists use their imagination and ingenuity to make the right noise for the situation they are presented with. With this in mind, Amon and a team of assistants headed out into the streets with high sensitivity microphones and recorded found sounds from tigers roaring to cats eating rats, from wasps to falling chickpeas, kitchen utensils to motorbikes to water dripping from a tap. Added to this were the sounds of musicians like the Kronos Quartet, Stefan Schneider and Sarah Pagé, Tobin travelling from foley rooms in Montreal to San Francisco to Seattle and back as he collected them (the CD release will be accompanied by a short DVD, "Foley Room: Found Footage", documenting the recording process). He then took this wealth of source material and twisted it round into the haunting, muscular music you can hear throughout this remarkable album. If a theme runs through "Foley Room" it is what Amon describes as "the pairing of sounds that share a sonic quality despite being otherwise unrelated". And beyond this, of course, his belief that source material is just that – a source, something to be processed, warped and manipulated until it runs beyond itself. This isn't an avant garde or deliberately obtuse record, rather a way for Tobin to freshen up his approach to music whilst tipping his cap to the musique-concrete and found sound pioneers of the past. The results are immediately apparent.
There seems to be a new aural depth to the sound of the record, a living looseness despite the almost forensic way in which the music has been pieced together. In many ways it's as musical and melodic as anything he has produced. And, as ever with Tobin, there are moments of spectral oddness as well as those of sheer exhilaration. Most of all, though, there is a consistency of vision as you are dragged backward through moods and sensations which encourages you to see the record not as a collection of "tracks" but as a whole piece. Unique and compelling, "Foley Room" is set to stand out even amongst the consistently high quality of Tobin's other output.

In addition to such a comprehensive presentation, I can only add this:
THIS is the best stuff that I have heard from Amos Tobin so far; great for listening and incredibly vivid.
DEFINITELY A MUST for whoever is getting it.
AND in the meanwhile, the first single is oficially out.