who's your favourite analog artist?

[AaronRead]

Mine would have to be Chad Vangaalen. If you haven't heard of him you should check him out he's amazing. He does everything from hip hop to symphonies to experimental electronic stuff to songwriting to rock,it's great. He even builds his own instruments.Also, his artwork is really fucking cool.

check out this interview......

http://cleverlazy.blogspot.com/2005/...archivist.html

I think he's got like 12 suitcases full of music or something, he should definitly be supported.

sebadoh,thurston moore,sonic youth, bruce springsteen's Nebraska,mad lib, and mf doom blow my mind pretty hard too, alot of their stuff comes from home.

Anyways, sorry for the garble but who are your analog heroes?

[Beck]

Rachmaninov!

Makes some people go all to pieces.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZRbko3UsnQ

[Dr ZEE]

favorite analog artist - Mussorgsky (hard to pick one, though)
favorite analog record - "Wish You Were Here" ( easy to pick one )

[Somnium7]

Tangerine Dream Phaedra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedra_%28album%29

Just about everything here was analog.

Also, any band that employed the Mellotron to a large extent - King Crimson, for example. It's hard to beat an instrument that is essentially a rank of tape loops

[themaddog]

Originally Posted by Somnium7

Tangerine Dream Phaedra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedra_%28album%29

Just about everything here was analog.

Also, any band that employed the Mellotron to a large extent - King Crimson, for example. It's hard to beat an instrument that is essentially a rank of tape loops

Yeah, I love the Red album...

-MD

[jpmorris]

Originally Posted by Somnium7

Also, any band that employed the Mellotron to a large extent - King Crimson, for example. It's hard to beat an instrument that is essentially a rank of tape loops

More like cuttings. Each strip lasts about 7 seconds. The Chamberlin did loop them, though.

I'm kind of torn between Genesis who used the M400 to great effect from around 1973-1977, but I think my nomination has to be Isao Tomita. If you need convincing, look at the equipment list for this album:

http://www.isaotomita.net/recordings/planets.html

[famous beagle]

B E A T L E S

sorry it's so obvious, but ... I mean, come on!

[Bobby Darko]

robert johnson, john lee hooker, queens of the stone age to name a few

[_DK]

Wow... mine's Rachmaninov too

[soulsonic]

70's-era Throbbing Gristle is fun analog. Some of it's really lo-fi and grungy, but there's some albums like Heathen Earth that were done pretty cleanly and have a really good sense of "being there". I believe their latest recordings are all digital, but the classic stuff they're most known for is all analog (with the exception of the digital sampling they pioneered around 1980... first time ever used in music!).

oh... and Darkthrone. I believe they still do all their recordings on cassette.

[Somnium7]

Originally Posted by soulsonic

70's-era Throbbing Gristle is fun analog. Some of it's really lo-fi and grungy, but there's some albums like Heathen Earth that were done pretty cleanly and have a really good sense of "being there". I believe their latest recordings are all digital, but the classic stuff they're most known for is all analog (with the exception of the digital sampling they pioneered around 1980... first time ever used in music!).

oh... and Darkthrone. I believe they still do all their recordings on cassette.

I really admire Throbbing Gristle, though I'll admit even I have a hard time listening through some of their songs. In particular, Hamburger Lady makes me kinda queasy after the first couple minutes. They are pioneers in some respects. Their strange usage of music equipment and instruments was pretty outrageous. Attaching an electric fan to an electric guitar - must of been fun!

Cabaret Voltaire's earlier stuff was some heavy analog material between the tape loops, synthesizers and lab equipment. However they kinda pale next to this man - Karlheinz Stockhausen (RIP).
To me he was truly a great man and an enormous analog guru. His influences can be heard in many modern genres of music including The Beatles. I'd like to know where he got his hands on voltage controlled tape recorders

[jjones1700]

Roger Daltry. Mark Knopfler. What can I say, I'm new.

[tomekgmz]

The Velvet Underground. Fantastic records.

From 21st century artists I like Jack White, his Raconteurs and The White Stripes

[Mikkel Breiler]

Favourite analog artist: Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, The Beatles. What can I say, it is crowded at the number one spot.

Favourite analog recording: Kind Of Blue, Roxy & Elsewhere, Revolver. (Still crowded at the top).

I like Kind Of Blue off the 4-track reel tape, Roxy off the Reprise US vinyl, and Revolver off the reel or vinyl.

Quiz: My parents bought one of the three albums above, on one media only. Which album? And which media?

That one album was the one I heard many years before any of the other two albums.

-Mikkel

[ofajen]

Originally Posted by AaronRead

Anyways, sorry for the garble but who are your analog heroes?

I''m old, so the answer is: all of them.

Cheers,

Otto

[avieth]

The Olivia Tremor Control

They do some great stuff with 8-track tape machines.