Musical Taste // Favorites

Today's post may be of little interest to you… it's some ego cajolement about my musical taste.

Above are two tag clouds displaying the covers of my most listened albums^[1]. The first one (above or left) has been taken over the past six and half years, the second one represents the top of the past six months.

Top 40 Artists

The following list is the current top 40 list of my favorite artists for the past twelve months…

1. Front Line Assembly
2. Depeche Mode
3. The Prodigy
4. Spetsnaz
5. Leæther Strip
6. Stellardrone
7. And One
8. X-102
9. Celestial Aeon Project
10. Front 242
11. David Arnold & Michael Price
12. Vangelis
13. Patenbrigade: Wolff
14. Haujobb
15. Rotersand
16. Pendulum
17. Assemblage 23
18. Frank Klepacki
19. Solar Fields
20. Hyperwind
21. Architect
22. Funker Vogt
23. Janne Hanhisuanto
24. Bass Tandem
25. The Chemical Brothers
26. Absurd Minds
27. Esther Garcia
28. Aes Dana
29. 8kHz Mono
30. Patrick Gowers
31. Spacetime Continuum
32. Richard Wells
33. klakast
34. Harry Gregson-Williams
35. Laibach
36. Pet Shop Boys
37. Mr. Oizo
38. Covenant
39. Klinik
40. VNV Nation

Special mention of Project Pitchfork.

And the artist tag cloud of my all-time favorites:

^[1] My Last.fm data analyzed using Last.fm Tools.

Greg Craven // How the World Ends

I admit I haven't been very active lately on Think Tank but occasionally you come across something that really adds to some public discussion.



The strong point is not its scientific accuracy, for it has none, but its simple yet powerful reasoning…

Give it look!

I Space // Janne Hanhisuanto

Finnish composer of ambient and modern classical music Janne Hanhisuanto has released at least eight albums over the past five years.



In 2011 Lithuanian label Cold Tear Records has released his album of space music and modern classical I Space.



You may download a Creative Commons version from the Internet Archive.

Roots // Tenonaki

Tech Trance

Tenonaki is not exactly a newcomer to the music industry. The album Roots joins eight tracks produced between 1998 and 2006 by Marco Köller. Köller has been active since 1996, making techno and trance music under various labels including New Age Hippies, Blanche and Smooth. This album is his way of paying tribute to the early techno music, dating back to 1988/89 when he started deejaying.

The music filed under tech trance on the release page at Ektoplazm. I am unable to confirm this special style tag - to me it is electronic, trance-y, technoid, hard yet pleasing to my ears. So why should I care what it is called.

It reminds me of the X-102 classic Discover the Rings of Saturn which is high praise indeed as this album is one of my favorite albums in modern electronic music and was created by the kings of the Detroit school, Jeff Mills, Mike Banks and Robert Hood.

But when I say it reminds me I don't you to think that they sound alike. There are major differences. X-102 is Detroit house with a spacy twist, Tenonaki is Cologne techno with cold trance thrown in for good measures. 

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It was released in three formats via Ektoplazm.

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