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#1 Viku   User is offline

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 8:43 AM

Hey guys/ gals,
I love further, it's a beautiful album. I was wondering if any of you, who are more experienced in this genre, could recomend me some albums that are similar to it. Many of chemical brothers previous albums have more of a hip hop influence. I prefer further's melodic sound...

Suggestions? Can be other artists as well.

Many thanks in advance!

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 8:50 AM

if you like Further, you may like NEU! (NEU! 75 is a good album) or My Bloddy Valentine (Loveless is a good album)


otherwise, other krautrock stuff like Harmonia, or techno stuff like Orbital(i recommend In Sides)


thats my 2c anyway :)
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Posted 25 June 2010 - 8:54 AM

also, Death in Vegas, Contine Sessions or Scorpio Rising are good albums
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Posted 25 June 2010 - 9:09 AM

The Chemical Brothers' "Surrender" and "We Are the Night" are their most similar albums to Further.

Other than that, try out:

Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Lemon Jelly - '64 - '95

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 12:01 PM

It's a cliché, but try Attack Decay Sustain Release by Simian Mobile Disco. Especially the second part.

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 4:53 PM

I highly recommend Slayer's "Reign In Blood".
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View Postinchemwetrust, on 12 August 2011 - 11:00 AM, said:

For those who haven't seen them, I only have one thing to say.....Ha Ha!

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i didn't wear pants at home ;)

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 5:06 PM

@Maboul: how old are you, again?
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Posted 25 June 2010 - 5:10 PM

View PostViku, on 25 June 2010 - 09:43 AM, said:

Hey guys/ gals,
I love further, it's a beautiful album. I was wondering if any of you, who are more experienced in this genre, could recomend me some albums that are similar to it. Many of chemical brothers previous albums have more of a hip hop influence. I prefer further's melodic sound...

Suggestions? Can be other artists as well.

Many thanks in advance!

I for some reason have been trying to think about this, and I can't think of anything that sounds like Further. It's a completely new different record. At closest you could try revisiting the chems old discog again if you really like their sound - I don't think their old records are anywhere "hip hop", really. very hard to classify the chems sound under one genre.

also pls prove you're not a bot. i love the new forum n don't want to see you guys ever again, if you're one.
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Posted 25 June 2010 - 5:26 PM

View PostJacksRevenge, on 25 June 2010 - 12:10 PM, said:

At closest you could try revisiting the chems old discog again if you really like their sound - I don't think their old records are anywhere "hip hop", really.

Dude, have you listened to a Chemical Brothers record? ;)
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Posted 25 June 2010 - 5:45 PM

influences yes, much more in some of their classic dj mixes - but the albums per se are much bigger and way more expansive than any hip hop. Virgin, in my country used to stack the chems cds in the rock section right uptil 2001 when electronica really started becoming more mainstream here. It's stupid to say the chemical brothers albums were hip hop.
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Posted 25 June 2010 - 7:16 PM

View PostJacksRevenge, on 25 June 2010 - 07:45 PM, said:

influences yes, much more in some of their classic dj mixes - but the albums per se are much bigger and way more expansive than any hip hop. Virgin, in my country used to stack the chems cds in the rock section right uptil 2001 when electronica really started becoming more mainstream here. It's stupid to say the chemical brothers albums were hip hop.

True.
Saying the Chems are hip-hop is as stupid as saying Prodigy are Rave. Even 'Experience' cannot be classified as rave as it is too 'happy' for rave.
Actually, i can sense tunes by the Chems influenced by the Beatles or Kraftwerk more than i can sense hip-hop influence.
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Posted 25 June 2010 - 7:32 PM

We can clearly hear some hip-hop influences at least in Exit Planet Dust and Dig Your Own Hole.

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@Maboul: how old are you, again?


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View Postinchemwetrust, on 12 August 2011 - 11:00 AM, said:

For those who haven't seen them, I only have one thing to say.....Ha Ha!

View PostThePumisher, on 04 September 2013 - 10:01 AM, said:

i didn't wear pants at home ;)

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 9:30 PM

@jacksrevenge, no I'm not a bot lol.

Anyways thanks for the recs guys, I have listened to a little bit I chems older stuff. I should elaborated on what I meant by hip-hop influences.

I really haven't heard anything quite like further, the closest I know of is some of orbital's stuff.

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Posted 25 June 2010 - 10:31 PM

It's kind of hard to recommend albums that are like Further - can't quite figure out where it would sit in a music collection since it's not an easily definable album (then again part of the great things about the Chems is that none of their albums are easily definable, since their influences are all over the map).

If you're looking for more melodic musical endeavors and lush soundscapes that can transport you to different places, try putting on Air (Talkie Walkie and Moon Safari are good ones) Ulrich Schnauss 'A Strangely Isolated Place', Massive Attack 'Mezzanine', Orb, Hybrid, Future Sound of London... the list could go on and on. It's a whole new world, there.

Good call on My Bloody Valentine, Ben Glass. You can hear that influence in Further.
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Posted 26 June 2010 - 6:27 AM

my fav Air is 10000 Hz Legend - FTW!
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Posted 26 June 2010 - 6:40 PM

View PostViku, on 25 June 2010 - 03:43 AM, said:

Many of chemical brothers previous albums have more of a hip hop influence.

View PostJacksRevenge, on 25 June 2010 - 12:45 PM, said:

influences yes, much more in some of their classic dj mixes - but the albums per se are much bigger and way more expansive than any hip hop....
...It's stupid to say the chemical brothers albums were hip hop.


Are you not a hip hop fan, or something? Firstly, you seem irritated to hear any comparisons drawn between the Chemical Brothers and hip hop music. Secondly, you seem to not hear the overwhelming hip hop influence on their records—indicative of unfamiliarity. Sure, you might declare that they're "much bigger and way more expansive than any hip hop," but I think that it's an ignorantly conclusive and ridiculously comprehensive assertion. A fair degree of presumption goes into making such comparisons; you need not always—and, probably, should generally avoid—to rank some piece of music as superior to another.
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Posted 27 June 2010 - 6:00 AM

I have nothing against hip hop - it's perfectly alright to say Chems had a lot of hip hop influences - bang on. But can their records be put under that genre - no.
That's all - I agree with you on the ranking music big - peace.
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Posted 27 June 2010 - 6:41 AM

Booka Shade - Movements
BT - This Binary Universe
AIR - Premiers Symptomes/Moon Safari/Talkie Walkie
Deadmau5 - Random Album Title
Röyksopp - Melody A.M
ILS - Bohemia
Infected Mushroom - Converting Vegetarians
Avalanches - Since I left You
Vitalic - Ok Cowboy
The Future Sound Of London - Accelerator
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
Chicane - Far From The Maddening Crowds
Trentemøller - The Last Resort
Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum
Vangelis - Blade Runner OST
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Hybrid - I Choose Noise
Orbital - Orbital 2 (aka Brown Album)

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Posted 27 June 2010 - 7:06 AM

Wow, really great list of albums MX/!
The only ones I don't know are Booka Shade, ILS, and Chicane. The ones I do know (all the others) are quite good.
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Posted 27 June 2010 - 7:45 AM

Great list there mX - most of them are favourites!
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