Bleep's "Guide To Electronic Music"

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For $20, Bleep is selling a 55 track "Guide To Electronic Music" compilation starting from Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Shaeffer in the 1930s and 1940s through Daphne Oram, Morton Subotnick, Throbbing Gristle, Afrika Bambaata, Phuture, and Basic Channel, all the way to J Dilla and James Blake. (Of course it's not comprehensivem, nor does it claim to be.) The project drew out of a Facebook timeline chronicling that same history. "A Guide To Electronic Music" (Thanks, Vann Hall!)

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See also ubuweb —> http://www.ubu.com/sound/electronic.html
- Mazoola
  
  Wow. Just wow.
- http://twitter.com/wi_ngo wingo shackleford
  
  Holy crap.
- http://democracylight.blogspot.com/ Art
  
  As you guys probably discovered, you can download, as well as stream any of those pieces. When you have nothing but time, check out all the “sound” stuff available on ubu >> http://www.ubu.com/sound/ (TapeBeatles, Public Works, People Like Us, and Tellus tapes especially recommended!) Also, poke around for films you can stream or download… (Sun Ra!)
- http://twitter.com/jmaynard8888 Joe Maynard
  
  Adding that everything on Ubu is 100 percent legal, it’s not a shifty torrentz site or anything. many many great arts resources there.
  - http://twitter.com/jmtd Jonathan Dowland
    
    It looks great, but, 100% legal, really? Top of the sounds page, The complete run of all 10 LPs from Brian Eno’s Obscure Records 1975-78.
- http://twitter.com/DJ_Solar_Bear Jason Carl
  
  I will not be sleeping tonight.
http://twitter.com/noahtron noah saber freedman

get educated here – ishkur’s guide to electronic music (while a little dated) is still the standard
http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
- bcsizemo
  
  I wish Ishkur would get off his ass and finish Version 3.
  
  -Ishkur if you read this, fix your damn forums – it’s been a month.
http://twitter.com/shebang_the_cat Gillian Gunson

Assuming we’re talking about the same fellow, it’s Olivier Messiaen, whom I know too much about because I wrote a few papers on him back in music school. The dude liked birds.
- David DeMaris
  
  I was about to chime in on the name. As it happens right now I’m listening to Alain Jehan, who was mentioned in the book “Conversations with Olivier Messiaen” as a favorite composer deserving of more attention along with O.M.’s teacher Charles Tournemire. If you haven’t checked them out and if you’re fond of early Messiaen you might have a listen.
http://magicbelles.com Nathan Barry

It’s a great compilation, but it’s also severely lame that they had to include Divine’s rip off of Blue Monday as they don’t have the New Order original in their library!
Kibo

That photo was clearly swiped from a Terry Gilliam animation. You know the one. His hair’s parted differently, though.
Sullivan McIntyre

Here’s the Guide in Spotify format, as far as possible: ‘Guide To Electronic Music’ – http://open.spotify.com/user/mullio/playlist/4CWDiHOaRTsJscb3AkWkd1