Fantastic lists. Welcome to MB.

Lol'd at that #10 LP. You seem very rad, and there is significant overlap in our tastes.

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I just spent 20 minutes building a Chonology of Early Electronic Sound (1959-1971) in the Electronica section. I thought users might enjoy a guided tour of early and experimental electronic and computer music.

Unfortunately after embedding all the album art I found that I can't do so until I've posted 15 times, so I'm going to get to work and earn that right so that the post can feature album art with each citation.

I'll throw the text-only version up now. Stay tuned!

Do stick around. We need more people like you.

Cool. Welcome, man/woman. We have a lot of similar interests.

Ladies and Gents, I have a good feeling about Banter and would like to stick around. I'd been searching high and low for a literate music community with an interest in experimental sound.

I have found some wonderful peers via closed/secret international FB vinyl groups, comprising musicians, engineers, etc. But the local branch was mostly 24hrs of AC/DC and Zeppelin. (Nothing wrong with that - just not my bag.)

In a last-ditch effort, I joined a music group on Goodreads, thinking, "They'll surely be filled with literate discussions from fellow music and book enthusiasts!"

I found the group for the site and composed some thoughtful responses to the music-related topics.

Then I scrolled down to read the active threads...

Justin Bieber, Shakira, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Lorde, Nicki Minaj, Carly Rae Jepsen, Rihanna, Alicia Keys , Selena Gomez, Christina Aguilera, and Miley Cyrus.

I backed out the group slowly, clicked 'LEAVE GROUP' and frantically searched Google for "where the hell do people congregate to have active and informed discussions on 20th century music and the arts?"

And that's how I found MusicBanter. Hello! Nice to be here.

Have you read any of John Cage's writings? Silence changed my whole outlook on how I made my music. I still really want to read for the Birds but I haven't come across a copy yet.

Solid lists even if I'm not a fan of the Disintegration Loops - Schulze, Eno, Waits, Miles, and Dr. John are all pretty great. Welcome.

Wonderful, Frownland. I've got the 50th Anniversary Edition of Silence: Lectures & Writings on my shelf, as well as the follow-up - Empty Words: Writings '73-'78.

I love the dedication -


Other recent reads include:

The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross (A must-own)
The Art of Noise: Destruction of Music by Futurist Machines
(the first-ever English compilation of the Futurist manifestos)
The 17 by Bill Drummond of the KLF
The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way by the KLF
KLF: Chaos, Magic, and the Band Who Burned Pounds by John Higgs
(a book about so much more than the music)
Krautrocksampler by Julian Cope (sadly only a PDF. One day...)
The History of Jazz by Ted Gioia
The Penguin Guide to Jazz (a handy reference text)
Listening Through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century by Alex Sayf Cummings
How Music Works by David Byrne
Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music (I absolutely LOVED this)
Modulations: A History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound
American Minimal Music by Wim Mertens
Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record Industry
and Simon Reynold's Retromania (an interesting musico-cultural study)

I'll keep this list in mind after I'm done reading Don Quixote (I only do one novel at a time). You should also read Conversations with Cage, it's fascinating.