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any thing "not so" comtemporary??......

tangerine dream

wendy/walter carlos

(imagining 'switched on bach' playing as slightly goofy 'rendered' characters walk robotically across the mezzanine for X building whilst trees/ in-door plants sway robotically)

good suggestions....

perhaps some radiohead? from their amnesiac or kid a albums?

Einsturzende Neubauten works well.

Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman. Dates from the early '90s, still awesome.

Aphex Twin - Ambient Works '85-'92. Another timeless classic

Both make excellent aural wallpaper with benefits.

Or for slightly more contemporary post-dance wauralpaper


Sigur Ross
Or
(Godspeed descendants) A Silver Mt. Zion

Why not use something post-rock like the Japancakes, Amina or the Rachels?

Ambient and trance are very 2000....they make renderings seem like bad video games.

"any thing "not so" comtemporary??......"

How Dare you! You're an Architect - it is your duty to be contemporary!

boards of canada - the campfire headphase

underworld - second toughest of the infants

lost in translation soundtrack - various tracks

the orb - adventures beyond the ultraworld

I like to use Tosca.

check out www.scape-music.de
lots of good stuff there

also check
www.apparat.net

In addition to Underworld and Aphex Twin as mentioned above, I'd suggest this CD. Very good stuff.

There's also a CD called "Bellerophon" by Under The Dome that I love... it has a very Tangerine Dream feel to it. Not sure if you'd be able to find it online, though.

fahren fahren fahren

fisherspooner

gary numan
kraftwerk
can
the 2nd side of david bowie's low
landing
add (n) to (x)
matmos

Some IDM on my ipod right now... there are a great deal more artists, but these artists represent the many facets of "modern" electronic music - or Intelligent Dance Music = IDM

Alias
Anders Ilar
Apparat
Arovane
B-12
B. Fleischmann
Battles
Bonobo
Boom Bip
Cex
Colleen
Cujo
Dabrye
Daedelus
Daniel Wang
Delerosa and Asora
Dat Politics
Deru
Diplo
DJ / Rupture
Dntel
Dosh
Drop the Lime
Dub Trio
Electric Birds
Ellen Allien
Faction
Fahren
Farben
Four Tet
Fridge
Isan
Jega Jazzist
Jega
Jel
Jesu
Jimmy Edgar
Jollymusic
Kettel
Khonner
Kid 606
Kifehandchop
Lemon Jelly
Lesser
LFO
M83
Marumari
Matthew Dear
Mercury Program
Metamatics
Nanospeed
Napoli is not Nepal
Neotropic
Nobukazu Takemura
Octavius
Pan/Tone
Pandatone
Philip Jeck
Phonem
Piano Overlord
Plaid
Pole
Prefuse 73
RJ Valeo
Robots in Disguise
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Savath y Savalas
Seven Ark
Skalpel
Soft Pink Truth
Stars as Eyes
Stars of the Lid
Stewart Walker
Styrofoam
Subtle
Sunroof!
Susumu Yokota
T. Raumschmiere
Telefon Tel Aviv
Thomas Fehlmann
Tussle
Vector-Lovers

prolly - if you ever want to upgrade your ipod and get rid of your current one
please let me know, of course the tunes must stay aboard - nice mixture

a completely random mix:

Farben / Jan Jelinek
Jackson and his Computer Band
Minamo
Tape
Supersilent
Radian
Taylor Deupree
Mokira / Andreas Tilliander
Frank Bretschneider
Fennesz
Labradford
Max Tundra
Zavoloka
Barbara Morgenstern
Cosmos
Kammerflimmer Kollektief]
Polmo Polpo

Max tundra and Fennesz, forgot about them...

ray ray - I usually have a KDX server, but Verizon sucks - when it gets back up and running, i'll send you the info.

lullatone - little songs about raindrops
colleen - everyone alive wants answers
fridge - hapiness

Tim Hecker, Radio Amor
Vladislav Delay
Main
Fennesz
Polmo Polpo
James Plotkin & Mick Harris
Thomas Köner

All of these are often ridiculously beautiful, audially ambient, and well worth listening to on headphones - or in the context of an architectural animation. Good luck!

U.N.K.L.E - Never, Never Land

oh yeah i second Colleen. absolutely gorgeous stuff.

Mira Calix

Konono No.1

used the dust brothers for an animation while in school still. turned out well.

Not strictly contemporary as the movement miniature as it was may have come and gone, but one of my favourite albums ever was called detroit beatdown, vol 1 in had fantastic tracks- the two highlights being Alton Miller's TULUM, Nor Talley's CHANGE and Darren Abrams's LOOSE PIANO. Superfantastic.

other than that:

Tujiko Noriko,
Mum,
Aoki Takamasa

or you could try

Global communication's 76:14

as well as all the other incredible stuff listed in the thread.
Prolly wins hands down!

solvent - a panel of experts (remix)

if u want drones and abstract soundscapes, check out "Experimental Audio Research".

or perhaps take inspiration from this

i realize i am probably the only one geeked for this, but what the hey.

aux 88


2:37am

not unknown
autechre

you can dance like david gahan in this video while presenting your work...

Global Underground mix CD's have a decent array of tracks I think - although some are pretty banging...

What about collaborating with a music student?
Then you'd acknowledge the amount of lift you are getting from the music (someone else's work) rather than just clipping it? Having just read the Gazprom thread and all the naive recrimination about how architects crib or recycle their own work (and how offensive that is to the gods of originality...) maybe those who crib others' music for their animations should collaborate more? Or make their peace with how flat the animations can seem without that driving beat.
If you aren't a student and you're doing it for work, it seems like copyright violation (of the real kind) to try to make money off of someone else's work without sharing the profits with them? Though I am sure the chemical brothers are used to it by now.

What about some of the djs on www.dnbradio.com? I think they are probably reachable by email and could consent to have their music used in return for the publicity?