Electronic Music

"My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio."

"Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being "correct," you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do."

"Husband-and-wife electronic artists Louis and Bebe Barron pioneered electro-acoustic music in their homemade studio."

"Louis and Bebe Barron [...] developed the ‘tonalities’ — the accompaniment of interstellar gulps and burbles — that take the place of a musical score."

"Some post-rock artists explicitly and consciously sought to deconstruct rock music; others realised they'd done it after the event; yet more didn't give the process a moment’s thought. A lot of this deconstruction was made possible through the advent of the sampler, ushering in a new genre-bending mindset. Most of the post-rock bands used samplers in some form, but even the ones who didn't were influenced by sampling's possibilities for simultaneous structure and chaos."

"Post-rock draws its inspiration and impetus from a complex combination of sources. Some of these come from post-rock's own tradition—a series of moments in history when eggheads and bohemians have hijacked elements of rock for non-rock purposes."

"Post-rock means using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. Increasingly, post-rock groups are augmenting the traditional guitar/bass/drums line up with computer technology: the sampler, the sequencer and MIDI. While some post-rock units prefer lo-fi or outmoded technology, others are evolving into cyber rock, becoming virtual."

"The point was, actually: take rock up a level."

"Post-rock, Reynolds suggested, was opposed to notions of 'collective toil' and 'authenticity'; instead, it used musicians for a 'palette of textures' and, in doing so, rejected the ego of rock. Later, Reynolds would go further, claiming post-rock had 'given up the idea of mass success or even indie cult-hood, and accepted the idea of being marginal, forever'."

"While it never solidified as a concise genre, post rock emerged in the early '90s from the work of a few disgruntled artists who did away with the worn out formula of rock & roll for the sake artistic expression and delving into peculiar new musical horizons. Since then, the movement has grown in volume and recognition enough that we might have at least a working definition of this take on music, but not so much to have had a clear heyday and a chance to grow stale, as there are still many musicians, fledgelings and veterans alike, who make great music true to the movement's ideas, which are no less relevant today than they were almost three decades ago."

"[Radiohead's] Kid A is the return-with-a-vengeance of a phenomenon that had seemingly petered out: post-rock. This highly contested genre dates back to 1993-94, when various smart operators began to notice the glaring and ever-widening gap in sonic vividness between guitar-based music and "sampladelia" (the whole area of digital music that encompasses dance, atmospheric electronics, and hip hop). The result was a loosely connected network of artists engaged in closing that innovation gap [...] What all these phases had in common was their partial or total abandonment of live performance as the model for recording: the willingness for music to be unrealistic, anti- naturalistic, a studio-spun figment."

"Talking loud and clear, Saying just what we feel. Lying in the grass With the sun on our backs It doesn't really matter What we do or what we say With every little movement We give ourselves away."

"I never wanted another. Come over to me and discover How I want to be near you And you need to be far away You always seem to make me feel at home Hey you."

"La femme accident, A woman full of want. Her heart's on the line. You haven't got the time. She suffers like some Joan of Arc."

"I gave her everything that I ever owned I think she understood but she never spoke She should have not tried to be that way She shouldn't have to go there ever again Without me Without me."

"These are the little children, The future in our hands. When all God's children on this Earth Inherit all our plans, These are the lies they tell us. But this is the only way, When all God's children on the Earth, Will ever more be saved."

"I've got a telegraph In my hand. Words on paper Written in sand."

"Our one source of energy: Electricity. All we need to live today, A gift for man to throw away. The chance to change has nearly gone, The alternative is only one. The final source of energy: Solar electricity."

"Enola Gay, is mother proud of little boy today? Ah-ha, this kiss you give, it's never ever gonna fade away."

"Everyday, I'm on my knees to pray. Since I kissed you once And I held you once, Things have never been the same.And I've tried, God knows I've tried, But there's nothing left In the world today That's making sense in any way."

"If there's one thing I know, Things are gonna change. There's gonna be a different ending, Though I'm not one to complain.But there's never been a right time. And we've never been too far. But you're the only single reason I know That's holding back my heart."

"So many things I do, so many things I say Give you the wrong idea. So many things I do, so many things I say Just make a fool of me. Then you turn away. Then you turn away."

"It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white Or the god that you choose to pray to. It doesn’t matter about the clothes you wear Or which creator made you. We all bleed the same blood, We all need the same love, And when we die there’s no heaven above. It’s Universal, It’s Universal."

"If you leave, don't leave now. Please don't take my heart away. Promise me, just one more night, Then we'll go our separate ways. We've always had time on our side, Now it's fading fast. Every second, every moment, We've gotta make it last.I touch you once, I touch you twice. I won't let go at any price. I need you now like I needed you then. You always said we'd still be friends someday."

"If you leave, I won't cry; I won't waste one single day. But if you leave, don't look back, I'll be running the other way. Seven years went under the bridge Like time was standing still. Heaven knows what happens now. You've gotta say you will."

"If Joan of Arc had a heart, Would she give it as a gift? To such as me who longs to see How an angel Ought to be."

"Tes-tes-t-t-t-t-tes Tesla girls, Tesla girls Testing out theories, Electric chairs and dynamos. Dressed to kill, they're killing me, But heaven knows their recipe."

"Crossing every ocean for the sake of Locomotion Crossing every ocean for the sake of Locomotion.Across every ocean, For the sake of Locomotion. But I wouldn't have a notion How to save my soul. I walk down the sidewalk, Run down the boardwalk, Stop and make small talk, But I can't say no to you."

"I was so impressed by you, I was running blind. I would fall for every trick, Every twist of mind.Heaven is cold Without any soul. It's hard to believe I was so in love with you."

"I've got a secret and I can't explain. All the time I've waited for this day. All along I was never in doubt. I've always knew it would never get out. There are things that I cannot tell. And there are things that you know damn well. This is getting very hard for me. I guess you'd better just wait and see."

"The more I see you, The more I want you. Somehow this feeling Just grows and grows. With every sigh I become More mad about you, More lost without you. And so it goes."

"And all the stars you kissed Could never ease the pain. Still the grace remains. And though the face has changed, You're still the same.And it's a long long way From where you want to be. And it's a long long way, But you're too blind to see."

"It's my direction, it's my proposal. It's so hard it's leading me astray. My obsession, it's my creation. You'll understand it's not important now."

"We've got to get a message to the stars above Like radios in heaven hearing just enough And every single teardrop along the way We put them in our pockets for a rainy day.But here we are in trouble, Like we always are. Just praying for a miracle And reaching for stars."

"If you were born in heaven girl, I'd understand so well. But ever since I've met you child, You've made my life such hell. With every day that passes, I fall nearer to the ground. It seems that I've been looking for Something that won't be found.I was only dreaming. I was only trying to catch your eye. I was only wishing you would notice me, Instead you said goodbye."

"Sick and tired, and I don't know why Skin and bone won't touch the sky Sex and lies can't bring me down Because I've sold my soul all over town And I'm so in awe of you That I don't know what to do. And I'm sailing on the seven seas so blue."

"I've seen a new sensation, I heard you call in pain. But running round in circles Won't make it right again.The telephone keeps ringing. Your head is in the sand. The future is unfolding, But it's not what you had planned."

"We always stick together Like we're something made of glue. And justify the passion, Saying one is more than two.But if you don't believe the words, They're surely to come true. There's one thing that's so obvious, But it's something you won't do.Because you stand above me But I know you don't. You say you love me, But I know you won't."

"When I was only seventeen, My head was full of brilliant dreams. My heart would call and I would gladly go At twenty one the world was mine And I was yours and you're divine. And nothing else would matter to us so I don't believe in destiny, I don't believe in love, I don't believe that anything will ever be enough..."

"Can’t keep hanging on To all that’s dead and gone If you built yourself a myth You'd know just what to give Materialize Or let the ashes fly."

"Tender is the night For a broken heart Who will dry your eyes When it falls apart"

"Risks can be really small moments. You know, it's like a small little pivot and there you went. You know, and you just let go. You did the past, you did the things, but you let them go. And putting out a record is that."

"If you built yourself a myth You'd know just what to give What comes after this Momentary bliss Consequence of what you do to me"

"Drifting in and out, you see the road you’re on It came rolling down the cheek Say just what you need in between, it’s never as it seems"

"Ran out of all the meaning I ran out of It's hard to fall believing It's hard to fall"

"I find my own completeness The darkness and the weakness The light, the fight, the quietness"

"They only want you when you're seventeen: When you're twenty-one, you're no fun. They take a and let you go, Say they'll let you know, so come on."

"Playgirl, why are you dancing when you could be alone?"

"Everything you touch, you don't feel Do not know what you steal."

"Nineteen years on, every single aspect of Discovery has been pilfered time and time again, from the glossy production style to the sound of the drums. Every vocal in pop has that electronic effect on it, which I now know is called Auto-Tune. Daft Punk were incredibly prescient: play Discovery today and it sounds utterly contemporary."