http://www.mediafire.com/?mzlvol1bd2d
This is a long out of print book by Daphne Oram called 'An Individual Note of Music Sound and Electronics'' that is well worth your time. Enjoy.

Paul Lansky. His stuff is really enjoyable for how abstract it is. He also basically wrote Idioteque.

yeah kid606 is kinda below average .

Haha I saw that edit. That was hilarious.

hahaha.

I've tried to be a little nicer lately on my posts...

I've got about halfway through this this evening... she's great. It's like a physics/ music lesson made by a charming lady who's like a feminist but instead of being a man-hating horror she's really nice (end of chapter 6).

She explains complex things in a relaxed way, let's put it this way. Glad you've enjoyed that.

Aphex Twin
Autechre
Squarepusher
Luke Vibert
Boards of Canada
Venetian Snares
µ-Ziq
DJ Shadow
Future Sound of London
The Orb
1990's Chemical Brothers

All great artists.

My list is likely to be far too similar to many others, but what the hell. I'm leaving off punk bands who influenced electronica, so no Suicide or Screamers (otherwise that would be mostly my whole list). Also going to stay away from pioneers before Kraftwerk for the same reasons, otherwise it would be all Delia Derbyshire and Xenakis, et al.

1. Kraftwerk
2. Autechre
3. Cabaret Voltaire
4. The Orb (through Orbus Terrarum)
5. Muslim Gauze
6. Squarepusher
7. Aphex Twin
8. Boards of Canada
9. Christian Vogel
10. Porter Ricks

Does that mean from Orbus Terrarum onwards? Or do you mean all their albums up to that point?
If it's the former I disagree.

I don't really ever listen to electronica.
Einstuerzende Neubauten (I know they're not really an electronica band, but they used elements of it)
Tangerine Dream
Kraftwerk
The Screamers
Suicide

D&TM
Are you German? Or just dig the music greatly?

The latter, though I did study German at school for four years. People have said the same thing about my fascination with New Zealand bands, and they will soon be saying that about the Norwegian bands I listen to.

Cool
Listening to a lot of Burzum and Mayhem then? A few of my friends listen to black metal exclusively.

Yeah, Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor, Darkthrone, Ancient, Fimbulwinter, Satyricon, Windir. It's been nothing but black metal lately.

People involved with Norway Black Metal were generally fuckin' nuts. Like the cover of Dawn of the Black Hearts. It brings a strange intrigue to the music nonetheless.

I don't know if I genuinely enjoy the music. It doesn't sound great, so I think the imagery and stories (corpsepaint, forests, murders, suicides, arsons) have a lot to do with my fascination with it. If I had only listened to the music and didn't know anything about it, I probably wouldn't enjoy it.

I actually saw Dawn of the Black Hearts at JB Hi-Fi, but it didn't have the cover, just a white cover with the details on it.

:O whoah, really? I thought companies like JB would refuse to stock albums from bands like that due to their supposed satanic, racist nature.