Rolling techno* albums thread for people who are clearly doing it wrong

Not being someone who ever goes out dancing I don't really want to gum up the bobbins thread with this stuff, but basically this is a thread for discussion and recommendation of new techno* records for home-listening.

*techno and related electronic music

Really enjoying the Richard Tobar and Akkord albums but realised I had no place to share this scintillating tidbit.

ha wait: Richard Ricardo

off to a grand start already

(I am sad to see the death of the phrase "bobbins" because of long conversations with Anna (who coined its usage on ILM) about why she used "bobbins" and what it meant, and what it was trying to avoid. Sigh.)

"bobbins" has died?

i thought that was why you were using techno* instead of "bobbins"?

(I have no idea. I'm sorry. I'll go away now.)

Oh this is totally meant to be separate thing. I'm definitely an albums person in my listening habits and also more of a generalist too, so this thread is intended as a non-dance-focussed and non-expert thing, probably featuring a lot of ineptitude on my part that I would be too embarrassed and self-conscious about elsewhere.

And techno* cos I have no idea about terminology, but was hoping to bring in ambient stuff as well as post-dubstep records too.

oh here we go again: non-dance-focussed non-dancing-focussed

someone edit this already to make me look less like an imbecile

Right, so would the East India Youth album fit in here for discussion?

It's not really new, but I got the Stellar Om Source album from last year, and I'm really enjoying it... Reminds of me of the more technoish Warp records from the early 90s (LFO, Mike Ink, etc) in that it's both danceable and good for home-listening. It's total nostalgia stuff, sounds like it could've actually been made 20 years ago, but for a guy like me who often feels nostalgic for that era, it's hitting all the sweet spots.

xp not heard it at all, so you tell me! thread police free zone here though so i say go for it

On the other hand, I can't understand the love for the new Donato Dozzy album, seems like it placed quite high in the 2013 albums poll... To me it sounds like very standard droney ambient, like a B-list Fax album or something, I don't see why people find it so exceptional. Especially considering that Voices from the Lake and K really were exceptional and very good; this one feels much more meh to me.

i need to spend more time w/ stellar om source. always enjoyed her stuff in the past though but that was more kind of free-floating astral dolphin music xps

doesn't "bobbins" just mean "rolling thread"

I've never come across with anything by her before this; the earlier stuff seems pretty hard to find? Joy One Mile is not dolphin music though, it's quite kicking actually.

(xpost)

http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/serezniy/serezniy1010/serezniy101000161/7964041-coloured-bobbins-of-thread-isolated-on-white.jpg

i think the dozzy record gets better the more attention you pay to it or else it tends to evaporate before you've taken it in, whereas VFTL sounded great even just as a background thing. didn't vote for dozzy though, wasn't even the best thing on that label last year (cos that was the quicksails record)

(though i think this is a potentially useful distinction anyway, home-listening and album-focused electronic music rather than club-focused; the EOY polls always demonstrate there's interest in this)

doesn't "bobbins" just mean "rolling thread"

you're probably better asking a person who knows what they're talking about tbh

that was directed at branwell - I didn't think it actually "meant" anything in the way implied.

bobbins ain't dead anyway house and techno bobbins 2014

Nope, and it was actually Anna F that coined the term "bobbins" because she was at that time writing for (big name UK based dance music magazine) and there were BLOOD ON THE DANCE FLOOR feuds between staff members about what was "Techno" and what was "House" and the differences between tiny micro-genres. And it was a running joke in her house that to avoid the death-match-feuds, to just call it all "dance... bobbins".

I cannot believe that I know stuff about the deep history of obscure ILM terms, but I guess this was just stuff we talked about while DJing.

I, too, would be happy to have an albums-based electronic bobbins thread, because I am LOL old and haven't danced in years.

Two recent albums I've been enjoying that might fit into this thread:

Steve Moore: Pangea Ultima
Ukkonen: The Ancient Tonalities of...

yeah this is my kind of rolling thread, good call Nick

I get a lot of opportunity to check out new electronic releases but nowhere near enough to go raving or generally do much more than sort of mooch at the edge of the attendant culture

Not a big fan of dividing "home" listening from "club" listening, as the delineation is fluid and arbitrary, but this is also only a personal take...but then similiarly I'm not a fan of microgenre naming either

but heres something which might fit,

https://soundcloud.com/richardzepezauer/bulldozers-from-nsyde-part-2

Also, e/tape https://soundcloud.com/etape/t-12 though its maybe too sleepy even for this thread

Hello. I'll be lurking in your thread. I may even post if I feel moved to listen to any music which is not either a year old and already discussed on ILX or 30 years old.

(like BB, also LOL too old to dance now and regretting that I spent my dancing-age years feeling that clubs were not welcoming spaces for me, lol indie kids, lol ugly women, etc)

down with this thread (I am, that is)

Just been listening to Mika Vainio's new Konstellaatio album in his more ambient/less abrasive zero guise and it is very beautiful electronic head music, if that is what you are angling at in this thread.

Yeah 99% of the dance music I hear now is "home listening" even it's totally banging and dancefloor-centric (and there are whole albums of that sort of stuff as well).

Bobbins will never die.

Was just listening to Konstalaatio today - very nice.

New NHK'Koyxen album is out at last, which I've been looking forward to for a while. It's on Pan again, which is maybe better known for electronic art music, but the last one was great hall-of-mirrors machine music with subtlety mind-disordering rhythmic effects and a lot of people's favourite on that label along with the Lee Gamble one.

http://d1wtzzt4oxg683.cloudfront.net/images/covers/160/144660.jpg

^ so pretty!

Steve Moore: Pangea Ultima

dunno if it's just me but i find this his weakest release thus far. still good, but a bit watertready

yeah I didn't find much call to give it a second listen

really loving this new hauschka album - http://www.cityslang.com/releases/64220/abandoned-city/ - fans of nils frahm would be into it i think

i'm really into pangaea ultima

i keep being impressed / doing double takes whenever tracks from peter van hoesen's live performance come up on shuffle. it's still p microproduced but has a looser vibe i seem to be keying in on.

i feel like i sample from a lot of recent techno that just doesn't grab me, maybe i'm only paying half attention, seems like the production is samey in an immaculate way but there isn't any fire and it's all airless and boring. one example is the conforce album, just zzzzz imo

oops i think it's life performance

also want to rep for anthony parasole's label the corner out of new york, last two releases are awesome (parasole and phil moffa - pressure and tom diccico - no sympathy)

though those aren't albums, ayy

i don't post to ilm about a big chunk of the new music i listen to, because it falls between the cracks of the rap/techno/etc threads. lots of pretty post-beat scene electronic music that sounds best on headphones but could work in a club in the right context, maybe.

Have enjoyed Hauschka in the past Lex (think it was Foreign Landscapes that I got into, that was very much modern chamber ensemble classical stuff though). Bit of a wait till mere mortals get to hear the new one - not out until mid-March by the looks of it.

Was giving the Mika Vainio a whirl a bit earlier. Sounds really well done but it was all a bit too austere for me. Have never quite got to grips with Pansonic either tbh so it probably wasn't meant to be.

vainio never clicked with me though on paper it sounds like exactly the kind of thing i'd dig.

I noticed that a third volume of Thomas P. Heckmann's (aka Age, Drax, Skydiver, etc) The Lost Tales was recently released, you can play the whole album via the link. (It's not on Fax like the previous two, but on some new American label, which was apparently set up as a legacy label to Fax, since it folded with Pete Namlook's death.) Anyway, like the previous two, it collects previously unreleased material by Heckmann, some of which dates back to to the early 90s, so there's loads of trancey analogue sounds and cosmic techno goodness... And more synth solos than on his previous albums! Obviously this is very old school stuff, but since cosmic beats and Fax have always been my thing, I love it! "Berlin to Dawn" and "Ode to a Friend" especially are awesome synth freakouts.

this is the perfect thread to post about:

severence - hidden ceilings
sven weisemann - inner motions
and
the smoke clears - listen

each of which were on my eoy ballot, and i associate them with each other. haven't really seen anyone discuss them anywhere, probably b/c they're very humble albums, but they linger in that edge of sleep space which i really love. i don't think listening to a single track really does any of them justice because they all take time to pull you in, but all three are pretty much perfect.

Fuck me, that Weisemann album is a lot better than I remembered it as this year.

I don't know all of Steve Moore's other stuff so I like Pangea Ultima just fine--and happy to dig into earlier stuff if it's better. As of now the track "Logotronics" is doing it for me. (First song here: http://t.co/pYd21jZBcS)

I've played the Vanio album a few times now but it literally disappears midway through - so minimal it can't seem to compete with the noises of the world around me.

charles manier 2xlp from last year is killer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmNDz4FNrk

Steve Moore's other stuff

get thee to "the henge" immediately

i don't post to ilm about a big chunk of the new music i listen to, because it falls between the cracks of the rap/techno/etc threads. lots of pretty post-beat scene electronic music that sounds best on headphones but could work in a club in the right context, maybe.

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, January 31, 2014 8:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hello

Could A New Line (Related) fit this thread?

http://vimeo.com/70424275

Ex-Hood bloke does Chain Reaction from the wrong side of the Pennines.

Weirdly ... ordered the Hauschka album (although not out until March) from City Slang (Early ordering due to a new commitment to ordering from "source" or non-Amazon and also for a second disc).

Really enjoying the new Karen Gwyer EP.

Also, the new White Rainbow, "Thru.u" is pretty terrific. He used to be an Emeralds-like drone thing on Kranky but has spent the last four years going way over to the other end of the spectrum - lots of beats, electro influence, etc. He's been experimenting via his Bandcamp page with a ton of releases, but the new album is his first "official" offering in a long time. It's great.

So, I got the new Thomas P. Heckmann album I mentioned upthread in mail, and it didn't disappoint. Lovely FAX style trance/ambient/techno, with a dedication to Pete Namlook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBJ11kclc3E

yeh heckmann is boss, there's a great youtube video tour of his studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8hCQWI9WJ0

I guess you mean this one? Hadn't seen it before, holy shit at the stuff in his studio!

the new secret circuit, torn hawk and willie burns collaborative release is great ("from the legal pad of circuit, burns and hawk"). i guess it's more of an EP than anything, and it's not purist techno by any means (torn hawk reminds me of early ducktails more than anything), but another in a line of great releases from fellow ilxor speculator/willie burns/black deer

So behind on my listening, need to hear a bunch of these things. The White Rainbow sounds interesting, I loved that guy's stuff in the past so it'll be good to hear where he's at now. I think the new Patten is really good! Not as overwhelmingly chaotic and cluttered as his previous one, but still lots of interesting juxtaposed sounds and textures.

xp more than anything more than anything blah

part of me wants to like the new white rainbow (i'm sure it's good!) but another part of me thinks forkner is sort of a dick who wants to ride the avant-techno bandwagon while having little interest in - and based on coversations, even some condescension towards - house/techno culture. like none of this matters even slightly for home listening purposes but in the context of the portland scene where he came from he's pretty late to this game and has done very little to play shows/throw parties/contribute to what's going on now

I'm about as removed from either Portland or techno scenes as possible but I loved Forkner's album as [[[vvrssnn]]] (yes, wanky name) back in 2003 and that had some electronic squiggles and beats - not enough to qualify for this thread but here's a couple of youtubes of the more electronic tracks in case anyone is curious: http://youtu.be/8xEJaw5GpWI / http://youtu.be/kFWSSTNO4BA - so I am interested to hear the new one

def not saying he should get a free pass because of that or anything, but it's prob still my favourite thing he's done, so I thought I'd mention it

anyway the last secret circuit was p. great, so a collab w/ speculator and torn hawk has certainly piqued my interest too

the new secret circuit, torn hawk and willie burns collaborative release is great

yeah this is really, really good. i also picked up 'films & windows' and on first blush it seems pretty good

xp i can see how that could come of as gatekeeper-y, and i don't care much about any sense of loyalty to a "true" portland techno scene (lolololol) it's more that he was similarly positioned to a lot of the 100% silk/ecstacy label ppl but seemed to sort of laugh it off and make fun of things at first. certainly the dude should follow whatever muse he wants to, and none of these critiques have anything to do with his talent/artistic merit, i'm just surprised he's landed where he has. he also did that purple n green thing for a while, which was essentially a happy '90s-style rnb party band

oh, I wasn't objecting to your post, always interested to hear local perceptions of artists I like! I can def see how these things would be annoying/offputting. also I like various of his previous releases but don't follow him super closely or anything, so I missed the Purple & Green thing and most of what he's done for the past several years tbh

Just found out about this new Archangel (aka Bruno Pronsato) lp that's about to come out. I really love the real drum samples, which I'm pretty sure he plays and records himself.

https://soundcloud.com/foommusic/bruno-pronsato-presents

scene allegiences aside, i did give the white rainbow a go earlier and wasn't really feeling it tbh

i don't post to ilm about a big chunk of the new music i listen to, because it falls between the cracks of the rap/techno/etc threads. lots of pretty post-beat scene electronic music that sounds best on headphones but could work in a club in the right context, maybe.

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, January 31, 2014 8:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hello

― cristalnacht (lukas), Saturday, February 1, 2014 4:00 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh hi

i really like this:
https://soundcloud.com/xlr8r/philip-grass-all-i-need

played with these dudes out in portland, their tracks are so detailed and intricate.

https://soundcloud.com/jono-gilmurray/brownsea-island-soundscape

All this recent news of upcoming millie and andrea, joey anderson, kink, and kassem mosse albums is certainly interesting.

millie & andrea is double-whammy on the old men taking female names thing. but i look forward to the results of that anyhow

somewhat predictably, the new kangding ray is a really strong record and sounds *fantastic*

part of me wants to like the new white rainbow (i'm sure it's good!) but another part of me thinks forkner is sort of a dick who wants to ride the avant-techno bandwagon while having little interest in - and based on coversations, even some condescension towards - house/techno culture. like none of this matters even slightly for home listening purposes but in the context of the portland scene where he came from he's pretty late to this game and has done very little to play shows/throw parties/contribute to what's going on now

― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, February 24, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know much about White Rainbow as a person. I saw a YouTube interview with him years back where Pauly Shore randomly invaded the interview, and Forkner looked (like, what he was wearing) sillier than Pauly Shore ever did. Also there was an article going around the other day that was Forkner giving a rundown of his myriad Bandcamp releases of the last four years (like 20 albums or something)--his attitude was very "I don't give a fuck about people who like my stuff."

But, whatever. I don't want to hang out with him. I do like the new album. And at least one of his bandcamp albums, Lays the Boogie Down, mines similar territory and is at least a couple of years old. There's a song on there called "Captain Sandwich Patrol" which I think is totally fantastic.

^ this is sorta what i was trying to get at, the whole "idgaf about peple who like my stuff" thing is probably the best way to summarize all this. anyway i checked out the record and it's not really my thing, definitely fits into the whole ratatat/audio dregs lineage of indie-friendly electro (REALLY far from avant techno actually!)

Yeah I wouldn't call it avant-techno either. But as far as I can tell this thread most closely resembles a genre I like to call "the kind of electronic music I'm into," hence I brought it up here.

It's from last year, but I just acquired Recondite's Hinterland, and there's some really beautiful, soft sad techno there. Minimal and breezy, but no microhouse/dub techno cliches. I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on what this dude does next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBCVFby96U

^ i listened to and enjoyed that last year but kinda forgot about it, really good stuff though

he has his own thread but in case you're not paying attn to it: the new kassem mosse record (workshop 19) is fantastic

Really enjoying the new Karen Gwyer EP

Finally got round to hearing this. Loved the album from last year, but this feels like she's pushing her game further still. Great stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRmgKLeAJ4

mmmmmm

https://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/sd-laika-meshes-1

https://soundcloud.com/evianchrist/waterfall

i'm a big ricardo donoso fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mslrrSBl9GY

That Recondite album was a real pleasure during winter.

Been enjoying Dusty Kid's III quite a lot during long distance runs

somewhat predictably, the new kangding ray is a really strong record and sounds *fantastic*

― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:48 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

That new Hauschka album Abandoned City is rather lovely, don't listen to a word of that cloth-eared pitchfork review, it is a really fine album.

Ukkonen has a new two-song EP, Aika, which is nice.

That new Hauschka album Abandoned City is rather lovely, don't listen to a word of that cloth-eared pitchfork review, it is a really fine album.

Hugely divided reviews in EU, too! And so good!

Yeah the Hauschka record is gorgeous. I was listening to it earlier today and trying to work out how much of it was made from one prepared piano.

That stuff is begging to be used as soundtrack fodder. I like it.

don't listen to a word of that cloth-eared pitchfork review

do i even want to know what they said

yeah, still loving the hauschka album

francis harris's minutes of sleep is incredible

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=14535

had no idea of back story til after i listened to it - discovered it via the sprinkles remix

Listening to the Francis Harris now - yeah, it's good.

Never did hear the Segue album from last year but the new one sounds good on first listen in a music-to-drift-off-to sorta way.

Enjoyed the Downliners Sekt too. Starts off sounding pretty Burial-ish with all the disembodied mumbly ghost voices, but it's rich in detail and a good taut piece of work throughout so will probably give it a few plays yet.

Also I know that 12k seemingly turn out a big bunch of great ambient records every year, but the new Illuha is fabulous, a really nice mix of delicate drifting beatless electronica and intimately recorded small sounds.

the sample is nice

http://www.12k.com/index.php/site/releases/akari/

clicky, with sort of some vibes or something

thanks for the recommendation, I def got burned out on their release schedule a while ago

it's on spotify if you wanna give it a whizz:
http://open.spotify.com/album/3iBghqTXGb4wCJHOL3u1Iu

Oh Segue have a new album, you should check out the last one Nick it is one the best dub techno albums of recent years.

was actually quite difficult to hear the thing when it came out iirc, but yeah i shd definitely rectify that now

thanks pgwp for the Karen Gwyer recommendation

New Martyn and new Lone both out today

Don't sleep on me ol' mate Sully's new EP either :-)

Abdulla Rashim's album is some nice no-nonsense tech too.

i don't know if this should be in the house/techno thread or on some grime thread but i'm loving these and they go well together:

Tessela

Poolboy92

This is on the bobbins thread, but many of you would probably enjoy the Answer Code Request album. Pretty straightforward, really satisfying breakbeat techno.

I was doing an ok job of keeping up with this music in the early part of the year but have fallen off. Anyone have any recommendations?

Answer Code Request!

really? i thought ACR was pretty disappointing.

Enjoying this Karen Gwyer live set

http://boilerroom.tv/recording/karen-gwyer/

Oh yeah, I was at that. Really good music for wandering around a church to, probably great for doing other things too.

anyone heard the MOIRE album yet?

Not strictly techno but the new Vessel album is very cool

i'm into the moiré album! giving me galcher lustwerk vibes plus a bit of "what if things actually happened on an actress album"

Loving the Call Super album

enjoying the MonoInput album from 2012. a lot. has the same impact the Forward Strategy Group album had on me - a kind of Cold War vibe, the romanticism of concrete in winter and numbers stations. feels like it was written twenty years ago or more, but sounds surprisingly fresh for all that.

Spotify keeps trying to get me to listen to MonoInput

wondering at the similarities between MOIRE and BNJMN

thumbs up on the Ital album

itching to hear the new Roman Flugel, if it's anywhere near as good as Fatty Folders it'll be a treat

it's... good. some very nice tracks. gorgeous and a little showboat-y, maybe a little overstuffed. i don't know, i haven't totally warmed to it for whatever reasons, don't mean to be a downer, it is definitely a lovely listen. the opening track is such a neu! pastiche though, lol, with nothing neu! to add, would rather listen to neu! tbh.

i have my gripes but i think it's satisfying as a roman flugel album.

you have muted my flugel-horn

not really

lol

loved fatty folders, haven't listened to the new one enough yet, but i think i love it too

my god

moire is so good

want to give ghettoville a relisten now

probably says more about my lack of knowledge than anything else, but i got a bit of a newworldaquarium vibe off the moire album (this is a good thing obv)

As someone who is really into Actress, that Moire album is a million times better than Ghettoville.

new christopher willits is really beautiful indeed, but it is *very* ghostly international - soft sad quasi-ambient music that's as clean as a chrome-legged coffee table.

have listened to it 2x in a row already at work, and i don't see me stopping anytime soon

curious about that.

new lee gamble album is so good.

Between Aphex Twin, Call Super, Vessel, and Lee Gamble, is this the month of the high-profile weirdo techno album?

not really feeling any of these

not even lee gamble? it sounds amazing imo. like a high-def kassem mosse or something. it's kind of sprawling but there are a few bombs on there. i listened to it after the new shkxkhskh whatever album and it sort of leaped out for being so much more powerful, lol.

i liked the shkxhkshk whatever album too but it's sort of uneven imo.

v, have you heard this?

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Adventures-In-Techno-Soul-3/release/5763592

:-O

i picked up each of the first two right when they came out (96 and 98) but had no idea this one was out

first two volumes are like 10 top desert island discs for me

oh cool. i gotta get the first two. #3 is pretty sweet.

cosign on the lee gamble, didn't expect to dig it, dug it. also that moire album.

yeah moire is kind of perfect rn, it's grim and subdued upfront but a p fun ride, lots of bounce.

i got the first two up on slsk

vessel record is superb, 'anima' is just stunning

also loving the moire record. and idk why i had low expectations but the new aphex is really doing it for me too

tried to make some techno and i'm pretty certain i did it wrong. forgot to use synthesizers and btw what is techno?
https://soundcloud.com/artsextract/calabash-boom-hisarna

i can probably guess exactly what it's going to sound like but has anyone heard the vatican shadow/function collab yet?

xp ha, I will give that a go later jordan

Yeah, co-sign Moire as well for what it's worth. Just a minor complaint, I kinda wish the record had a cooler cover.

i was listening to some Patricia this morning and felt dumb for not going to see him in a tiny room here, oh well.

absolutely love the call super record, think it's really beautiful and dude is on a roll in 2014 (see also his work as ondo fudd). dunno whether it's "weirdo" though, that seems a bit reductive.

some really nice ambient techno from vancouver:

http://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/much-less-normal

had no idea call super and ondo fudd were the same person

idk why i had low expectations but the new aphex is really doing it for me too

I had low expectations because I hadn't loved anything he put out since the Flow Coma remix. turns out Syro's pretty hot.

have we mentioned Jo Johnson's album Weaving yet? it's great. Sherburne wrote a good review in PF.

the lee gamble and call super are both great :)

call super hasn't totally swayed me yet, but i do like the more jon hassell-ish passages on it

also i wanna register a thumbs-up for the new hieroglyphic being

NTS: Need to check out Lee Gamble more. That album called Somethingsomething 1994-1997 or whatever threw a curveball at me as I assumed it was a reissue comp, but I've since learnt it's not the case?

diversions 199x-199y - it's new tracks built out of ambient sections of old rave and jungle recordings. haven't gone back to it much but it received good press at the time

i'm finding the call super album endlessly involving, i hear new things each time, there's so much in it and i love the...wetness of it all, it's very tactile

Listening to this Call Super album based on recs in this thread and from two friends and I am really into it, it reminds me of the Vermont/Saschienne/Ursprung albums of yesteryear but much richer and with more intricate sounds.

The Lee Gamble is a great 45-minute album stretched out too far and too long but there are some great ideas on it, the more dancefloor-functional moments on it sound like what it sounds like to be outside a club after four hours beside a speaker, heading home but full of life.

https://soundcloud.com/bodyhigh/dj-dodger-stadium-love-songs

dunno why ilm is not in luvv w/ this

because it's corny as hell

Which Ilx poster is proangelwings?

because it's corny as hell

this is a problem how

proangelwings is the best thing abt RA, they should give him a column

http://www.clipartbest.com/clipart-9T4enXKXc

or even
http://www.anne-marie.ca/images/bullet/green-tick.jpg

Just picked up the new Plastikman release 'EX'. Listening now and it's sounding good.

Also bought the new Lucy album 'Churches, Schools and Guns' but haven't listened to it yet. Will listen after I've finished listening to the new Plastikman.

because it's corny as hell

this is a problem how

dictionary says corny means trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental.

i guess mawkishly sentimental is not a deal-breaker but it is trite and banal, and on top of that not very tuneful

to me, it sounds like they took a (bad) gospel vocal and slapped it on top of a (not particularly well programmed) drumroll and called it a day

in theory i have nothing against this type of thing except in practice it a) does nothing to improve on what is now a 15-year-old template and b) is pretty awful on an aesthetic level imo

i thin breihan is good on it:

http://www.stereogum.com/1691151/album-of-the-week-dj-dodger-stadium-friend-of-mine/franchises/album-of-the-week/

These tricks aren’t new things, and if you’ve ever heard an old house track with a Nina Simone sample, you know that producers have been wringing meaning out of tiny snatches of old music for just about forever. But everything on Friend Of Mine is executed so confidently and gracefully that they feel new. Even though these tracks are, at their core, house bangers, they’ve been put together with a structural minimalism that reminds me of much of the bass and pop music coming out of the UK right now. And there are subtle production decisions that pay off, too. “Sit Down, Satan,” for instance, has no drum sounds, but you don’t immediately notice because the track is still based around a simple, pulsing beat. But the beat is implied, not hammered, and that decision makes all the difference, and establishes “Sit Down, Satan” as a long exhalation between two particularly tense tracks. These tracks all have their own feeling, but they fit together. Friend Of Mine stands as a grand, sweeping piece of work, a testament that you don’t need to use attention-grabbing trickery to put together a fresh and vital genre exercise.

i mean there's a reason i posted this in the 'techno albums for people who are clearly doing it wrong' thread, not tryina get all frankfurt school up in here

breihan is a dilettante

at least rep for one of their decent songs ... "one who lost" OK OK is a banger, "dust" is pretty cool too imo, but the rest just ... sounds bad

a dilettante after my dilettantish heart

i should srsly just keep my mouth stuff about shit i don't like because i start to sound like dance music geir or something, but come on, that endless drum roll on "love songs" is OBJECTIVELY BAD

where's your science

http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/sites/default/files/faculty_files/steel/scientific_method.jpg

figure i am up on breihan in the "observations / empirical observations" category by at least an order of magnitude

first comment on that stereogum thing is "finally some dance music that isn't oriented toward a drop" which tells you everything you need to know imo

finally

it really is like they say, house is a feeling—of some expert somewhere thinking you are wrong

I'm not impressed by this either. Dan Electro did the "gospel-sample-on-top-of-simple-house-beat" much better, and even his stuff got a bit boring after listening to it for a full album. This one gets boring before the track even ends.

this track is mostly irritating for not turning into "Moldavia" by Front 242

i think every genre has "experts"

i think so too but i don't think their existence makes my feelings wrong

you're feelings aren't wrong, any more than mine are

also is it okay if I hire snipers to take out everyone still describing tracks as "bangers" in 2014

well no, i'm putting it that way to put you on your toes. what you really implied before was that a taste for this is basically lame, unsophisticated xp

trying to figure out why I like "Why They Hide They Bodies Under My Garage?" so much and pretty much detested that DJ Dodger track and I think it all comes down to menace

xp yeah, well, if it makes you feel better it happens to me all the time, too

i don't mean to personally attack you, i just think the song sucks

what's the connection between blawan and dj dodger?

similar static tinny beat with a looped, treated vocal sample mined for several minutes of dance trance

i hear that blawan track as super gritty warehouse techno though, in an amazing way.

but in general it seems like corny '90s rave signifiers are on the upswing.

right, whereas the DJ Dodger track sounds like an unfinished Garageband demo that someone is going to use as filler music while cuing up the next baseball player's walk-on music

i wonder is it just lame to approach music as "an expert"? should i try to be an eternal teenager when it comes to listening to music? ← this is how i understand the poptimist approach

it's not lame

Even as a teenager, I was dissecting the music I listened to and looking for musical and thematic links to other things; The Cure drove most of my extracurricular reading list between the ages of 14 and 17 and the best part of drum n bass was the reinterpretations of the Funky Drummer and Amen breaks

so in other words, I think you're constructing a false binary there

right

i do think there is a potential in expertise, or educated taste, to lose touch with natural pleasures that could either come from less sophisticated instances of an art or could be inhibited by one's sense that one is in the know.

also, even though i certainly can't contest tlg's expertise, i don't think i'm an idiot or anything when it comes to music, so i am inclined to think that judgments about this music made in terms of expertise (or degree of sophistication relative to some body of work, etc) are not all that decisive.

love this comp. if there's a better club music or 'grime in 2014' thread i should be posting stuff like this too, lemme know.

https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/heterotopia

Karen Gwyer put out a second EP this year. I think I like it more than the first.

Anyone heard the new 2562 album?

yes! i was thinking about posting about it tonight but wasn't sure what to say. it's ... different.

on the albums front, enjoying chevel's air is freedom and edward's into a better future

New Recondite is sounding very good, subdued tech-house with lots of nice detail http://open.spotify.com/album/7JoFdHAOCBzjT6lzWOfcGR

huh i didn't even know he had a second

new one is 'iffy' for those who don't do spotify

i think i posted abt it on the bobbins thread when it came out, but was just listening to "a series of shocks" by tobias. on ostgut ton and man, it is magnificent

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=14694

i've kind of had syro on repeat tbh.

excited to hear:

population one - theater of a confused mind
ike release - noir

curious about:

2562 - the new today
vladislav delay - visa

need to relisten:

vessel - punish, honey
call super - suzi ecto
vatican shadow - death is unity with god

already way into:

lee gamble - koch

not an album but i've really fallen for shackleton's freezing, opening, thawing.

and that chevel album is right up my alley.

oh yeah, incredibly excited to hear theo parrish's overpriced and possibly badly pressed new album.

after listening to the samples though idk

sorry for liveblogging but this edward album is fucking great, sounds like moebius plank neumeier zero set crossed with parallel dimensions-era theo.

2562 is only so so

i do like that edward album

that lee gamble record is really good

proposal for inclusion itt: morgan buckley's 'shout out to all the weirdos in rathimes'

Has 2014 been the best year for dance albums in recent memory?

*drudge siren* new Reagenz album (AKA Move D and Jonah Sharp) *drudge siren*

composed, arranged and performed live at The Bunker New York 10 Year Anniversary, January 2013 by Jonah Sharp & David Moufang.

the elements: Roland TR 909, Roland TR 606, Roland JX-3P, Roland SH101, Anyware Instruments TinySizer, Nord Micro Modular, Doepfer Dark Time, Akai MPC 1000, Electro Harmonix Memory Man Delay, Moog MidiMurf

That Fact article picked a fairly unexceptional selection of albums to illustrate their point, even if I do quite like the Objekt one.

Not sure why Recondite belongs in the 'doing it wrong' thread. His records sound very much aesthetically correct for the state of 2014 post-minimal.

more the contributors to the thread who are "doing it wrong" than any of the artists discussed, I think?

Nah it's the album format in general that represents wrongdoing.

gotcha

yeah it's the whole enjoying albums at home with your feet up and a mug of cocoa thing - surely not what the belleville three had in mind

I don't go out anymore so this thread is important for my general well being.
Props out to the Call Super and Roman Flugel lp's. Perfect for when I'm sat at home in my fake leather armchair.

xp psyched for the new Reagenz album.

more the contributors to the thread who are "doing it wrong" than any of the artists discussed, I think?

i'm definitely doing it wrong in all respects.

https://soundcloud.com/chantssound/u-had-rhythm-heterotopia

No such thing as doing it wrong, a vibe can be felt on both a hilltop and a valley

holy shit, AOTY?

http://www.delsinrecords.com/release/4636/gunnar-haslam/mirrors-and-copulation

definitely one for the lee gamble fans, and the boards of canada fans too

blissful epic kosmische techno, w/ s.a.w. i + II references

among other things

Yeah, one of the best artists to come out of the immense L.I.E.S. stable.

Also listening to Haslam's XLR8R mix on the ride to work this morning, sounding great in the ice cold November sunshine.

oh word. i really like gunnar haslam. beau wanzer not so much, just based on a few tracks. i always get them mixed up.

i learned a new term today, "8 bar edit". does that just mean someone's edit made out of the intro/first 8 bars of a track?

I think it just means looping a 4bar hook/intro of a pop song just one time (for rough style mixing or a radio edit.)

guys it's payday. what should i get < bro > ON WAX? < / bro >

get the real AOTY

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=14876

ooo good idea

thanking you all for your recommendations

new jeff mills album -- good? worth getting instead of 3 other 12s? seems like it might be oop soon...

holy shit, AOTY?

http://www.delsinrecords.com/release/4636/gunnar-haslam/mirrors-and-copulation

― the late great, Friday, November 21, 2014 1:13 AM (Yesterday)

In the story, Uqbar initially appears to be an obscure region of Iraq or of Asia Minor. In casual conversation with Borges, Bioy Casares recalls that a heresiarch (leader of a heretical sect) in Uqbar had declared that "mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men." Borges, impressed with the "memorable" sentence, asks for its source. Bioy Casares refers him to an encyclopedia article on Uqbar in the Anglo-American Cyclopaedia, described as "a literal if inadequate reprint of the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1902."[1] It emerges that Uqbar is mentioned only in the closing pages of a single volume of the Anglo-American Cyclopaedia, and that the pages describing Uqbar appear in some copies of the work, but not in others.

nice!

deep house not techno but

k15 - insecurities

is sounding very nice rn

the haslam has a funny structure, it gets so panasonicy in the middle that it's like techno ---- extended intermission on a dying space station ---- o a techno album again

during the intermission, an orb sheep / floyd pig drifts by, trans-lunar injection burn-ing

j. have you heard voiski? sort of floydian techno maybe

or just bright and kind of singular, i don't know what he reminds me of, he's french iirc, like a clearer-skies version of joey anderson or something.

need to limit this to 3-5 somehow lol. i always want more omar-s but never know what to get.

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no never m, what's supposed to be good?

That split EP Omar S/Luke Hess with Automatic Night on it has to worth paying for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqT_HHKPiXw

j. IAI Movement is my fav.

meanwhile an rrose track came up on shuffle and idk, the dynamics are kinda boring me

deep house not techno but

k15 - insecurities

is sounding very nice rn

hey this is extremely enjoyable, thanks!

ctrl+f "leon vynehall"

oh, well this is probably my house release of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZzrvmhBNI

yeah!

Hey, if you're looking for lots of Omar S stuff try ordering it directly from FXHE wia their site, probably going to be cheaper than anywhere else.

dude that Africans with mainframes single is something else

buy that, the joey anderson album and the black jazz consortium

omar-s: 1:4 hit miss ratio but when he hits he hits it out of the park

feel like a lot lot lot of his shit only sounds good in the context of an omar-s album or mix, it just doesn't blend well with other tracks ime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcSgMfF9AxY

seriously though, you need this ^^

i think i am the only person that didn't grok that leon vynehall ...

that track xelab posted is great, feel like omar-s + luke hess is a winning combination

see also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS86JxhyiP4

he cleans the sound up just enough

deep house not techno but

k15 - insecurities

is sounding very nice rn

― mattresslessness,

this is really good, kind of surprised its a new record

i love 'i just want'

k15 is so good. it's retro but it does not sound like a rip-off imo, he has a distinctive voice.

stoked to hear this mr. g album

some really nice ambient techno from vancouver:

http://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/much-less-normal

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 25 September 2014 17:38 (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oops, i should i have checked this out earlier right?

am liking the contrast between the fairly clunky sounds and the fluid, slippery music they're making

'techno primitivism' took a while to grow on me but this new juju & jordash is great straight out of the gate

What's this Blacknecks thing the Quietus have been raving about? I don't think I get it.

i don't know that at all

yeah, the juju & jordash is great, especially the title track

how the hell do I keep getting lee gamble and lee bannon mixed up?!?

human league only ever wrote a song about one of them

"whippersnapper" from the juju & jordash album came up on shuffle and i thought i was enjoying a terrence dixon track i hadn't heard.

anyone into the reagenz album? p good imo. i always have time for move d.

My copy's still in the mail, it seems pretty hard to find in Europe, so I had to order directly from the US, and it takes ages for stuff to get from there to here.

I was a bit dismayed to find out it's a live album (I generally don't think live electronic albums are a good idea), but OTOH from what I've gathered most Mode D/Namlook albums were done "live" in the studio too (i.e. they didn't rerecord anything, though obviously there was some processing done after the recording session), so I guess it's alright... How does the album sound?

But yeah, Move D also released a solo ambient album this year, I would definitely recommend it if you're into old school droney stuff. Move D's liner notes say he feels it's requiem to Pete Namlook (even though he originally recorded it before Namlook died), I'm not sure if I can hear that, but it's a nice piece of chill, glacial space ambient.

i wouldn't worry it doesn't sound anything like a live album at all.

I don't have a lot to say about Blacknecks but I appreciate techno that doesn't take itself too seriously

this is out today, my favorite use of noise & distorted/bitcrushed textures as an element (rather than a starting point, or the whole point) maybe ever:
https://smbls.bandcamp.com/album/precinct

That new Seraphim Rytm album is really nice, it is easily the best Silent Season release since that wonderful Segue album from a couple of years back.

i can never figure out how to hear silent season stuff, which is annoying as both the descriptions i've read and their whole aesthetic are really appealing to me

anyone hear the zenker brothers album yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwaO6k_sQBg

This is one easy way Nick. "The album Aeterna is inspired by Tarkovsky and the use of water to create long ambient feelings for early morning in the open mountain air"

Pretty mixed reactions to Levon Vincent's new self-titled LP.

Whatchu guys thinking?

it's great i love it

haha, thanks xelab!

the zenker brothers album sounds good imo but might not be terribly exciting, i bet it sounds ace in the wild though. levon album is a must-get for me.

levon clearly doing it right tho

i didn't know there were mixed reactions to levon's album! it's so amazing

the vakula album was mentioned on the bobbins thread but def should be here as well - very varied and surprising record

New Etienne Jaumet is great as well, usual mix of Carl Craig arpeggios, noirish sax and krautrocky touches but consistently enjoyable.

No idea what goes on which thread and it makes no differnce to me anyhow but here is a trip into the woods on pluie/noir

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXlxpiZtfig

really enjoying this trip now , havent heard rest of the lp yet tho

That Dj Sotofett album has been hitting the spot today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7CbdgZhqE0

Roland Tings' s/t album from last year was released in downloadable format in January of this year and is streaming on Spotify.

http://open.spotify.com/album/0sZdbtwqV3kGT3DehcnlxJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2BFA6KnX0

(Nice little "Pacific State" warble around 2:30.)

New Melchior Productions album is doing a lot for me. It feels very much like something saer would take into the forest.

yeah, i thought of saer when i heard it.

xp the roland tings album is good, haven't listened to it enough yet, tho

New James Place album is v good and pertinent to this thread

new album?

oh wait...do you mean meditations?

http://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/living-on-superstition

Yes Meditations 1-6, I know it is a compilation of two prior EPs but I think it works cohesively. I do wish "The Blessing" from the Return Of The Cosmic Kids EP was there too though.

Meditation 2 is the one!

much prefer the sightings to the blessing, but both sides are good (theres a track on the barac album which has a slight blessing feel too, i thought)

noisy, shape-shifting club jams:
https://hushhushrecords.bandcamp.com/album/hue-ep

ayyyy

https://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/petra-i

ayyyyyy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6CtD5eVQOw

holy crap this new raica thing (chloe harris) sounds amazing!!!

i'm not sure what thread to put it on though

http://soundcloud.com/chloeharris

guys not all Techno but have some of my LIES releases and stuff for pretty cheap on my Bandcamp. Also - new stuff coming each month this year - all Pay What You Wish - including
more MMT Tapes material. Self promo, yes, but thought some of u all would be interested. templo.bandcamp.com

And the James Place is one of my favorite albums so far this year.

oh cool, i am definitely interested.

Cheers!

Yes Meditations 1-6, I know it is a compilation of two prior EPs but I think it works cohesively. I do wish "The Blessing" from the Return Of The Cosmic Kids EP was there too though.

cosmic kids 2 is also out now, liquid moves is great - didnt catch me at first

This is gorgeous:
http://editionsmego.com/media/release/370/1/SP038-350.jpg
https://soundcloud.com/spectrumspools/starcloud-by-anna-caragnano-and-donato-dozzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vmZtHy-3mY

rofl

anyone listen to that Shinichi Atobe album from last year?

Its ok.

the red line, from the ship-scope 12, has been one of my favourites for a number of years, nothing on the new record really comes anywhere close to that

yah, part of why they sought him out, it's just such a singular release

that one track is a service to both the trees and the leaves that grow on them

Just listened to the Shinichi Atobe album a few hours ago. It's really nice! Granted, I don't know his earlier stuff, but the soft melodies and textural details sound kind of like dubby microhouse stuff I like a whole bunch.

kind of the whole deal is that he had one release, four tracks, on basic channel, ever, and that was it

the story is that they tracked him down and he had this unreleased stuff and it got compiled, but ~it is a mystery~

for all we know they just figured out it was one of the german dudes like dj pete who did a one-off under a japanese name and they got some more stuff

i am impressed by how the nick höppner album hangs together, is excellent on a track-by-track basis, and mixes well. good bang for one's buck. also hardwax aif downloads are a good deal right now with the weakening euro.

yeah, the nick höppner album is great

Absolutely loving this album:

http://www.discogs.com/D%C3%85RFDHS-In-The-Wake-Of-The-Dark-Earth/release/6633578

Judging by the tracklisting that would appear to be some kind of Vatican Shadow side-project about Norse mythology.

Gone back to the atobe record - free access zone 5 is good actually, missed that one before, still a bit underwhelmed by the rest - but, expectation and all that

Judging by the tracklisting that would appear to be some kind of Vatican Shadow side-project about Norse mythology.

Varg side-project, but yeah, you have the right idea.

anyone listened to this new Ilpo Väisänen album yet? kind of interested.

Lakker album is a very nice combination of grey crunchy bassiness and heavenly hosts bringing thee ethereal light

Ooh I like Lakker's last couple of EPs a lot, will have to check that out.

highly recommended album

Hunee - Hunch Music
https://open.spotify.com/album/1yqlpDOjOplNpez5J3K3nK

takes in techno - house - disco- balearic - future jazz

reviewed by Philip Sherburne @ Pitchfork
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20646-hunch-music/

reviewed by Crack Magazine
http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/hunee-hunch-music/

damn, that sounds right up my street

interview by Crack Magazine

Hunee‘s cooking up a summer classic
http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/hunee-is-cooking-up-a-summer-classic/

that hunee album is so fantastic. should be up the street of anyone who enjoyed leon vynehall

moritz von oswald trio - sounding lines
M.E.S.H. - piteous gate
Hunee
CFCF - Radiance & Submission
deepchord - lanterns

oh yeah

Co Kla Coma aka Severed Heads - Co Klo Pop
Tom Ellard aka Co Kla Coma - Rhine
Kassem Mosse / Simone White - Three Versions

(not all of these are in the new releases pile obviously)

That Kassem Moss/Simone White is shaping up to be one of my favourites of the year

hunee album is really good, agreed!

I am liking that new Acronym one a lot on the first listen.

damn yeah

Hunee record is great, thank you for that everyone. Played the Acronym earlier too and enjoyed it - begins in the same sort of drifty ballpark as mountains or emeralds but towards the back half it starts thumping away quite pleasantly iirc

I love that "Rare Happiness" track off the Hunee album. The rest hasnt really sunk in yet

The Hunee album is so refreshing and sun-speckled. Not sure about the last two tracks - they're not bad, they just don't feel part of the same album - but it's put a smile on my face every time I've played it.

This Perfume Advert Cassette on Opal Tapes is a total belter - really lovely, foggy dub techno and electronica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKu6IW_O5k4

This new Steve Hauschildt on headphones 👌

hauschildt rules ... but is it techno?

no remorse

"tragedy & geometry" was very much the jam and i hope someday to see this artist's work in person

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nlr4QGUmL.jpg

it's not techno

and it's more subdued even than earlier stuff but somehow that makes it seem more listenable (even though what i really yearn for is more hyperdriven woodoowoodoowoodoowoodoo synth arpeggiation)

THE HELENA HAUFF ALBUM

yes, it's quite good

iirc you compared it to miss kittin

The Helena Hauff album is incredible.

Hauff album is great though i think i like a tape just as much.

Has some of the same lost in the woods on a cold planet vibe I get from Charles Cohen's Brother, I Prove You Wrong.

not an album, but beatrice dillon's latest 12" on where to now? is nothing short of amazing.

from the hauff album, 'l'homme mort' is the only keeper imho. can't get into the whole goth/minimal wave/witchy vibe of the rest.

discovered this dude after seeing an upcoming album on Apothecary Compositions, and fell in love with his previous one:

https://kazukikoga.bandcamp.com/album/alleingehen20

lots of repurposed metal drum solos, it sounds like. :)

really enjoying the Regis album, even if parts feel a little like a post-punk/goth pastiche

still been digging this gunnar haslam from last year all year long

http://www.discogs.com/Gunnar-Haslam-Mirrors-And-Copulation/master/760421

good lively early-winter mood-changer

Yes

I like the Lauer album a lot and see any mention of it here. kinda cheerfull synth pop x house vibes. quality

hieroglyphic being album on soul jazz is great, how it compares to the other 544 hieroglyphic being albums i know not

that nidia minaj one is a good listen too imo

I would love to see some year-end top 10's in this vein.

if i was doing a dance-only list it'd go

1. levon vincent - levon vincent
2. helena hauff - discreet desires
3. nozinja - nozinja lodge
4. holly herndon - platform
5. jam city - dream a garden
6. flava d - more love
7. jlin - dark energy
8. dj richard - grind
9. vakula - a voyage to arcturus
10. nidia minaj - danger
11. fatima yamaha - imaginary lines
12. floating points - elaenia
13. hunee - hunch music
14. romare - projections
14. heavy-k - respect the drumboss 2015
15. anna caragnano & donato dozzy - sintetizzatrice
16. blondes - rein
17. darkstar - foam island

I love the Jam City and Caragnano/Dozzy but I can't imagine thinking of them as dance music, really.

yeah the jam city was excellent

The new Donato Dozzy album (Loud Silence) is pretty disappointing. It's like he takes the same concept as Aphex Twin did 25 years ago with "Didgeridoo" - the similarity between acoustic instruments and oscillating electronic sounds - except he's using mouth harp instead of didgeridoo, and stretches it over several tracks. It's not a an unworthy idea, but who needs a full album of that? Sintetizzatrice I found to be a bit more interesting, but I think it suffered from the same flaw of spreading a simple idea too thin. I wish DD would stop releasing these concept albums (this is the third in row!) and go back to proper techno, like K and Voices from the Lake.

Anyway, my top 7 electronic albums from this year would be like this:

1. Raw C + Pharmakustik ‎– Anamorph Specimens (excellent, droney and acid-tinged long-form techno)

2. Holly Herndon ‎– Platform (a clear improvement over her previous album, this is how glitch should sound like, fun and inviting; if it wasn't for the silly ASMR track, this would be almost perfect)

3. Thomas P. Heckmann – Ghosts (this album looks and sounds like a soundtrack to some imaginary science horror film, some cold and harsh dark ambient with occasional beats)

4. Omni Vu Deity - Vuunayatu (this pretty much the opposite of "Ghosts", light and colourful and breezy ambient; this is supposedly inspirede by Polynesian music, but I'm not sure if I hear it, except for the gentle percussive pulse that permeates the music)

5. Lorenzò Montana - Vari Chromo (this sounds like old-fashioned "home listening techno" with its syncopated beats and moody synth melodies, but boy is this guy great at producing it)

6. Material Object + Ishq ‎– Invisible Light (these two acts from the opposite ends of ambient music, with Ishq specializing in soothing cosmic sounds, and Material Object in metallic drones; as expected, the result of their collaboration is somewhere in between, but it works)

7. Moufang / Czamanski ‎– Live In Seattle (unlike the Reagenz album of last year, this recording of a David Moufang & partner live techno gig actually sounds live, with plenty of fun improvisation)

I wish I could add the new Pole album to the list, but like Donato Dozzy it was kind of disappointment; cold and abstract, but not in an interesting way, like his previous LP was.

i only listened to the Jam C

oops

i only listened to the Jam City once but was really disappointed. Loved classical curves a ton, did not care to hear dude start singing

THE HELENA HAUFF ALBUM

― lex pretend, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:48 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is fucking rad, tho

my year, no particular order:

acronym - june
helena hauff
hunee
jonas munk - absorb/fabric/cascade
laurel halo - in situ
mesh - piteous gate
nick hoppner - folk
everything reckonwrong released, thanks ilx for the tip
regis - manbait
tom ellard - rhine

Material Object + Ishq ‎– Invisible Ligh

haha interchill 2015 to infinity! downloading now.

Just discovered that Acronym album yesterday, it's excellent.

A lot of these albums don't feel especially concerned with dancing at all, a lot of ambient/drone/glitch/sunset beach bar vibes/industrial/stealth indie which is all well and good but nine times out of ten they don't really excite me. I want more artists to make albums that feel more like great DJ sets, Levon definitely wins in this regard.

Maybe I could start a separate rolling thread for ambient/chill/weeded electronic music? I'm getting old, so this kind of sofa music appears to me more these days than hardcore bangers, but I agree that they don't really belong to this thread...

Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!

that boof album is really good imo. i enjoy the hunee but his mixes are better, like 5/6 this year i'd rather listen to.

dance artists making home listening albums that aren't focused on the dancefloor is a pretty long-standing thing and a reason it's not really an ~albums genre tho

vincent, hauff, nozinja, nidia minaj, dj richard albums are all refreshing in that context, they're all pretty banging, and if i heard the right bits of the herndon and jlin albums they'd work too

the hunee album is a bit like last year's leon vynehall album to me, really talented producers making always-pleasurable sounds but they have less of an impact in the album format than as a single or in a mix. i mean, it's worth hearing if they're your thing

hunee's mixes are legit so much better than his own stuff tho imo, not that his album is bad or anything, just a little boring comparing to his selections

i think the boof album is pretty much doing it right, comparable to levon vincent's lp with the variations in style and ratio of dancefloor to couch

I wasn't feeling the Boof at all when I listened earlier in the year but may give it another go.

yeah hunee is an incredible dj, haven't heard the album yet lol.

how do y'all feel about the dj richard album? i thought it was good w/ some misses. i liked the flow and general vibe.

as this thread title kinda implies, most dance albums are p sterile - the buzz of a great mix is so much better. if i listen to electronic albums it's p unlikely they'll be house and techno.

it's a no brainer - all the music ever made v one artist's music.

i mean of course, some albums are good and there are great electronic albums, but even at a time when i'm less purist about electronic music than ever, this all still feels quite true for me, not least because i don't think it's ever been possible to get such a glut of mixes from clever selectors.

this idea of a dance album replicating a dj set is like someone telling me a jacket made out of shoes is a good substitute for a pair of shoes

i don't think the aim of most dance albums is to replicate a dj set and most of the best dance albums don't have the same appeal as a mix at all. i guess a lot of the time it's a producer finding or honing a very distinct style or sonic palette that works really well together rather than joined up with other artists' styles (which is true of the vincent, hauff and nozinja albums, the three on my list that i'd really really rep hard for as albums qua albums and which are also dancefloor-oriented)

Yeah it's not literally wanting a mix of an artist's own stuff (although I did feel that about the DJ Q album from last year) it's more just a sense of narrative or flow or whatever, some sense of energy rather than bloodlesness.

So many techno albums in particular just feel like an arbitrary selection of discrete tracks, with the sense that the artist didn't consider them good enough to release as singles. And who wants to listen to individual techno tracks anyway? Like, the records are explicitly designed to be heard in the context of one another.

that is a bit of an old saw around here and it isn't completely true imo, i mean it depends on the artist. i want to listen to individual techno tracks when they're good as tracks and would much rather hear those in a dj set anyway. if it's boring to listen to start to finish it's boring in a set imo. i can enjoy an album full of good house / techno on its own even when it's relatively 'mixable' as long as it has some character.

i like the album format for certain artists because it lets you dive a little bit more into what makes them tick. examples coming to mind are the pearson sound or anthony naples albums from this year, which like don't grab me by the lapels but are rich as collections i think.

i guess a lot of the time it's a producer finding or honing a very distinct style or sonic palette that works really well together rather than joined up with other artists' styles

for sure - i guess that sentence describes any good album, to a point - i just think it's p rare for this to be done in a brilliant way in dance music - you need a real auteur.

i want to listen to individual techno tracks when they're good as tracks and would much rather hear those in a dj set anyway. if it's boring to listen to start to finish it's boring in a set imo.

yeah i mean i have always liked listening to individual techno or house tracks. thing is, there's kind of a long-standing prob with dance albums whereby the tracks are just not as good as the producer's best recent 12 or remix. of course it's not a cast iron universal truth but i always feel like 12s or singles are just worth more. a really brilliant two-track 12 feels like it gives more joy than an album, or a really brilliant track. a mix full of these components the same.

it's not even purism - it just feels kind of essentially true to me, like a characteristic of what dance music is, though obv ymmv.

in any case i think this year is a p good example of this - i liked the hunee record on first listen but after a few plays it's p much done. the breadth of his selections on nts have me going back for more constantly. the power of these amazing cratediggers on tap on soundcloud is serious.

yeah i have to say i mostly prefer the 12" to the album anyway, more bang for my buck!

i've really enjoyed this album, vaguely drexciyan italo jams

http://eodtracks.bandcamp.com/album/the-derelict

Yeah I guess the issue is more often than not with producers just not bringing their A game to an album, or trying something new that they just aren't as good at.

I think I'm really talking about techno albums here - there are loads of great house albums, especially at the vocal end of the spectrum. But it's also structural - techno is so much about momentum and build that it's frustrating to hear producers abandon that by including half a dozen inessential tracks, or veering off into ambient just as they've got something building.

Going right back to a record like Landcruising, or the Brown Album, and you think these guys just nailed how to make techno work in the album format. The Levon album has that whole properly structured flow, the Nick Hoppner album as well, in a gentler way. But it's also significant that the best Omar-S album is a mix of his own stuff, the best Matthew Jonson album is basically a live set etc.

"if it's boring to listen to start to finish it's boring in a set imo"

Thing is I've heard so many unexceptional records come to life in the hands of a really skilled producer. Plenty of records are just components, a cool noise to be thrown in at the right time, and that's fine, they're basically made with that in mind.

I mean a really skilled DJ, not producer.

trying to think of other electronic albums that work as mixes in their own right- there is obviously the Villalobos Fabric mix of his own material, as well as Omar-S. The (excellent, under-rated) i:Cube album M:Megamix record springs to mind as well.

confessions on a dance floor is basically a continuous mix

unexpectedly i enjoyed the helena hauff album much more than her previous 12s

The (excellent, under-rated) i:Cube album M:Megamix record springs to mind as well.

Just to be clear this was both an album and a record, available in the CD and double vinyl formats.

trying to think of other electronic albums that work as mixes in their own right- there is obviously the Villalobos Fabric mix of his own material, as well as Omar-S. The (excellent, under-rated) i:Cube album M:Megamix record springs to mind as well.

I think there are a lot of these, just to name a few off the top off my head:

Donato Dozzy - K
Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake
L.S.G. - Rendezvous in Outer Space
L.S.G. - Singles Reworked (this is a great example of how to make your "greatest hits" album into an interesting new work, Lieb has remixed his old singles and presents them as a nice continous mix)
Vapourspace - Themes from Vapourspace
Air Liquide - Nephology
Innerzone Orchestraa - Programmed
Microglobe - Afreuropamericasiaustralica
The Dark Side of the Moog ‎- The Evolution of the Dark Side of the Moog (another "greatest hits as mix" compilation)
DeepChord feat. Echospace ‎- Liumin

etc.

thanks! do any of those come as particularly highly recommended? Innerzone Orchestra will be good I suppose?

Oh and Kraftwerk - The Mix, of course!

This Nozinja album is brilliant by the way, would happily listen to multiple albums' worth of this.

fucking love levon's album. up there for me with like burger/ink for home/travel listening albums centered around 4/4 kick.

versus a mix i like having a track i don't always want to hear in there like "small whole-numbered ratios" bc it can be skipped without ruining anything but also makes me think yeah i feel you levon...

how do y'all feel about the dj richard album? i thought it was good w/ some misses. i liked the flow and general vibe.

btw i love this record

the other week i alternated it with a bunch of death metal records and they seemed to share a swampy quality

also, the nozinja record!!!!!

Pye Corner Audio - Prowler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw9zFkvgOY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA5U7bL1JrM

Perfume Advert - 200+ Gamma (Opal Tapes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKu6IW_O5k4

Tulpa from 2013 is worth a go too - https://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/tulpa

just encountered Lumisokea from Berlin, this is out this week and I'm really into it so far http://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/lumisokea-transmissions-from-revarsavr

definitely techno with an asterisk, kinda on the Cut Hands / Raster Noton type acts side of things. hypnotic/pingpongy/electroacoustic

Shalt - Unconfined
https://soundcloud.com/factmag/shalt-unconfined

full ep out today: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/acheron

Really loving the recent Pye Corner Audio album, Prowler.

I missed the best albums of the year discussion but mine would be

1. Jlin - Dark Energy
2. Elysia Crampton - American Drift
3. Nidia Minaj - Danger
4. Holly Herndon - Platform
5. Floating Points - Elaenia
6. Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U Ahn-Sahm-Buhl - We Are Not The First
7. Natasha Kmeto - Inevitable
8. Lotic - Heterocetera
9. Rabit - Communion
10. RP Boo - Fingers, Bank Pads and Shoe Prints

"Really loving the recent Pye Corner Audio album, Prowler." Yay! reissue available - http://www.morethanhumanrecords.com/product/mth008-pye-corner-audio-prowler-2nd-pressing

Not Waving - Animals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD73HtCHbWs

Anyone into Samuel Kerridge up in here

that is a banger for sure

xp

Track one of the A Pleasure album is called Durutti Gottsching, like how am I not going to give that a crack?

Track two is called Arthur Russel, they might be pushing their luck a little there

sleepy bear lets the salmon pass

https://soundcloud.com/estimulacion/estimuloshow-14-february-2016-w-estimulo

The Connection Machine have a new 2x12" / Digital release called Presentiment. Sounds good so far.. https://tabernaclerecords.bandcamp.com/releases

this is really great, drum-heavy club music from Uruguay:
https://salviatek.bandcamp.com/album/aequs-nyama-ep-stk002-2

has anybody else gotten into "kindred phenomena" by mattheis?

kind of kosmische type techno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkoeXpJDeis

other tracks are perhaps more italo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVr9vmtBhmw

but the best parts (to my ears) are the more krautrockish parts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04bsEbIoCeQ

truly lovely album

Does this go here?

http://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/breathless

I really like a couple of the longer tracks. Some of the more distorted moments (Digital Rivers for instance) freak my brain out a little.

That Mattheis album is great, thanks for the heads-up TLG.

I'm really enjoying the Not Waving album mentioned above. It's really varied, some dark ambient, some early acidy Aphex-like stuff and (gasp) tunes! It's good.

It's also got a load of tunes that sound like updated versions of Chris & Cosey. I'm liking this more and more.

Yeah, really enjoying that Mattheis record.

Been digging a lot of this stuff over the last few months and finding connections...never heard of Mattheis till now but just bought 2 albums on itunes and see other stuff on labels that have released other recent discoveries I dig.

Same w/ Not Waving. Got a Sam Willis album a year or two ago, the one with the Wire sample, and dug that. Months later got some Walls stuff and was listening to that a lot over the last few weeks. Then heard Not Waving and bought a bunch of that and was listening to that as well, back and forth with Walls for like a week before I realized it was the same guy.

I dont really agree with spacetravel as an idea, its harmful to the environment and there are still so many places here on Earth to discover, there are paths in the copse over in the next valley Ive never even seen yet

but here is a mini Spacetravel set...the last track justifies at least some traveling into space, I'll concede

https://soundcloud.com/spacetravel-2/spacetravel-ipse-berlin

explore the schlesischen tor

Binh?

This is pushing at the boundaries of what this thread is about, I think, but it may be the best place for it, and it's amazing. Perhaps, start at Dead Drop and go from there...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnYmnwzY6cc&list=PLtUpQ6zLwoUNmhWk5pxmuXoyE1h27028c

ie, here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-h1zs57OE

89 min: Ryan Giggs has made his way down to the touchline, making a point of looking miserable. A political play, perhaps.

he's at it again

oops! wrong thread , sorry

the bwana akira album is so fuckin good omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pSBQqegWjA

download link doesn't seem to be working now. How does one get it?

install tor browser

Alternatively: https://zzgywkhtblpjqqpf.onion.to/

thanks.

has anybody else gotten into "kindred phenomena" by mattheis?

kind of kosmische type techno

Vahid this is lovely.

it certainly is

One of my fav under the radar albums of 2016, from Barcelona artist beGun

mixture of Balearic, House, Techno, Glitch Pop, experimental electronics, African beats, electronic jazz

Bandcamp:
beGun - AMMA
https://foehnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/begun-amma

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0BXNpI8XF1f8pQGIIHKI2W

video track: BeGun – YOKO

https://youtu.be/UTccM2ky-BE

Video track: BeGun - Dora

https://vimeo.com/148257756

Title track on Mark Pritchard's new LP is all-time

'give it your choir' ft bibio is my jam

Has the new Floorplan album, Victorious, been discussed much on the board? Search mainly turned up posts about the 2013 record. Anyway, it belongs on this thread. Too bloody long by half but there are some stellar cuts on it.

will check out, i always have time for robert hood

It probably doesn't belong belong on this thread though

It isn't a techno album??

"albums thread for people who are clearly doing it wrong"

There is no way that listening to Robert Hood, in any format, is doing techno wrong, but I didn't know this album existed so I'm grateful for its appearance on theis thread.

This is the only techno album thread we have, so I don't see why it can't be used to discuss "proper" techno too?

The bobbins thread seems to be more about singles, AFAIK?

plenty of albums on the bobbins thread, although it isn't really that much of an important issue.

there is no proper and there is no doing it wrong , there is only reverie and anguish, the perpetrators and enables of anguish are everywhere, not just on every thread but out here in the public space.

categorization is also an enemy of reverie

iirc the 'doing it wrong' in the thread title was with reference to the listener rather than the artist - a listener such as i, who does most of his listening while either digging up vegetables or walking an underwhelming dog

In that case i take it back, there is definitely doing it wrong, that is playing music while cutting down a tree or otherwise hurting the environment. Don't do that, stay home instead! there is also playing it where i can hear it if it is a distressing sound, of which there is a good chance. Don't understimate the vibeyness of just light drizzle

I did actually play the new Floorplan lp while I was walking my dog and it didn't work for me, but I played it again after a bifta in my kitchen and it sounded glorious. It's literally decades since I've been to a club so doing it wrong is the only way I know these days!

yeah anything's fair game

like if you're someone who doesn't keep up with the rolling house/techno thread but would love the Africans With Mainframes lp

someone like me

omg

MJ Guider - Evencycle

The new Segue album on Silent Season is more like the glacial sounding dub techno of their first album and is quite nice if you are in the mood for that type of thing.

actually it has more of a tropical vibe than glacial does this one.

I was a big fan of 'Pacifica' so if it's in that vein then count me in.

It probably isn't as good as Pacifica, but it's still good.

more like this please:

https://soundcloud.com/nervoushorizon/second-storey-sludge-3d

Lorenzo Senni's EP on Warp is very good. It's a bit like PC Music (but a lot better) or trance without the drums. I'm not into PC Music or trance but I still love it. It's also the best thing Warp have put out since the last Boards of Canada album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-INk1qkPEw

idgi

So...who's shelling out 100 EUR for Prince of Denmark's new album?

(He clearly does it right, I should mention - I forgot about the full thread title and just remembered the 'techno albums' part ...oops).

Is this the place to talk about the (magnificent) Lord of the Isles album?

Just read a review of that album that got me interested so yes, please expand!

the opening track Airgoid Meall is rather lovely and probably the height of "doing it wrong" listening is my first impression.

yes. enjoying it.

yep, fantastic album

whole bunch of stuff i still need to hear but these are probably my thread-appropriate keepers for 2016:

Steven Julien - Fallen
Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's Of Imhotep
Bartosz Kruczyński - Baltic Beat
Kornel Kovacs - The Bells
Kassem Mosse - Disclosure
Huerco S. - For Those of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
Marquis Hawkes - Social Housing
Don’t DJ - Musique Acéphale
Dorisburg - Irrbloss
A Pleasure - Jream House

I forgot to nominate that Steven Julien album in the best albums and tracks of 2016 thread but I meant to because it's really good. I'll just go and do that now

Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
Hieroglyphic Being - The Disco's Of Imhotep

both amazing. everything else i'd destroy though tbh

if you liked "disco's of imhotep" you'll probably enjoy "KMT" by africans with mainframes. it's a little harder-edged and more aggressive but in a similar vein.

don't destroy kornel kovacs :|

Anyone listened to that three hour Prince of Denmark album?

I'd also throw in the Lord of the Isles, Pangaea, and Skee Mask as albums of the year. I also liked the Moomin and Lawrence albums. None of them were "doing it wrong", but I don't know if this thread is still about that or just a general dance albums thread.

Someone has uploaded the Prince of Denmark to Youtube, but I haven't listened yet. The three live mixes he's done apparently feature many of the tracks and they're all fantastic.

Oops, also the Will Long album is tremendous. Can't believe it's not being included in more lists (wasn't included in or even reviewed by RA, for example).

I don't know the difference between wrong and right only the difference between mellifluous and antagonistic

https://soundcloud.com/bucuresti-underground/bucur003-lizz

its mix i think of unreleased Lizz productions, really like the first 3 tracks, rest has been growing too

lord of the isles was nice in a retro kompakt way but a bit underwhelming for me compared to his singles

my electronic album keepers in rough order

kaitlyn aurelia smith - ears
raime - tooth
kyle hall - from joy
virginia - fierce for the night
stereociti - lost land
road hog - tour de hog
kuedo - slow knife
rushmore - ours after
kris wadsworth - infiltrator
leon vynehall - rojus (designed to dance)
omar-s - the best
mark barrott - sketches from an island 2
seahawks - escape hatch

I didn't have much luck with actual lbums this year! Found both of Binh's albums pretty disappointing, lacking ideas and direction. the Spacetravel album was ok but nothing that made me want to go and buy a copy.

Actually I guess the And.rea record is technically an album, and the first two tracks are outstanding but it fades it really declines so rapidly after that. I love it but don't think of it as an album, as i only play the first two tracks

kyle hall - from joy

this one so good

if you liked it you will also like

jay daniel - broken knows

kyle is technically 2015 tho

I'm surprised that the Kuedo album hasn't been in more lists

None of them were "doing it wrong", but I don't know if this thread is still about that or just a general dance albums thread.

i think the people "doing it wrong" that refers to are us, the increasingly out-of-it consumers of music and music culture.

Will rep for Cheetah for 2016 lists. Couldn't care less about Syro but Cheetah is real.

the jay daniel record rules

don't destroy kornel kovacs :|

Yeah man, don't destroy that, what's wrong with you?!

just didn't do much for me, i guess

too playful / goofy for my taste

i have no grand criticism of it, it's just not my thing

i liked the jay daniel album on one listen but didn't really love it

i was kinda surprised the cassy album didn't get more traction - it's not as if i went back to it myself i guess but it did seem to be doing something that stood out a bit

His recent Beats in Space mix is also a good intro to Kovacs, but likely it won't change your view in that case. Overlaps with the Amsterdam Redlight Records Young Marco/Tako/Jamie Tiller vibe, but more explicitly house/dancefloor.

The Virginia album seemed to get a lot of attention earlier in the year, but haven't seen it on many EOY lists.

it's really nice but for an album that deliberately leaned towards pop in terms of vocals, song structures, it didn't lean into pop to the extent of sticking in the head much. i always enjoy it when i put it on but i wish there were songs there that made me crave it

tbh, I had forgotten it until going back over 2016 stuff.

Whenever I listened to it, reminded me of how much I love Steffi - Yours, and how this wasn't that.

M gun/Manuel Gonzalez album is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzLfJmkAokk&list=PLWONZah4JMGte79A4UTsixdWcp0AhwwmE

^playlist of MGUN album

i totally did it wrong this year, listened to mostly lofi/vintagey stuff on 100% Silk/1080p as far as new techno* goes

Man, Lobster Theremin put out a whole bunch of stuff this year. Anyone keep on top of their releases and can recommend anything?

the demdike stare record is great!

And the cd version comes with all 7 of the test pressing series, which are also great!

I am a big dummy and have the cd sitting there and haven't grabbed the testpressing stuff off it yet :/

Anyone listened to that three hour Prince of Denmark album?

Yes, for most of the last couple of weeks, and also going back to his 2014 mix, which is of a similar vibe. 8 has a lot of pretty incredible moments, particular in its last third. Everything seems very simple, almost simplistic, but the things that are going on behind his beats are often gorgeous. Three hours means you're going to get some ordinary stuff too, but the structure of the entire set makes a great argument for it building to something, and that thing is great.

Kangding Ray - HYPER OPAL MANTIS

could never really get into this guy before but this one is doing it for me

I was into not the prior album, but the one before that? Solens Arc, maybe, I'd have to check

Hyper Opal Mantis did not really click with me on first listen like previous albums (Solens Arc, Automne Fold) did.

Seems like this thread's the only one where there's been a bit of talk on Helena Hauff's music, so I'll paste the good news here: A Tape to be reissued by Dark Entries!. Also, her shows for BBC radio are fabulous. Of course.

https://soundcloud.com/user-588003180/born-in-1986

listening to this Second Woman LP and it's... idm!

totally

totally missed Kara-Lis Coverdale's "Sirens" and, wow

Really loving this: https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=37804 (S.A.M.)

kettenkarussell album is stellar imo

new Bola album is pretty good!

hell yeah. that 2nd track, it's like he was never gone

this is great, thanks for the heads up

listening to this album from pessimist, little dark for a friday morning

my top right now, newest first

Total 17
Whities 11 & 12
ZULI - Numbers
Blondes - Warmth
Garry Bradbury - PANSPERMIA PLUS (puts the * in techno*)
Delia Gonzalez - Horse Follows Darkness
DJ Sports - Modern Species

dauwd - theory of colors is the thing in this category i've listened to the most this year. no surprises but it's got a nice light touch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F3LgO1XQu4

enjoying the new saul cooper quite a bit, love the woo-ish vibe the clarinet brings

been listening mostly to other sorts of music this year, but have loved all these (sorry if painfully obvious choices):

Call Super - Arpo
Arca - Arca
Shinichi Atobe - From the Heart, It’s a Start, a Work of Art
Marie Davidson - Adieux Au Dancefloor
Juju & Jordash ‎– Sis-Boom-Bah!
Visible Cloaks ‎– Reassemblage
Actress - AZD
Blondes - Warmth
Dauwd - Theory of Colours
Jlin ‎– Black Origami

probably a bunch of other stuff i'm forgetting

Marie Davidson is awesome

Oh also...

Karen Gwyer ‎– Rembo
DJ Python - Dulce Compania

i want to hear that dj python

shed's new lp is very good, as usual. gets a little hands-in-the-airey

Co-sign Marie Davidson, Blondes, and DJ Python

some good 2017 techno* EPs for people doin it wrong

Roza Roza ‎– Sadok Sudei
Ancient Methods ‎– The First Siren
Schwefelgelb ‎– Dahinter Das Gesicht
Mark Du Mosch ‎– The Red Hour

this Ilian Tape comp is great:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-A-Decade-Ilian-Tape/master/1165657

i highly recommend anything by Stenny or/and Andrea

I screwed up by missing most of an Ancient Methods live set because I had seen a lot of techno that week and opted for big stage spectacle
they were playing before or after Orphx, I forget, good combo

Chloe - Endless Revisions

i recommended this in bobbins but industrie and zartlichkeit by the german artist moon is a v good album of drexciya-type electro with the odd house touch here and there.

I didn't hear what everyone else heard in that DJ Python I guess.

Here are 2017 records I was into that could conceivably fit here:

Arca - s/t
Suda - Hives EP
Air Max ‘97 - Vessel EP
Fatigado - Sanzala
Masaacooramaan - Drum Fission
NKC - Tincture
SHALT - ʃælt
The Newcomer, Earth Motivation
Mana - Creature
Thoom - Blood and Sand
Thys - Tetris, Mon Amour
Ziur - U Feel Anything?
M.E.S.H. - Hesaitix

And probably that new Equiknoxx record.

whoa love the DJ Sports record

The Errorsmith album kinda rules in a low key offbeat way

the Errorsmith is great.

Tresor's Dreamy Harbour comp from last year is really good, i recommend

tracklist:
Shao* Sensi (Edit) 7:58
–Terrence Dixon The Switch (Edit) 8:00
–Juan Atkins & Moritz von Oswald Electric Dub (Edit) 10:52
–Mønic What Lies Behind Us 6:26
–TV Victor La Beff 6:10
–Donato Dozzy The Night Rider 7:16
–Claudia Anderson (2) Phase 9:36
–Jon Hassell Timeless 8:10
–Marcelus Odawah Jam (Edit) 5:44
–Daughter Produkt Direction Asymmetry 3:33

agree

SKEE MASK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5LkLmxcgIQ

new thread covering stuff in this vein in 2018:
Rolling Experimental Electronic & Misfit Club Music 2018

^^ no

anyway if you like your contemporary kosmische music i can give no higher recommendation than to the new vakula on leleka, "metaphors"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r50dBMjhqvU

that's just one side off a double 12" btw

Sorry you don't like my thread tlg ;_;

I like the mallet percussion on that though.

haha i *do* like your thread i just believe in scene balkanization and internecine sub-genre warfare 4eva

(j/k I don't care where people post, I just wanted somewhere to put the music I've been listening to that didn't seem to fit anywhere else)

xp lol

it even bothers me there's a house and techno thread, would much prefer to split into house thread and techno thread, and then divide up house thread into different cities in the US and europe and beyond, and then divide those up by bpm, let a hundred (thousand) dance threads bloom, but sadly not enough posting to support that

Haha, I don't agree but it's a beautiful vision

i also think (much like idm) "experimental club" has become its own thing beyond just any club-rooted music that is, um, experimental, i.e. i think it's a great thread for the breaking glass / gun shot noises type stuff (which, don't get me wrong, i really like) or other post-grime post-footwork type stuff but i felt weird dropping this vakula in the middle of that

Did you hear that De Leon EP?

https://manarecs.bandcamp.com/album/de-leon

whoa that's awesome!!!! i would never have thought about crossover between gamelan and capoeira but when you think about it makes total sense. no vinyl, tho? ;_;

THE LATE GREAT OTM

Looks like there's vinyl from the Honest Jon's link ;)

got pretty deep into listening to mumdance's radio show last week. a great collection of people doing different genres right blended into a distinctly done-wrong fabric via b2b choices

would recommend

<3 Mumdance, thanks for the reminder. Really liked that recent RA profile too.

is it "weightless" stuff

and that's his show on rinse, right?

heavy heavy monstah sounds

for some reason I was thinking it was a nts show, but yes, rinse

i can't find it, can you post a link?

http://mumdance.com/

aahhh i'm super confused

you said his show last week, those are all from 2017!

no I said I was listening to the show last week!

as in, a bunch of episodes of the show. sorry for the ambiguity

although I do like the idea of getting pretty deep on a single episode

oh haha sorry me dumm

item: i back-to-backed the new skee mask album with last year's shed album and while i enjoyed the skee mask and the young dude energy behind it, the shed album is clearly on another level.

Shed LPs are a perfect example of how to do full length tech, especially the first two

I found the new Skee Mask a bit cold and clinical. Give me Shed any day.

feel like people slept on that shed record "too homogenous" yes but everything on it rips. skee mask is comfort food to me, the drums sound amazing but it's also sorta like just sports videogame music or something, shed has ~~mystery~~ about the proceedings imo

yeah I posted in the "diss hyped releases" about that Skee Mask album, bewildering critical praise

Shed is just a highly exceptional producer, the way he makes the bass rumble in the mix is just awesome.

I don't know how much longevity value it will have, but for now I'm quite digging that Pariah album.

Anyone who has not yet heard the atrociously titled 'Steal Chickens From Men And The Future From God' by the Swedish duo Shakarchi & Straneus should do so while the weather's still this good.

DJ Koze has been repping hard for it and you can tell why, although it's a lot better than his album.

i have been listening a lot of octo octa lately and i think she is a wonderful album artist. the one from last year is especially good

what's the newer thread for stuff like this? Anyway here's a Young Marco mix with lots of the Dream House stuff he has compiled lately
https://soundcloud.com/safe-trip/wtp-mix-agc

anyway if you like your contemporary kosmische music i can give no higher recommendation than to the new vakula on leleka, "metaphors"

That is great and seemingly unavailable. I mean it's not unavailable - it's £70 on discogs but...

yeah i grabbed mine as soon as it was on hardwax, he sometimes represses his bandura releases but rarely see leleka represses ...

I posted this on the rolling house and techno thread, but this is maybe a better place for it. The new Djrum album is very good, imo, for a crossover between bass and techno. I've listened to it a few times on Spotify so far (the 2LP is sold out a lot of places at the moment, it seems, but it's on R&S so should be repressed soon?) and it's terrific and a great, fully realized album.

https://djrum.bandcamp.com/album/portrait-with-firewood

The Vakula is on Spotify if that’s not too sacrilegious a thing to say

Oops actually it’s his new one, which is great incidentally

if you mean arcturus that one was available elsewhere a year or 2 ago but it rules and is nice to have it on spot

I am enjoying the new Ancient Methods album

The Ame album is a lot better than its cracked up to be.

Really miss the lush style of the Lord of the Isles LP, anything like that people want to recommend?

dj richard's dies irae xerox is outstanding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2k6ZF4srs4

yeah it's a good un that

yeah, I've been listening to the dj richard album a lot lately.

I bought this album by Junes, it is "well vibey, mate" according to the local paper. I don't know if its a good fit for the lads that are doing it wrong thread but what is the worst that can happen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzPUU6TlsDc

that is lovely