What, if any techno/electronica/electro just plain good music for sitting down or dancing (cont.)

noisy ist gut! !

I maybe shouldn't have added the 'melody' part. I just added that to try and impose some quality control perhaps. It's more techno than 'house' which I do prefer tbh.

Reminds me of Wuzzlebud KK, but more conventionally 'techno' & less thin sounding. What (bits) I've heard of the Hacker solo seems a little too pop/goth styled for my tastes. Alright though.

This I will investigate too (I don't think of Tresor when it comes to Ambient House-like things I must say).

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/139381-02.htm

seem like a more classic/detroit(ish) take on the oval-glitchy-stop/start sound? would that be far off?

interesting what these searches are turning up. I don't think I own a single record on skam!

(p.s. this thread is turning out great. keep them coming! deep house isn't really doing it for me though, sorry :( )

Monika is a spot on pointer. I adore Barbara Morgenstern. And I've had a bloody awful year of buying duds, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if I've missed a few records on the way through '04 ('03 rocked my world).

(I am on dial-up btw. Apologies if I don't respond to all these suggestions, it's all much appreciated)

go back and check out some Terrace/Florence Don't know this, but will do. and all of Beaumont Hannant's GPR releases. That is a f****** top suggestion!

Deep House was the genre label (I know, I shouldn't trust them. It didn't sound quite Deep-Dish-y so it's probably a little off) for that 'Raiders.. ' suggestion.

That was the dissapointment of the year for me. But if I had not heard them, again, top suggestion.

Arovane, Lilies
Fennesz, Venice
William Basinksi, Disintegration Loops
Claro Intelecto, Neurofibro
Max Richter, Blue Notebooks

I also recently heard and enjoyed that Yasume record from 2003.

Do you like the old stuff?

The new one just didn't work for me at all. I found it sonically predictable and pretty boring all told.

xpost. Have come to like the new Arovane very much after some intial uncertainty. Not sure how much it's like his previous stuff though.

One day I'll actually hear that (rare?) Model 500 album. What i've heard 'deep space' and 'the chase' are so much warmer and enjoyable than I associate with that detroit group usually.

ann aimee label absolutely killed it in 2003, but sort of quiet in 2004.

if someone were to ask me who's the new school ferox or clear i would probably say ann aimee, but i'm depressed at how hard i have to struggle to answer that question.

under the radar dance music from japan = chester beatty. good for dancing. he is the new filter king. sort of like surgeon meets daft punk. it will take your head off you play it too loud.

i completely missed this progressive techno/electro mix from australia. anybody know if it's any good?

I fear for my savings.

Chester Beatty (the one meager sample I can find) sounds scarily close to what I think of as being Hard House. But I admit it's not bad, for a minute at least. I fear a whole album of the same/similar thing though (it's Tresor, after all) is there much variation in it?

well after "LOVEJET" my ears were bleeding and i was anticipating being a bit bored. but i was pleasantly surprised when "superrapin" kicked in and my eyeballs exploded. by the time "ecstasy garage disco on dragon" started my skin had been burnt to a crisp and i was flayed down to a raw nervous system hanging off twitchy bones. my friends were a bit freaked out by my transformation but i was cool with that.

anyway it's only like 41 minutes long or something. there's variation. it's about 1/3rd ambient and spacey like jam&spoon, about 1/3rd minimal jams like surgeon and about 1/3rd hard filter disco like daft punk in the grip of roid rage. i didn't pick up any hard house vibes but that's down to the lack of doubletime 4/4 kick drums.

(Pan Sonic? now I'm worried. Grrrreat on headphones or listened to in the dark uninterrupted though).

youre not talking about techno = dance music in general here, are you?

Michaela Melián - Baden Baden (Monika)

With the passing of John Peel, German artist/musician Michaela Melián may have lost one of her biggest supporters. Her old band, F.S.K. did six sessions for his show through the years, and he no doubt would have loved her solo debut. In a year in which frauleins like Ada and Ellen Alien continued to make noise (and much stronger full-lengths than peers like Superpitcher or Michael Mayer), Baden-Baden might very well be the strongest of the bunch. Melián is assured in her tracks, building them up steadily as she layers violoncello, accordion, Spanish guitar, bass, melodica, and organ while Carl Oesterhelt helps with the programming. She’s steadfast on every song, never rushing things, knowing just when to stir in new textures. Each of the six originals (plus a lovely coda of Roxy Music’s “A Song for Europe,” sung in her finest Nico drip) gathers steam and slowly fills up the space until its at a chug. Think of the pastoral heaven of Popol Vuh, or ambient Eno, with the shimmer of Komapkt’s Pop Ambient series thrown in for aural beatitude.

I might have to try soulseek to get a taste of this.

btw. is that new Thomas Fehlmann any good?

What's yer definition of techno here Vahid?

I wasn't expecting much danciness (I still wouldn't mind picking up 'Visions Of Blah' for that).

i think these albums are all gorgeous in unique ways. and, at the risk of overdosing on sheer loveliness, you could also do worse than to investigate their likeminded labelmates...

Digitonal - 23 Things Fall Apart
Kuchen - Kids with Sticks
Tony Drake - Textures
John Beltran's Earth & Nightfall, Ten Days of Blue and Moving Through Here
Tatsuhiko Asano - Genny Haniver
The Detroit Escalator Company - Soundtracks [313], Black Buildings
the aforementioned Kazumasa Hashimoto albums
Fonica - Ripple (look for the longer JP edition)
Aspen - Music from Passing Cars, Are You That Retail Snob?
Christian Høy Knudsen - Hav
Luke Slater's 7th Plane - The 4 Cornered Room
Ambidextrous - Errorism (haven't heard the newer one. as good?)
Pacific 231 - Tropical Songs
The Sushi Club - Sushidelic

http://www.nuloop.com/Details_e.php?arti=30147

The new Diego LP is really good to:

http://www.kanzleramt.com/index.php?s_id=6&action=detail&id=160

screw it...just buy every kanzleramt record you can get your hands on.

If you haven't heard Lawrence I would give The Absence of Blight album a go as well.

without wishing to be an arse, I'm glad it got this far without mentioning the Schnauss. Most everything I've heard on Morr (but especially Ulrich) I find plain boring.

I'm sure I'm missing out though, because like that Arovane record a lot (and Morr/CCO are pretty similar no?), and Opiate too. Without buying the amount of records a DJ would (and only having dial-up) it's hard to get a feel for everything a label might really have. SO I've tended to dismiss them a little (probably unfairly). What is there on that side of things that I *wouldn't* expect?

(goes to eat something)

In case you never heard it Daniel Wang is always worth mentioning.