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― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

like superpitcher hi freaks

please

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

Lawrence.

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

it's that time of year

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

yes, like lawrence

the one about the sparks

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Albums:
Richard Davis 'Details"
Lawrence 'The Absence of Blight"
Pantha Du Prince 'Diamond Daze"
songs
Closer Musik's One Two Three (No Gravity)
Ada's Each and Everyone (Blindhouse)
M83's Don't Save Us From The Flames (Superpitcher Remix)
Ghost Cauldron's See What I've Become (Superpitcher Smallville remix)
Margo's La Baumette (Broker Dealer Remix)
Phantom Ghost's Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher)
ALL of Superpitcher

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

I have a weakness for this sort of music

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

also
albums:
Gringo Gringer's Breakfast Included
Ola Bergman's The Satellite City
Fairmont's Paper Stars

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:08 (nineteen years ago)

Nathan Fake - Outhouse

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

and Hansen & DJ Daniel's Only Love(Marcus Cabral Mix) From Triple R Selection 3

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

kraftwerk - model
human league - human
visage - fade to grey.

moogs with emotion.

― retroboy, Monday, 21 November 2005 12:13 (nineteen years ago)

Actually all four of Elektronische Musik Interkontinental are pretty moody and worth getting. The first two are more ambient, but still nice. I think I like 3 best, if only for the broker dealer remix.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

poor leno, where did leno go

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

Kaito, Special Love

David Bowie, "A New Career in a New Town" - that intro sounds so techno to me. And, from the same album, I'd like to request a Superpitcher remix of "Always Crashing in the Same Car".

― willem (willem), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Carl Graig: "At Les" (both the version released under his own name and the one on the Innerzone Orchestra are great)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, also 'How The West Was Won' by Craig (as Psyche?)

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

Also, check out the Fallen Angel LP by Prism, Susumu Yokota's techno guise. Yokota has made lots of soft, sad music, but the rest I've heard isn't exactly techno, more like ambient/experimental.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

I have this wonderful LP of sad Russian techno with melancholy vocals, but I have no idea how to transcribe the band name into Western alphabet (so I can't even google it), in Russian it reads something like "ARROU". Maybe someone here knows what I'm talking about, the album has a red cover, it came out a few years ago and I think it was released by V2 Records.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Delsin !!! "Going thru life" compilation

― nocure, Monday, 21 November 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

or should I say

: (

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

search ILM 'tears on the dancefloor' thread

duplex 'late night cycling'
system 7 'big sky city (high rise mix)'

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

well.....no even ever seems to mention ada "luckycharm", even though i do mention, always saying "no one ever mentions....."

i like blindhouse enough but that one is pure sweetness in a sad way

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

tuomas, i cant think what it could be. is the wirting in caps or lower case? could it be something like "ÀÐÐÎÖ"?

i cant think of any letters in russian that look like an "R", there is a "ß" but thats backwards.

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ada's 'And More' also

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ambrose, the name is in caps, and yeah, maybe the "R"s are backwards. I'll check it when I get home.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

The vibe of the Superpitcher remix of "Hi Freaks" is such a specific Superpitcher vibe that it almost seems a waste of time to suggest anyone else, but:

Phantom Ghost - Nothing Is Written (Tobias Thomas & Superpitcher Mix)
Raz O'Hara - This' A Beautiful Day (Mathias Schaffhauser Mix)
Quarks - Du Entkommst Mir Nicht (Lawrence Remix)
Chelonis R. Jones - I Don't Know
RJ Project - What Colour Is Love (Red Jerry's Monkeyhouse Mix)
Alexander Kowalski - Lock Me Up (Sascha Funke Mix)
Dennis Desantis - Promotion of Vice (Alexander Kowalski Mix)
Carsten Jost - Uccellini
Gus Gus - Remembrance (neuromantic avant la lettre)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Dextro - Do You Need Help

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

this is lots of stuff I've never heard of

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

gunna be sad on the way to work this week!!

: )

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Kenny Larkin: Tedra

― nocure, Monday, 21 November 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

Extrawelt - Zu Fuss
Miss Kittin - Happy Violentine
Plastikman - I Don't Know
Villalobos - Easy Lee
Dopplereffekt - Myon-Neutrino
Laurent Garnier - Go To Sleep
GusGus - Detention

Ah, don't cry little robot boy, everything is going to be alright once we reboot your mom. :(

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

red planet - Journey To The Martian Polar Cap

― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Journey To The Martian Polar Cap

YESSS!!!

Alex Smoke - I Don't See The Point

in fact Slam's Nightdrive cd1 is 77 minutes worth of this stuff (okay I'll stop mentioning that thing now.)

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

you know, for sleepy kissers

nice and slow

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

here come the planes

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

I love how this is like the tenth time we have done this thread but no one seems to get tired of it.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

:-(

― Baaderonixx ménage ses forces dans l'attente du Grand Soir (baaderonixx), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think last time it was "techno tracks that make you cry", but I'm not sure if there's such a big difference.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 November 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Aril Brikha - Deeparture in Time

― earlnash, Monday, 21 November 2005 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Top 100 - Tearjerking Techno.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

and here's another: c90: tears on the dancefloor

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

and i always forget to mention Garnier's (as Choice) 'Acid Eiffel', even though there is no more melancholic an epic in existence.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Underground Resistance: "Illuminator" and "Journey of the Dragons"

― tylero (tylero), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Murcof "Remembranza"

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

luciano "funk excursion"
dntel "(this is) the dream of evan & chan (superpitcher kompakt mix)"

― w cowper, Monday, 21 November 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Recommend me some really morose dance music.
100 House/Club Tracks Tragic Enough to Put Goths in Ecstasy
Top 100 - Tearjerking Techno.
Micro-goth
c90: tears on the dancefloor
Classic dance/electronic records that are melancholic (*sobs*)!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

I 2nd "The Illuminator" as probably the saddest (and on of the best) techno records of all time. Thanks for these lists!!

― Telegram Sam, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

the b-sides on this old heiko laux 12 are gorgeous. And sad.

― jcartledge (jcartledge), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

norken - spring themes

― Philippe (Philippe), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 06:45 (nineteen years ago)

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how about this

https://soundcloud.com/shigeto/water-collides-shigeto-x-kyson

― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 20:30 (ten years ago)

two weeks pass...

The Kiasmos (Olafur Arnalds and pal) album is pretty.

If you sat and hit a jam jar with a stick along to it it would probably sound like Lawrence.

― djh, Saturday, 22 November 2014 12:36 (ten years ago)

this Kiasmos album is real nice, ty. it's so easy to make a mediocre version of this style, but this pretty much nails it.

― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 24 November 2014 21:28 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnyu1CnEpn8

One of Carl Craig's best remixes

― X-101, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 11:58 (ten years ago)

Used to give that one a miss and always play Charles Webster's Love From San Francisco mix. Love both.

― mmmm, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 12:52 (ten years ago)

I am loving the Kiasmos album.

― djh, Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:06 (ten years ago)

it's like eluvium with beats, lovely soft and sad beats.

it's almost perfect.

― Kelly Gang Carey and the Mantels (ledge), Friday, 28 November 2014 16:17 (ten years ago)

Bait. When put like that I need to check this out.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Friday, 28 November 2014 17:35 (ten years ago)

It's very, very slick. I can kind of hear Lawrence-y atmospherics but neater; Buzzin' Fly-ish maybe?

(I should stay off message boards after alcohol).

― djh, Friday, 28 November 2014 19:18 (ten years ago)

whoaoaoa kiasmos

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 29 November 2014 01:55 (ten years ago)

Kiasmos album is good - very reminiscent of Pantha Du Prince and there's no mistaking the involvement of Olafur Arnalds - but I wish the drums and percussion weren't so slight. "Bent" is incredible though, can't wait for the inevitable Dixon edit.

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 22:17 (ten years ago)

I liked most of the Kiasmos album ok, but when things pick up near the end it gets rather messy and unnecesary loud imo, that was a bit of a let down. It's nice, but nowhere near as good as Lawrence or Pantha du Prince.

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 22:02 (ten years ago)

What's the Lawrence album I should check out?

― Evan, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 22:06 (ten years ago)

'The Absence of Blight' is his masterpiece if you ask me, followed by 'The Night Will Last Forever'

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 22:09 (ten years ago)

Thanks!

― Evan, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 22:13 (ten years ago)

Jealous you'll be hearing them for the first time :) Would love to hear what you think!

― a pleasant little psychedelic detour in the elevator (Amory Blaine), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 22:16 (ten years ago)

I don't know how I avoided it! I haven't been as diligent in researching electronica over the years.

― Evan, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 22:23 (ten years ago)

Tangled Track from last year is a good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuPUtXp00S0

― saer, Wednesday, 3 December 2014 22:40 (ten years ago)

new frank and tony: "call me rain"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRBiZcf3vjo

― davey, Friday, 5 December 2014 07:45 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joEPfzvv9g8

― (曇り) (clouds), Friday, 5 December 2014 08:20 (ten years ago)

<3 Kaito <3 this thread

Christian Löffler - Young Alaska LP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWL4xRp5I8w

― davey, Friday, 5 December 2014 09:43 (ten years ago)

I was mostly disappointed in that Christian Loeffler follow-up, the first album was insanely good though.

― boxedjoy, Friday, 5 December 2014 10:56 (ten years ago)

Agree Kiasmos gets a bit too loud too soon - I actually like the later tracks a lot, I would just have preferred the more relaxed atmosphere to last a little longer #chilloutroom4lyfe

Tried some Lawrence but it just doesn't emotionally engage me at all.

― ledge, Friday, 5 December 2014 11:12 (ten years ago)

I can only think that you are listening to the wrong Lawrence ...

― djh, Friday, 5 December 2014 18:32 (ten years ago)

I started to dive into Lawrence but grooveshark locked up and broke my browser so I'll queue it up again. I was really enjoying it (maybe one track before it quit)!!

― Evan, Friday, 5 December 2014 18:37 (ten years ago)

i checked out a bunch on youtube and felt the same as ledge, it's really nice but felt a little too slick or hotel lounge-y for me.

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:39 (ten years ago)

i often don't understand what you are looking for in electronic music, J

― (曇り) (clouds), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:48 (ten years ago)

anyway "the night will last forever" is one of my favorite winter albums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk6iJvEFgwk

― (曇り) (clouds), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:52 (ten years ago)

i just have a real weird relationship with four-on-the-floor dance music, i don't listen to much of it. lush & pretty is good, but the stuff that really clicks tends to feel 'raw' and tactile in some way.

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 5 December 2014 18:56 (ten years ago)

Lawrence is so good in the winter.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 5 December 2014 19:07 (ten years ago)

maybe it's the house basslines that undercut the staring-off-into-the-distance vibes for me

― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 5 December 2014 19:13 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

Roman Flügel - Planet Zorg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XevP-6ym-c

The title somehow doesn't suit this track.

― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:32 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

Roman Flügel's whole album is a treat, hadn't heard it till last week, addicted now.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 11:51 (six years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjQjs9GYP7U

― theBlackSheep, Monday, 4 May 2020 14:24 (five years ago)

four weeks pass...

I don’t know if this is the right thread for this kind of thing... but this Boreal track is all I want to listen to right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMNlCYLDkhE

similar suggestions welcome

― brimstead, Monday, 1 June 2020 03:26 (five years ago)

How about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuyrzxJQd9c

― Evan, Monday, 1 June 2020 04:10 (five years ago)

nice! ty

― brimstead, Monday, 1 June 2020 17:28 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmWvlsL6VOE

― neith moon (ledge), Monday, 15 June 2020 15:53 (five years ago)

At the gates of dawn

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

― dow, Monday, 15 June 2020 19:26 (five years ago)

"the red line" is literally the best dub techno track ever

― clouds, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 05:03 (five years ago)

yes it is

― Evan, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 05:17 (five years ago)

the like/dislike ratio on that red line YT is impossible

― lukas, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 05:47 (five years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjVHj8ipydE

― oder doch?, Tuesday, 14 July 2020 04:36 (four years ago)

one year passes...

Ric y Martin, “Teiwass”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzN_bCXSQV0

it’s always so good when Ricardo’s latent Depecheness emerges so explicitly like this

― missingNO, Friday, 17 September 2021 15:35 (three years ago)

sorry for consecutive postings but this Dandy Jack / Sonja Moonear track is wonderfully forlorn dusky street lamp vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRi9y0gezoA

― missingNO, Sunday, 19 September 2021 07:46 (three years ago)

I...really don't get the "soft" or "sad" from the Dandy Jack track. At all.

― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Monday, 20 September 2021 15:48 (three years ago)

this track is for me the definition of soft, sad techno.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOTA3siUl8

― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Monday, 20 September 2021 19:27 (three years ago)

I...really don't get the "soft" or "sad" from the Dandy Jack track. At all.
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, September 21, 2021 12:48 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it sounds very melancholy to me in a wistful, pensive, James Stinson interstate truck driving at night kind of way but whatever I’m heavily depressed so

― missingNO, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 05:16 (three years ago)

maybe not so soft but i hear the melancholy in it for sure. the synth lead does fade in and out like street lamps floating by on a highway

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 21 September 2021 14:29 (three years ago)

how about this one, "Niji" by Denki Groove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqT8t6OSNrM

very Orbital-esque, almost like a direct sequel to "Halycon". it's one of their most popular tracks though amusingly enough they never did anything like it again

― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 September 2021 15:13 (three years ago)

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