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

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.