NOMINATIONS THREAD for ILM's Alltime Best Techno/Electronic/Ambient/etc ALBUMS poll (nominations end 9/30/10 11:59 PDT)

there is no limit on nominations so have at it.

Just wondering ... if there's no limit on nominations, then what's the point of having nominations? (to jog our memories, I guess?) If we can choose anything we want then why not just send in our individual top 50's?

Yeah, I'm finding the memory jogging aspects of the nominations really helpful. There's so much stuff I've forgotten!

Great poll idea, btw.

Noms:

Plastikman - Closer
Luke Slater - Freak Funk
Moderat - Moderat
Ben Klock - One
Fennesz - The Black Sea
Petar Dundov - Escapements
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed

Is there any reason why almost no mixes and compilation albums have been nominated so far? Are we agreeing to limit this to artist albums only? (I don't think we should, btw)

Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
(nobody voted for this except me in the 90s poll but I live in hope)

Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker

A lot of stuff I'm thinking of has already been nominated but I'm sure I'll be back as they spring to mind. Clarification on whether we're allowed mixes and compilations would be good, some have been nommed but surprisingly few for such a mix/comp-heavy genre (ha xp)

If we're allowed to nominate compilations than I'm nominating Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit.

comps and mixes are cool. the nominations exist more as a memory jogger, yeah. btw now i need to go for a job while listening to...

michael mayer - fabric 11

*jog

venetian snares - Rossz csillag alatt született
junior boys - last exit
herbert - bodily functions
herbert - scale
Isolée - We Are Monster
Isolée - Western Store

Air France - No Way Down

Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMO
Hrvatski - Swarm and Dither
Bruce Haack - the Electric Lucifer
Walter Carlos - Switched-On Bach

DAT Politics - Sous-Hit
DAT Politics - Go Pets Go

Goldfrapp-Seventh Three
Jean Michel Jarre-Equinoxe
Hot Chip-The Warning
Yellow Magic Orchestra-Naughty Boys
Underworld-Beaucoup Fish
Bjork-Vespertine
OMD-Dazzle Ships
John Foxx-Metamatic
Junior Boys-So This is Goodbye
Sparks-Number 1 in Heaven

Is Seventh Tree appropriate? Most Goldfrapp albums are, but I would say not that one or Felt Mountain.

Oh, and if we're allowed comps:

The Old Skool Masters: Ratpack vs Magica

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Stars of the Lid - ...the tired sounds of Stars of the Lid
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4

Michael Mayer - Immer
Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have
V/A - Routes From The Jungle

I am kinda losing track of what has been nominated so apologies if I duplicate anything:

The KLF - Chill Out
Coil – Time machines
Cluster – Sowiesoso
Shackleton – Three EPs
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom – The Days Of Mars
Minilogue – Animals
Fila Brazillia – Old Codes - New Chaos
Fila Brazillia – Maim That Tune
Fila Brazillia – Mess
Scuba – Triangulation
The Orb – Orbus Terrarum
Booka Shade – Movements
Round 1/2/3/4/5 – 1993-99 main street records
Ricardo Villalobos – Vasco Ep
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia – Ov Biospheres And Sacred Grooves

Wait, are EPs fair game?

Both those EPs I listed are 50 mins plus so I think of them as albums.

We should def. include EPs in the albums poll.

Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Coil - Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil
The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come

Well in that case

Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Flying Lotus - LA EP 3x3

Including mixes and comps:

Richie Hawtin - Transitions
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
Adam X - Wax Trax! MasterMix Volume 2
Frankie Bones - Computer Controlled
Frankie Bones - Factory 101
Junglized
Jeff Mills - Live at Liquid Room
AFX - Chosen Lords
Buraka Som Sistema - Black Diamond
Italians Do It Better - After Dark
Steve Stoll - The Blunted Boy Wonder
Crystal Castles - both albums
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Belbury Poly - The Willows
The Focus Group - Hey Let Loose Your Love
Justice - Cross
Maruizio - M-Series
Monolake - Momentum
Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger
Pole - 1 & 2
Rhythm & Sound - The Versions
Soulwax - Part of the Weekend Never Dies
Vex'd - Degenerate
Zomby - Where Were U In '92?

Studio - West Side
Drexciya - Neptune's Lair
Drexciya - Grava 4
Zomby - Where were you in '92
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
Model 500 - Classics
Moodyman - Black Mahogani
Colder - Again
Inner City - Paradise
Micronauts - Bleep to Bleep
Zongamin - Zongamin
Optimo Present Psyche Out
Optimo - Walkabout
Coldcut - Journeys by DJ
Playgroup - DJ Kicks
Morgan Geist - Unclassics
I-F - Mixed up in the Hague
DJ Rolando - The Aztec Mystic Mix
Fatboy Slim - On the Floor at the Boutique (lol big beat!)
Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism
Dave Clarke - Electroboogie

That's all I can think of for the moment- I bet there are loads of others I would like to nominate...

Rhythm & Sound - Showcase

A couple more:

Carl Craig - Sessions
Monkey Mafia - Live at the Heavenly Social

i feel like comps / mixes should be a separate poll. happy to run that one if omar little agrees with me.

Cool, strike the above mixes/ comps I nominated.

aw, and here I was thinking you'd just opened the door for THE JOINT

i feel like comps / mixes should be a separate poll. happy to run that one if omar little agrees with me.

Disagree, let's keep it together. I play my Villalobos mixes right alongside my Villalobos albums and I expect everyone else does, too, and I'd love to see where the pieces fall when they're all polled against each other.

im with vahid on this one

i know what you mean ilxor but then someone could argue that they play their 37-minute villalobos tracks right next to their albums and then fizheuer zieheuer makes the album poll?

i stand with vahid

I do too, but srsly: THE JOINT

Not really the same thing, it's still a track.

xxp

i think mixes should def be seperate, but i really consider BCD, BCD-2, Colorseries, Studio 1, M-Series, etc albums, even though they're singles comps.

EPs should be seperate, too. Villalobos' Vasco is an LP anyway (there were two seperate Vasco EPs.)

I say we do a mash-up poll with all electronic albums, EPs, compilations, mixes and whatnot.

Why the fuck not?

Who wants to vote in more than an albums poll and a tracks poll??

I'm with ilxor. I say let everything or nothing in. This is AMERICA.

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma
Echospace - The Coldest Season
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays
Iannis Xenakis - La légende d'Eer
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Monoton - Monotonprodukt 07
Ryoji Ikeda - +/-
Supersilent - 6

Alter Ego - Decoding the Hacker Myth
Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Air Liquide - Nephology
2 Lone Swordsmen - A Bag of Blue Sparks
2 Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down
Pole - 1
Pole - R
Pole - Steingarten
Neotropic - 15 Levels of Magnification
Drexciya - Harnessed the Storm
Ellen Allien - Sool
Luomo - The Present Lover
Khan & Walker - Radiowaves
The Bionaut - Lush Life Electronica
The Modernist - Kangmei
Nonplace Urban Field - Raum für Notizen
Burnt Friedman - Con Ritmo
Nicolette - Let No One Live Rent-Free in Your Head
Jahcoozi - Barefoot Wanderer
Paul Kalkbrenner - Self
Syrinx 2600 - Docking -20s
Bassomatic - Science and Melody
310 - Snorkelhouse
310 - The Dirty Rope
4 Hero - Parallel Universe
The Fires of Ork - The Fires of Ork 2
Biosphere - Patashnik
Biosphere - Substrata
Maddkatt Courtship - I Know Electrikboy
Gemini - In and Out of Fog and Lights
Readymade - Bold
Derrick May - Innovator (comp)
Various - Metalheadz Presents Platinum Breakz (Metalheadz comp)
Various - Blech II: Blechsdottir (Warp comp)
Various - Recloose Presents Jigsaw Music (mix album)

not sure how i feel about stuff like junior boys and herbert - scale on this. i love those albums but they don't seem like they quite fit in a techno/dance/ambient focused poll. 'scale' in particular has no synths on it and lots of orchestra! it's a pop album imo

Mouse on Mars - Glam
Boulderdash - We Never Went to Koxut Island
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra
Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
Vladislav Delay - Multila
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Wagon Christ - Tally Ho!

i guess the angle i'm gonna take is to just not vote for stuff that i consider pop more than dance/ambient/electronic, and hope that other people do the same and we don't end up with silent shout at #1

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Four Tet - Rounds
Plone - For Beginner Piano

i guess the angle i'm gonna take is to just not vote for stuff that i consider pop more than dance/ambient/electronic, and hope that other people do the same and we don't end up with silent shout at #1

― ciderpress, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 9:52 AM (39 minutes ago)

this is my plan.

This doesn't sit well with my uncompromising techno vision.

Never heard of it, and I don't even know the artists. Who are they?

Mickey Hart was the drummer for Gay Dad.

Tuomas, it tells you on the page

About the Artist
Mickey Hart, best known for his work with The Grateful Dead, has collected and performed on many unusual percussion instruments found throughout the world. He has put both traditional and little-known instruments to new and unexpected uses in his own compositions. At the same time, he has worked diligently to preserve the wisdom of ancient musical cultures through his recordings of indigenous artists. His research into the ritualistic roots of percussion is chronicled in his 1990 book, 'Drumming at the Edge of Magic'. In 1969, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings traveled to India and Nepal where they studied with the Kagyu branch of Tibetan Buddhism and discovered the transcendent music of the Tibetan bells. In 1972, they became the first Western artists to make use of the then unknown Asian instruments in a 20th century Western idiom. The resulting album, Tibetan Bells, led to a succession of recordings featuring these instruments.

I assume you've heard the grateful dead.

This is not the best CD to buy in my opinion. Its okay... Yamantaka is supposed to be some lower being of some kind and this CD is supposed to explore the darker side or something.... Anyway its okay. It sounds kinda spooky actually but I do like the sound of the bells.

That actually sounds pretty cool, despite the Gayful Daed connection. I may have to check the album out.

Here's me thinking tuomas was above calling things gay!

Various - Rave Olympia: The Mayday Compilation Album (comp)
Various - The Raving Society (We Are Different): The Mayday Compilation Album (comp)
Various - Mayday: The Great Coalition (comp)

Eliane Radigue - Geelriandre / Arthesis
Tod Dockstader - Quatermass
Tonto's Expanding Headband - Zero Time
Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
Klaus Schulze - Blackdance
Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1-3
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

Nightmares on Wax - A Word Of Science (The 1st & Final Chapter)
Terrence Parker - Detroit After Dark

A couple of these might be compilations I guess, so ignore if so:

A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
Underground Resistance - Interstellar Fugitives
Drexciya - The Quest

Gotta go try and think of some more later.

I think compilations are ok in this poll?

oh ok cool. Some more:

Omar S - Fabric 45
Carlos Giffoni - Adult Life
Dopplereffekt - Calabi Yau Space
Lull - Cold Summer
Blade Runner Esper Edition
Scorn - Gyral
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Arpanet - Inertial Frame
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Plaid - Not For Threes
Seefeel - Polyfusia
Seefeel - Succour
Speedy J - A Shocking Hobby
Pita - Get Off
Charanjit Singh - Synthesising: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Portishead - Third
The Orb - U.F.Orb
Various - Warp 10 + 2: Classics 89 - 92
Dinosaur L - 24 - 24 Music

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
V/A - 5 Years Of Hyperdub
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Harmonia - Deluxe
Cerrone - Cerrone 3: Supernature
Michael Shreieve - Transfer Station Blue
X-102 - Discovers The Rings Of Saturn
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
V/A - Pop Ambient 2002
V/A - Kompakt Total 4
Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style
Triple R - Friends
V/A - The Roots Of Dubstep
Mount Kimbie - Crooks And Lovers
Guido - Anidea
Zomby - Zomby EP
Ellen Allien - Fabric 34
V/A - Milky Disco

is this happening?

http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/system/images/thumbs/www/articles_2010_04_22/lcd_soundsystem_this_is_happening_album_cover_300x300.jpg?1273891902

Sad this never got off the ground.

I did the tracks poll that was also abandoned could give this a try.

Still hoping...

totally just started compiling a ballot!