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

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

this is a nice one on the generative max/msp tip, but it's got some bounce to it

https://gaborlazar.bandcamp.com/album/boundary-object

^I believe that one made it on last year's ILM poll

*Another* new Rezzett release:
https://rezzett.bandcamp.com/album/boshly

(btw apparently Rezzett is actually Lukid + Tapes - https://thetrilogytapes.kudosrecords.co.uk/release/ttt100/rezzett-meant-like-this)

xp

totally possible that's where I came across it first

this one rules

https://stepballchain.bandcamp.com/album/the-ancient-truth?from=embed

thanks omar i am now obsessed with the maara album

co-sign, tremendous femme energy here

i like that one as well

been listening to this mix by async figure lately:

https://asyncfigure.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-pit

async figure is the joint project with MM & Suda, on Tzusing’s Sea Cucumber label

been listening to this mix by async figure lately:

https://asyncfigure.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-pit

async figure is the joint project with MM & Suda, on Tzusing’s Sea Cucumber label

Oooh, I remember listening to a mix/live set they put up on soundcloud a few years ago that was absolutely mind-melting. Will definitely check this out.

very ready for a new k-lone album:

https://k-lone.bandcamp.com/album/swells

^ one upbeat summer jam out so far

new Anthony Naples right in the sweet spot for this thread, you ask me

Also the new Karenn:

https://karenn.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-curly

only just getting round to the new RAMZi, really great stuff:

https://ramzi1.bandcamp.com/album/feu-follets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zylP-XbP31g

Grimy cassette-fidelity techno from SWAP MEET

https://swapmeetdj.bandcamp.com/album/traverse-the-dark-world

More on the juke/club side of things but tracks like these make me wish I had DJ gigs

https://bangerzonly.bandcamp.com/album/justin-jay-bngrz006

this one's a nice mix of various idm styles, particularly into the melodic stuff like "deviant"
https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/hexalyne-lain-evel-46

lots of great stuff on this

eli escobar - the beach album
https://eliescobar.bandcamp.com/album/the-beach-album

can't remember if there was a better thread for this but I've been feeling this lo-fi hauntological loveliness

https://touchsensitiverecords.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-s-already-come-apart

new Ciel album is fantastic, starts off a bit iffy imo but after the third track or so it really gets going: https://cieltrax.bandcamp.com/album/homesick

Wallace's debut album definitely leaning more towards home listening than the club (and sounding great)

https://mulemusiq.bandcamp.com/album/red-yellow-black

thanks for sharing that eli escobar album, map

Really good one from Peder Mannerfelt. Would love to hear someone try to use the last one as a blend (the beat is a four against three thing that would be pretty destabilizing to play out by itself).

https://pedermannerfeltproduktion.bandcamp.com/album/the-benefits-of-living-in-a-hole

Reminds me of this classic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0evAXlY5EgU

which I think was a reference to the break from Macho's I'm a Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhvOVJn0i6k

oh was listening to the first track.

That Deko track is raw, love it

Spins from the inside out. And has twin grooves. Lots of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpkPl_ZS0Y

Cousin + Priori, from the Numina EP

I don't know that this really qualifies as home listening as it is almost entirely made up of purely functional contemporary hardgroove bangers, but this new Mutual Rytm comp is really good. It features a surprisingly impressive span of high quality producers considering the label has only existed for a couple years.

https://mutual-rytm.bandcamp.com/album/federation-of-rytm-iii

Blawan big tune alert

Dualist Inquiry

https://dualismrecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-we-get-there-lp

Command D - Esc

https://commandd.bandcamp.com/album/esc

my kind of wrong

does any remember a techno album or ep that heavily sampled or edited the akira soundtrack, i believe the producer's name started with a B. not blawan, but that's the name that pops in my head when i try to think of it. came out several years ago, maybe even almost ten years ago?

https://otakuusamagazine.com/akira-soundtrack-gets-edm-remix/

???

Bwana!

yes! that's it, bwana! thanks

I loved that. Put it on this mix:

https://soundcloud.com/newyorkendless/definition-of-a-plan

Tracklist on first comment.

nice

doing it very wrong imo

https://pacificrhythm.bandcamp.com/album/other-phases-of-sleep