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

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

yeh heckmann is boss, there's a great youtube video tour of his studio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8hCQWI9WJ0

I guess you mean this one? Hadn't seen it before, holy shit at the stuff in his studio!

the new secret circuit, torn hawk and willie burns collaborative release is great ("from the legal pad of circuit, burns and hawk"). i guess it's more of an EP than anything, and it's not purist techno by any means (torn hawk reminds me of early ducktails more than anything), but another in a line of great releases from fellow ilxor speculator/willie burns/black deer

So behind on my listening, need to hear a bunch of these things. The White Rainbow sounds interesting, I loved that guy's stuff in the past so it'll be good to hear where he's at now. I think the new Patten is really good! Not as overwhelmingly chaotic and cluttered as his previous one, but still lots of interesting juxtaposed sounds and textures.

xp more than anything more than anything blah

part of me wants to like the new white rainbow (i'm sure it's good!) but another part of me thinks forkner is sort of a dick who wants to ride the avant-techno bandwagon while having little interest in - and based on coversations, even some condescension towards - house/techno culture. like none of this matters even slightly for home listening purposes but in the context of the portland scene where he came from he's pretty late to this game and has done very little to play shows/throw parties/contribute to what's going on now

I'm about as removed from either Portland or techno scenes as possible but I loved Forkner's album as [[[vvrssnn]]] (yes, wanky name) back in 2003 and that had some electronic squiggles and beats - not enough to qualify for this thread but here's a couple of youtubes of the more electronic tracks in case anyone is curious: http://youtu.be/8xEJaw5GpWI / http://youtu.be/kFWSSTNO4BA - so I am interested to hear the new one

def not saying he should get a free pass because of that or anything, but it's prob still my favourite thing he's done, so I thought I'd mention it

anyway the last secret circuit was p. great, so a collab w/ speculator and torn hawk has certainly piqued my interest too

the new secret circuit, torn hawk and willie burns collaborative release is great

yeah this is really, really good. i also picked up 'films & windows' and on first blush it seems pretty good

xp i can see how that could come of as gatekeeper-y, and i don't care much about any sense of loyalty to a "true" portland techno scene (lolololol) it's more that he was similarly positioned to a lot of the 100% silk/ecstacy label ppl but seemed to sort of laugh it off and make fun of things at first. certainly the dude should follow whatever muse he wants to, and none of these critiques have anything to do with his talent/artistic merit, i'm just surprised he's landed where he has. he also did that purple n green thing for a while, which was essentially a happy '90s-style rnb party band

oh, I wasn't objecting to your post, always interested to hear local perceptions of artists I like! I can def see how these things would be annoying/offputting. also I like various of his previous releases but don't follow him super closely or anything, so I missed the Purple & Green thing and most of what he's done for the past several years tbh

Just found out about this new Archangel (aka Bruno Pronsato) lp that's about to come out. I really love the real drum samples, which I'm pretty sure he plays and records himself.

https://soundcloud.com/foommusic/bruno-pronsato-presents

scene allegiences aside, i did give the white rainbow a go earlier and wasn't really feeling it tbh

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

― cristalnacht (lukas), Saturday, February 1, 2014 4:00 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh hi

i really like this:
https://soundcloud.com/xlr8r/philip-grass-all-i-need

played with these dudes out in portland, their tracks are so detailed and intricate.

https://soundcloud.com/jono-gilmurray/brownsea-island-soundscape

All this recent news of upcoming millie and andrea, joey anderson, kink, and kassem mosse albums is certainly interesting.

millie & andrea is double-whammy on the old men taking female names thing. but i look forward to the results of that anyhow

somewhat predictably, the new kangding ray is a really strong record and sounds *fantastic*

part of me wants to like the new white rainbow (i'm sure it's good!) but another part of me thinks forkner is sort of a dick who wants to ride the avant-techno bandwagon while having little interest in - and based on coversations, even some condescension towards - house/techno culture. like none of this matters even slightly for home listening purposes but in the context of the portland scene where he came from he's pretty late to this game and has done very little to play shows/throw parties/contribute to what's going on now

― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, February 24, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know much about White Rainbow as a person. I saw a YouTube interview with him years back where Pauly Shore randomly invaded the interview, and Forkner looked (like, what he was wearing) sillier than Pauly Shore ever did. Also there was an article going around the other day that was Forkner giving a rundown of his myriad Bandcamp releases of the last four years (like 20 albums or something)--his attitude was very "I don't give a fuck about people who like my stuff."

But, whatever. I don't want to hang out with him. I do like the new album. And at least one of his bandcamp albums, Lays the Boogie Down, mines similar territory and is at least a couple of years old. There's a song on there called "Captain Sandwich Patrol" which I think is totally fantastic.

^ this is sorta what i was trying to get at, the whole "idgaf about peple who like my stuff" thing is probably the best way to summarize all this. anyway i checked out the record and it's not really my thing, definitely fits into the whole ratatat/audio dregs lineage of indie-friendly electro (REALLY far from avant techno actually!)

Yeah I wouldn't call it avant-techno either. But as far as I can tell this thread most closely resembles a genre I like to call "the kind of electronic music I'm into," hence I brought it up here.

It's from last year, but I just acquired Recondite's Hinterland, and there's some really beautiful, soft sad techno there. Minimal and breezy, but no microhouse/dub techno cliches. I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on what this dude does next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBCVFby96U

^ i listened to and enjoyed that last year but kinda forgot about it, really good stuff though

he has his own thread but in case you're not paying attn to it: the new kassem mosse record (workshop 19) is fantastic

Really enjoying the new Karen Gwyer EP

Finally got round to hearing this. Loved the album from last year, but this feels like she's pushing her game further still. Great stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRmgKLeAJ4

mmmmmm

https://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/sd-laika-meshes-1

https://soundcloud.com/evianchrist/waterfall

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