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Logical Progression, that is.

Tuomas, Saturday, 27 October 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link

glad i voted for albums now or 'landcruising' woukd've been even more shafted. would still like to know what the one dud is. i've come round to feeling that 'home entertainment' is prob my favourite carl craig track.

second only to popcorn (or something), Saturday, 27 October 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link

<3 hard normal daddy. the 'pusher sadly didn't quite top it.. nearly though/

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Saturday, 27 October 2012 12:06 (eleven years ago) link

45. The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities (Virgin, 1996)
69 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/deadcities.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/2xHvAxrgMfKrYIicQVT9ay

I think the last time I actually bought an album based solely on the cover with little to no knowledge of what the music would actually be, it was FSOL's Dead Cities back in 1996. Got it on LP, even (I forget if it was double or triple -- I don't have it anymore, stoopid me).

― Nate Patrin, 23. kesäkuuta 2002 3:00

I thought DEAD CITIES was plenty dark & disturbing. Even straight! Then I dosed and it REALLY wigged me but good. I don't play it much (so much more water under the bridge), but stuff like that is best if taken in small but meaningful lumps anyway. cf. Tear Garden's 1st 2 LPs.

― Matt Riedl (veal), 25. kesäkuuta 2002 3:00

God damn but I love me some Dead Cities. If they'd've just gotten day jobs after that, I'd think they were one of the best bands EVAH

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), 30. toukokuuta 2003 4:04

Dead Cities is that point in the night where the stoned wibbling is replaced by earnest discussion of MKULTRA and the number 23.

― Get wolves (DL), 26. heinäkuuta 2012 13:24

Tuomas, Saturday, 27 October 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link

44. The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall (Warp Records, 1994)
70 points, 3 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/haunteddancehall.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/1fjxW1nWJZbZhni4slSy38

i quite like how Haunted Dancehall is sequenced, starts off nightimeish and seems to get later and spookier as it goes on. also, as time, goes on it goes from being a really good album into a superb album

― gareth, 16. elokuuta 2001 3:00

haunted dancehall seconded - the most underrated stoner album of all time.

― Louis Giomblechett and his kerayzy friends (dog latin), 21. tammikuuta 2006 6:17

also why no more love for the haunted dancehall? pure mashup area stonehead tunes! we love, love.

― the next grozart, 25. toukokuuta 2007 6:31

Tuomas, Saturday, 27 October 2012 12:25 (eleven years ago) link

43. Basic Channel - BCD (Basic Channel, 1995)

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/bcd.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/7uuTGQg4ZPVDHi6k6jk0Ig

Basic Channel - BCD

Not IDM but techno, and absolutely essential.

― Stephen Crane, 13. huhtikuuta 2005 19:26

For me the realisation probably struck when I got into Basic Channel, which is not that long ago. On the other hand there's a lot of music with a scarcity in the tunes department that don't really register as such. Much of jungle is basically breakbeats and bass tones, but the sense of narrative development the deployment of the beats imbues can disguise the lack of a tune. In that sense there's heaps I was already listening to but wasn't aware of in that sense - yes, including acid house.

― Tim, 30. heinäkuuta 2001 3:00

On a desert island, my feeling is that vocals would eventually begin to grate. Basic Channel family, maybe. As a reprieve from nature yet not totally incongruent.

― Tracer Hand, 9. elokuuta 2001 3:00

Tuomas, Saturday, 27 October 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link

71 points, 3 votes.

Tuomas, Saturday, 27 October 2012 12:44 (eleven years ago) link

Dead Cities is that point in the night where the stoned wibbling is replaced by earnest discussion of MKULTRA and the number 23.
Never heard the album but this kind of makes me want to check it out!
Plenty of great supporting quotes already.

How to Repress Well (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 27 October 2012 15:05 (eleven years ago) link

Logical Progression is pretty great but like all Good Looking stuff, it can err on the lightweight side. Think I prefer his Mixmag Live which has some edgier tunes and choppier mixing.

millmeister, Saturday, 27 October 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link

Oooh this is exciting, even though I (incredibly) didn't even get to vote for albums :(

(lol PhD)

formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 27 October 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link

Excellent work with the thread name.

calumerio, Saturday, 27 October 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link

42. The KLF - The White Room (KLF Communications, 1991)
72 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/thewhiteroom.jpeg

They were funny and subversive, they made a joyous cultureclash single with Tammy Wynette, a wonderful album in The White Room, and the best chillout album ever, Chill Out. Add the hilarious early sampling extravaganzas and the dumb gesture of burning £1m, and how can you not adore them?

Anyone remember Bill Drummond's great pre-JAMMs reply number, Julian Cope Is Dead?

― Martin Skidmore, 23. helmikuuta 2002 3:00

I just like their *White Room* CD; no interest in their more ambient stuff (or their corny concepts, or their book, though thanks...)

― xhuxk, 30. marraskuuta 2005 17:39

"A ten year old into The KLF? I now believe in God."

hey man, "3am eternal" followed by the tammy wynette version of "justified and ancient", it was pop dance bliss. all those early 90's dance jams were my shit.

― pipecock, 3. lokakuuta 2007 7:48

it was definitely very different even to other pop dance acts around at the time (as i remember, snap, c+c music factory, etc were all pretty big in 90-91...).

-- pipecock, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:49 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

the beats weren't that different tho, most of the time. and they had a rapper + exciting sounds (sirens or whatever) that should've appealed to kids easily. i loved the Timelords record and was 10 when it hit #1. i think their enthusiasm for big videos, TOTP, crazy costumes and filling the stage with a variety of different characters also really boosted their appeal to us in the 'i wanna be like them' sense.

despite this i never did buy The White Room - probably because i'd read it didn't feature the single mixes. It would've been my 3rd or 4th album if i had bothered tho.

― blueski, 3. lokakuuta 2007 18:00

Tuomas, Saturday, 27 October 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link

is there seriously going to be Scooter on here?? please say yes

frogbs, Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link

oh i missed this starting

Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link

glad to see Autoditacker made it - i felt like i would be the only person voting for them for some resaon!

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link

I voted for it.

Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link

they were getting zero love on the noms thread until i poked in, is what made me think that.
i was surprised that squarepusher hadn't been mentioned much also, by the time i nominated albums/tracks.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 27 October 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link

Some albums that I didn't think were gonna rate high on this poll did do surprisingly well. For example, I think there's gonna be some controversy once we get to #3.

Tuomas, Sunday, 28 October 2012 07:50 (eleven years ago) link

Anyway...

Tuomas, Sunday, 28 October 2012 08:00 (eleven years ago) link

41. Susumu Yokota - Sakura (Skintone, 1999)
75 points, 3 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/sakura.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/6daHGcQra17Pvgnp5gEzJm

We're playing Sakura by Susumu Yokota in the office this morning, and whilst Billy & I both love it, Julie (who's 15 years or so older than us and an punk/Velvets/Hendrix/Joni Mitchell/Janis Joplin fan) hates it and can't see the attraction in it at all. She says "computers and music don't go together- 'electronic music' is an oxymoron to me". She says she cannot hear any melody in it nor understand why anyone else would enjoy it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), 24. heinäkuuta 2003 13:00

sakura > all albums ever, except maybe 4 or 5 really great ones.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), 13. huhtikuuta 2004 1:45

susumu yokota - sakura

this record is so amazing! when i got it, i must've listened to it 20 times in a row. i did an ilm search on it not too long ago, but didn't find anything. the aural equivalent of a wong kar wai film.

― prada robot (disco stu), 13. huhtikuuta 2005 6:06

Tuomas, Sunday, 28 October 2012 08:06 (eleven years ago) link

Tuomas, in your honour I just bought Autoditacker (which, up until 15 minutes ago I thought was called Audiotacker), despite my great dislike of Iahora Tahiti

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 28 October 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link

Truth was spoken on 13. huhtikuuta 2004 at 1:45.

calumerio, Sunday, 28 October 2012 19:24 (eleven years ago) link

I, on my half, just ended up buying Sakura. I've liked Susumu Yokota's dancier 90s stuff, but never really gone deeper to his more ambient stuff, even though I remember hearing people play those albums in the 00s. But checking Sakura out on Spotify, it does still sound quite lovely.

EDB, I've never been a big fan of Iaora Tahiti either, but Autoditacker is my favourite MoM album. Compared to IT, it's less bleepy and faux-naive, and has a more detailed and deep sound. IMO Autoditacker is the record where they really found their own voice.

Tuomas, Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link

"even though I remember hearing people play those albums a lot in the 00s"

I don't know why, but for some reason Yokota's albums seemed to be really popular back then among artier types, who otherwise didn't listen to much electronic music (and certainly not to Yokota's earlier techno and house records). It's funny how things like that can happen; after a couple years he stopped being trendy again, and I've never heard any of my friends play his records ever since.

Tuomas, Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah he definitely receded in popularity didn't he, I think quite a few of those millennial ambient (also clicks & cuts / post-dub-techno) types found their level of exposure plummeting sharply as the 00s shifted back towards a dancefloor focus.

Tim F, Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link

Funny enough, I bought Clicks and Cuts along with Autoditacker today.

Xpost: yes, it was on the strength of your explanation (elsewhere on ILM) of Autoditacker's superiority that I'm giving MoM another try.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 28 October 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link

40. Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork (Warp Records, 1999)
76 points, 3 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/restproofclockwork.jpg

Most iambic title: Rest Proof Clockwork.

― Lee, 28. maaliskuuta 2002 3:00

Rest Proof Clockwork is one of the most beautiful albums evah. Beats BoC / Autechre etc. hands down.

― phil, 27. toukokuuta 2002 3:00

one thing about black dog is that they're actually quite "functional" - even plaid's most "out there" compositions (around the time of "rest proof clockwork" and the "trainer" set) are built around straightforward electro/hiphop beats. there's not much to rhythmically differentiate "bytes"-era black dog and something like, dunno, jaydee's "plastic dreams" - it's all about stuff like sound palette and those microtonal drones + harmonizings between the drums and synths and so on that gives it the alien feeling.

― vahid (vahid), 23. maaliskuuta 2006 1:13

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 07:46 (eleven years ago) link

I don't have Spotify available at the moment, but if anyone else wants to post the Spotify link to that album, that'd be nice.

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 07:47 (eleven years ago) link

39. The Black Dog - Spanners (Warp Records, 1995)
81 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/spanners.jpg

i still listen to spanners and bytes often and still love them both. especially spanners.

― jed (jed_e_3), 8. joulukuuta 2003 4:40

Was listening to Spanners this morning. It's a curiously underrated album, I think, or maybe just not talked about as much as I would expect given all the early-IDM love that everyone but ILM has in spades. So full of ideas! Tracks veer from rickety detroit techno to acid house to tribal house to trip hop to etc. etc. etc. I also love the way they really think about the interplay between the off-kilter melodies and the off-kilter rhythms; reminds me a bit of current dancehall actually (think the French Vanilla riddim for example).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), 11. kesäkuuta 2004 4:28

I find Spanners overlong to be brutally honest.

It's like they knew they were going to split so filled the CD with everything they had. It's the only one that drags a bit for me. I could happily lose a couple of the tracks near the end of the disc.

― fandango (fandango), 15. lokakuuta 2005 5:23

Hmm, I LOVE Spanners. "Psil-Cosyin" is sometimes my favourite Black Dog track. So kaleidoscopic.

What don't you like, mehlt? Is it the allusions to Orb/Ultramarine-style "atmosphere" ("Chase The Manhattan" etc.)?

The early stuff is awesome too obv, but for me the whole trajectory up to Spanners feels like the trio learning how to push and push and push at the wiredness of their grooves. I guess a counter-argument is that Spanners introduces stuff that sounds like a lot "straighter" and rather like a lot of the other IDM from the era (and Plaid Mk II continued to push that more syncretist sound), but I think they get the balance right on that album - a whole disc of "Psil-Cosyin"-style tracks would be exhausting...

― Tim F, 18. lokakuuta 2008 7:36

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 08:20 (eleven years ago) link

I've always had a very ambivalent opinion of that album, and of The Black Dog/Plaid in general. On the one hand, TBD came up with some of the most idiosyncratic and attractive sounds of that era, but on the other hand they constantly undermined the sheer beauty those sounds had with the alienating (see Vahid's post in the Plaid comments above) textural and rhythmic U-turns they favoured. Take "Psil-Cosyin", for example: it starts with a really gorgeous synth riff, one you could build a whole tune around... And then, after less than a minute, the riff is gone, and the tune descends to some boring, serpentine faux-exotic percussion jam. After several minutes, the beautiful riff makes one more tantalizing entry, only to disappear again after 20 seconds or so, never returning again. It feels like they had a really good idea for a tune, but didn't trust that one idea to carry the tune, so they needed to add a kazillion more things to it.

I think that, in a nutshell, was the biggest problem with so many of the 90s IDM musicians: they took the prog rock idea that "more is better", that "intelligent" music needed to be complex, that every tune needed more riffs! more textures! more rhythmic changes! and as a result the individual good things they might've had has were buried under this barrage of sound.

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 08:41 (eleven years ago) link

I think that's why Black Dog are so great - there's so much detail in the music, I'm always discovering new textures / subtleties. Spanners is a wicked album, think it made my top 10 (along with Bytes). I love the way Psil-Cosyin develops over 10 minutes - absolutely massive tune.

millmeister, Monday, 29 October 2012 09:50 (eleven years ago) link

38. The Orb - U.F.Orb (Big Life, 1992)
83 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/uforb.jpg

The splintering of dance music meant that not only were there separate dancefloor stories to tell, but that there were different comedown stories to tell - the fast music that U.F.Orb was an alternative to ceased to be a monolith after '92, and maybe stay-at-home dance music followed suit.

Also maybe trip-hop played a big role here - at least in being the first music that an enormous amount of dance fans embraced in a big way that was totally outside the scene. This is what has led to "chill-out" becoming so vague and amorphous that both full-on house tracks and rock bands get a look-in; in fact the 'Back To Mine' and 'Another Late Night' franchises seem to now be in competition to be the least dance-related and the least relaxed.

Oddly, Orb-style ambient-dub is one stripe of chill-out music that might actually sound quite weird being played in a cafe/bar.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), 10. lokakuuta 2002 15:52

i want to stick up for The Orb a bit - U.F.Orb is DEFINITELY superior to In Sides, Snivilisation and any other Orbital album, as much as i love the Hartnolls as much as the next guy. i havent lived with Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld much and maybe its a better album than U.F.Orb but i dunno - U.F.Orb and In Sides are not actually that different in terms of structure - i see similarities in some ways. In Sides, like a lot of Boards Of Canada, as beautiful and enchanting as it is, just ends up creeping me out most of the time (Out There Somewhere and Adnans both seem to end on quite 'downer' moods to my ears) whereas UFOrb is just dubbed up blissed out brilliance

― stevem (blueski), 4. huhtikuuta 2003 12:12

i can't remember if i voted for in this, but u.f.orb ends with the sound of an elephant shitting which has to count for something.

― tricky, 27. joulukuuta 2007 3:32

The Orb - U.F.Orb is pretty straightforward if you see Towers of Dub as either an intermission or that the aliens smoke you out w/ Venusian Ganja.

― shugazi (herb albert), 4. kesäkuuta 2010 18:26

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 10:27 (eleven years ago) link

first two Orb albums are timeless

Polly Toynbee OK (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 October 2012 11:23 (eleven years ago) link

no, that was by goldie

Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 29 October 2012 11:30 (eleven years ago) link

lol

comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 29 October 2012 11:40 (eleven years ago) link

the orb is hippy music for hippies.

itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Monday, 29 October 2012 11:46 (eleven years ago) link

Landcruising is great though. I wish I'd heard it at the time, I saw myself as an IDM kinda guy who didn't really care about regular techno but surely those chill beats would have appealed.

itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Monday, 29 October 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link

37. A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology (Juice Box, 1995; with a remastered reissue in 1996)
84 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/blacksecrettechnology.jpg

Another thing that happened that I only really noticed today listening to CD2 of Roots From The Jungle is that drum'n'bass tunes used to be so pretty sometimes - not elegant or jazzy or ambient but full of these little trills and curlicues of keyboard. Black Secret Technology (still my favourite d'n'b record) was full of that stuff and it all vanished - maybe it's come back on the recent stuff, it feels very tied in with the intricate breaks though.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), 29. tammikuuta 2004 1:48

I noticed that Steve said this upthread re Black Secret Technology:

"there was an old thread where i basically said in not quite so much detail: BST: good concept, radical alien sound signature exciting on paper. radical alien sound signature frustrating in practice generally sounds so strained and distant and kinda cheap, like radio signals in space - but i would prefer it if he'd been able to combine that with better actual drum and esp. bass sounds, would've been even more powerful imo."

If anything the remastered version goes too far in the other direction - on "Finlay's Rainbow" for example the bass is so loud that it totally swamps the beats. The cleanness of the remastered sound reveals what was obscured on the earlier versions by the crappy production, which is that Gerald evidently never really intended for the beats to be danced to, more to be admired.

I do love the bass sound on the record though, that boomy system-failure bassdrop sound i always associate with Back 2 Basics' "Horns For '94".

― Tim F, 29. lokakuuta 2008 0:33

Had BST on this morning for the bus ride to work, apart from it being a more consistent listen than Timeless (there aren't any outright clunkers) I think it wins out for its sense of space - the arranging (if that's the best word for it) has so much depth and detail, just really great sonics.

― Gavin, Leeds, 6. syyskuuta 2012 13:31

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:14 (eleven years ago) link

Rstproof Clockwork - what a vibrant, imaginative, colourful record that is. Plaid at their very peak. One of my favourite records of all time. So glad it made it in this countdown.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2012 12:16 (eleven years ago) link

It's kinda frustrating that there are now 3 different masters of BST around: the original 1995 one, the 1996 reissue, and the 2008 re-reissue. I have the 1996 version and I like it just fine: it's true that the vocal bits and samples feel kinda silent and unspatial compared to other jungle records of the era, but on the other hand this is compensated by the tremendous depth in the bass. I wonder if/how the 1995 or 2008 versions change that dynamic? Are they worth tracking down?

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:20 (eleven years ago) link

always had a very ambivalent opinion of that album, and of The Black Dog/Plaid in general. On the one hand, TBD came up with some of the most idiosyncratic and attractive sounds of that era, but on the other hand they constantly undermined the sheer beauty those sounds had with the alienating (see Vahid's post in the Plaid comments above) textural and rhythmic U-turns they favoured. Take "Psil-Cosyin", for example: it starts with a really gorgeous synth riff, one you could build a whole tune around... And then, after less than a minute, the riff is gone, and the tune descends to some boring, serpentine faux-exotic percussion jam. After several minutes, the beautiful riff makes one more tantalizing entry, only to disappear again after 20 seconds or so, never returning again. It feels like they had a really good idea for a tune, but didn't trust that one idea to carry the tune, so they needed to add a kazillion more things to it.

100% OTM and describes my exact frustration with Spanners.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link

It must have been lousy to have to remaster it the following year.

Mark G, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:23 (eleven years ago) link

I do agree with Tim comment's above, though, that for a supposed dance album a lot of the beats on BST feel more like display of skills rather than something's that's functional on the dancefloor. I wasn't yet old enough to get in clubs in 1995, but maybe some of the British ILXors can tell whether this stuff was actually played a lot by club DJs?

(xx-post)

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:25 (eleven years ago) link

I met A Guy Call Gerald in a club once and didn't realise who he was until after he'd gone. Had a long conversation and gave him a CD of stuff I'd produced which he literally put under his hat.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link

I did a lot of clubbing in 1995 but had no idea what I was listening to 99% of the time.

Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 29 October 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link

36. Black Dog Productions - Bytes (Warp Records, 1993)
85 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/bytes.jpg

fucking listen to "bytes" already goddamit, you son of a !#$KO!$%JKO

― amon (eman), 15. lokakuuta 2005 6:20

so i've never heard bytes, until now. close up over! wow! lovely

― lfam, 7. toukokuuta 2007 0:2

as far as actual albums that you listen to, even though it's near the beginning of IDM and not something great for dance party time, I think Black Dog Production's Bytes is the best techno album of all time. It's diversity, it's consistency, it's flow, everything.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), 6. toukokuuta 2005 19:09

So I'm listening to Bytes by Black Dog Productions, and the pads sound distorted on a lot of the tracks. Also, during "The Clan (Mongol Hordes)" theres a whispy, very high pitched sound throughout.

What the hell is up with this? Is my CD fucked up (it's not my computer or speakers), is this on others copies/the re-released version?

― mehlt, 21. kesäkuuta 2008 17:57

no, they all sound like that. IIRC a lot of it was done on fucked-up hand-me-down equipment, dubbed to cassette tape, mastered from vinyl and on top of that mastered to be murky on purpose.

― moonship journey to baja, 21. kesäkuuta 2008 23:41

Ahh that sucks, don't know why I didn't notice it 'till now. Reminds me of reading that original tapes for Selected Ambient Works were mangled by a cat.

― mehlt, 22. kesäkuuta 2008 3:40

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link

35. Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich (Planet E, 1996)
86 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/thesecrettapesofdreich.jpg

Well, there were actually three of us, but after hitting the bars in Nashville over the holidays we headed back to the apartment of a friend and proceeded thus:

1. Programmed the two Sony mega-changers to crossfade between 'Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich' by Paperclip People and 'Analog Worms Attack' by Mr. Oizo, one track after another in order

2. Watched 'The Neverending Story' muted with English subtitles on while listening to the results of 1, above

3. Occasionally read the dialogue off the screen to the beat of the music as if it were a freestyle

It was FUCKING WICKED, YEAH

― Millar (Millar), 24. tammikuuta 2003 2:08

Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes Of Dr. Eich

Earthlings, I will not be troubled by your pointless headlines and silly love stories, I will not be moved by your trite summaries of miracles, I will not sully my consciousness with ruminations on the fate of the ozone layer or the impossible questions of justice. I will not be fooled by advertising, I will not be distracted by politics, and I will not weep into a bottled beer over some smile I'll never see again.

What I will do is think about what it would be like to be a flawless being from the future where none of this shit matters anymore because the beats are so perfect and unstoppable and people and machines are a seamless fusion in constant motion as far as the eye can see and even the sirens on the ambulances play the refrain from "The Climax."

Then I will take my headphones off because someone is talking at me and everything will suck again. Just for a little while.

― TOMBOT, 26. heinäkuuta 2004 18:57

Screw Songs About Food. Get that Paperclip People disc first.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), 27. syyskuuta 2004 22:00

think the Paperclip People album is still my favourite.

― millmeister, 3. toukokuuta 2012 18:34

Tuomas, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link

never 'eard of it. what is it?

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:22 (eleven years ago) link

Carl Craig in world destroying house mode.

Tim F, Monday, 29 October 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link

cool.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 29 October 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link

^^^ my experience too

Tim F, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link

IMO every version of "Impact" is amazing

Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link

yeah i had those three cds, and yeah they were my first orbital. wish i still had them. i love it when you hear that one jock-y guy in the crowd going "BRING ON THE FUCKIN' BON JOVI!"

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link

the recording of "Lush 3" on the 2nd "Satan Live" disc was recorded at the first Orbital concert I saw ^_^

Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link

xp dog latin, I'll try and dig them out then webmail you with a link. Will post here again if successful, in case anyone else is interested.

Neil S, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link

Obviously I now want to redo my tracks ballot with Impact live. What a colossal tune.

Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link

Thanks Neil!

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link

i heard this album was recorded in less time than it lasts.

― jed_ (jed), 26. elokuuta 2006 3:51

this is one of my new favorite quotes

Anime Mann (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 17:42 (eleven years ago) link

I was lucky enough to go to every Glastonbury from 1990 to 97 (think there were two gap years in that time).

Orbital's 1994 appearance put dance music firmly on the Glastonbury map, so much so that the Dance tent made its debut the year after.

Was also fortunate to catch Underworld's Experimental Sound Field in 92 which was mind blowing to someone just getting into dance music (and had no idea who Underworld were at the time).

groovypanda, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link

And pre mobiles meant it was a different world. Remember hearing rumours of a shooting but not finding out someone had died until we got home.

No mobiles also meant one year we didn't meet up with some mates until the Saturday night as they'd missed the pre-arranged meet on the Thursday. It was only pure coincidence we bumped into them 2 days later.

But as mentioned above, the best moments were stumbling across some stall with a DJ pumping out Union Jack's 'Two Full Moons...' and a large crowd of people all dancing and hugging each other right next to it.

groovypanda, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 21:22 (eleven years ago) link

soooooooo, tuomas to thread?

second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, 9 November 2012 13:52 (eleven years ago) link

Is there a link for the Singles poll? It's all gone mysteriously quiet.

millmeister, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link

tuomas fell asleep.

or went to the pub ..

and who could blame him.

despite not voting, i loved this poll.

(fsol would have been my top choice thereby messing up the love for orbital et al)

mark e, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link

Is there a link for the Singles poll? It's all gone mysteriously quiet.

― millmeister, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:01 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mark G, Monday, 12 November 2012 09:17 (eleven years ago) link

presumably Tuomas is combining real life with collating the much more extensive and copious singles ballots, and isn't promising a rollout until he's ready to deliver

good naber He help get undr control (sic), Monday, 12 November 2012 09:51 (eleven years ago) link

born slippy will be the winner

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 12 November 2012 10:01 (eleven years ago) link

I missed this poll completely. I'm not sure my votes would have changed a lot, I would have had some combination of Orbital/Autechre/Orb albums in my top five. I never understood all the love for "Music Has the Right to Children" and I'm not sure I ever will.

NoTimeBeforeTime, Monday, 12 November 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link

Hey folks, I'm sorry about the delay of the singles poll results, but I've been really busy with real life affairs, and I've yet to count the last handful of ballots. Giving everyone 75 votes meant that counting them took more time than what I'd expected. I'll be going away for the weekend so I won't have the time to start the results rollout this week, but I'll do it next week.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 08:27 (eleven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Looking forward to the Singles poll.

du mein bestie (micarl), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link

Results.

du mein bestie (micarl), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link

anyone heard from tuomas? another cursed dance poll rollout it seems.

So: The Answers (or something), Sunday, 2 December 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link

Hope he's OK.

Chewshabadoo, Monday, 3 December 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link

His most recent post was from a couple days ago, so there's a good chance he's alright.

redress control number (_Rudipherous_), Monday, 3 December 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, was wondering about this.

MikoMcha, Monday, 3 December 2012 08:03 (eleven years ago) link

rolling out polls can't be very easy, hence why i tend to avoid doing em.

make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 3 December 2012 09:47 (eleven years ago) link

just put the ltj bukem on, no idea how many years it is since i listened to it. crazy nostalgia.

still stands up too!

KitevsPill, Monday, 10 December 2012 03:14 (eleven years ago) link

ok first half of first CD still stands

KitevsPill, Monday, 10 December 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link

My hopes when up for the tracks results when I saw this thread. What are the chances Moka could take over again? No need for lifty graphics, just the results would be nice.

du mein bestie (micarl), Monday, 10 December 2012 06:03 (eleven years ago) link

*went

du mein bestie (micarl), Monday, 10 December 2012 06:03 (eleven years ago) link

Hi guys, I'm alright, and I'm terribly sorry for this thing being delayed so much due to other stuff in my life. I've only got a couple more ballots to count, so I promise the results will start rolling tomorrow, if not today already.

Tuomas, Monday, 10 December 2012 07:25 (eleven years ago) link

Awesome tuomas

Tim F, Monday, 10 December 2012 07:43 (eleven years ago) link

thx tuomas!

just sayin, Monday, 10 December 2012 09:44 (eleven years ago) link

don't get stressed about it Tuomas, ppl will be happy when it rolls out, live yr life

( ͡° ͜ʖ͡°) (sic), Monday, 10 December 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link

Hooray!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link

Also realized in researching that a LOT of good records came out in 2000.

Clarke could you whip up a list if that's ok? :)

Late on this but yes let me be the last in the queue to thank you all for the Burger/Ink alb. Also enjoying Gas (which I was aware of and never got round to it at the time), and will PorterRicks a go later.

A couple on the d n'b end of things..

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link


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