"bobbins" has died?
― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:01 (ten years ago) link
i thought that was why you were using techno* instead of "bobbins"?
(I have no idea. I'm sorry. I'll go away now.)
― these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:04 (ten years ago) link
Oh this is totally meant to be separate thing. I'm definitely an albums person in my listening habits and also more of a generalist too, so this thread is intended as a non-dance-focussed and non-expert thing, probably featuring a lot of ineptitude on my part that I would be too embarrassed and self-conscious about elsewhere.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:16 (ten years ago) link
And techno* cos I have no idea about terminology, but was hoping to bring in ambient stuff as well as post-dubstep records too.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
oh here we go again: non-dance-focussed non-dancing-focussed
― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:21 (ten years ago) link
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?
― the drummer is a monster (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:29 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:29 (ten years ago) link
xp not heard it at all, so you tell me! thread police free zone here though so i say go for it
― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:33 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link
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
― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:36 (ten years ago) link
doesn't "bobbins" just mean "rolling thread"
― Tim F, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Tuomas, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/serezniy/serezniy1010/serezniy101000161/7964041-coloured-bobbins-of-thread-isolated-on-white.jpg
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
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)
― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
(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)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
you're probably better asking a person who knows what they're talking about tbh
― keiji cretins (NickB), Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:43 (ten years ago) link
that was directed at branwell - I didn't think it actually "meant" anything in the way implied.
― Tim F, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:45 (ten years ago) link
bobbins ain't dead anyway house and techno bobbins 2014
― lex pretend, Thursday, 30 January 2014 11:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― these birches is awful (Branwell Bell), Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:06 (ten years ago) link
Two recent albums I've been enjoying that might fit into this thread:
Steve Moore: Pangea UltimaUkkonen: The Ancient Tonalities of...
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:17 (ten years ago) link
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
― wilful brony (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:18 (ten years ago) link
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
― cog, Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
Also, e/tape https://soundcloud.com/etape/t-12 though its maybe too sleepy even for this thread
― cog, Thursday, 30 January 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
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)
― not a player-hater i just hate a lot (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 30 January 2014 13:21 (ten years ago) link
down with this thread (I am, that is)
― doglato dozzy (dog latin), Thursday, 30 January 2014 13:38 (ten years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Thursday, 30 January 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 January 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
Was just listening to Konstalaatio today - very nice.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 31 January 2014 00:57 (ten years ago) link
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.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Friday, 31 January 2014 11:35 (ten years ago) link
http://d1wtzzt4oxg683.cloudfront.net/images/covers/160/144660.jpg
^ so pretty!
― keiji cretins (NickB), Friday, 31 January 2014 11:38 (ten years ago) link
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
― föllakzoidberg (electricsound), Friday, 31 January 2014 11:39 (ten years ago) link
yeah I didn't find much call to give it a second listen
― the first cologne based on a sea-captain based celebrity (seandalai), Friday, 31 January 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
really loving this new hauschka album - http://www.cityslang.com/releases/64220/abandoned-city/ - fans of nils frahm would be into it i think
― lex pretend, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
i'm really into pangaea ultima
― the late great, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
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
― Matt P, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
oops i think it's life performance
― Matt P, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:12 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Matt P, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
though those aren't albums, ayy
― Matt P, Friday, 31 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
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, 31 January 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
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.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Friday, 31 January 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
vainio never clicked with me though on paper it sounds like exactly the kind of thing i'd dig.
― Matt P, Friday, 31 January 2014 21:28 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Tuomas, Friday, 31 January 2014 23:36 (ten years ago) link
this is the perfect thread to post about:
severence - hidden ceilingssven weisemann - inner motionsandthe 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.
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:09 (ten years ago) link
Fuck me, that Weisemann album is a lot better than I remembered it as this year.
― xelab, Saturday, 1 February 2014 00:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 1 February 2014 04:29 (ten years ago) link
charles manier 2xlp from last year is killer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmmNDz4FNrk
― Matt P, Saturday, 1 February 2014 06:34 (ten years ago) link
Steve Moore's other stuff
get thee to "the henge" immediately
― föllakzoidberg (electricsound), Saturday, 1 February 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, January 31, 2014 8:27 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hello
― cristalnacht (lukas), Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
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.
― djh, Saturday, 1 February 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
been listening to this mix by async figure lately:https://asyncfigure.bandcamp.com/album/back-to-the-pitasync figure is the joint project with MM & Suda, on Tzusing’s Sea Cucumber label
― mh, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 23:41 (one year ago) link
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.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
very ready for a new k-lone album:
https://k-lone.bandcamp.com/album/swells
^ one upbeat summer jam out so far
― rincton monkspoon (NickB), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
new Anthony Naples right in the sweet spot for this thread, you ask me
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
Also the new Karenn:
https://karenn.bandcamp.com/album/everything-is-curly
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Monday, 3 July 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
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
― NickB, Thursday, 14 September 2023 07:00 (one year ago) link
Grimy cassette-fidelity techno from SWAP MEET
https://swapmeetdj.bandcamp.com/album/traverse-the-dark-world
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
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
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Monday, 18 September 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
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
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Monday, 18 September 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
lots of great stuff on this
eli escobar - the beach albumhttps://eliescobar.bandcamp.com/album/the-beach-album
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 11 November 2023 23:04 (ten months ago) link
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
― dan selzer, Monday, 13 November 2023 14:34 (ten months ago) link
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
― Murgatroid, Sunday, 26 November 2023 18:47 (nine months ago) link
Wallace's debut album definitely leaning more towards home listening than the club (and sounding great)
https://mulemusiq.bandcamp.com/album/red-yellow-black
― groovypanda, Friday, 1 December 2023 12:13 (nine months ago) link
thanks for sharing that eli escobar album, map
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 December 2023 14:15 (nine months ago) link
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
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 4 December 2023 19:10 (nine months ago) link
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
― dan selzer, Monday, 4 December 2023 20:30 (nine months ago) link
oh was listening to the first track.
That Deko track is raw, love it
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 4 December 2023 20:35 (nine months ago) link
Spins from the inside out. And has twin grooves. Lots of fun.
― dan selzer, Monday, 4 December 2023 20:36 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjpkPl_ZS0Y
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:27 (seven months ago) link
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
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:38 (seven months ago) link
Blawan big tune alert
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2024 21:45 (seven months ago) link
Dualist Inquiry
https://dualismrecords.bandcamp.com/album/when-we-get-there-lp
― omar little, Thursday, 22 February 2024 21:51 (seven months ago) link
Command D - Esc
https://commandd.bandcamp.com/album/esc
― omar little, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 18:21 (six months ago) link
my kind of wrong
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 13:23 (six months ago) link
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?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:26 (six months ago) link
https://otakuusamagazine.com/akira-soundtrack-gets-edm-remix/
???
― omar little, Thursday, 21 March 2024 02:28 (six months ago) link
Bwana!
yes! that's it, bwana! thanks
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 21 March 2024 03:16 (six months ago) link
I loved that. Put it on this mix:
https://soundcloud.com/newyorkendless/definition-of-a-plan
Tracklist on first comment.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 21 March 2024 04:13 (six months ago) link
nice
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:57 (six months ago) link
doing it very wrong imo
https://pacificrhythm.bandcamp.com/album/other-phases-of-sleep
― omar little, Friday, 22 March 2024 23:53 (six months ago) link
Not sure if this is the right thread for it, but this Binkbeats album (remember his viral '10s videos performing classic beats live) is really hypnotic listening. Also performed live apparently.
https://binkbeats.bandcamp.com/album/ohm
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:47 (four months ago) link
(LIYL Dawn of Midi etc)
wow, I love this. thanks!
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 25 April 2024 16:02 (four months ago) link
https://wajang.bandcamp.com/album/spiritual-ambush
Maara & Amor Satyr
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 20:24 (four months ago) link
but i especially love this Deathbrain album
https://deathbrain.bandcamp.com/album/a-slice-of-life
― omar little, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 20:28 (four months ago) link
Priori - Wake (from the new album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN797cSCS3E
― omar little, Monday, 10 June 2024 18:39 (three months ago) link
I want whatever this is but I don't think they've released anything yet
watching Chicago’s finest, easygoingtech, play live music tonight :)— Good Willsmith (@GoodWillsmith) June 9, 2024
― default damager (lukas), Monday, 10 June 2024 18:48 (three months ago) link
oops
sixteen speaker spatialized set, everything panning around the room thru a program that Anais created. legends pic.twitter.com/LdJV71H7TK— Good Willsmith (@GoodWillsmith) June 10, 2024
― default damager (lukas), Monday, 10 June 2024 18:49 (three months ago) link
this is pretty sweet too
Sepehr - Genesis Domain EP
https://sepehr.bandcamp.com/album/genesis-domain
― omar little, Monday, 10 June 2024 18:54 (three months ago) link
this new one from romanian idm guy hexalyn is heavy stuff
https://evel.bandcamp.com/album/scillocsenports-48khz-24bits
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 7 September 2024 21:42 (two weeks ago) link
New Monolake album
https://roberthenke.bandcamp.com/album/studio
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 7 September 2024 22:51 (two weeks ago) link
listened to most of it the other day. Henke's a great sound designer and arranger but I feel like he still really needs a collaborator/editor. his solo stuff is pleasant but... boring?
last saw a live audio/visual show of his in 2019 and the consensus among friends was that it was cool but probably should have been about 20 minutes shorter
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 8 September 2024 15:31 (two weeks ago) link