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

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.

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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

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

while looking for a vinyl copy of Secret Communication by Soshi Takeda on Discogs, one of the comments mentioned this album as a point of comparison. really outstanding.

https://www.discogs.com/release/37865-Chris-Gray-Deeper-Level-Of-Understanding

new Voices From The Lake coming

comp of 90s style ambient techno/idm, good shit

https://formatrecords.bandcamp.com/album/slit-art-1

will check out the Voices From The Lake release but I’m envious of the people who were at the VFTL/Sandwell District hybrid set I saw clips of

new Blawan is heavy and chunky

Four years old new, but Dax Pierson's Nerve Bumps (A Queer Divine Dissatisfaction) is great emotive bleep techno

we were talking about it a little bit on the "Albums of the year" thread but the shinichi atobe album (discipline) released in mid-december of last year is really lighting me up rn. classic carl craig / convextion / chez damier vibes, beautiful sound, immersive, elegant and even audacious (check that last track - kind of a tongue-in-cheek disco funk joint).

makes me wanna dance! reminds me of stuff i would hear on panorama bar mix collections from hardwax ca 2016.

i should have nominated discipline for the eoy poll based on year of impact but i felt like no one would vote for it. too bad it was in that end of year interzone. it's like the only straight ahead house / techno i want to listen to lately. an elegant cruising pleasure all the way through.

I voted for it!

oh damn i should have too

Caught Gábor Lázár live last night. Real nice set, like Autechre but more bouncy and fun. Wish I knew where to start with that MAX/MSP programming stuff.

new shinichi atobe is easily and immediately my favorite full-length of his

soooo much atmosphere

yeh it's great

ooo thanks for the tip

tho 25 usd for a digital download from bandcamp is a little steep for me tbh

ugh yeah this is fantastic. it's amazing how danceable his music is while being so elegant and refined, and also wonder-filled. it has this real sense of awe that the best techno has, like 'jupiter jazz' comes to mind, just that feeling of human and spirit meeting new frontiers, or seeing old ones in new frames.

TRNS - sheesh what a brain tickler, literally feel like my consciousness is flickering haha.

'rain 1' is so so gorgeous

oof, Rain 1 yes!!

i think this is very good and really like it and am looking forward to spending more time with it, but it's not hitting me like discipline did for some reason. the mix doesn't feel as dialed in and massive to me or something idk.

New track from Akasha System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRmBM-TxIw4

I think someone here said that Akasha System is the same person as Cloud Forest Protection Agency?

For fans of the last Blawan album:
https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/curiosity

The Jump Source record (Priori, Patrick Holland and friends) is fantastic.
https://jumpsource.bandcamp.com/album/fold

Ooo big fan of Priori. Will check this out!

I don’t know what to think about it - I loooooved Jump source’s earlier releases, am a huge priori fan, and like patrick holland too, but the last few JS releases, including Fold, aren’t doing it for me. It’s not a mystery, they’ve moved toward a poppier, bigger-room sound that I just find boring. I get that the deep proggy 90s revival sound is done at this point, but they also did it better than just about anyone imo.

yeah, the vocal features on this one are just not for me at all

Yeah, the vocals kind of ruin it. I don’t know if it’s just the crossover vocal styles, because they did co-produce Play by James K, which is a perfect song.

About which, I was also underwhelmed by snippets from James K - Friends remixing Friend, except for the Loidis-goes-Luomo remix of Peel, which warms my heart.

i think this is all pretty good. idk i like helena deland and the other helena deland-a-likes that show up on the record. also didn't know before pressing play that the record had contributions from billy woods and cfcf.

nb, i haven't heard any earlier releases from these guys, so looking forward to diving in

The Client_03 album, meanwhile, bangs

Really enjoying this most recent Speedy J album, some of this sounds like elseq era autechre

idk whether i should post here or in the jazz thread about how much i'm enjoying the new martyn

also, omg, new speedy j? thanks for the heads up silverfish

I bumped this one, but yeah it's nice - Martyn - Ghost People

Still need to listen to that Speedy J.