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

it really is like they say, house is a feeling—of some expert somewhere thinking you are wrong

I'm not impressed by this either. Dan Electro did the "gospel-sample-on-top-of-simple-house-beat" much better, and even his stuff got a bit boring after listening to it for a full album. This one gets boring before the track even ends.

this track is mostly irritating for not turning into "Moldavia" by Front 242

i think every genre has "experts"

i think so too but i don't think their existence makes my feelings wrong

you're feelings aren't wrong, any more than mine are

also is it okay if I hire snipers to take out everyone still describing tracks as "bangers" in 2014

well no, i'm putting it that way to put you on your toes. what you really implied before was that a taste for this is basically lame, unsophisticated xp

trying to figure out why I like "Why They Hide They Bodies Under My Garage?" so much and pretty much detested that DJ Dodger track and I think it all comes down to menace

xp yeah, well, if it makes you feel better it happens to me all the time, too

i don't mean to personally attack you, i just think the song sucks

what's the connection between blawan and dj dodger?

similar static tinny beat with a looped, treated vocal sample mined for several minutes of dance trance

i hear that blawan track as super gritty warehouse techno though, in an amazing way.

but in general it seems like corny '90s rave signifiers are on the upswing.

right, whereas the DJ Dodger track sounds like an unfinished Garageband demo that someone is going to use as filler music while cuing up the next baseball player's walk-on music

i wonder is it just lame to approach music as "an expert"? should i try to be an eternal teenager when it comes to listening to music? ← this is how i understand the poptimist approach

it's not lame

Even as a teenager, I was dissecting the music I listened to and looking for musical and thematic links to other things; The Cure drove most of my extracurricular reading list between the ages of 14 and 17 and the best part of drum n bass was the reinterpretations of the Funky Drummer and Amen breaks

so in other words, I think you're constructing a false binary there

right

i do think there is a potential in expertise, or educated taste, to lose touch with natural pleasures that could either come from less sophisticated instances of an art or could be inhibited by one's sense that one is in the know.

also, even though i certainly can't contest tlg's expertise, i don't think i'm an idiot or anything when it comes to music, so i am inclined to think that judgments about this music made in terms of expertise (or degree of sophistication relative to some body of work, etc) are not all that decisive.

love this comp. if there's a better club music or 'grime in 2014' thread i should be posting stuff like this too, lemme know.

https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/heterotopia

Karen Gwyer put out a second EP this year. I think I like it more than the first.

Anyone heard the new 2562 album?

yes! i was thinking about posting about it tonight but wasn't sure what to say. it's ... different.

on the albums front, enjoying chevel's air is freedom and edward's into a better future

New Recondite is sounding very good, subdued tech-house with lots of nice detail http://open.spotify.com/album/7JoFdHAOCBzjT6lzWOfcGR

huh i didn't even know he had a second

new one is 'iffy' for those who don't do spotify

i think i posted abt it on the bobbins thread when it came out, but was just listening to "a series of shocks" by tobias. on ostgut ton and man, it is magnificent

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=14694

i've kind of had syro on repeat tbh.

excited to hear:

population one - theater of a confused mind
ike release - noir

curious about:

2562 - the new today
vladislav delay - visa

need to relisten:

vessel - punish, honey
call super - suzi ecto
vatican shadow - death is unity with god

already way into:

lee gamble - koch

not an album but i've really fallen for shackleton's freezing, opening, thawing.

and that chevel album is right up my alley.

oh yeah, incredibly excited to hear theo parrish's overpriced and possibly badly pressed new album.

after listening to the samples though idk

sorry for liveblogging but this edward album is fucking great, sounds like moebius plank neumeier zero set crossed with parallel dimensions-era theo.

2562 is only so so

i do like that edward album

that lee gamble record is really good

proposal for inclusion itt: morgan buckley's 'shout out to all the weirdos in rathimes'

Has 2014 been the best year for dance albums in recent memory?

*drudge siren* new Reagenz album (AKA Move D and Jonah Sharp) *drudge siren*

composed, arranged and performed live at The Bunker New York 10 Year Anniversary, January 2013 by Jonah Sharp & David Moufang.

the elements: Roland TR 909, Roland TR 606, Roland JX-3P, Roland SH101, Anyware Instruments TinySizer, Nord Micro Modular, Doepfer Dark Time, Akai MPC 1000, Electro Harmonix Memory Man Delay, Moog MidiMurf

That Fact article picked a fairly unexceptional selection of albums to illustrate their point, even if I do quite like the Objekt one.

Not sure why Recondite belongs in the 'doing it wrong' thread. His records sound very much aesthetically correct for the state of 2014 post-minimal.

more the contributors to the thread who are "doing it wrong" than any of the artists discussed, I think?

Nah it's the album format in general that represents wrongdoing.

gotcha

yeah it's the whole enjoying albums at home with your feet up and a mug of cocoa thing - surely not what the belleville three had in mind

I don't go out anymore so this thread is important for my general well being.
Props out to the Call Super and Roman Flugel lp's. Perfect for when I'm sat at home in my fake leather armchair.

xp psyched for the new Reagenz album.

more the contributors to the thread who are "doing it wrong" than any of the artists discussed, I think?

i'm definitely doing it wrong in all respects.

https://soundcloud.com/chantssound/u-had-rhythm-heterotopia

No such thing as doing it wrong, a vibe can be felt on both a hilltop and a valley

holy shit, AOTY?

http://www.delsinrecords.com/release/4636/gunnar-haslam/mirrors-and-copulation