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

p.s. i'm into this new amnesia scanner single at the minute

the cloudface album from 2014 is pretty sweet, re opal tapes

i like this Karenn album for obnoxious techno: https://voam.bandcamp.com/album/grapefruit-regret

Has Paula Temple's album done well on year-end lists? I listen to that album a lot.

https://noisemanifesto.bandcamp.com/album/edge-of-everything-digital-album

I was just thinking about that as I started listening to this Karenn album!

uh I may have also caught most of a Paula Temple live set this year and regret not being in quite the right headspace to truly enjoy it. It was... blistering

didn't make RA's list

i didn't recognize it when mentioned but i guess i actually did listen to it earlier this year. i remember it being too… much.

the single made their best tracks list

buddy this is the thread for the wrong people

https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/itlp05-stenny-upsurge

At the risk of repeating myself, Stenny RULEZ.

love the new Madteo. Even though I was mishearing the voice as saying "Eccles Cake" rather than "Acting Fake" on Evol On it is still an ace track.

lol i finally got some new some techno i like

planetary assault systems - plantae
whips ass

asc - realm of the void
weird dank trippy all-computer beat music, compelling

stellar om source
hardwax says it's electroclash reminiscent. hella fun. arty in a good way.

oh that's stellar om source - i see through you (ep not an album !!!!)

Steve Hauschildt - Nonlin Just perfect chilly night drive Ambient with a side of retro IDM

Rolando Simmons - Summer Diary One ep subtle microtonal squelch

There’s a copy of that Hauschildt album in my local thats pressed on liquid-filled vinyl. Half tempted by it but I didn’t actually enjoy it as much as some of his previous ones. Will give it another whirl though

Whoah never heard of that I might have to try to get a copy, id say it’s maybe less of a cohesive album than some of his other ones, but it has some great moments to me. but I love all his stuff.

seconding madteo very emphatically

http://velmondo.bandcamp.com/album/moon-gazing

Ambient A-side, clompy beats on the second that remind me of the gentler Opal Tapes stuff. Apologies if this is the wrong thread, I have no idea what I'm doing.

would you say you're clearly doing it wrong, though?

always

considering what to title a thread of svbkvult and related cross-dance genre ephemera:

new RA feature on svbkvlt
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3604

Not to dissuade you (the more threads the merrier), but svbkvlt/genome would fit great on the 'reconstructed club' thread imo

true! not sure how a previous post I'd made ended up here

i've been enjoying the newest aleksi perälä album

The one he released yesterday? or the one from the day before that?

ha this is the first thing i've heard from him so didn't know he was super-prolific. i'm referring to "resonance"

It's good yeah.

What is the list of super-prolific super-high quality producers whose albums all have a similar aesthetic (music, art, titles)? Aleksi, Autechre, Steve Roach ...

I don't think the albums Perälä released as Ovuca or Astrobotnia have a similar aesthetic to his recent material.

i really liked one of his records from last year, but that was probably ten albums ago now

fair, I guess I only got onboard around the Colundi Sequence. Wasn't even aware Astrobotnia was him.

The Astrobotnia records didn't have any credits, and for a while there was a rumour that they were actually produced by Aphex Twin himself, but they were by Perälä. The fact that "Astrobotnia" is a pun on Ostrobothnia, a region in Finland, should've been a dead giveaway.

definitely doing it wrong here ... the 20YearsOfOptical comp from a few years back is astounding. at the time the knock on techstep from my friends was how boring it was, haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4UayvQerHE

this can't be right but ... no one reviewed this? except for like one guy on discogs?

This came out in 2016 but I think defo merits inclusion here.

Pavel Milyakov - Yalta

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2egpBt7_Q0s&list=OLAK5uy_mP980gAYgLuGXAW7RPlMAo2e3vlc8B80o

Ah, crap. I forget that linking to playlists doesn't seem to work here, or at least that I haven't figured out how to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS4SaeJfUPk

ooh i like that track, reminds me of back when Kassem Mosse was weird and kinda lo fi

Yeah, this is very nice. I see he dropped an LP last year – is it in the same vein as 'Dungeon'?

I've not listened to it I'm afraid. I did listen to a couple of tracks that he released as the much less impressively named buttechno but didn't get along with them too well and wasn't inspired to find out more.

In other exciting news, The Orion Years by Age, from 1994, has just been reissued. It's one of the early releases on mille plateaux and is magnificent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTRER8gwSfM&t=5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGn3JHY_YVo

Apologies for the errors with the video links. Not sure what I've done wrong with that first one.

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

And finally for now I think - Function's Existenz is a really great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9gVBRF3eVU

excited to listen to that

it went in a different direction than I was expecting than the last one! more melodic and chill

that is, after the last one

While I'm on something very vaguely resembling a roll, I can also suggest Donnacha Costello's Colorseries. I have a very dusty memory of reading that Michael Mayer described this as 'This decade's (2000s) Basic Channel'. Highlights for me being

Rubine Red (b)

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

and

Blue (b)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_se70EU6vU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_se70EU6vU

i consider colorseries bobbins canon

Ah, interesting.

i might be wrong tho? maybe i just associate it with the height of the bobbins era, when pretty melodic minimal was king

yeah, I’d put them in there

Feeling the Beatrice Dillon album on Pan even though I'm not normally a fan of IDMish music that's clearly inspired by music that's made for the dancefloor but isn't actually dancefloor-friendly itself

Lovely artwork too