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

WOOOOOOOWWWWWWW at the D. Tiffany / DJ Zozi album

Off the Meds (s/t) sounding pretty great

https://studiobarnhus.bandcamp.com/album/off-the-meds

No idea if this is the right thread for it as several tracks feature prominent rapping but Shygirl's Alias EP is the kind of SOPHIE/Arca-adjacent deconstructed club music (bad descriptor but whatevz) that should be right up ILM's collective alley. Here's the Eurodancey closer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0MQkUmGrHk

Speaking of EPs, Richard Devine's LP-ish SYSTIK (46 mins) puts the ae in dance, amirite?

https://richarddevine.bandcamp.com/album/systik

I'm into it, and may also formally invite you to Rolling (post-)Reconstructed Club Music 2020

My bad, I keep getting that thread and this one mixed up.

Oh idc, just making sure you weren't missing out!

Thx. :)

https://knekelhuis.bandcamp.com/album/patricia-kokett-bizarr

deep leftfield trance

ooh, now that's an enticing description

never heard of the artist and the label doesn't ring a bell but excited to listen!

the Gigi Masin album fucking owns

the reason I don't listen to much that challenges me any more is because there's too much stuff that just seems custom designed for me to enjoy

maybe that's why i can't get into the new andras album even though i would like to

Shakey sent me this:

this could be us but you throw your old electronics awaypic.twitter.com/eg7AcjHpN0

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That Pretty Sneaky LP is pretty amazing, and had it been nominated for the EOY poll would have made my list.

Yeah I probably should have nominated it, I figured no-one else had listened to it...

I only discovered this via Tim F's end of year list, but it's great too: https://boomkat.com/products/pilgrimage-048a244b-2c27-4f51-babc-b0116ddfb77c

Pretty Sneaky LP is right up my alley, thanks for the tip.

https://knekelhuis.bandcamp.com/album/patricia-kokett-bizarr

deep leftfield trance

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, November 26, 2020 9:16 AM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

👍👍

yes! so good right?

the chanting vocals that come in at the end of “amulet” sound familiar but i’m not sure what they remind me of, maybe something from pure moods

I totally agree! Bizarr is tremendous. Thanks!

i need to go back to that record, i really liked the organizatsiya album last year which i've only just realised is on the same label:

https://knekelhuis.bandcamp.com/album/organizatsiya-lombre-des-roches

d. tiffany & dj zozi r doing it rong
https://planeteuphorique.bandcamp.com/album/phase-ur-reality

What is it that makes this so good?

not feeling nu progressive / trance. i wish i liked d tiffany more. maybe i'll fall in love with it a few years late like i do w/ everything else lol. ok this "mtv (reality vocal)" has a nice breakdown.

xp tbh i'm not big on that record. but i do think much of it would sound sick slowed down 25%+

my fav jam from them is in a slower tempo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XBcjP4TLt4

maybe this should go on the melbourne --> vancouver thread but I really enjoy how this general spiderweb of interconnected artists / sounds manage to take in trance, progressive/early-orbital, hardcore, breakbeats, jungle, basically anything that was going on between 1992 and 1999 (including uk garage at times) in what feels like a quite open-minded / open-hearted way - as if the unifying aesthetic is less some particular sonic brief or even some kind of ideological position other than "wow the 90s would have been a great time to go raving".

which, tbf, is how I heard that stuff as a baby raver in '98. as far as I was concerned all these separate scenes were part of one single giant scene (sort of a sound multiverse that I imagined in my head at 3am back at someone's place after the party.)

how do we feel about fred again...? i think his new release 'actual life' is just a compilation of singles and ep tracks he's dropped since last year, but it holds together very very well as an album imo. he's great at telling these stories through sample collages, mixing in some really powerful emotion. the beats still knock, too.

Check out the Carcass Identity EP on Phase Group if you want some sort of industrialish vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Li12kHdtI

Is this the right thread to talk about 9128 style techno? I guess that would be mostly labels like A Strangely Isolated Place, Affin, and Silent Season. I'm really enjoying the newest Toki Fuko release, "Human Design", which is I think coincidentally the one song without spoken word ("coincidence", because I don't mind the spoken word stuff at all).

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

The whole album is kind of hypnotic, contemplative and at times eerie, and kind of feels like it fits into some kind of continuum with Donato Dozzy's "K" and Seraphim Rytm's Aeterna, as albums that can lull me into a slightly disorienting late afternoon nap.

really nice, wasn't aware of 9128, thanks for sharing

Wow that Toki is beautiful, looks like I've got a rabbit hole to jump into. Thanks!

Seconded.

whoa yeah

This Toki Fuko album is fantastic, thank you - I listen to a lot of 9128 style stuff, but this totally passed me by.

New Skee Mask is predictably great on the first couple of listens (it’s long, though!).

ooh a new Skee Mask - will have to check that out.

that latest AceMoMA album A Future is another good one I've been blasting out today.

the new Skee Mask, AceMoMA and the new Lawrence release "Birds On the Playground" - this is three albums I've had on heavy rotation for the last couple of days now.

acemoma is a home run imo.

adding to the chorus for that toki fuko record, it's extremely great and I can't stop playing it. picked it up + the artist discog on bandcamp friday. everyone I've shared it with has been really into it too.

similarly, I've lost track of silent season releases the last few years. did I miss much?

oh and, anyone familiar with the heavenchord catalog? super prolific. I go back to this track pretty regularly but have only quickly scanned thru some of the others:
https://coldtearrecords.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-revelation

the spotify discogs listing looks like an endless well of dub/ambient/techno/field recordings...

I've been a bit underwhelmed by Silent Season's output in the last few years, it might just be me.

I listened to new Daar and Owl releases on SS last week and it isn't much special.

yea, I also stopped following because the quality seemed to be dipping...

The new Skee Masks is €18 EUR or more on Bandcamp. For the digital release.

I'm on my first preview listen and I'm really into Stone Cold 369 so I'm probably gonna do this, just a little shocked.

it's basically a double album is how i thought of it

ha I hadn't scrolled down enough to see it was 18 tracks.

i am absolutely obsessed with the skee mask record

it's so generous

It's enormous!

i said, twisting the lid back on the poppers

for whatever reason the last one didn't click with me but i love this already