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

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

i"m excited to get into it, going to try to listen later today :-)

going to be banging "testo bc mashup" oh headphones while going for runs all summer, serious euphoria on that one

how different is it to the last one? I thought that one was really, really dismal

i really liked the last one but this is way less desolate and more confident and maximalist in every way, with a really consistent atmosphere that, like compro, feels like a sound sculpture of the album art, a dense lushness defined by thickets of percussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twBy7sWbUHk

also just full of bangers like this

this one's my fav atm

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

Yeah, listened to all of this while running errands/taking sly hits off a vape pen on Friday, and it is an incredible record.

It's been mentioned elsewhere, or maybe here, but I also have been playing the hell out of the Illuvia record.

so now i think the new skee mask album is boring, i know everyone needed to hear that. it just doesn't sound very interesting to me at all after i've been mainlining underworld albums for the past few days, maybe that's not its fault idk.

i've listened to it a bunch now and it's still hitting

I like Compro a lot better. The drum programming on this one bugs me. Bass kicks too busy. I like a little more space between hits for those lush pads to develop.

kinda agree that I'm not blown away by this skee mask album, it's got some nice pads but I don't feel the specialness others are feeling here, on the 2020 end of year lists, I was way more impressed by the trees speak album, felt emotional and fresh, in a way I thought I wouldn't feel again about an electronica album, cosign about how good the revisit to underworld stuff has been for me too...hell, I enjoyed the plone album more than this, its effervesant retro gamer vibes and sweet ass melodies drew me in, when I wanted to dismiss it as a goof off record

...and I know peeps might feel that stress speak album is a post rock/ jazz album as much as a techy album, I was referring to the tracks like 'ohms' and the wonderfully decaying noise of 'spirit duplicator'

i'm getting drawn into this luca lozano album more than i thought i would.

https://lucalozano.bandcamp.com/album/boss-moves-2-welcome-back

Gotta listen to that, I loved “a higher place”

i've always felt skee mask is, like, idk, 'artisanal hamburger' type music; it's all really nice and sometimes soooo satisfying but also can be a bit much or too obvious

i've been going through and underworld kick too

this is really the only skew mask track I like, haven’t heard the new one though. most of his other stuff seems too cloying or something for me. nice album covers, tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvWih_NP5Fs

I just hate the singing on Underworld records, would be 100% fine with instrumentals of everything they've ever done. As is, I become embarrassed while listening to them.

This is more in the electronica/ambient/techno middle grounds, but this hour long set from Abby Echivarri is really lovely
https://goingin.bandcamp.com/album/sketches-on-loss-and-levity-going-in-014

Been diggin' the debut album On danse comme des fous from Gilb'r - despite him releasing records for like three decades already.

No idea if this is the right thread for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELH5Z2veNqw

sounding good

I've been digging these two tracks lately:

Gooooose - 搂起来
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2N6KIijTW0

Hofknicks - Neo Biedermeier (Daniel Brandt's Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_qDNNIzlbo

Also liking the Gilb'r album which I'm listening to right now

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

Not exactly sure where to put this, but a set of Zug from last year, many of which are from the album

dunno where to put this, these clips from the upcoming Simona Zamboli album are sounding sweet. really wide-ranging sound design, seems to exist on a plane tangent to existing genres but it draws from them. I want to hear this loud in a good space, sitting down with the lights off.

https://bleep.com/release/227540-simona-zamboli-ethernity

^listened to this this morning and it sounds fantastic, thanks! "Compossibility" in particular jumped out on first listen but looking forward to spending more time with this.

excellent.

(I said upcoming but you can download it now, it's the vinyl that hasn't been released)

so now i think the new skee mask album is boring, i know everyone needed to hear that. it just doesn't sound very interesting to me at all after i've been mainlining underworld albums for the past few days, maybe that's not its fault idk.

ive always found him overly formalistic, the producer I really rate in the new jungle/jungle-techno scene is Phineus II, his album Meridian response I can't recommend highly enough. In terms of that more classic warp/AI techno sound I am really enjoying this:
https://frequencydomain.bandcamp.com/album/air-foundry

This Simona Zamboli album is awesome. "Noise hub" completely won me over.

Greatly enjoying this slice of DIY Kiwi techno/house:

https://buzzypoint.bandcamp.com/album/active-intent

New Madteo 12” on Honest Jon’s is straight out there amazing.

Like a warped negative of Theo Parrish.

sweet. love mad dip revue

Don't know if it's been mentioned elsewhere, but the Facta album from April really is nice.

https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/blush

Wisdom Teeth has been on a roll lately

Agreed!

I just posted some of my own wrong techno: https://soundcloud.com/newyorkendless/the-production-of-means

Really enjoying the GCOM E2-XO album, hi-def futuristic vibes without nostalgia (overt nostalgia, anyway.)

patrick conway - cellular housekeeping lp nuff sed

didn't even realise he had an album coming out, excellent

Previews sound good, anybody heard it?

https://honestjons.com/shop/artist/Leron_Carson/release/Under_The_Conditions