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

https://soundcloud.com/jono-gilmurray/brownsea-island-soundscape

All this recent news of upcoming millie and andrea, joey anderson, kink, and kassem mosse albums is certainly interesting.

millie & andrea is double-whammy on the old men taking female names thing. but i look forward to the results of that anyhow

somewhat predictably, the new kangding ray is a really strong record and sounds *fantastic*

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

― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, February 24, 2014 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know much about White Rainbow as a person. I saw a YouTube interview with him years back where Pauly Shore randomly invaded the interview, and Forkner looked (like, what he was wearing) sillier than Pauly Shore ever did. Also there was an article going around the other day that was Forkner giving a rundown of his myriad Bandcamp releases of the last four years (like 20 albums or something)--his attitude was very "I don't give a fuck about people who like my stuff."

But, whatever. I don't want to hang out with him. I do like the new album. And at least one of his bandcamp albums, Lays the Boogie Down, mines similar territory and is at least a couple of years old. There's a song on there called "Captain Sandwich Patrol" which I think is totally fantastic.

^ this is sorta what i was trying to get at, the whole "idgaf about peple who like my stuff" thing is probably the best way to summarize all this. anyway i checked out the record and it's not really my thing, definitely fits into the whole ratatat/audio dregs lineage of indie-friendly electro (REALLY far from avant techno actually!)

Yeah I wouldn't call it avant-techno either. But as far as I can tell this thread most closely resembles a genre I like to call "the kind of electronic music I'm into," hence I brought it up here.

It's from last year, but I just acquired Recondite's Hinterland, and there's some really beautiful, soft sad techno there. Minimal and breezy, but no microhouse/dub techno cliches. I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on what this dude does next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RBCVFby96U

^ i listened to and enjoyed that last year but kinda forgot about it, really good stuff though

he has his own thread but in case you're not paying attn to it: the new kassem mosse record (workshop 19) is fantastic

Really enjoying the new Karen Gwyer EP

Finally got round to hearing this. Loved the album from last year, but this feels like she's pushing her game further still. Great stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRmgKLeAJ4

mmmmmm

https://soundcloud.com/tri_angle_records/sd-laika-meshes-1

https://soundcloud.com/evianchrist/waterfall

i'm a big ricardo donoso fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mslrrSBl9GY

That Recondite album was a real pleasure during winter.

Been enjoying Dusty Kid's III quite a lot during long distance runs

somewhat predictably, the new kangding ray is a really strong record and sounds *fantastic*

― night boat to mega therion (NickB), Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:48 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

That new Hauschka album Abandoned City is rather lovely, don't listen to a word of that cloth-eared pitchfork review, it is a really fine album.

Ukkonen has a new two-song EP, Aika, which is nice.

That new Hauschka album Abandoned City is rather lovely, don't listen to a word of that cloth-eared pitchfork review, it is a really fine album.

Hugely divided reviews in EU, too! And so good!

Yeah the Hauschka record is gorgeous. I was listening to it earlier today and trying to work out how much of it was made from one prepared piano.

That stuff is begging to be used as soundtrack fodder. I like it.

don't listen to a word of that cloth-eared pitchfork review

do i even want to know what they said

yeah, still loving the hauschka album

francis harris's minutes of sleep is incredible

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=14535

had no idea of back story til after i listened to it - discovered it via the sprinkles remix

Listening to the Francis Harris now - yeah, it's good.

Never did hear the Segue album from last year but the new one sounds good on first listen in a music-to-drift-off-to sorta way.

Enjoyed the Downliners Sekt too. Starts off sounding pretty Burial-ish with all the disembodied mumbly ghost voices, but it's rich in detail and a good taut piece of work throughout so will probably give it a few plays yet.

Also I know that 12k seemingly turn out a big bunch of great ambient records every year, but the new Illuha is fabulous, a really nice mix of delicate drifting beatless electronica and intimately recorded small sounds.

the sample is nice

http://www.12k.com/index.php/site/releases/akari/

clicky, with sort of some vibes or something

thanks for the recommendation, I def got burned out on their release schedule a while ago

it's on spotify if you wanna give it a whizz:
http://open.spotify.com/album/3iBghqTXGb4wCJHOL3u1Iu

Oh Segue have a new album, you should check out the last one Nick it is one the best dub techno albums of recent years.

was actually quite difficult to hear the thing when it came out iirc, but yeah i shd definitely rectify that now

thanks pgwp for the Karen Gwyer recommendation

New Martyn and new Lone both out today

Don't sleep on me ol' mate Sully's new EP either :-)

Abdulla Rashim's album is some nice no-nonsense tech too.

i don't know if this should be in the house/techno thread or on some grime thread but i'm loving these and they go well together:

Tessela

Poolboy92

This is on the bobbins thread, but many of you would probably enjoy the Answer Code Request album. Pretty straightforward, really satisfying breakbeat techno.

I was doing an ok job of keeping up with this music in the early part of the year but have fallen off. Anyone have any recommendations?

Answer Code Request!

really? i thought ACR was pretty disappointing.

Enjoying this Karen Gwyer live set

http://boilerroom.tv/recording/karen-gwyer/

Oh yeah, I was at that. Really good music for wandering around a church to, probably great for doing other things too.

anyone heard the MOIRE album yet?

Not strictly techno but the new Vessel album is very cool

i'm into the moiré album! giving me galcher lustwerk vibes plus a bit of "what if things actually happened on an actress album"

Loving the Call Super album

enjoying the MonoInput album from 2012. a lot. has the same impact the Forward Strategy Group album had on me - a kind of Cold War vibe, the romanticism of concrete in winter and numbers stations. feels like it was written twenty years ago or more, but sounds surprisingly fresh for all that.

Spotify keeps trying to get me to listen to MonoInput

wondering at the similarities between MOIRE and BNJMN

thumbs up on the Ital album

itching to hear the new Roman Flugel, if it's anywhere near as good as Fatty Folders it'll be a treat