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

oh cool. i gotta get the first two. #3 is pretty sweet.

cosign on the lee gamble, didn't expect to dig it, dug it. also that moire album.

yeah moire is kind of perfect rn, it's grim and subdued upfront but a p fun ride, lots of bounce.

i got the first two up on slsk

vessel record is superb, 'anima' is just stunning

also loving the moire record. and idk why i had low expectations but the new aphex is really doing it for me too

tried to make some techno and i'm pretty certain i did it wrong. forgot to use synthesizers and btw what is techno?
https://soundcloud.com/artsextract/calabash-boom-hisarna

i can probably guess exactly what it's going to sound like but has anyone heard the vatican shadow/function collab yet?

xp ha, I will give that a go later jordan

Yeah, co-sign Moire as well for what it's worth. Just a minor complaint, I kinda wish the record had a cooler cover.

i was listening to some Patricia this morning and felt dumb for not going to see him in a tiny room here, oh well.

absolutely love the call super record, think it's really beautiful and dude is on a roll in 2014 (see also his work as ondo fudd). dunno whether it's "weirdo" though, that seems a bit reductive.

some really nice ambient techno from vancouver:

http://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/much-less-normal

had no idea call super and ondo fudd were the same person

idk why i had low expectations but the new aphex is really doing it for me too

I had low expectations because I hadn't loved anything he put out since the Flow Coma remix. turns out Syro's pretty hot.

have we mentioned Jo Johnson's album Weaving yet? it's great. Sherburne wrote a good review in PF.

the lee gamble and call super are both great :)

call super hasn't totally swayed me yet, but i do like the more jon hassell-ish passages on it

also i wanna register a thumbs-up for the new hieroglyphic being

NTS: Need to check out Lee Gamble more. That album called Somethingsomething 1994-1997 or whatever threw a curveball at me as I assumed it was a reissue comp, but I've since learnt it's not the case?

diversions 199x-199y - it's new tracks built out of ambient sections of old rave and jungle recordings. haven't gone back to it much but it received good press at the time

i'm finding the call super album endlessly involving, i hear new things each time, there's so much in it and i love the...wetness of it all, it's very tactile

Listening to this Call Super album based on recs in this thread and from two friends and I am really into it, it reminds me of the Vermont/Saschienne/Ursprung albums of yesteryear but much richer and with more intricate sounds.

The Lee Gamble is a great 45-minute album stretched out too far and too long but there are some great ideas on it, the more dancefloor-functional moments on it sound like what it sounds like to be outside a club after four hours beside a speaker, heading home but full of life.

https://soundcloud.com/bodyhigh/dj-dodger-stadium-love-songs

dunno why ilm is not in luvv w/ this

because it's corny as hell

Which Ilx poster is proangelwings?

because it's corny as hell

this is a problem how

proangelwings is the best thing abt RA, they should give him a column

http://www.clipartbest.com/clipart-9T4enXKXc

or even
http://www.anne-marie.ca/images/bullet/green-tick.jpg

Just picked up the new Plastikman release 'EX'. Listening now and it's sounding good.

Also bought the new Lucy album 'Churches, Schools and Guns' but haven't listened to it yet. Will listen after I've finished listening to the new Plastikman.

because it's corny as hell

this is a problem how

dictionary says corny means trite, banal, or mawkishly sentimental.

i guess mawkishly sentimental is not a deal-breaker but it is trite and banal, and on top of that not very tuneful

to me, it sounds like they took a (bad) gospel vocal and slapped it on top of a (not particularly well programmed) drumroll and called it a day

in theory i have nothing against this type of thing except in practice it a) does nothing to improve on what is now a 15-year-old template and b) is pretty awful on an aesthetic level imo

i thin breihan is good on it:

http://www.stereogum.com/1691151/album-of-the-week-dj-dodger-stadium-friend-of-mine/franchises/album-of-the-week/

These tricks aren’t new things, and if you’ve ever heard an old house track with a Nina Simone sample, you know that producers have been wringing meaning out of tiny snatches of old music for just about forever. But everything on Friend Of Mine is executed so confidently and gracefully that they feel new. Even though these tracks are, at their core, house bangers, they’ve been put together with a structural minimalism that reminds me of much of the bass and pop music coming out of the UK right now. And there are subtle production decisions that pay off, too. “Sit Down, Satan,” for instance, has no drum sounds, but you don’t immediately notice because the track is still based around a simple, pulsing beat. But the beat is implied, not hammered, and that decision makes all the difference, and establishes “Sit Down, Satan” as a long exhalation between two particularly tense tracks. These tracks all have their own feeling, but they fit together. Friend Of Mine stands as a grand, sweeping piece of work, a testament that you don’t need to use attention-grabbing trickery to put together a fresh and vital genre exercise.

i mean there's a reason i posted this in the 'techno albums for people who are clearly doing it wrong' thread, not tryina get all frankfurt school up in here

breihan is a dilettante

at least rep for one of their decent songs ... "one who lost" OK OK is a banger, "dust" is pretty cool too imo, but the rest just ... sounds bad

a dilettante after my dilettantish heart

i should srsly just keep my mouth stuff about shit i don't like because i start to sound like dance music geir or something, but come on, that endless drum roll on "love songs" is OBJECTIVELY BAD

where's your science

http://oregonstate.edu/cla/polisci/sites/default/files/faculty_files/steel/scientific_method.jpg

figure i am up on breihan in the "observations / empirical observations" category by at least an order of magnitude

first comment on that stereogum thing is "finally some dance music that isn't oriented toward a drop" which tells you everything you need to know imo

finally

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