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

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

xp yeah, well, if it makes you feel better it happens to me all the time, too

i don't mean to personally attack you, i just think the song sucks

what's the connection between blawan and dj dodger?

similar static tinny beat with a looped, treated vocal sample mined for several minutes of dance trance

i hear that blawan track as super gritty warehouse techno though, in an amazing way.

but in general it seems like corny '90s rave signifiers are on the upswing.

right, whereas the DJ Dodger track sounds like an unfinished Garageband demo that someone is going to use as filler music while cuing up the next baseball player's walk-on music

i wonder is it just lame to approach music as "an expert"? should i try to be an eternal teenager when it comes to listening to music? ← this is how i understand the poptimist approach

it's not lame

Even as a teenager, I was dissecting the music I listened to and looking for musical and thematic links to other things; The Cure drove most of my extracurricular reading list between the ages of 14 and 17 and the best part of drum n bass was the reinterpretations of the Funky Drummer and Amen breaks

so in other words, I think you're constructing a false binary there

right

i do think there is a potential in expertise, or educated taste, to lose touch with natural pleasures that could either come from less sophisticated instances of an art or could be inhibited by one's sense that one is in the know.

also, even though i certainly can't contest tlg's expertise, i don't think i'm an idiot or anything when it comes to music, so i am inclined to think that judgments about this music made in terms of expertise (or degree of sophistication relative to some body of work, etc) are not all that decisive.

love this comp. if there's a better club music or 'grime in 2014' thread i should be posting stuff like this too, lemme know.

https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/heterotopia

Karen Gwyer put out a second EP this year. I think I like it more than the first.

Anyone heard the new 2562 album?

yes! i was thinking about posting about it tonight but wasn't sure what to say. it's ... different.

on the albums front, enjoying chevel's air is freedom and edward's into a better future

New Recondite is sounding very good, subdued tech-house with lots of nice detail http://open.spotify.com/album/7JoFdHAOCBzjT6lzWOfcGR

huh i didn't even know he had a second

new one is 'iffy' for those who don't do spotify

i think i posted abt it on the bobbins thread when it came out, but was just listening to "a series of shocks" by tobias. on ostgut ton and man, it is magnificent

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=14694