― mark e (mark e), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't understand the fascination with Around The House... its one of the most boringly middlebrow records I've heard to garner so much blanket critical jizzing.
My nominations would Agoria - Blossom and MRI's All That Glitters.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:35 (nineteen years ago) link
New Order - PC<he Black Dog - SpannersYMO - Solid State SurvivorPet Shop Boys - VeryKenny Larkin - AzimuthDeee-Lite - Dewdrops In The GardenDepth Charge - Nine Deadly VenomsPlaid - Double FigureOpus III - Mind FruitLSG - Into The Deep
not sure that they're all perfect 10s, but they all made quite an impression on me somewhere along the way and have stuck in my collection as favorites.
― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 4 June 2004 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link
perhaps it's time to pay 'Electribal Memories' in full (but i've never heard it in full!)? and Inner City's 'Paradise'? and maybe even S Express 'Original Soundtrack'??
― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Hymnen (Deutsche Grammophon 139 421122)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
herbert - around the house ... you were saying about middlebrow, strongo?
v/a - relics ... derrick may's 30-second edits of tracks are astoundingly pretentious. that's not a "relic", that's an annoying fragment of a track that fucks up the flow of your album, dummy.
swayzak - both albums ... how the same people who like these guys can snicker at doc martin and hipp-e + halo is beyond me. it's like repping dope dragon instead of true playaz. at least proper san francisco trippy deep house artists have the good sense to drop references to drugs and fucking instead of modernist design
coldcut - let us playfsol - anything
these inclusions are sort of mind-blowing, honestly. fsol has never ever ever done anything that wasn't simultaneously being done 100x better by their contemporaries. compare "papau new guinea" to "pacific state", "lifeforms" vs skylab's #1 or saw ii or irresistible force or atom heart's BASS or silver sound 60 or whatever, "dead cities" vs no-u-turn's output of the period. i don't even know how to address coldcut.
2LS - bag of blue sparks, tiny remindersplaid - double figuremu-ziq - royal astronomy
well, i guess it's touching that somebody cares, because these albums are the sounds of these artists painting themselves into corners from which they will never emerge.
ellen allien - weiss mix, berlinette ... if anybody cares about her in three years i'll eat my trucker hat.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Oops, invasion of da hippies
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link
daft punk - discoveryfila brazilia - maim that tuneaphex twin - saw 85-92basement jaxx - remedyboards of canada - music has the right...prodigy - experiencekraftwerk - computer worldoval - diskont94new order - pc&l
and i would add these to my list
jeff mills - live at the liquid roomurban tribe - collapse of modern culturereflection - the errornormous worldmr fingers - amnesiasuicide - 1st album
and i wish i could add these but they're honestly not 10/10, just more favorites
two lone swordsmen - the fifth mission
2nd half of 1st disc lets down the insane quality of the rest of it
psyche/bfc - elements 1989-1990paperclip people - 4mypeepz ep69 - sound of music
ok the fact that i can't pick which one makes the list makes me think maybe carl craig doesn't make the list. i had a similar problem with choosing between various artists and maurizio and porter ricks for a token berlin dub cd.
i also had similar problems with morgan geist, ken ishii though these i think are more cases where they are fascinating artists that keep drawing me back to their work - they might be among my all-time favorites but i don't think they really have an album that's 10/10 ... maybe a long run of 9/10 and 8/10 albums and a couple songs on each one that are like 20/10.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link
lil louis & the world - from the mind of...kc flightt - in flightt808 state - newbuildjacob's optical stairway - s/t
and i can't include these because they're really compilations
2 bad mice - kaotic chemistrymoodymann - take your pickbobby konders - a lost era...
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link
scratch that depth charge then, cos it's just a singles comp, really
also, do dj mixes count here? cos NE and NE2 are probably my most played "electronic" albums ever.
― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:22 (nineteen years ago) link
ne & ne2 = Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure (Vols 1 & 2)
― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Water Melon - Field Trip* (Toshio Nakanishsi of Major Force/Skylab/Tyccon Tosh and the Terminator Troops and Kevin Hale)Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own HoleBasement Jaxx - Kish KashColdcut - What's That Noise?*Skylab - #2*Muki - Cabin Fever*Baby Ford - "Ooo" The World Of Baby FordCornelius - Fantasma, CM and PointMekon - Welcome To TackletownThe Dust Brothers - Fight ClubLuke Vibert - Big Soup*
I'd like Melodic Records to produce a classic record someday - Pedro, Minotaur Shock, Empire State et al have their moments but not accross an entire record yet, maybe that Pedro one might qualify with time.
― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Phoenecia - BrownoutVenetian Snares - Doll Doll DollAutechre - Draft 7.30Vladislav Delay - Multila
― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Aphex Twin, Come to Daddy
is the only electronic album that hasn't kinda diminished for me in some way. just gets better and better.
too bad it's kind of unrelentingly sad (but! it isn't just stupidly _melancholy_ all the way through. lotsa idm is adolescent moping, this is fully sublimated adult depression).
― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 4 June 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
well, i think JOS is vibrantly, madly tacky. i often go "omg wtf lol" when i contemplate tracks like "the fusion formula" and "harsh realities" (where robots sing their problems to us) and "the naphosisous wars" (the who???) ... it's so blatantly ridiculous, so misguidedly aspirational, so serious and at the same time comfortable and benevolent and besides each track is just stuffed with one-of-a-kind production madness. and all of the UFO stuff is just fabulous, you just knew they're full of shit but it's SO endearing.
"around the house" in comparison is just furniture to me. "bodily functions" even worse. the cover makes me think of the ads for "creative agencies" in the back of lifestyle mags.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
b-but it is called "around the house"!
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
the thing i never understood is what's wrong with syrupy drum and bass ballads about golden ages of nubian wisdom and secret ufo languages and trees of wisdom??? i thought we liked camp!! and it's not like i have anything better to believe in than nubian ufo wisdom anyway, it's a lot easier to swallow than the shit the designers republic is always throwing at me. and i was listening to roberta flack and minnie ripperton already ...
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost: haha yeah well it being furniture music is precisely why i LIKE it so much. the only thing that remotely stands out is "going round".
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Burger/Ink - [las vegas]Herbert - Around the HouseThe Black Dog - SpannersVocalcity
Add (if they haven't already been):
Herbert - 100 lbs, slightly better than Around the House, i reckon.Murcof - MartesRichard H Kirk - Virtual State69 - The Sound of Music (it's ALL CLASSIC, the best techno album ever)
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link
BOC - geogaddiworlds end girlfriend - farewell kingdomwonderland falling yesterday - enchanted landscape escapemum - yesterday was dramatic today is ok (all of their other albums are shit)m-83 - self-titled first album
― smithers4, Saturday, 5 June 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Seb (Seb), Saturday, 5 June 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Regular John (Regular John), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:28 (eighteen years ago) link
Stockhausen, Massive Attack, Burger/Ink - Las Vegas (also Burger's Lush Life Electronica as The Bionaut), Orb - Adventures seconded (and Sun Electric have also done a couple perfect LPs I'd say).
ellen allien - weiss mix, berlinette ... if anybody cares about her in three years i'll eat my trucker hat.Seconded, I'll be eating my Red Sox cap.
Looking at slightly larger spines on the vinyl wall...
Kraftwerk (and SeƱor Coconut by association), The Residents, Eno all have several perfect electronic music albums I cannot choose from.
Model 500 - Sonic Sunset & UR - Revolution For ChangeJedi Knights - New School Science (short of seconding the Global Comm love.. these guys must have done something right !)The KLF - CHill OutThe Sabres Of Paradise - Sabresonic (prolly just being sentimental here)Esplendor Geometrico - Kosmos Kino (amazing covers from these cats always)Suicide - SuicideCabaret Voltaire - Mix-UpRobert Hood - Minimal NationHippnotic Culture (Terrence Dixon) - Population 1Hell - Geteert & Gefedert (forget your Acid Scouts, here's your Bartz)The Private Lightning Six - They Came DownKruder & Dorfmeister - G-Stoned & Nightmares On Wax - Smokers DelightMotorbass - Pansoul (conveniently, the longer re-release)Khan & Walker - Empire State BuildingCristian Vogel - Absolute TimeLe Coeur - Suddenly
Reprazent's New Forms, Hardfloor's TB Resuscitation, Mills' Waveform Transmissions 1 & 3who would have thought they wouldn't remain stone cold classics ? Houch.
― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:47 (eighteen years ago) link