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

Ah, crap. I forget that linking to playlists doesn't seem to work here, or at least that I haven't figured out how to do it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS4SaeJfUPk

ooh i like that track, reminds me of back when Kassem Mosse was weird and kinda lo fi

Yeah, this is very nice. I see he dropped an LP last year – is it in the same vein as 'Dungeon'?

I've not listened to it I'm afraid. I did listen to a couple of tracks that he released as the much less impressively named buttechno but didn't get along with them too well and wasn't inspired to find out more.

In other exciting news, The Orion Years by Age, from 1994, has just been reissued. It's one of the early releases on mille plateaux and is magnificent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTRER8gwSfM&t=5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGn3JHY_YVo

Apologies for the errors with the video links. Not sure what I've done wrong with that first one.

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

And finally for now I think - Function's Existenz is a really great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9gVBRF3eVU

excited to listen to that

it went in a different direction than I was expecting than the last one! more melodic and chill

that is, after the last one

While I'm on something very vaguely resembling a roll, I can also suggest Donnacha Costello's Colorseries. I have a very dusty memory of reading that Michael Mayer described this as 'This decade's (2000s) Basic Channel'. Highlights for me being

Rubine Red (b)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PSWTWHmaVc

and

Blue (b)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_se70EU6vU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_se70EU6vU

i consider colorseries bobbins canon

Ah, interesting.

i might be wrong tho? maybe i just associate it with the height of the bobbins era, when pretty melodic minimal was king

yeah, I’d put them in there

Feeling the Beatrice Dillon album on Pan even though I'm not normally a fan of IDMish music that's clearly inspired by music that's made for the dancefloor but isn't actually dancefloor-friendly itself

Lovely artwork too

Yeah that Dillon is excellent, need to spend some proper time with that but there were some stunning moments on first pass. That use of traditional instrumentation in a electronic music context made me think of the recent Floating Points but way more stripped down and spacious instead off being so overloaded with sounds.

"i might be wrong tho? maybe i just associate it with the height of the bobbins era, when pretty melodic minimal was king"

I'm not sure either. I think there's a massive grey area between this thread and the bobbins threads and I'm not sure I totally understand the difference between them. Although I do find that I'm much more likely to find things I like, and that I would be more likely to dance to, and to listen to at home, here. I'd love to hear any of those colorseries tracks in a club but, despite my efforts, haven't ever done so. Same with Basic Channel tbh.

i've heard some pretty sweet dj sets integrating basic channel tracks, including a pretty awesome one by moritz von oswald!

I think there's a massive grey area between this thread and the bobbins threads and I'm not sure I totally understand the difference between them.

also this thread is darker imo

what are we ashamed of? why can't we just say it? that's the house/techno thread, this is the electronica thread.

techno thread versus teshno thread

“ this thread is for albums, the bobbins thread is for tracks”

I don’t think this was ever the case tbh

damn really?

it has albums in the name

Yeah I thought this was basically for albums that aren’t dance floor oriented

+ vaguely techno related

AOEDM

Currently rotating:

Katie Gately
Vladislav Delay
Nathan Fake (Providence from 2017)
Against All Logic
Air Texture VII (Rrose and Silent Servant)

So much good shit right now

been listening to the second half of that Air Texture mix a lot this week

"“ this thread is for albums, the bobbins thread is for tracks”

I don’t think this was ever the case tbh"

I think I'd always thought of the bobbins threads as for kinds of music that I might actually hear in clubs, whereas this thread is for music that I'd like to hear in clubs, and that would probably work really well in them, but more than likely wouldn't get played (which makes my posts about Donnacha Costello look a tad awry in retrospect). I think this thread is more dancefloor specific than being for electronica generally. I probably wouldn't post about autechre here, although they are clearly related to techno. I would post about Mouse on Mars. I no longer go to clubs.

I think this thread is more dancefloor specific than being for electronica generally.

Yeah okay that scans, we have moodz and I guess various idm/experimental threads for the rest.

feel like this fits the spirit:

https://hausofaltr.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-dawn-hoa007

Still blown away by Nathan Micay's album from last year, Blue Spring. Has a good deal of diversity but still feels like a world unto itself. Something to get lost in. Here's the title track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UbUQ2VuS3M

ERP's Exomoon is an electro belter. More than likely good on dancefloors in some parts; 101% excellent at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loo5LfF4uLc

It's probably best to avoid leaving the house in order to listen to Yagya's Rhythm of Snow, on Force Inc. originally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYY6JJTuo4

Actually, that Yagya record isn't anywhere near new. Do we need a separate thread for Rolling techno* albums thread for people who have previously been clearly doing it wrong (or have I missed that somewhere)?

As a perennial electro dilettante, I tend to find one or things a year I like that scratch the itch for me. The Beatrice Dillon one is the one for me so far this year, I've had it going on a loop all week. Perfect music to work and write to.

Feel free to recommend other things I'd like if I like that!

Belated cosign for the Beatrice Dillon. It's making me think of some Hessle Audio and other things I can't quite place: possibly Steve Reich, Dawn of Midi. I can't quite make out how it's made.

thanks for the Yagya neil

this reissue of Move D & Benjamin Brunn "Let's Call It A Day" getting me there

darker sound palette than Songs From The Beehive but still v v chill and atmospheric

this reissue of Move D & Benjamin Brunn "Let's Call It A Day" getting me there

darker sound palette than Songs From The Beehive but still v v chill and atmospheric

This is absolutely hitting the spot tonight. The title track is blissful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I_PI2e3m54

Like a soothing bubble bath

So do I post about Traumprinz here or in the bobbins thread? I feel he's perhaps a bit borderline between the two

Is there a new Traumprinz?!?!?

Post it everywhere!

https://sepehr.bandcamp.com/album/shaytoon

too good

whoa!