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

how do we feel about fred again...? i think his new release 'actual life' is just a compilation of singles and ep tracks he's dropped since last year, but it holds together very very well as an album imo. he's great at telling these stories through sample collages, mixing in some really powerful emotion. the beats still knock, too.

Check out the Carcass Identity EP on Phase Group if you want some sort of industrialish vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83Li12kHdtI

Is this the right thread to talk about 9128 style techno? I guess that would be mostly labels like A Strangely Isolated Place, Affin, and Silent Season. I'm really enjoying the newest Toki Fuko release, "Human Design", which is I think coincidentally the one song without spoken word ("coincidence", because I don't mind the spoken word stuff at all).

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

The whole album is kind of hypnotic, contemplative and at times eerie, and kind of feels like it fits into some kind of continuum with Donato Dozzy's "K" and Seraphim Rytm's Aeterna, as albums that can lull me into a slightly disorienting late afternoon nap.

really nice, wasn't aware of 9128, thanks for sharing

Wow that Toki is beautiful, looks like I've got a rabbit hole to jump into. Thanks!

Seconded.

whoa yeah

This Toki Fuko album is fantastic, thank you - I listen to a lot of 9128 style stuff, but this totally passed me by.

New Skee Mask is predictably great on the first couple of listens (it’s long, though!).

ooh a new Skee Mask - will have to check that out.

that latest AceMoMA album A Future is another good one I've been blasting out today.

the new Skee Mask, AceMoMA and the new Lawrence release "Birds On the Playground" - this is three albums I've had on heavy rotation for the last couple of days now.

acemoma is a home run imo.

adding to the chorus for that toki fuko record, it's extremely great and I can't stop playing it. picked it up + the artist discog on bandcamp friday. everyone I've shared it with has been really into it too.

similarly, I've lost track of silent season releases the last few years. did I miss much?

oh and, anyone familiar with the heavenchord catalog? super prolific. I go back to this track pretty regularly but have only quickly scanned thru some of the others:
https://coldtearrecords.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-revelation

the spotify discogs listing looks like an endless well of dub/ambient/techno/field recordings...

I've been a bit underwhelmed by Silent Season's output in the last few years, it might just be me.

I listened to new Daar and Owl releases on SS last week and it isn't much special.

yea, I also stopped following because the quality seemed to be dipping...

The new Skee Masks is €18 EUR or more on Bandcamp. For the digital release.

I'm on my first preview listen and I'm really into Stone Cold 369 so I'm probably gonna do this, just a little shocked.

it's basically a double album is how i thought of it

ha I hadn't scrolled down enough to see it was 18 tracks.

i am absolutely obsessed with the skee mask record

it's so generous

It's enormous!

i said, twisting the lid back on the poppers

for whatever reason the last one didn't click with me but i love this already

i"m excited to get into it, going to try to listen later today :-)

going to be banging "testo bc mashup" oh headphones while going for runs all summer, serious euphoria on that one

how different is it to the last one? I thought that one was really, really dismal

i really liked the last one but this is way less desolate and more confident and maximalist in every way, with a really consistent atmosphere that, like compro, feels like a sound sculpture of the album art, a dense lushness defined by thickets of percussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twBy7sWbUHk

also just full of bangers like this

this one's my fav atm

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

Yeah, listened to all of this while running errands/taking sly hits off a vape pen on Friday, and it is an incredible record.

It's been mentioned elsewhere, or maybe here, but I also have been playing the hell out of the Illuvia record.

so now i think the new skee mask album is boring, i know everyone needed to hear that. it just doesn't sound very interesting to me at all after i've been mainlining underworld albums for the past few days, maybe that's not its fault idk.

i've listened to it a bunch now and it's still hitting

I like Compro a lot better. The drum programming on this one bugs me. Bass kicks too busy. I like a little more space between hits for those lush pads to develop.

kinda agree that I'm not blown away by this skee mask album, it's got some nice pads but I don't feel the specialness others are feeling here, on the 2020 end of year lists, I was way more impressed by the trees speak album, felt emotional and fresh, in a way I thought I wouldn't feel again about an electronica album, cosign about how good the revisit to underworld stuff has been for me too...hell, I enjoyed the plone album more than this, its effervesant retro gamer vibes and sweet ass melodies drew me in, when I wanted to dismiss it as a goof off record

...and I know peeps might feel that stress speak album is a post rock/ jazz album as much as a techy album, I was referring to the tracks like 'ohms' and the wonderfully decaying noise of 'spirit duplicator'

i'm getting drawn into this luca lozano album more than i thought i would.

https://lucalozano.bandcamp.com/album/boss-moves-2-welcome-back

Gotta listen to that, I loved “a higher place”

i've always felt skee mask is, like, idk, 'artisanal hamburger' type music; it's all really nice and sometimes soooo satisfying but also can be a bit much or too obvious

i've been going through and underworld kick too

this is really the only skew mask track I like, haven’t heard the new one though. most of his other stuff seems too cloying or something for me. nice album covers, tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvWih_NP5Fs

I just hate the singing on Underworld records, would be 100% fine with instrumentals of everything they've ever done. As is, I become embarrassed while listening to them.

This is more in the electronica/ambient/techno middle grounds, but this hour long set from Abby Echivarri is really lovely
https://goingin.bandcamp.com/album/sketches-on-loss-and-levity-going-in-014

Been diggin' the debut album On danse comme des fous from Gilb'r - despite him releasing records for like three decades already.

No idea if this is the right thread for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELH5Z2veNqw

sounding good

I've been digging these two tracks lately:

Gooooose - 搂起来
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2N6KIijTW0

Hofknicks - Neo Biedermeier (Daniel Brandt's Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_qDNNIzlbo

Also liking the Gilb'r album which I'm listening to right now

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

Not exactly sure where to put this, but a set of Zug from last year, many of which are from the album

dunno where to put this, these clips from the upcoming Simona Zamboli album are sounding sweet. really wide-ranging sound design, seems to exist on a plane tangent to existing genres but it draws from them. I want to hear this loud in a good space, sitting down with the lights off.

https://bleep.com/release/227540-simona-zamboli-ethernity

^listened to this this morning and it sounds fantastic, thanks! "Compossibility" in particular jumped out on first listen but looking forward to spending more time with this.

excellent.

(I said upcoming but you can download it now, it's the vinyl that hasn't been released)