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

moritz von oswald trio - sounding lines
M.E.S.H. - piteous gate
Hunee
CFCF - Radiance & Submission
deepchord - lanterns

oh yeah

Co Kla Coma aka Severed Heads - Co Klo Pop
Tom Ellard aka Co Kla Coma - Rhine
Kassem Mosse / Simone White - Three Versions

(not all of these are in the new releases pile obviously)

That Kassem Moss/Simone White is shaping up to be one of my favourites of the year

hunee album is really good, agreed!

I am liking that new Acronym one a lot on the first listen.

damn yeah

Hunee record is great, thank you for that everyone. Played the Acronym earlier too and enjoyed it - begins in the same sort of drifty ballpark as mountains or emeralds but towards the back half it starts thumping away quite pleasantly iirc

I love that "Rare Happiness" track off the Hunee album. The rest hasnt really sunk in yet

The Hunee album is so refreshing and sun-speckled. Not sure about the last two tracks - they're not bad, they just don't feel part of the same album - but it's put a smile on my face every time I've played it.

This Perfume Advert Cassette on Opal Tapes is a total belter - really lovely, foggy dub techno and electronica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKu6IW_O5k4

This new Steve Hauschildt on headphones 👌

hauschildt rules ... but is it techno?

no remorse

"tragedy & geometry" was very much the jam and i hope someday to see this artist's work in person

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Nlr4QGUmL.jpg

it's not techno

and it's more subdued even than earlier stuff but somehow that makes it seem more listenable (even though what i really yearn for is more hyperdriven woodoowoodoowoodoowoodoo synth arpeggiation)

THE HELENA HAUFF ALBUM

yes, it's quite good

iirc you compared it to miss kittin

The Helena Hauff album is incredible.

Hauff album is great though i think i like a tape just as much.

Has some of the same lost in the woods on a cold planet vibe I get from Charles Cohen's Brother, I Prove You Wrong.

not an album, but beatrice dillon's latest 12" on where to now? is nothing short of amazing.

from the hauff album, 'l'homme mort' is the only keeper imho. can't get into the whole goth/minimal wave/witchy vibe of the rest.

discovered this dude after seeing an upcoming album on Apothecary Compositions, and fell in love with his previous one:

https://kazukikoga.bandcamp.com/album/alleingehen20

lots of repurposed metal drum solos, it sounds like. :)

really enjoying the Regis album, even if parts feel a little like a post-punk/goth pastiche

still been digging this gunnar haslam from last year all year long

http://www.discogs.com/Gunnar-Haslam-Mirrors-And-Copulation/master/760421

good lively early-winter mood-changer

Yes

I like the Lauer album a lot and see any mention of it here. kinda cheerfull synth pop x house vibes. quality

hieroglyphic being album on soul jazz is great, how it compares to the other 544 hieroglyphic being albums i know not

that nidia minaj one is a good listen too imo

I would love to see some year-end top 10's in this vein.

if i was doing a dance-only list it'd go

1. levon vincent - levon vincent
2. helena hauff - discreet desires
3. nozinja - nozinja lodge
4. holly herndon - platform
5. jam city - dream a garden
6. flava d - more love
7. jlin - dark energy
8. dj richard - grind
9. vakula - a voyage to arcturus
10. nidia minaj - danger
11. fatima yamaha - imaginary lines
12. floating points - elaenia
13. hunee - hunch music
14. romare - projections
14. heavy-k - respect the drumboss 2015
15. anna caragnano & donato dozzy - sintetizzatrice
16. blondes - rein
17. darkstar - foam island

I love the Jam City and Caragnano/Dozzy but I can't imagine thinking of them as dance music, really.

yeah the jam city was excellent

The new Donato Dozzy album (Loud Silence) is pretty disappointing. It's like he takes the same concept as Aphex Twin did 25 years ago with "Didgeridoo" - the similarity between acoustic instruments and oscillating electronic sounds - except he's using mouth harp instead of didgeridoo, and stretches it over several tracks. It's not a an unworthy idea, but who needs a full album of that? Sintetizzatrice I found to be a bit more interesting, but I think it suffered from the same flaw of spreading a simple idea too thin. I wish DD would stop releasing these concept albums (this is the third in row!) and go back to proper techno, like K and Voices from the Lake.

Anyway, my top 7 electronic albums from this year would be like this:

1. Raw C + Pharmakustik ‎– Anamorph Specimens (excellent, droney and acid-tinged long-form techno)

2. Holly Herndon ‎– Platform (a clear improvement over her previous album, this is how glitch should sound like, fun and inviting; if it wasn't for the silly ASMR track, this would be almost perfect)

3. Thomas P. Heckmann – Ghosts (this album looks and sounds like a soundtrack to some imaginary science horror film, some cold and harsh dark ambient with occasional beats)

4. Omni Vu Deity - Vuunayatu (this pretty much the opposite of "Ghosts", light and colourful and breezy ambient; this is supposedly inspirede by Polynesian music, but I'm not sure if I hear it, except for the gentle percussive pulse that permeates the music)

5. Lorenzò Montana - Vari Chromo (this sounds like old-fashioned "home listening techno" with its syncopated beats and moody synth melodies, but boy is this guy great at producing it)

6. Material Object + Ishq ‎– Invisible Light (these two acts from the opposite ends of ambient music, with Ishq specializing in soothing cosmic sounds, and Material Object in metallic drones; as expected, the result of their collaboration is somewhere in between, but it works)

7. Moufang / Czamanski ‎– Live In Seattle (unlike the Reagenz album of last year, this recording of a David Moufang & partner live techno gig actually sounds live, with plenty of fun improvisation)

I wish I could add the new Pole album to the list, but like Donato Dozzy it was kind of disappointment; cold and abstract, but not in an interesting way, like his previous LP was.

i only listened to the Jam C

oops

i only listened to the Jam City once but was really disappointed. Loved classical curves a ton, did not care to hear dude start singing

THE HELENA HAUFF ALBUM

― lex pretend, Tuesday, October 6, 2015 1:48 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is fucking rad, tho

my year, no particular order:

acronym - june
helena hauff
hunee
jonas munk - absorb/fabric/cascade
laurel halo - in situ
mesh - piteous gate
nick hoppner - folk
everything reckonwrong released, thanks ilx for the tip
regis - manbait
tom ellard - rhine

Material Object + Ishq ‎– Invisible Ligh

haha interchill 2015 to infinity! downloading now.

Just discovered that Acronym album yesterday, it's excellent.

A lot of these albums don't feel especially concerned with dancing at all, a lot of ambient/drone/glitch/sunset beach bar vibes/industrial/stealth indie which is all well and good but nine times out of ten they don't really excite me. I want more artists to make albums that feel more like great DJ sets, Levon definitely wins in this regard.

Maybe I could start a separate rolling thread for ambient/chill/weeded electronic music? I'm getting old, so this kind of sofa music appears to me more these days than hardcore bangers, but I agree that they don't really belong to this thread...

Rolling ambient/chill out/drone/moodz thread: from 2010s 'til infinity!

that boof album is really good imo. i enjoy the hunee but his mixes are better, like 5/6 this year i'd rather listen to.

dance artists making home listening albums that aren't focused on the dancefloor is a pretty long-standing thing and a reason it's not really an ~albums genre tho

vincent, hauff, nozinja, nidia minaj, dj richard albums are all refreshing in that context, they're all pretty banging, and if i heard the right bits of the herndon and jlin albums they'd work too

the hunee album is a bit like last year's leon vynehall album to me, really talented producers making always-pleasurable sounds but they have less of an impact in the album format than as a single or in a mix. i mean, it's worth hearing if they're your thing

hunee's mixes are legit so much better than his own stuff tho imo, not that his album is bad or anything, just a little boring comparing to his selections

i think the boof album is pretty much doing it right, comparable to levon vincent's lp with the variations in style and ratio of dancefloor to couch

I wasn't feeling the Boof at all when I listened earlier in the year but may give it another go.

yeah hunee is an incredible dj, haven't heard the album yet lol.

how do y'all feel about the dj richard album? i thought it was good w/ some misses. i liked the flow and general vibe.