Newish House/Techno LP's I should own
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The Pantha du Prince album is absolutely superb actually.
The Efdemin (a few tracks like the opener and "Acid Bells" aside) I found to be disappointingly bland and lacking in any particularly striking textures or ideas.
The Sascha Funke mix of "Beautiful Life" improves it greatly (largely by chopping out the majority of the fairly duff song and cutting between it and more minor key minimal chug)
The Efdemin (a few tracks like the opener and "Acid Bells" aside) I found to be disappointingly bland and lacking in any particularly striking textures or ideas.
The Sascha Funke mix of "Beautiful Life" improves it greatly (largely by chopping out the majority of the fairly duff song and cutting between it and more minor key minimal chug)
I'm really really enjoying the new pan-pot LP. It's everything I hoped it would be, super dark, super detailed evolving long-form tracks. lots of strange panning effects and sounds, yet also very dancey--the beat is very upfront and grooving the whole time.
Anyway, is it just me, or is this year SCARILY productive in terms of good-to-great artist full-length techno LPs? I was trying to make a list of (techno/"minimal"/whatever) artists who have put out (or will put out) an lp of their own stuff this year. I haven't heard all of these by far, but I've heard at least some good comments about all of them. How the hell am I supposed to deal with this???
gui boratto
the field
thomas fehlman
efdemin
pantha du prince
lawrence (well, it's a best-of)
pan-pot
villalobos (i'm counting the fabric mix)
supermayer
coblestone jazz
basteroid
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gabriel ananda
joris voorn
vince watson
gregor treshor
deepchord
stephan bodzin
M.I.A.
Vince Watson
Dominik Eulberg
Deadbeat
Vladislav Delay
guy gerber
Please feel free to add. Clearly 2007 is a techno year.
Anyway, is it just me, or is this year SCARILY productive in terms of good-to-great artist full-length techno LPs? I was trying to make a list of (techno/"minimal"/whatever) artists who have put out (or will put out) an lp of their own stuff this year. I haven't heard all of these by far, but I've heard at least some good comments about all of them. How the hell am I supposed to deal with this???
gui boratto
the field
thomas fehlman
efdemin
pantha du prince
lawrence (well, it's a best-of)
pan-pot
villalobos (i'm counting the fabric mix)
supermayer
coblestone jazz
basteroid
false
apparat
gabriel ananda
joris voorn
vince watson
gregor treshor
deepchord
stephan bodzin
M.I.A.
Vince Watson
Dominik Eulberg
Deadbeat
Vladislav Delay
guy gerber
Please feel free to add. Clearly 2007 is a techno year.
Okay having now listened to the pan-pot album two times in a row I can now say this is probably my fave techno LP of the year so far. Consistently great, interesting production throughout, and the way it goes from all this dark deep minimal techno into the soothing deep-house of "faces" at the end...beautiful. Reminds me a lot at times of an updated 2007 take on plastikman's consumed, which is high praise from me as that's one of my top 10 all time greats right there. The whole thing almost makes deadline-crunched paper-writing a pleasure!
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simon silverdollar
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Rodion album on Gomma is great- very fun italo revivalism, with the twists and turns of Mymy.
Totally agree with this, minimal has provided me with a consistent supply of excellent albums this year...
Holy shit! Loved this album, Ok every track sounds like another version of the Holden remix of "Sky was pink", and he's the biggest tease in the game when it comes to conning you into thinking a climax is coming (this is tantric-trance if ever such a thing existed)... but its a great album.
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simon silverdollar
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on a slightly tangential note, i think james holden's album is one of the biggest musical disappointments of the past 12 months.
sodiumnightlife
Sweet Virginia
really? the idiots are winning? why?
EDIT: actually on second thoughts i never heard it all, just the most acclaimed tracks. the rest could be guff for all i know.
EDIT: actually on second thoughts i never heard it all, just the most acclaimed tracks. the rest could be guff for all i know.
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simon silverdollar
Guest
i found Idiots are winning so disappointing because it's so wilfully removed from all the things i loved about holden's productions- that sleek, sugary trancey bliss that's so predictable in a way, but so irresistable. props to him for wanting to do something different, but i'm not sure that the grittiness of Idiots... really worked; much of it had a half finished, scrappy feel.
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime... easily my favorite this year, pulsating, blissed-out, valium-house.
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia... yeah, pretty good, the breakdowns are predictable but I'm really digging the more starry-eyed tracks (def NOT including Beautful Life... really doesn't belong on this album)
Thomas Fehlman... took a while to get used to the murky production but... yeah, good shit!
And yes the Pantha du Prince and Efdemin albums are excellent (...)
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia... yeah, pretty good, the breakdowns are predictable but I'm really digging the more starry-eyed tracks (def NOT including Beautful Life... really doesn't belong on this album)
Thomas Fehlman... took a while to get used to the murky production but... yeah, good shit!
And yes the Pantha du Prince and Efdemin albums are excellent (...)
Babicz is a bad man pon de buttons n tingz.
Love that track Sin... massive woobing bass and great atmosphere - all the light muted pads gently puffing away and then the blaring drones of doom. Layered up at the break with the higher synth part to make them a bit sweeter/sadder. Cool stuff.
He kinda does a similar textural workout in his remix of Electronic Supafreak by Da Fresh.
Love that track Sin... massive woobing bass and great atmosphere - all the light muted pads gently puffing away and then the blaring drones of doom. Layered up at the break with the higher synth part to make them a bit sweeter/sadder. Cool stuff.
He kinda does a similar textural workout in his remix of Electronic Supafreak by Da Fresh.
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simon silverdollar
Guest
it's ok, but only 'the two of us' really grabs me. the rest is pleasant and sunny, but all breezes past a bit too underwhelmingly for me.
marsyas
Active member
sounds good !
i want some more lighter superpitcher stuff.
looking forward !!
Okay the advance mixed version of the new Melchior Productions Ltd lp "No Disco Future" that just got posted at ohmygosh is amazing, at least at first listen on headphones. Melodic, intricate, warm, funky, spacious, all the good stuff. I'm not sure but I guess the final cd version will be different from this? I assume it would be unmixed at least. Anyhow, blows away all the crap cookie-cutter minimal that's coming out these days, and shows what can really be done with the form, how interesting and just damn lovely the music can be.