Most underrated LP/albums ever

nochexxx

nochexxx

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IdleRich said:
This is crazy... also some intriguing looking film tips you´ve made recently, I need to check when possible.
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as far as I understand, he really did record drums hitting saucepans nicked from the kitchen. of course being interlaced with samples it files under other disco edit fodder, has a great energy like Bam's Deathmix. perhaps it's not so much underrated as just not known about.
 
qwerty south

qwerty south

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for those who like Eminem, they'll love Bizarre´s debut Album 'Hannicap Circus'.

I think this is one of the funniest ever album skits

 
Woebot

Woebot

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william_kent said:
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Michael Hoenig - Departure From The Northern Wasteland (1978)



Berlin school kosmische in full effect - sunrise acid comedown album that hardly ever gets talked about
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@william_kent just listening to this on youtube. very nice indeed.

and discovered this nugget about the berlin school at discogs (always love these deep geek insights)

Just to add to the comments previously posted by klockwerk:
Yes, I'm in full agreement with your assertion that this is ONE of the finest albums of the Berlin School genre. But for me, the accolade of THE finest has to go to Ashra's New Age Of Earth, with Blackouts and Correlations close behind. This album strongly references those works, as well as Tangerine Dream's classic trio Phaedra, Rubycon and Ricochet, and Edgar Froese's Aqua and Epsilon In Malaysian Pale, with future pointers to Manuel Gottsching's E2 - E4, and falls somewhere between all of them and Klaus Schulze's concurrent releases. I would also make a claim for the Jean-Michel Jarre album Waiting For Cousteau's lengthy title track putting his material in the same soundscape bracket, if not in terms of geographical location. They're all fairly interchangeable, but have an eternal and timeless quality which will be as fresh and absorbing all through the decades and even the centuries, as now.
I'm only amazed that Michael never made more music of this style and quality, as he clearly had the talent and skill to equal or outdo his contemporaries, on the evidence of this one masterpiece. Always awaited a follow-up, but it never came. The Hoenig / Gottsching album Early Water, released long after it was recorded, was a welcome return to the same genre.
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william_kent

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Matthew said:
@william_kent just listening to this on youtube. very nice indeed.

and discovered this nugget about the berlin school at discogs (always love these deep geek insights)
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That Ashra album is certainly one that we used to play as the sun was coming up and we were coming down...it is probably one of my favourites of that genre, but it isn't underrated or forgotten like that Michael Hoenig album which has somehow been ignored and neglected ( which is good in a way as vinyl copies can be picked up at very reasonable prices )
 
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Woebot

Woebot

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william_kent said:
That Ashra album is certainly one that we used to play as the sun was coming up and we were coming down...it is probably one of my favourites of that genre, but it isn't underrated or forgotten like that Michael Hoenig album which has somehow been ignored and neglected ( which is good in a way as vinyl copies can be picked up at very reasonable prices )
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no of course!!! very well known. you answered the brief. not correcting you - merely following the thread.

i do remember though being very sniffy about the later ashra lps - even though this has always been one of my alltime favourite tracks:

 
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Simon silverdollarcircle

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David Byrne's "catherine wheel" lp. Really as good, if not better than peak period talking heads. I reckon it just edges out fear of music and runs Remain in light pretty close. the druggier, dancier, more paranoid and sketched out sister of In the Bush of Ghosts in places. But hardly anyone talks about it and you can get it for about 50p in charity shops.

 
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eleventhvolume

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Here's my list for what it's worth:
  • Bill Laswell - Baselines
  • Ogurusu Norihide - Modern
  • Asa-Chang & Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
  • Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer - Re: ECM
  • Lech Jankowski - Institute Benjamenta
  • Atom Heart - Liedgut
  • Fernando Falcão - Barracas Barrocas
  • Silvana Deluigi - Yo!
  • Sly and Robbie w/ Howie B - Drum and Bass Stripped to the Bone
  • Susanna - Triangle
  • Chris Bowden - Time Capsule
  • Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun
  • As One - Planetary Folklore
  • Me'Shell Ndegéocello - Comfort Woman
 
william_kent

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I was going to put this one in the post-punk thread, but this is really a forgotten post-anarcho-punk classic - Adrian Sherwood Presents Flux of Pink Indians Vs African Head Charge In a Dub Encounter...this is the sound of one hunt sab too many, burnt out from having to be seen constantly fighting wrongs, when "positivity becomes negativity", a litany of regrets: "I don't feel angry anymore", "grasping for the commitment that I once possessed, remembering past days of positiveness"...but I suppose at least one ex-member of Flux is happy now after all the money Bjork has generated for him..

This came as a real surprise after their previous overload of rage, The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks, which according to many is "unlistenable" whilst this is not



Flux - Uncarved Block ( 1986 )
 
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