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Typhoner
Kristof B.

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Last Active 04-05-13 11:08 am
Joined 03-13-12

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Average Rating: 3.73
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2013
Flunk Lost Causes	3.5
A remarkably consistent effort in which Flunk further solidify their sound. Lost Causes sees the band incorporating more of the trip-hop elements from their older album into the indie sound that dominated This Is What You Get. The result is a nice balance of more "catchy" songs with electronic and trippy influences. And of course there's Anja Oyen Vister's vocal delivery, which defines all of Flunk's music. All in all, I would consider Lost Causes to be their best album since, at least, Morning Star.
DjRum Seven Lies	3.5
Kate Simko Lost In London	3.5
ASC Sonic Assault	3.0
Warsa The FKOF EP	3.5
James Blake Overgrown	4.5
Bonobo The North Borders	3.5
The Happy Guilty Pleasure	4.0
Catchy as hell, excellent vocal performances, great instrumentation, quite eclectic, bits of cynism, melancholy, and yes, beautiful ladies. Pop record of the year.
Chvrches Recover	4.0
Omar S Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself	3.5
V.I.V.E.K Asteroids/Over My Head	4.0
Kryptic Minds Namaste	4.0
Ellen Allien LISm	4.0
Seven (UK) Walter White	3.5
Amit Acid Trip/Don't Forget Your Roots	3.0
Jafu No More	3.5
How To Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion	3.0
Autechre Exai	4.0
Atoms for Peace Amok	3.0
Apparat Krieg Und Frieden	3.5
Trixie Whitley Fourth Corner	4.0
iTAL tEK Hyper Real	3.5
Late Night Alumni The Beat Becomes A Sound	2.5
So in the past years, LNA essentially released the same album three times in a row. But that wasn't really an issue, since their blend of house and dream pop (with excellent vocals) was extremely enjoyable. However, this album seems to have lost the magic. The vocals are still great and the instrumental work hasn't really changed either: the main problem is that the songs just aren't as memorable or engaging as the ones on the previous albums. Just go listen to Empty Streets instead.
Poppy Ackroyd Escapement	4.0
FaltyDL Hardcourage	4.0
Ulrich Schnauss A Long Way to Fall	3.5

2012
Burial Truant/Rough Sleeper	4.0
iNTRiKeT The Woods	3.5
Maya Jane Coles Easier To Hide	4.5
Absolutely stunning deep house, can't wait for an album, really.
Amenra Mass V	4.0
Ulrich Schnauss and ASC 77	4.0
Chvrches The Mother We Share	3.5
L'Orange The Mad Writer	4.0
Stumbleine Spiderwebbed	3.5
Holly Herndon Movement	4.0
The album can at times be a little too academic, but makes up for it by being so intriguing. Herndon clearly has good ideas and the combination of "classic" minimal techno and acid influences with more experimental sound manipulation is definitely a style deserving further development.
Delerium Music Box Opera	3.0
Lindstrom Smalhans	3.5
SX Arche	3.5
iTAL tEK Nebula Dance	3.5
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!	3.5
Balthazar Rats	3.5
Goose Control Control Control	3.5
The shortest way to describe this album is probably as a mix of alt rock and EBM. Be sure to check out the title track.
Hidden Orchestra Archipelago	4.5
Hidden Orchestra have created a worthy successor and natural progression of Night Walks. Archipelago is organic and electronic, classic and contemporary, relaxing and exiting, subtle and vibrant, varied and consistent. Although not ground-breaking in a major way and clearly not meant for everyone this still is one of the most beautiful, haunting albums of the year.
Submotion Orchestra Fragments	4.0
Proxima Lie Detection/Brainstem	4.0
LV Sebenza	3.5
TNGHT TNGHT	3.0
DjRum Watermark/The Darkest Hour Is Just Before Dawn	4.0
ASC Out Of Sync	4.0
Ikonika I Make Lists	3.5
Carlos Cipa The Monarch and the Viceroy	3.0
This is quite some beautiful music and technically well-executed. However, the sole use of piano makes this a bit to sparse for my taste.
Future Of The Left The Plot Against Common Sense	4.0
Ryat Totem	4.0
What do I like about this album? Of course there's Ryat's prominent voice and the way it is used as a major instrument and defines the album as a whole. However, I think the production is even more important: it's al about awkard, glitchy beats, manipulated instrumental samples and things I can't exactly identify - when listening to the album, it is impossible to guess what will happen next. As strange as this all may be, I can't imagine how the album should have "worked" otherwise. A great introduction to this album is Ryat's Boiler Room set, which is basically a condensed (but even more powerful) performance of her album: youtu.be/7dAPs5Pw5Twr
alt-j An Awesome Wave	3.0
Laurel Halo Quarantine	3.0
Kate Simko Kabuki Drop	3.5
El-P Cancer 4 Cure	4.0
Killer Mike R.A.P. Music	4.0
Clubroot III - MMXII	4.0
Atoma Skylight	3.0
Stray Letting Go	3.5
Monolake Ghosts	3.5
Nina Kraviz Nina Kraviz	3.5
Burial Kindred	4.5

2011
Skrillex Bangarang	2.0
L'Orange Old Soul	3.5
Acylum Karzinom	3.5
Geike For The Beauty Of Confusion	3.5
James Blake Enough Thunder	4.0
Modeselektor Monkeytown	4.0
dEUS Keep You Close	4.0
David Guetta Nothing But The Beat	1.5
I don't like this because I'm an elitist.Oh, and because this is particularly bad, of course.
Omar S It Can Be Done But Only I Can Do It	4.0
DjRum Mountains	4.5
Zomby Dedication	4.0
Submotion Orchestra Finest Hour	4.5
Jamie xx Far Nearer	4.0
Amon Tobin ISAM	4.0
Maya Jane Coles Focus Now	3.5
Amatorski TBC	4.5
Boxcutter The Dissolve	2.5
Katy B On A Mission	3.0
Kryptic Minds Can't Sleep	4.0
Dela Translation Lost	3.5
Swarms Old Raves End	4.5
FaltyDL You Stand Uncertain	4.0
CunninLynguists Oneirology	4.5
L'Orange The Manipulation EP	3.5
Late Night Alumni Haunted	3.5
James Blake James Blake	4.0
Ghostpoet Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam	3.0
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble From the Stairwell	4.0

2010
Hooverphonic The Night Before	2.5
Conjure One Exilarch	3.0
Phaeleh Fallen Light	3.5
James Blake Klavierwerke	3.5
Hidden Orchestra Night Walks	4.5
Dorleac Dorleac	3.5
Pariah (UK) Safehouses	4.0
Maya Jane Coles Bubbler	3.5
Front Line Assembly Improvised. Electronic. Device.	3.5
Eleven Tigers Clouds Are Mountains	4.0
iTAL tEK Midnight Colour	4.5
James Blake CMYK	3.5
Guido Anidea	4.0
Clubroot II - MMX	4.0
Lunik Small Lights in the Dark	3.0
Scuba Triangulation	3.5
Joy Orbison The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow	3.5
Unter Null Moving On	4.0
Massive Attack Heligoland	4.0

2009
Late Night Alumni Of Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Etc.	3.5
Rammstein Liebe Ist Für Alle Da	3.5
Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name	3.5
Future Of The Left Travels With Myself And Another	3.5
Clubroot Clubroot	4.0
Kate Simko Take You There	3.0
Flunk This Is What You Get	3.5
Metric Fantasies	3.5
Joy Orbison Hyph Mngo/Wet Look	4.0

2008
Kaskade Strobelite Seduction	4.0
Portishead Third	5.0
Just like Dummy a decomposition of Trip Hop - in a completely new way. Built around dissonance and noise, there's however always a massive... precision in the songs.
Lunascape Innerside	3.5

2007
Burial Untrue	5.0
Boxcutter Glyphic	3.5
Hooverphonic The President Of The LSD Golf Club	4.5
The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers	3.5
Vaccine (US) Breathless/Side Effects	4.0
Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I	4.0
Flunk Personal Stereo	3.0
Vaccine (US) Wishful Thinking/Signal To Noise	4.0
El-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead	4.0
Amon Tobin Foley Room	4.5
Do Make Say Think You, You're a History in Rust	3.5
Distance My Demons	4.5

2006
Lunik Preparing to Leave	2.5
Goose Bring It On	3.5
Front Line Assembly Artificial Soldier	3.5
Burial Burial	4.0
Ellen Allien & Apparat Orchestra Of Bubbles	4.0
Cult of Luna Somewhere Along the Highway	4.0
Boxcutter Oneiric	3.5

2005
Hooverphonic No More Sweet Music	3.0
Rammstein Rosenrot	3.0
Amorphous Androgynous Alice in Ultraland	3.5
Late Night Alumni Empty Streets	4.0
Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett	4.0
The Birthday Massacre Violet	3.0

2004
Rammstein Reise, Reise	3.5
Airlock Symptomatic	3.5
Flunk Morning Star	3.5

2003
Hooverphonic Sit Down and Listen To	3.5
Metric Old World Underground, Where Are You Now	3.5
Lene Marlin Another Day	3.5
Lunik Weather	3.5
Delerium Chimera	3.0
Ellen Allien Berlinette	3.5

2002
Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane	3.0
Airlock Drystar	3.0
Flunk For Sleepyheads Only	3.5
DJ Shadow The Private Press	4.5
The Cinematic Orchestra Every Day	4.0
Amon Tobin Out From Out Where	4.0
It appears the man can do no wrong. Needless to say this album is excellent.
Jazzanova In Between	3.5

2001
Kosheen Resist	3.5
Lunik Ahead	3.5
Rammstein Mutter	3.5
Lamb What Sound	4.0

2000
Hooverphonic The Magnificent Tree	3.5
Amon Tobin Supermodified	4.0

1999
Lene Marlin Playing My Game	3.5
Lunik Rumour	3.5

1998
Hooverphonic Blue Wonder Power Milk	4.5
Massive Attack Mezzanine	5.0
Air Moon Safari	3.0
Rammstein Sehnsucht	3.0
Amon Tobin Permutation	4.5

1997
Lamb Lamb	3.5
Hooverphonic A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular	4.0
Portishead Portishead	4.0
The Prodigy The Fat of the Land	3.5
Amon Tobin Bricolage	3.5

1996
The Future Sound of London Dead Cities	3.5
Underworld Second Toughest in the Infants	4.0
Orbital In Sides	4.0
DJ Shadow Endtroducing.....	5.0

1995
Tricky Maxinquaye	3.5
Massive Attack Protection	3.0
Rammstein Herzeleid	2.5
Leftfield Leftism	4.5
Autechre Tri Repetae	4.5

1994
Portishead Dummy	5.0

1993
Underworld dubnobasswithmyheadman	4.5
It's quite remarkable this has no review. I might churn something out, then.
Amorphous Androgynous Tales of Ephidrina	3.5

1992
Front Line Assembly Tactical Neural Implant	4.0
Orbital Orbital 2	4.5
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92	3.0

1991
Massive Attack Blue Lines	4.0
The Orb Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld	5.0

1990
Skinny Puppy Too Dark Park	4.5

1985
Einsturzende Neubauten 1/2 Mensch	4.0

1981
Kraftwerk Computer World	4.0

1979
Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats	4.5

1978
Kraftwerk The Man-Machine	4.5
Throbbing Gristle D.o.A: The Third and Final Report	4.5

1977
Kraftwerk Trans-Europe Express	5.0

1974
Kraftwerk Autobahn	4.0

1791
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Die Zauberflote, 'The Magic Flute', K. 620	4.5
Obviously, a "real" rating of a classical opera requires mention of the specific performance. Needless to say that the 2011 performance I saw in the Sanspareil "Felsentheater" (Germany) was marvelous.

1741
George Frideric Handel Messiah	4.5

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