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Emeritus
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Last Active 11-27-20 3:47 am
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| An Education: Electronic
This time, recommend me anything with an electronic slant, no matter the subgenre. Speaking of, since this is dubbed the "education" series, please provide the sub-genre in your rec so I can better grasp what defines these different styles of music -- as I often find them hard to distinguish between when it comes to electronic (e.g. what the fuck is the different between deep house and trance i literally have no idea even if i have listened to plenty of both lol). As always, I'll write a description and provide a rating outta 10. Thanks.
ALBUM RECS. ONE PER PERSON. | | 1 |  | Four Tet
New Energy
I'm a bit more well-versed in electronic, but I'm still a long way from where I'd like to be. | | 2 |  | Ishome
Eva | | 3 |  | Doss
Doss | | 4 |  | Blondes
Warmth | | 5 |  | Laszlo Dancehall
LZD IV | | 6 |  | Skrillex
Recess
Dubstep.
Ramon.
Search results come up with: "Michael Bay's brain uploaded to a computer".
This album is busy and I'm taking it too seriously. I am taking its thinly veiled Caribbean 'influences' too seriously; I am taking its bass-drop-lead-into-bass-drop formula too seriously; I am taking Ramon's rec too seriously. But there's some merit here: the hooks and the beats are incongruous but not grating (usually), and the percussive elements melt into the melodies they support. It's a laugh, it's a joke, it's alright.
6.2/10. | | 7 |  | Vladislav Delay
Anima
"Glitchy Ambient Dub."
Sniff.
Search results come up with: "Lightning occasionally strikes the still lake."
Anima is one formless, screen-tearing, eternally progressing piece of music. Layers grate over each other shyly, coyly, while a foundation of blossoming synthwork keeps it all from falling into unformation. It's easy to see why this could be dubbed 'glitch'; it refuses to walk in straight lines, with a sequencing as graceful as it is confused and clumsy. It's perfect, I think, for a lazy day, because it's passive enough to fade into the background, but engaging enough to reel you back in during those moments where activity goes wandering off.
7.5/10. | | 8 |  | Ephera
Ongaku
"Japanese Influenced."
Scuro.
Search results come up with: "Reliving Japanese New Year on Groundhog Day".
There is not much subtlely in beginning a record with the roar of a giant cat. Then again, thematic nuance isn't really present throughout this EP; when Scuro said "japanese influenced", he meant it. It's impressive still how convincing the colour palette on this record is: if I didn't know Ephera operated in Sydney, I'd fall unquestionably for the notion that those fluttering harps -- buried as they are under rapturous bass -- came from feudal Japan. I've clearly never been to Asia.
7.3/10. | | 9 |  | Space Art
Space Art
Space Pop.
Unique.
Search results come up with: "Advertisement jingles of the third kind."
This is what people in the past thought the future would sound like. Here are tales of electricity conducting water and water conducting an orchestra of sounds that somehow break through the vacuum of space. Space Art casts a great shadow with this album, expanding without even realizing, eclipsing whatever lightness they accidentally induce using ominous synth flourishes and even more unsettling bass warbles. It's somehow grand and introverted; oxymoronic even in the respect that it breathes life into itself. I mean, that may be so (it certainly feels cyclical) but to say that it "breathes" doesn't feel true -- it's too cold and metallic to make music which exhales oxygen.
7.1/10. | | 10 |  | Stendeck
Sonnambula
Industrial/IDM/"Rick and Morty-tier Dance Music"
Ephemeral.
Search results come up with: "Broken kaleidoscope, found in gutter on a rainy day."
This record does its utmost to ingratiate itself with the listener as soon as possible. For all its glitching and for all the smoke that seeps out from its loose edges, Sonnambula is not short on its share of wonderment. I think its because the glitching -- always in the foreground -- bounces off the celestial synthwork as if spurred on by its presence. The two elements should be at odds, but they weave around each other in a way that implies a profound understanding of contrast; the foil elucidating the protagonist's most easy-to-empathise-with characteristics. Zampieri remains in that contrary state: too lucid to ever be a sleepwalker, too scrupulous to let his compositions wander off without purpose.
7.6/10. | | 11 |  | Porter Ricks
Anguilla Electrica
Minimal/Dub.
Aaron.
Search results come up with: "The cold, mechanical fly on the wall."
This is labeled 'minimal' but it feels like it's trying so hard to break out of that cage. From the title track, the pulse, the inveterate bass-drum, is certainly gentle and certainly minimal, but the dub-typical synthwork scratches mischievously across the surface. And, deeper still, this record dabbles expertly in the time/decay paradigm -- proving an intriguing experiment in how these patterns (the rigidity of it all; the pulse that never changes) seem to shift and take different, illusory forms as one minute slips into the next. The changes here are ever-so-subtle -- like a glitch emerging in the most certain of places -- but they keep one floating in Porter Ricks' carefully constructed orbit.
8/10. | | 12 |  | Autechre
Confield
IDM.
Asleep.
Search results come up with: "Sleeping in a safety net."
Confield wants you to think it's cold and aloof and emotionless and mechanical, but it can't help but let its soul shine through its metallic exterior. It's very clearly a labour of love and -- to me at least -- it fittingly seems to portray love in unconventional ways: Cfern's stutter-step is all wry humour, Pen Expers' paint-at-a-wall landscape is a the dovetail of eccentricity and selfless affection. Its eyes snap open in the most unexpected places; just when you think you've come to know the nooks and crannies of the record, it reveals new ones for you to nestle into. I've heard a couple of Autechre records in my time, but this may have just skipped its way into pole position.
8.3/10. | | 13 |  | Luomo
Vocalcity
Microhouse//Deep House
Ryus.
Search results come up with: "A rave at the library."
This feels like one of those late-night mixes that spill out the car window and onto the empty road at two o'clock in the morning; the same ones wherein a radio DJ will chime in every twenty minutes to enthusiastically tell you what you're listening to. But, there's more flourishes to be had here, more distinctive melodies to compete with the simple-yet-commanding bass drum/hi-hat patterns that run through this thing like a stark exoskeleton. Hooks -- good hooks, mind -- are buried in the mix and discarded at will (check between the 15 and 17 minute marks), like Luomo is treating them only as textures that commit to a vibe instead of just becoming one. On another note: some of these beats are so colourful that they outshine the sequences that come before them, and to me the record feels a tad uneven as a result.
7.2/10. | | 14 |  | Kashiwa Daisuke
Program Music I
Classical/Post-Rock w/ -- I presume -- heavy electronic influences.
Marehelm.
Search results come up with: "Beauty/Romance/Plot-hole"
I once described an album -- similar to this but not at all similar to this -- as "post-rock with the screen tearing", as if I knew exactly what that sounded like. I didn't then, but I do now. Program Music means long, meandering pieces that second guess their own grace; it means a dismantling of classical music; it means leaving out mistakes in the finished product would be a mistake. Though it's necessary, now, to stretch the boundaries of what constitutes a spot in this list, I guess I'm willing for something that soars and resonates like this thing. Points deducted, but not many.
8.4/10. | | 15 |  | Ricardo Villalobos
Alcachofa
Minimal Techno.
Sinternet.
Search results come up with: "Artificial intelligence and a botched sleep experiment."
Well, this is hypnotic. This record's pulse isn't one to keep it alive but one to put you to sleep. The percussion is more an uncertain flicker than a steady scaffold for the melodies to rest on, which means the keyboards/synths have to take it slow, feeling out for the broken glass and pitfalls buried deep underneath the seductive snare patterns that throw this record so out of shape. I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. I have no reason to be so cynical, and as of this album, I refuse to be going forward.
8.5/10. | | 16 |  | Byzar
Gaiatronyk vs. The Cheap Robots
Illbient(?)
Nero.
Search results come up with: "The crash and the afterglow."
This atmosphere is tangible enough that I could probably read it in braille, whatever that means. It's both constructed and punctuated by beats that walk in circles, with every heavy step emphasised by the snap of a snare. Though is clangs and it creases at its centre, the record still has a flow to it -- fitting one piece's circle into the next's square. Example: Zyphyr's underwater wailing precedes Vyrzyn Z's turbulent ascent to the surface, making for a continuity as seamless -- though fluctuating -- as the pattern on the cover art.
7.4/10. | | 17 |  | Haywyre
Two Fold - Part 1
House/IDM.
Toondude.
Search results come up with: "(Elec)t(r)onic."
I think I just like pianos. I think I just like lots of things going on at once. I think I just like music that synthesizes its elements without me noticing. Two Fold treats every moment with the awe and wonderment it deserves, and a lot of this feels like the most self-aware dubstep i've ever heard (The Schism's bass-drops seem, in a way, like an exercise in restraint; never do they devolve into curdled and muddied fuck-abouts). The transitions are seamless; indeed, Dichotomy (Soft Mix) ironically keeps the dichotomy concealed, and the production leaves so much room for me to swim around in.
8.2/10. | | 18 |  | Stimming
Alpe Lusia
Deep House.
Sounds.
Search results come up with: "The front door."
So this is what deep house sounds like. I could do much, much worse as far as entry points go. Alpe Lusia is pleasant and lovely and all those things, but it has a wry sense of humour to it which evokes a weird kind of self-awareness. Pressing Plant is cutesy and coy until it's smothered by an ominous drone half-way through, and then when it reverts back to that pulsating beat, something is off, like there's loose nuts and bolts rattling away inside the box. But Stimming rounds off the edges to these compositions so as to keep up appearances; here are stunning and profound (one might say 'deep') house pieces that still somehow shake and rattle at their core, and this record is intoxicating for the fact.
8.7/10. | | 19 |  | Matmos
Ultimate Care II
Musique Concrete/IDM.
Friv.
Search results come up with: "Dirty laundry."
I thought I was in for an album with a minimalist cynosure, but Ultimate Care II is unsettling in its density and scatterbrained nature. So, as soon as that spin cycle introduction made its first revolutions I googled this record's origins, discovering that -- in fact -- this is "experimental" music in the most pure sense. It's a dance record for people with childlike imaginations -- for people who start tapping their feet to the sound of a jammed printer, and for people who twist ideas into gifts. Mainly I'm just upset that Matmos have structured a record around a washing machine when I can't even write one with actual instruments but like i'm okay guys it's fine hahah nah i'm good.
8/10. | | 20 |  | Voices From The Lake
Voices From The Lake
Ambient Techno.
Chortles.
Search results come up with: "Lenticular printing."
I swear I can feel this progress and change but I will never be able to tell you when it happens. Even the transition from Iyo to Vega -- which, as I'm only just noticing on my third listen -- is heralded by a jittery, syncopated kick drum, seems to slip into the scene like an unnoticed late arrival. Like water, this record takes the shape of wherever it is contained; right now it's morphed into a dark and cavernous room, kicking up sparks in a fireplace that hasn't been used since before I was born, breathing life behind the eyes of the portrait hanging up on the wall. Lovely.
8.7/10. | | 21 |  | David Sylvian
Blemish
Ambient/Glitch/Free Improv.
Frip.
Search results come up with: "The neurotic narrator and the post-post-apocalyptic landscape."
Vocal driven glitch/improv is such a niche, it seems, that I never even considered its existence, and so -- right from the start -- this was alien and eerie. The constantly reverberating synths and the distant explosions of guitar are the perfect backdrop for Sylvian's despondent soliloquys, detailing a marriage dissolving in the same way his compositions do: slowly, falling further away from the source, falling "outside of her", as it were. This is improvised in the purest sense: the guitar in The Good Son is so wonderfully wrong, and everywhere the melodies are slippery and intangible. But that quality, conflated with the abstract sadness that graces the runtime, lends to this a very raw feeling, holding up a cracked and dirty mirror to Sylvian's marital decay.
8.1/10, but I can see this growing as I come to understand it more. | | 22 |  | Perfume
Triangle
Electro-pop.
Abe.
Search results come up with: "Just because."
It's a testament to the rest of this list that this is getting a relatively low score, because, truth be told, it's fun as fuck. I doubt this thing means anything but a chance to dance the dust off your soles, but it should be that way. The bass falls heavy to the floor and the synths pinball around with the appropriate amount of childish exuberance, especially on cuts like NIGHT FLIGHT. On another day, accompanying another scene, this could reach into deep eight territory, but right now I'm content with the score. I guess I've found the only triangle in the world without a point.
7.6/10. | | 23 |  | Burger / Ink
Las Vegas
Ambient/Dub Techno.
L4t.
Search results come up with: "He's behind me, isn't he?"
Maybe it's a scattered and naive mind that ties these two threads together, but Las Vegas seems to do what Vocalcity sets out to: it's a fleet-flooted yet patient piece of work that graces moon-drenched highway roads as if that alone was what it was created for. There's a muted kind of quality that pervades this record, blanketing the rhythm section (see: Milk and Honey). In turn, the atmosphere is one that creeps up without remark or scene, before anchoring itself in a rather contemplative state-of-mind. It is, I guess, a good soundtrack to the existential questions that find their entry point the minute you decide to try and sleep.
8.4/10. | | 24 |  | Pan Sonic
Kesto (234:48:4)
Power Noise/Minimal Techno.
Avangantamos.
Search results come up with: "Merciless."
I couldn't finish this whole. It's long, clanging, overbearing; so much so that the quietest moments made me the most nervous -- for what might be skulking around the corner, behind the lone sparkler of Riimu? the spit and stammer of Keskeisvoima? But of course this is an exercise in endurance; endurance I don't have, mind you, but it's this kind of music that becomes the most rewarding the more time passes. Every sitting, I feel my immunity building up: proof that, for every time Linjat's minimalist landscape of sine waves (?) stretches your patience, the more patient you actually become. I wouldn't call this a grower; it's filled the space it's been allocated already, but I would call it a challenger -- rearing its head in unexpected places to question the partitions between enjoyment and conditioning.
Started around 5.5, now more a 7. Possible updates to come. | | 25 |  | Justice
†
French House.
Will.
Search results come up with: "The cocktail bar is just by the altar."
What better way to establish your purview than with a track like Genesis. It sets the framework here nicely: the power-pop piano chords, the bold declarations in the form of compressed, shooting-star synthlines, and everything is anchored down by that bass-snare-bass-snare pattern. The whole record seems to stretch simple formulas to their batshit limits; underneath the insanity that Newjack presents, you can hear the jazzy 7th chords and considered beatwork from whence the chaos came, and it's how -- I presume -- this album can weather the course between the bedroom and the club floor with relative ease. Jams hard.
8.5/10. | | 26 |  | The Field
From Here We Go Sublime
Minimal Techno.
Dinosaur.
Search results come up with: "Using initiative."
All together now: rating is a pain in the ass. This vaguely feels like my favourite thing, though for something labeled "minimal techno" this isn't what I'd expect. Over The Ice -- and its fluttering, heart-racing urgency -- introduces this thing as a restless and anxious experience. Like it's terrified of losing your attention, here is the listener trailing behind the music for once, and we are rewarded in spades for keeping close enough: stunning, chopped-up vocal samples cloaked in reverb, distorted bass that rises and falls like a hyperventilating chest; this has the hallmarks of a record that makes the first move on its audience. Then good first impressions carry into a comfortable knowingness of the flourishes that FHWGS presents, and you become content to follow its lead -- one which is confident, as it retreads and retraces the path its taken so many times before.
8.9/10. | | 27 |  | DJ Sprinkles
Midtown 120 Blues
Deep House.
Lucid.
Search results come up with: "First day orientation."
Terre Thaemlitz deals with the immersive, and Midtown is no exception: its runtime concerns itself solely with evoking moments in time. I -- through extensive (see: around two minutes) research -- have discovered that the album deals specifically with engendering the New York house scene in first person, living through/in the perspectives of minority groups as the scene's beginnings are ignored and covered up like a palimpsest of trans experiences and struggles. It traces familiar ground with its bass/hi-hat patterns and minimal soundscapes, but feels deeper than most somehow, whether it be through the samples of Thaemlitz' own narration, or the atmosphere that reveals itself eventually -- one of a lost dancefloor, with a DJ playing distant house music to an audience of dust and buried recollections of what was
8.6/10. | | 28 |  | Derrick May
Innovator
Techno.
SoR.
I've found something I don't think I'll return to, but it's by no means bad, and I struggle to articulate why I find Innovator forgettable. May lets us have it with the first track, as it unfurls sort of gradually like a map on a roll of parchment, but the rest -- to me -- feels like a variation on a few select themes: this one is the skittish, throttled techno track, this one is skittish, throttled techno track but instead it's eerie. I feel like it's paper thin, stuck in a rigid routine that doesn't unveil as much as I'd hoped on repeat listens. There are some nice sounds here, though.
5.9/10. | | 29 |  | Arsene Souffriau
experiences BIMES
Musique Concrete/Electro-Acoustic/Electronic.
Hal.
Search results come up with: "A Silent Hill Light Show."
I'm getting sci-fi horror vibes, dense with atmosphere, laced with tension. But it's everywhere; this isn't such a world seen from a first-person perspective, it's the minute details from every corner funneled into the same space. Here's a billowing wind; here's a drone surveying an empty street for survivors; here's one of those survivors breathing heavily in a dark corner. The music writhes and struggles for support in the absence of any percussive elements at times, and breathes with a quiet life of its own. Not for entertainment, for accompaniment.
8.2/10. | | 30 |  | Emptyset
Borders
Minimal Techno.
Dewinged.
Far be it from the quietest corners of experiences BIMES, Borders needles its way closer to the epicentre - to where all things are created and incinerated. It's the clamping of industrial machinery punctuated by flashes of harsh light. There are moments of melody occasionally scratching their way out from the drone, with clawing fingers and heavy breath; I can hear the desperate pleas of something lovely and pleasant behind the hulk and stutter of Retrieve. But, mostly, Borders makes certain catching your breath is no easy task. Consider me exhausted and therefore, impressed.
7.9/10. | | 31 |  | Son Lux
At War With Walls And Mazes
Trip Hop.
Wren.
Search results come up with: "readjust"
Up with the cliche; this record feels like the first day of spring. The reveal: about half way through Weapons -- it sheepishly takes a step out into sunlight. The result: a sly, confident record once the cobwebs are cleared from its canals; a rendezvous point between organic instrumentation and electronic flourishes. The reaction: I am both set in a groove and caught in an introspective headspace. I think this album treats the people around it like puzzles, and what better steady footing than beats that scratch and warble without losing their places for a second. At War With Walls and Mazes is both moving and ready to be moved.
8.8/10. | | 32 |  | Prefuse 73
Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
Glitch Hop.
Wolfe.
Search results come up with: "Laziness is not good enough."
I've tuned in for the first time in forever to find that this one's a frequency that never stops. Vocal samples are cut-up and shuffled into a messy yet colourful collage that still makes sense irrespective of its chaotic facade. Mikah 9's feature provides a challenge for Scott Herren's beat; the two elements chase each other around the allotted space with a Tom and Jerry urgency, and it's the kind of subdued freneticism that's emblematic of the record in its entirety. It's a skittish entity using its energy to propel itself from a bygone era to the current one. Lovely.
8.7/10. | | 33 |  | Lilacs and Champagne
Danish and Blue
Trip Hop.
Caiman.
Search results come up with: "Bringing about the meaning of those blessed words: peace and love."
For the intrepid, but for those who prefer their adventures to travel inward. The crackle of the fireplace is but the perfect accompaniment to your introspection, and it's forever playing on the edge, enhancing the smoky, late night atmosphere that coats this thing from the go. Lilacs and Champagne are on amicable terms with wanky guitar music (see: Le Grand), and if one were to conclude that results in ostentation, one would be correct; this thing is showy as all hell. It breaks the boundaries of trip-hop -- a genre often illuminated by mood-lighting -- and opens it up to the histrionics of, say, early nineties b-movie horror soundtracks. What an oxymoron.
7.7/10. | | 34 |  | Digitalism
Idealism
Electroclash.
Dbizzles. | | 35 |  | Metro Area
Metro Area
House.
Croc. | | 36 |  | M83
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
"Plebtronica" (lol).
Neeka. | | 37 |  | Anamanaguchi
Endless Fantasy
Chiptune.
ZtD (fka DNS). | | 38 | | Gui Boratto
Chromaphobia
Tyler
(Genre?) | | 39 |  | DJ Purple Image
Jeanette
Sach
"chopped n screwed tape"
Search results come up with: "Lost"
This is so enveloping. Beneath the cover, different scenes are wrapped up in each other: an empty rave, a roundabout argument, a mid-90s music video, a drunken monologue beneath a dying streetlight. Not to demean or discredit: the way d/p/i synthesises his pieces actually illuminates rather than obfuscates. By suspending them in this woozy dream state, he suggests how they'd play out against hypothetical backdrops. The argument is resolved, the video is modernized, more surreal, and the monologue is drenched in sun and sobriety. Highlight is track 5.
8.7/10. | |
verdant
10.15.17 | get your specialist caps on u nonces | ramon.
10.15.17 | skrillex - recess | Archelirion
10.15.17 | damn, good rec ramon | Sniff
10.15.17 | Vladislav Delay - Anima is glitchy ambient dub bish | ScuroFantasma
10.15.17 | Ephera - Ongaku
https://ephera.bandcamp.com/album/ongaku-ep
Japanese-influenced electronic stuff | Papa Universe
10.15.17 | I grant you the
Space Art - s/t | EphemeralEternity
10.15.17 | Stendeck - Sonnambula
OAKE - Auferstehung
DJ Richard - Grind
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
0edit - Neotokyo OST | Archelirion
10.15.17 | Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica (minimal/dub techno) | AsleepInTheBack
10.15.17 | Autechre - Confield | ramon.
10.15.17 | eph with immunity and neotokyo in the same comment, good shit | verdant
10.15.17 | thanks guys so far ; P | Ryus
10.15.17 | oh mannn
boards of canada - music has the right to children
luomo - vocalcity
the field - from here we go sublime
| verdant
10.15.17 | i love MHTRTC ryus. i'll take luomo : p
thanks for the recs bruv | Marehelm
10.15.17 | Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
Probably more classical or post rock, but still fantastic | EphemeralEternity
10.15.17 | Stendeck is rick&morty tier dance music btw | Ryus
10.15.17 | oh the subgenre for my rec is microhouse // deep house | Sinternet
10.15.17 | Ricardo villalobos - alcachofa (minimal techno) | Papa Universe
10.15.17 | Space Art's subgenre is Space-Pop | NeroCorleone80
10.15.17 | Byzar - Gaiatronyk vs. The Cheap Robots (Illbient) | verdant
10.15.17 | keep em coming friends i'll update when i get up tomorrow | Toondude10
10.15.17 | Haywyre - Two Fold Part 1 (House, IDM)
Nigel Stanford - Automatica (Trance, Electro-pop) | FullOfSounds
10.15.17 | Stimming - Alpe Lusia
Deep House | Frivolous
10.15.17 | The Avalanches - Since I Left You (Plunderphonics/alt dance)
Ash Koosha - Guud (IDM/glitch)
Matmos - Ultimate Care II (Musique concrete/IDM)
Hauschka - What If (Modern classical/experimental electronic)
idk what youve listened to so theres a few, pick what sounds interesting | Chortles
10.16.17 | hi. i decided we can save dj koze for later :~p
voices from the lake - self titled. ambient techno
| Frippertronics
10.16.17 | Supercar - Futurama (alt rock/shoegaze/techno)
David Sylvian - Blemish (ambient/glitch/free improv) | verdant
10.16.17 | thanks guys will get around to these l8er you're all great | Aberf
10.16.17 | Perfume - Triangle (Electro-Pop/J-Pop/Techno-pop)
and really doe Ramon. Really doe. Like really. We all know Skrillex is brostep. | L4titudes
10.16.17 | burger/ink - Las Vegas (ambient techno,dub techno) | Aberf
10.16.17 | Also Pendulum - Immersion (Drum and Bass) | Avagantamos
10.16.17 | yuzo koshiro - bare nuckle II OST - (chiptune, acid techno)
pan sonic - kesto (234.48:4) (power noise, minimal techno, glitch, drone)
architect (DE) - consume adapt create (IDM, drum and bass)
syndrone - salmataxia (IDM) | BoringBarFight
10.16.17 | Justice - Cross (French House, dance, electronic)
Ajapai - Ajapai (Electronic, House)
SebastiAn - Total (electronic, french house)
Noisia - Split the Atom (Drum and Bass)
:D | Papa Universe
10.16.17 | Space Art is Space-Pop or Cosmic Synthpop | DinosaurJones
10.16.17 | The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
(Minimal Techno) | mindleviticus
10.16.17 | burger/ink - las vegas | mindleviticus
10.16.17 | ^ kesto is a really tough listen I don't recommend it to a first timer | verdant
10.16.17 | excuse u if i could handle some of the recs i got from my last list i'm sure i handle anything here i am OFFEND >:(((((((((((((( | Chortles
10.16.17 | jack has been TRIGGERED!!! | verdant
10.16.17 | i am becom e MADDDDE >:~~((( | verdant
10.16.17 | and we're off to an.....uh.....interesting start. thanks ramon u idiot. | ramon.
10.16.17 | fucking lol
i love you jack man | Chortles
10.16.17 | there are some big 5 star recs on here, excited to see these writeups | ShitsofRain
10.16.17 | Derrick May - Innovator
techno | verdant
10.17.17 | updaterinoed | hal1ax
10.17.17 | Arsene Souffriau - experiences BIMES [electronic / musique concrete / electroacoustic] | verdant
10.17.17 | oh ye because i was supposed to know u dunce | verdant
10.17.17 | tru, doesn't make much of a difference to me either way; if i get bored i'll turn it off, if it don't, i wont : ) | Relinquished
10.17.17 | goldie - saint angel
atmospheric drum n bass | Frippertronics
10.17.17 | a warning, landdiverdant, there are some curveballs on Blemish that don't necessarily go against the glitch/ambient sound but definitely are different from the rest of the album (and are, as a result, a lot more abrasive) | Dewinged
10.17.17 | I also have no idea what I am talking about Jack, but this one is interesting:
Emptyset - Borders
Labelled as Minimal Techno, Power Noise, Dark Ambient, Techno, Industrial Techno, Drone in RYM.
Get on those headphones when you jam it. From my point of view it sounds just like some sort of sound manipulation. | TheWrenKing
10.17.17 | son lux - at war with walls and mazes
issa trip hop | Relinquished
10.17.17 | prefuse 73 - living life
glitch hop | CaimanJesus
10.17.17 | Haywyre- two fold part 1
House/piano sorta shit | CaimanJesus
10.17.17 | Wait since when are you not landiving | CaimanJesus
10.17.17 | Shit didn't see it was already recced | CaimanJesus
10.17.17 | Gimme a sec | CaimanJesus
10.17.17 | Lilacs and champagne- Danish and blue
| Avagantamos
10.17.17 | For Kesto, I mainly recommend the first 2 discs of the album. Disc 3 is pretty long-winded and inconsistent, and disc 4 is just an hour long drone track. | dbizzles
10.17.17 | Digitalism - Digitalism
Idk what the genre is. One of a few electronic releases I love through and through. Can't say as much for the rest of their output. Argaubly simple and an easy, catchy listen. | Avagantamos
10.17.17 | yeah disc 1 is the true gem, but disc 2 has some real jams like arctic | verdant
10.18.17 | updated4scuro | Relinquished
10.18.17 | u forgot my Goldie | verdant
10.18.17 | one per person my guy, and it took me til the Prefuse rec to realise you were reccing songs and not albums. shoulda specified, will update accordingly c: | hal1ax
10.18.17 | idealism is electroclash | hal1ax
10.18.17 | https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/Electroclash/ | verdant
10.18.17 | thnks | hal1ax
10.18.17 | lol. u don't fck with hegel??? | verdant
10.18.17 | :thinking: | hal1ax
10.18.17 | yea i don't take it too seriously but it's fun to read sometimes. hegel give me a headache doe. i prefer kant | hal1ax
10.18.17 | haha | neekafat
10.18.17 | Do I listen to any electronic? | neekafat
10.18.17 | The only electronica I've heard is plebtronica like M83 :/ | ScuroFantasma
10.18.17 | Glad you liked it man (: | TheCrocodile
10.18.17 | get that metro area self-titled and shake your booty | verdant
10.18.17 | plebtronica??? that sounds like you're hating on ur own taste neeka which will not do >:)
what subg croc?? | CaimanJesus
10.18.17 | Mine is trip hop mainly | Deathconscious
10.18.17 | 3 bangs | neekafat
10.18.17 | Haha well in that case I don't suppose you've heard Hurry Up, We're Dreaming?? | TheCrocodile
10.18.17 | @verdant: house | Papa Universe
10.19.17 | I guess the new write-ups are a little bit Vladislav Delayed | verdant
10.19.17 | sorry uni, been working a lot : )
will add neeka!
| Papa Universe
10.19.17 | don't apologise, I was just trying to engage in punnery | neekafat
10.19.17 | Hahaha I was hoping you'd put that for the subgenre! | verdant
10.21.17 | for balls/ephemeral/cam(drew)/bogan/golliwog | EphemeralEternity
10.21.17 | bosting review verdant/landdiving/jack/ramontic comedy/ocker | Frippertronics
10.21.17 | anxiously awaiting the crushing criticism of a landdiving on Blemish | verdant
10.21.17 | criticism is for peasants | Frippertronics
10.21.17 | says the weakling who changed his name | verdant
10.21.17 | yes????? you're correct????? that is who said that thing just now | Frippertronics
10.21.17 | whoms't'd've???????????????????????????????????????????????? | verdant
10.21.17 | really makes one think | Frippertronics
10.21.17 | rly dinks u dink | verdant
10.22.17 | updated for A. A. Ron. | verdant
10.23.17 | ryus!! asleep!! thanks!! | AsleepInTheBack
10.23.17 | lovely write up mate, and glad you dig it. I still struggle with it in places but I find it a fascinating listen regardless | Avagantamos
10.23.17 | glad to see you dug confield. one of the biggest milestones in the history of electronic music for sure | verdant
10.24.17 | MARE thank you! score's probably too low but the suggestions was stunning | Aberf
10.24.17 | Damn, Haywyre and Stimming up next. Good stuffs. And also Perfume yay. | Ryus
10.24.17 | lovely write-up for my rec, glad ya dug | Orb
10.24.17 | Ivy Lab - 20/20 Vol 1
Genre: half time
Shpongle - Tales of the Inexpressible
Genre: psybient
Zebbler Encanti Experience - Inner G
Genre: psytrap/glitch/funk/dubstep | verdant
10.24.17 | ricardo is good | DinosaurJones
10.24.17 | You should check out his 45 minute long song Fizheuer Zieheuer.
Also, that Haywyre album is great. | dbizzles
10.24.17 | 'Advertisement jingles of the third kind.'
lol | Cygnatti
10.24.17 | jon hopkins - immunity
tech-house/idm/microhouse | verdant
10.24.17 | heard that cyg, i think i'm gonna cap this at 40 anyway. thanks though! | onionbubs
10.24.17 | if there's still room left boards of canada - geogaddi | ZombieToyDuck
10.24.17 | Anamanaguchi-Endless Fantasy
chiptune | ZombieToyDuck
10.24.17 | surprised no one tried a chiptune rec, always fun | DinosaurJones
10.24.17 | My second thought was to recommend some She., but I decided to go with the Field. Kind of opposite ends of the spectrum, but ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
That said, if you want some funky chiptune, check out she. | theBoneyKing
10.26.17 | I can't decide if these writeups are deeply insightful or painfully pretentious. Maybe a bit of both ;-P | hal1ax
10.26.17 | i like them | verdant
10.26.17 | ahhh the dreaded P word. are they pretentious if i write this way because i find it fun and if i don't consider my opinion more important than anyone else's?? ahahaha but thanks boney < 3 | theBoneyKing
10.26.17 | I'm just messin with ya bud, clearly you look much more deeply into the stuff you listen to than I do and that's cool! | verdant
10.26.17 | B) i know boney, don't worry! although i think i'm willing to come out now and say that the word 'pretentious' is my trigger so if u ever feel like making me a n g e r y, you know what to do :~p | Aberf
10.26.17 | 🅱retentious | verdant
10.28.17 | nero's hath been written, updating again v soon | verdant
10.28.17 | (((((nice))))) | Chortles
10.28.17 | ! :-O :~D | verdant
10.28.17 | fancy seein U here! | Aberf
10.28.17 | oooooh, accurate rating on Two Fold Pt.1 | Sinternet
10.28.17 | glad you enjoyed my boy villalobos, i highly recommend all his other work, especially au harem d'archimede and 808 the bass queen | Chortles
10.28.17 | hey jak
ya wow villalobos in the lead here so far.. .. :thinking: | verdant
10.29.17 | not anymore >: ) | Tyler.
10.29.17 | too late to rec? | verdant
10.29.17 | just 4 u tyler, you can be the last rec i add : ) | Tyler.
10.29.17 | NICE!
sweet trip - velocity design comfort | Scoob
10.29.17 | What's electronic | verdant
10.29.17 | i've heard that : ((
anything else?? | Tyler.
10.29.17 | either
Gui Boratto - chromaphobia
or james blake - overgrown
i cant decide lol | luci
10.29.17 | ^I'd go with the Boratto rec (don't usually group vocal-led stuff under electronic). I wish someone rec'd Pantha's This Bliss.
Lots of interesting entries coming up. You've got the washing machine idm of 20 (an amusing and surprisingly engaging record). Then there's the decidedly inaccessible but enthralling ambient techno of 21 (wouldn't class it as "entry-level" but I'm interested to see if it works for you). A few listens down there's a looping masterpiece by The Field (changed how I listen to music tbh. I lean towards LSOM for a first rec though). Happy listening! | verdant
10.29.17 | FK i keep forgetting to listen to Midtown!! will come soon, thanks for sticking around :o | Aberf
10.29.17 | another accurate rating of Alpe Lusia | Frippertronics
10.31.17 | my body is ready | Frivolous
10.31.17 | [2] | verdant
10.31.17 | friv pulls through with the goods because of course he does | Spacesh1p
10.31.17 | bump | Frivolous
10.31.17 | glad you enjoyed it jack | Chortles
10.31.17 | : O | Relinquished
10.31.17 | by the time u get to me it'll be 2018 | verdant
10.31.17 | always trust a chortles rec tbh and no wolfe i'll prove u wrong u just watch | Chortles
10.31.17 | :')))
Excellent writeup too. I very much agree with what you say about it filling the surrounding space. Overfloweth of organic sounds!!! | Dotcommy
10.31.17 | checking some of these after lurking around here. I thought Alcachofa was untouchable but From Here We Go Sublime is making me second guess that | Dotcommy
10.31.17 | that Stimming is lame as hell though | Relinquished
10.31.17 | wrong | Dotcommy
10.31.17 | yeah I just confirmed it | Frippertronics
10.31.17 | The time has come !! | Aberf
11.03.17 | just about time for sputnik to be down as well | Frippertronics
11.03.17 | That time has passed | Frippertronics
11.04.17 | hoooooooooooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii | verdant
11.05.17 | hello frip, there ya go | Frippertronics
11.05.17 | Should add there's a good bootleg from that tour from Oct. 13 (2003) if you are interested in hearing these songs in a ~live context~ | Aberf
11.05.17 | Let's see if Jack would embrace the power of Kawaii | minnashine
11.05.17 | better perfume than that denpa moe garbage tbh | minnashine
11.05.17 | or like nightcore | CaimanJesus
11.05.17 | You must have missed me saying it, but mine is trip hop | verdant
11.06.17 | yeah i'll add it when i get to yours superiorjack
thanks abe !!!!!!!!!!!! | Aberf
11.06.17 | 7.6 is a good start Jack. It might be dangerous if you keep listening to it ;) | verdant
11.06.17 | it's my perfect scale where the numbers mean nothing and everything is good hope u enjoy your stay | verdant
11.06.17 | no, they're just the numbers I think the album deserves. i don't think about it too much, i just go with my first assessment. | DinosaurJones
11.06.17 | The fact that you think a 7.6 is a low score means you're fairly generous with your ratings, or maybe you just like everything, which is nice! It's better to find things you like than to nitpick about things you don't. | Aberf
11.06.17 | Well, he did give Recess a 6.2 | neekafat
11.06.17 | 38's next right? | DinosaurJones
11.06.17 | Still a 3/5 if we're going by Sput ratings. Not a bad rating, all things considered. Though I haven't heard that particular Skrillex album. Not really my jam... | verdant
11.08.17 | l4/5titudes | verdant
11.08.17 | and yes dj : ) i like things quite a bit | Frivolous
11.08.17 | the big boy's up next
Good luck jack | Chortles
11.08.17 | wewwee I need to listen to 24 | ShitsofRain
11.08.17 | you're almost there!!!!!! | DinosaurJones
11.14.17 | I thought you were gone with all the site fuckups ;_; | BoringBarFight
11.16.17 | jack's dead | verdant
11.16.17 | "jack's dead"
disagreed | Relinquished
11.16.17 | will my prediction come true hmmm | verdant
11.17.17 | determined to prove you wrong wolfe | osmark86
11.17.17 | Logotech if you want some dark techno.
Legowelt if you want some more blip bloppy nerdy techno
Throwing Snow for some more laid back stuff similar to Bonobo (occasionally)
Four Tet for some more sample heavy electronic bumps
Burial for Four Tet's grimier stuff
Jon Hopkins has some more experimental vibes to his brand of bumpage
Jamie xx if you want something closer to pop
Biosphere if you like ambient junz
Autechre if you desire to re-wire your very being
Le Cassette if you miss the 80s
Lone if you miss the 90s
Simian Mobile Disco if you just want to have a good time
Kollektive Strumtrasse if you want to live in Berlin
Justice if you want to live in Paris
Gaspar Poet if you want to support me
you're welcome!
| Relinquished
11.17.17 | lol | Sniff
11.17.17 | gonna jam gaspar poet | osmark86
11.17.17 | I hope you like it mate, tis on bandcamp (first one's on spotify too) | Sniff
11.17.17 | looking way too much forward to jam Porno Medicine | osmark86
11.17.17 | dig it | verdant
11.20.17 | there ya go Will | BoringBarFight
11.23.17 | < 3
| hal1ax
11.23.17 | do me nibba | Deathconscious
11.23.17 | Doss seems like a defunct project now, that makes me sad. | verdant
11.23.17 | it's not mate i just did one the other day | Aberf
11.23.17 | Anamanaguchi | DinosaurJones
11.23.17 | Oh snap, I'm next in line! | CaimanJesus
11.23.17 | Third time's the charm, hopefully you'll see this one, my submission is trip hop | verdant
11.23.17 | i've seen it i just can't be bothered updating it until i get to it ahahahah | verdant
11.26.17 | woah dj | DinosaurJones
11.26.17 | Ayyyyy. It's definitely a good'un. Glad you enjoyed it! | zakalwe
11.26.17 | What you need is a bag of pills, Ford Sierra Cosworth with stashed coshes, mates and a unwavering feeling of invulnerability while you get out of your brain in a field somewhere outside the M25 while genuine people blast out all manner of mind blowing dance music into the early hours.
Several hours later and into the next day you need an almighty comedown, horrendous dreams and a desperate need to be with people.
You could do that or you could hear a bunch of dross by a bunch of students stuck in their bedroom twiddling knobs and suffering from self absorbed anxiety ‘issues’
| verdant
12.10.17 | thanks lucid i'm sorry it took so long i'm silly | ShitsofRain
12.10.17 | me & sach gonna be so proud of you | luci
12.10.17 | glad you enjoyed! can see you reaching for its spiritual essence in that write-up, hope it pulls you back | TheWrenKing
12.10.17 | yay it's back ! | CaimanJesus
12.11.17 | My album is gonna be the hardest 6.8 of all time | luci
12.19.17 | 32 and 36 are great, hope you get to them sometime | Relinquished
12.19.17 | see ya next year lol | verdant
12.21.17 | i'm slippin but i got one done | ShitsofRain
12.21.17 | i see you still have no idea | verdant
12.21.17 | : ( | verdant
12.27.17 | thanks hal | hal1ax
12.27.17 | hell yaaa nice write-up. glad u liek | hal1ax
12.27.17 | it's an interesting record for sure | Relinquished
12.27.17 | ay we close | verdant
01.01.18 | thanks manu | verdant
01.16.18 | thk u wren ! i remembered this existed today and made sure to not neglect it like an utter shit | sixdegrees
01.16.18 | you should do Experimental next | verdant
01.16.18 | yeah couldn't find it anywhere man. i deleted it before someone pushed the stick up your ass, don't stress : ) | verdant
01.16.18 | ah yeah to be honest i only looked on yt and spotify. i'll re-add it in a sec, thanks | Relinquished
01.16.18 | A year later and I’m finally next woo | verdant
01.29.18 | dude i fucking suck i'm sorry |
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