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Venetian Snares - Greg Hates Car Culture (1999 - reissued 2019). I happened across an interview with Aaron Funk mentioning the fact that his debut EP was being reissued in honour of its 20th anniversary. I’m a big fan of Snares but never went quite this far back in his discography, but on setting out … Continue reading 08/01/2020 This week I have been mostly listening to
Camera Obscura - Let’s get out of this country (2006). This album is the archetypal example of a slow-burner, as far as it’s place in my collection goes. I first gave it a listen based on the recommendation of someone I went on a date with (which never came to anything) some ten years ago, … Continue reading 24/12/2019 This week I have been mostly listening to
Global Goon - Cradle of History (1998 - Rephlex) Like many people (I imagine), I first encountered Global Goon on the excellent, Braindance Coincidence. A compilation celebrating 10 years of Rephlex Records and their boundless, eclectic, debonair genre: braindance. For someone looking for an introduction to the aesthetic, the Goon track on that CD, Long … Continue reading Global Goon – Cradle of History
Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music (2016). I think this might be Venetian Snares’ best album in a while. Actually, I liked My Love is a Bulldozer, but apart from that, I think this is his strongest album since Rossz... back in 2005. I won’t dwell too much on the concept/background; I think I read … Continue reading 09/12/19 This week I have been mostly listening to
Johannes Heil - 20,000 Leagues under the skin (2003). This is simply, really really solid techno. The production is pretty much flawless across the whole record, and everything is perfectly balanced - nothing too banging, nothing that drags, all the elements are working seamlessly in their place. Even though all the tracks are purely ‘instrumental’ … Continue reading 02/12/2019 This week I have been mostly listening to
Reload - A Collection of Short Stories (1993). This keeps cropping up on my internet travels as a classic of the early 90s ‘electronic listening music’ genre, as I’m styling it (ambient techno, post-rave, ‘intelligent dance music’ as suggested by the Warp Records Artificial Intelligence compilations, rather than IDM, which I associate with more late … Continue reading 25/11/19 This week I have been mostly listening to
Luke Slater - Freek Funk (1997). Monday morning on the way to work, I tried out Luke Slater’s album, Freek Funk, for the first time. Luke Slater came to my attention via a track on Quinoline Yellow’s Secret Thirteen Mix some years ago. This was a track from his 7th Plane alias, and the two … Continue reading 11/11/2019: This week I have been mostly listening to…
Yesterday, today, tomorrow. An appropriate translation, as this is timeless music. But then again, like so much high quality techno music, it contains the seeds of its past, the sound of now, and an eye on the future horizon. So yes, timeless. In the case of this album I don’t mean timeless in the sense … Continue reading Sender Berlin – Gestern Heute Morgen
The Black Dog - Spanners (1995). This has been on the to do list for ages, as by all accounts it’s an absolute classic of 90s electronic music - by y’all know how it is: so much music, so little time. Anyway, my sporadic listening on headphones while walking around doing other stuff is not … Continue reading 04/11/19: This week I have been mostly listening to
This release is barely over half an hour but is essential mid-period Aphex, catching that transition from the analogue sound of I Care Because You Do to the hyper-manipulated beats of Come to Daddy and Drukqs. Opening track, Children Talking, is the classic Aphex juxtaposition of silliness with darkness, innocence and malevolence. The old sample … Continue reading AFX – Hangable Auto Bulb
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