"A batch of faulty transistors", indeed. :) From The Wire #379, September 2015:



http://808themovie.com/

INTERNET BULLY who thinks Nazis are funny.

Where's all the electro love at?

Anyone ever dig into PROJECT MOONCIRCLE? The label behind KidKavevil's brilliant 2014 album My Little Ghost?

Well, Submerse is on there too, and I'm listening to their album Algorithms and Ghosts. It's pretty goddamn fantastic.

Nobody's coming to my gastropub anymore. Don't you realize I opened this place with mob money? The family send me on a one-way trip down the river.

ANYHOO MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!

Holy shit the new Arca record is OUT y'all.

Listening to this epic track "Saunter" that sounds like Mozart played with switchblades.

Arca - "Saunter" (YouTube)

Listen, friends! Arca = the real deal

I've recently discovered Floating Points, and man am I falling in love with these guys. They have one full length album, but for my money this live performance on KEXP is the best thing they've put out. If you don't have time to listen to the full thing skip to the 30 minute mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqu5NdFMf8

I'm expecting their next album to be great.

Yeah, Floating Points is good shit.

https://soundcloud.com/throttleclark/peak-magnetic

jury's still out on the new Clark... hate to beat a dead horse, but it seems like there's a lot going on in his tracks, except it's hard to hear (or get 'inside', around the sounds) because of the compressed quality. He reminds me of Bibio

Ah! Thanks for sparking a conversation!

Yes, I know what you mean about Clark. I think his self-titled album was great, but the rest is touch and go. Same with Bibio. I heard a Bibio track once and it floored me (can't recall the name at the moment) so I bought the album and it was totally missable.

Bonobo is a bit guilty of this kind of thing too. Capable of great things, but usually just resorts to half-baked, pretty-good-nothing-more stuff.

Reliable electronic artists are rare. There's RDJ, Koze, Nicolas Jaar, Vladislav Delay, and... I'm having a hard time thinking of others just now.

That's because you're being a chauvinist pig. :D To be honest, I don't think I've ever heard any of the cats you mention, so I don't know whether the artists I have in mind are even in the same galaxy subgenre/style-wise, but reliable they sure are:

Laurel Halo
Klara Lewis
Holly Herndon
Kara-Lis Coverdale

Jlin is reliable. She's a chick.

INT. COSTELLO'S APARTMENT. NIGHT

COSTELLO
Do you trust him?

MISTER FRENCH
Well, these days... who is reliable?

COSTELLO
His uncle Jackie was. Yeah... You can't trust a guy who acts like he's got nothing to lose.

MISTER FRENCH
I'm reliable.

COSTELLO
Arnold, you're one in a million.

MISTER FRENCH
Ten. Ten million.

COSTELLO
What about your wife, Arnold?

MISTER FRENCH
I thought she was.

COSTELLO
[Laughing] She wasn't!

MISTER FRENCH
Well she got reliable.

SILENT FLASH of MISTER FRENCH strangling his wife with a wire in a 70's bathroom.

GWEN
Don't you people ever shut the fuck up?!

Departed. Nice.

When I was searching for The Departed's transcript on Google, the first suggestion on the site's search bar was "departed 2". How in all that is fuck could there be a Departed 2? Everybody's dead! Let's review: Martin Sheen got thrown off a roof by Jack Nicholson's crew. Ray Winston shot himself in the face/head. Nicholson was shot dead by Matt Damon. Leonardo DiCaprio was shot dead by James Badge Dale. Dale also shot Anthony Anderson dead. Dale was shot dead by Damon. Damon was shot dead by Mark Wahlberg. Plus, Wahlberg was fired by Alec Baldwin and Vera Farmiga moved to Bates Motel. So everyfuckingbody's DEAD!

https://rolandosimmons.bandcamp.com/album/yuore-life

this is sweet.. in the vein of rephlex artists like Monolith and AFX

If you haven't heard this, listen now please. Immediate and beautiful and haunting with just enough groove.

Recondite - "Levi" (club edit)

From this album with the badass cover:

Gold Panda is fuckin mint, whatever the most recent LP was called is well worth a nosey. Last album for about five years where I've heard one song from it in a record store and bought it there and then. Been dipping a dirty toe into the murky waters of ambient/tech house/minimal techno/etc etc recently, having seemingly explored the vast majority of guitar based and jazz stuff I can be arsed with at the moment. FKA Twigs is worth a go. Someone else mentioned Arca, which I'll second. Latest Bjork, whilst she's an old hand by this point, is outstanding and is half produced by Arca, so gets bonus contemporary points.

Without sounding like too much of a knob, the intersection between minimal/ambient dance/IDM and avant pop seems to be where the really interesting stuff is happening right now, stuff that has a chunk of Bjork in its DNA but is pulling from all sources, from Siouxsie and the Banshees and jungle 12"s and random old vocal jazz that pops up on Youtube in equal measure. ANOHNI is another one. Oh, I've also been playing a lot of the field, that guy, alex wietsel or something, is seriously on the case.

Well said. I agree about Gold Panda. I always forget about him until I hear one of his albums, like Half of Where You Are. That was a good one. I have to admit I let Good Luck and Do Your Best slip by me a bit.

Gold Panda had a song on DJ Koze's fantastic 2016 label comp Pampa vol. 1 called "Black Voices" that's pretty darn good. If you're into Panda, check out that comp (you can ignore the Jamie xx track, because who needs that guy anyway). DJ Koze is, for my money, the most gifted and interesting electronic artist to emerge in the '00s/'10s, and his 2013 album Amygdala is probably one of the top 5 albums of the decade in any genre. His label comp shows off a lot of similar talent, as do his two major remix albums.

FKA Twigs fascinates me, but also makes me miss the fuck out of Portishead. Why o why would a band defy the odds by coming out of hibernation after two classic albums to make the best album of their career only to slink back into hiding? It's not fair!!

Arca's the shit. That was probably me that name-dropped him.

ANOHNI is much more vital and interesting than the artist's previous work as Antony or Antony & the Johnsons. Thanks to Hudson Mohawke in part for that. Btw: check out Hudson Mohawke's 2015 track "Indian Steps" which features ANOHNI/Antony. It's a good'un.

Anyway, yeah. Thanks for sharing. Of course Björk is seminal. She's managed to dodge trends while simultaneously embracing and causing them. I don't really think of her as an artist to note in the current climate because she's been around for so long, doing her thing and making it work. Still, Vulnicura was simply arresting. She's a treasure, for sure, but she's never been one of my favorite artists.

Listen to Koze. More people need to listen to DJ Koze aka Adolf Noise aka Kosi Kos because few artists are capable of creating music that is at once so disarmingly intimate, whimsically colorful and movement-enduring. I have no fucking clue why this guy isn't a darling of the American music press yet. It's a crime, goddammit.

i'm listening to one of slavo's demo tracks *right now* and it's very good. i love the fat/vintage/analog synthesizer sound of whatever instrument that is.

can't say a lot more because this is a huge secret. huuuge!

but no, seriously, i'm really liking it

I know, right? Fucking Slavo is legit. He messaged me a recording of that show he put up recently and OH MY GOD HOW HAVE I NOT PUT IT ON MY IPOD YET?!

Fucking amazing. Seriously.

Been listening to loads of those synthwave mixes on youtube. Very 80s-inspired. The sort of stuff you listen to riding around at night on GTA. It's impossible to really defend artistically but it ticks my nostalgia box

This is a good one ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85bkCmaOh4o

Goddammit, I foegot to keep the new Actress album on my radar. I was SURE it wasn't out until May, but apparently it dropped on April 19. For all I know I've already posted about it being out and forgotten.

Got it and listened to it though. Good stuff. Not as good as Ghettoville, but that's to be expected.

If you haven't, head over to your streaming music service of choice (or, like, a record store) and pick up Actress - AZD (Ninja Tune)

The new Jlin album Black Origami (Planet Mu) is really something else. It's just extremely intense, and has an almost elemental sound. It's like Jlin cooked up a footwork reduction with a Walter White chemistry set.

I don't know if I've heard a more impressive work in or around the "footwork" semi-genre all year.

ATTENTION:

APHEX TWIN IS DOING SOMETHIG.
I repeat: APHEX TWIN IS DPING SOMETHING!!!

This is not a drill.

Stereogum — Aphex Twin is up to something...

Here's a direct link to the weird ass fucking creepy video:
WTF?

it's going to be a mix for nts.........people are excited because of a tank or a vault or whatever.

Are you sure that's all it's going to be? I haven't really read up on it. Just saw the cryptic post and promptly shat my pants.

The new Lips has grown on me. Fits in this thread kind of.

Todd Terje back just in time with a brilliant "cover" of "Maskindans" that is entirely his own. Featuring Det Gyline Triangel. What a satisfying, epic fucking dance track!

Todd Terje - "Maskindans" (YouTube)



Todd, please hit us with a proper follow-up to It's Album Time!!! This is important! Not quite as important as that Amygdala follow-up I've been waiting for slow-ass DJ Koze to make for nearly half a decade, but still.

Terje is pretty much without peer when it comes to this kind of dance music.

didn't read the whole thread but just came hear to say the new Pearson Sound is fantastic - not surprising considering all he releases is next level, but this one may be even better than his usual stuff

EDIT: oh yeah and jlin's album is indeed really really impressive

Thanks man!! I will check that shit stat!

You should come here more often. Recommend stuff. Doesn't need to be new.

Place is a fucking ghost town most of the time.

yeah that's exactly why i forget about this place most of the time haha - just can't think about checking it as much as I did 10 years ago :( if there's a proper electronic thread i might pop here more often though!

Whattaya mean "if" there's a proper electronic thread. :D

Get it? Cuz that's what this thread is.

I've posted a shit-ton of recommendations and links to some really kickass music here. I will continue to do so, and bitches can thank me when they've caught up.

Please come more often.

haha yeah sure.
btw, you should also check parris' new ep on hemlock, which is out tomorrow i think, beautiful stuff. think this may finally get him the recognition he deserves - man's got serious talent

Ok, you got me. I don't believe I'm familiar with Parris. I just went nuts searching Apple Music, then hit Resident Advisor when Apple yielded no results (aside from a female rapper named PARRI$ who I didn't care to look into further).
RA has a small page devoted to an artist named Parris, with absolutely minimal citation, and no reference to Hemlock.

So I went to Hemlock's page, and yup, there was something right at the top. Kind of hard to find additional information -- just says the new single or EP is out "June 2017," but I checked the "Your Kiss is Sour" track, and you're right. It's quite something.

The video is 100% disgusting though. Millipedes and pomegranates and maybe some ultra close-ups of spiders and Venus flytraps? I don't know. Deeply gross though.

It's here if you haven't seen it.

Tell me more about this guy! I'm intrigued.

he's this guy: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3733236-Parris-2
He used to be in the Keysound-affiliated "130" grimey scene alongside guys like Wen or Beneath before they all got to other things. There's one of his tracks on Keysound's 2014 Certified Connections compilation (which you should check out - Keysound artists were mad mad creative at that time). I actually DJed before him on a night at that time haha. Anyway yeah his style evolved a lot and his new ep is wicked :eek:

EDIT: oh yeah and he runs Soundman Chronicles, which discography is pretty much perfect - everything from SMNCHR004 to 007 is gold

Cool thanks.

Hey, are you into DJ Koze (aka Adolf Noise) at all? I mention him pretty regularly on this board, but I've never really received even a smidgen of acknowledgment from anyone. The few people I've talked with over pm about dance/techno/electronic stuff have largely either not listened to my recommendations of his, or have simply not been into it, but ... Jesus Christ, for my money he is by far the most interesting artist in the Euro-dance scene.

Here's the first song from his 2013 album Amygdala. The entire album is enchanting and demented and glorious, but this is the song that's probably most likely to be widely enjoyable. Give a listen and please tell me you get it!

DJ Koze - "Track ID Anyone?" (YouTube)

Hello SYRFox - nice to see in "pop-in" every now and then......hope all is well!

hey :) i'm glad to have news as well - don't use twitter as much as i'd like to so always a bit hard to keep in touch! yeah I'm good - nearly done with the exams that got me stuck for the past two years, and plenty of exciting music projects ahead! how about you, hope you're good too?

yeah I like his stuff, he's really done brilliant records - Amygdala being one of them. He's a fantastic DJ as well! Saw him 5 years ago and his set was great. I don't listen to him that much because I'm more into the bass music side of electronic music, but yeah he's really good. Did you listen to Nathan Fake's latest album on Ninja Tune? Think it might be right up your alley :)

Fucking FINALLY! Someone acknowledges DJ Koze! Thank fucking Christ!!!
Yes, I think that between his solo albums, his production work, his DJing, and his playlists and random singles ("XTC" *drool*), he's pretty much the best artist making that kind of music. Everything he touches has that distinct "Kosi" touch (see his remix of Super Flu's "Jo Gurt" ... my god, it's a completely different song!)

But yeah, it sounds like you're into the bassier stuff. Which I also love, but it doesn't quite capture my imagination and emotions as much as what Koze does.

Re: Nathan Fake ... I *love* his new track with Prurient, "DEGREELESSNESS," but that's all I've heard from Providence at this point.

EDIT: Listening to Fake's Providence on Apple Music now, and you're right. It's directly up my alley. Very good indeed. Like, holy shit!!

So, turns out guest was right about that last Aphex Twin thing being just an overhyped publicity stunt for NTS.

BUT...

Now there's another cryptic countdown on the official Aphex Twin page. Can't help but wonder if he might be stoking the fires for the release of a new proper album.

http://aphextwin.warp.net

Proper albums are few and far between in contemporary electronic music. Too many fuckin' EPs, video game soundtracks, 3-track singles, data dumps, etc. To me, none of that shit can compare to getting an actual fucking album, with packaging and a theme and art and a tour, signaling a new era for an artist.

It's been almost 3 years since SYRO dropped, and defied expectation by being really goddamn good, if quite a bit less revolutionary than the RDJ Album, I Care Because You Do, Druqks, or the essential Selected Ambient Works records.

I know RDJ has been busy in the years since SYRO, with at least one substantial project coming out every 8 months or so, but as good as, say, Cheetah was, it was still not quite enough to give me my fix.

Speaking of that, when in the bloody hell is DJ Koze going to properly follow up Amygdala?! Goddamn the man!!!