Dis's albums of 2007 haven't really excited me, i like the LCD one, Justice's was very 'meh'.
Caribou Andorra was very disappointing. So what i'm saying is i can think of a load of good tracks but no albums.
Any suggestions, what have i missed out on?
Venetian snares - my downfall
it's pretty amazing: really really intense and weird
that's about as far as I go with electronica
^^^
yes yes yes yes, utterly sublime album, actually showing that 'electronica'( or at least it's style of composition) can still exist without sounding like it's 1997 all over again.
Winnipeg represent!
Venetian Snares is originally from my hometown. Amazing how far his music has traveled. Glad to hear people in the UK <3 him!
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
yes. the album is great!
The Field- From Here We Go Sublime
Just beautiful, and inexplicably not in DiS' Top 50.
^^^^^^
It has to be The Field.
Was hoping Ulrich Schanuss's album could have been a contender for this but it wasn't to be.
^
Has to be The Field.
*explicably not in DiS's top 50
Maps - We Can Create
Cokiyu - Mirror Flake
The Shadow Project - A Beauty To Fight For
I guess that all three albums are not strictly electronic but then neither is Sound Of Silver so I'll assume some leeway is allowed.
^ of course
i really like War stories but it's the least electronic work UNKLE have done.
.
Tenniscoats - Totemo Aimasho
not really electronic but delightful all the same, quite similar to cokiyu
Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss (should have been on dis's list)
Hannu - Worms in my Piano
Andorra has it's moments
Overall been a farly average year for electronic music. Plenty of decent albums, not many great ones
oh and Pole
Steingarten, now that is a great album
oh no
it defines 'mediocre'... avoid this by all means
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
if you ignore 'Beautiful Life'.
OR
the Villalobos Fabric CD.
The Villalobos one's great isn't it?
I think it's been a bit overlooked because it's not a 'proper' album.
I wholeheartedly agree with both
but I'd slip Cobblestone Jazz in there for good measure
Keyboard Choir
Big up Keyboard Choir
Where can I get their album? I heard them the other day and was mightily impressed, its a shame they're not playing at the Brainlove tour thing in Manchester.
Pinch-Underwater Dancehall
Maps
were quite dissapointing at reading, still want to hear the album though
Yes,
reading maps is often disappointing. :)
I wondered if Maps would translate into a live show. Pains me to say that some music is only fit for recordings. But I love the album. Best of 2007? Have no idea. Me and my three electronic albums, one of which is absolute crap and I wish I hadn't bought it.
maps were good
when i saw them live.. was at kings college (with ulrich shnauss and loney dear). best £10 gig i've been to in fact!
yeah
Maps at Reading was clearly a "Its not loud enough"/"the whole band look like they've been up all night" issue.
The Kings College gig was brilliant, they played the whole of We Can Create, only to better it as "Start Something" live was absolutely stunning
I suppose
Port-Royal are "electronic", so Port-Royal !
Got a soft spot for
Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
Boys Noize rock.
Oi.
that album peaks FAR too early
because i love the little 'hello' at the very beginning of it.
Digitalism.
Got a soft spot for
Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
so good you posted twice?
...
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Pole - Steingarten
Fennesz & Sakamoto - Cendre
Burial - Untrue
Those are the albums that immediately come to mind. The Field's my favourite of that selection - stunning album.
Probably
Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss, or
Popnoname - The White Album (lolololol!)
A bit techno-centric, I know.
Honourable mentions to Frivolous, Dan Deacon, Phonique, Apparat, Justice, Hug, Guy Gerber, Joakim, Rune Lindbaek, The Gasman and Pole.
Also, check out last year's best electronic "album" (it's a compilation), Vertical Tones & Horizontal Noise by The Emperor Machine - truly superb. It's similar to this "nu-space-disco" (Lindstrom etc) that's all the rage these days.
Ignore anyone who says The Field, that album is ultra-tedious.
try these
phon°noir ~ the objects don't need us
cokiyu ~ flake
frog pocket ~ come on primates show us your teeth
port-royal ~ afraid to dance
download ~ fixer
hecq ~ 0000
manasyt ~ tales of ignorance
rechenzentrum ~ silence
mark templeton ~ standing on a hummingbird
murcof ~ cosmos (*****)
robert logan ~ cognessence
subtractivelad ~ no man's land
tatamax ~ wells sentry
the consumer ~ solve the system
thomas fehlmann ~ honigpumpe
bola ~ kroungrine
hp stonji ~ syntonum
kettel ~ whisper me wishes
legiac ~ mings feaner
...and many, many more that i can't seem to think of right now...
^ murcof!!!
yes!!! one of the best gigs of the year too
YOU MUST YOU MUST YOU MUST go and buy
The Trentemoller Chronicles. It's my top LP of 2007 dance wise. It's INCREDIBLE. Flawless. Catalogues all of his shit hot stuff.
^
This lady talks sense.
(nods). Glad someone else gets it too.
It's freakin' amazing.
I prefer The Last Resort
but to be honest everything he's done is at least good, and usually great.
I also own 'The Last Resort'
which is brilliant... it's a more ambient take on Chronicles.
blah...
let's dig deeper here people. there's so much more electronic beauty besides house/club/dance and trentemoller out there...and check out his myspace...icky...mtv material now? no thanks.
why eat fast food music? try something more nourishing.
ok, i suppose with that post
i really do have to, i loved the trentmoller essential mix, some really great mixing and some superbly minimal tracks.
First disc is mostly stuff he's written and produced...
It really is a chronicle.
Second disc are all of the flawless remixes he has done for Royksopp, The Knife, Sharon Phillips, Robyn, blah blah.. that's a real party cd... The first is more introspective, I think.
Honestly, the best £12.99 you will spend on music this year. GO AND GET IT.
The whole thing is sexy as hell.
did anyone
listening to rob da bank's sunday best 'miminal techno' documentary(of sorts) last sunday? - pretty intersting if you're into that detroit techno scene and some MICRO house belgium music
*and he's the best electronic producer on the planet, I believe
DJ Scotch Egg - Scotchhausen
Definate standout in my opinion
^
was about to say this.
Just googled him...
My CD is on order now. Sounds great.
MIlieu
Milieu releases an albuma month it would seem,all of which is quailty.
The Field album is quite pathetic,i thought it was a novelty album the first time i played it.Most albums mentioned on here are a joke.These however seperate the boys from the little girls...
Milieu-New Drugs For Nuclear Families Of The Seventies.
Cylob-Bounds green.
Mu-Ziq-Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devasation Technique.
Joseph Nothing-Shambhala Number One.
Oh and the 4 archive albums of unreleased material by FSOL.
Murcof
LCD Soundsystem
Efterklang
Caribou
My favourites
Sally Shapiro
Port-Royal
Deepchord
The Field
I've enjoyed EPs by Remote_ and Quantec too.
The LCD album is pretty good, but i'm not getting the fawning over it from some quarters. There's still quite a few albums from this year i haven't heard that could be contenders... Deadbeat, Kim Hiorthoy, Justice, Trentemoller, M83
bloodgroup.
bogdan raczynski
is the man,his new album is 'alright' just out on rephlex.excellent it is.it buffs my pylons.
I didn't think
Justice was meh.
Digitalism?
Studio- West Coast
has been completely overlooked by Dis but definatey deserves a mention
This thread...
proves that BobbyGeorge is right. And there's more but but my memory is sieve-like at best.
2007 was great...
I think it's been a great year for electronic music.
Cognessence - Robert Logan (surprised this hasn't got more of a mention, it's absolutely wonderful.)
Arc of Passion - Steve Roach (and anything else by him! A masterful ambient musician...)
Murcof - Cosmos
MGMT - oracular spectacular
check out
Gabriel Ananda's Bambusbeats - lovely wobbly beats. Underworlds Oblivion with Bells is a superb return to form as well..
er
i saw them doing a session at maida vale and they're really-really jangly indie, are there two bands with a similar name?
probs not
to my ears it sounds pretty electronic. let's see how they describe themselves...
"In contrast to the group's early live shows, which were mainly electronically generated, Oracular Spectacular is filled with "more traditional rock instruments: electric guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, synthesizers all played live."
hmm...now i don't know what to think! maybe live is different to their record.
Justice
FACT
ODD NOSDAM!!
ODD NOSDAM!!
ODD NOSDAM!!
Besides Burial
I really enjoyed the Gui Boratto and Deepchord albums, and The Field was decent as well.
I tried and tried to like the Maps album but I just think it's dull as dishwater.
...
agree with the tracks not albums point. i guess that's where blogs come in...
the new TTC & Modeselektor records are fairly ace though. and Matthew Dear... and Whitest Boy Alive... and Burial obvs. Midnight Juggernauts will be one of the biggest in '08, mark my words.
Apparently James Holdens
The Idiots are Winning is amazing, but that may have eben 2006
Yep, great album
It was released last December though, so didn't appear in this year's (or last year's) lists. Think this site gave it 10/10 though.
The Tuss
Rushup Edge.
Von Sudenfed
was great
Oh and
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
thats quite good as well.
was
'walls' by apparat this year?
My selection
The best electronic music I've heard this year:
Apparat - Walls
Boy is Fiction - Boy is Fiction
Murcof - Cosmos
Helios - Ayres
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
The boy is fiction album is lovely stuff, well worth seeking out,
though a little hard to find - try www.myspace.com/boyisfiction
has the burial backlash started?
why isn't everyone drooling over untrue in this thread? Album of the year no contest for me.
Probbably just that there have been plenty of threads about Untrue
Think people are talking about things that may otherwise have been overlooked.
fair point
for undersung gems I'd plump for Feedle's "Leave Now For Adventure" and "Weleer" by Machinefabriek, which is endlessly listenable.