2012 : Recommended Albums List (compiled in first post)

[ultraspatial]

Kiyoko - Sea Of Trees (AUXCD003) [Auxiliary] - ambient project of Synkro & Bering Strait
Turbonegro - Sexual Harassment [Volcom]

Also hyped for the forthcoming SpectraSoul album on Shogun Audio.

[garethom]

Kiyoko - Sea Of Trees (AUXCD003) [Auxiliary] - ambient project of Synkro & Bering Strait

Is that an album or an EP? Still undecided on that one.

The RQ album/EP on Auxiliary was amazing too. Such a good year for Aux.

[ultraspatial]

Kiyoko - Sea Of Trees (AUXCD003) [Auxiliary] - ambient project of Synkro & Bering Strait

Is that an album or an EP? Still undecided on that one.

The RQ album/EP on Auxiliary was amazing too. Such a good year for Aux.

I thought it was an EP because it's only 30 mins long. But it's mentioned everywhere as an album so...
It's pretty good. Though I enjoyed Memory Fields more. The ASC & Synkro and Abstract Elements releases are sick too.

[Genevieve]

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel....

Album of 2012 O.O

[joeki]

^^ hipster



jokes.

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[AllNightDayDream]

Can anyone point anything out to me from the list with nice upbeat summer-y vibes? Caving hard and splurging right now. For sure copping john talabot, benjamin d and doc daneeka. On the fence about Galaxy Gardens and Majenta... Decisions decisions

[joeki]

Can anyone point anything out to me from the list with nice upbeat summer-y vibes? Caving hard and splurging right now. For sure copping john talabot, benjamin d and doc daneeka. On the fence about Galaxy Gardens and Majenta... Decisions decisions

It's not in the list yet, (I swear I'll get round to it soon) but this is quite summer-vibes for me:

http://boomkat.com/cds/548424-federico- ... es-magicos

[AllNightDayDream]

Can anyone point anything out to me from the list with nice upbeat summer-y vibes? Caving hard and splurging right now. For sure copping john talabot, benjamin d and doc daneeka. On the fence about Galaxy Gardens and Majenta... Decisions decisions

It's not in the list yet, (I swear I'll get round to it soon) but this is quite summer-vibes for me:

http://boomkat.com/cds/548424-federico- ... es-magicos

Streaming, sounding absolutely lush! gonna go through this a few times methinks

[aspect-dubz]

Portico Quartet- Portico Quartet (modern jazz, electronic, bonobo esque stuff)
Really enjoying the sax melody in this track.

Soundcloud

[kidshuffle]

for hip hoppers


Big KRIT - Live From the Underground [Def Jam]
Smoke DZA - Rugby Thompson [High Times]
Killer Mike - Rap Music [Williams Street]

[aspect-dubz]

http://electronicexplorations.bandcamp. ... ompilation

60 track compilation download for just £5.. BARGAIN!

[joeki]

so we're passed the halfway point of the year. Anyone care to share their provisional top 10? I think mine is looking like this but I've undoubtedly forgotten some stuff (that I don't have physically).

10 : Shifted - Crossed Paths
09 : Clubroot - Clubroot III MMXII
08 : Donato Dozzy & Neel - Voices From the Lake
07 : Grimes - Visions
06 : Jam City - Classical Curves
05 : Fort Romeau - Kingdoms
04 : Shackleton - Music for the Quiet Hours / Drawbar Organ EPs
03 : Darling Farah - Body
02 : Death Grips - The Money Store
01 : Actress - R.I.P.

[garethom]

so we're passed the halfway point of the year. Anyone care to share their provisional top 10? I think mine is looking like this but I've undoubtedly forgotten some stuff (that I don't have physically).

Not too sure on order but these are probably my top 10.

Monolake - Ghosts (Imbalance)
Clubroot - Clubroot III (Lo Dubs)
Desolate - Celestial Light Beings (Faux Pas)
Alteria Percepysne - Mydriatic (Self Release)
Stumbleine - Ghosting (Hija De Colombia)
Various - Minutes In Ice (Frozen Border)
Ghosting Season - The Very Last Of The Saints (Last Night On Earth)
RQ - Memory Fields (Auxilliary)
Various - Deep Lane (Square Harmony)
Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory (Wichita)

Possibly the new A Place To Bury Strangers album, haven't heard it enough yet though!

[ultraspatial]

Tbh I don't think I can make a top 10. Didn't really like enough albums, or like them enough.
The most enjoyable albums for me were Memphis May Fire's "Challanger" (Rise style post-hardcore, nothing too fancy, but really good imo), LHF's "Keepers Of The Light" and Komonazmuk's selftitled. Maybe Goth-Trad's and a few more from Rise Records.

Saw a discussion on fb this morning about how dnb albums (and I'm not talking about Hospital bullshit) are getting more and more chinstrokey and I couldn't help but agree. And I don't mean that in a bad way, it's not like I'm against experimenting or that an album should be banger after banger, but when you're an artist releasing an album on a label known for quality dnb, that's what I expect/want to hear, not techno or ambient. Was reading an interview with Rockwell saying that his album will have house and "bass music", because it doesn't make sense to release a stricly dnb album because of the state of the electronic music scene atm, and I just got curios why do artists/producers feel the need to experiment more on albums. Is it because certain scenes are considered dead by major tastemakers? Or because the album format has more crossover appeal than an EP or single? Or something completely different, like the need to create a narrative or whatever? Keep in mind I said "certain scenes", 'cause you don't see many house or techno artists making dnb or dubstep tunes on their albums.

[wobbles]

1 killer mike - rap music
2 death grips - money store
3 drexciya journey of deep sea gagger 2
4 voices from the lake
5 actress rip

[skwiggo]

Saw a discussion on fb this morning about how dnb albums (and I'm not talking about Hospital bullshit) are getting more and more chinstrokey and I couldn't help but agree. And I don't mean that in a bad way, it's not like I'm against experimenting or that an album should be banger after banger, but when you're an artist releasing an album on a label known for quality dnb, that's what I expect/want to hear, not techno or ambient. Was reading an interview with Rockwell saying that his album will have house and "bass music", because it doesn't make sense to release a stricly dnb album because of the state of the electronic music scene atm, and I just got curios why do artists/producers feel the need to experiment more on albums. Is it because certain scenes are considered dead by major tastemakers? Or because the album format has more crossover appeal than an EP or single? Or something completely different, like the need to create a narrative or whatever? Keep in mind I said "certain scenes", 'cause you don't see many house or techno artists making dnb or dubstep tunes on their albums.

Its prob because everytime an electronic music producer makes an album that sounds like 10 tracks they would of released on 12inches as singles people complain - 'albums have to be a journey with random ambient interludes' or whatever.

i personally don't agree with that view. some of my favourite electronic lps are just collections of tracks that could of been or were released as singles - luomo's vocalcity, return II space, soundboy punishments, three eps etc etc.

[ultraspatial]

Soundboy Punishments is a compilation of singles, but yeah, I get your point.
I find it odd that people would prefer ambient tunes or whatever over a style they're already fans of. I get moaning if it's really monotonous, but I doubt ambient tunes would fix that

[skwiggo]

Soundboy Punishments is a compilation of singles, but yeah, I get your point.
I find it odd that people would prefer ambient tunes or whatever over a style they're already fans of. I get moaning if it's really monotonous, but I doubt ambient tunes would fix that

i know lol - but if it was an artist album people would of probably been complaining but just because its a singles comp means to critics its a 5 star rated recommended release. i just i don't get how the presentation of an album affects the way people rate the music.