quoted 2 lines All I know is that this list is sucking shit these days. 5 best warp> All I know is that this list is sucking shit these days. 5 best warp
> albums? Please... They are all from 4 years ago.
so what? as others have said, the list goes through phases. it's sucking
shit for you right now, probably lots of others, but given the amount of
folks on it, i'm sure there are a few interested in what's been going on.
anyways, the list is idm. as a whole. 4 years ago, 4 minutes from now, 4
years from now. i started the 5 best warp albums thread because i'm going
through and trying to fill out some holes in my warp collection, couldn't
decide where to start. yeah, some of us are obsessives...
anyways. right on, bigup, solid, etc.
new-ish stuff:
future sound of london: 'the isness' [hypnotic]
it's a 60s psychedelic freakout album. no joke. guitars, sitars, flutes,
floaty female vocals, hippie male vocals, string arrangements, etc etc.
sounds absolutely nothing like any other FSOL stuff i've heard (i've only
got the mainstream releases tho. maybe there's a FSOL obsessive out there
who's heard similar from them). some of these tracks would sound right at
home on the 'green crystal ties' set (10 discs of 60s psychedelic garage
band music from the US). now, this is not saying it's bad. the songs are
actually really good. it's just a complete departure from their previous
output. i'd say 85% mellow. you'll be very disappointed if you're looking
for anything like 'papua...' or 'we have explosive'.
phako: 'bolnes shipyards and engineering co ltd' [dub]
crunchy but polished, analog melodies + large bassy beats and lines...
'metal laundry' = wacky deep bell sounds over wide bass and click-beats.
'side slip' = robot cicadas playing jazz with metal things and zippers.
'blue villa' brings a stripped down and cyborg'd amon tobin to
mind...'plate storage bay' = aliens numbing your head so they can steal
it. overall, lives well and happily in the dub catalog.
arovane: 'icol diston' [din]
all the arovane 12"s on one handy cd. chock full of that arovane sound,
needless to say. spreading ambience with beats everywhere between pokey
and semi-glitch-quick on top. his synth lines seem heavily-thought,
meticulous, with a soft dark edge to them...some of the tracks run on a
bit too long without enough change-up (they were originally on 12"s after
all), but overall the collection's quite good. music to study for algebra
placements to. makes head-counting easier, what with all the mental
pictures of undulating wires it induces.
tim hecker: 'haunt me, haunt me do it again' and
't.hecker performs "my love is rotten to the core"'
[subtactif/alien8]
'haunt me...': glitchy ambient for rotting train stations. extended tones,
stuttery acoustic instrument samples, indistinct peoplethings (voices?
footsteps?), filtered strings...makes time-lapse pictures of paint peeling
from old girders, sepia-transparent ghosts in old clothes walking towards
cracks of sunlight in the ceiling.
'my love...': more dischordant/noise-oriented than the former: distinct
radio and phone voices, filtered string and/or guitar stabs, the devil's
orchestra over an AM radio in a wind tunnel, noodling keyboard solos over
murmuring voices...good for stirring up some hate at 3am airport layovers,
play it loud.
because i am poor these days, i've been going back to a lot of mp3 sites.
tracks in constant rotation are the ten and tracer and cellular releases
on kikapu (cellular: s/t [kpu.001], ten and tracer: 'fourth lake'
[kpu.004], get them both at kikapu.com) and quark kent's '16 neptunes'
(quarkkent.com).
ten and tracer: 'fifth lake and screams' and 'yellows home' will make BoC
fans very happy. in fact, i like them better than most of the stuff on
geogaddi. warm, downbeat idm, with fuzzy analog-sounding melodies. 'fifth
lake and screams' stands out a bit more; it could be happy early morning
music, or melancholy mid-afternoon nap music. you decide. the other 2
tracks are much in the same vein...they're good, but don't grab me as much
as 'fifth...' & 'yellows...'. the percussion in '...and the sky says' puts
me off a little, a bit too clicky, but the rest is good, makes me feel
like i'm exploring a dark cave with nothing but a flashlight full of dying
batteries.
cellular: noisy melodic, more emphasis on melodic. keeps my ears
interested and busy. beats are all over the place. some tracks start out
standard breakbeat, fracture and fold onto themselves, into spurts of
d'n'b, then smooth out into ambience. others keep a constant, bassy,
klangy breakbeat going with nice rolling synth melodies bobbing along on
top. still others are piano-crazy drill'n'bass tunes. all around pretty
solid stuff.
quark kent: i can't get enough of this sucker. i've been stressed these
days, getting ready to go back to school, trying to dig myself out of
debt, recover from a bit of id theft, and loading this record up in the
player really smooths things out. play it on a nice sunny day and it
really lessens the tension, i tell ya whut. ok. beats are good and simple,
layered with lots of interesting synth melodies. a few of the tracks have
somewhat of an electro lean, some have a bit of dub and/or d'n'b elements
thrown around in them...as a whole, it reminds me of some of the better
instinct ambient releases from the mid 90s, updated, and more beat-heavy.
completely and utterly worth the download. also worth a cdr so you can
play it on the home system.
there. put that in your pipe and smoke it. unless you're already passed
out with your hand in the cheetos and your ankle in the bongwater that's
spilled onto the carpet.
hugz,
-z
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