things lately i've been hooked on:
anthony rother "hacker" (psi49net)
no one does electro the way mr. rother does. the psicity comp on his label a
few months ago was killer, but all of the best tracks were his own. this
album supports that by offering up a really nice slab of digital german
electro. "dualis" is totally amazing, to pick a favorite track off of
this... although really, the whole thing is excellent.
kid606 "why i love life" 3" (tigerbeat6)
i prefer this style to his mashup stuff... it just sounds a little more
thoughtful to me. either way, i like this quite a bit. those who liked "gq
on the eq" will probably like this, too.
v/a "international deejay gigolos vol. 6" (gigolo)
i don't care if it's a trend, i really like the gigolo camp. they were doing
this before it was considered trendy, anyway, and will probably keep on
doing it when the "electroclash" marketing phenomenon has faded away. 2 full
CDs, some exclusive tracks... running from total new-wave redux (twins,
crossover) to harder techno (vitalic) to electropop (tommie sunshine) and a
lot more in between. a great intro to the label... unmixed.
i still think the most reliable labels out there right now are kompakt and
bpitch control, despite neither one of them being especially "IDM" although
bpitch certainly has crossovers on a regular basis. i'm rarely disappointed
by any release on kompakt (i faithfully pick up all of them now), and pretty
much the same with bpitch. perlon is also pretty hot, in my opinion,
although their releases seem to be even more consistent (meaning a lot of it
starts to sound similar).
i also just pulled back out my tujiko noriko cd on mego and it's sounding
mighty tasty to me right now.
matt
quoted 13 lines hey everybody,
>hey everybody,
>
>i thought it would be interesting and helpful if everyone post their
>current
>favorite idm release. something that you can't stop listening to.
>preferably
>nothing from afx, BoC, ae...you know what i'm saying. or maybe a record
>label
>that you think should get more attention.
>
>can i get some participation. you're not in high school anymore, it's cool
>to
>participate.
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