i've noticed that many of these never get mentioned here.
so if anyone wants more info, feel free to e-mail me.
privately - to avoid annoying the good listfolk
sorry for the length. it was a really amazing year! the type of year that could
melt even the hardiest of credit cards. and i still haven't heard everything! ):
contrary to appearances, NO - i don't love everything.
far from it. i'm a very picky bastard!
all dates double-checked, so it should be 'strictly '96' going.
Guerilla over the G, under the G, and around the G
gman2@sprynet.com
PS: if anyone sees something missing which seems to fit in (and don't say
(boring-as-)FSOL...please!), by all means let me know!
TECHNO/IDM
? - Olento (Sahko FI)
Leo Anibaldi - Void (Rephlex UK)
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James (Warp UK)
B12 - Time Tourist (Warp/TVT)
Black Dog - Music for Adverts and Short Films (Warp UK)
Bochum Welt - Module 2 (Rephlex UK)
Cylob - Cylobian Sunset (Rephlex UK)
Disjecta - Clean Pit and Lid (Warp UK)
Elfish Echo - Presents: Sato Yumiko (KM20 UK)
Flare - Grip (Sublime JP/UK)
G-Man - Kushti (~swim UK)
Interloper - Augur (Plink Plonk UK)
Neil Landstrumm - Understanding Disinformation (Tresor GM)
LFO - Advance (Warp UK)
Lobe - Lobe (~swim UK)
Mike & Rich - Expert Knob Twiddlers (Rephlex UK)
Neuropolitique - Nomenclature (New Electronica UK)
RA-X - Muk (Silver Records DMK)
Scan7 - Dark Territory (Tresor GM)
ScanX - Chroma (F Communications FR)
Sensorama - Auf Gast Der Welcome Insel (Ladomat2000 GM)
Stasis - fromtheoldtothenew (Peacefrog UK)
Two Lone Swordsmen - The Fifth Mission (Sabres of Paradise UK)
Velocette - Sonorities By Starlight (Reflective US)
Cristian Vogel - Specific Momentific (Mille Plateaux GM)
Vuvla - Birdland (Rephlex UK)
X-Asp - Terra Ferma (Rephlex UK)
BREAKS/DOWNTEMPO
Bowery Electric - Beat (Kranky US)
Calcutta Cyber Cafe - Drum & Space (Omni UK)
Cujo - Adventures in Foam (Ninebar UK)
Dimitri From Paris - Sacre Bleu! (Yellow FR)
DJ Cam - Underground Live Act (Inflamable FR)
DJ Vadim - U.S.S.R. Repertoire (Theory of Verticality) (Ninja Tune)
Drome - Dromed (Kiff/PIAS BEL)
Alec Empire - Hypermodern Jazz 2000.5 (Mille Plateaux GM)
Alec Empire - The Destroyer (DHR UK)
Endemic Void - Equations (Language UK)
Exact Life - Geronimo (Suburbs of Hell UK)
Fila Brazilia - Mess (Pork UK)
Four Ears - Kurwa Galactica (Compost GM)
Fretless AZM - From Marz With Love (Holistic UK)
Funki Porcini - Love, Pussycats, and Carwrecks (Ninja Tune)
Ghosts - Full Frontal Dublotomy (Zanders Music UK)
HIA/Biosphere - Polar Sequences (Beyond UK)
James Hardway - Deeper...Wider...Smoother...Shit (Recordings of Substance UK)
Howie B - Music for Babies (Polydor)
Kosma - Universal (Infracom GM)
Lascelles - Rock Oil (Orange Egg UK)
Les Rhythmes Digitalles - Liberation (Wall of Sound UK)
Mad Dr. X - Dr. X's HipHop Experiments............. (Braapps UK)
Maxwell House - s/t (Peacefrog UK)
Mellowtrons - Evacuate (Chill Out UK)
Minimal Resource Management - s/t (Suburbs of Hell UK)
MLO - Plastic Apple (esp. for DJ Food's _Sonic Soup_ CD...) (Aura UK)
Gary Moscheles - Shaped to Make Your Life Easier (SSR/Crammed)
Neotropic - 15 Levels of Magnification (NTone UK)
Nonplace Urban Field - Raum Fur Notizen (incoming! GM)
Pineapple Circle - Distant Adrifting Circles (Function FI)
Plug - Drum n' Bass for Papa (Blue Angel UK)
Quoit - Lounge (Possible UK)
Red Snapper - Prince Blimey (Warp UK)
Resonator - Tetharmonium (Ninebar UK)
Nitin Sawhney - Displacing the Priest (Outcaste UK)
Scala - Beauty Nowhere (Touch UK)
Sie - Ruban D'Alpha (Pussyfoot UK)
Silvania - Delay Tambor (Elefant SP)
Soft Doctor - Beats Means Highs (Pork UK)
Spacer - Atlas Earth (Pussyfoot UK)
Spaceways - Trad (Cup of Tea UK)
Spring Heel Jack - 68 Million Shades (Trade2 UK)
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things (Rephlex UK)
Statik Sound System - Tempesta (Cup of Tea UK)
TPower - Waveform (SOUR UK)
EXPERIMENTAL?
Doctor Rockit - Music of Sound (Clear UK)
Alec Empire - Les Etoiles Des Filles Mortes (Mille Plateaux GM)
Farmers Manual - No Backup (Mego AUS)
Fred Giannelli - Telepathic Romance (Sahko FI)
Gilbert/Hampson/Kendall - Orr (Parallel UK)
Ryoji Ikeda - +/- (Touch UK)
Main - Firmament III (Beggars Banquet UK)
Microstoria - _snd (Mille Plateaux GM)
Muslimgauze - Return of Black September (Staalplaat NE)
Nurse With Wound - Who Can I Turn to Stereo (United Dairies UK)
Piquet - The Faulty Caress (Parallel UK)
Pita - 7 Tons for Free (Mego AUS)
Scanner - Accretions (Mort Aux Vaches/Staalplaat NE)
Sch?tze/Hulme - Fell (7? UK)
Paul Sch?tze and Phantom City - Site Anubis (BigCat UK)
Ultrasound*Analogic (BaDaBing US)
COMPILATIONS
V/A: Alt. Frequencies (Worm Interface)
V/A: Avantgardism (La Ange)
V/A: Brassic Beats (Skint UK)
V/A: The Broken Voice (Sprawl Imprint/Suburbs of Hell UK)
V/A: Electric Ladyland II (Mille Plateaux GM)
V/A: Freezone 3 (SSR/Crammed BEL)
V/A: Further Self Evident Truths 3 (Rising High UK)
V/A: In Memoriam: Gilles Deleuze (Mille Plateaux GM)
V/A: It's All Becoming... (Clear UK)
V/A: LO Recordings Vol 3: United Mutations (Lo Recordings UK)
V/A: Macro Dub Infection II (Virgin UK)
V/A: Miscellaneous the 2nd (Language UK)
V/A: Pussy Galore (Pussyfoot UK)
V/A: Singular Emissions (Sabres of Paradise UK)
V/A: Tech. Steppin (Emotif UK)
V/A: Water Communications (~Swim UK)
12"s / EPs
6th Sense Approach - 3rd Automatic Object in Action (Reload BE)
Amalgamation of Soundz - Theory EP (Filter UK)
Antiroc - Particle Accelerator (Series 500/Domino UK)
Biochip C - Drop Me EP (Force, Inc. GM)
Biochip C vs. Freddy Fresh - Los Amigos En Electro 2x12" (Anodyne GM)
Boards of Canada - Hi Scores (Skam UK)
Box Saga - Blackfly EP (Filter UK)
Boymerang - Still EP (Prototype UK) <-- haven't heard it yet, but... he's GS!
Buckfunk3000 - Modulation EP (Language UK)
Busy Going Crazy - Six Summer Suns EP (White Line Communications)
Busy Going Crazy - Halfway in Light EP (White Line Communications)
Rhys Chatham/Martin Wheeler - Neon EP (NTone UK)
Chicks With Dicks - Musik Ohne Eier EP (Anodyne GM)
Chimera - Valley of the Spirits "ep" (Rephlex UK)
Collapsed Lung - Game Board Remixes EP (Deceptive UK)
Collapsed Lung - Remixes whitelabel EP (? UK)
Dammbreaks - Volume 1 (Go Bang! GM)
Detroit Diesel - Metal EP (i220 Music GM)
Digital Justice - Theme From/It's All Gone Pearshaped (Fragile US)
DJ Cam Presents: Minus 8 - The Sweetest Sounds EP (Inflamable FR)
DJ Cam and Junglist Posse - Supernatural EP 7" (Inflamable FR)
DJ T-1000 - Pure Sonik Manifesto (Pure Sonik US)
Doctor Rockit - Swingtime With... (Clear UK)
Drexciya - The Return of Drexciya EP (Underground Resistance US)
Ed Rush - Mothership/Defect (No U-Turn UK)
Ed Rush - Skylab EP (Metalheadz UK)
Endemic Void/Elixir - Chronos/Yesterday Was Cool (Eves UK)
Faderflippers - Clap Your Hands... EP (Morbid AUS)
Farmers Manual - (????) (Mego AUS)
Foul Play - Vice EP (Moving Shadow UK)
Gescom - Key Knell EP (Skam UK)
Gregory Fleckner Quintet - Goodbye Morals... EP (Clear UK)
Headrillaz - Weird Planet and Screaming Headz 12"s (Pussyfoot UK)
Daniel Ibbotson - Souped Up EP (Clear UK)
Jega - Jega EP (Skam UK)
J(o)ur(ne)yman - 3 EP (NTone UK)
Kentolevi - Keimola EP (Sahko FI)
Kerosene - Songs from the Wood EP (Chrome GM)
Kid Loops - Linear Tracking EP (All Good Vinyl UK)
Kushti - Lifers EP (Octopus UK)
Lesser - Excommunicate the Cult of the Live Band LP (Vinyl Communication US)
Local Zero - Airbag/Bury the Hatchet (Filter UK)
Locust - No One In the World Remixes (Apollo BE)
Jorg Mager - Autodesign EP (Function FI)
Jamie Myerson - Decisions EP (Selector BE)
Pablo's Eye - Prepare for the Others to Follow Remixes (~swim UK)
Photek - T'Raenon EP (Op Art UK)
Photek (The Sentinel) - Dig Deeper/Toulepleu (Basement UK)
Ian Pooley/Jaguar - Two Space Cowboys on a Trip to Texas (Force, Inc. GM)
Receiver - ...And Then You Die 7" (Swarf Finger UK)
Red Snapper - Loopascoopa EP (Warp UK)
Danny Sabre - Indian Summer/Lift Off! EP (Bottom Heavy (US?))
Sasse - Freestyle Man (Puu/Sahko FI)
Scanner - "Random Data Generator" and "Hollowhead" 7"s (Soulstaticsound UK)
Scorn - Leave it Out EP (Possible UK)
Silk Saw - Welcome to My House EP (Quantum 242 BEL)
Silvania - Galax Trax (Elefant SP)
SIMM - Nowhere EP (Possible UK)
Skuff(Subtropic) - Sound of Skuff EP (Surrealsounds HOL)
Small Fish With Spine - The Hilltop EP (Apollo BE)
Sons of Silence - Suited and Booted EP (Leaf UK)
Source Direct - The Crane/Artificial Barriers (Source Direct UK)
Source Direct - Web of Sin/Stonekiller (Metalheadz UK)
Squarepusher - Plays... (Rephlex UK)
Squarepusher - Bubble/Squeak (Worminterface UK)
Steel - Heavy Listening EP (Mille Plateaux GM)
Sufi - River EP (Secret Agent UK)
Tactile - vs (?/Coil/Scorn) (Sentrax/Rawcous)
Techno Animal - Unmanned (Chrome GM)
Third Eye Foundation - Semtex (Series 500/Domino UK)
Tiny Stars - This Is Future Nature EP (? whitelabel UK)
Tortoise - vs: UNKLE/Oval/SHJ/Plug (Thrilljockey US)
TPower - Symbiosis/Complexification (TPower/SOUR UK)
Twisted Science - Freedom of Noise 2x12 (Leaf UK)
Ui - Dropplike EP (Soulstaticsound UK)
Ultrahigh - Poachers on Acid EP (Force, Inc. GM)
Underwolves - Nine Lives EP (Filter UK)
Vert - Broken Breakbeat Bebop EP (Bovinyl UK)
Cristian Vogel - Demolish Serious Culture (Sativae UK)
Vulva - Science Bag/Doggy Bag (Softcore UK)
Wafta - College Street Zoo (Spymania UK)
Wallstar - Gurnigan EP (Immortal UK)
Wipeout (Alec Empire?) - Two Steps EP (Chrome GM)
Witchman - Offworld/Leviathan (Leaf UK)
Witchman - States of Mind EP (Blue Angel UK)
Woodenspoon - SouffSouff EP (Warp UK)
The Woodshed - Devil's Jukebox EP (Cloak & Dagger UK)
V/A: Birth of a Nation Part II (Black Nation US)
V/A: Fragments: Splintered Roots EP (Fragments UK)
V/A: Invisible Soundtracks 2 (Leaf UK)
V/A: Spymania Allstars - Avit (Spymania UK)
...MASSIVE in '97:
the Spymania label
IMMERSE magazine
Leaf UK and all future offshoots
Lo Recordings
Vert
Coldcut
Dol-lop (JP) (~Swim UK)
these future Mego titles:
Akita/Azuma/Sakaibara/Haswell - Ich Shnitt Mich In Den Finger 12" (MEGO 010)
General Magic - Frantz! LP (MEGO 010)
Potuznik - Amore Motore (...Autobahn) LP (MEGO 011)
Marilyn Manson. still, unfortunately. :-(