Matt Baber - Solo Album worthy of investigating

January 6, 2014

Hi

I'm very new to the ways of Warp records and have arrived here after hearing (and liking) Autechre's Cichli and Nuane from the Chiastic Slide album. Matt Baber (Antique Seeking Nuns / Sanguine Hum bands) gave me a heads up of artists and CD's I would like. Matt has a solo album out which I feel is probably of great interest to Any Boards Of Canada fans. Also the Nunbient CD/download is superb!

I have no financial interest in this post. Only to spread the word. Cheers! Steve

http://troopersforsound.com/catalogue/

Here are his recommendations (perhaps you can get a feel of his work from his choices)

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do. (The album before Richard D James album, total classic IDM.)

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (in my all time top 10 of any style...but not everyone's cup of tea. WAY stranger than Campfire and no guitars. I played a track the last time we were in).

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (well the one recording thing didn't last long:) This is the new one...lots of old sounding synths, Tangerine Dream esque...very sci-fi film soundtracky).

Autechre - Envane (this is actually an EP but most of their EPs are album length anyway. The really, really difficult Ae stuff is anything released after 2001: Confield, Draft 7:30 etc...go for it if you feel brave, but it's fairly hardcore).

Chris Clark - Empty the Bones of You (somewhere between Aphex and Boards...really good).

Squarepusher - Music is Rotted One Note (he's a great bass player and multi-instrumentalist and sometimes his stuff is closer to Jazz Rock than IDM. Lots of Rhodes piano on this).

Ochre - National Ignition (Eppy got me in to this guy...really melodic well written stuff. One of my fav albums of the last few years, but only available as a download sadly).

The Advisory Circle - As the Crow Flies (from the Ghostbox label, kind of more prog/folk tinged electronica. The whole Ghostbox label is worth exploring).

Jon Hopkins - Insides (a bit more mainstream, but an amazingly well produced album with lots of Boards type stuff, solo piano and big film soundtrack moments)

Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts (a cheap box set of three albums of which Russian Mind is by far the best...lots of synth loops. Eno meets Klaus Schulze)