WATMM's Top Records Mid-2016

  On 6/5/2016 at 6:03 AM, barbara planar said:

 

what are your thoughts on the Pita record?

 

Not something that totally shook up my perspective on who he is and what he does, and not something to top Get Down, but it's a nice sort of older/wiser refinement where stuff is pretty easily listenable (note: my perspective may be a bit warped on that) without becoming overly focused on just "pretty" sounds. But then the parts that are pretty do it very well (Line Angel, Mfbk). But I would go numb to that if there wasn't also stuff like the moody progression of timbre on Aahn. It's good stuff.

it's interesting to hear Pita music nowadays, with late-period Autechre kind of scratching that itch (wild frequency juxtapositions, novel timbres, electro-Klangfarbenmelodie) that was created by the late 90s MEGO albums (Pita, Farmer's Manual, Fennesz et al).. it felt like MEGO kind of petered out in the mid 00s, or slacked on a promise for regular cutting edge electronic music activity/releases. though there's still good stuff here and there. excited to hear the KFW and Zauberberg (Mathieu et al)

  On 6/5/2016 at 7:19 PM, taphead said:

 

  On 6/5/2016 at 6:03 AM, barbara planar said:

 

what are your thoughts on the Pita record?

 

Not something that totally shook up my perspective on who he is and what he does, and not something to top Get Down, but it's a nice sort of older/wiser refinement where stuff is pretty easily listenable (note: my perspective may be a bit warped on that) without becoming overly focused on just "pretty" sounds. But then the parts that are pretty do it very well (Line Angel, Mfbk). But I would go numb to that if there wasn't also stuff like the moody progression of timbre on Aahn. It's good stuff.

 

 

 

random tangent, have you heard this album:

https://mikroton.bandcamp.com/album/ecotone

?

oh yeah that Huerco S album, I need to give that some more listening, that seems like a good one.

 

 

  On 6/5/2016 at 11:31 PM, barbara planar said:

 

random tangent, have you heard this album:

 

 

https://mikroton.bandcamp.com/album/ecotone
?

 

 

Oh I haven't heard that one, eRikm is on some stuff I want to hear like poire_z, but I haven't gotten around to it. That any good?

That reminds me, from this year, Norbert Möslang / Ilia Belorukov / Kurt Liedwart - sale_interiora, that's a good one too. https://mikroton.bandcamp.com/album/sale-interiora

some great stuff to check out here. . thought id contribute a few that haven't been named yet

 

Yves De Mey - drawn with shadow pens

Amnesia Scanner - AS

Orson Henstschel - feed the tape

Grischa Lichtenberger - La Demeure

Abul Mogard - Circular forms

Brendan Dougherty - Sensate

 

Oh I haven't heard that one, eRikm is on some stuff I want to hear like poire_z, but I haven't gotten around to it. That any good?

 

 

The Ecotone album is excellent. The sample (opening) track isn't a very good representation of the rest of the album... there are a lot of sharp, ultra-crystalline sounds (reminding me of Autechre), and some dense rhythmic and percussive chop. The "Repercussion" track is mighty good. I only bring it up because the of the general activity, the quality of sounds, and their interplay is fantastic.

Think most of these alreday had mentions but here are my picks so far this year... but Yeah Elseq is going to own 2016 fo sho!

 

Autechre - Elseq 1-5

British Theatre - Mastery

Surgeon - From farthest known objects

Venetian Snares - Traditional synthesizer music

Matmos - Ultimate care ii

Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool

Mogwai – Atomic

Deftones – Gore

Clark - Last Panthers

Autechre - Elseq 1-5

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

Morphology - Mirror Comparator

 

Looks like I've listened to hardly any new music this year...

oh forgot about these 2 beauties

 

Posthuman - Back to Acid

Female:Pressure - Music, Awarness & Solidarity w/Rojava (https://femalepressure.bandcamp.com/)

Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun (Warp)

v/a - Various III (030303)

John Carpenter - Lost Themes II (Sacred Bones)

Pantha du Prince - The Triad (Rough Trade)

 

 

 

 

Edited June 16, 2016 by Hail Sagan

  On 6/6/2016 at 7:48 PM, cthulu nation said:

some great stuff to check out here. . thought id contribute a few that haven't been named yet

 

 

Amnesia Scanner - AS

 

 

 

 

really liked this one, anything else you liked that's similar? I dug Rabit's new EP as well, seemed similar

forgot to add this one good 2016 acids

Thug Entrancer - Arcology

 

  On 6/6/2016 at 11:55 PM, barbara planar said:

The Ecotone album is excellent.

Finally got around to listening to this and damn, yeah that was excellent. Didn't realize that other dude was the drummer for Radian, really enjoyed what he brought to the table.

 

on the 2016 topic here's a couple of other things I liked that I don't think were mentioned yet but also seem like they'd be appealing to folks here

 

Valerio Tricoli - Vixit

o9 - Furthest Reaches

Kane Ikin - Modern Pressure

Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Comme Un Seul Narcisse

Wanda Group - Central Heating

Edited June 17, 2016 by taphead

Just going to add some different ones:

 

Lee Gamble - Chain Kinematics

Ling - Attachment

M.E.S.H. - Damaged Merc

Outer Spaces - A Shedding Snake

Wild Nothing - Life of Pause

ZULI - Robotic Handshakes In 4D

 

 

  On 6/16/2016 at 10:20 PM, joshuatx said:

Amnesia Scanner - AS

really liked this one, anything else you liked that's similar? I dug Rabit's new EP as well, seemed similar

Sorry for eavesposting, but I'd check out Ling's "Attachment" EP if you haven't already. Find it really enjoyable and intelligent.

Edited June 17, 2016 by malaria

The Nominations for WATMM's Top Records Mid-2016

1. Autechre - Elseq 1-5
2. Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool
3. Andy Stott - Too Many Voices
4. Mark Pritchard - Under the Sun
5. Tim Hecker - Love Streams
6. Venetian Snares - Traditional Synthesizer Music
7. Matmos - Ultimate Care II
8. Skee Mask - Shred

 

With 2 votes, in alphabetical order:

• Amnesia Scanner - AS
• Clark - The Last Panthers
• David Bowie - ★ - Blackstar
• Death Grips - Bottomless Pit
• Jega - 1995
• Jessy Lanza - Oh No
• Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - EARS
• Lone - Levitate
• Rolando Simmons - Yuo're Life
• Skepta - Konnichiwa
• Surgeon - From Farthest Known Objects
• The Field - The Follower

 

With 1 vote, in alphabetical order:

• Abbath - Abbath
• Abul Mogard - Circular forms
• All india radio - the slow light
• Alva noto, Ryuichi Sakamoto - the revenant
• Andrew Liles - Animal Magick
• Anenon - Petrol
• Animal Collective - Painting With
• Ansome - Stowaway
• Anthony Childs - Maui Recordings
• Arovane - modul
• Arovane & Hior Chronik - in between remixed
• Ash Koosha - I AKA I
• Autumn Of Communion - Polyydeuces
• Bambi - RY30 Trax
• Betonkust & Palmbomen II - Center Parcs
• Bibio - A Mineral Love
• Blackhill Transmitter - Blackhill Transmitter
• Borderland - Transport
• Brendan Dougherty - Sensate
• British Theatre -  Mastery
• Bwana - Capaule's Pride
• Carbon based lifeforms- ALT:​01
• chance the rapper - colour book
• Chippendale / Gustafsson / Pupillo - Melt
• Dalhous - Composite Moods
• Death Grips - Interview 2016
• Deftones – Gore
• Diamondstein - The Ridges
• Dj Metatron
• DJ Vlad - Hardvapour
• DMX Krew - You Exist
• Drake - Views
• Dreamboat - Dreamboat
• EOD - S Series
• eRikm / Martin Brandlmayr - Ecotone
• Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Comme Un Seul Narcisse
• Female:Pressure - Music, Awarness & Solidarity w/Rojava
• Flatbush- 3001: A Laced Odyssey
• Fog - For Good
• Foodman - Ez Minzoku
• Fox/Soper Duo - Magenta Lines
• Foxes - All I Need
• Friendly Spirals - Hello Foil
• Gangpol Und Mit - Kuala Lumpen French Institute
• Garry Bradbury - Yakovlevian Torque
• Gizmode - Hairhorn
• Gold Panda - Good Luck and Do Your Best
• Grischa Lichtenberger - La Demeure
• Grottenolm - Postojna Tales
• Harry Bertoia - Sonambient: Complete Collection
• Hiroshi Watanabe - Multiverse
• HKE - Omnia
• Huerco S. - For Those Of You Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
• Idlewild - Live
• Iggy Pop / Tarwater / Alva Noto ‎– Leaves Of Grass
• Iglooghost - Little Grids
• Ital Tek - Hollowed
• Jameszoo - Fool
• Javonntte - The Musical Stylings Of...
• Joe Petersen - Sculpture Garden
• John Carpenter - Lost Themes II (Sacred Bones)
• Juliana Barwick - Will
• Kane Ikin - Modern Pressure
• kanye west - life of pablo
• Kassel Jaeger / Stephan Mathieu / Akira Rabelais - Zauberberg
• Katy B - Honey
• Keith Fullerton Whitman - Oto Redactions
• Kendrick Lamar - untitled unmastered
• Kerridge - Fatal Light Atttaction
• Kettel - wingtip
• Kim brown - Wisdom Is A Dancer
• Konstantin Klem - Steps
• Kvelertak - 1985
• Lee Gamble - Chain Kinematics
• Leon Vynehall - Rojus
• Ling - Attachment
• Logan Takahashi - NoGeo
• Luke Howard - Two Places
• M.E.S.H. - Damaged Merc
• Marissa Nadler - 'Strangers'
• Massive Attack - Ritual Spirit
• Matthew Revert / Vanessa Rossetto - Earnest Rubbish
• Michael Pisaro - Asleep, Street, Pipes, Tones
• Moderat - III
• Mogwai – Atomic
• Moomin - A Minor Thought
• Morphology - Mirror Comparator
• Nacht plank- alien
• Near the parenthesis - Helical
• New Dreams Ltd. - Fuji Grid TV X
• Nomad Ninja - Avond Sluimer
• Not Waving - Animals
• Nurse With Wound - Dark Fat
• o9 - Furthest Reaches
• Occult Orientated Crime - Just A Clown On Crack
• Ocoeur - reversed
• Odd Nosdam - Sisters
• Off Land - Afterglow
• ólafur arnalds & nils frahm - trance frendz
• oranssi pazuzu - varahtelija
• Oren Ambarchi / Kassel Jaeger / James Rushford - Pale Calling
• Orlando Voorn - In My World
• Orson Henstschel - feed the tape
• Outer Spaces - A Shedding Snake
• Pantha du Prince - The Triad (Rough Trade)
• Paul Jebanasam - Continuum
• Pilotredsun - Achievement
• Pita - Get In
• PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition
• Pleasure Model - Kendo Dynamics
• Porches - Pool
• Port-Royal - You Ware Nowhere (Remixes)
• Posthuman - Back to Acid
• Prins Thomas - Principe Del Norte
• Purl - Evighet
• Reed Evan Rosenberg & Ethan Tripp - Medium Rude
• Rihanna - Anti
• Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Cognition / Observation
• Robert Rich - What We Left Behind
• Roly Porter - Third Law
• Sandtimer - In Search of the Chessmaster
• skuggsja - a piece for mind and mirror
• sky空 - before前
• Sophia Loizou - Singulacra
• Suede - Night Thoughts
• Synthi A - Ignition of the Sun
• The Fall of Troy - OK
• the orb - alpine ep
• Thiefinger - Utopia
• Thug Entrancer - Arcology
• Underworld - Barbara Barbara we face a shining future
• VA - DJ VLAD - Hardvapour
• VA - Various III (030303)
• VA - When I Was 14
• Valerio Tricoli - Vixit
• Vektor - Terminal Redux
• Wanda Group - Central Heating
• Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
• xeno_ - Seanachí
• Yves De Mey - drawn with shadow pens
• Zahn | Hatami | McClure- veerian
• ZULI - Robotic Handshakes In 4D
• µ-Ziq - Aberystwyth Marine
• µ-Ziq - RY30 Trax

 

 

Here's a link to the Google Docs list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nkgrpZZY--WpzeE5JL6GR9vul4Fmk78LGY1GQyvRXWI/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks man

EODs

Not much to add to my original post of Skee Mask, Dj Metatron and Radiohead, apart from the mighty Death Grips beast of an album Bottomless Pit which zooms straight into the top spot at number one. This album I'm currently in awe of.

 

Definitely a shout out out to Jega 1995.

 

I also can't stop playing I Exhale and Low Burn from Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future. Not sure about the rest of the album though 'cause I never get beyond those two tunes 'cause I'm convinced nothing therein can beat 'em!

 

And tie me to a stake and burn me, 'cause I still haven't found a spare £35 for Elseq. Soon...

^ yeh!

 

Bottomless Pit

Elseq

 

are the ones from 2016 I truly love

Edited August 21, 2016 by Guest

On the top 8 nominations list I've only listened to Elseq. lol. 

  On 6/16/2016 at 10:20 PM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 6/6/2016 at 7:48 PM, cthulu nation said:

some great stuff to check out here. . thought id contribute a few that haven't been named yet

 

 

Amnesia Scanner - AS

 

 

 

 

really liked this one, anything else you liked that's similar? I dug Rabit's new EP as well, seemed similar

 

 

Love AS and this kind of sonic aesthetics. I'd highly, highly recommend:

- Antwood - Virtuous.scr

- WWWINGS - PHOENIXXX

- v1984 - Becoming N(one)

- everything on Lee Gamble's label UIQ (Lee Gamble, Zuli, N1L, Lanark Artefax)

- oh and of course, JG Biberkopf's Ecologies on KNIVES. Can't wait for his LP.

- and PAN's catalogue is also worth investigating.

No love for IGLOOGHOST Little Grid EP :( ?

Also, the Bewwip EP deserves to be here as well !