WATMM's Recommended Releases Mid-2017

Albums:

The Future Sound of London - Archived : Environmental : Views

Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works

Wire - Silver / Lead

Biosphere - The Petrified Forest

Aythar - The God Particle

Larry Folger - Strangers
HKE - Dragon Soul

 

 

Still need to grab the Slowdive album. & there are at least 15 more I want before the year's out.

  On 6/8/2017 at 8:20 AM, taphead said:

Also I just noticed no one has seconded Oto Hiax - Oto Hiax, uh guys.  It's Mark Clifford of Seefeel and some guy called Loops Haunt, doing like amazing shoegaze glitch ambient of an incredible clarity, and sometimes there are beats kind of.  This is Editions Mego again so you can listen to it all here youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8OLNhDAXlGvEoFraXarNdNJK7dtAegXY check this one out for sure

Nice, a track from Loops Haunt's Rubber Sun Grenade EP actually made it onto one of Autechre's ridiculous 12-hour mixes and ever since I give it a listen from time to time. Never bothered to check out his other stuff but I love Seefeel/Disjecta so I'll definitely check this out. Thanks for the recommendation :)

  On 6/8/2017 at 8:20 AM, taphead said:

 

  On 6/2/2017 at 12:03 PM, vincentvc said:

 

  On 6/2/2017 at 6:17 AM, taphead said:

Oh also I know I already did 5 [..]

No limits yo.

As long as you find em highly recommended, required, love em, .. go ahead.

Post however much you feel like. If you want to post a few that's also great.

 

 

ah yeah mostly I just was too lazy to write about more things.  but there is some other stuff that I think is worth calling out, especially a couple of recent releases.

 

Totally would second Hecker - A Script For Machine Synthesis, but with the caveat that it is horribly annoying and almost everyone will hate it.  But I swear it's not all pretentious nonsense and if you really engage with it and have an affinity for these sorts of harsh timbres then there is something great to find in it.  Editions Mego puts a lot of stuff on Youtube so you can check it out with no real cost except your time youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8OLNhDAXlGvYS1f5khkwJcvZ8LMgSLhy

 

Last week PAN put out Konrad Sprenger - Stack Music, and I have been obsessing over it.  It's got guitars played mechanically for all you music by robots fans, doing that sorta minimalist evolving pattern thing but with a distinct character to it, there are some moves that felt unexpected to me.  It's got a pretty consistent overall identity but each track brings something new to the table, although that's sort of easy when there's only 4.  Starts with something straightforward in the 7 minute range, and then followed by two that sprawl out over 18 minutes.  And then it closes with a fun curveball to close things out while staying true to what came before.  I think this one is really delightful and you can stream it right on this bandcamp https://konradsprenger.bandcamp.com/album/stack-music-pan-78

 

This next one you can't actually stream yet because it's not technically out until this Friday, but if you buy it you can DL it now, new on Shelter Press, Bellows - Strand.  The duo of Giuseppe Ielasi and Nicola Ratti had some Boomkat Editions thing that never really clicked with me, but I've found this one to be really striking on first listen.  It's got the usual tasteful sound palette that you would expect from all involved parties, which I have a huge bias towards and totally nerd out on all the small details, but like it's driven so strongly by rhythm but is so awkward about it.  But in a really compelling way, not a bad way.  I think this one's worth checking out, you can hear a preview of the 1st track but I think it doesn't really show off how good this album gets https://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/strand

 

Also I just noticed no one has seconded Oto Hiax - Oto Hiax, uh guys.  It's Mark Clifford of Seefeel and some guy called Loops Haunt, doing like amazing shoegaze glitch ambient of an incredible clarity, and sometimes there are beats kind of.  This is Editions Mego again so you can listen to it all here youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8OLNhDAXlGvEoFraXarNdNJK7dtAegXY check this one out for sure

 

thanks for this

Gas - Narkopop

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async

Jonwayne - Rap Album 2

Actress - AZD

Thundercat - Drunk

rolando simmons - Bridgeland part 303

clark - death peak

sarah davachi - all my circles run

Heorge Garrison - Shortridge EP

EP released in 2016, but digital released in jan 2017, just hearing this now.

A nice electronic idm record, wildly discussed here https://forum.watmm.com/topic/86511-heorge-garrison-shortridge-ep, sometimes compared to Steinvord, on Record Label Records.

https://heorgegarrison.bandcamp.com/releases (all grey)

For those interested, below is the complete list of all nominations of the WATMM recommended releases of mid-2017:

If anyone still wants to add nominations, please feel free to do so. 

There are Discogs and Youtube links after each entry, so you can easily check out some of the releases. 

 

 

 

4 Biosphere - The Petrified Forest Dc Yt 4 Blanck Mass - World Eater Dc Yt 4 Gas - Narkopop Dc Yt 3 Actress - AZD Dc Yt 3 Anonymous Various Artists & Unknown Artist - Covert II Dc Yt 3 Clark - Death Peak Dc Yt 3 Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata Dc Yt 3 Herva - Hyper Flux Dc Yt 3 Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens Dc Yt 3 Oto Hiax - Oto Hiax Dc Yt 3 qebrµs - ᐔ ᐌ ᐂ ᐍ ᐚ Dc Yt 3 Rolando Simmons - Bridgeland Part 303 & Walk On Strawberries Dc Yt 3 Thundercat - Drunk Dc Yt 2 Arca - Arca Dc Yt 2 Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory Dc Yt 2 Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I Dc Yt 2 Florian Hecker - A Script For Machine Synthesis Dc Yt 2 Jaap Vink - s/t Dc Yt 2 Jlin - Black Origami & Dark Lotus Dc Yt 2 Kangding Ray - Hyper Opal Mantis Dc Yt 2 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. Dc Yt 2 Luke Vibert - Luke Vibert Presents UK Garave Vol. 1 Dc Yt 2 Max Richter performed by Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works Dc Yt 2 Patronen - PATRONEN C Dc Yt 2 Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold - Sferic Ghost Transmits Dc Yt 2 Slowdive - Slowdive Dc Yt 2 Teengirl Fantasy - 8 AM Dc Yt 2 The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage Two Dc Yt 2 The Future Sound of London - Archived : Environmental : Views Dc Yt 2 Various Artists - Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil 1978-1992 Dc Yt 2 Various Artists - Voiceless Y Dc Yt 2 zvλd - Baklava Dc Yt 1 acreil - acheiropoietic ansätze Dc Yt 1 Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence Volume 2 Dc Yt 1 Amnesia Scanner - AS Truth Dc Yt 1 Andy Jenkinson - Essex Spacebin OST Dc Yt 1 Aphex Twin - London 03.06.17 Dc Yt 1 Atomu Shinzo - ​Act (+ Singles) Dc Yt 1 Austra - Future Politics Dc Yt 1 Aythar - The God Particle Dc Yt 1 B12 - An Eternal Flame & In Vain Dc Yt 1 Babe, Terror - Ancient M'ocean Dc Yt 1 Bambooman - Shudder Dc Yt 1 Ben Frost - Music From Fortitude Dc Yt 1 Best Available Technology - Session 4190 Dc Yt 1 Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind Dc Yt 1 Bola - D.E.G. Dc Yt 1 Bonobo - Migration Dc Yt 1 Brainwaltzera - Aescoba EP Dc Yt 1 Brian Eno - Reflection Dc Yt 1 Cabo Boing - Blob On A Grid Dc Yt 1 Chino Amobi - Paradiso Dc Yt 1 Clouds - HTID: Heaven-Sent Tekno Impakting Dancefloors, or Hardcore Till I Die Dc Yt 1 Cool 3D World - Cool 3D World Dc Yt 1 Daedelus - Baker's Dozen: Daedelus Dc Yt 1 Danny Wolfers - Unfolding The Future With Amateur Space Jazz Dc Yt 1 Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society Dc Yt 1 Demdike Stare - Circulation Dc Yt 1 Earth & The Bug - Concrete Desert Dc Yt 1 Emptyset - Borders Dc Yt 1 Felicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand Dc Yt 1 Fire-Toolz - Drip Mental Dc Yt 1 Flown - Cave Dc Yt 1 Future Islands - The Far Field Dc Yt 1 Grandaddy - Last Place Dc Yt 1 HEALTH - DISCO3 Dc Yt 1 HOLOVR - Melody 4 Your Mind Dc Yt 1 Hong Kong Express - Dragon Soul Dc Yt 1 ITAL - Hellhole Dc Yt 1 Ital Tek - The Speed of Darkness Dc Yt 1 J Dilla - Motor City Dc Yt 1 Jeff Mills - A Trip to the Moon Dc Yt 1 Jefre Cantu‐Ledesma - On the Echoing Green Dc Yt 1 Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night! Dc Yt 1 JK Flesh - Suicide Estate Antibiotic Armageddon Dc Yt 1 Jonwayne - Rap Album Two Dc Yt 1 Justin Walter - Unseen Forces Dc Yt 1 K15 - Speed of Life Dc Yt 1 Karen Lust - Vigilax Dc Yt 1 Kausto - Pupil Dilations Dc Yt 1 Konrad Sprenger - Stack Music Dc Yt 1 Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Find Me Finding You Dc Yt 1 Larry Folger - Strangers Dc Yt 1 Laurel Halo - Dust Dc Yt 1 Lorn - A/D Dc Yt 1 M.Rav - Common Purpose Dc Yt 1 Mark McGuire - Vision Upon Purpose Dc Yt 1 MNLTH - TRAX EP Dc Yt 1 Mopfunk - Bayba Dc Yt 1 Nathan Fake - Providence Dc Yt 1 Neil Scrivin - Tomorrow's World Dc Yt 1 Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds Dc Yt 1 Night Drive - Night Drive Dc Yt 1 Not Waving - Populist Dc Yt 1 Objekt - Objekt #4 Dc Yt 1 Ochre - Beyond the outer loop Dc Yt 1 Octo Octa - Where Are We Going? Dc Yt 1 Off Land - Out World Dc Yt 1 Onsy - Freq 255 Dc Yt 1 Paco Sala - The Silent Season Dc Yt 1 Paul White - Accelerator Dc Yt 1 Perc - Bitter Music Dc Yt 1 Percy X - Soma 25 Remixes Dc Yt 1 Perfume Genius - No Shape Dc Yt 1 Peverelist - Tessellations Dc Yt 1 Pharmakon - Contact Dc Yt 1 Pinch & Sherwood - Man vs. Sofa Dc Yt 1 Plaid - Bet Nat Dc Yt 1 Pselodux - Precursors Dc Yt 1 PTU - A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day Dc Yt 1 Rjyan Kidwell - Certainty/ Identity & Quality Dc Yt 1 Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一) - async Dc Yt 1 Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run Dc Yt 1 Second Woman - E/P & S/W Dc Yt 1 Shinra - Meteor EP & Orbit Dc Yt 1 Shit and Shine - Total Shit! Dc Yt 1 Shobaleader One - Elektrac Dc Yt 1 Smackos - A Vampire Goes West Dc Yt 1 Spoon - Hot Thoughts Dc Yt 1 Ssaliva - We never happened Dc Yt 1 Strategy - The Infinity File Dc Yt 1 Sweely - All The Reasons Dc Yt 1 Sylvan Esso - What Now Dc Yt 1 Teen Daze - Themes For A Dying Earth Dc Yt 1 The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia Dc Yt 1 The xx - I See You Dc Yt 1 Tinariwen - Elwan Dc Yt 1 Tod Dockstader - From The Archives Dc Yt 1 Tzusing - 東方不敗 Dc Yt 1 USA/MEXICO - Laredo Dc Yt 1 v1984 - Pansori Dc Yt 1 Various Artists - 10​.​VII SEMANTICA 10​.​VII Dc Yt 1 Various Artists - 25 Years of Clone Records Vol. 1 Dc Yt 1 Various Artists - Emissions Dc Yt 1 Various Artists - Mono No Aware Dc Yt 1 Various Artists - Planetarium Dc Yt 1 Various Artists - Raster-Noton. Archiv 4 Dc Yt 1 Various Artists - Ron Trent ‎– Prescription Word, Sound & Power Dc Yt 1 Various Artists - The Bob's Burgers Music Album Dc Yt 1 Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage Dc Yt 1 wAgAwAgA - More of that Jam on Toast Dc Yt 1 Wiley - Godfather Dc Yt 1 Willie Nelson - God's Problem Child Dc Yt 1 Wire - Silver/Lead Dc Yt 1 ZONΞ ΞATΞR*, §E▲ ▓F D▓G§* - Zone Eater vs. Sea Of Dogs Dc Yt

 

 

Happy listening watmm     

For those interested, below is the complete list of all nominations of the WATMM recommended releases of mid-2017:

If anyone still wants to add nominations, please feel free to do so. 

There are Discogs and Youtube links after each entry, so you can easily check out some of the releases. 

 

4 Biosphere - The Petrified Forest Dc Yt 

4 Blanck Mass - World Eater Dc Yt 

4 Gas - Narkopop Dc Yt 

3 Actress - AZD Dc Yt 

3 Anonymous Various Artists & Unknown Artist - Covert II Dc Yt 

3 Clark - Death Peak Dc Yt 

3 Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata Dc Yt 

3 Herva - Hyper Flux Dc Yt 

3 Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens Dc Yt 

3 Oto Hiax - Oto Hiax Dc Yt 

3 qebrµs - ᐔ ᐌ ᐂ ᐍ ᐚ Dc Yt 

3 Rolando Simmons - Bridgeland Part 303 & Walk On Strawberries Dc Yt 

3 Thundercat - Drunk Dc Yt 

2 Arca - Arca Dc Yt 

2 Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory Dc Yt 

2 Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I Dc Yt

2 Florian Hecker - A Script For Machine Synthesis Dc Yt 

 

2 Jaap Vink - s/t Dc Yt 

2 Jlin - Black Origami & Dark Lotus Dc Yt 

2 Kangding Ray - Hyper Opal Mantis Dc Yt 

2 Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. Dc Yt 

2 Luke Vibert - Luke Vibert Presents UK Garave Vol. 1 Dc Yt 

2 Max Richter performed by Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music from Woolf Works Dc Yt 

2 Patronen - PATRONEN C Dc Yt 

2 Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold - Sferic Ghost Transmits Dc Yt 

2 Slowdive - Slowdive Dc Yt 

2 Teengirl Fantasy - 8 AM Dc Yt 

2 The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage Two Dc Yt 

2 The Future Sound of London - Archived : Environmental : Views Dc Yt 

2 Various Artists - Outro Tempo: Electronic and Contemporary Music from Brazil 1978-1992 Dc Yt 

2 Various Artists - Voiceless Y Dc Yt 

2 zvλd - Baklava Dc Yt 

1 acreil - acheiropoietic ansätze Dc Yt 

1 Aleksi Perälä - The Colundi Sequence Volume 2 Dc Yt 

1 Amnesia Scanner - AS Truth Dc Yt 

1 Andy Jenkinson - Essex Spacebin OST Dc Yt 

1 Aphex Twin - London 03.06.17 Dc Yt 

1 Atomu Shinzo - ​Act (+ Singles) Dc Yt 

1 Austra - Future Politics Dc Yt 

1 Aythar - The God Particle Dc Yt 

1 B12 - An Eternal Flame & In Vain Dc Yt 

1 Babe, Terror - Ancient M'ocean Dc Yt 

1 Bambooman - Shudder Dc Yt 

1 Ben Frost - Music From Fortitude Dc Yt 

1 Best Available Technology - Session 4190 Dc Yt 

1 Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind Dc Yt 

1 Bola - D.E.G. Dc Yt 

1 Bonobo - Migration Dc Yt 

1 Brainwaltzera - Aescoba EP Dc Yt 

1 Brian Eno - Reflection Dc Yt 

1 Cabo Boing - Blob On A Grid Dc Yt 

1 Chino Amobi - Paradiso Dc Yt 

1 Clouds - HTID: Heaven-Sent Tekno Impakting Dancefloors, or Hardcore Till I Die Dc Yt 

1 Cool 3D World - Cool 3D World Dc Yt 

1 Daedelus - Baker's Dozen: Daedelus Dc Yt 

1 Danny Wolfers - Unfolding The Future With Amateur Space Jazz Dc Yt 

1 Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society Dc Yt 

1 Demdike Stare - Circulation Dc Yt 

1 Earth & The Bug - Concrete Desert Dc Yt 

1 Emptyset - Borders Dc Yt 

1 Felicia Atkinson - Hand In Hand Dc Yt 

1 Fire-Toolz - Drip Mental Dc Yt 

1 Flown - Cave Dc Yt 

1 Future Islands - The Far Field Dc Yt 

1 Grandaddy - Last Place Dc Yt 

1 HEALTH - DISCO3 Dc Yt 

1 HOLOVR - Melody 4 Your Mind Dc Yt 

1 Hong Kong Express - Dragon Soul Dc Yt 

1 ITAL - Hellhole Dc Yt 

1 Ital Tek - The Speed of Darkness Dc Yt 

1 J Dilla - Motor City Dc Yt 

1 Jeff Mills - A Trip to the Moon Dc Yt 

1 Jefre Cantu‐Ledesma - On the Echoing Green Dc Yt 

1 Jesse Osborne-Lanthier - Unalloyed, Unlicensed, All Night! Dc Yt 

1 JK Flesh - Suicide Estate Antibiotic Armageddon Dc Yt 

1 Jonwayne - Rap Album Two Dc Yt 

1 Justin Walter - Unseen Forces Dc Yt 

1 K15 - Speed of Life Dc Yt 

1 Karen Lust - Vigilax Dc Yt 

1 Kausto - Pupil Dilations Dc Yt 

1 Konrad Sprenger - Stack Music Dc Yt 

1 Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Find Me Finding You Dc Yt 

1 Larry Folger - Strangers Dc Yt 

1 Laurel Halo - Dust Dc Yt 

1 Lorn - A/D Dc Yt 

1 M.Rav - Common Purpose Dc Yt 

1 Mark McGuire - Vision Upon Purpose Dc Yt 

1 MNLTH - TRAX EP Dc Yt 

1 Mopfunk - Bayba Dc Yt 

1 Nathan Fake - Providence Dc Yt 

1 Neil Scrivin - Tomorrow's World Dc Yt 

1 Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds Dc Yt 

1 Night Drive - Night Drive Dc Yt 

1 Not Waving - Populist Dc Yt 

1 Objekt - Objekt #4 Dc Yt 

1 Ochre - Beyond the outer loop Dc Yt 

1 Octo Octa - Where Are We Going? Dc Yt 

1 Off Land - Out World Dc Yt 

1 Onsy - Freq 255 Dc Yt 

1 Paco Sala - The Silent Season Dc Yt 

1 Paul White - Accelerator Dc Yt 

1 Perc - Bitter Music Dc Yt 

1 Percy X - Soma 25 Remixes Dc Yt 

1 Perfume Genius - No Shape Dc Yt 

1 Peverelist - Tessellations Dc Yt 

1 Pharmakon - Contact Dc Yt 

1 Pinch & Sherwood - Man vs. Sofa Dc Yt 

1 Plaid - Bet Nat Dc Yt 

1 Pselodux - Precursors Dc Yt 

1 PTU - A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day Dc Yt 

1 Rjyan Kidwell - Certainty/ Identity & Quality Dc Yt 

1 Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本龍一) - async Dc Yt 

1 Sarah Davachi - All My Circles Run Dc Yt 

1 Second Woman - E/P & S/W Dc Yt 

1 Shinra - Meteor EP & Orbit Dc Yt 

1 Shit and Shine - Total Shit! Dc Yt 

1 Shobaleader One - Elektrac Dc Yt 

1 Smackos - A Vampire Goes West Dc Yt 

1 Spoon - Hot Thoughts Dc Yt 

1 Ssaliva - We never happened Dc Yt 

1 Strategy - The Infinity File Dc Yt 

1 Sweely - All The Reasons Dc Yt 

1 Sylvan Esso - What Now Dc Yt 

1 Teen Daze - Themes For A Dying Earth Dc Yt 

1 The Ruins of Beverast - Exuvia Dc Yt 

1 The xx - I See You Dc Yt 

1 Tinariwen - Elwan Dc Yt 

1 Tod Dockstader - From The Archives Dc Yt 

1 Tzusing - 東方不敗 Dc Yt 

1 USA/MEXICO - Laredo Dc Yt 

1 v1984 - Pansori Dc Yt 

1 Various Artists - 10​.​VII SEMANTICA 10​.​VII Dc Yt 

1 Various Artists - 25 Years of Clone Records Vol. 1 Dc Yt 

1 Various Artists - Emissions Dc Yt 

1 Various Artists - Mono No Aware Dc Yt 

1 Various Artists - Planetarium Dc Yt 

1 Various Artists - Raster-Noton. Archiv 4 Dc Yt 

1 Various Artists - Ron Trent ‎– Prescription Word, Sound & Power Dc Yt 

1 Various Artists - The Bob's Burgers Music Album Dc Yt 

1 Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage Dc Yt 

1 wAgAwAgA - More of that Jam on Toast Dc Yt 

1 Wiley - Godfather Dc Yt 

1 Willie Nelson - God's Problem Child Dc Yt 

1 Wire - Silver/Lead Dc Yt 

1 ZONΞ ΞATΞR*, §E▲ ▓F D▓G§* - Zone Eater vs. Sea Of Dogs Dc Yt

 

 

Happy listening watmm        

Bleep Bloops:
Aleksi Perala - Colundi Sequence, Vol. 2

Biosphere - The Petrified Forest
Blank Mass - World Eater
The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Desert

The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End of Time, 2nd Stage

DJ Boring/Miagma - Winona/You

Gas - Narkopop

Lazerhawk - Dreamrider

Motor - Wave Transmission
Nathan Fake - Providence
Oto Hiax - S/T

Rime Trails - Solstice

Ross From Friends - You'll Understand

Ross From Friends - Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes

Throwing Snow - Embers

Tzusing - (Chinese Writing)

Vermont - II

Waveshaper - Station Nova

 

Riffs N Shit:
Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon
Code Orange - Forever
Dodecahedron - Kwintessens
Ekpyrosis - Asphyxiating Devotion

Elder - Reflections of a Floating World
Fen - Winter
Full of Hell - Trumpeting Ecstasy
The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy

Here Lies Man - S/T
Immolation - Atonement
Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry

Mastodon - Emperor of Sand

Obituary - S/T

Oranssi Pazuzu - Kevat/Varimyrski

Pallbearer - Heartless

Planning For Burial - Below The House

Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

 

Rhymes n Shit:

Kendrick Lamar - DAMN

P.O.S. - Chill, Dummy

No Dunal? For shame.

 

Edit: never mind. Actually read the list.

Edited June 25, 2017 by Extralife

Here's my 2c on what is good so far in 2017 and yes, its in alphabetical order...

 

Actress - AZD

alice - popsongsforpornstars

Aphex Twin - 3 Gerald Remix / 24 TSIM 2   (personally, 24 TSIM 2 is a far better track than 3 Gerald Remix... my 1yr old son agrees)

Arca - Arca

Christoph de Babalon - Grim Zenith

Clark - Death Peak

Com Truise - Iteration

Daedelus - Baker's Dozen (recommend all 5 Baker's Dozen releases)

DJ Harrison - Hazy Moods

Juicy The Emissary - Attention Kmart Choppers

Mux Mool - Implied Lines

PANTS AND SOCKS - Rave New World

Sufjan Stevens/Bryce Dessner/Nico Muhly/James McAlister - Planetarium

Vacant - Nocturnal

Washed Out - Get Lost

Edited June 25, 2017 by R76

Didn't know you were keeping count.

 

Rolando Simmons - Walk On Strawberries

Ochre - Beyond the Outer Loop

zvλd - Baklava

Mopfunk - Bayba

Aphex - Field Day LP

  On 6/25/2017 at 2:06 AM, Extralife said:

No Dunal? For shame.

 

Edit: never mind. Actually read the list.

In my top 10, probably. Maybe 15. Been a killer year so far.

Ok...agree with so much above. Here are some not yet (or rarely) mentioned that I LOVE.

John Shima - Elements Unknown
Onsy - Freq 255
Coppice Halifax - Pink Acre
Nocow - Ledyanoy Album
Marco Shuttle - Systhema
Acid Jeep - Rhythm Magnet
Boliden - Surfaces
Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - S.T.
Cologne Tape - Welt
Carl Craig - Versus
dBacon - db

DB1 - Zwischenwelt

Adam Jay - Maxia Zeta
Simon Pyke - Slow Glow 1 + 2 eps
Erik van den Broek - Expressed
DJ Sports - Modern Species
Eva Schlagel - Thoughtforms
Roel Funcken - Balaklavskiy Prospex
Khotin - New Tab
Jim Coulter - HAAR
Inner Science - Assembles - 9-12
Hampshire & Foat - Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
DJ Guy - Archives '95

Edited June 29, 2017 by Extralife

accidentally hide a post, here it is again

 

Favorite songs so far for me from 2017 on Spotify

 

 

Slowdive - Slowdive
Clark - Death Peak
The xx - I See You
Sylvan Esso - What Now
Tzusing ‎– 東方不敗
The Bug, Earth - Snakes Vs Rats
Clark - Death Peak
Colin Stetson - All ThisI I Do For Glory
Bonobo - Migration
Cool 3d World - Cool 3D World
Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society - S/T
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Willie Nelson - Old Timer
JK Flesh - Suicide Estate Antibotic Armageddon
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelley Lee Owens
Herva - HYper Flux
Mark McGuire - Vision Upon Purpose
Teengirl Fantasy - Wet Eyes and Exhiliration
Paco Sala - The Silent Season
Lorn - A/D, Music For Picture
Luke Vibert - UK Garave Vol. 1
Nathan Fake - Providence
Health - DISCO3
Dopplereffekt - Celluar Automata
Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind
Best Available Technology - Session 4190
Biosphere - The Petrified Forest
Sherwood & Pinch - Man Vs. Sofa
Strategy - The Infinity File
Oto Hiax - S/T
Tinariwen - Elwan
Teen Daze - Themes For A Dying Earth
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
Neil Scrivin - Tomorrow's World
Cast of Bob's Burgers - Bob's Burgers Soundtrack
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On The Echoing Green
Night Drive - S/T

 

edit 7/13 added

Metro Rider - Europe By Night

Fire-Toolz - Drip Mental

Jute Gyte - Oviri

Don Gero - Wizarding

Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder

Fleet Foxes - Crack Up

Alex Crispin - Idle Worship

 

Singles / EPs
Actress - "X22RME"
MCMXCI - "Begin Harassment"
Trans Am - "Staying Power"
Unknown Mortal Orchestra  - "SB-03"
Vatican Shadow - Rubbish of the Floodwaters
patten - Requiem
Octopus Project - "Memory Mirror"
Jlin - "Nandi", Aphex Twin track collab
Botony - "Crowd Nothings"
Molly Burch - "Downhearted"
Croatian Amor - Finding People
EQ Why - "How Do Yo Do"
DJ Swagger - Remember Me
Greg Vanderpool - "To Violet"
Spoon - Can I Sit Next To You
New Pornographers - "Play Money"
Quarta 330 Pixelated EP
SVA Acid / Legowelt / Haron - Plafond 1
Mount Eerie - Real Death
MoonDoctor DJ Earl - Aah
Grandaddy - "Way We Won't"
Grizzly Bear - "Mourning Sound"

Chromatics - "Shadow"

Black Angels - "Half Breathing"

Broken Social Scene - "Halfway Home"

Edited July 13, 2017 by joshuatx

Neat, following

My favs mid 2017

 

Shinichi Atobe - From The Heart Its A Start A Work Of Art

Dopplereffekt - Cellular Automata

Dunal - Dunal Chronicles I

Actress - AZD

Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica

Jodey Kendrick - EDM i & ii

Shackleton - Sferic Ghost Transmits

Gas - Narkopop

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On The Echoing Green

Jasmine Guffond - Traced

+1 for Jasmine Guffond, just got hip to that album and it is fucking legit.

So one more noteworthy release that snuck out right at the end of June, Keith Fullerton Whitman's 6CD set "Late Monoliths, 2011-2013".  This is him going mostly hands-free, building the composition in the machine and letting it play out without intervention.  I'm taking it slow, still haven't heard the last one, but I have been loving this.  A good mix of incredibly tasteful synth timbres on both the prettier ambient first three and the other rougher ones.  I found disc 2 to be a bit not to my taste, something about it bothered me, but even with that, it'll be fun to revisit and figure out what exactly it was that did that.  So far all the other ones are sounding top notch to me, if this is your sort of thing I know it's a bit pricey but for the time you can get with it, it's a good value imo.

 

https://broken-music.com/products/keith-fullerton-whitman-late-monoliths

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