#AlbumQuestJan

Day 13: Electronic / dance album

The Shamen - En-Tact (1990)

Purposefully picking something that I like but didn't use for #15ElectronicLPs. This encapsulates a period where I was largely denying my love for electronic music in favour of guitar-based music.

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The Future Sound of London
Life forms

Completely defies categorisation. Demands to be listened as a whole.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EddieSweets/status/1601858975816990721

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TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS 🚆

The most important
mainstream
electronic album in
history.

Modern electronic
music's birth
certificate. A central text for incalculable musicians and genres.

Influenced by: 0
Influenced: 1000s

This is ART.

youtu.be/DWSceMtAjPw

#15ElectronicLPs Day 15:

Now Playing
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)
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PLASTIKMAN | CLOSER

A stunning, claustrophobic examination of regret and guilt.

This could be the perfect example of an album to be really LISTENED to. There's so much going on. Minimal mastery at work.

"Don't ask me. Ask yourself".

youtu.be/EZqY5dKgSvc

To whomever instigated #15ElectronicLPs a big thank you. One of the most enjoyable music challenges I've done this year.

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Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land (2007)

Atmospheric electro-blues with vocals from the inimitable Mark Lanegan. Actually Lanegan's vocals probably steal the show, but Soulsavers provide the perfect vehicle.

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Nik Colk Void - Bucked Up Space (2022)

Debut solo album by the former Factory Floor member (or are they still going?) contains some of this year's most hard edged and thrilling pure electro club tracks.

Flat Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2c4Hqy-BqY

#15ElectronicLPs Happy Day 14 (belated)

Yeah sure I should have fitted in FourTet, Venetian Snares, Speedy J, Plastikman, Jeff Mills, Susumu Yokota, Herbert, Air... but just had to give a vote to this ambient masterpiece

Sun Electric – 30.7.94 Live (R&S, 1995)

Ambient (very)

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14: Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Sending us postcards from the backstreets. Songs about sexual frustration, disco dollies, sleazy cinemas, dumb chauffeurs, bedsits and battle scars from all the good times. Kraftwerk would never have gone there.

Now Playing
Plastikman - Consumed (1998)
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Aphex Twin - Drukqs (2001)

My fave Aphex for it's variety - from classical piano interludes to some outre drill'n'bass - and it's quantity, 100 minutes. A great album for playing on shuffle.

Vordhosbn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8TAXHvPJdo

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The Third Eye Foundation - You Guys Kill Me (1998)

Hypnotic, disorienting, claustrophobic are just some of the adjectives that come to mind when I think about this album. The mood is dark, the atmosphere is brooding, and it's thoroughly menacing in places.

Now Playing
Demdike Stare - Liberation Through Hearing (2010)
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#15ElectronicLPs running out of slots now and keen to make sure some more popular ones get +1 vote

Burial – Burial (Hyperdub, 2006)

Dubstep / Ambient

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13: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

He's almost a genre within himself, such is his influence, versatility and dominance. Didn't Neil Tennant say something like how he loved to do housework to this album? I don't think he was being dismissive. It rewards background listening and close listening. You can dance to it and think to it and drive to it and fuck to it and relax to it and all points inbetween. It's great for everything really.

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Lionrock - An Instinct for Detection (1996)

Progressive house. A mixture of beats, samples, and instrumentation that struggled to cut through at the time. Genuinely a lost classic.

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Pyrolator - Inland (1979)

First solo LP by Der Plan member Kurt Dahlke, who sold me my copy himself at a Slits gig in Köln. Bleak, minimal, atmospheric, proto-industrial.

It Always Rains In Wuppertal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHF2gAHz9vI

#15ElectronicLPs Day 12:

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (Warp, 1998)

IDM / Ambient / Downtempo

Better get this in before I run out of spaces!