So, a very small (probably less than a 5th) of what I acquired in 2019 for Aural intake.
A bit of a Podcast for you to listen to as you read this……..
Losses - well Gershon Kingsley of Popcorn notierity and Scott Walker
Annoyances - still spending more on HiRes 24/96 Wav’s only to fnd that the Dynamic Res is still a pile of shit in most circumstances…..
Saâda Bonaire - Saâda Bonaire
Reissue from some Köln based recordings from 82-85. Production and a lot of instruments by Dennis Bovell……can’t get enough of this….like Gina X meets Marlene Dietrich.
Burnt Friedman - Musical Traditions in Central Europe (Explorer series Vol.4)
Alluring fourth world micro polyrythmic fantasy environments…..engrossing, addictive
Boy Harsher - Careful
Dark, hard, synth, analogue….. brilliant, right up my strasse
The Golden Filter - Autonomy
More analogue synthetic dark dance with fem vox
Missions - Subcreature
Electronica, vocodered noodlings , rather addictive
Ultramarine - Signals Into Space
If you’re going to use an MPC based player, then this is how to do it. Immersive space on this masterpiece of an album.
OTTO - Over The Top Orchestra
Farfisa Organ, preset drum machine rhythms, 70’s synth…. barking mad, yet bloody brilliant
Sunn O))) - Life Metal
Here’s a first for me…my first Sunn O))) album. Ok, so I have a few with other artists (NWW, Vainio etc). What have I been missing. It’s amazing how you forget to breath whilst getting lost in this……stunning
Lee “Scratch” Perry - Heavy Rain
This is Adrain Sherwood at his best - dubbed to fuck - do I want the orginal album - nah, not yet, i’m enjoying this far too much!!
Brinkmann - When Horses Die
Got myself a physical copy of this at long last. Think Nick Cave going down the German Electronic route….deep, dark, immersive
Sleep Research Facility - Nostromo
Supposed to represent a journey through the decks of the Nostromo Alien Spacecraft. This is drone, more sub than most systems can take. Probably designed to affect cardiac stability…addictive
Metronomy - Metronomy Forever
Brilliant album of stunning angular pop!!
Fujiya & Miyagi - Flashback
More Motorik Electronics from Brighton and it’s a bit more synthier than usual
Ramzi - Multiquest Niveau 1: Camouflé
More late night downtempo fourth world journeys from Phoebé Guillemot…essential journeys.
Fader - In Shadow
Neil and Benge present (without telling anyone) their second album of Human League Mk1 era electronic cynical ramblings…. yum
Perel - Karllson
Annegret Perel Fiedler, breaks her cats legs to provide a lush synthetic EP of Germanic electrotech
The Legends - Nightshift
This sounds as though Johan Angergård has lost the rest of the band and been listening to some Old School Electrofunk. Vocoder Heavy synthesis
Mark Stewart & The Maffia - The Lost Tapes
Suitably remastered outtakes from Stewart and Sherwood in classic ON-U style.
Charlotte Adigéry - Zandoli
Immaculate DeeWee production on an intriguingly addictive, slightly mad journey to a place where fish and haircuts are a priority.
Blue Gas - Shadows From Nowhere
Whilst not your average Italo Disco track, the space in this is amazing, once it finishes you’re left sitting there thinking, where did that come from….every time.
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Venus Flytrap Exotica
Dominic Fernow’s other project of deep, claustrophobic humid rhythms , all sort of dubby and full of poisonous animals.
Double Mixte - Romance Noire
More Italians Do It Better, but Parisian and moody and beautifully synthetic as you would expect from IDIB
Space Dimension Controller - Love Beyond the Intersect
Definitely more electro than tech in a Sci fi sort of way without being a naff Synthwave genre. Jack Hamill knows what he is doing, he should do as he’s been doing it a while now…….2nd album for 2019, the other one….Redemption of the Cryonauts is equally as good.
Kreidler - Flood
Düsseldorfian Experimental Krautrock in a micro rhythmic electronic sort of style
A Certain Ratio - Dirty Boy (Massey Remix)
The flithiest funk from the funkiest Facsters
Iona Fortune - Tao of I Vol 2
Glaswegian Ambient come Oriental Electronics with a lurking analogue drone to take you somewhere you won’t come back from
Werther - Werther
The most simple, spacious beatifully basic Brazilian bossa album reissue………
Ask me again tomorrow and this list will change, that’s the beauty of music……here’s to 2020