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well okay, time for my annual single post on WATMM lol. hope everyone is doing well, not sure how many old folks like myself are still here haha. 1. lucinda chua - yian 2. m83 - fantasy 3. olan mill - half sea over 4. alexandre bazin - innervision 5. george clanton - ooh rap i ya 6. nitewind - midi drift [edit: technically a vinyl pressing of a cassette album that came out a couple years ago . . . ] 7. black rain - obliteration bliss 8. travis scott - utopia 9. lana del rey - ocean blvd 10. aphex - blackbox life recorder 11. olivia rodrigo - guts 12. clark - sus dog 13. sigur ros - atta 14. boygenius - the record 15. tyler, the creator - estate sale 16. city of dawn - liminal space

checking back on this thread, years later haha . . . just posted a bunch of my photos on valaea.tumblr.com!

here for my annual post lol . . . hoping to find some great/obscure electronic stuff through this thread. a rough year imo, i'm only really in love with pye corner audio . . . ambivalent about #2 and below. 1. pye corner audio - let's emerge 2. weyes blood - hearts aglow 3. burial - streetlands 4. toro y moi - mahal 5. big thief - dragon new warm mountain 6. spiritualized - everything was beautiful 7. the smile - a light 8. daniel avery - ultra truth 9. rafael anton irisarri - sacred hatred 10. sarah davachi - two sisters 11. daniel rossen - you belong there 12. huerco s. - plonk 13. raum - daughter 14. ramin djawadi - westworld s4 ost 15. aldous harding - warm chris 16. beach house - once twice melody 17. alvvays - blue rev 18. wet leg - s/t 19. father john misty - chloe 20. weeknd - dawn fm 21. the 1975 - bfiafl 22. plaid - feorm falorx 23. james devane - beauty is useless

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/1528851205?format=Cassette&text=Boards-Of-Canada-Boc-Maxima&utm_campaign=sell_email_v2&utm_source=relationship&utm_medium=email&ev=wh_new Honestly tempted, I have some extra cash lying around and could always resell if needed lol. Can't recall seeing this for sale in the past year or two

1. pausal, melatonia 2. basinski, lamentations 3. autechre, SIGN/PLUS 4. alessandro cortini, memorie i / ii 5. desert squid - shanghai / hong kong 6. cults, host 7. daniel avery, love + light 8. the 1975, noacf 9. rafael irisarri, peripeteia 10. eric skodvin, anbessa 11. dumont, people on sunday 12. multicast dynamics, ancient circuits 13. ricardo villalobos, mandela move 14. richard devine, systik 15. salem, fires in heaven 16. fleet foxes, shore 17. no joy, motherhood 18. shinichi atobe, yes 19. ana roxanne, because of a flower 20. alva noto, xerrox vol. 4 21. juliana barwick, healing is a miracle 22. grimes, miss anthropocene 23. soft pink truth, swgosstgmi 24. nin, ghosts v 25. real estate, the main thing

I buy most of my new vinyl on Amazon at this point -- PLUS is $24 with free shipping on Amazon

I stop by about once per year lol

pleasantly surprised by SIGN and actually even more annoyed by the lack of BoC. I've already tried to accept, over the past 15 years, that we'll never hear the pre-Twoism stuff but seriously why are they not releasing any new music by this point? I know that artists don't have an 'obligation' to their fans but when you look at Aphex's soundcloud or Ae's release schedule, I dunno . . . they could at least communicate with the fans, or something? I wouldn't even mind if they just explained the gap

Literally cannot choose, I think a tie between '5/9/78', 'Left Side Drive', 'Dayvan Cowboy'

Ae are incapable of releasing a bad album but I dunno man . . . getting some Oversteps vibes with this one, not loving it

given that I hadn't heard of this thing and had zero expectations, I'm pretty happy with it (haven't heard of a lot of these bands). also there is DEFINITELY at least 10-15min of interstitial BoC music in here. with all that said I have to admit that I'm sort of annoyed that BoC has released one album in the past 13 years, and that it was their worst album. a proper new release would have been nice.

jazz is a perfect analogy in quite a few ways ... it's probably telling that I can't stand jazz (despite many listens over the decades), so maybe that's the problem

if they've changed systems, then I'm very surprised by how similar the sound/palette is to AE_live, elseq, and (to an extent) Exai. anyway I'm definitely still hyped about the new music tomorrow

to be clear, not Max/MSP as such, I mean the giant network of coding that they've built WITHIN the program which seems to have locked them into a relatively limited palette of ideas/sounds, as they're using ONLY this custom programming/coding/setup within Max/MSP. something like 'draft 7.30' had so much more texture/variety/etc than all their work since 2012 imo. new ground for Ae. I don't mean they need a completely new sound for every album but there was something novel/fresh about all their albums up until Exai

let's say that I'm a novelist, and that I invented an absurdly complicated word processing program, and then used that program to write a few long, rambling first-draft novels that didn't break any new ground ... would it matter how complicated my word processing program was? I don't care if Rob and Sean are literally creating a new programming language from scratch, the music is all that matters