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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
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checking back on this thread, years later haha . . . just posted a bunch of my photos on valaea.tumblr.com!
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2022 Album / EP / Mixtape, whatever of the year
playbynumbers replied to Rubin Farr's topic in Music Discussion
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
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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
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I buy most of my new vinyl on Amazon at this point -- PLUS is $24 with free shipping on Amazon
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Favorite all time BoC track (currently)
playbynumbers replied to Friendly Stranger's topic in Boards of Canada
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
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Favorite all time BoC track (currently)
playbynumbers replied to Friendly Stranger's topic in Boards of Canada
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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to the responders above, I feel you, but ... ^^ this. they stopped exploring in 2012-13 ... maybe NTS will end up being amazing in the end, but I dunno
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what I'm saying is that playing with coding in MaxMSP is not "painstakingly crafted music". it's certainly painstakingly crafted as, like, computer software? but not as music, or at least it's certainly not coming across that way
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right, and all of those artists generally release 8-hour blocks of mp3s rather than albums? I own quite a bit of Mark Fell's work, those are definitely albums if I listen to 30 seconds of any album prior to 2013 I can tell precisely which record it's from, because each record was distinctive and new, back then, and also had way more depth Ae has released very long tracks before (Ts1a, Sublimit, Garbagemx), the length has nothing to do with it; if they're doing painstaking editing and shaping, I'm certainly not able to perceive it. the new stuff is just sort of hollow, as many people have been saying in this thread
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somehow literally 99% of other electronic musicians manage to release polished <80min collections of music ... ??? Why do you think they stopped editing themselves? Doesn't "elseq" probably mean "edited live sequences"? I'm sure that they ARE able to go back and edit what they "jammed" live. Tho it's not really a jam as there was a long programming process beforehand. slightly cleaning up live jams does not = painstakingly crafted music, which is what we had from 1993 to ~2012. when i play a random 30-second selection of anything from exai / elseq / ae_live / nts, there's just not enough difference, the sonic 'playground' is way too similar ... i.e., as i said, they're now enslaved to whatever weird semi-AI they've written in MaxMSP, such that they literally stopped buying hardware and don't make music outside of MaxMSP now. i mean, in general, i was intrigued by elseq and i think it was an interesting idea to edit live jams and release a massive mp3 album; not a bad idea, and the tracks are pretty good. but they're literally just doing "elseq two: electric boogaloo" at this point, like, here's eight more hours of the same effing thing (obviously some differences but meh)
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for sure, it's autechre! so of course elseq is still not bad at all, I listen to half the tracks from elseq regularly (esp. 4 and 5). autechre at their worst are still amazing, I just wish they would go back to the 'polished album' format. there's just not enough depth to the jam session stuff imo
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To me it sounds very different from elseq and ae_live somehow. I know that there are some paths that must be the same, some of the sounds sound familiar, but all in all the overall feel of nts session 1 is different than from elseq and ae_live Definitely a more evolved version of the elseq stuff. Obviously tied in with AE_LIVE/Exai too, but to me this (so far, of course) is like elseq, but good. Agreed, this format of dropping large chunks of impromptu material doesn't seem to bring out the best in them, almost sounds like they're running on autopilot these days. It's alright, but doesn't intrigue the listener in on a journey of discovery in the same way a lot of their other stuff does. Quantity over quality/length over depth? Still, as always it'll be interesting to see what happens next look, for sure NTS is better than elseq + Ae_live, but it's not that much better. everything after Exai (and arguably a bit of Exai) is just = Sean and Rob literally stopped using anything but MaxMSP as of 2011 (as confirmed by the Resident Advisor interview from a couple years ago). in other words, all of their music is now just half-assed jam sessions within the same limited palette of their own programming within MaxMSP, they're coasting along with the same sound at this point, doing $50 mp3 cashgrab bullshit. maybe the problem really began with quaristice 'versions', so much garbage in there ... i guess that was when they decided to stop editing themselves (because people are willing to pay for studio outtakes and jam sessions, i guess?) I've listened to these guys since 1998 and love their first ~8 albums so it's just a bummer to me honestly
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yaaaaawn ffs man, it's just the same MaxMSP noodling as elseq and the live shows ... can I get some actually new Ae please
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the new Esprit album (200% electronica) is the bomb in general I have to say, Vaporwave is the only genre that I've actually been excited about in the past few years
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ehhhhh ... just like cleaned-up versions of their live sets, which I already have a billion of? I dunno man. $33 is literally highway robbery imo, but the quality is high. I guess I'd buy if it came out as a physical release
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Literally just discovered this genre last week, mainly into death's dynamic shroud so far (this guy is amazing); don't have a top albums list yet but maybe check out Dream Catalogue ... probably this is obvious
