didn't get a chance to go through this closely; this is all tentative, and only the first half of the year, but the italics are stuff i really deeply enjoyed.
cloud nothings - attack on memory
leila - u&i
eyes - a candle in the crown of the dawn (re-release)
venetian snares - affectionate
loma prieta - IV
a place to bury strangers - onwards to the wall
frank riggio - psychexcess I
squarepusher - ufabulum
matthew bourne - montauk variations
tennis bafra - abulia jubilee
disappears - pre-language
school of seven bells - ghostory
monolake - ghosts
child bite - monomania
venetian snares - fool the detector
julia holter - ekstasis
extra life - dream seeds
actress - r.i.p.
katarrhaktes - ascension
kosmonaut - green
eivind opsvik - overseas IV
emptyset - medium
torche - harmonicraft
led er est - the diver
white lung - sorry
slugabed - time team
animal faces - anomie
marriages - kitsune
kosmonaut - the four directions of the universe
adderall canyonly - btonal
dreamers
sonnymoon
jherek bischoff - composed
pinkish black
swans - the seer
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
best of most of 2011
01/01: david shane smith - controls sm
01/01: this city defects - patterns
01/07: cycle~ 440 - the geography of collapsing structures
01/11: x-ray press - uvb-76
01/18: braids - native speaker
01/18: white laces
01/24: the joy formidable - the big roar
01/25: deerhoof vs. evil
01/25: papercranes - let's make babies in the woods
01/25: vampillia - alchemic heart
01/27: katarrhaktes - pareidolia
01/31: pepepiano
01/31: seefeel
02/01: delicate steve - wondervisions
02/04: ...and you will know us by the trail of the dead - tao of the dead
02/07: conquering animal sound - kammerspiel
02/07: papaye - la chaleur
02/08: wires under tension - light science
02/11: coh - iiron
02/15: hey rosetta! - seeds
02/15: phaedra - the sea
02/15: sonic youth - simon werner a disparu
02/20: namine - neon
02/22: colin stetson - a new history of warfare vol. 2: judges
02/22: the psychic paramount - II
03/01: adderall canyonly - it was a dark and stoney night
03/07: cyclo - id
03/08: ahleuchatistas - location location
03/08: defeater - empty days & sleepless nights
03/15: al di meola - pursuit of radical rhapsody
03/17: adebisi shank - this is the second album of a band called adebisi shank
03/22: stendeck - scintillia
03/23: salyu×salyu - s(o)un(d)beams
03/28: rene hell - the terminal symphony
03/29: gangpol & mit - the 1000 softcore tourist people club
03/29: the alps - easy action
04/01: adderall canyonly - asuuna
04/11: hauschka - salon des amateurs
04/12: thursday - no devolucion
04/15: talfast - machination
04/21: slew52 - catalog
04/26: skeletons - people
05/05: noxious foxes - legs
05/06: man man - life fantastic
05/10: gang gang dance - eye contact
05/16: dreissk - the finding
05/16: joshua stamper - interstitials
05/16: william d. drake - the rising of the lights
05/17: austra - feel it break
05/17: screens - dead house
05/17: son lux - we are rising
05/23: david sylvian - died in the wool
05/23: thurston moore - demolished thoughts
05/24: amon tobin - isam
05/24: emptyset - demiurge
05/24: human eye - they came from the sky
05/24: white denim - d
05/28: fay wrays - strange confessor
05/30: three trapped tigers - route one or die
05/30: united fruit - fault lines
06/02: lefolk - intermitter
06/02: manorexia - dinoflagellate blooms
06/03: snowman - absence
06/06: fucked up - david comes to life
06/06: slugabed - moonbeam rider
06/06: touche amore - parting the sea between brightness and me
06/14: the dear hunter - the colour spectrum (jessica's edit)
06/16: marihiko hara – credo
06/20: blanck mass
06/20: ghosting season - far end of the graveyard
06/21: the nightey nite - dimples
06/24: william bowers - piano works
06/30: night birds - the other side of darkness
07/01: oxykitten - the streets were paved with circuit boards
07/04: whatever brains
07/05: ghibli - pythia
07/08: tangled thoughts of leaving - deaden the fields
07/11: gazelle twin - entire city
07/19: city of ships - minor world
07/19: prurient - bermuda drain
07/21: bodhi surfs
07/23: metazen - the conscious cicatrix
07/26: aficionado
08/01: total control - henge beat
08/02: moonface - organ music not vibraphone like i'd hoped
08/05: the great tyrant - there's a man in the house
08/07: myths
08/08: al gore rhythm
08/18: pepepiano - king
08/23: i break horses - hearts
08/24: tom hall - muted angels
08/29: canon blue - rumspringa
08/30: equals
08/30: julia holter - tragedy
08/30: ume - phantoms
09/02: the blank reference - fried
09/05: plaid - scintilli
09/07: lingouf - doeme
09/09: howling bells - the loudest engine
09/13: levin torn white
09/14: st. vincent - strange mercy
09/19: roly porter - aftertime
09/19: teeth - whatever
09/20: born gold - bodysongs
09/20: tori amos - night of hunters
09/21: giraffes? giraffes! - pink magick
09/24: anatomy of habit
09/26: patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO
09/26: spectres - family
09/27: crock - grok
09/27: tobias lilja - delerium portraits
10/03: emika
10/04: la dispute - wildlife
10/06: doldrums - empire sound
10/10: rustie - glass swords
tentative:
04/22: bohren & der club of gore - beileid
10/10: bjork
10/25: skinny puppy - handover
11/04: animals as leaders - weightless
12/09: trent reznor & atticus ross - the girl with the dragon tattoo
01/01: this city defects - patterns
01/07: cycle~ 440 - the geography of collapsing structures
01/11: x-ray press - uvb-76
01/18: braids - native speaker
01/18: white laces
01/24: the joy formidable - the big roar
01/25: deerhoof vs. evil
01/25: papercranes - let's make babies in the woods
01/25: vampillia - alchemic heart
01/27: katarrhaktes - pareidolia
01/31: pepepiano
01/31: seefeel
02/01: delicate steve - wondervisions
02/04: ...and you will know us by the trail of the dead - tao of the dead
02/07: conquering animal sound - kammerspiel
02/07: papaye - la chaleur
02/08: wires under tension - light science
02/11: coh - iiron
02/15: hey rosetta! - seeds
02/15: phaedra - the sea
02/15: sonic youth - simon werner a disparu
02/20: namine - neon
02/22: colin stetson - a new history of warfare vol. 2: judges
02/22: the psychic paramount - II
03/01: adderall canyonly - it was a dark and stoney night
03/07: cyclo - id
03/08: ahleuchatistas - location location
03/08: defeater - empty days & sleepless nights
03/15: al di meola - pursuit of radical rhapsody
03/17: adebisi shank - this is the second album of a band called adebisi shank
03/22: stendeck - scintillia
03/23: salyu×salyu - s(o)un(d)beams
03/28: rene hell - the terminal symphony
03/29: gangpol & mit - the 1000 softcore tourist people club
03/29: the alps - easy action
04/01: adderall canyonly - asuuna
04/11: hauschka - salon des amateurs
04/12: thursday - no devolucion
04/15: talfast - machination
04/21: slew52 - catalog
04/26: skeletons - people
05/05: noxious foxes - legs
05/06: man man - life fantastic
05/10: gang gang dance - eye contact
05/16: dreissk - the finding
05/16: joshua stamper - interstitials
05/16: william d. drake - the rising of the lights
05/17: austra - feel it break
05/17: screens - dead house
05/17: son lux - we are rising
05/23: david sylvian - died in the wool
05/23: thurston moore - demolished thoughts
05/24: amon tobin - isam
05/24: emptyset - demiurge
05/24: human eye - they came from the sky
05/24: white denim - d
05/28: fay wrays - strange confessor
05/30: three trapped tigers - route one or die
05/30: united fruit - fault lines
06/02: lefolk - intermitter
06/02: manorexia - dinoflagellate blooms
06/03: snowman - absence
06/06: fucked up - david comes to life
06/06: slugabed - moonbeam rider
06/06: touche amore - parting the sea between brightness and me
06/14: the dear hunter - the colour spectrum (jessica's edit)
06/16: marihiko hara – credo
06/20: blanck mass
06/20: ghosting season - far end of the graveyard
06/21: the nightey nite - dimples
06/24: william bowers - piano works
06/30: night birds - the other side of darkness
07/01: oxykitten - the streets were paved with circuit boards
07/04: whatever brains
07/05: ghibli - pythia
07/08: tangled thoughts of leaving - deaden the fields
07/11: gazelle twin - entire city
07/19: city of ships - minor world
07/19: prurient - bermuda drain
07/21: bodhi surfs
07/23: metazen - the conscious cicatrix
07/26: aficionado
08/01: total control - henge beat
08/02: moonface - organ music not vibraphone like i'd hoped
08/05: the great tyrant - there's a man in the house
08/07: myths
08/08: al gore rhythm
08/18: pepepiano - king
08/23: i break horses - hearts
08/24: tom hall - muted angels
08/29: canon blue - rumspringa
08/30: equals
08/30: julia holter - tragedy
08/30: ume - phantoms
09/02: the blank reference - fried
09/05: plaid - scintilli
09/07: lingouf - doeme
09/09: howling bells - the loudest engine
09/13: levin torn white
09/14: st. vincent - strange mercy
09/19: roly porter - aftertime
09/19: teeth - whatever
09/20: born gold - bodysongs
09/20: tori amos - night of hunters
09/21: giraffes? giraffes! - pink magick
09/24: anatomy of habit
09/26: patten - GLAQJO XAACSSO
09/26: spectres - family
09/27: crock - grok
09/27: tobias lilja - delerium portraits
10/03: emika
10/04: la dispute - wildlife
10/06: doldrums - empire sound
10/10: rustie - glass swords
tentative:
04/22: bohren & der club of gore - beileid
10/10: bjork
10/25: skinny puppy - handover
11/04: animals as leaders - weightless
12/09: trent reznor & atticus ross - the girl with the dragon tattoo
some people are asking about software.
in the 80s and early 90s, there were three (well, more than three, but three competitive) types of computers on the market: your typical macs and intel machines, along with something called an atari. due to issues that exist in reality (such as price), the atari machines became standard amongst diy electronic musicians in the late 80s and early 90s. the computers used by bands like autechre, ministry, skinny puppy, kmfdm, etc for sample editing and sequencing were mostly ataris, using software written for atari.
probably the most well known software atari daw was cubase, which enjoyed a run as a popular windows/mac daw in the 90s before being dismantled by, i think, yamaha, in the 00s. the vst interface was not developed until 1996, but it was built on top of previous technology.
all that to say that there were probably "plugins" used on the album, but you'd need an atari emulator to actually use them.
another piece of relevant history: one of autechre's contemporaries, rdj, aka the aphex twin, almost single-handedly popularized software synthesizers. if you'd like to hear some early vst plugs, the aphex twin is a better place to look than autechre.
if you really want to capture the spirit of this type of 90s techno, though, you'd better learn to program in C. a lot of these artists programmed their own software. for a (not so) gentle introduction to this approach to music, i'd try a program called MAX.
young people that are interested in seeing some old (but very modern) computer software running in real-time (it's an early version of pro tools) can also consult the 'gave up' video by nin, 1992: watch?v=yVpw1SwJRBI.
in the 80s and early 90s, there were three (well, more than three, but three competitive) types of computers on the market: your typical macs and intel machines, along with something called an atari. due to issues that exist in reality (such as price), the atari machines became standard amongst diy electronic musicians in the late 80s and early 90s. the computers used by bands like autechre, ministry, skinny puppy, kmfdm, etc for sample editing and sequencing were mostly ataris, using software written for atari.
probably the most well known software atari daw was cubase, which enjoyed a run as a popular windows/mac daw in the 90s before being dismantled by, i think, yamaha, in the 00s. the vst interface was not developed until 1996, but it was built on top of previous technology.
all that to say that there were probably "plugins" used on the album, but you'd need an atari emulator to actually use them.
another piece of relevant history: one of autechre's contemporaries, rdj, aka the aphex twin, almost single-handedly popularized software synthesizers. if you'd like to hear some early vst plugs, the aphex twin is a better place to look than autechre.
if you really want to capture the spirit of this type of 90s techno, though, you'd better learn to program in C. a lot of these artists programmed their own software. for a (not so) gentle introduction to this approach to music, i'd try a program called MAX.
young people that are interested in seeing some old (but very modern) computer software running in real-time (it's an early version of pro tools) can also consult the 'gave up' video by nin, 1992: watch?v=yVpw1SwJRBI.
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