Hecker’s Japanese trip is an elegantly spaced ambient composition. Negative space, Japanese instruments, digital noise, ritual, calm, sacral scents.
Tim Hecker – Anoyo
Elder Island – The Omnitone Collection
Electronic, pop, soul. It’s like the Bristol rework of German nu jazz. Great concept of cover series for the singles and the album.
Various Artists – Furi (Original Game Soundtrack)
This is the best piece of retro futuristic synthwave record I heard in a while. I haven’t played the game yet, but definitely makes me want to.
Rammstein – untitled
Another totally unexpected turn in 2019. I was never a Rammstein fan per se but always liked many of their songs. Now this album comes and I’m just blown away. There are a lot of stuff in my listening queue right now but just cannot let this one go and I’m listening to it on repeat. Also deepens my strange feeling that I’m coming to like German as a language. On another note, Puppe is super dark gem of creation. It reminds me of hearing Korn’s Daddy for the first time and thinking omfg.
Snow Ghosts – A Quiet Ritual
Eerie and beautiful. Couldn’t say whether it’s electronic or not, totally not the appropriate attribute to address this music. I feel some resemblence of Björk, Portishead, and Lamb, but not so much because of the musical style but rather that it has depth filled with meaning and weight. It’s almost not about the music specifically but the attention put into creating these songs and the feelings they invoke.
Also: “recorded in a castle in the countryside and two years in the making”. Both I can hear coming through.
PS: I just realized that Houndstooth is one of my favorite labels.
RX-101 - Dopamine
I like that they call this braindance.
Saint Agnes - Welcome To Silvertown
That Saint Agnes arrived with the debut long player. It is all that good as I expected it to be. Porn level sexualistic dark witchery rock and roll. Also, I’ve come to adoring this woman, Kitty Arabella Austen.
John Digweed – Last Night at Output
Pretty good backdrop music for a long afternoon working session. The mixed version is four and a half hour long roll of uncut house.
Red Axes – Sound Test
The tune in Shabak Shalom gets me hooked like when I couldn’t listen to anything but Forget the Timing on repeat. Fantastic tech house.
King Prawn – The Fabulous New Sounds Of…
