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Album faves:

'Future Rock' by Strategy
'Yearbook 1' by Studio
'Andorra' by Caribou
'Sound of Silver' by LCD Soundsystem
'Journeyman's Annual' by Deadbeat

Fairly dub heavy but hey, dub always rules.

Track faves:

"Running on Empty" by Strategy
"Stop Spinning" by Strategy
"Self Service" by Studio
"Feuervogel" by Solomun/Stimming
"Glamourous" by Fergie

Funny story about the Fergie track: I once considered buying the rims from the very Mustang Fergie sings about in that song

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i love the beats on the Deadbeat but that vocalist is fucking awful. i was hoping for a more dancehall/techno hybrid after seeing Deadbeat live a few times in the last couple years. his live sets rule and that is reflected in the music on the new one, however that vocalist is horrible. oh well. thankfully there are dub versions right after the vocal versions. still a waste of 4 or 5 songs on the lp.

that Strategy got a huge write up in the new XLR8R. their last was good, not heard this one yet.


my favs.

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Aril Brikha - Ex Machina
Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods
Thomas Fehlmann - Honigpure
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
Efdemin - Efdemin
Bjorn Torske - Feil Knapp
Lindstrom+Prins Thomas - Reinterpretations
Black Devil Disco Club - In Dub
Joris Vorn - From A Deep Place
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Noze - How To Dance

it's been a great year for techno!

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All albums!

Better than I expected:
Alexkid - Caracol (this is just awesome)
Apparat - Walls
Recoil - Subhuman (great comeback)
CSS - Cansei der Sei Sexy (out there)

Just great:
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of silver (it just gets better)
Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
Future Sound of London - From The Archives Vol.1 - 3
Gus Gus - Forever
Thomas Fehlmann - Honigpompe (orbtastic)
Alex Gopher - Alex Gopher (la funk)

Not as good as I expected:
Spooky - Open (doesnt really have that spooky sound)
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye (more of the same)
Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night (patchy)
Bebel Gilberto - Memento
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare (production is awful)

Not an album but worth mentioning:
Jori Hulkkonen - Katajanukke EP (bleeptastic - new album out soon)

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So far I've only listened to three albums from this year. LCD Soundsystem, !!!, and Justice, and they're all superb. Oh, I forgot about Air, which was pretty good.

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amazing:
Justice - †
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust.
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Kalabrese - Rumpelzirkus
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
!!! - Myth Takes
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
Battles - Mirrored

Great:
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Bjork - Volta
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Gabriel Ananda - Bambusbeats
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Teenage Bad Girl - Coccotte
Shining - Grindstone
Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
Oizo, Tellier, SebastiAN - Steak OST
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release

Good:
Caribou - Andorra
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Dizzee Rascal - Maths and English
Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Air - Pocket Symphony
Amiina - Kurr

Meh/Bleh:
Distance - My Demons
Apparat - Walls
Chemical Brothers - We Are The Night
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
Unkle - War Stories
Digitalism - Idealism
Efdemin - Efdemin
Digitaline - Anticlockwise
Robert Babicz - A Cheerful Temper
Klaxons - (whatever it was)
Timbaland - Shock Value

(and some others i probably deleted straightaway that i dont remember)

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Is the whole album by Strategy as good as Running On Empty? That song is beautiful.

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did you change yr mind about the caribou, scott?

BLD - i've heard grand things about aril brikha, what's it sound like?

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I think so. "Stop Spinning" is just as beautiful in an entirely different way. Towards the end the album gets a little unfocused by the first 40 minutes of it are grand.

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I never thought it was a bad record. It's really good. I just think 'Up in Flames' is a very special album.

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Top 5 (no special order):

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Keren Ann - Keren Ann
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (waiting to listen to the Field...)
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Distance - My Demons/Joris Voorn - From A Deep Place(sill very good but not as Future History)

Outsiders:

The White Stripes - El Mariachi in Nashville
Fabric 34: Ellen Allien
Fabriclive.32: Tayo
Fuse presents Steve Bug
Justice - Jesus
Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English

Efdemin - Efdemin
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss (just ordered the 2 on cd, waiting to make my judgement on a higher sound quality...)

Not particularly convinced but still playing:

Panda Bear - Person Pitch
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Joss Stone - Introducing

Splatch:

Timbaland - Shock Value
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City

Waiting for:

Talib Kweli - EarDrum (7-24)
Interpol - Our Love to Admire (7-09)
Common - Finding Forever (7-31)
Kanye West - Graduation (8-21)
Fabric 36: Ricardo Villalobos (september)
Underworld

I'm late:

Stefan Bodzin - Liebe Ist...
The Field - From Here We go Sublime
Thomas Fehlmann one...
The National - Boxer
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Battles - Mirrored


Not 2007-ish but hmm:

Philip Glass - The Hours
Nas - Hip Hop is Dead
Kenny Larkin - Azimuth
Redman - Whut? Thee album
Outkast - Aquemini
Outkast - ATLiens
The National - Alligator
Tracy Chapman - Where You Live
Jega - Geometry

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hahahahahahaha

oh man, i liked it for about 20 minutes until i realized he was just a huge asshole.

awful.

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love:
V/A - Offshore Presents Buried Treasure
Trim - Soulfood Vol. 1
Wiley - Playtime Is Over
Shackleton et al - Soundboy Punishments (based on the 12"s)
Durrty Goodz - Axiom EP
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Battles - Mirrored
Lullatone - Plays Pajama Pop For You

like:
Team Shadetek - Pale Fire
DJ /rupture vs. Filastine - Shotgun Wedding Vol. 6
Roll Deep - Rules & Regulations
Distance - My Demons
Cyrus - From The Shadows

not sure yet / don't know:
Lil' Wayne - Da Drought 3
Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Von Sudenfed: Tromatic Reflexxions
Polska - Skeptic

favorite things to listen to:
Skepta - Stageshow Riddim (megamix by Logan Sama)
Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Glenn Gould)
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Skream - Essential Mix
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Gutterbreakz - UK Pressure mix
Razor X Productions - Killing Sound
Matt Shadetek - More Fire, More Bass mix
Wiley - Tunnel Vision 1-4
Kode9 - Sonar 2007 mix
Drumcorps - Grist
Atomhead - Red Zero Radio mix
Cam'ron - Purple Haze
Logan Sama Kiss FM shows

hoping for release this year!!
Skepta - Greatest Hits
Plastician - Beg To Differ
Durrty Goodz - Born Blessed

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do you have a good copy of the Kode9 Sonar mix? like a 320kbps from the promo disc? the copy i have is shit.

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yeah, there was a link for it floating around, i'll try to dig it up

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tracks:

Burial - 'Ghost Hardware'
Kid Sister - 'Control'
Chiaki Ishikawa - 'Uninstall'

albums:

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

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on the HD for about a week so far for me.
can't give it my full attention for some reason.
it'll come.

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sometimes buying an album makes you want to listen to it more

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agreed... when you own the albumn you give it the attention it deserves and often also listen to it in one go rather than mixed in between other albumns or with single tracks...

i can't even think of my top ten right now... i've actually got a lot of stuff from the past and that has been mixed in with the new stuff and confused things in a lot of ways

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yeah and sometimes you load up yr amazon cart with albums you know you want to buy already and it comes out to about $150.
because i dont get paid very well and i'm poor on a regular basis because my budgeting skills are awful.

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well gosh it must've been impossible to enjoy music before we could steal it all by the GB!

(only half-kidding, i know what you mean. on the other hand, i am only half-kidding)

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thank you!

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favorite 2007 albums

Lily Allen - alright, still
Panda Bear - person pitch
Papercuts - can't go back
The Field - from here we go to sublime
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Sliver
Strategy - future rock
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Marissa Nadler - Songs III : Bird on the Water
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
The Twilight Sad - 14 autumns and 15 winters
The Fratellis - Costello Music
Johan Johannson - IBM 1401 User's Manual

pretty great run of music these days. not bored at all.

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i really like:

Boris-Rainbow (love it madly)
Tracey Thorn - Out of the Woods
Prodigy- Return of the Mac
Miho Hatori - Ecdysis
jarvis-jarvis
ThisBliss-Pantha du Prince
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
SWEAT- juiceboxxxxxxx
Gui Boratto - Cromophobia


deception of the year:
one more time Bjork
and Spider smile of Tarwater

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I need to get that...so much music.

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well not impossible and i'd probably take more missteps that would make me less willing to just pick up stuff surely. i dont know if i would have found half the stuff that i love if i hadn't
i mean i know where you're coming from with the downloading thing. it's not as evil as early leaks but it's a shitty way to go about amassing GB after GB of music, especially since it's so easy to lose control and forget what you have on it and youre just... collecting. i try not to, and i dont mostly. i'll delete an album if it just hasn't gotten to me and i keep my HD under 20GB, but then again, i like a LOT of stuff. i'm told i can't discern and that 3/4 of the albums i bother to listen to i like in some way, so it's easy to find something really great that i want to get and the only way to keep listening to it more often than not is to hook up some cables to my laptop.

it's just frustrating sometimes, is all

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:D

yeah Shock Value is kinda bled after the first 4 tracks...

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you do?????????????????

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ahahaha
yes i do!
i also like JDIlla :p

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Watain - Sworn to the Dark. Only thing I've bought so far (It rules though)

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best

chemical brothers - we are the night
The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime

good

Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Dominik Eulberg - Heimische Gefilde
Eric Sneo - Lets Go Techno

waiting for

underworld
(because we all know, uw will be best!)

maxime dangles (album or ep)
guido durante (amazing italian nu trance producer)

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paul hartnoll - the ideal condition
fields - everything last winter
lcd soundsystem - all my friends
the flowers of hell
errors
the besnard lakes
beyond the wizard sleeve ep's

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No idea why i didnt mentioned Heimische Gefilde" by Domink Eulberg
Overall the album is weird but just because of Adler (that is the best to ride bike by the way) i think this album is great :).. I really like the vocal intros too. So far so good. I have to listen to it more? MORE?

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this year its finally happened, life has caught up with the frankly excessive amounts of cash i used to spend on new releases and family responibilities have taken over so i've hardly bought anything. only really heard what friends have hooked me up with........anyway this year i've loved

Bloc Party - a weekend in the city. quality lyrics, and although some of the production does my head in and affects the songs i really identify with a lot of the themes in this record.

Black rebel motorcycle club - Baby 81. Combines the songwriting skills they showed on thier last stripped down effort Howl, with the noisy guitar sound that they come out with. couple of these tracks and real anthems and i'm surprised its not blown up

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saafi brothers - supernatural
and another vote for Aril Brikha - Ex Machina

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Slippery slope, mate... ;)

It was 2002 when I realised that I had only bought 2 CDs all year and both of those were compils. That was when I knew I had to do something about it, or give up entirely and start doing macrame instead.

This year oive mos'ly been liking:

Justice - (Cross) .... can't be bothered to find the symbol :p
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Orbital - Glasto 1994-2004

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Thanks everyone! I hadn't been spending enough money lately, so this is a big help! ;)

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The cds I got based on this thread are just finishing arriving. Great stuff! Thanks all for your suggestions!:D

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I haven't heard much that has really thrilled me so far...just LCD and Amon Tobin, really.

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I'm digging the new Interpol, sounding more like TOTBL than Antics. No real improve but still solid IMO. No one else about this ?