2009 recommendations - Topic Powered by Eve Community

Animal Collective
Antony and the Johnsons
Annie
Clipse
Lily Allen
The Cool Kids
Stellastarr*
The Von Bondies
My Bloody Valentine
The Postal Service
Patrick Wolf
Junior Boys

Here is my list. Only two of the bands/artists are electronic... well maybe 3 if you count Annie.

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IsaacAshe

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Is there a new Postal Service in the pipeline? That's great news, I am genuninely excited.
I'm a massive Patrick Wolf fan too, so that's nice, and Von Bondies will be worth a listen I'm sure.

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So I love this dude Stendeck. I posted something about his new album in the 2009 thread and figured I might as well re-post it here as well.

Stendeck - Sonnambula

I don't know how many people know of this Swiss electronic artist, but he made what I now consider to be the greatest electronic album ever in 2007 with his album Faces. Just amazing, amazing stuff. It's dark, epic, sweeping, slightly industrial, and just so damn good. The sounds just slay. This new album, Sonnambula, is coming out in February, and I'm gonna pre-order it from the label that's releasing it, Tympanik.

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jack(gl)ass

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AGF/Delay new album Symptoms would probably be of interest to many on this forum.

I'm tired of describing it but sometimes it feels like Ellen Allien and sometimes it feels like The Knife and sometimes it just exists in its own little area doing its own little thing- gettin down.

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Domestic bliss and artistic bliss. It's hard to pull off, but Antye Greie and Sasu Ripatti have seemingly figured it out, as their second full-length under the AGF/Delay moniker will be released later this year.

Greie had a busy 2008, putting out two solo full-lengths as AGF as well as co-producing Ellen Allien's Sool, and she's looking to carry that on into this year with the release of Symptoms. Produced with her long-term partner Sasu Ripatti (who you may be more familiar with under the name Luomo, Uusitalo or Vladislav Delay), their AGF/Delay collaboration combines the duo's experimental and pop tendencies to create restrained vocal tracks that overflow with sexual tension.

As with their previous album Explode, Symptoms is full of dubby textures and micro-samples, whilst Greie adds her quirky vocals that drift between singing and spoken word. Greie's friendship and co-production work with Ellen Allien has meant that Symptoms will see the light of day on Allien's BPitch Control label, which should see AGF/Delay's sound brought to a wider audience this time around.

Tracklist
01. Get Lost
02. Connection
03. Downtown Snow
04. Outbreak
05. Bulletproof
06. Generic
07. Congo Hearts
08. Most Beautyull
09. Symptoms
10. Smileaway
11. Second Life
12. In Cycles

BPitch Control will release Symptoms on February 27, 2009

I'm sure you'll hear from goathouse about this one soon enough.

Also, new Gui Boratto is pretty damn good. Not as good as Chromophobia though.

And last, but not least, is minimal techno artist Atom™ who is releasing his album Liedgut on Raster Norton. It's a pretty badass, innovative, interesting mnml album. My favorite track is "Interferenz 1" where he uses the sound made my electronics when.... well... interference happens. You know that sound your speakers make when you're about to get a call? Yeah, he uses that sound.

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I'm usually skeptical of artists with slashes in their name, but any kind of comparison to the Knife will get me interested. I'll have to check out this AFG/Delay.

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grand_alpha

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New Justice this year perhaps? Or maybe Daft Punk will surprise us with their next release.

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jack(gl)ass

Jedi

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quote:
Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
I'm usually skeptical of artists with slashes in their name, but any kind of comparison to the Knife will get me interested. I'll have to check out this AFG/Delay.

There's a slash because it's two electronic artists collaborating...

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Still is ugly. Not that hard to come up with a new name or maybe even put an & between the names.

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Jedi

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The new Gui Boratto is sounding awesome right now.

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jack(gl)ass

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It's good but so far I don't think it'll touch Chromophobia.

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WaylonJack

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If you get a chance, listen to some Amy LaVere.

You will thank me.

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Vitun_Krapula

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Lil' Slugger Music Lastfm

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Still is ugly. Not that hard to come up with a new name or maybe even put an & between the names.

...is there any reason for this slash hatin?

I'm confused as to how you might seriously argue the aesthetic merits of & instead of /. Ellen Allien & Apparat used the ampersand and it didn't seem to help their notoriety, although Orchestra of Bubbles is fantastic.

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MTmix86

Slacker

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Lily Allen
Patrick Wolf
Morrissey

Max Umg

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BAfé

Jedi

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TVO. Download his song "Dwyer". It was featured on Pitchfork's "Forkcast", really damn good song.

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odysseyandoracle

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Everyone should check out Kashiwa Daisuke - 5 Dec. If you like Italo/electro house you might also want to check out Shiho Fujisawa - Funky Girl, who, despite all appearances, is actually a legitimate DJ, though the album is definitely song oriented. Susumu Yokota (ambient), YMCK (chiptune)....there haven't been a lot of major Japanese electronic releases so far this year, AFAIK, but I'll note them here when I come across them.

And of course, the new Telefon Tel Aviv is just as underrated as their last.

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Alan Ranta

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2009 Electronic Recommendations:
Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
Christ. - Live
Jon Hopkins - Insides
Filastine - Dirty Bomb
Azaxx - The Exotic Delight Bay
Broadway Project - One Divided Soul
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Mutations EP
Lukid - Foma
Bizzy B - Retrospective
Flevans - 27 Devils
Venetian Snares - Filth
Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Tosca - No Hassle

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Christer is a brand new techno artist...her album came out today....its called Techna
check out her myspace
www.myspace.com/christerama
She is going to be touring in March, I'm seeing her n Guelph on March 11th, and she's going to be in Toronto the next day.

I saw her live a few months back, and it was one of the worst shows I've ever seen. It's not techno; it's every bit as terrible as "dancy glam-rock synth-jazz pop thunder" sounds. She doesn't have a very good voice, so she "makes up" for it by utilizing a lot of synchronized hair flipping with two back-up flippers. Her lyrics are trite stupidity, and her band was annoying at best. Brutal. Piper Davis and Square Root Of Evil blew her off the stage. I hope I never have to sit through that again.

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quote:
Originally posted by MTmix86:
Lily Allen
Patrick Wolf
Morrissey

Great, great electronic recommendations here.

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musicfanatic

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
So I love this dude Stendeck. I posted something about his new album in the 2009 thread and figured I might as well re-post it here as well.

Stendeck - Sonnambula

I don't know how many people know of this Swiss electronic artist, but he made what I now consider to be the greatest electronic album ever in 2007 with his album Faces. Just amazing, amazing stuff. It's dark, epic, sweeping, slightly industrial, and just so damn good. The sounds just slay. This new album, Sonnambula, is coming out in February, and I'm gonna pre-order it from the label that's releasing it, Tympanik.

I'm going to have to dig out that Standeck album I bought a year or two ago and give it another listen. I gave it one half-arsed listen then let it get buried under other releases.

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Yeah, definitely do so, MF. Unfortunately, I don't care much for Stendeck's new one. His last two remain golden though.

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