ok, here comes a list of my thirty favourite long players (including one re-issue and following my top 10 compilations) of 2011. like last year, i’m not that sure of the order beyond the first few, but these are the records which i’m still listening to, still enjoying and – in many cases – still astounded by. the only other thing to note is the lack of many bass/dubstep albums. efforts from kuedo, sepulcre and machine drum will all top many polls elsewhere on the web, i’m sure, but i just never quite sit comfortably when they are playing. necessarily then, in case you wondered, i’ve overlooked them. but it ain’t like i was short on choice…
published on December 6, 2011 2:40 pm.
filed under: 2562, acid, chicago house, cosmin trg, deep house, delsin, deniz kurtel, detroit, dial records, dub techno, electronic albums of the year, features, house, martyn, omar s, ostgut ton, review, rick wilhite, robag whrume, roman flugel, smallville, steffi, techno, zomby
few people give less of a fuck about what you think of them than omar s. who else could get away with such an insouciant title as ‘it can be done, but only i can do it’ – or with cover art that looks so obviously like it was done on pc paint – without coming over as anything other than an embarrassment? and who else could say ‘i don’t even know who ricardo willalobo is’ (as did smith at the time of his last big release, fabric 45) without you thinking of them as an insufferable try-hard? thing is though, there’s a brazenness to alex omar smith’s sounds which back up his bolshevism: they’re bristling with attitude and at the same time seem wholly unaware of what’s going on around them. i mean (last question) who else would dare run a frozen trance arpeggiator line right through one of their deep and soulful house 12s (and, importantly, make it work)?
published on August 13, 2011 11:32 am.
filed under: deep house, fxhe, house, omar s, review, techno
something i wrote for idj mag in the uk – thought it worth sharing…
the intro…
the re-release of robert hood’s ‘minimal nation,’ and carl craig’s re-instatement as musical director of the demf, are momentous events, not far behind us. shadows of the first and second wave detroit forefathers, then, perennially loom large over the shoulders of any new motor city blood. whether that pressure is why techno headlines have come mainly from berlin in the last couple of years or not, is now irrelevant: detroit’s where it’s at in 2009.
published on December 15, 2009 11:21 am.
filed under: detroit, dub techno, echospace, fxhe, house, intrusion, kris wadsworth, kyle hall, lee curtiss, luke hess, omar s, patrice scott, seth troxler, sistrum, spectral sound, techno, wolf + lamb
