Silicone Soul - ...A Soul Thing deserves a mention in this thread aswell.
basd
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
I openly invite you, knowing in advance what content is on the main page, to reach it via a Google search not related to music.
For me, it's the most exciting and forwardthinking music I know right now. Great fusion of rock and electronic music; this is how Prodigy should have sounded like in 2009.
Guest
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Originally posted by sljiva
Of course. Someone just had to say it.
I'm aware that dub techno can only vary so much and that it's in its essence a pretty "limited" subgenre, just as much as I'm aware that most of today's output sounds like a cheap reproduction and sometimes even bastardization of a sound BC established 10 years ago, but some exceptions exist and I (and many others) truly believe that some producers are still capable of interpreting that sound in their own way. I'm mainly talking about Echospace duo and Monolake (who was doing something slightly different, but of the pretty much same style during the 00's) here.
The Coldest Season, while on the surface does sound like a BC imitation, has a lot more qualities when you look beyond that first impression, and does sound different (at least so much as the style allows). It's definitely deeper, denser, more atmospheric and layered, with some unique samples and effects such as that electrostatic noise which adds to the whole "I'm floating through thick grey clouds filled with rumble and bolts" feel. It's very image-inducing in general. Try to find a track in a BC catalogue that sounds similar to Aequinoxium or Ocean Of Emptiness and post it here please.
If you want to call it a BC ripoff, it's the best damn ripoff imaginable. Not a single album came so close to the original dub techno (although ambient is a better label for this album) sound, and considering that fact alone this release deserves a place in the "best of 00's" lists.
I thought the same until I listened to Yagya - Rhythm Of Snow
Rhythm of Snow came out in 2002 and I believe that Deepchord lifted a lot of the concepts for their tracks on Coldest Season from this album. Sample it on youtube. Snowflake 3 and Snowflake 6. Listening to this will likely move Coldest Season down a peg on the dub ladder for you.
Lebezniatnikov
late entry under ambient/experimental:
The Antlers - Hospice (2009)
Listen to "Kettering" and tell me that isn't one of the most hauntingly beautiful tracks of the decade. The rest of the album is great too, which is why it deserves consideration.
Just an outstanding album and one of my favourites.
noikeee
I have to agree with Domesticated that the website is lacking something that identifies itself immediately... the impression I get when browsing it for the first time is that it's about some sort of weird underground community of indie music - but it says absolutely nothing about what kind of music are you guys covering. I did eventually find it in the "about" page but it took some time and perseverance to get me there - most new users won't have it.
Then you've got an area called "Record reviews" and another "recent reviews"... they seem to have different content yet lead to the same pool of record reviews, which is a bit puzzling. The reviews, I click on them, they are well written and creative, but again, there is no immediate identifier of what genre the music is about. I reckon this is probably to cover your asses from the hundreds of emails of people complaining about a record's genre being off. However, if you go into one of your record reviews without knowing anything about the scene it belongs to, or the artists the review compares the record to, you read it and at the end remain almost as clueless about it as in the beginning.
It's a website made by obviously clever people, and I don't doubt it is appreciated by your stable pool of readers, but it's not very welcoming to someone new to your community. Btw, what community? There's a twitter post at the top of your screen (which I only figured was a twitter post because I made the effort to see the link leads to twitter.com) which talks about some kind of "thread", but I cannot find any link to a forum...
Don't take this as an attack please, I'm trying to make some constructive criticism here.
SYSTEM-J
Do I have some sort of hyper-advanced ability to navigate a web page that ensured I suffered from none of these problems when I discovered the site?
The site updates in four-review chunks, each of which has the date above it, and each update has a lead review and three other reviews. As you can see, the "recent reviews" follow this exact same format, the dates above each chunk are just slightly older. Which means they're the updates which have slid off the main column and are relegated to a smaller column until they slide off there as well.
Honestly, the only reason I'm dismissing these complaints is because I genuinely had no problem finding my way around the site when I first happened across it. I'm going to alter the link in my sig to show my staff page, which will probably give you a much more natural introduction to the site.
Anyway, I don't want this thread derailed into an argument about web design.
noikeee
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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Do I have some sort of hyper-advanced ability to navigate a web page that ensured I suffered from none of these problems when I discovered the site?
If there's one thing that really stuck in my mind from years of user-centred design classes in university, is to, unless there's a fairly strong reason not to, always assume the users are going to be pretty ing stupid. :p
Thomas Schumacher - Home
The Timewriter - Soulstickers
Hybrid - I Choose Noise
Pole Folder - Zero Gold
These are the few artist albums that still get a regular listen from me.
JonDC
I know its a bit lame to include a greatest hits, but Enigma's 'Love, Sensuality, Devotion' is probably my most played album of the decade - they are totally unique and every track is so professional :-)
Think from the trance end of the spectrum I'm very keen on Wizzy Noise - Renaissance. Every tune is huge and does the damage whenever I've played them out.
And I know you will probably not want to include this for credibility reasons, but I still enjoy Tiesto's 'In My Memory', for nostalgia and the fact that it reminds me of my little honeymoon period with trance.
