Selections
 
Recommended Oct.2007
It's been a long time since I posted a list of new music that I've been listening to, so here is a list of releases from the last couple of years that I recommend (in no particular order):
 
V/A "Mute Audio Documents «1978 - 1984»" (10xCD boxset)
I've had about 90% of the tracks on here memorized since I was 16, and I'm still awestruck. Best Music Ever.
http://www.discogs.com/release/1025033
 
Oppenheimer Analysis (12", Minimal Wave)
"The Devil's Dancers" is the best song I've discovered in the last 5 years or more - an absolute electro/wave classic.
http://www.discogs.com/release/614851
 
Absolute Body Control "Tapes 81-89" (5-LP + 7" boxset, Vinyl-On-Demand)
http://www.discogs.com/release/871196
 
Minisystem "Madingley" (CD, Noise Factory Records)
A fellow analogue synth obsessive from Toronto - quality melodic electronica in the vein of early Morr Music releases.
http://www.discogs.com/release/773657
 
The Tuss "Rushup Edge" (3x12" LP, Rephlex)
Some great stuff on here, minus the drill and bass elements -- I thought/hoped AFX was done with all of that D'n'B/Squarepusher nonsense.
http://www.discogs.com/release/975346
 
Lowfish "Persuasive Science EP" (12", Satamile)
http://www.discogs.com/release/622466
 
Colin Potter "A Skeleton / Cupboard Situation" (LP, Vinyl-On-Demand)
http://www.discogs.com/release/856231
 
Perspects "Peopleskills" (CD, Interdimensional Transmissions)
http://www.discogs.com/release/654023
 
Goudron "Stiletto" (12", Interdimensional Transmissions)
http://www.discogs.com/release/925044
 
The Ace Of Clubs "Benefist" + "Rubber Chunks EP" (2x12" + 12", Firstcask Records)
I never liked Luke Vibert before, but lately he's been making some really cool acid techno/electro.
http://www.discogs.com/release/984208
http://www.discogs.com/release/981796
 
Luke Vibert "Analord" (track, Planet Mu)
Better than anything in the entire AFX series named after this track, IMO.
http://www.discogs.com/release/430748
 
Travelogue "Telegraph" (CD-EP, Plastiq Musiq)
http://www.discogs.com/release/646795
 
Joy Electric "The Otherly Opus" (CD, Tooth & Nail)
http://www.discogs.com/release/932952
 
ADULT. "Plagued By Fear" (track, Thrill Jockey)
The "Why Bother?" album has its moments for me, but this is the only song I can listen to a lot -- definitely my favorite ADULT. track since "Resusitation".
http://www.discogs.com/release/918869
 
 
All-Time Favourites
 
Solvent's top 10 featured in recent "Listed" column at Dusted Magazine.
 
These are my all-time favorite records. I know this because I play them over and over again, year after year, and they always sound brilliant and timeless...
 
  • Depeche Mode "Speak and Spell", "A Broken Frame", "The 12 Inch Singles Volume 1" (boxset), "Violator"
  • Fad Gadget "The Singles"
  • Front 242 "Geography"
  • John Foxx "Metamatic"
  • The Human League "The Dignity of Labour", "Reproduction", "Dare", "The Golden Hour of the Future"
  • Japan "Gentlemen Take Polaroids", "Tin Drum"
  • New Order "Power, Corruption and Lies", "Substance"
  • Gary Numan "Replicas", "The Pleasure Principle"
  • O.M.D."[s/t]", "Organisation", "Architecture and Morality"
  • Soft Cell "Science Fiction Stories" (bootleg), "The 12 Inch Singles" (boxset)
  • Skinny Puppy "Back and Forth series 1 and 2", "Bites"
  • Yazoo "Upstairs at Eric's", "You and Me Both"
 
These are records that made a huge impact on me. I don't play these all the time, but they are still very important records to me:
 
  • Adult. "Resusitation"
  • AFX "Analogue Bubblebath Volume 3"
  • Aphex Twin "Selected Ambient Works 85-92", "I Care Because You Do"
  • Asmus Tietchens "Biotop"
  • Autechre "Incunabula", "Amber"
  • Autocreation "Mettle"
  • Boards Of Canada "Music has the Right to Children"
  • Bochum Welt "Module 2"
  • Cylob "Cylobian Sunset"
  • D'Arcangelo "D'Arcangelo EP"
  • Dive "Final Report EP"
  • Duran Duran "[s/t]", "Rio"
  • I-F "Portrait of a Dead Girl", "Fucking Consumer"
  • Jega "Phlax EP"
  • Kraftwerk "Radioactivity", "Computer World"
  • Le Car "Auto-Biography"
  • Locust "Weathered Gate"
  • Nitzer Ebb "Belief"
  • Polygon Window "Surfing On Sine Waves"
  • Public Image Limited "Metal Box"
  • Roedelius "Selbstportrait"
  • Raymond Scott "Manhattan Research Project"
  • Tears For Fears "The Hurting"
  • μ-Ziq "Tango N Vectif"
  • Visage "The Singles"
  • V/A "From Beyond" (Interdimensional Transmissions)
  • V/A "Some Bizarre" (Some Bizarre)
  • V/A "The Forgotten Sounds of Tomorrow" (Ersatz Audio)
 
 
Some other artists who have made a big impact but don't seem to fit into the above lists (I can't really think of a "definitive" release):
 
  • Cabaret Voltaire
  • Bauhaus
  • Lowfish
  • Perspects
  • Siouxsie and The Banshees
  • Skanfrom