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Our favorite full-lengths, compilations and DJ mixes from 2007…

20. MIA: Bittersuss
Sub Static

 
 
 
 
19. DREI FARBEN HOUSE: Any Kind of Feeling
Force Tracks
 
 
 
 
18. CHROMATICS: Night Drive
Italians Do It Better

 
 
 
 
17. KOOKY SCIENTIST: Kook Kontrol
Telepathic

 
 
 
 
16. PANTHA DU PRINCE: This Bliss
Dial

 
 
 
 
15. POPNONAME: The White Album
Italic
 
 
 
 

14. AGNES: Dumbles Debuts
Resopal Red

 
 
 
 
13. KATHY DIAMOND: Miss Diamond to You
Permanent Vacation

 
 
 
12. MARTIN EYERER & OLIVER KLEIN: Movement
My Best Friend

 
 
 
11. GUI BORATTO: Chromophobia
Kompakt

 
 
 
 
10. DONNACHA COSTELLO: Colorseries
Minimise

 
 
 
 
09. DOMINIK EULBERG: Heimische Gefilde
Traum

 
 
 
08. ONUR OZER: Kasmir
Vakant

 
 
 
 
07. RADIOHEAD: In Rainbows
inrainbows.com

 
 
 
 
06. POLE: Steingarten
~scape

 
 
 
 
05. AMERIE: Because I Love It
Columbia

 
 
 
 
04. THE FIELD: From Here We Go Sublime
Kompakt

 
 
 
 
03. GRAND CRU 2007: Various Artists
Connaisseur

 
 
 
 
02. EFDEMIN: Efdemin
Dial

 
 
 
 
01. MELCHIOR PRODUCTIONS: No Disco Future
Perlon

 
 
 
 

Our favorite singles and 12″s from 2007…

25. FARAH
Law of Life
Italians Do It Better

 
 
 
 
24. DUSTY KID
“Kore”
Anatome EP Vol. 1
Boxer Recordings

 
 
 
23. SIMON BAKER
Plastik
Infant/ Playhouse

 
 
 
 
22. KELLEY POLAR
Chrysanthemum
Environ

 
 
 
 
21. MATIAS AGUAYO
A Night at the Tilehouse
Soul Jazz

 
 
 
 
20. SHACKLETON
“Blood on my Hands (Villalobos Apocalypso Now Remix)”
Skull Disco

 
 
 
19. BRENDON MOELLER
Jazz Space
Third Ear

 
 
 
 
18. ANJA SCHNEIDER
“Belize”
Loop de Mer 12″
Mobilee

 
 
 
17. LAWRENCE
“Rabbit Tube (DJ Koze Remix)”
Rabbit Tube
Mule Electronic

 
 
 
16. JURGEN PAAPE
“Nord”
Nord Nord West
Kompakt

 
 
 
15. HEINRICHS & HIRTENFELLNER
Humidity
KarateKlub

 
 
 
 
14. JUNIOR BOYS
“Like a Child (Carl Craig Remix)”
Domino

 
 
 
 
13. MR. G
U Askin’?
Rekids

 
 
 
 
12. DONNACHA COSTELLO
Black Bag Job
Minimise

 
 
 
 
11. AFRILOUNGE
Lux Dementia
Connaisseur

 
 
 
 
10. DASO & PAWAS
“Bummelzug”
Night Express
Flash

 
 
 
09. STEREO IMAGE
Red Nights
Kin

 
 
 
 
08. TRACEY THORN
“It’s All True”
Astralwerks

 
 
 
 
07. LAWRENCE
Pond
Dial

 
 
 
 
06. MATHEW JONSON
Stop
Wagon Repair

 
 
 
 
05. DJ KOZE
All the Time
Philpot

 
 
 
 
04. NIGHTCATS
Inside
K2

 
 
 
 
03. METRO AREA
“Read My Mind”
Environ

 
 
 
 
02. MOTIIVI: TUNTEMATON
“I Don’t Feel Good (When You’re Not Around)”
Speicher 46
Kompakt

 
 
01. JURGEN PAAPE
“Fruity Loops #2″
Speicher 47
Kompakt

 
 
 
 

CD Warehouse Top 20 Best-Sellers [Dance/Electronic]: 2007

01. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime

02. Burial: Untrue

03. Kompakt Total 8: Various Artists

04. Efdemin: Efdemin

05. Michael Mayer: Immer 2

06. Pantha du Prince: This Bliss

07. Drei Farben House: Any Kind of Feeling

08. Grand Cru 2007: Various Artists

09. Dominik Eulberg: Heimische Gefilde

10. Star You Star Me: Simple Things

11. Beat Pharmacy: Steadfast

12. Speicher CD 3: Various Artists

13. Dixon: Body Language Vol. 4

14. Burial: Burial

15. Ricardo Villalobos: Fabric 36

16. Lawrence: Lowlights of the Past & Future

17. Gui Boratto: Chromophobia

18. Tobi Neumann: Flieder Lieder

19. Kaito: Hundred Million Light Years

20. Deepchord presents Echospace: The Coldest Season

CD Warehouse Top 20 Best-Sellers: 2007

01. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black

02. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible

03. Feist: The Reminder

04. Hotel Costes 10: Various Artists

05. Kanye West: Graduation

06. The Shins: Wincing the Night Away

07. M.I.A.: Kala

08. Cat Power: The Greatest

09. Bjork: Volta

10. White Stripes: Icky Thump

11. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver

12. ESL Remixed: Various Artists

13. Bruce Springsteen: Magic

14. Alicia Keys: As I Am

15. Masters at Work: Strictly MAW

16. Jay Z: American Gangster

17. Lily Allen: Alright Still

18. Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

19. Air: Pocket Symphony

20. Nina Simone: Remixed & Reimagined

Welcome to Feedback, in which we take a closer look at some of the more notable new releases. For this installment, contributing writer bareklik takes a look at Sasu Ripatti’s latest LP as Uusitalo.

UUSITALO: Karhunainen
Huume

Sasu Ripatti’s Uusitalo project is a reflection of his personal history. As he said in a recent Resident Advisor interview, Uusitalo is “…something like my Finnish project where I keep things a little bit like Finland.” This project’s song and album titles come from his family’s strong literary and intellectual background. Sonically, it would seem that Ripatti expresses this personal quality by combining elements of his Luomo and Vladislav Delay projects but decidedly forgoes qualities of the other two projects which may seem epic, romantic, or grandiose.

Karhunainen, the third Uusitalo full-length, is not a stylistic evolution so much as a practiced expression and study of that style. As such, the album is often cerebral, leaving the dance floor entirely. Some patience is required, especially on tedious, anti-climactic tracks like “Sikojen Juhla (Feast of Pigs)” and “Nälkälaulu (Hunger Song)”. That said, the remaining eight tracks could fit nicely into nearly any ‘get-down-n-bump-it’ DJ mix.

You’ll hear traces of each of Ripatti’s guises on Karhunainen’s ten tracks: Luomo’s pattern of long progressions between varying warm, dub-inflected house grooves; Vladislav Delay’s attention to detail and penchant for narrative exploration; Ripatti’s general habit of developing dense, echoing reservoirs of tiny sounds in the background of complex poly-rhythms and valleys of bass and harmonics.

Yet he also seems to aggregate outside inspirations from a host of muses. Tracks like ‘Karhunainen (Bear Woman)’ and ‘Himo Perkele (Lust Perkele)’ call to mind producers like Thomas Brinkmann, Antonelli Electr, Wolfgang Voigt, Jorg Burger, Swayzak while “Konevitsa (Machine Cane)” is reminiscent of Pole’s classic numbers trilogy. Some of the rhythms here even sound like an attempt to resurrect the aborted Kompakt-style schaffel house – a la the Schaffelfieber compilations and early Speicher releases (although, in the hands of Ripatti, this style’s foot-dragging rhythm is far more impressive).

Karhunainen manages to touch on all these influences while still remaining uniquely Uusitalo. It is a logical progression from the last release, “Tulenkantaja”, in terms of carrying that same sound of crisp, quick drums, bass, and synths through closely edited tracks.

Despite a few obvious weaknesses, Uusitalo’s Karhunainen stands as one of Sasu Ripatti’s best and most personal efforts.

—bareklik

TEST

MELCHIOR PRODUCTIONS: No Disco Future
Perlon

Breaking from the brainier approach of the Ark and Dandy Jack full-lengths that preceeded it, Thomas Melchior’s new album on Perlon (the follow-up to his 2004 LP on Playhouse) is a perfect model for how to bring together minimal techno and house. Melchior champions restrained minimalism run through with a vibrant bounce and tastefully applied vocals. On No Disco Future, he coaxes playful patterns from his instruments, enticing you with booming bass and a masterful rhythmic shuffle. Track titles like “Prepare for Love” and “Where’s the Happiness” are accurate representations of the feelings these tracks evoke. Easily among Perlon’s most accessible achievements, this is shaping up to be our album of the year.

BENNO BLOME: From Antenna to Antenna 1
Sender

Sender boss Benno Blome celebrates his label’s extensive catalog of surging minimal techno with this mixed retrospective that draws more heavily from recent releases. Featured artists inclue Misc., Baby Ford, Error Error, Frank Martiniq, Franklin de Costa, Andre Crom and more.

WILL SAUL: Simple Sounds
Simple

The first disc of this two disc collection features an unmixed disc of Will Saul’s productions and remixes of and by Saul from artists like Gui Boratto and Wahoo. Disc two is a mix of tracks from both of Saul’s labels, Simple and Aus, with tracks and remixes by My My, John Tejada, Sebo K & Metro and more.

also in-stock

PINCH: Underwater Dancehall (Tectonic)
Along with Burial’s Untrue, this is the latest dubstep LP to earn widespread acclaim.

POLE: Steingarten Remixes (~scape)
Pole’s excellent Steingarten album gets the remix treatment from Melchior Productions, Deadbeat, Shackleton, The Mole, Dimbiman and more.

nsi.: Plays Non-Standards (Sahko)
NSI. are Max Loderbauer of Sun Electric and Chica & the Folder and Tobias Freund.

10 YEARS TREIBSTOFF: Various Artists (Treibstoff)
Cologne label Treibstoff celebrates ten years with this two disc collection featuring Gabriel Ananda, Italoboyz, Robert Babicz, Swat Squad, Falko Brocksieper, Sarah Goldfarb, Rene Breitbarth and more.

EXPANSION/contraction: Various Artists (M_nus)

BOX OF DUB VOL. 2: Various Artists (Soul Jazz)

DECEMBER 4

BENNO BLOME: From Antenna to Antenna 1 (Sender)
BOX OF DUB 2: Various Artists (Soul Jazz)
DAFT PUNK: Alive 2007
EINMUSIK: De’medici (Italic)
MELCHIOR PRODUCTIONS LTD.: No Disco Future (Perlon)
NSI.: Plays Non-Standards (Sahko)
WILL SAUL: Simple Sounds (Simple)
10 YEARS TREIBSTOFF: Various Artists (Treibstoff)

DECEMBER 11

DONNACHA COSTELLO: Colorseries (Minimise)
DINKY: Get Lost 03 (Crosstown Rebels)
DOMINIK EULBERG: Bionik (Cocoon)
KLIMEK: Dedications (Anticipate)
LUCIANO: Cadenza Contemporary 0.1 & Classics (Cadenza)
MARTINEZ: A Chemical Imbalance (Re:connected)
MURMUR: Undertone (Meanwhile)
POP AMBIENT 2008: Various Artists (Kompakt)
SVEN VATH: Sound of the Eighth Season (Cocoon)

DECEMBER 18

JONNY GREENWOOD: There Will Be Blood [soundtrack]

BURIAL: Untrue
Hyperdub

Burial wastes no time following up his self-titled 2006 LP (our favorite of the year). Untrue is at once familiar and new. Burial’s beats—still stiff and stubbornly simplistic—won’t surprise anyone, but Untrue’s emphasis on vocals—coherent and passionate R&B samples prominently featured in the mix—turns out to be a staggering innovation.

FAIRMONT: Coloured in Memory
Border Community

Jake Fairley moves to James Holden’s Border Community label for his second full-length and suitably shifts his aesthetic from the melodic techno of his Traum debut, Paper Stars, to something a bit more tense and roughed-up. His penchant for techy songwriting and speak-sing vocals isn’t completely diminished—tracks like “Fade and Saturate” prove he’s still capable there and the title track goes so far as to feature just him and a guitar. Elsewhere, the choral hum of first single “Flight of the Albatross” and twinkly interlude “Pomegranate” are transparent nods to the gentler side of Aphex Twin.

ONUR ÖZER: Kasmir
Vakant

Turkish producer Onur Özer presents Vakant’s first full-length, and it sets an impossibly high standard for the label. Kasmir’s stark minimalism fleshed out by what sounds like hand-played percussion is hard to place–only Villalobos’ Perlon LP Thé Au Harem D’Archimède immediately comes to mind. Air-tight from start to finish, not a sound is misplaced, not one second goes wasted. Add this to 2007’s list of albums by dance/electronic producers who have proven that the album format is not lost to the genre (Efdemin, Pole, Pantha du Prince, etc.).

SLEEPARCHIVE & ANTTI RANNISTO: Sleeparchive & Antti Rannisto
Sleeparchive

Sleeparchive shares his first CD of bleepy ambient with Antti Rannisto (12K).
 

ALTER EGO: Why Not?!
Klang Elektronik

Maximal, antagonistic techno from Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wuttke…
 
 

GESCOM: A1-D1
Skam

The latest from this Autechre-affiliated collective collects the tracks from 3 vinyl EPs.
 

SAWAKO: Madoromi
Anticipate

The Anticipate label follows up Morgan Packard’s Airships Fill the Sky with Sawako’s sleepy ambient.

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LCD SOUNDSYSTEM: 45′33″ (DFA/ Astralwerks)
James Murphy’s Nike-sponsored mix project is now available on CD along with bonus tracks culled from the b-sides of Sound of Silver’s singles. As the story goes, Nike commissioned Murphy to make a work out-length mix designed to make the minutes fly by as you sweat it out on the treadmill. The funky, propulsive mix (of his own, original material) he came up with far surpasses the more rock-oriented Sound of Silver, if you ask us.

RICARDO VILLALOBOS: Fabric 36 (Fabric)

CHICA AND THE FOLDER: Under the Balcony (Monika)

ERIC D. CLARK: E=dc2 (Firm)

LOPAZZ: Kook Kook (Get Physical)

BOOKA SHADE: DJ Kicks (!K7)

COBBLESTONE JAZZ: 23 Seconds (!K7)

SUPERSILENT: 8 (Rune Grammofon)

SUN ELECTRIC: Lost & Found (Shitkatapult)

SWOD: Sekunden (City Centre Offices)

ESKIBOY [Wiley]: Best of Tunnel Vision (Eskibeat)

CHATEAU FLIGHT: Body Language Vol. 5 (Get Physical)