It's not techno/house but I am totally enamoured with the Kanye West album The College Dropout - esp Never Let Me Down and Jesus Walks. The production is excellent - he's developed the Blueprint template - and the lyrics insightful, astute and candid.
> as far as techno, i'm pretty into the new Damon Wild doublepack on > Kanzleramt. especially "mr mean" and "halflife." the combo of "tough" > stompy drums and totally wussed out synths is, in general, pretty > unbeatable, imo. > > as far as rock music, i'd always have to go with Lungfish and the Lungfish > side-project The Pupils on Dischord. if you want to give them a shot, i > think i'd recommend starting with Lungfish's "Sound in Time," completely > amazing start to finish. > > not that i necessarily think you've never heard these records, but those > are the things i'm into right now. > > also, i'd agree with Chad about Stars of the Lid. droning, largely guitar > based, i think, ambient. and the show they played in urbana last year was > one of the best i've seen. which i think is saying a lot, considering i'm > an impatient guy and it was an ambient show. > > eric > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, synthetic tom wrote: > >> sorry to re-post this question, but i'm craving some new music that >> i've never heard of before, and there's no better place to ask than >> here. >> >> as for me, i've recently discovered DeepChord and Docile Recordings and >> i'm loving them both. buy on sight as far as i'm concerned. >> >> playing right now: Drexciya "Digital Tsunami" >> >> later y'alls >> >> t >> >
