I made an impulsive purchase of super-expensive headphones while drunk, so now I'm committed to exploring high-quality music. Over the past five years, I've primarily relied on Spotify, treating music as mere background noise. I'm attempting to recollect the songs and albums that I cherished and played repeatedly before using Spotify. Picrel represents my current downloads. Please share any recommendations you believe would complement this list. I'm open to a diverse range of genres, from Alva Noto to LTJ Bukem, GZA to Drexciya, and everything in between.
You might know some of these artists already, but this is what I would recommend for you:
1. Portishead - Dummy
2. Switchblade Symphony - Bread and Jam For Frances
3. Collide - Chasing the Ghost
4. Brendan Perry - Ark
5. Lycia - Cold
6. London After Midnight - Selected Scenes From the End of the World
7. Queenadreena - Taxidermy
8. Trance to the Sun - Ocean Tear Soda
9. Faithful Dawn - You Are Here
10. Ego Likeness - Dragonfly
I only have listened to Portishead from this list, will check the rest today. Thanks
No problem. I can help you narrow down the list if you feel like those 10 are too much. Some may be more to your preferences than others, so I’d be happy to guide towards the right record to start with.
Thanks, it's fine, I will listen to every album. I need to start exploring something new anyway.
>monolake - hongkong
Thanks for reminding me to check Chain Reaction releases
>t++ - wireless
I remember listening to his dub techno releases long time ago, will listen to that album
>frank bretschneider
Ah yes, need to check his Signal band with Carsten and Olaf too
>regis - the master side
Sounds good, downloading. Good picks, thanks.
Only listened to these
>Stereolab
>J Dilla
>Madlib
>The Velvet underground
>DJ Screw
Will check the rest. Cheers
monolake - hongkong
monolake - polygon cities
t++ - wireless
frank bretschneider - curve
frank bretschneider & taylor dupree - balance
regis - the master side
Steely Dan's Aja is a obvious choice.
What kind of headphones tho?
Final Audio D8000
Will check them out
Cheers
Already added Quasimoto today, will listen to Digable Planets. Thanks
>Final Audio D8000
Pro edition
Quite the drunk impulse buy
This song was MADE to be listened to on a pair of high quality headphones. Once you hear it, you will be whisked away to a warm beach where all your enemies have vanished into the incorporeal realm and your problems have been sucked into the gates of memory
I have three:
Animal Collective - Feels
Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave (my 2022 AOTY)
Quasimoto and Digable Planets
Fantasma and Point by Cornelius
All of EPROM's EPs
Akufen - My Way
Plug - Drum n Bass for Papa
Cardigans' discography
Amon Tobin's discography
Sutekh - Incest Live
use this to break them in
If it's a remaster it's probably shit. Check dynamic range scores at https://dr.loudness-war.info/ , and check what the boomers at https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/ recommend.