The Beat: s/t
Classic power-pop, great songs, catchy as hell
Joe Henderson: black is the color
Early 70s jazz, very different from his 60s recordings, starts off funky then gets a little crazy towards the middle of the second side.
Linval Thompson: baby father
Nice record of early 80s dancehall, backed up by the Roots Radics, not a digi-driven as reggae would soon become.
Ornette Coleman: this is our music
Not nearly as wild as you'd think, quite listenable with plenty of melody.
Steve Roach: empetus 2xCD edition, arc of passion, life sequence
Outside of a couple albums I've liked for awhile, I have only started to appreciate his work fairly recently. all of these albums are great IMHO, I really like his sequencer driven work, which is a new discovery for me.
Tor Lundvall: early ambient recordings '91-94
A bunch of short, ambient leaning sketches, styles are all over the place but it's all fairly enjoyable. I kind of wish some of the pieces were a bit more stretched out and longer, I'm guessing these were all edited down from longer improvised recordings. Not familiar with his other work, have to check it out at some point.
Jaja: endless
Checked this out on Bandcamp based on comments here, quite impressed.
åpne sinn: en seier
This was actually listed under Jaja's "recommendations". Quite a nice album, beat driven ambient in places, good flow to tie everything together, engaging. I think the artist is working on a new album.
Sphare Sechs: enceladus
On my second listen now, good deep space ambient based on thick washes of drone that rise and fall in volume with other elements flowing in here and there. This is good, but I'm not blown away by it. Still glad I picked it up in my last CD bundle order from Malignant though.
As Lonely As Dave Bowman: monolith
This was a free download from Projekt awhile ago, only just got around to listening to it. Very sparse in places, the long track is heavy on the drone. Pretty good but not blown away.
O Yuki Conjugate: peyote
Streamed this to check it out. Not as good as Equator, IMHO.
Thom Brennan: mountains
My first album by the artist, I like this a lot. Bought the download from CD Baby because the current CD pressing appears to be a CD-R, not a big fan of those. Need to check out some of his other work. Anyone know why there was such a long gap between his first and second album? Just curious.
Offthesky & Pleq: a thousand fields
Very good album, I like this a lot. Bought the 24 bit album but haven't had a chance to listen in 24 bit mode yet. Lots of texture, good use of different elements. Needs more time to fully sink in.
Jorg Schaaf: sonar experience
Saw this talked up here and on Bandcamp, so I checked out some clips and ended up getting the album. This is sequencer driven stuff that is almost like experimental techno in places. Reminds me a bit of what Warp was doing in the 90s or perhaps the kind of stuff on DiN? Not sure. Whatever you want to call it, it's good. No idea why this artist hasn't made more albums.
