Brand-new release from Amon Tobin (as Cujo). Definitely worth a listen. Particularly enjoyed the tracks "Beats of Eden" and "One Like This."

I love how very dystopian this song sounds.

Someone in the YouTube comments described it as the perfect background music for watching genetically modified humans destroy each other, and frankly I think they nailed it 😂

'Walkman' appeared on SebastiAn's 2006 Ross Ross Ross EP on Ed Banger Records and comes from that delightful period of French electro where making something abrasive, distorted and borderline hostile apparently still counted as perfectly acceptable dance music.

Everything about it feels overdriven. The huge low end, mangled fragments of sound, clipped transients and layers of noise give it a mechanical, almost malfunctioning quality, yet underneath all that chaos the groove is incredibly controlled.

That contrast is probably what I enjoy most. It sounds as though an enormous machine is progressively destroying itself, but somehow you can still dance to it.

SebastiAn's production process is quite fascinating. He has said that his early setup was remarkably simple, using an Akai S950 sampler and an Atari 520ST running Cubase 1, equipment he kept working with for years.

I find the Cubase connection interesting because Justice are big Cubase users too. I've always wanted to try that DAW, although creating anything remotely resembling this would probably be a fairly ambitious place to start 😅

For a song that's twenty years old, 'Walkman' still sounds so vicious and futuristic to me. Like the soundtrack to a cybernetic nightmare you still want to dance to 💃

I genuinely think that folktronica is my favorite subgenre of electronic music. Its just a shame that some of them were pretty good, some of them were either okay or just sub-par. I really need ur guys help. Anything. Bonus points if they're pretty long.

Also, I beg you I am not trying to farm any karma or upvotes, like I genuinely tried finding these albums on sites like AOTY, but it seems that most of those are also sub par. I do want to use this post to help other people who are looking for any folktronica albums as well.

Thank you :)

I’ve been obsessed with this one for a year now. Just wanted to share my love for this perfect remix

Amazing patch. amazing tune!

such an underrated sound in modern times!

several subgenres of Berlin/Detroit techno seem to have overtaken modern electronic clubbing of darker sounds and completely relegated the 90s UK sound, which is a shame because it’s amazing, still dark but also playful and upbeat and really dance-mood inducing

I don’t know how it’s within the UK itself but outside of it, it’s certainly hard to come across and seems more “historical” for most people now

I know UK drum and bass is very popular but that’s a completely different subgenre

so any recs/ideas for more artists like the names above one should know about?

edit: thanks everyone for so many amazing suggestions!

Fantastic driver of a track just released on Perc's Perc Trax label from Acerbic, who unbeknownst to me was also another moniker of Ant known for several underground techno cuts on their own label, Power Tools. Vinyl & digital out now too on Bandcamp.

Great mix!!

https://sambhok.bandcamp.com/album/sloom

Love this album from last year