[Jimmy Dread]

Best Ever House & Techno Album Round 1:


Dimension Intrusion by F.U.S.E.

Nominated by Graeme2

VS.


Alcachofa by Ricardo Villalobos

Nominated by Cellardoor

VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE. PLEASE LISTEN TO BOTH ALBUMS BEFORE VOTING
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[bobbyb5]

I like Richie Hawtin, but I like him better as Platikman or Richie Hawtin. FUSE ain't bad or anything, I just never felt like listening to this after the first couple times I heard it.
And Ricardo Villalobos is a pretty good House album.

[Jimmy Dread]

Yep, a vote for Alcachofa here too. Never heard the F.U.S.E. LP before it got entered into the contest and was pleasantly surprised by it - a true raver's LP, but then again not as strong for me as that Stakker record/video (Eurotechno) that came up earlier in the tourney, which is just relentlessly gorgeous. On the other hand Villalobos' magnum opus is divine - always seen it as the kind of album that Underworld could have made had they focused less on anthems and inside decided to relocate to a portastudio in a rainforest. And if Karl Hyde had his voicebox ripped out and replaced by one belonging to Metal Mickey.
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[Tap]

Yeah I hadn't ever listened to Alcachofa before the tourney, and I haven't listened to it that much actually, some march 2017 listens, then a may 2017 listen, and then a march 2018 listen, for 5 total listens. and I actually will be getting a may listen in this year too, so I think this accidentally became a spring album for me now? I think that makes sense tho, the bass gives this warmth and then the high end is crisp so it has the same mixed sense of temperatures that I associate with spring.

I listened to the FUSE album once march 2017 and I've checked back on tracks here and there, including recently just to be sure, and I don't even really have any criticisms of it but it did not make the same impression Alcachofa did on me.

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that F.U.S.E. album was huge for me when I first started digging into "IDM" type electronic shit, and indeed it's a pretty foundational piece in the annals of Warp et all. I still really enjoy it.

That said Alcachofa is an absolute beast. One gets the sense listening to it that given Villalobos could could arrange test patterns into a danceable groove. minimal dance music at its absolute finest. Easy(Lee) vote

[joyofdivision]

Richie Hawtin as an artist is way more consistent than Villalobos, but comparing possibly his worst effort with Ricardo's masterpiece is obviously a bit of a mismatch. Alcachofa this round.