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The 20: Top Albums for 2007
Top Albums for 2007
26 December, 2007 | 10.30AM- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
This time around, we take a look back at the year 2007 with the Best Albums of the Year. We tap into Burial, Cobblestone Jazz, collections on Cocoon, Get Physical, and Kompakt, Tiefschwarz, Calyx & TeeBee, Gui Boratto, Modeselektor and many more of the year’s most impressionable electronic albums.
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Chromophobia
Gui Boratto [Kompakt]
#01 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Gui Boratto smashed his way into the scene and onto the dancefloor with a groundbreaking album of heartfelt techno and trance. Minimal in nature, but emotional and soulful, ‘Chromophobia’ ushered in a new era of sonic bliss for Kompakt and established Boratto’s credentials as one of the best producers hailing from South America.
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23 Seconds
Cobblestone Jazz [K7 Records]
#02 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Coming in at No.2 on Beatportal’s Top Albums of 2007 is Cobblestone Jazz’ ‘23 Seconds’. Fun frollicky techno with jazzy undertones, the LP is one of the cutest electronic music rides of the year.
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Happy Birthday
Modeselektor [Bpitch Control]
#03 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
‘Happy Birthday’ is a unique piece of art that can satisfy listeners anywhere,” Gernot Bronsert explained to Beatportal in October about Modeselektor’s excellent album.
“With some tracks we wanted to create a club feeling and they are therefore more dancefloor orientated, and then there are tracks that we used to tell a story.”
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Untrue
Burial [Hyperdub]
#04 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
The fact that Burial produces music only using an audio editor is shocking - so moving and emotional is ‘Untrue’. The dubstep master delivered an album filled with two-step beats, dark lonely soundscapes and soulful vocals.
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Bionik
Dominik Eulberg [Cocoon Recordings]...
#05 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Solely a dancefloor-focused album, Dominik Eulberg’s ‘Bionik’ doesn’t beat around the bush. Offering 10 tracks of solid techno and minimal, the German producer and DJ recognized that club music is what he does best.
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A Cheerful Temper
Robert Babicz [Systematic]
#06 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Whilst Gui Boratto gave techno a trancey uplifting edge with his album ‘Chromophobia’, Robert Babicz took us down a darker path on ‘A Cheerful Temper’, which is full of bass highlights and tech house gems.
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Tough Guys Don’t Dance
High Contrast [Hospital Records]
#07 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Drum & bass heroes High Contrast proved that they’re in control of the jazzy funk step by releasing ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’, an album full of good beats, soulful vocals and glowing melodies.
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Concentricity
Stewart Walker [Persona]
#08 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
As one of America’s greatest techno producers, Stewart Walker knows a thing or two about how to produce mind-bending, multi-timbral techno tracks. ‘Concentricity’ delved deep into the genre to produce a memorable trip that evolves and flows effortlessly from one emotion to the next.
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5 Years Get Physical
Various Artists [Get Physical Music...
#09 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Get Physical is one of the most important labels in dance music today, as it’s the home of Booka Shade, DJ T, M.A.N.D.Y., Lopazz and other top tech house artists.
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10 Years Of Tiefschwarz Blackmusik Remixed Parts 1 & 2
Tiefschwarz [Souvenir Music]
#10 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
The German brothers celebrated 10 years of dance music fruitfulness with a double album full of exciting remixes and memories.
Anatomy
Calyx and TeeBee [Momentum Music]
#11 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Calyx & Teebee delivered an evil throbbing drum & bass album that offered opposite moods to High Contrast’s ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’.
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Cocoon Compilation G
Various Artists [Cocoon Recordings]...
#12 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Coccon’s ‘Compilation G’ was released to widespread praise from the dance community as it contained some of the labels biggest releases of 2007 including Stephen Bodzin ‘Treibsand’, Phil Kieran ‘I Think I’m A Monster’, Tiefschwarz ‘Lionel’ and Jamie Jones ‘Harajuku’.
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Total 8
Various Artists [Kompakt]
#13 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Kompakt’s annual ‘Total’ albums always contain dancefloor gems, and ‘Total 8’ was no different. Any album that combines Oxia, Gui Boratto, Jurgen Pappe, Supermayer, Rex The Dog and DJ Koze on one LP gets our vote.
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Goodbye
Ulrich Schnauss [Independiente]
#14 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Showgazing got a splurge of electronic goo thanks to Ulrich Schnauss who took the sound that 1980s bands championed and added some welcomed drone noize, reverb laden atmospherics and distorted vocals.
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Walls
Apparat [Shitkatapult]
#15 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Combining live instuments with electronic machines saw Berlin’s Sacha Ring deliver a thought-provoking experimental electronic album that managed to sound like nothing else.
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Lowlights From The Past And Future
Lawrence [mule electronic]
#16 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Warm deep house, techno and spooky tech house are to be found on Lawrence’s album ‘Lowlights From The Past And Future’.
Strictly Tiefschwarz
Tiefschwarz [Strictly Rhythm]
#17 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
German duo Tiefschwarz unearthed a goldmine of house classics when Strictly Rhythm gave them access to the vaults for a specially commissioned compilation.
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Fantastic Playroom
New Young Pony Club [Modular]
#18 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
New York Pony Club are part of this new rave malarkey, the dance-rock genre that was both slated and loved in equal measure in 2007. The London-based five piece band certainly caused a scramble on the dancefloor over their tracks ‘Ice Cream’ and ‘Bomb’.
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Kasmir
Onur Özer [Vakant]
#19 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
When Onur Özer released his debut album ‘Kasmir’, we here at Beatportal got very excited. “The wonderful thing about globalization is that it has helped make the electronic music scene rich and vibrant,” we wrote back in November 2007.
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Coloured In Memory
Fairmont [Border Community]
#20 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Reviews Topics: The 20
Coming in at the tail end of 2007, ‘Coloured In Memory’ by Fairmont gave electronic music a live organic edge, with the Canadian-born producer proving that it’s possible to get soul out of computers.
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