We’ve checked our respective record shelves, surveyed heads (Jerome Derradji and Mr Beatnick among them), and pulled together a list of excellent – and, in some cases, out-and-out classic – house albums you’re unlikely to have encountered, at least from start-to-finish. Lesser-known gems are, however, very much out there. When an exceptional house artist album arrives, it inevitably zooms to the top of the barrel with bends-inducing speed, leaving a trail of okay-to-weak LPs in its wake. But it’s also a mark of a sound that, across continents and scenes, has typically been meted out in 12″ micro-doses. Some of that is arguably structural: looser and lither than their techno counterparts, house records tend to be less well suited to the blinds-down-headphones-on listening experience. From the early years onwards, house producers have, for the most part, aimed pointedly at the floor. Hardly surprising, really: techno’s meditative bent and way with a high-concept has, broadly speaking, made it a particular friend to the album format. Dance music fallacy #036: house artists don’t make good albums – and if they do, you’ve already heard them.īack in 2013, we pulled together a list of the most underrated techno albums of the last 25 years – and there turned out to be so many we had to publish a sequel.
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