Haunted Dancehall

couldn’t find on Spotify

I mean... It's pretty good. But as an album, it's too long and repetitive. I enjoy this kind of music, but Aphex Twin, for example, makes similar music, and it just doesn't feel as boring. I think this album isn't varied enough, and about halfway through it just became background music. As an album, I just don't think it rates better than average, but individual songs certainly could.

no me gusta mucho el estilo, y eso que el ambient lo banco bastante

It’s long, repetitive, dubby, ambient dance. Brilliant. I have a lot of amazing albums like this from the 90s from a broad range of acts. This might not be absolute top tier, but it’s up there. I don’t believe I can think of a name bigger than Weatherall as a figure more respected in the music realm I was occupying at the time. His work as a DJ, producer and remixer had a direct impact on so many of the records and artists I was listening to. When he put together his own group with Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns, it was exciting to hear what they would sound like. Soundtracky and dubby, superimposed on downtempo beats was probably not unexpected but it was very welcome. ‘Haunted Dancehall’ isn’t even their best album imo, but I’m glad they made the 1001 at least.

No. Just no.

After the music didn’t give me much to write about, and having a little bit of time on my hands tonight, I went down a little rabbit hole on this band and album. There’s actually a book called The Sabres of Paradise about a Muslim resistance leader in the Caucasus region during the 19th century wars between the Russian Empire and the mountain people of that region. It’s been said that the band named themselves after this book. The name of this album is Haunted Dancehall. The band presented it as a concept album paired with excerpts from a novel of the same name. Each song had a corresponding passage from the novel printed on the inner sleeve credited to an author named James Woodbourne. But the thing is, there is no James Woodbourne and there is no Haunted Dancehall novel. So basically, this is the soundtrack to a book that doesn’t exist. I like the book theme. Does it have anything to do with reviewing the album? Nope, but I only wasted about 30 seconds of your time and not an hour and 17 minutes like the album did. You’re welcome.

This is the music playing in every H&M clothing store in malls across America. No value. Just background noise.

They say there is a time and a place for everything. They have never listened to this.

The best part of the album was the Big E ad that ran at the start of the video.

Not on Spotify

i have never heard a more apt title

Impossible for the mood I was in

Meh. Minus a star because on youtube

4/10 - this becomes a struggle towards the end, reminds me of that reddit post where a dude has sex to similar sounding music (although to be fair that was much worse)

Generated 8/31/26, did not start listening until 9/11/26. It's pretty long and it's only on YouTube so this may be a bit of a fractured listen. I like it well enough though, it's certainly pretty unique techno/dance music and you can tell a lot of thought goes into these beats. I'm VIBING with the track Duke of Earlsfield for sure.

Wasn't sure what to expect with this one. Not bad overall. Pretty cool sounds and laid back.

Mostly noise? I don't really get this one. I guess it was experimental for its time, but it kind of just sounds like a lot of the weird presets on a Casio keyboard getting hit randomly. There are a couple decent ones (I enjoyed Tow Truck because it kind of sounded like a James Bond theme), but most are just annoying.

I didn't know this, and it was a pleasant surprise (especially considering the dreadful reviews). I'm not really into techno, but I'm always down for some good electronic music if it's weird or creative enough. Sabres of Paradise fits the profile : it's a fairly experimental album, where you can feel the producers trying to push the boundaries of EDM by incorporating new and strange noises and cinematic loops. Some songs sound like the retro soundtrack of an 80s exploitation movie, while others could almost have been made by JM Jarre. The album is a bit long and some tracks are less interesting than others (the B-side tends to be much better than the A-side), so I wouldn't play this every day at home. But I certainly had a good time with it, and it makes for excellent background music. It's repetitive enough not to be intrusive, all while retaining a bizarre, ominous atmosphere and a minimalist retro quality that make it something like... dark dub ? Industrial downtempo ? Psychedelic synthwave ? It's hard to pinpoint, but it works for me. And after two country albums in a row, this feels like heaven. 7/10

In theory, I should like this. It’s dark, atmospheric, very trip-hop, very Bristol… and yet it just doesn’t work for me. The frequent lack of rhythm and the repetitive nature of the whole thing really get in the way. It’s not unlistenable, but too often it feels like successive layers being piled onto a fairly uninspired foundation rather than actual songwriting. Some of the sound effects also feel painfully old-school now. Not enough substance in my opinion.

It's okay, but supremely boring.

Diarrhea disco!!!!

01) Bubble and Slide - 5,5 02) Bubble and Slide II - 5,5 03) Duke of Earlsfield - 5,5 04) Flight Path Estate - 5,0 05) Planet D (Portishead Remix) - 6,0 06) Wilmot - 6,0 07) Tow Truck - 5,0 08) Theme - 5,5 09) Theme 4 - 5,0 10) Return to Planet D - 4,5 11) Ballad of Nicky McGuire - 4,5 12) Jacob Street 7AM - 4,5 13) Chapel Street Market 9AM - 4,0 14) Haunted Dancehall - 4,0 TOTAL: 5,04 (50/100) Current ranking: 948/1018

instrumental repetitivo

2/10

I mean… not unlistenable? It’s purely instrumental. It does have this eery, haunted, liminal vibe. Like the type of album you should hear while walking in the woods in the middle of the night. It sounds like the soundtrack to a crime documentary. I found it impossible to focus on the album. Very easy to start doing other things and forget that this is playing in the background, you sort of tune it out. 3/5

Never listened. Expectations: None - Verdict: Good - The opener is very loose but a little bit more focus comes in on Bubble And Slide II. I think things can get slightly too repetitive but generally I enjoy the sounds. Duke Of Earlsfield is OK but doesn't really grab me. Planet D is a good track and I also enjoy Wilmot. The next few tracks pass me by but Ballad Of Nicky McGuire is pretty good. Chapel Street Market 9am is fantastic, probably my highlight on the album. After a bit of a rocky start this grew on me.

J’étais pas du tout prêt à ça, s’était mega weird, genre de machinarium Minecraft type beat s’était Fucking cool

This is awful. Sounds like someone just screwing around in the studio, making noises. I really can't imagine how someone decided this is something people need to hear before they die. Looking forward to looking at the book tonight to see if there's an explanation that makes sense. This album being 76 minutes long makes me feel like I'm being punished for something.

Album avec une ambiance incroyable, je comprends l'inconfort de certains lors de l'écoute mais il vaut le coup. Son préféré : Wilmot / Bubble and slide 2 ; A réécouter !

Meh didnt love. Instrumental electronica should be a top anything

Some nice background techno. I could have this going for a myriad of activities.

Had to source this on YTube and it took us a while to muster up the motivation to do this. Unfortunately, it was not worth the effort. Really not for us. Repetitive and botibg

This album made more sense when I started thinking of it as a Kraftwerk or Jean Michel Jarre album rather than an early example of dance music. Esoteric.

This was good, but a lot longer than I was really prepared to listen. I had to break it up into manageable chunks, but I did enjoy most of the time. Four stars.

Aptly named. The haunted dancehall tracks were eerie. Liked the cheerier sounding ones like Bubble 2, Tow Truck, and Title. Interesting listen.

Interesting album. Electronic jazz, jazz dub. Wasn’t sure at first but ended up really enjoying this album

I think this might be the worst album I've listened to to date. It's so bad that it isn't available on Spotify and I had to listen on Youtube Music.

A lot of this album, I wouldn't really listen to again because it's just kind of the same ambient noises over and over. A few however are actually really good and I would definitely listen again. Overall, this album is really weird, but I respect it. The first song was awful though.

really not sure why i'm so sympathetic to this kind of music, but i am and hopelessly so. im in space. im depressed and alone at a jazz cafe in space, and it fucking rocks.

I had to listen on YouTube. I don't know, seems like fairly standard techno to me wasn't too boring

Sounds like a bunch of high school kids on a fancy keyboard. Can’t imagine seeking this out and listening to it with all of the better music that is out there.

Jag kan med stolthet säga att jag har lyssnat igenom 1 timme och 17 minuter av detta album på YouTube (alltså hela). Anledningen till min stolthet är att det inte alltid var helt lätt. För er som inte lyssnat så är det ett instrumentalt techno-album. Det bjuder på en hel del intressanta ljudbilder och till och från gillar jag ändå det jag lyssnar på ganska mycket. Men i det stora hela fungerar det bäst som bakgrundsmusik med en mystisk atmosfär. Ljuden är ibland spännande, men ofta bara inte så bra. Jag tenderar generellt att ha svårt för musik som är fullständigt instrumental. Med det sagt är det inte det värsta jag har lyssnat på. Mitt slutbetyg blir 4/10!

It's as if the weirder progressive noise rock met techno. Not my jam.

Peace of shit

“Techno’s first concept album” and it’s just poop from a butt 🥀

One of the few albums on the 1001 albums to hear before you die list to not be on Spotify happens to be The Sabres of Paradise's Haunted Dancehall album from 1994. This album was made during one of the earliest periods for Warp records as a whole as they were huge pioneers of the IDM genre and getting it started, yet I don't think this album is a very good representation of the genre or of one of the early Warp records projects in the IDM genre as a whole. This project feels very cheap and flimsy and doesn't ever stick to a sound, but instead tries jumping around songs until The Sabres of Paradise finds something stable to land on for a song or two before moving on. This project feels like a house of cards in the wind and it is about to blow over. I wish this album was more structured and concise, but for being in the very beginning years of IDM I can't even be too mad there was a miss or two with a lot of Warp Record's hot new sound.

2.5

Fun music, but songs without lyrics aren’t for me.

Just not my thing. But not terrible.

uh this is bizarre. I felt like I was the kid I was playing with a beat pad on a Ipad on some tracks, but on other ones it was just extremely confusing. I tried being open-minded with album with its unusual sounds, but I realized that I was just trying make sense of things that don't have any.

This was a challenge to get through.

Honestly this sounds almost exactly like something I would make with my little Korg drum machines in my free time. Maybe quite innovative for it's time, but knowing this was '94 I highly highly doubt it. Really quite boring stuff, 2 stars if I am feeling generous.

#436/1001. Had to dig this one from YouTube. Kind of breaks the mood having to listen to short commercial jingles between every song, doesn't it? Strong Aphex Twin SAW 1&2 influences here. But I am a fan of electronica, fior me it is always refreshing to dive out from the western pop & rock balloney this list is filled with, although the choices which albums are selected are often quite obscure such as with this one. I am vaguely familiar with the Sabres, and wonder if there are any Two Lone Swordsmen, who are much more varied, interesting and dancable than this album which is kind of stuck between haunting techno and ambient.

You know I actually wanted to get into club haunted dancehall more than club aqua. There's more joy in my head from that singular line than this 74 minute behemoth. It's not as bad I think as the other reviews say but it gets a demerit for being so long. If this was 37 minutes I'm digging it a lot more.

Chill beats to study to

A bit more interesting than I was expecting it to be to be honest, club electronica, but pretty mellow, not bad.

Never heard before, very interesting electronic music, first few tracks hooked me in, I think I would like to listen more, but does tend to end up as background music at certain points (middle), end tracks also hooky⭐⭐⭐⭐

This album has some good ideas, some interesting sounds but, it feels soulless. Not just soulless, it becomes tedious and uninteresting. The songs are so long they are even irritating. They just repeat the same structure over and over, without even evolving. And, even there are several layers on the songs, they feel pretty plain and insipid. There is no single song that turns to be something else, something surprising. They are just repetitive uninteresting songs. Sure, there are some ideas, but the delivery is poor, the result is tasteless and the album does not function in any way... even songs like "Wilmot" make it frustrating because of the lack of direction and, surely, of cohesion. The only cohesive aspect is its blandness and percussive repetition. And in a sense it feels uninspired. If you can say that there is inspiration, which I am not sure to find at all. Just to get to some nice melodies (in the songs you can find an actual melody) or rhythms does not make this album inspired in any way. Just less bad. Still, not memorable at all.

Starts out pretty abstract. Starts to get more funky. Very electronic early 90s. Wordless and funky. Abstract. Good background for doing something else but pretty forgettable.

Very album very much lives up to the title 'Haunted Dancehall.' You can hear the clear dub influence and this feels like a very early precursor to the original UK dubstep (not the American, Skrillex, wave from 2007 onward). While the listening experience is chilled out and meditative, this pacing sometimes works against the album. It is already a long record, and the lingering atmospheric interludes stretch its runtime further than necessary. Fortunately, momentum picks back up just as it risks losing the listener, though the entire project could use a tighter edit to showcase only its strongest ideas. Devoid of vocals, quick dopamine hits, and catchy hooks, this release will likely alienate casual listeners. However, for music fans, there are plenty of interesting production ideas worth exploring.

Not available to listen to on Spotify unfortunately.

Kind of a let down. I was expecting/hoping for more beats and energy, but it was very low key. Still good though.

Meh. Nope. Don't care for it. It wasn't awful and a little more varied than some electronic stuff. But still more repetitive than I care for.

Really enjoyed this, so much so that it's gone straight onto my purchase list. A compelling fusion of abstract techno, downtempo, experimental synths and breakbeat, it's a lengthy but immensely rewarding listen, rooted in 70s textures and production values but reframed for the 90s IDM scene. It almost sounds as if Future Sound of London hopped on a time machine back into the Berlin school era and this is what they came back with. Excellent stuff.

This is a wonderful idea for spooky season!

Far to strange techno for my taste. I couldn't get in to the songs at all. There were a few moments in some songs that i did enjoy but overall not a great experience.

It’s a collection of electronic sounds structured inconveniently. I’m sure it was groundbreaking at the time, but hasn’t aged well in my opinion. Elements of some tracks sound suspiciously similar to Selected Ambient Works. But I’m not complaining about that. Just an observation. 2.6/5.0

If you compare it to other albums released around the same era it's pretty basic. No boundaries were pushed.

No Blue Album. No Neutral Milk Hotel. No TOOL. This. Robert needs an intervention.

Not terrible. Perhaps just a little bland for the first half.

Muy bueno, 7/10 quizas el concepto es mejor que la música en sí, sin embargo va muy bien como ambiente metálico. si es que eso significa algo

I feel like I could type "decent background music" for a third of the albums on this list.

A conceptual techno album! How about that? Did you even think those three words could be combined in one phrase? Actually, I'm not entirely sure what the concept is. While the first few songs do indeed evoke a haunted dancehall, the rest evolves into the soundtrack to an action movie, the backdrop for a nighttime stroll through a factory with conveyor belts, and even some truly strange sounds, like the slapping of foil, orchestral bells, or a whining dog. At the same time, these intricate seven- and eight-minute electronic themes somehow manage not only not to get boring, but sometimes even make you want to play them again! The head of BBC Radio 1 once said that music similar to the track of the same name on this album should be played on pop radio to prepare audiences before cutting to an announcement of major news such as the death of the Queen. There's something to that.

Kind of like watching the opening of Doctor Who for an hour straight. Who would dance to this? That said, it's on the stronger side of edm for me. Maybe a 1.5, but dropping because why listen to an entire album of this.

Maybe two stars if it was shorter but ahhhhhh

Instead of rambling on about this lackluster album which has found its way in the bottom 20 rated albums in this generator, I want to discuss another phenomenon: why is it that I generate a British Electronica album mainly on weekends? This entire process is random, yet, I can only think of one album in this subgenre which was generated on a weekday. Favorite Track: "Tow Truck".

Began a little weird for the first couple of tracks and improved over the duration. Wilmot was the high point, and if they were all that good, this could have been four stars. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case, and I think this album overstayed it's welcome by about 10-15 minutes. ⭐⭐.75

Caught me on a good day! Happy to have listened to this. Can see how it was so influential to my favorite genre on music today. It’s a bop.

musica elettronica sperimentale, non male

Not the worst album on here but couldn’t finish and no need to revisit. Another one I don’t need to hear before I die. This list is shit.

Interesting rhythms and drum loops, but jazz-inflected EDM is just not my jam.

How many bad British electronica albums can there possibly be? I'm pretty sure all of them are on this list. This one, surprisingly, isn't terrible. I was even mildly interested for a little while. Then I thought the album had to be near the end, but when I looked ... track 4. Of 14. This thing is way way way too long, but at least it isn't terrible.

Great working music.

This is my first 1 out of 5. Bland slow tempo electronic music. My question is actually who is this for? Certainly not me

It's decent IDM, not much I'd want to dance to though (Duke of Earlsfield is a banger though, love the percussion) more so an interesting listen as a background soundtrack. Very much captures a "haunted" feeling as the instrumentals have eerie sounds of metal and odd sounding synths that fit the vibe of a dance floor full of ghouls and monsters. Randomly part way though is a trip hop song, Planet D, that I also enjoyed. Could very much work as a Halloween album. A neat experiment in dance music that is more atmospheric than repayable for me, but overall I enjoyed it. Definitely too long of a runtime though.

It took about 10 minutes for this to start getting boring. Unfortunately that was with an hour of this interminable crap left to go.

Hi-hum, very humdrum

Don’t know? Bring the beats. Maybe too long, but really very fun. This is definitely my jam. 4 Boolean: True - thank you British biased list

i was pretty tuned into music in 1994 and have never heard of this. gonna take a pass here.

унитазные звуки😍😍😍

This is like a 14 year playoff drought.

Yah to say this album is creative is definitely an understatement. This album has so much originality and creativity that it’s bursting at the seems. This album really sounds like an industrial metal album, but not in the traditional sense, but in the LITERAL sense. There’s so much of this album that feels like it’s coming out of an abandoned factory with grinding parts and even a few laser sounds! Honestly if this album had alittle bit more going for it in terms of lyrics or less repetitive song structure this would be a solid 5. But it’s only barely short of that.

I’ll say one thing for this album- I listened to it on a day where I needed to get some stuff done quite quickly, so the fast pace of this album was quite helpful! That’s as positive as I’ll be however. Fetch the Alan Partridge meme because this is just noise. I can’t tell you about any individual tracks, because there were no distinguishing features between them that I could find.

While this wasn’t mind blowing by any sense, it was an intriguing and atmospheric collection of tracks.

Not again… Yes, that’s right, it’s yet another overlong, repetitive and incredibly boring electronic album. And to make matters worse a lot of the sounds on this one seemed particularly abrasive and ear-piercing (‘Flight Path Estate’ was the most egregious case). However, for the most part I don’t have much to say about it, because (as usual) it all just washed over me without making any real impression at all. There was the very occasional track that seemed vaguely okay though, e.g. ‘Theme’. Tempted to give it a 1, but it just about gets away with a low 2.

Low 3

An interesting, maybe even intelligent record which, for me, lacks a killer instinct which sees it stumble around tranquilised for 75+ minutes. It’s all very intentional, they want to keep you in that woozy, stumbling state but whether it entrances you will depend on how well disposed you are to the simple set of ingredients they’re working with. For me it’s all a little too uneventful and bland.

Today’s album gets the lowest 3, nice production and some great moments but a long record of largely just above middling electronic

good for working. i wish it was on spotify bc there were a couple songs i really liked

Lmaooooo no

Electronic music good for studying

A fun ride! Surprisingly good to be early 90’s electronic.

Music for ghosts. It's crazy how thin the line is that separates great ambient electronic music and stuff that I really don't get...

The first few tracks on this album have a strong focus on textures, sounds, and atmosphere, which I did really like, but the novelty quickly wore off and I found myself getting bored about half way through the second track. There’s a bit of a stylistic shift at the song Wilmot. The tracks have less of the bubbly textures and take on a bit of a dub and rock feel, which I initially enjoyed, but the novelty once again quickly wore off by the repetitive nature of the tracks. That’s my main gripe about this album and about electronica in general; everything is too long and too repetitive. There were elements I liked, but more often than not, I started eyeing up the skip button before the end of a track.

Not available to stream

This week has been soooooooo long - Guns n Roses, Fatboy Slim, and now this? Please, god, let it stop.

Ross con el piano 2.0

Yet another, and hopefully the final, instance of British electronic music from the 90s. I just categorically find it quite boring.

This wasn't available on spotify, so I just listened on youtube. Pretty boring. Sometimes Dimery's selections are just so strange.

When I imagined this being the score for a sick sci-fi anime it clicked for me.

Yeah, not bad. Kinda reminded me of a video game soundtrack for some reason.

again weird cult shit, but more bearable

?/10. No lo terminé de escuchar, es largo y no está en Spotify. Igualmente el sonido de los primeros temas fue bastante interesante (parezco Bullrich), sonido de electro mecánico bien punzante y casi disonante pero que te hace mover la cabeza. Le voy a dar otra oportunidad en el futuro.

It seems like just beats and different sounds, nothing really to hold onto. Maybe good for zoning out but I got quickly bored.

“Haunted Dancehall” - oh, really? To me, that sounds more like perfectly ordinary dancehall without any distinctive features or highlights. Or was that perhaps exactly what they meant by “haunted”? Hmm, let’s try to figure this out: “The Sabres of Paradise” clearly refers to the razor on the cover - so “Dancehall” here probably refers to the barbershop, which is also paradise. OK, and it’s haunted - by boring electronic music? Or is that a metaphor for the (presumably dull) knife - or rather, its improper use? And what’s the deal with that disturbingly precise claim that this is the 47th best album of 1994? I mean, how many relevant albums were released in 1994? Were there more than 47? Maybe even fewer? So many questions - depending on the context, either oral sex should follow now or a cut to a very serious-looking man behind a desk talking about something completely different... I can’t take this anymore.

Not my particular taste of electronic music, generally. Track 6, Wilmot, was among my favorites. A lot of these songs were interesting in the way they were put together but, and this is one of the hallmarks of this stuff, they were *so* repetitive. Crafted well, but yeah.

very mixed, some of it was cool, some sounded laughably amateurish

I could play this in my backyard... actually, I think I already played this in my backyard when I was a kid :-(

No surprise, a bit boring. Can’t see myself going round again.

I got excited when I saw “electronic concept album”. I don’t get it though.

Decent dancey electronicy stuff. I wouldn't turn it off, probably!

You have to give props to The Sabres of Paradise for sticking to their guns and pulling their music from Spotify. Quote: "Sabres Of Paradise remove music from Spotify for "undervaluing artists, underserving listeners and financial ties to AI-driven weapon technologies'” (NME). I completely understand and respect their opinion as an anti-AI and pro-artist individual. It also made it a tad harder for me to find them and outside of 1001AG, I'm not sure that I would have found this band. Truth be told, I think this album would be great for work/focus. It's rhythmic. It's interesting. I can 10000% tell that it's a product of my generation lol

I'm just not a fan of techno or house music. This album was at least easy to listen to though.

Similar vibes to something from SMT or a similarly gritty rpg, but not as good

Been a while since I've got something I've not heard of. Unfortunate that it seems to be sub-par English (of course) Techno.

I'm guessing this one wasn't too popular on the site. But, for me, this is both a nostalgia trip and a rediscovering of an album that is underecognised. Theme is the standout here but the textures and atmospheres across the album are outstanding.

Good for working

What can you say about this? Sounded like my Casio keyboard from the 90s. 2/10 Top song Wilmont

Schwierig z säge. Isch teils wück no spannend gsi und teils hät‘s iwie chli gnervt

had no idea of this album but honestly satisfied with the result bcs i didnt carry that much expectation. its like bunch of weird noises in harmony some of that remind me of nature sounds in a electronic way.

Another useless album that only people that enjoy electronic albums should listen to. Also no reason for this to be over a hour! 0.5/5

A good background album to get some things done, did some chores and packed for a trip listening. Very groovy kept the vibe up

It was fine pretty long

Not available k

did not like it

This was intriguing, interesting, repetitive and then boring. I reached this conclusion by the end of the first 10 minutes. Another 66 remained. Of these, maybe 15 were spent well listened. The rest got very good at outstaying its welcome.

Can’t review as didn’t listen.

Definitely a unique electronic album.

“techno’s first concept album”…..? what could the intended concept possibly be? What If You Were Trapped In A 90s Video Game Menu?

pa ono, ne mogu reći da je apsolutno smeće, al da je dobro, baš i nije. u nekoj najpozadnijoj pozadini čak i nije tolko nepodnošljivo. al sve skupa bezvezno

eh 2 not sure why I think of the group The Heliocentrics

Struggled to find the album. Listened to what I could of the band.

Interesting but limited. I like the idea. But I don’t want to dance. That’s a problem with dance music.

I genuinely dont know what to make of it.

I used to think that Dimery (and/or his editors) spent a lot of the 90s in UK clubs, given the amount of 90s UK dance music on the list. But I have modified that to suggest that they spent a lot of the 90s sprawled on old couches in dingy flats getting stoned and listening to CDs of club music. This isn't really music for dancing; it's music for chilling out with a spliff after a big night out. I don't indulge, myself, but whatever floats your boat. Andy Weatherall was great at capturing post-rave come-down vibe (see also his remixes and work with Primal Scream and My Bloody Valentine et hoc genus omnes). His love of indie and club music really helped create this genre of loose, funky, dubby music at the intersection of dance and indie rock. He never met a delay (or ring modulator) he didn't like (and over-use), an approach he lifted from dub. It's more to my personal taste than the uptight, digital sheen of garage or drum 'n bass, which tends to make me anxious. But it raises the question of "Why not just listen to one of the thousands of perfectly good dub albums that already existed?" Why isn't there an album by Lee Scratch Perry or Scientist or King Tubby or Mad Professor on this list? Sigh, another missed opportunity by 1001 Albums. But back to The Sabres of Paradise; perfectly listenable chill-out music. 3 stars.

5/5 feels high, but just my kind of stuff, I'd probably give it less than perfect on a more detailed scale (9/10), but like it too much for a 4. Fave so far on this list.

I actually loved this experience. Such an interesting techno sound, like it was recorded in a bathtub or something. Such strange sounds but it's quite soothing to me

...Ugh. Why did I sign up for this project again? To expose my ears to brash, echoey percussion that persists relentlessly until said ears have fallen decrepit, been violently laid to waste, been left abandoned in a dank dilapidated sewage tunnel? That's certainly what this album feels like. The best part of the album was when I accidentally caused Mardy Bum (Arctic Monkeys) to start playing on Spotify alongside Bubble and Slide II on YouTube, and immediately thought, "wow, this part of Bubble and Slide sounds kind of decent." Not available on Spotify – which isn't the be-all-end-all of poor music, but there must be a strong correlation. I assume any Sabres Of Paradise fans would flock to the YouTube version, but that only has 12,000 views. I can definitely understand why this record was given the prestigious accolade "47th best album of 1994". Duke of Earlsfield... You can't tell me with a straight face that that repeated percussion on beat 4 is genuinely strong. Genuinely bullshit, more like. A callback to the 80s when nobody was looking for it. The whole album is a bit like that. Many of these songs lack texturing, and very often we only get one or two instruments/textures to pay attention to. Because we also lack vocals for the most part, the go-to reaction is to do more interesting things like tune into an Achievement Hunter reunion stream, or launch the Flow Free app, or review a paper on temporal relativity. All of these are things I did while listening to Haunted Dancehall, and all of them enhanced the listening experience. The track Tow Truck is a little bit better in terms of ratcheting up the musical complexity. Those alarm-like synths are admittedly pretty cool, and the drumming gets slightly interesting. The track Theme is pretty decent too, I guess – if only because it sounds like the right ear of the stereo mix of some James Bond theme. Shoutout to Ballad of Nicky McGuire, too, for having a cool melody on the synth. Chapel Street Market 9am is surprisingly good at the beginning but then goes absolutely nowhere for 7 minutes. One big positive is that the music genuinely enhances the overall experience of watching a R.E.P.O. gaming stream. But by itself? It just ain't enjoyable, man! 1/5 Key tracks: I Wanna Be Yours

Ummm…no

I had to stop listening.. that was annoying wtf is this

1.4/5

Nope.

Pretty forgettable electronic music, I thought the first couple were actively boring, the middle was fine, and the end was too long. Wilmot is the best here by a mile, but I'm done with this one, and will probably forget about them tomorrow.

Quando comecei a ouvir este disco, logo pensei que ele tivesse sido lançado nos anos iniciais da década de 80, e que sua inclusão na lista era devido a seu status como pioneiro do movimento de IDM, e da progressão da música eletrônica. Mas quando fui verificar sua data de lançamento, fiquei decepcionado em ver o ano 1994. Fiquei triste pois, a partir de então, eu não conseguia por nada desvincular da minha mente a idéia de que esse álbum não passa de uma derivação do lançamento seminal de Aphex Twin, SAW de 92. Mas sendo justo, ele têm seu próprio apelo. Não é uma mera cópia. A grande pegada aqui é a ambientação, ele tenta pintar cenários específicos com seus sons, e sucede. Canções como Tow Truck te transportam (ba dum tss) com seu riff magnético. Tudo muito cinemático, a ponto que não me surpreenderia se esse disco fosse na verdade uma trilha sonora de algum videogame ou filme. Divertido até, só que dura demais. Mais de 1 hora é difícil de engolir. Mas foi legal conhecer. 3.5

I'd completely forgotten about this record, which probably speaks volumes. I was never that familiar with it but it was an interesting enough isten - just about. Presumably it's considered some kind of early IDM record these days - it certainly puts me in mind of the likes of Autechre, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, etc - all of whom I really like. It's not the kind of thing I play regularly, but when I do, it can really hit the spot. This one though, while being interesting enough, doesn't have any of the twisty, disjointed, whoomf, I turn to IDM for - it all feels a bit thin. Good for its time though.

A name I was familiar with but couldn't name a track. This album hasn't particularly changed that. I did listen a couple of times, which says something in itself. In large parts it sounded like "focus" music you might find on Spotify or something, second listen I had it on while I worked and it was a pleasant background thrum not sure that is a recommendation, it didn't grab me, but I enjoyed it.

Wasn’t feeling this one at all. Pretty boring electronic.

A Portishead remix??? And a Minecraft disc ass song??? No but actually I really loved this album

Finds its way after a very clunky first 15’

I really don't know how to review techno. It's not a particularly stimulating active listening experience. I probably need to take the right drugs and listen to this with dozens of other people on those same drugs, but I don't have the budget or inclination for that venture. I didn't hate this, which is the best that this kind of thing can do, I guess.

I thought I was in for an awful time at first, but it started to grow on me pretty quickly. I can't rate it a 4 star, because I can't imagine I'd ever just play it on purpose over dozens of other albums in the genre, but I enjoyed my time with it. 3.5 stars.

I found "Haunted Dancehall" on Youtube, pressed "Play" and started cleaning the bathroom. The album was good background music, but I don't hear anything that would distinguish this from many other (in my opinion better) electronic music albums. I'm probably missing the cultural importance of The Sabres of Paradise and I guess I should have been "there", but unfortunately my mother didn't let a 9 year old travel from Finland to England to listen some techno.

Haven't heard of them, I only recognize Andrew Weatherall in the credits. Oh those metallic sounds in the first two tracks are just headache inducing, not pleasant at all. It got better later but it still wasn't a great album 2/5

This is a good album. Ambient, chill electronic, synth-driven music. I like it.

same as all the other music like this so that's fine. i enjoyed it but nothing special to me -- not sure I can tell the different in what's innovative among all these electronic albums. fav tracks: State of Mind

Doesn't really say anything of value, interest, or meaning, and isn't enjoyable to listen to while it pretends to do so.

Sounds like something you would make in your first week of using FruityLoops, but it grows on you slightly.

Takes a certain mood and moment.

waste of time.

If only I could give minus points. How the feck did this album make it to this list? Apparently whoever curated this list is a fun of leaky pipes in a basement? Who listens to this for fun? You surely can’t listen to this to feel anything as it is devoid of any striking remarkable characteristics. At 1 hour 17 minutes and having to listen to this pile of mouldy rags on YouTube because (understandably) this shit isn’t on Spotify, there was not one second that I thought, ah, now it’s gotten interesting. NOT ONE DAMN SECOND. I’m not surprised that I’m only like the 500th listener of some of these songs according to the YouTube views. The other 499 are probably people on this list who have also been forced to succumb to a bizarre listening experience. That, or our beloved curator really loves listening to leaky pipes and has done so hundreds of times. Leave this in the abyss, never to be found again.

Je réessaierai

It was so weird!!! But not in a bad way

Ok

0.5

Zero stars

*Haunted Dancehall* Wow this as a whole was absolute torture. Not saying all of it was bad... I liked "Tow Truck" which has a demented James Bond score feel. But even that overstays it's welcome. Best I can say about this is it sounds like podsafe music for a horror, mystery, or real crime podcast. But since this isn't Podsafe... This is pretty useless. A very very long album of uselessness. (0.95) ⊘

Lacking in melodicism and energy. Boring!!! 1 star

I'm gonna go with a cool 1.5 stars for this. I thought it might be way lower after the first couple tracks, but "Tow Truck" and "Theme" were alright and saved it.

Turtleheads of Allardyce. There is one track which is Wilmot that is kinda dubby n dancehall n haunted like therefore living up to the album title but everything else is tetchy, grim, atrociously boring and also plainly crap. The main thing that this album haunts is indeed this list. Time to get ghostbusters in and make this a strictly unhaunted dancehall and 1001 site.

Must hear before you die? Seriously? Painfully long.

I've never heard of these guys. I don't mind electronic music but this often just comes off as random noise. Some hints are reminiscent of Orbital, but not nearly as dreamy sounding. There are nonetheless some cool tracks, Wilmot is a vibe for sure. Tow Truck is a cool track as well. Honestly, from Wilmot on, the album really starts to take stride and personality. 3/5

they play this when the queen dies; can't get any more metal than that

Not on Apple Music apparently. And from the reviews it looks as though I really DON’T need to hear this before I die s I will give it the average review and get it off my list.

A decent listen, but at the end of the day nothing super compelling to return to.

This felt like the album just wouldn't end, and it was really not my vibe at all...

I’m no particular lover of electronica but I was pleasantly diverted by this.

I cant listen it

Not my favorite by them but it does have “All Apologies”.

This almost doesn't sound like a serious album. Like, there was MUCH better techno/electronica music out there in 1994 and prior, right? I guess things got slightly tolerable in the middle, but still. Strange inclusion.

la vdd no es lo que suelo escuchar, lo tuve de fondo en la uni y no aunque estaba un poco raro no me disgustó

Couldn't find it, so no listen.

More like haunted elevator

i guess I’m not Intelligent enough in Dance Music, but as much as i tried to artsy fartsy justify this, it really is a messy one, and hey, kudos if you like it.

i str8 up cant lisn 2 this 1, evry single track is unavailable. ok so 2 days l8r i searched it up on yt, lisn 4 like a min a few dif songs, wth

Yes!!!

Música electrónica sin más.

I didn't can listen the album, I don't know the cause, but not worked via spotify, appear the error "This content not available".

Enjoiyed!

I was looking forward to this as I’ve not listened to Sabres of Paradise for a few years. Sadly Spotify doesn’t currently have the album though. Still rating it a 3 as it was an album I used to enjoy, and owned on CD, but would have probably been more if I could have relistened to it.

This won me over on repeated plays. The only track I knew before was Wilmot but I can see me playing this, especially Theme, regularly in the future.

Wasn't available on Spotify so was a little harder to listen to. Enjoyed it and suspect it would grow on me

I JUST LISTENED TO SOME BULLLLLLSHITTT

I love techno and IDM, but this is really not even close to the best, even for at the time. Wouldn’t listen again.

slcuhalam fragmentamk tylko nie bylo asluchane ale czulam ske jakbym sluchalq jakis sprezyn i garnkow

Not what I expected based on the album title and cover. Its fine. Background noise for the most part.

One of my unexpectedly favorite parts of this list is hearing the older electronic music. EDM/techno kind of felt like it came out of nowhere but it really does have roots going back to the 60s and 70s and that is really cool.

Nice, chilled album - maybe they inspired Fourtet?

I bet this is seminal but it is not my style

This reminds me of music that you'd hear in the lobby of a hotel that's trying to be trendy. Because this album wasn't available on Spotify, I had to listen to it on YouTube. Funnily enough, when ads came on I could not distinguish between the music and the ads and the music of the album! Very boring

Yeaaahh, unfortunately i was able only to listen to the part of the song cause the songs werent available in my spotify🥲. But i listened to the podcast abt the album and i thought it was the album😅, i think i would find it quite nice, but i m going to give a 3/5 cause this part of the song was nice but as i said i did not listen enough to rate it higher or lower.

Wilmot

C'est tt loooooong Et pas disponible sur Spotify Maisss long Et très inégale Mais surtout long Mais sympa a écouter quand on est au travail

Outré que Art Of Noise ne fasse pas partie de la liste, mais je vais leur faire justice par l'intermédiaire de cet album que je découvre totalement. L'Electronica est probablement un genre musical très peu amical à la première écoute, mais il faut lui donner sa chance. On est donc ici à la croisée entre Art of Noise et Kraftwerk, avec des idées et samples novateurs. Une découverte rafraichissante. Playlist pick : Ballad Of Nicky McGuire

I do not believe in ghosts. But if I did, a haunted dance hall would be a place to avoid. And even though I don’t believe in ghosts, I think I will avoid listening to this album again. Just not a fan of the genre.

This kind of noise will turn any dancehall into a ghost town. Too much nonsense.

It's honestly not completely bad. Starts off a little rough but some of the later songs like Wilmot and Tow Truck have a little bit of sauce to them. Reminds me of a video game soundtrack, in that it feels designed to loop and provide a consistent background experience. No idea why this particular album is on the list however.

Its like calculators having sex. Couldnt make it past the second track

Not bad I guess if you are stuffed in the boot of a car being snuggled into Spain and this is the only album you have but other than that I could take or leave it. Minus one star because I had to listen to it on YouTube with ads.

why was this so hard to find what in the niche good for studying but would never listen elsewhere 6/10

The first song reminds me of music to make you poop

No thanks.

The sort of sounds you could just ask AI to generate. There’s no reason to listen to this. I’d give it a 1 but worry about the scale with placing Throbbing Gristle.

lowk hard to listen to for me 😭

Yeah absolutely never heard of these guys. I thought this was really good early 90s Dub influenced electronic music. Dig it.

The album gets off to quite a slow start nice ambient noodling but nothing special. But there's a 20-25 minute section in the middle with Planet D, Wilmot, Tow Truck and Theme which really sounds great and then we're back to nice ambient chill sounds until the last song which is nice like a haunted dancehall. I guess this is like a night on E - coming up, buzzing and then coming back down. Ahh I miss E and weed. 3.5 stars for the middle section but rounding down.

Полный Афекствининг,крута

Ass

This album was a chore to listen to. It started off with some promise, but got really repetitive, really fast.

Just some glirps glorps and all that bullshit

Fairly decent album to get high and read to

Some nice DnB and electronic , too repetitive and computer produced should this be here ?

Ugh couldn't finish. Too much of the Electronica noises.

The tracks for this are not available on Spotify lmao. So I went to YouTube and listened to the first song and…absolutely not. Cannot believe this is on this list

Fun, I enjoyed hearing such an iconic piece of work for it's time.

You know the scene in Goonies where Chunk is describing the theater puke-a-rama and he makes that 'huuah...huuaaahh!' noise? That's what I hear in the beginning of Wilmot. Tow Truck is pretty good.

escuche la mitad pq me agote

Sabres of Paradise's Haunted Dancehall is a fantastic album. Tim Hecker explores a wide range of sounds, mixing soft piano with heavy electronic textures, yet everything feels musically correct and well-placed. It is an experimental record, but it never sounds messy or random. Instead, it flows like a journey with a clear direction. If you enjoy unique music that still makes sense, this is a great choice.

Interesting instrumental-only album. It's very long (1:17), but was pretty enjoyable

I don't actively dislike it but I don't feel the need or want to ever listen to that again. I kept waiting for something to happen, then..... nothing happened.

Enjoyed this a decent amount, and electronic music isn’t really my thing. This was interesting, not as repetitive as some of the electronic albums I’ve had, and I like the concept.

Kul att typ lyssna på, förstår Primal Screams elektroniska vägval och samplingar när man hoppas ner i deras värld. Bra? Rakt igenom hemskt album.

Funkade bra att ha som bakgrundsmusik när jag jobbade, men kanske inte så intressant. Hade det varit kortare hade jag nog satt en trea, men nu höll det på lite väl länge. Stark tvåa, pga inte dåligt men lite långtråkigt.

Exakt såhär låter det att va i receptionen på ett musikbranschigt co-working-space i London. Fanns ändå vissa spår som jag kunde digga till men som helhetsalbum håller det inte alltså, en svag tvåa.

”NME named Haunted Dancehall the 47th best album of 1994”. Ibland är den här listan en mycket dålig sketch. Förutsättningarna var piss direkt när man behövde lyssna på albumet via youtube. Sämre blev det av att det var till 90 procent andefattigt. Någon av de första låtarna och nån i slutet hade NÅT, ett par njutbara minuter. Resten hade jag klarat mig ett helt, och långt, liv utan att ens ha hört talas om. Idag var det 10 år sen Prince dog, så dagens höjdpunkt var istället att lyssna på hans lite utskällda ”graffiti bridge” från (den ljuvligt usla) filmen med samma namn. Bättre än sitt rykte!

eeh det var lite för pundigt för min smak

Tänk att få stå bakom dj:n när han spelar detta.

Weird experimental goofy stuff. Had some good sounds and bad sounds.

4 stars

It on Spotify

Svinbra

This was pretty dull. There’s got to be better choices than this

it is haunted indeed

I can understand why some listeners are drawn to its immersive, understated sound. It also feels like a record that may have influenced a wide range of artists, despite not being widely popular.

Not on Spotify

Sara - 2.5 Marko -4

This is great studying album will be listening again

Really enjoyed this, when I finally found a listenable version. First off, rest in peace Andy Weatherall, a brilliant and lovely guy. And this is some very cool post-rave, great for listening to late in the night, after the club. Not that I've been near a club in 20 years...

Electronic dance music that did not succeed in making me want to dance.

This one was super interesting but I had mixed feelings. Some of the choices in the production were kind of obnoxious but the genre and style were right up my alley.

Who even added this into the list

I want to find this interesting but it just sounds like people farting about with electronic sounds to be honest. Some nice moments, but many of these tracks are far, far longer than they need to be. Listened on YouTube and the music from the ads in between was often more enjoyable.

Given the genre and other reviews, I was expecting to really dislike this album. And there were stretches where the droning or repetitiveness was offputting. But the sounds are really nice and it does a ton of really cool things for its time. There are definitely some good tracks and vibes, but I can't say it's some sort of great album that I would consider returning to for a full experience outside of those tracks.

I'm guessing this was fairly revolutionary in the 80s, but in today's context sounds painfully average. Not bad per se, but nothing to write home about

niet beschikbaar in NL

tuercas, latas, bocinas y mucho humo de hierba fina

dub-uti

It was alright but never got me goin.

I liked some of the sounds

Nice focus music

The name suits it well. Its eerie techno done right. Its still groovy and danceable.

Some interesting ideas but would have been better to make the point in half the time.

At first I thought this was really stupid but then it won me over a bit. It is very long and I would probably never choose to listen to this over Aphex Twin or something, but it has a fairly interesting vibe and isn't bad for passive listening.

Great to get some work done to

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3.5. Nice little ambient, downtempo, triphop, dub album. Didn't know those guys.

It is nice background music, but 77 minutes of this for this list, not a good fit.

Sounds like a 5 year old playing with garage band

Lotta 2's this week. This album is no exception. Some of it sounds cool and is kinda neat, but it's well over an hour long. That is simply too much repetitive electronica. Bleh.

Nope, nope, nope. Over an hour of bunch of repetitive loops. Sounds like a kid w Garage Band. Only reason it’s not a 1 is there are no lyrics to listen to-although that might have broken up the monotony

Couldn’t find this album, so listened to other tracks produced by this group. Very heady repetitive beats in each track. Interesting!

I'm coming back to the last four tracks after a week and I honestly don't remember anything I heard before but I remember it was bumping hard, and it still is. So that's really solid.

This album made me think of video game cut scene or in game music. Not sure how to rate it because it’s definitely not something I’d come back to, but I wouldn’t say it’s worth a 1 either. I guess if you’re really into playing around on pro tools there’s probably some good inspo in this album

Don’t know what to say…sounds like background music of a low budget movie.

Duke of Earlsfield is cool :)

Not the best example of 90s Warp.

I've been digging these electronic and/or all instrumental albums I've been getting lately. Very good for putting on in the background while I go about my day. This one may fall into the "a little too long and a little too samey throughout" category, but I would have probably never found this group without this project so I'm happy to have gotten to hear something new and different.

Interesting and if I'm being honest not sure what to make of it overall

Needed to dig into YouTube to find the album. Some oddities in there but ok for the background. Nothing more than a 2.

There were some beats I enjoyed, but not sure if this was worth needing to hunt the album down outside of Spotify

This was an electronic album. For me, that typically means overlong songs that usually have ~30 good seconds stretched out beyond comprehension in unenjoyable ways, and overlong albums that never seem to end. This album had both of those things in spades! It sounded a lot thinner musically than other electronic, so this was ultimately a below-average entry in a genre I do not like.

started, did not finish, was OK. maybe Revolutionary for its time?

There was a cozy ten minutes somewhere in this ENTIRELY too long record

This was a bit mad and all over the place, from the glitchy metallic to jungly beats (wilmot) then ambient kind of stuff at the end. I quite liked it and will probably have it in a rotation for background music

Definitely feeling mixed on this one.. it's an interesting concept album to be sure. Very abstract and atmospheric at times. Admittedly, though, it does come off as a bit dated, and weirdly "PS1 game soundtrack"-esque. That's not to say it's bad by any means, just that it easily fell into the background (like a video game soundtrack would) and strayed a bit too far into experimental territory for my taste.

OK, uz beigām kļuva biš repetitive. Bet ļoti patika.

I kind of forgot to listen, such was it's impact. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ well, it played in my ears Revisit ❌️ ★★☆☆☆ (4/10) Total reviewed : 270 Already owned : 62 Purchased : 15 To buy : 1 Nope : 192

Repetitive retro nonsense.

Weird but good

I usually try to defend these 90s electronic albums as much as I can but this one I just can’t. Such a shame since the album cover and title make you think you’re gonna hear something really cool, but then it’s just some bullshit. Disappointing. Favorite track: Planet D 1.5/5

Actually not bad. More like a 3.5