Haunted Dancehall

Sploinky and super strange

You can really count on Robert Dimery, an English writer and editor who had previously worked for magazines such as Time Out and Vogue, to churn out some forgettable English Electronica on his list. Jokes aside, I came close to getting locked in on some of the weird stuff going on in the arrangements, but it was so bland and repetitive I couldn’t do it. I guess if I had grown up on this kind of stuff or had heard it contextualize at the time, I would be singing a different tune, but as it stands right now I can’t be bothered to push myself into forcing appreciation for this. Top track: Bubble And Slide II

This type of British electronic synth garbage is way over-represented on this list. Most of the tracks on this piece of shit album are just random noises. An hour I'd love to have back to listen to something worthwhile.

I wasn’t really expecting this. This is the kind of music I would expect to hear in Spongebob during his rave with the jellyfish. The first 2 songs sound like electric zoo. They are kind of funny to me, but uninteresting. I also do not like songs without lyrics, so none of these songs really stood a chance anyways. I probably wouldn’t even put any of these songs on as background music, except maybe Wilmot.

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.

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

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

Svinbra

Soms heb je wel eens van die albums die je wel eens opnieuw voor de eerste keer zou willen horen. Ik hoorde dit voor het eerst en het was fantastisch! Nummers die ik zo in mijn playlist zou zetten. Een album die ik aan vrienden zou aanraden. Mijn favoriet is wilmot. Lekker nummer hoor! Het album is afwisselend en altijd lekker. Nooit genoeg echo of geluidseffecten op de nummers, kom maar door!

Tering, wat een verrassing. Nooit van gehoord en hele dag op repeat. Zo kut dat dit niet op spotify staat. Tow truck met bas hard aan zetten en hard gaan. Daarna gelijk door met theme, plant d ook heel chill. Ik wil dit kopen. Minimalistisch maar heel veel detail. Klinkt veel beter op speakers dan op headhpones. Geen random dingen, donkere ondertonen heel chill

I am obsessed with this. Immediately bought it.

So good I played it three times, went on a wiki hunt, and downloaded the discographies of all the band members later projects.

Electronic.

Wow. I'd not heard this album before. I listened to it while watching the opening of the 2026 winter Olympics. It wasn't quite Dark Side of the Moon + Wizard of Oz but it certainly added to my enjoyment. I went from streaming it on yt to buying the vinyl and digital download on bandcamp. I was never a big fan of such tunes, but I guess our tastes change...

Bonkers. Must have been even more bonkers at the time

Didn't know about these guys!

The Sabres of Paradise Haunted Dancehall (1994, Warp) 1. Macro-view What it is: a 79-minute, mostly instrumental suite built from the ashes of early-90s UK club culture – rave, dub, Detroit techno, Jamaican sound-system etiquette and post-punk experimentalism – but filtered through the drizzly, post-industrial melancholy of early-November London. It is not a “dance” record in the functional sense; it is the ghost of a dance that happened somewhere else, some other night, and you are overhearing the echo through cracked warehouse walls. Andrew Weatherall, Jagz Kooner, Gary Burns and engineer Jagz Kooner treat the mixing desk as a dub chamber, the sampler as a haunted house, and the TB-303 as a foghorn lost at sea. 2. Lyrical content (or the deliberate lack of it) Only three tracks contain anything you could print as text: • “Wilmot” – a cover of a 1983 lovers-rock obscurity sung here by the grainy, sorrowful voice of Will Bankhead. One verse, one chorus, one plea: “Mr Wilmot, where’s your daughter?” The lyric is left unresolved; the vocal drifts in and out of a fog of spring-reverb and tape hiss until it becomes another instrument. • “Ballad of Balanced (Bombs)” – a two-line murmur (“balanced bombs in my head / fall on you instead”) looped and smeared until it is unintelligible. • “Theme” – a single spoken line, “It’s haunted…”, repeated, pitched down, drenched in hall reverb. Everything else is phonetic – snatches of pirate-radio chatter, reversed Indian tablas, Morse-code bleeps, the crackle of nicotine-styled vinyl. The absence of narrative is the conceptual lyric: the dancehall is “haunted” precisely because the human voice has been exorcised, leaving only the spatial memory of bodies that once occupied it. In 1994 this was radical; ambient-house had been cosmic and comforting, but Sabres removed the New-Age balm and left you alone with the spirits. 3. Musical architecture Tempo: 90-105 BPM – the sluggish gait of someone walking home at 6 a.m. on half-depleted serotonin. Harmony: minor-key drones, unresolved sus2 chords, dub bass that rarely leaves the root, so the entire record feels like an extended anacrusis – perpetual tension without release. Rhythm: no four-on-the-floor kick until track 7 (“Tow Truck”). Instead, rim-shot echoes, rim-shots delayed 178 ms to the right, hi-pass filtered bongos, the occasional sub-boom that arrives a full beat late – the groove is defined by absence. You nod to the holes. Texture: cigarette-burned tape, spring-reverb tails that last four bars, detuned police-siren synths, valve distortion that eats the top end – everything sounds 15 years older than it is. Melody: almost none. When a tune threatens to appear (the two-note piano in “Chapel Street Market 9 a.m.”) it is immediately sent through a low-pass gate until it becomes a memory of a tune. 4. Production techniques (1993-94, Sabresonic studio, Ladbrooke Grove) • Akai S950 12-bit sampler used as a dub siren: every snare is flown out to a cheap Boss delay, then re-sampled at half-speed, re-pitched, re-EQ’d. • Real tape: ¼-inch Revox machines varispeeded ±8 % to create the wobble that plug-ins still can’t replicate. • Room sound: drums recorded in a decommissioned synagogue next door; you can hear the 2.8-second flutter echo in “Bubble and Slide”. • Mix philosophy: “faders are ghosts” – Weatherall would leave a channel on the desk fully open but pulled −20 dB so the circuit noise itself becomes a layer. • No mastering brickwall; the vinyl was cut at 33 rpm to preserve sub-40 Hz content, which is why the original LP feels three-dimensional on a good system. 5. Thematic strands • Hauntology before the term was fashionable: the record anticipates the thesis of Mark Fisher’s “hauntology” by a decade – dance music that knows its own future has been cancelled. • Post-Thatcher dread: London after the Criminal Justice Bill, warehouses boarded up, rave culture pushed literally underground (tube tunnels, sewer banks). The music is the sound of eviction. • Exorcism via delay: every echo is an attempt to bury the recent past (the euphoric summer of ’92) but the burial only amplifies it. • Diaspora melancholy: Jamaican dub techniques severed from roots, white British producers using Black sonic strategies to articulate their own deracination – problematic, but honestly so; the album never settles into easy appropriation because it keeps the wound open. 6. Influence footprint • Burial – Untrue’s crackle, vinyl rain, missing-kick architecture is unimaginable without Haunted Dancehall. • Basic Channel / Chain Reaction – Moritz von Oswald admits he first heard the term “heroin house” applied to Sabres, not Berlin. • Portishead – Third’s refusal of trip-hop nostalgia is a direct descendant of the Sabres’ refusal of rave nostalgia. • The whole of 2000s “hauntology” (Ghost Box, Mordant Music, Caretaker). • Film: David Fincher sampled “Chapel Street Market” for the Zodiac trailer; Danny Boyle used “Wilmot” in Trainspotting’s soundtrack rehearsals (ultimately cut for rights cost). • Literature: Warren Ellis cites the album in the acknowledgements of his novel *Gun Machine* as “the sound of New York’s 3 a.m. suicide lights”. 7. Track-by-track micro-commentary (condensed) 1. “Wilmot” – lovers-rock as séance; the only entry point for civilians. 2. “Tow Truck” – first appearance of the detuned 303 that will haunt Plastikman’s “Spastik”. 3. “Ballad of Balanced (Bombs)” – the record’s only political statement, so submerged you miss it. 4. “Chapel Street Market 9 a.m.” – field recording of stall owners, sped up until voices sound like birds; the birth of Burial’s seagull trope. 5. “Bubble and Slide” – 98 BPM shuffle, bassline that drops a minor 9th every 16 bars – the loneliest sound in techno. 6. “Flight Path Estate” – named after a condemned council estate under Heathrow approach; the chord progression never leaves the Phrygian mode – architectural dread. 7. “Planet D” – the “hit” (John Peel placed it at #7 in his 1994 Festive 50) yet it has no kick, only a sub-bass heartbeat. 8. “Duke B” – tribute to Duke Ellington via a single reversed piano chord that loops for 9 min; the anti-sample. 9. “Jacob Street 7 a.m.” – dawn-after field recording: milk bottles, first bus, a solitary raver still whistling the “ whistles ” from last night’s PA. 10. “Theme” – the titular ghost speaks once, then the record eats itself in tape hiss for 63 seconds. 8. Pros + Invented a mood that did not exist before – neither chill-out nor club, but the liminal corridor between them. + Production still sounds future-proof: the distortion is organic, the stereo field holographic. + Refuses instant gratification; rewards repeated, late-night, headphone listening. + Sowed the seeds for Burial, Basic Channel, hauntology, post-dubstep, even parts of Radiohead’s *Kid A* rehearsal sketches. + Vinyl mastering is a low-end master-class; sub-bass is felt rather than heard. + Emotional honesty – no pseudo-spiritual waffle, just the ache of a culture coming down. 9. Cons – 79 minutes of mid-tempo murk is a tall order for anyone who does not romanticise 3 a.m. existential fatigue. – Almost zero harmonic movement; if you crave melody or song-form you will starve. – The racial politics of white Britons using dub as a canvas for post-industrial ennui are never interrogated; the album floats in a grey area between homage and vampirism. – Some pieces (“Duke B”, “Jacob Street”) are pure texture sketches that feel unfinished even by ambient standards. – The CD bonus tracks (three remixes) dilute the séance; the original vinyl is the true artefact. – You need a decent system to hear the sub-40 Hz content; on laptop speakers it is merely muffled. 10. Verdict Haunted Dancehall is not a record you love; it is a place you move into for a season. It will not console, energise or soundtrack your workout. Instead it offers a negative image of rave culture: every kick drum that could have been, every smiley that never got painted, every sunrise you slept through. Twenty-nine years on it still sounds like tomorrow mourning yesterday. Prospective listeners should treat it like a novella you read once, then shelve, but whose weather you never quite shake off.

Yes! This shit slaps! 10/10

Stunning album of dub-infused electronica. At times stark and apparently simple, at other times haunting and complex. Pretty much every Warp Record release in 1994 was amazing.

Pleasantly surprised by how much i loved this

Loved it

This was given to me at random by this website. I just wanted to see what I'd get. This is strangely satisfying? Am I weird for liking this? I've never heard of this band. Wow.

One of my favorites from the day. A remix is on the horizon I understand. Good for some nostalgia. I was deeply into the electronic music of this period thanks to the guys at the local music store. Got some great music during that period.

Can’t get enough of it.

A wonderful sprawling trip and a huge step up from their debut album, this is cinematic, moody, mysterious with wonderful melodies, wouldn't have been out of place in Warp's Articificial Intelligence series.

I was not familiar with this project but Weatherall and Warp are known from me and I respect the work of the artist and the label. I was not disapointed, it's a really good electronic music record, with a good blend of sounds and influences. Will definitely listen to it again.

All of the curmudgeons on here can do one. This is awesome

Atleast it's not boring. You guys suck off the most bland 70's band but put this in the ground. A 5, out of spite.

Never heard of this before, but wow this is wild. 4am music. A perfect fit for the Warp label. Going to spend some more time with this.

I loved this. Background working music. Will be on repeat. It's like they are a precursor to Skrillex and more aggressive EDM that has come out in the last 10 years.

Supererfun tracks. Interesting vibe.

A strong fun electronic album. Enjoyed it end to end .

yes

Thoroughly enjoyed this even though the first track sounded like some guy taking a shit

Great for studying.

This was interesting to listen to right after Fela Kuti because they’re not dissimilar. This almost felt like an evolution of afrobeat, although this band isn’t from Africa AFAIK. I loved this and it was perfect for my purposes today: travelling long distance by car. Like yesterday’s album, I wish the songs were shorter because I’d definitely listen to them frequently if they were…but I do want to keep this one my phone regardless, so it gets a 5 from me.

Great background sound.

Good experimental! 5/5

странный альбом но допустим....

Musiikkia korvilleni. Säännöksi voisi sanoa että chilling and wibing albumit aina ansaitsemassa yhtä tähteä. Nytten ei ansaitse heh. rento tunnelma ei johtunut laiskuudesta. Heh. Mukavan moody, mutta ei satunnainen, tässä on tarkasti määritelty mielintila. Hyvin experimental kun ottaa huomioon vuoden 1994. Stands the test of time. Kuitenkin heh.. Aphex twin dropannu 1992 senkertaparempaapaskaa heh. Onko tämä upgrade heh.. Jos oltais poimittu parhaat.. vois tämä esittää olevansa. Tokavikassa kappaleessa Chapel Street Market 9 Am lirahtaa vähän ruskiaa housuikkoon. (Objektive shit).. heh… PASKALTA KUULLOSTAA, KORVAAN TYLSÄHKÖ.Intensia jää jonnekkin.. filleriä..kö… Niin sitä luulee.. Heh.. VEDETTY KUIN KOIRAA NARUSTA.. kuuntelijaa… Vika biisi.. albumin nimikkobiisi…heh.. viimeisenä tulee.. päräyttää paikat paskaksi.. Meaning… Beuty. Buety of Sound.. Meaning.. in sound.. sound, ,, sound no text… No lyyrik.. Finding something is true.. after.. after your awakening… After beuty.. cannot discripe.. discribe the feeling.. Another world opens.. maybe full of problems… but when door open.. you dont see problems, they are hiding.. you only see light… Light shines.. glimmers and shines,, deep understanding, reflections of light.. trigonometry… light goes.. and goes…. you dont.. You dont go… you watch the glimmering… The newness should scare,, but no.. it cares… scare is not present, its away.. instead,,, love… happiness,,,, finding,, the… the,,, the,,, Light dims, door closed position.

Surprisingly good.

Oh heck yeah! I loved it!

Best Sabras of Paradise album? Probably, starts off with the classic sounds of Bubble and Slide and contains The Balled of Nicky McGuire, one of the best electronic songs of the 90s.

amazing

Comes ar you like a ray, like a beam. Loved it.

One of the all time greats.

Spooktacular 👻

Completely unfamiliar with this one. I like it a lot. An innovative techno LP from 1994. Standout tracks: "Duke Of Earsfield", "Wilmot", "Tow Truck", "Theme", "Ballad Of Nicky McGuire"

nice songs for coding...

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

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

Good for working

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

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

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

Yes!!!

Enjoiyed!

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.

Nice, chilled album - maybe they inspired Fourtet?

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

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

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.

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.

4 stars

It on Spotify

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...

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.

tuercas, latas, bocinas y mucho humo de hierba fina

dub-uti

Great to get some work done to

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.

Duke of Earlsfield is cool :)

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

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

4.9

What is everyone on this is great

great

Strange, but very good

Pretty cool

A remarkably odd album. A fairly difficult listen at first, but with each new listen, the hypnotic pulse of the dub beats and squelchy sounds started drawing me in more and more. I'm glad I allowed the will-o-the-wisps to lure me into the murky unknown here.

Really fun and refreshing.

What a fun, groovy, danceable record! Not a genre I spend a lot of time with, but I love this and would definitely put it on while cleaning, walking or working. I'm glad I listened before I died. 8/10

Pretty good, a lot more percussive than most electronic music.

This good

1994, bordel quelle année. J'avais 24 piges, je passais ma vie fourré dans les studios de la radio ou à zoner dans les rayons du disquaire, à sniffer l'odeur du vinyle neuf comme d'autres sniffent de la colle. Kurt venait de se faire sauter le caisson, laissant toute une génération d'ados en flanelle orphelins, et pendant ce temps-là, en Angleterre, un autre genre de révolution se tramait. Moins bruyante, plus sournoise, plus... chimique. C'est là que débarque ce pavé "Haunted Dancehall", "La salle de bal hantée". Rien que le titre, tu sens que tu ne vas pas écouter "Dance Machine vol. 4". On est chez Warp, le label qui a transformé la techno en science infuse, les mecs qui ont rendu l'électronique "intelligente" (ce terme IDM à la con qu'on détestait tous mais qu'on utilisait pour se la raconter). Aux manettes ? Andrew Weatherall. Le Patron, le "Guv'nor". Le type qui avait déjà pris Primal Scream pour leur apprendre à danser sous ecstasy trois ans plus tôt. Ici, avec ses potes Jagz Kooner et Gary Burns, il ne cherche pas à nous faire lever les bras. Non, il cherche à nous faire ramper. C'est la bande-son de la descente, celle qui arrive à 6h du mat', quand tes pupilles ne réagissent plus à la lumière et que tu cherches un sens à ta vie en fixant un cendrier plein. Cet album c'est un foutoir organisé, un laboratoire de savant fou où le dub jamaïquain se fait violer par de la techno industrielle dans une ruelle sombre de Londres. Dès l'ouverture avec "Bubble and Slide", on est prévenu. Ça glisse, ça bulle, c'est liquide. Mais pas de l'eau claire, plutôt de l'eau saumâtre, un peu crade. Et puis paf, la version II qui débarque juste derrière pour enfoncer le clou pendant sept minutes, on est dans le bain, et l'eau est froide. Ensuite, on plonge dans le dur avec "Duke of Earlsfield", c'est lent, c'est lourd, c'est répétitif. C'est hypnotique comme un pendule qui te dirait "dors, je le veux". La basse est là, omniprésente. Étant fan de Joy Division, cette basse elle me parle. Elle ne joue pas une mélodie, elle creuse les fondations. C'est du dub, mais du dub de caveau, du dub pour fantômes urbains. Et puis, au milieu de cette noirceur, l'OVNI absolu : "Wilmot". Putain, "Wilmot". Je me souviens quand on a reçu le maxi à la radio. On s'est regardé avec les collègues : "C'est quoi ce bordel ?". Du ska ? De la techno ? Un orchestre de Calypso sous acide ? C'est tout ça à la fois. C'est le morceau qui te fait remuer le cul malgré toi, avec ces cuivres déglingués qui semblent se foutre de ta gueule. C'est hilarant, c'est génial, c'est du Weatherall tout craché : prendre un truc festif et le tordre jusqu'à ce qu'il devienne inquiétant. C'est le tube de l'album, celui qui dénote mais qui, paradoxalement, tient tout l'édifice debout. On enchaîne les ambiances, "Flight Path Estate" nous remet la tête dans le brouillard, une sorte d'interlude anxiogène pour ceux qui habitent sous les couloirs aériens. Puis arrive "Planet D", remixé par... Portishead. Et ouais, 1994, c'est aussi l'année de "Dummy". La rencontre est évidente, le trip-hop de Bristol qui rencontre la techno de Sheffield. C'est poisseux, c'est lent, c'est magnifique. On sent la fumée de cigarette qui sort des enceintes. Et que dire de "Tow Truck" ? "La dépanneuse". Le titre te donne l'impression d'être tracté vers la casse, c'est mécanique, froid, implacable. C'est là que mes amours pour l'industriel, pour Godflesh ou les trucs plus durs, se retrouvent. On n'est pas là pour rigoler. C'est la face sombre de la rave, celle où tu te rends compte que le warehouse où tu danses est une usine désaffectée pleine de rouille et de tétanos. L'album continue de nous balader. "Theme" et sa variation "Theme 4". Des morceaux cinématographiques, on se croirait dans un film noir futuriste, un Blade Runner tourné dans le Yorkshire. Il y a cette élégance désespérée, ce dandysme crasseux qui collait à la peau de Weatherall. Puis vient "Ballad of Nicky McGuire", huit minutes trente. Une épopée, ça commence doucement, ça monte, ça t'enveloppe. C'est peut-être le morceau qui illustre le mieux ma remarque sur la cohérence. Ça part dans des délires dub, ça frôle l'ambient, mais il y a ce fil conducteur, cette tension qui ne lâche jamais. C'est une histoire racontée sans mots, juste avec des textures et des rythmes. On termine la visite des lieux (hantés, rappelons-le) avec "Jacob Street 7AM" et "Chapel Street Market 9AM". Les titres indiquent l'heure. Le matin se lève, la ville se réveille, mais toi, tu n'as pas dormi. Tu marches dans les rues vides, le son encore dans les oreilles, les basses qui résonnent dans ta cage thoracique. "Chapel Street Market", c'est le bruit de la vie qui reprend, indifférente à ta nuit blanche. C'est mélancolique à souhait. Enfin, le morceau titre, "Haunted Dancehall", clôture le bal (c'est le cas de le dire). Quatre minutes pour dire au revoir aux esprits. On referme la porte, on éteint la lumière. C'est marrant, en réécoutant ça pour écrire la chronique, je me rends compte qu'il n'y a pas le fameux "Smokebelch II" sur l'album original (il était sur le précédent ou en single, ma mémoire flanche parfois). Et c'est tant mieux parce que "Haunted Dancehall" n'a pas besoin de ce tube "facile" (aussi beau soit-il) pour exister. C'est un album qui se tient tout seul, dans sa crasse et sa splendeur. Pourquoi 4/5 et pas 5/5 ? Parce que, ça part dans tous les sens et parfois, on s'y perd un peu. Certains morceaux s'étirent, testent notre patience, comme "Return to Planet D" qui peut sembler redondant après le remix de Portishead. C'est un album exigeant, qui demande de l'attention, qui ne se donne pas facilement. Ce n'est pas la perfection pop, c'est une œuvre brute, avec ses défauts, ses longueurs, ses moments de flottement. Mais c'est ce qui fait son charme, c'est un disque de caractère. C'est un disque fait par des humains pour des humains, avec des machines au milieu. En 1994, alors que la trance commençait à devenir une soupe commerciale infâme, The Sabres of Paradise nous rappelait que la musique électronique pouvait être sale, intelligente, drôle et effrayante. C'est un disque culte pour moi, il a sa place sur l'étagère entre "Unknown Pleasures" et "Selected Ambient Works". Il sent le tabac froid, la bière tiède et les lendemains qui déchantent. Et putain, qu'est-ce que j'aime ça. Allez, je vais me remettre "Wilmot" à fond pour emmerder les voisins.

Je så idk hva det er med meg og idm men hver gang jeg hører et nytt idm album så er jeg litt overbevist det er det beste som noensinne har blitt skapt og det er sjeldent egentlig det men nonetheless dritbra album 4/5

I restarting

Wasn’t on Spotify

Funky

What we thought was the future of techno! Very conceptual album, love it.

An insanely long album but I liked it. It made me dance and I felt happy & thankful for everything in my life. A pretty good way to start Thanksgiving.

loved how simple it was for electronic music

Finally listened to this one (it’s not on Spotify). It’s pretty good!

teilweise bisschen zu experimentell, ansonsten top. sehr gut anzuhören. Wilmot und Haunted Dancehall landen bei meinen Favoriten.

First time listening. Really good electronic music from the nineties. Overall, a nice ambient sound with interesting excursions into samba and drum n bass. Will be sure to revisit.

Interesting.

This was a pretty cool discovery for early 90’s experimental electronic music. It’s basically a mix of dark trip-hop, ambient, and dub, creating an interesting and moody blend.

Cool

Surprising record. If you like hotline Miami soundtrack, Carpenter Brut, perturbator et al. You'll love this. Honestly it seems really advanced for that time with lots of good ideas that'll be developed later by the synthwave genre. So really interesting record, and would be fun to mix too

This album (or part of it) came on the radio during a family stay in a Cumbrian cottage. It was late night and the rain was whipping through the valley. The music found it's place. This morning, I let this album continue playing in my classroom while the children came in. One child asked, "What's that strange sound?" Again, this music had found it's place. The reviews on here are mostly negative, but I feel that exposes people's inherently conservative, unadventurous nature. This is very good, weird ass music designed for late nights and early mornings. Get with it.

Actually really good. Hit the spot on my walk and on the cycle in the next day.

That was actually quite good "Theme" is the showpiece, but the whole concept album thing works here.

This album was awesome, I wasn’t familiar with this artist but I gotta say I was impressed. I really like the dub feel for the whole album, and the heavy electronics I’m sure influenced so many of my favorite artists.

Really good music for running, work & chill !

Different, definitely going to sample!

The Sabre Of Paradise was Len Houmous’ nickname for his penis throughout the 80s. He said his wives had named it but we all know that reeks of Len’s humour! 4.0 3/14 Duke Of Earlsfield

I had never listened to this before despite being well aware of The Sabres of Paradise. Great ambient sounds. An album for afters afters.

Techno roots laid down before your barren eyes.

This is straight off of Uncle Fester's party mix. Bordering on cheesy and almost novelty in some spots, it really is just a lot of fun. It fits an evening walk/run as summer turns to fall. There are some remnants of the 90's techno scene and some repetition drags on if you are just sitting and listening, but it would be fun to play at a Halloween party to see how others react. I found the hooks to be mostly chill, spooky, and engaging, and many of similar vibe but different enough that not everything felt the same. Standout track is probably "Wilmot" which goes into an ethnic scale mixed with tango or salsa that sways between old world heat and industrial electronica. Really interesting fusions throughout. I'll definitely listen again.

Weird but good

Альбом серьезно раскручивается где-то к треку четвертому - и не останавливается, по-моему. Очень серьзная электроника для 94-ого года, и совершенно по непонятной мне причине засранная местой или рум аудиторией. Лучшая песня - Ballad of Nicky McGuire.

Solid techno, but not much else to say. 3.5 bumped up to 4.

So much better than yesterday’s Bob Dylan album.

Two things came to mind when thinking about The Sabres of Paradise's Haunted Dancehall: this is the most obscure Warp album I've not come across and it features Andrew Weatherall. Winning ingredients, if you ask me. Well, Haunted Dancehall does the things that tickles the brains of every 90s intellegent dance music obsessed fan. It's long, it's sonically adventurous and it is full of techno bangers. It may have stayed obscure in the minds of many that come across this project but, thankfully, it has proven its worth being on here. Favorites: Bubble and Slide, Duke of Earlsford, Planet D, Wilmot, Tow Truck, Ballad of Nicky McGwire, Jacob Street 7AM.

I actually liked this album quite a lot. It takes some getting used to, as it's not music that grabs you right away. But the more you listen, the more it opens up. The mood and atmosphere are its greatest strengths, dark, patient, and slowly unfolding. It feels like a sonic journey through abandoned clubs, rain-soaked streets at night, and introspective spaces. At times the production is primitive and repetitive, but that’s part of the aesthetic, and it works. This isn’t music built around hooks or choruses; it’s designed to create space and mood. Some tracks get a bit lost in the haze, but there are several clear highlights. “Wilmot”, with its strange yet catchy calypso twist, and “Ballad of Nicky McGuire”, which feels cinematic and brooding. Haunted Dancehall isn’t something I’d put on for just any moment, but when the mood is right, it really lands. A curious, understated, and atmospherically rich electronic album that still feels fresh today. 4/5

Wasn't sure what to expect, I never heard of this group but I really liked it.

I wasn't expecting electronic. By the band name and album title, I was braced for some death metal. I enjoyed it a lot.

After the many negative reviews I read here, I was expecting something terrible. But it wasn't like that at all. The music takes a bit of getting used to. But I enjoyed it. It reminds me of DUB and LowFi, which I know from Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tosca or Peace Orchestra. I'll have to listen to this band again. 4/5

This was actually a very good electronic album. It's not even lo-fi, it's just lower fidelity because of it's age, and I dig it. I couldn't name any tracks off of it a few hours after listening to it, but I would listen to it again. It doesn't really hit a pleasant groove until Duke of Earlsfield, though.

London based electronic. Felt less fun than the Manchester/Factory scene, but also less disciplined/rigid than Kraftwerk. Most of it worked well to listen to while working, but some tracks were not good for that.

Great background work music, being added to my playlist right away.

Muy lindo para trabajar y soldar. Un poco le faltó explosion, pero muy buen manejo de los síntes. Nota: 3.8

This is completely new to me. Electronic music with an earthy beat and sound. I won't listen to it often, but its worth a run through. Possibly background music for some part of my life......

It was good! It was an electronica vibe.

Lots of variety in here. Every song has a distinct flavour to it, which makes it a very nice experience. Some of the individual tracks go on a bit too long to my liking, but as there is so much difference between the tracks it's not that big of a problem. I can imagine putting this on as a background when working as well as listening to it live with some kind of light show going on. I probably wouldn't _actively_ listen to it, but it feels great in a pairing with something else.

I don’t normally pay much attention to record labels, but I will make an exception for anything from Warp Records from Sheffield who specialise in electronica and dance music. This record certainly lived up to my expectations, falling into three sections. The opening tracks are all fairly sparse techno with minimalist beats but laying down some interesting patterns that build on each other. The record then moves into some heavier dub step with Middle Eastern flourishes and a richer soundscape to play with. The final tracks then come in with more of an ambient, modular synth feel with echoes of 70s bands like Tangerine Dream. My personal highlight for this is the track Theme which sounds like it could be the soundtrack for a classic heist movie with bold, brass stabs and a god like bass line underpinning it. Absolutely epic stuff.

Into it

Thought this was great, groovy, an IDM album that was great for working and walking and reading. It's such an easy record for such a low score on here.

This already has my attention. Not sure what’s going on but I like it. Eerie dance grooves. This is a really good album. Really fun and suited for Halloween for sure.

When I saw I got another UK electronica album and it had the lowest ratings out of all of them so far, I got really worried. But honestly this one is my favorite and I don't even think it is close. I love how metallic everything sounds, and the beats are really funky. This one is massively over hated, not really sure why this one in particular got so many 1's. (it didn't need to be this long though) Mid 4.

A genuine surprise this. My familiarity with early Warp records is pretty low, but I thought this was great. Experimental without being inaccessible. Able to grab attention and also serve as decent background music.

Good stuff, very nice vibe with some good atmosphere

Many of the global reviews aren’t giving these tracks an honest shake.. electronica needs to be repetitive enough to continue adding layers to evolve, which will increase track length and therefore album length. Was this repetitive and overstay its welcome at over an hour? Sure, a bit. It’s a bit more simplified than more modern electronic dance songs, but it was a different time and different capabilities. Wasn’t my favorite album by any stretch, but the global rating is lower than it deserves. 3.5/5 rounding up

Started of as sfx got better as it went along

was pleasantly surprised to find out this was an andy weatherall joint. perfect album for playing cards to, a delicious mix of dancehall, ambient, and electronica weirdness

3.8 probs, round up for warp

First track — kraftwerk influence ? Portishead 💙 Interesting blend of electronica/techno/funk

Really fun techno. Great background track

Really not what I expected. For being an ambient album of noises and beats it is truly awesome.

Occasionally dated and a bit MIDI, but this all clicked into place when I found out it was Andrew Weatherall and Jagz Kooner; it sounds a lot like Primal Scream's "Vanishing Point." Great to get a 25-year overdue track ID on "Theme" as well.

yahoo haunted beats

Really awesome. I was listening at work which helps though. Way ahead of its time. Very cool stuff

Feels quite Trip Hoppy. Nowhere near as bad as some of the reviews suggest. Rounding up in sympathy!

Surprisingly good, really grew on me as the album went on. I went in expecting something new and different and it was very much what I got! Definitely one to listen to with good headphones to get the true effect of the various sounds that play throughout.

I actually really enjoyed this. Experimental in a very tasteful way, almost whimsical. Hard to keep myself from hopping along

Excellent for nap time. Seriously, gonna keep this one.

-I love fun shit like this omg… they did a perfect job naming this album. Sounds exactly like a quirky haunted dancehall, maybe from like a Nintendo game or something even. Warp Records always delivers -got a little bloated and less enjoyable toward the end but omg I love the first half so much -Favorites are Bubble and Slide II, Duke of Earlsfield, and Wilmot

Album opens on a distinctive note with Bubble and Slide. True to its name, it sounds like a quantized sample of water glugging through a drain. Some bright synth lines are laid over top before we follow the water down the drain into Pt. II. This second part turns to a shuffling drum beat with sci-fi electro-beam synths and other effects on top. Duke of Earlsfield keeps the vibe alive with a jazzy bass progression and percussion elements that feel like they are being cast through a tunnel. Whole thing is great to bob to. Just finished the review of Dummy and happy to see Portishead cropping up again here. Certainly can feel their production influence on Planet D with the distance and dreamlike elements to the punchy trip-hop beat. Wilmot is a fun little dubby number. Honestly I lost focus after this point to some more pressing work. On vibes alone this one scores around a 4. I feel like it was longer than necessary, but the instrumentation was interesting and I could vibe continuously.

This started off as some strange industrial techno type music and I thought I had a long hour and 17 minutes ahead of me. But quickly turned into some pretty sweet electronic beats a few songs in. Wilmot is where I really got engaged into the album with its electronic reggae action going on. Then from there it was a pretty awesome album. There were some glonky ass sounds on Ballad of Nicky McGuire that were cracking me up. This was a high 4, a bit too long and some pretty boring filler songs in there made it not a 5. But overall much more enjoyable than I thought it would be.

Actually really cool, I don’t normally like experimental stuff but this was awesome techno.

Bangers all down the whole tracklist. Constantly grooving and managed to experiment at the same time

beaucoup aimé des morceaux un peu long pas mal en fond un peu chelou

Interesting.

Had never heard of this record and it was surprising. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would

Fav: Wilmot Least Fav: Bubble And Slide Certainly the strangest album I’ve listened to so far, and it doesn’t feel very haunted but all the songs slap. Some…interesting choices for these songs but they just work

Not the best I’ve heard, but I won’t tolerate any Andrew Weatherall slander around here, and he definitely doesn’t belong in the bottom 20.

Love it

Trippy af

The track 'Theme' made a bird look funny driving to work today. I was coming off the interstate and this lil guy walked from the middle of the ramp to the shoulder to this song. 10/10 moment!

This is what I enjoy most about this list - discovering artists you'd never heard of, and loving what they do. This sits up there with the likes of Fingathing and Buckethead for me - great music to work to. I'll be searching out more of their material!

It's Electronica, and I like Electronica. Broad ambient style, mixed with quite nice experimental sounds. Long? No, that's stuff that can go on for hours.

ambient and experimental techno music. the effects are really creative this time around, the mixture of phasers, delays, and gated reverb techniques create instrumentals that sound like an interstellar space lounge. it's an alluring, enchanting album. it reminds me of an i spy picture, like the pictures from the books. everything is so vast, colorful... yet liminal and otherworldly. you can't help but look away, or in this case to stop yourself from listening. it's an oddity.

4/5

Fun electronic instrumental album. Has some pretty neat tunes, but does kinda lag on. You start to feel that run time towards the end.

I get why this has such a low rating, IDM is definitely not the most accessible genre. But I really like this. Definitely the kind of thing you need on in the background while doing other things, otherwise the repetitive nature of this album will start to get annoying. But when you listen to this in the right mood, it's really cool and experimental, psychedelic almost.

Didn’t hate it. Did not live up to name or album cover.

a totally new album and new band for me. i liked it. i might not listen to it again but i liked it.

What it says on the tin. Not bad.

Grew on my throughout. Decent staying power despite also very obviously being a little older

2nd time I have had this one, not an album I have heard often, but a solid off-beqt electronica album

Very cool

Like putting on a favourite old pair of jeans. I remember getting this album at Christmas 1994 and rinsing it on the Walkman. Wilmot is still Killer but it has aged. The production is still original sounding. Weather all was God.

I'm a big fan of the Warp Records schtick - this kind of ambient / IDM blend is catnip to me. Amusing to see all the low scoring reviews from people that can't stand it though! 😆 I didn't have this specific album back in the day, so it's not benefiting from a direct nostalgia bump, but it's close enough to a lot of stuff I love to benefit a little. Fave tracks - "Wilmot" and "Theme" are the bangers. "Chapel Street Market 9am" from the more ambient side of things...

groovin'

chilli elektroninen tekno ambientti joint... 1994 sound like pop corn from 1969... good homage... huomaa hyvin miten tämä teki osansa lhardcrore hardstyle rawstyle melodic cybergrind psytrance aggrotech frenchcore schranzesque maschore uptempo moombathon tyyppisen musiikin luomisessa.. Garbage. Just shitty electronic music like this is the 70s. No music, just random sounds. Imagine paying for this. 10/10... jos ei laula ...satunnaisääniä... wilmot

I enjoyed this. It was sort of background music to me, but good in that Warp Ninja Tune way.

Enjoyable.

Production on this is exquisite. Really interesting album.

wikipedia informs me haunted dancehall can be considered the techno genre's first concept album. i don't have the background knowledge to confirm that; at times i could hear that connection, at other times not. regardless, this album was cool--straight up rad as hell. with creating an album without any vocals, the sabres of paradise did an excellent job distinguishing every song from one another. it wasn't a typical techno album, either. i heard piano tinkering or metal banging sounds. one song sounded like it could've been a theme song for a seventies tv show, another had a reggae influence. a cool, unique electronica album. technically speaking, i'd rank this as 3.5, but i'll round up since i'm considering my enjoyment. as a side note, so rarely do we get an unknown artist with such a cool name for both the artist and the album!

A really surprising album. I've had to listen to it a few times and it has really grown on me. 70+ minutes of repetetive sounds and rhythms - no vocals.....not what I would have thought I would have liked, but it works....

Aaa pero super experimentall, interesante escuchar algo distinto... tiene algunos momentos de trance muy lindos, armonias que me encantan, algunas cosas raras, no se como tomarlo como obra o "album" pero valio la pena 100% la escucha

I was underwhelmed by this the first listen. Usually that is enough for me to move on but I realised I'd been in a mood so gave it another go. Glad I did. So many layers, twists and turns.

Good background chill music.

8/10

I don't hate this and now i question everything. 4 stars, I'm listening again.

I remember being underwhelmed when I bought this but when I found the right moment it all clicked into place and Andy Weatherall regained his God-like status. For some reason I also remember 'Theme' being part of the soundtrack to a film called 'Shopping' with Sadie Frost, think the soundtrack was better than the film though

What an unexpected joy. I have heard of and listened to things by Andrew Weatherall before. He died in 2020 and his stuff went into heavy circulation on BBC 6Music. This was good to listen to as a whole album.

Insanely shocked at how much I like this.

Haven't listened to the sabers in over 20 years. Great album.

Maffe Pacmanmuziek van iemand die zich op zijn zolderkamertje lekker heeft zitten vermaken met deze flauwekul. Maar ik vond het eigenlijk best geinig.

Really cool techno album

Surprisingly great

Honestly this is so simple but works really well as background music for work or chores. Sometimes simple can be very effective!

This is amazing, love finding new electronic albums, never heard of this but great work music.

Easy listening to while doing other stuff and very unique and rhythmic. Sounds like lo fi study beats. Liked it more and more as the album went on. Rating: 3.8

I like: Dukes of Earlsfield Planet D - Portishead Remix Wilmot Tow Truck Theme

A little eerie; but somewhat chill; another instrumental good for background working/photo editing. Thought I'd hate it at first.

Nice tunes to float away on

3.5

It's bland and most of the time pointless BUT it's musically absorbing, at least for me. It's much more interesting than a lot of other electronic albums that I've heard. In short, it's more interesting than enjoyable. I liked it, though.

8/10 I love me some weird ol’ experimental electronic music it’s no Aphex Twin, but it’s still pretty tight

I have never heard of The Sabres of Paradise or any of the music on Haunted Dancehall. I don't know how to categorize this music, but I can work with it. I enjoyed listening to this album. The general aesthetic of the tracks on this album feels like the tracks belong together and they make up a recognizable whole. I wasn't wondering why the band didn't stop sooner, becasue there was enough diversity between the tracks. Haunted Dancehall is electronic music, but not generically so. I was reminded of a variety of other artists during this listen, but combined in small amounts here and there. One of my favorite tracks was "Wilmot" which for a few moments reminded me of old jazz in the style of Cab Calloway, and then shifted into a middle eastern vibe and back out again. ("Return to Planet D" was my next highest rated track.) "Ballad of Nicky McGuire" reminded me of The Beastie Boys' The In Sound from Way Out!. The title track sounded like it could be part of the soundtrack to Stranger Things. I would come back for a second listen.

Great album to listen to when working. Lots of nice grooves and sounds. Goes on a bit long, I think cutting a few tracks would help made the experience a bit better

Pretty long, but pretty cool for an electronic album. I am beginning to realize I like a lot of the 90s electronic music.

i think i had fun, so, nice

This is apparent a foundational techno album and is somewhat of a concept album as well. I found the first few songs a bit rudimentary, but as the album developed, the songs became more complex and textured. I really started getting into the groove of the album about 1/3 of the way through. I will say that it was a bit too long, but I think I would like to return to this again.

I haven't given this one a spin in a long time. Creaking with old age at this point, but 4*s for what it meant to me back in the day. Andy Weatherall shaped a lot of my musical taste over the years - RIP

Man, I enjoyed this a lot. Never come across this album, or this artist before. Sure, it starts off a bit messy, not really finding its way for a few tracks, but it does get there. One of the few times I'll listen to the same album again the next day.

Pretty cool experimental album if you skip the rough bunch of tracks and look past the few places where the style slips into club music.

Going in totally blind I was delighted with Bubble and Slide but worried that was just an intro. But no, that's what this is. And I love it! I mean I wouldn't take it out for a run, but sitting here coding it is just right.

This album made me realize that the electronic scene has been around for a while. I love its current form, but I’m learning now of the roots of a lot of it. I can’t say if this or other ones we have heard inspired the ones we love today but this felt like a cool album that I know I’d never have listened to without this list and it felt like being in a Time Machine. Sort of jet set radio type but also with that 90’s edge of electronic even though it’s listed as alternative. I feel like a counter culture Gen X in the 90s would have had this album.

Back on our '90s electronic wave. This one's wild though! Some crazy rhythms and basslines that feel truly ahead of their time, the kind of stuff that's still gripping and hard (double pause) to this day. There are stretches of songs I didn't find interesting, but the highs were impressively high. Never heard of this group/artist before, but I wouldn't mind another from them if they keep up this energy. Favorite tracks: Bubble and Slide II, Duke of Earlsfield, Chapel Street Market 9AM, Haunted Dancehall. Album art: Got that classic red/white/black color scheme I love. It's a little drawing of a straight razor. Not much else to it, but it's pretty effective. Right between forgettable and memorable for me. 4/5

Отлично 👍

I was worried about another electronic album, but this was surprisingly good. More trip-hop and other influences.

When I first read about this album I was so bummed to get it. I am just so tired of albums I haven't heard of on this list being electronic British artists from the 80s, 90s, or 2000s. But I was pleasantly surprised with this. Listened to it twice through while being productive around the house and it was perfect. This is still out of purview, so I don't feel like I can say a ton more about it. But I dig it.

Liked it! Others in my group disparaged this album, for good reason, it wasn't their style. To me, this album was gradual, repetitive, and cumulative. The music was understated but I think I liked the sound overall, so I was happy to have this on in the background while I was thinking or focusing on other things.

Fett!

Enjoyable. It's a little more dated, definitely has the same structure a lot of 90s techno had, with "let's slowly introduce one instrument after the other and then bring it back down." But it's good.

Surprisingly enjoyable. Did not expect to like it but slid down smooth as silk. I appreciate wordless music that allows me to get some work done while listening to it. Creates a soundscape and just lets you sit in it for the whole album.

This was really cool. I don't think I'm ever going to revisit, but I'm glad I gave it a listen. I can definitely understand how this industrial style electronica was influential.

cool

Great ambient dub techno or whatever you want to describe it with. Haunted Dancehall is as good a description as anything else. Stands up well.

Rating: 8/10 Best songs: Planet d, Wilmot, Theme

Some excellent grooves here, I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. Its spareness means it works as background music, but has intricacies that makes it worthy of close headphone listening too. "Duke of Earlsfield" was the song that hooked me.

Totally dig this. 4/5

Yeah it’s slow and boring but that’s the point. I think I had Wilmot on 10” single. Good times.

Pretty niche electronica, but plenty of interest, I really enjoyed it

It was a good background work album

Very tasteful techno music during the whole project, which is one of the best of the genre at least of that period.

Mad techno sounds and cool beats and includes the classics Wilmot and Theme. Play this in the background to improve your focus.

Some very good songs on this record, especially the Ballad of Nicky McGuire and the closing title song, but also a few tracks that I found quite repetitive and uninteresting (Wilmot for example). So overall a good album, but not as good as I remembered it to be.

massa, viu

I listened to this while having some Guinness and talking about life with my brother, for that it is really fitting. Really unique ambient house with some interesting textures, especially on the drum tracks. A lot of the songs feel like you're listening to an 808 trapped inside of a black hole

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Bubble and Silde, Wilmot, Tow Truck Cutting Edge: Cutting Edge Overall Notes: I understand that people on this website seem not to click with these beat-driven, electronic instrumental albums (particularly when they're over an hour) but this was really good? I was expecting it to be awful sampling and haphazard bass but instead I'm hearing well engineered atmospheric techno. My only gripe is that it's over an hour long but even that I didn't feel too much. Give this one a chance, throw it on while you're doing something else if you have to. It's worth it.

It was nice to have this album pop up the week before Halloween. True to its title, HAUNTED DANCEHALL would make a great soundtrack to a Halloween cocktail party. Or any shmoozy cocktail party. Or the dim lobby or lounge in a boutique hotel. I enjoyed having this music on. There are some great beats, unique sounds, and interesting melodies. Hard to pick any favorites as all worked well for me. Loved the music and sounds in “Tow Truck” and “Theme” had some cool beats and guitar. The title track “Haunted Dancehall” was well-titled and would make great music for a horror movie. Loved it! The album isn’t something I’d put on as an activity in and of itself, but it makes great background music for doing other things. The music is interesting without being overly distracting. HAUNTED DANCEHALL is long, but that works fine when I’m listening to it in the background. It’s full of tricks and treats, not boring or annoying as it explores some unique musical soundscapes.

Brilliant stuff - gets better and better as it goes on

A techno concept album. Worked for me.

Oh my....

Seemed to the nail the vibe it was going for

Слушать можно, не раздражает

Brilliant stuff - gets better and better as it goes on

Pleasant surprise. Enjoyable listen, not sure it will be a regular listen mind.

I would listen to this again. It was pretty chill while I prepped dinner.

Pretty mesmerizing by the end

Never even heard of these but absolutely loved it. Like listening to one of those albums as a teenager where you just wanted to know more about them and listen to everything. Fantastic.

Theme y wilnot

Techno. Parece banda sonora.

Me gustó pero no es para todos los públicos

I like it. Would be 3.5. But tiebreaker I’ll lean up.

в целом я понимаю смысл нахождения этого альбома в списке. альбом в большой степени состоит из зацикленных ударных, пропущенных через дилэй и прочую гадость: такой саунддизайн был необычен в 1995, и по прежнему остается таковым. структуры в треках этого альбома крайне устарели на наше время, но я уверен, что этот альбом вдохновил многих современных продюсеров на усовершенствование находок самих Сабель, напрмер характерный подгруженный синтезированный бас, ставший столь модным за последние лет 10. интересно, свежо и крайне изобретательно, но не бриллиантово, поэтому 8/10.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

It was fine pretty long

Can’t review as didn’t listen.

Definitely a unique electronic album.

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

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.

Finds its way after a very clunky first 15’

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.

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

Takes a certain mood and moment.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Sara - 2.5 Marko -4

This is great studying album will be listening again

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.

It was alright but never got me goin.

Nice focus music

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Weird but good

Actually not bad. More like a 3.5

Very interesting mid-90's electronica album. I'll always appreciate something like this when it hits the list because it brings something different to the table compared the rest of the list. I'm personally a fan of electronic music so I dug this quite a bit but I can understand if this isn't in another listener's wheelhouse. What you lack in traditional instruments and lyrics is made up for with some ambient electro-beats and creative mixing. It's a bit of simpler, cleaner approach to other well-known electronica artists but works in the right setting. You could maybe trim a couple songs a bit but given the 70+ minute playtime I was surprised I didn't find it excessive. This album doesn't feature a ton of bleep-bloops (though still some) like you might see in some other techno, but it definitely scratches an itch when taken in with headphones in a casual setting. I enjoyed what I got from Haunted Dancehall and would be interested in seeing what else The Sabres of Paradise bring to the table as I was unfamiliar with them previously. Nice unique entry. 3.11 stars

pffff ruido (un poco tenebroso) con cosas, que para mi sorpresa no ha sido tan tedioso y molesto. No suelo llevar bien la música tan experimental y aunque tampoco puedo decir que me haya gustado, es algo que no me importa escuchar de fondo y bajito.