Haunted Dancehall

I like abrasive music. I like wilfully obtuse music. I like ambient music. This is dull - well engineered, but never takes off into anything really engaging. After starting off boring but distinctive, it then becomes boring and derivative (big beats sorta stuff) for a while before going back to the ambience of the early tracks. The beginning and end are a listless representation of an interesting sound, brought down by an unremarkable run across the middle of the album - the weirdest bits are the best!

Long, and a lot of it can be annoying. There are some good songs; Tow Truck and Theme.

Nope

Also know as: "Ambient music to sharpen knives by." I myself now have a very sharp pocket knife.

Another bizzarro pull. Went from thinking it should be a one to thinking it should be a four over the course of two songs. Let's be real. This is some weird shit. And most of it does not land. That being said, there are at least three tracks here that had me driving with one hand on the wheel feeling like a G. So. I give it a two. Fave songs: - Planet D (Portishead Remix) - Wilmot - Tow Truck - Theme

Kinda bleepy-bloopy no? Possibly the soundtrack to a film starring ......... Wesley Snipes maybe. Yeah, strange inclusion

Well it wasn’t good but it didn’t make me want to pierce my eardrums so that’s something

Meh, not very good

No no no no made it through 2 songs - far too much.

This is definitely not bad, but it's not quite good. It's got a kind of spooky vibe and there are some conventional tracks and some of it falls into the outrun retrowave vibe that I was really into in high school. That being said, it's definitively not that and the sense of aesthetic is not committed. I think that there's plenty of talent but in a world before mainstream edm and hyperpop none of the pieces connected.

After reading a couple user reviews I thought this was going to be a lot worse than it was. My biggest complaint, which others have noted, is that it does have a fairly long runtime. I think this could have been cut by a quarter hour or more and it would've been fine. In fact I would've taken the last third of the album and just made a cool ambient album on its own. While I don't dislike it, I think it's not as interesting compared to some of the releases from the electronic music contemporaries of the time. It's particularly odd to see a Portishead remix on here, because they must've known each other and that song sticks out to me as maybe one of the best ones on the album. This is sort of a cross between ambient and IDM (I hate that genre name but it's not going away as a term) and more traditional 90's "electronica" big acts like the the chemical brothers, fatboy slim, etc. It's like you took them and smashed them together with a heavy does of Aphex Twin and more trip-hop style groups like Massive Attack, Sneaker Pimps, Telepopmusik and the like. This manages to be less engaging than all those other groups because nothing really stands out. This is foundational to those groups in sound, but not anything built on top of that foundation, which is what would make it better. I could definitely sit in a lounge or bar somewhere with this on and enjoy it even, but I don't know about anything further than that. It's music on a playlist of similar music as the perfectly fine filler.

The oversaturated electronic music of today may have desensitized my ears but this is boring as shit. There's not a single banger on the album, there's no rise, no fall; it just is. I was hoping the Portishead remix would save me but alas you can't remix nothing.

A hard listen. Nothing "bad" per se, but every song felt like it was just one idea - and even then it might not be all that different to the others. There is far better electronic music out there, and I really hope to find some on this list.

Some things you just can’t unhear

Different, definitely going to sample!

Oh boy more experimental noise!

Enjoyable.

1.5 - Bad

Cool band name and album title.

?? ———————————— My non-musician scoring system. 5 - Love it. Would play anytime, buy, see live… 4 - Good music. 3 - Average playlist. Depends on time and setting. 2 - I can’t listen to whole songs…skipped all of them 1 - No.

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

First thought was that I could be covering period 3 music lesson.....there are some people from 1994 who had there yr7 music projects stolen

The best thing about this album is that I've finished listening to it and I don't have to listen to it again

This one sucked!

music that probably sounded right at a specific time and a specific place (some warehouse in the 90s). cool to imagine how they were able to put these effects together back then though. big DNF

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

Esto no es para mí. No perdí 1 hora y 20 de mi vofa

This was meh for me. The music wasn't verified enough. Too long and repetitive for my taste.

ethereal. background. meh.

What a way to celebrate the halfway mark! Haunted Dancehall is kind of an appropriate title as it would be a fitting two word review of the album. I guess this music must speak to someone out there but I’m not that person.

1.9 It was fine, pretty chill. Some of the sound effects were pretty goofy. nothing to write home about though thats for sure

Like, this shit is DEVOID of substance, bro First album I’ve encountered where I genuinely can’t understand why ANYONE would believe it belongs on this list. I don’t even know if I can say that I hated it because it wasn’t even interesting enough to hate. But I definitely can say that every tedious second all of these dull repetitive thudding/scraping/gurgling/beeping sounds played for was a second I spent being keenly aware that I was never going to get to have that time back to spend on listening to music that feels like it might actually speak to someone’s human emotional experience. Not a pleasant way to spend an hour and seventeen minutes (!!!) of my afternoon. One star experience, in fact. Sorry

you guys need to stop being so mean to this album its not its fault it was put on the 1001 albums you need to hear before you die list this music is well made and well produced but it isnt the best to sit through but it achieves what it strives for if this was a video game soundtrack youd all be praising it

As a big fan of electronic music, I have to say, they created the synthesizer for a reason... so you don’t have to sample your dishwasher and broken plumbing!

Trippy soundscapes. Listened to it two times while working. It was ok, but I don't remember much.

Utter dross

Background music, an hour and 17 minutes that just disappeared in the background with the occasional "Is this still going? Am I done with it yet?" Not necessarily dislike but very much whatever. What could the book have said about this album in terms of needing to hear it before I die? This actively pushed another album out of the list somewhere. How?

Weird as hell. More than just beeps and boops and synth swoops, which is what I worry about with electronic music. Good beats, not a lot of melody. I will say that this, like most albums of electronic music for me, overstays its welcome by at least double. Six of fourteen tracks are over 6 1/2 minutes long and when most of them are the same eight-bar loops for the majority of their length, that's inexplicable to me. In a live setting, a good electronic musician can tailor their music to the energy in the crowd -- a real joy to witness, I might add -- but in recordings, The Sabres of Paradise have clearly struggled to decide when their compositions should peak and when they should end. Not bad music to work to, as you can forget that it's playing and focus. That's an indictment in terms of must-listen status, though. 2.5/5 but I'm rounding down to 2. I've spent too much time defending the validity of prog rock songs with multiple movements and rich with melodic ideas to put up with it in a genre that stretches two ideas over eight minutes.

This album is about as vanilla as it gets. Electronica without soul. Music from the Hearts of Space stuff. Pleasant, but lacking any jam.

my calculator made better noises during high school calc

When I say I don't like electronic music - this is what I mean. Tracks you only need to listen to a few second of and then you know the entire track already, but it still drags on for another 7 minutes, looping with minor variations, introduced at a glacial pace. The beat is annoying, the repetition even more so.

Budget Chemical Brothers. Zzzzz

Listened in the truck via YouTube music. This was a surprise for sure. Never heard of this group before. Would definitely check out more.

I like it. Not entirely sure why and what the right mood for it is but will revisit sometime.

A little too much for me. I was lost in what the album was trying to do.

Techno roots laid down before your barren eyes.

So it’s everyone’s least favourite British music time. And everyone’s least favourite electronica time. i dont like this. 2/5

Poopy

This wasn’t as exciting as the title suggested. Bad

haunted is right

Designed to be background music.

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.

I did not think I would enjoy this album but as I continued listening I liked how the it sounded like real instruments playing in a way to make an electronic music sound. Interesting.

Maybe the first electronic record we've had that I didn't hate or at least dislike. Not sure what it was but this one seemed more interesting to me. The last song reminded me of the theme music to the Exorcist.

BOOOORING. Who is this for?

Not good, but it could work as ambient if you're hardly listening

This is some early-days electronic music, and I liked it.

awesome electronic stuff! cover gives big violator vibes ngl. cant believe i hadnt heard of this before, so many cool ideas in it, great first pick. cant say i want to go to planet d tho, its kinda mid. everything else tho, wowee

Felt pretty drawn out. I've heard better electronic music.

Unable to listen, not available in nz

Their second album. Electronica. Hmmm, interesting. Ambient Electronica? Rhythmic and maybe even primal at times. The production is crispy clear. Duke Of Earlsfield - This is a track that is almost nine minutes long and goes absolutely nowhere which is endemic of the entire album. One hour and fourteen minutes and you go nowhere, there's no journey here. As I write this 23/4/2025 this is the eighteenth worst album on the list. Seventeen others must be pretty stinky.

This album honestly surprised me a lot. I never heard anything about it so I had no expectations. This album is gritty and harsh with a lot of ambient loops, constantly giving you new ideas to listen to. I can completely understand anyone who doesn't like this album, as the consistent loops get really grating if you didn't like it the first time around. That being said, it's a beautiful journey if you can appreciate it.

Honestly, this wasn't nearly as bad as the other reviews would have me believe. There really were several tracks that were just noise, but there were a few surprise tracks that I really enjoyed as ambient/atmospheric electronica. Not a great album by any stretch, but not the stinker I was led to believe it would be. 3 stars.

3/5

Абсолютно не моє

Einige schöne Ideen, aber unterm Strich: zu viele Klingeltöne, zu wenig Songs. Ganz weit am Herz vorbei.

Never heard this album before. Like it. It became a little repetitive but it was still good.

Enjoyed most of the sounds.

This absolutely has no right being on this list. Its repetitive and not at all groundbreaking.

Interesting songs, but it drags for waaaaaaay too long. Now I'm 100% sure that artificially increasing the album's duration is the capital sin of late 90s/early 00s records.

meh

Slow ambient/techno album from the mid 90's. Nice textures and good atmosphere, production is really great. It probably works better as a DJ set instead of an album, though. It was an interesting listen. 3.5 stars.

I assume this is on because of Andy Weatherall and his work producing / remixing Primal Scream / Happy Mondays amongst others, so it appeared in the limited NME based orbit of the list compiler. I enjoyed the album - and you can definitely hear the influence of Andy Weatherall. Like many of the other electronic albums on the list they generally don't work as albums - the songs need to mixed in with other songs to create the highs/ lows of a good DJ set. Played on their own in isolation they just noodle along and don't really go anywhere. It's a good record to work to as its a fairly undemanding however for me it lacks real moments of beauty to elevate it.

Haunted Dancehall This was decent to work to, and it definitely got better over the last half, but I struggled a bit to engage and find much that was particularly memorable. Compared to some of the 90s electronic music on here it felt like there were fewer interesting ideas, and I wasn’t keen on the production and overall sound. Orbital, Leftfield and something like Tricky give their music with a hypnotic sense, whereas this felt far more stolid, the dubby bits not really working in adding any atmosphere and the beats felt a bit tinny, with a slightly cold and removed sheen to it. As I say it did pick up in the 2nd half, with some slightly more interesting atmospherics and moods. I really liked Tow Truck though, with a bit of Portishead’s cinematic feel with the guitars, drums and reverb. Theme was also decent, the bass giving it a bit of warmth and life and I liked Chapel Street Market, a nice bit of Eno-esque spaciness and noises that reminded me of some of the Tomorrow Never Knows tape loops. Ultimately I think neither liked nor disliked it, there are a couple of songs for a playlist but I’m very unlikely to come back to it in full as I think there are other albums in this style I prefer, so I’ll go 2. 👻👻 Playlist submission: Tow Truck

The tribute to the second greatest British Gary - 'Wilmot' - is probably the highlight. A sultry bass that's helped along by a nice drumbeat and touches of piano, that all create a nice dub groove. Although they know they're on to a good thing which is why they drag it out for 7 minutes. What is rather telling us that the main guy Andrew Weatherall produced for Bjork, Beth Orton, the Orb, New Order - the list goes on. The man produced Screamadelica! His production skills were clearly magnificent, but without the creative melodic force to partner with, it all feels a little hollow. According to Wikipedia, "NME named Haunted Dancehall the 47th beat album of 1994" - that's probably about right.

Captivating but slightly boring. I wanted to dislike it but I couldn't. Very zen.

Never heard of this band or album, but this is really good. The Sabres of Paradise use some interesting sounds to construct ambient dub songs, and it makes this one of the more unique things from British 90s electronica. I can see it being a difficult listen, both dub and ambient are naturally slow genres, and I think your perception of this is going to be dependent on your mood at the time, but it caught me at a good time and I loved it.

First 2 minutes of Jacob Street are Inspirational

they put the frogs in the metal pipes and called it music

What the shitting fuck was that?!

What the actual fuck was that? And why was it actually kind of good at times? Idk if the album got better or I just got brainwashed by the music. Favourite Song: Tow Truck

music for people who listen to video game ost's

First impression is that electronic music is perhaps not for me. I like music that I can sing to, dance to, or maybe that will help me focus. This didn’t do that for me, but I can appreciate the experimental feeling, the combination of sounds, the creativity. It was unique for me. I’m interested in learning more about its history. I’m relieved to go back to my own music after this, though.

Holy shit, I hate it! Fuck this. Fuck it all up and down! :) 1/5

Didn´t like it. it´s not for me, not my style.

Interesting for a couple of songs, but after that I felt like I was listening to the same song over and over again.

Listened to this while grading really disappointing essays from college freshmen and this was somehow so appropriate. It captured the despair I felt, I guess. (ntm.)

Quite liked this. Electronic but with plenty of variation. Imagine it could be a good night turning up for their concert.

Not for me

Ciekawy m, elektroniczny bez słów ale nieporywając.

Je m'attendais à un truc nul, mais aussi nul que ça quand même pas.

Every time one of these questionable albums pop up, I just know I’m listening to an English artist.

Thought I would hate it reading about the album. Honestly, more enjoyable than I expected with some creative bits (beats).

What is this shit? The worst thing I've heard so far, literally no redeeming features.

Awful. I realise using the phrase makes me sound old but this really is “just noise”. And far too long. Boring and unimaginative. No idea why this exists on this list. I guarantee there are 1001 better albums out there on the world. Insert Sean Dyche meme here.

Cool electronic record. Reminds me of some other records from my past. The rhythms and melodies are enticing and it keeps my attention. I enjoy the different sounds and sequencing that the producer created. It instills a lot of ambience and mystery throughout. I'd listen to this again.

Wow, always fun to listen to something that doesn’t sound like anything else. I had a great time with this one, put it on while working and the time just flew by!

3.6 Very interesting. Part of me feels like it was a lost opportunity given many similar Warp releases are better I feel, but it's good to have the inclusion of early IDM on this list. Think this won't gel well with the masses but perhaps that's the thing with this genre. When you know you know.

Highlight: Bubble and Slide. In a nutshell: "empty dancehall" According to Sean Cooper of All Music Review, this is “the first techno concept album”. I’m confused how one creates a techno concept album as the genre is predominantly sans vocals. Plunderphonics, yes. But techno? It helps to have good headphones while listening. Personally the loops, bleeps and bloops took longer than necessary to build up tension or lead somewhere. To me, it sounds like a CD the trio sent to the Wachowski’s for consideration for the first Matrix soundtrack. And was rejected. If someone can explain to me why this is important to the genre beyond making it to a NME’s Best Album of 1994 list, I’m all ears. Overall: 2/10

Weird but good

Electronic music. Sounded like an interesting soundtrack, but that’s about all.

This one's tough to rate. Theres moments of brilliance in there, especially the last few tracks. Also lots of tracks that drag Especially in the middle. Don't think I'll revisit the project as a whole but there are a few great tracks.

Not my cup of tea. Electrónico de esos que las canciones se sienten eternas, y cuando por fin termina una, la siguiente comienza y se escucha idéntica a la otra. La verdad me fastidió, pero supongo que no lo odié como me ha pasado con otros.

Ambiente Dub, assim está definido o som dos Sabres of Paradise. A maior parte do disco é composta de ruídos experimentais, sem nenhuma atratividade. Alguma melodia, nada muito interessante, em "Wilmot", sons de guitarras de trilha de James Bond em "Tow Truck" e referências a Kraftwerk em "Ballad of Nicky McGuire", de resto, descartável e desnecessário.

Sometimes it felt like this album was daring me to give it 1 star: the long, repetitive tracks that don’t go anywhere; the gruelling 80 minute runtime; the bits that barely qualify as music at all - just simple looping sounds. Yet, just enough of the time, a spooky little groove got under my skin and my feet started a-tappin’. I think many genres of music could be improved by being ‘haunted’, come to think of it. 1.5 / 2

didnt like it

This is ok. I have listened to more electronic music in the past years than I had ever listened to before but the majority of that music has been new so it sounds different than this and is more up tempo and/or interesting. I liked the song remixed by Portishead because it had more of a late 80s early 90s Hip Hop bass feel with bigger and older drums than the rest of the album. Towards the end there is a track that sounds a little like the Halloween theme but slightly sped up that is worthy of mentioning.

I put this on in the background and my daughter said it sounded like someone filling up milk bottles. It's an accurate description and usually I would be on board for something like that. Unfortunately, this lacks execution.

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.

Sounded kind of French.

Kinda liked but a little scary

Zzzzzzz

So much mediocre 90's British techno on this list. It was 5 minutes into the album before I heard a sound that wasn't just a drum. Someone discovered the delay pedal and just went to town. The British obsession with reggae and dub.

OK, alright — is this a joke? Is someone taking the mick? I want answers, dammit. This is another album in the backlog I've been accumulating since June, and like WHAT'S THAT SOUND? before it I figure it'd be one of the last I'd get to. And unlike WHAT'S THAT SOUND?, where I was just judging a book by its poorly drawn cover, this time my hesitation had some more proof backing it up. A fellow group member had reviewed it and given it a 2, calling it an annoying cacophony of bass, drums and bothersome repetition. And this is the group member who's often the kindest to this sort of electronic music! So if it can't even win **them** over... Whooof. And they are not wrong. Within the two tracks I was already sick of this album. Legit, I was, like, five minutes in and I was wondering when the thing was actually going to start. And that's just its problem, front to back! None of these songs ever fuckin' **start**! It's like they found one drum beat they liked, decided "Yeah, that's good enough," and just looped it until they got bored. Sure, they occasionally throw in some stuff on top of it, but it's always so random and there's never any sense of progression. Again, seriously, you could jump into these songs at any point and I promise you you will not have missed a thing. Y'know, I've talked about Daft Punk's HOMEWORK. That's an album i've seen some people rag on for its repetition, but you gotta understand: Daft Punk know what the hell they're doing. They aren't just looping "AROUND THE WORLD" 86 times for the hell of it. There's permutations, changes, variations, movements... It's always keeping itself fresh by adding and removing parts, or switching them up. You can jump around "Around The World", or any song from HOMEWORK, and you'll hear that all of the parts sound different from each other — and, sure, it's rawer than I like from Daft Punk (I prefer the polish on DISCOVERY), but it sure as hell beats the snot out of this. I'm not gonna call this album absolutely incompetent; there's a couple of parts here that sound alright, but this is otherwise complete amateur hour. I haven't felt this bored by an electronic album since we got those couple of drum n' bass albums And I don't think I was as bored by this album as I was by them, but I was certainly more frustrated to make up for it! Not since Red Snapper! There's just such an arrogance I feel coming out of this album. Just this pretension that they think they're **so damn** good at this. "Oh, we're so leftfield and so fuckin' minimalist and we've got such good breaks — the people at the club will just **love** this!" And maybe they did! But I'm not at the club! I'm sitting at home wondering why in the hell this album is **76 minutes**. They really couldn't have cut **anything**? It **all** had to be here? Talk about your 90's CD bloat, oh my goodness. I've seen YouTube videos where people chop down Daft Punk's DISCOVERY, but if **any album** needs it...! Like it'd salvage the project, yeah, but still, it wouldn't have hurt. And, y'know, I feel like I get what they're trying to do here. They're doin' all this stuff to prove that "techno can be more than just bleeps and bloops," as the review on AllMusic put it. But maybe there should have been better message bearers, because these guys just ain't it, man. I started writing this review before I finished listening to the album. That's honestly common practice for most of my reviews — though a bad one, I'll admit. But at least with most every album I've reviewed, I've been able to add stuff once the record's done, and change stuff around once I actually have the full picture in mind. Here, though? Yeah, if I'd let this album finish proper, I doubt I'd have anything more to add. And, yeah, I didn't finish it: I stopped with just three tracks remaining. I tapped out. And that's **really** bad form, I understand. But seriously: what would I honestly have heard in these that I didn't hear from the rest of this slog? You tell me. It's just a frustrating bore of an album. I can see how it would be hypnotic to some, but to me? I mean, this is a **haunted** dancehall, I'd hate to see one that **isn't**! Seriously, it's only for the best I decided to just yeet this one out of my backlog as soon as possible instead of waiting, goodness me...

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

I’m at a 2, possibly against my better judgement. I’m normally very gracious to techno / electronica stuff on the list, usually because it tends to evoke video game music, and I like video game music a lot. This was not that. This was a cacophony of synths & drums, with a myriad of aurally annoying effects thrown onto them, without any true sense of proper musical composition whatsoever. The repetition is bothersome, the zen state is basically impossible to get into, and worst of all, this isn’t even something you can move to at the club – maybe for like, 1 minute per song, at most. It is, by far, the least satisfying electronica album the list has given us so far. I take almost no joy in this album, though I honestly did kind of like 5 of the tracks here. The only reason it is getting a 2 is because it wasn’t so utterly incompetent as to deserve a 1, and there were a number of moments, however fleeting they were throughout the album, where my ears were grooving and my head was swaying. It’s also not as painfully boring as something like “Haute de gamme” was. It’s at least intriguing sometimes, even if that intrigue generally results in disdain and annoyance. This is not a horrible album, it’s just a bad one that could’ve been made much better by choosing more traditional techno instrumentation & shortening these tracks down by quite a bit. I kept taking notes throughout this thing as opposed to totally giving up, so that counts for something, right? In short, I feel like if I took enough lessons, I could probably make tracks that feel more satisfying and competently put together than this in FL Studio, of which I have very, very limited experience. If I ever feel that way about an album on the list, then you have not done a good job. This is not an album I needed to hear before I die, it did not deserve a spot on the list at all, and it barely saves itself from falling all the way down to a 1. Someone else can give it a 1 if they want, and I won’t blame them at all. Just disappointing for me. Anything above a 3 for this may require psychiatric evaluation (or at least a question about genuinely paying some level of attention to the album as opposed to just hearing it).

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.

EDM is just not my thing.

I really didn't mind the vibe of the album overall, but it was far too long and monotonous.

Maso

Haunted Dancehall by The Sabres of Paradise was a tough listen. To be honest, I found it monotonous and directionless—more noise than music. I'm genuinely surprised it made the list. The album struggled to hold my attention from start to finish. The tracks blur together with little variation or structure, making it hard to distinguish where one ends and the next begins. It felt more like an endurance test than a musical experience. Favourite track: If I had to choose one, Tow Truck stood out slightly—though that's faint praise. Least favourite: Honestly, it's hard to single out just one track. The entire album felt aimless and repetitive. Album artwork: The cover is probably the most interesting part of the release—visually striking and nicely in line with its 90s aesthetic.

The br*tish really are overrepresented on this list. Though to be fair, if it were my list I'd probably throw a bunch of Creed on there. Totally judging a book by its cover here, this looks corny as all fuck... Okay actually upon listening, this was pretty fun! I liked the layering of beats with instrumentals. I think it really helped that there were no vocals. Nice, jammy, vibey album.

This is to stripped down for me. Fine as background music, but I honestly lost focus fairly quickly.

This is the soundtrack to a cyberpunk‑noir film that doesn’t exist, but not the whole soundtrack. In a real movie, you’d get the atmospheric pieces that set mood, and then you’d get the hard-hitting cues for the fights, the club scenes, the chases. Haunted Dancehall gives you only the non-action cues. You’re left in the neon-soaked grime, sitting in rain and sweat, waiting for something to spark movement. The music is interesting, textured, and evocative, but it never delivers the forward momentum techno promises. It’s all atmosphere, no pacing. All background, no scene. It’s good for what it is: a mood piece, a world-builder. But I wanted more. Rating: 3/5

Not for me. Bubble and Slide II sounded all right. Everything else is no. Kind of unsettling

The 3-4 songs, where they actually tried to make music were pretty good...

Don’t have time to listen

This gave me a headache.

The Sabres of Paradise- Haunted Dancehall- Never heard of this band, never heard of this album- at no point in my life, did I ever listen to electronic music- heck I barely ever listened to dance music, other than mainstream R&B. But this has been an interesting listen. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again- this is why the list exists- I probably won’t ever listen to it again, but I’m glad I have heard it. Bubble and Slide- woof this wasn’t very good Bubble and Slide 2 this was considerably better Duke of Earlsfield- not being an electronica fan, I guess this is what it is Flight Path Estate- honestly, I don’t know where the cuts are (that could be my fault for listening on Youtube)- but ugh, I really don’t understand it Planet D (Portishead Remix)- this is the remix? Thank goodness they threw away the original Wilmot- now that I know Limp Bizkit made this list (missed the album and will have to give it one honest listen, but I’m 44, I’m aware) it will be hard to give anything a score lower than that, but what if I get something I will never listen to again, and actively resent listening to? Tow Truck- hey! Is that a hook? This might be the first thing on the album that doesn’t sound like the backing tracks to a 90s sci-fi movie Theme Theme 4- I suppose there was a Theme 2 and 3, but I’m not upset that I missed them Return to Planet D- some albums I come back to over multiple days- I listen to them over and over to immerse myself in the music. This album? I took multiple days just to get through it once Ballad of Nicky McGuire- not terrible- kind of a bouncy funk feeling, an Ennio Morricone feel at the end Jacob Street 7am- Chapel Street Market 9am Haunted Dancehall- I just couldn't get into it. I gave it multiple chances, and nothing grooved at all.

i'm sure there's more to the artistry here but this genuinely just sounds like a guy fucking around with garageband for an hour. there is nothing interesting here. at best it's the most barely-middling electronic music you've ever heard, but at worst it's the most boring, sparce beats with a bunch of reverb. a lot of these are barely songs. quite frankly, at times, it feels like it's barely music. is this a joke?

Cool background tempo music 3/5

Wow, 47th best album of 1994. I wonder if the other 46 are on our list, too.

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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

En serio esto se considera indispensable de escuchar antes de morir?

Álbum de un niño pequeño que acaba de descubrir lo que es SoundCloud y decide empezar a mezclar

Nice

Okay look, I typically really enjoy electronic music, even some of the ones that most of the users on this site tend to hate on a lot (En-tact by The Shamen and Remedy by Basement Jaxx to name two) but when it comes to Haunted Dancehall, i just can't defend it, this album is genuinely garbage. There are points of this album that feel like they have potential with their compositions but squander that by using the most irritating sounds possible. And even when they aren't irritating, they can still get incredibly repetitive especially when you consider just how long this album is. I typically disagree with a lot of the hate many of these electronic albums but this, i genuinely see why you all hate it so much. Best Song: Planet D (Portishead Remix) Worst Song: Bubble and Slide

Actually awful. I just can never get into purely electronic dance music. Its beating a dead horse the genre. Maybe they hit the horse in the ass for a second but its still the same garbage. I have this friend who sends me edm tracks every day and ive only told him this 1000 plus times I hate this music but I still get em. Maybe im just a bastard man. That first song sounds like diarrhea. I hate it very much. And after that its an hour or the same thing over and over again. Terrible. Truly terrible

Something I should like but consistently too grating to enjoy

It was fine but nothing special. It did nothing particularly of note. Inoffensive but I didn't need to listen to this. 2/5 stars.

Nope, under no amount of drgs

This is the 155th album I’m rating. I haven't listened to much techno but what techno I have heard was pretty cool. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Bubble and Slide, Bubble and Slide II, Duke of Earlsfield, Flight Path Estate, Planet D (Portishead Remix), Wilmot, Tow Truck, Theme, Theme 4, Return to Planet D, Ballad of Nicky McGuire, Jacob Street 7AM, Chapel Street Market 9AM, and Haunted Dancehall. All in all I liked 0/14 songs. 77 minutes of straight ass.

Mostly mellow background music, plus a few songs Gene Belcher would appreciate.

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

There’s a thin line between ambient techno and a sound collage from your kitchen. This leans hard into the latter. A few interesting textures scattered here and there, but the whole thing feels like a practical joke. Spins: 2 Playlist Additions: - Wilmot

DNF

I've been yapping about the stunningly ignorant under- and misrepresentation of electronic music in this weird-ass book before so I'll spare you the rant. Sabres of Paradise' Andrew Weatherall was an important voice in 90s music at the intersection of alternative and dance/idm and could and probably should have been featured in here - the Sabres of Paradise remix of Red Snapper's "Hot Flush" is my maybe most had earworm within that ~genre - but this album? An aged like milk tedious borefest? When this could have been his Two Lone Swordsmen project? Bottom line: this inclusion, too, sucks.

The Sabres position themselves halfway between ambient and dance music. I can easily imagine this playing in a bar or club or sushi restaurant. It's pleasant sonically and has a laid back, cool vibe, but has enough energy to provide a consuming mood, whether that consumption be food, drugs or alcohol. The first few tracks are quite abstract. The sound sources are varied and quite tasteful. No horrid synth patches here. The sonic manipulation is creative and tasteful as well. The rhythms are mostly fairly simple. The interest comes from how the various elements fit together. On these early tracks, the Sabres sometimes deconstruct the tunes a bit to point out the art in what they're doing. It's a savvy strategy.

This was an interesting album lol I don't know how else to describe it, it wasn't bad, it wasn't great, but it was interesting I like that they kept to the theme of the album but it just kinda was not as cool as I thought it would be lol, there were a couple of songs that were decent though!

OK, Haunted Dancehall. Until Rakim decides to drop some sick bars on top of you, I don’t want to hear from you again.

Well this is odd , but kinda interesting

Not for me.

WTF?!!

Nah.

not my cup of tea

Strange, no melody.

Kinda cool

Not my vibe at all.

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

Yay, techno. As Eminem said succinctly, "It's over, nobody listens to techno." Every song is repetitive, and there's no shift from A to B or a bridge or ANYTHING. Look, here's an idea. We'll play it over and over for 6-8 minutes (why so long?), layering stuff over and over. Then we'll just end. That's our song. And 77 minutes? I know it's just so you don't have to shift discs, but few people listen to CDs anymore (except you know, old guys like me). At least EDM has a build. This I just found tedious. NEXT.

I don't get it. The album and it's selection on this list. I know there's a slant toward things only a British person could love, but this album never got higher than 57 on the UK charts. So not even British people loved it. It wasn't the worse electronica I ever heard, but it certainly helped that I was really focused on some other things while listening. So it came off as at least good background music. I don't really want to listen again, so I'm going to cap it at 2. If others think it's worth more, I won't completely object.

This grew on me and it generally made for good background music with some tracks that I really liked (Duke of Earlsfield, Tow Truck, Theme). There were a few moments I disliked, such as the tracks that had a "liquid" sound (e.g., Bubble and Slide, Theme 4, Ballad of Nicky McGuire) and when they kept rapidly switching between speakers in a couple of the later tracks (an effect which really sucks on headphones). Overall, I really didn't need to hear this before I die, but I didn't mind hearing it either.

Boring bleeps and bloops, but harmless. Never heard it before and I'll never hear it again.

Electronic

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.

This was not for me. It's so experimental, but also not taking too many risks. I struggled to get into it and was happy to be out of it.

Ok as tinny ambient background music but not really my cup of tea

I couldn’t stand this for very long. I tried.

I mean not for me, didn’t like it. 2 stars.

I assumed these albums were on here because they are really good, not as in you have to hear this album because you're not going to believe this album full of noises is on here.

"Electronic. It has some ""tin"" like sounds almost like they were the beginnings of Dubstep. "

was interesting at times

Listening to the first 30 seconds, someone said this album sounds like a toilet. I proceeded to laugh hysterically until the album ended.

My spaceship, my music. Don't like it? Get out and float It starts to resemble music closer to the end but I'd probably get ejected before it

Haunted, indeed.

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Fuck this noise.

thousands of years from now in a sci-fi space travel drama, this will be the background sound of my cryo-chamber as I am locked in for my two hundred year journey

Rough listen, not my vibe. 1.5

I had to skip one of the last songs because it just sounded like an alarm going off and I couldn’t do that for 6 minutes straight.

I kept waiting for some revelation as to why this was included because it started so weak, but it started weak and if possible, got worse

Focus music, but I prefer when electronic/instrumental is a little less repetitive and more jazz influenced.

Too experimental for me 8 min tracks too long without much diversity. I can see why some people like it and there are the odd sample mix that sounds good but overall not my thing.

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

Dumb. Noise.

I’ve heard some awful shit on this list, but this takes the cake. This is audible torture, and there is no dancehall to be found by the time I hit stop. It’s less haunted, and more cursed.

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.

2/10 Originally I thought this album sounded fun and I had it at two starts, but the more and more I listened the more I realized I’d probably never come back to this disaster. While I can appreciate what the artist(s) were going for with the “haunted” and eerie vibe of this album, it ends up just sounding like an old shitty flash game soundtrack that I’m listening to on loop for hours trying to find the most obscure solution. Just a bunch of weird background noise.

I think my life did not require me listening to 77 minutes of this

Couldn't deal with the repetitive circumstances noises.

Quand j'ai lancé la première toune et j'ai entendu la loop d'une chiasse explosive passée au vocoder, j'ai su que l'écoute allait être longue. Puis, j'ai vu que c'était un album double, me causant un traumatisme crânien instantané.

There are a lot of sounds on this one. Boops, bleeps and other noises that seem to go almost nowhere. The good news is the album is 76 minutes long. Wait, that's not good news at all. Is this bad? No, it's not bad but it never rose above the level of background music for me. Bubble and Silde starts it off with what could conceivably sound like water going down a drain, which also happened to be where my hopes for a fun listen went upon hearing the song. The sequel is almost three times as long but 1/3 as enjoyable. I probably should like this but it's all pretty dull to me. I did like "Tow Truck" for some reason.

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.

Soundtechnisch nicht schlecht, aber inhaltsleer und zu repetitiv.

Why is this on the list? I really need to look into the criteria of making the 1001 List. I did not need to listen to this before I die.

Some decent tracks

Couple songs in middle I could listen to, otherwise connected with nothing. Couldn’t listen to every song all the way through.

It was good background music but not quite something i would listen to on a regular basis.

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

Can’t get enough of it.

A couple minutes of this might be okay - and, yeah, the title track at the end would be fine to pipe out to the front porch for trick-or-treaters on Halloween - but 77 minutes of this at any other time of the year? Absofuckinglutely not.

weird

Honestly I had my mind prepared for another throbbing gristle like album (if that hasn’t generated for you yet then you’re in for a treat) so was pleasantly surprised by this one. I didn’t mind it but would probably never listen to it again.

Endless beats and sounds, no real fulfilling climaxes, no catchy highlights, meh

I tried, but it really just sounded like random noises from around the house, repeating over and over. It was pure torture to make it through this album.

This album was a pleasant surprise. So fun to find good groups like this that I’ve never heard of.

it kinda felt like the soundtrack to the tutorial stage of a video game: repetitive, no melody, and something you’re not supposed to listen to for more than 5 minutes. But it wasn’t offensive or grating, so i wasn’t in pain listening to this album like some of the others.

Baby's first electronic music. Why this made the list when there's so many better and more influential electronic albums is beyond me.

Very impressed that they get a record deal!

I try my best not to be overly hateful of electronic music, but this list makes it really hard to do so.

Holy shit was this irritating!!!!!!!!!

I did not enjoy this at all.

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

eletronico véio doideira. uma pira.

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......

There are a small number of tracks on here that are a little more interesting than the others (for example, "Wilmot"), but mostly I don't appreciate this.

There are some interesting rhythms and melodies scattered through the album, but it all feels incredibly slow and plodding. It was a real chore to finish the whole album. Just like the other electronic albums on here, I have no idea what situation or mood would lead to someone wanting to listen to this.

Every time I think I might enjoy one of these kinds of albums, it always degrades into the same repetitive blandness

I usually like experimental shit but this one is kinda ass and i struggle to cope with it- DNF'd after 4 tracks.

I mean, sure. I think in terms of raw sound design we can consider this a pretty impressive achievement for its time. It's a very interesting experiment in that sense and in my opinion we have to appreciate it for that. I did enjoy Theme 4 and the final, self titled track, mainly because they stepped into a heavy contrast to the rest of the album which is where my personal resonance with this album ends. It's too repetitive, especially the percussion. I don't like that but that's okay. It's what the genre does and it shouldn't stop doing that at its core. It's mainly the genre that I'm not interested in. As for the album concept, I'm not too sure what to say. I'm not gonna go ahead and dispute that claim because if a concept was established by the artist then it is established, regardless of what the listener's opinion on that is. I will however say that the tracks seem to structurally noodle about a lot, adding or removing samples on a whim, let them play out for arbitrary durations and blur the passage of time in such a way that it makes it hard to recognize whether you just recognized a theme or whether your brain is gaslighting itself into believing that because an element has been beaten into it for the past 4 minutes without interruption. It's simply not intriguing to me but I believe if this was 'composed' a little bit more than 'produced' we could have gotten something seriously great here. 2 stars for the good outliers. 1 star otherwise

While there are a couple of Interesting tunes here and there, most of it is boring as hell

I.... don't like this and I fucking listen to aggressive hyperpop with people named Femtanyl and PUSSY RIOT....

*gif of Ron Swanson throwing pc into trash* Babys first bandcamp song, all daft with no punk, as bland as their country's food, I would take my morning drive again if it meant I got to listen to something else I don't care that it's experimental, it still has to sound good

Completely new music for me, and I must say, I'm pleasantly surprised

Much like getting kicked in the nuts. Unless you’re into that sort of thing, it’s just best to avoid it.

just sounds like two pots being smacked together

Rappers desperate to use these as samples, felt like a demo

Easy going electronic background music that combines chill beats to study to with heist movie soundtrack. Apt title - it's like a DJ booth came to life and needed to make music to calm itself down.

I never finished an album out of spite before. This is crappy piece of music was not going to break my soul. This album should be used by the police to make criminals that barricaded themselves with hostages to leave the building. That is the only purpose for this piece of garbage.

I didn’t enjoy this one.

Meh. 3 Stars.

3+

Oh yay, another slab of mid-'90s electronica, deep from the warehouse rave hangover bin, engineered for people who think 8 minutes of the same groove is a virtue. Andrew Weatherall, whose production instincts usually lean weird in interesting ways, here lets the machines drone on like they’re waiting for a cutscene. Call it atmospheric if you're generous, or video game music if you're honest. Sure, "Duke of Earlsfield" tosses out a decent breakbeat, but it wears out its welcome around minute three—good luck, you're only halfway through. And while "Planet D – Portishead Remix" gestures vaguely toward trip-hop, it forgot to invite the seduction (and Beth Gibbons on vocals). 77 minutes of mood with no movie.

whatever..

Long, boring, repetitive Standout song: Tow Truck

Dull dull dull

It was good! It was an electronica vibe.

2.5 stars. Decent ambient electronic music to focus work to. Standout was "Tow Truck".

Boring Techno.

Based on the album art, I was admittedly expecting a punk album, but that was not the case. This record is a good example of the early days of UK techno, but it's not my cup of tea. None of the tracks really stood out to me. It's good music to have on in the background while I work, though!

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.

müll

Schlimm

More than noise, but not quite music.

I think this would have been a potentially great album if there were lyrics to support the instruments.

Not bad, not amazing. Definitely interesting to listen to.

This is the Google Keep version of a poem you're working on in album form. Nice for background stuff. Wilmot is a bop.

Was never gonna get through the whole thing

Some of it was kinda cool Got boring

Pero...es broma?, si la respuesta es NO, ingiero que esto es BASURA. No usaré mi tiempo para ese disparate

It's techno. Very repetitive.

I feel like this list could have chosen some more dynamic or interesting electronic albums than this, but I grew to enjoy it as I listened. Reminds me of some of J.G. Thirwell's work or a much gentler Black Lung. A lot of it sort of blends together into background music, but there are interesting moments here and there. Standouts: Duke of Earlsfield, Return to Planet D, Chapel Street Market 9AM

This sounded like licking a battery. An initial thrill followed by a metallic aftertaste and then nothing. If this was on the list to represent warp records and this genre then its done a very bad job.

I like it for background music. Not versed in techno enough to evaluate it beyond that.

I feel like you have to be off your face to enjoy this… but I am at work editing local govt documents so probably not the right environment. It took me at least 25 minutes to get into it. Wilmot was a good track and then I got right out of it again.

I almost gave it a 2 just so I didn't seem like an asshole, but I just can't with this genre. I guess it's a "me, not you" thing.

I kind of skimmed through this one yesterday, annoyed at having to deal with another electronic music album. This morning I thought I should give it a second chance, and it appealed to me more, but not enough. As someone who's a fan of dub but not electronic music, though I can't say why. Dub entrances. EM annoys the everloving shit out of me. Even a song like Wilmot, which is essentially a dub track, drove me batshit. I still don't know the answer. Also, how is there not a single dub album on this list?

Coming from someone who loves repetition and electronica...too much repetition and electronica

Mr. Krabs was asking the radio host tk play this album when he was referring to the one that went “beeboobop”

Hated this at the start, eventually enjoyed it a bit but I could’ve done without the last two songs. The album was starting to drag by that point.

Felt like I was at one of those glow stick goths under a bridge conventions, dancing around in New Rocks.

I don't get it

dnf i'm just not doing this

Too robotic. Not for me

Noise.

I’ll admit, I punted on this maybe 20 minutes into a 76-minute album. 30-year-old, spare repetitive techno really didn’t do it for me today.

An incredibly odd album with some interesting highs and terrible lows. The sounds used on this album range from upbeat and tinkering electronics, thumping trip hop drums, and sounds I can only describe as the cartoony and futuristic squelching of a ray gun from an old 8 bit SNES game Despite some big misses, I do respect the experimental nature of the album and really found myself enjoying the moments where the album slowed down and went away from the odd cartoony moments There's genuinely some stuff on here that I'd love to go back to, so it's hard to really nail it as bad. Odd and inconsistent, but not bad

instrumental album with some minor interesting moments, but mostly redundant and tedious as i usually find albums of this genre. this one was over 70 minutes, but it seemed like much longer.

Gross

... What the hell did I just listen to? Nope. No. I don't know what it was trying to be. But I think I just experienced what it feels like going through a very bad acid trip. Or maybe now I can relate better to people who chronically grind their teeth. I felt all the things, and I hated it.

"Boy, yesterday was a mediocre electronica album. Wonder what today will bring!" "Oh." This one had the benefit of being slightly more grating than the last one. So good job, I suppose!

The only edge here is the razor on the album cover. The sound never builds to anything and most of these tracks run for way longer than needed to get the point across. There's good electronic music out there but this ain't it.

Kinda boring 😐

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.

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.

I'm a little confused by this album. What does it exactly have going for it? It's not interesting, not exciting, and it stimulates me on neither an intellectual level nor an emotional one. However, it's also not calming or ambient and doesn't really work as background music. Favorite Track: Wilmot

Into it

Nah

doesnt hold up particularly well as an album but some interesting early days electronica music here

Inconsistent and long A nice introduction to Weatherall

Garbage

Interesting moments, but just not enough happening for me.

Early IDM is usually really weird because it's still kind of playing to techno and electro ideas while also trying to do something different. It's cool to hear in a sort of "oh this is where it started" way but when you get to it sometimes it just didn't make sense to make an hour and 10 minute album made up of really basic techno beats that were flirting with ambient textures or library music-esque compositions. Is it bad that albums like these existed? Oh, no obviously not, it is made for a club mix so you have a lot to pull from and work with but when you are like me, sitting down to listen to this it does make for a tedious experience where the music isn't in the right setting and beyond that the sort of simplicity of it doesn't really work for me beyond a few songs (Tow Truck and Ballad of Nicky McGuire). It sucks because sometimes I do want to get back into listening to electronic music of this era because there's so much underrated things, but lengths like these makes me wonder that perhaps it was best to stick to EPs or singles rather than albums.

Notes before listening: Kicking screaming crying I do not want to listen to another electronic album from the 90s that's over an hour long. No no no. You can't make me. I am stomping my feet. Notes after listening: It's fine and usually interesting and sometimes pretty fun, but god damn did it need to be over 70 minutes long? I'm sincerely happy for people who enjoy this; I wish I could join their ranks.

why

It sounded like a soundtrack to a bad Megadrive game

It’s ok music for the background, movies, video games, etc. - but not for intentional listening. It’s not awful and finds some good grooves occasionally, but nothing here is particularly compelling.

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

Kind of weird but not god awful. Def wouldn’t listen again.

Just an hours worth of noise and not even groovey noise

Stupendously bad, so bad you'll be wishing that straight razor on the album cover was in your hands instead

Acid techno...stuff

Kraftworkian in nature but perhaps a bit too simple and repetitive. 3/10

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.

It’s techno; nice samples provide an olden times vibe in spots. Wish it was more haunted…. Still it was good to work to.

No idea what I am getting in to here, but I did not use a private session. Seemed like ambient music, so I just had it on the background, didn't pay much attention to it and there wasn't much there to grab my attention. So I guess it works great as ambient music.

first listen meh