Haunted Dancehall

It's ok, just instrumental electronic, just sort of background music for me though I guess.

Another interesting electronic ambient music

Very little on this record works for me, though I did find myself playing it in the background while I concentrated on another task and it wasn't entirely miserable. Perhaps has legs as programming music, even. The one other piece of praise I can give it is that it's the week of Halloween and this has some spooky sounds in there, so that's something.

Weird inclusion. There's not much going on here. Good to have some strange Electronica included, but over Autechre?

You know when you go to an art gallery and you think to yourself, "why am I so hard on my art? I keep thinking I need to be a perfectionist before I could ever be seen as an artist, but this random clutter is considered powerful enough for it's own expo?" That's this album. I am not a musician, but I feel I could be if this album makes it on to lists despite never even peaking in its time. Hey don't come at me, I never said I would be a good musician.

I'm not really sure how to feel about this album. It reminded me of a horror movie soundtrack in parts. Other times, I thought I was in the 1920s. I like it overall as background sounds.

Went into this one blind, started off unsure, but it grew on me. Loved wilmot and tow truck, I would listen to those if they were easily accessible, the rest of the album was ok to pretty good.

As soon as I heard the first few seconds, I knew this would be a tough listen. Things didn’t get much better. This was a mess.

I’m not the most discerning when it comes to electronic music, but this struck me as pretty forgettable.

The only techno I like is Techno Destructo. Bring on the Gwar already!!!

When I saw ANOTHER British techno album, I was particularly perturbed (mainly because we had Orbital - Snivilisation two days ago)....but I kinda dig this one. I don't know if this is really techno...seems more like ambient meets dub? Some cool laidback grooves in here. But really.....why is there so much British electronica on this list?

Can't listen to this without medication.

Ik ben niet zeker wat ik hierover moet zeggen. 26/100

Een hele zit om door dit album te geraken. Sommige nummers zijn amper beluisterbaar. "Ballad of Nicky McGuire" heeft echter een geniale opbouw, ook "Wilmot" en "Theme" zijn op een rare manier zeer intrigerend.

Toen ik het album opzette had ik niet zo’n hoge verwachtingen voor de rest van het album. Maar het viel uiteindelijk heel goed mee. Soms zijn er mooie stukjes die de nogal vreemde nummers wat minder zwaar maken. Er waren zelfs liedjes die ik echt kon appreciëren zoals Tow Truck en Ballad of Nicky McGuire. Zeer merkwaardige plaat, maar leuke elektronische ontdekking. 6,7/10

Dit ia echt gw like random shi elkaar gesmete hopen dq het goe klinkt. Cool als samples of like misschien voor muziek voor video games Wilmot lijkt lwk op mc music

Not available on Spotify

Note my jam, did not finish...

Horrible.

Lo mejor es el título del disco, literal parece eso, una pista de baile embrujada. Demasiado drum & bass, me gusta la onda Dub pero este se pasa. No encuentro en que momento podría disfrutarlo

This sort of music is not without it's merits but, and I speak from experience here, you need to be off your tits to get maximum enjoyment. I find that listening to this while stone cold sober on a Monday morning again, from experience, is not as much fun, not even close to fun. It represents a period of my life when I was regularly smashed, and although I probably heard some of this album during that period I would not have been able to name the track or artist. Aren't drugs wonderful :-)

Can screeches be lo-fi?

Had to find it on YouTube as the Spotify had nothing for me… It was neat to listen to and think of how it influenced and shaped future generations - served up the day after Halloween so that felt appropriate.

I stuck it on and it faded into the background easily enough, but when it popped back into my attention it was for all the wrong reasons, like an annoying repetition or maybe an interesting hook that's become over played in the song. Didn't listen to the whole thing because I didn't enjoy what I heard.

To be honest not sure this is one of the best 1001 albums but I suppose it was picked as an example of 90s electronic music. There are better examples out there. Rated 2 as quite liked Wilmot, Theme and Tow Truck, the rest is not terrible but forgettable

When one of the first sounds that you hear sounds like a reverbed fart sound effect, it doesn't give me high hopes this is going to be good. Having now listened to it, I respect the experimentation, but this is a really long album and it is quite hit and miss. Definitely not a bad album, but I can't say it is particularly good either.

You know the drill. No Spotify no stars

Sounds enjoyable, but I’m not kne to sit and listen to electric music all day, the albums are usually a bit too long and repetitive for my taste. From what I’ve heard it’s good though.

I don’t really mind this, it’s perfectly acceptable background ambient EDM, interchangeably fun and boring but generally inoffensive. But that’s also the problem, and why a monolith of a book such as this isn’t too far removed from rage bait prodding Rolling Stone top 100 best lists that will place some acceptable crowd pleaser that might be forgotten (or not) in 5 years twelve spots above a proclaimed all timer and make people mad, despite how much such a list is usually opinion based and created to invite discussion. Even angry vitriol masquerading as discussion. In this case? To my mind ostensible background music is antithetical to being essential because I won’t remember this in ten minutes, let alone ten years and by no means does it feel like I needed to have heard it before I died. But there is someone somewhere who for them this is everything. Which is great! That person just isn’t me, and so I say, rather pointlessly: why is this even on the list?

this was a funky album to listen to. didn't exactly fit my mood or taste, but i enjoyed what they made of it.

Nice ambient sounds. Plus Andrew Weatherall was a Windsor lad, like me 🙂 Heard it before? ❌ Listen again? ✅ Rating out of ten? 7

https://music.apple.com/us/album/haunted-dancehall-remastered/1814325382 I can’t vouch for this being the same as the original release but it is available on the US Apple Music store.

The definition of hit and miss.

A mix-up of sounds from an era of which I know little. At times it doesn't hold together, then it moves to something which holds my attention. New to me and I enjoyed listening, and I now know a bit more about Andrew Weatherall.

Not worth the effort of finding a copy of this album

Feels like a collection of experiments. Not all of them come-off. But when they do it's really quite good. 3*

Listened

weirdo electronica music that might as well be the soundtrack to an indie game. i like it!

Only really knew Smokebelch II prior to listening to this - this isn't my musical genre of choice generally..this album hasn't changed that.. Smokebelch II is an absolute banger though

Saw through the gimmick right away. Not falling for it. "First conceptual techno album". Fine whatever you have to tell yourself to cope with objectively bad music. I'm a dancehall purest so if it isn't late 70's early 80's and Jamacian or Island infused, I'm walking away unphased. Additionally this is more like trance music, and its gimmicky. Sad to see a wasted Portishead remix also. One star first and foremost and never more.

First of all, not on Spotify and tough to listen to on YouTube with ads. Second, supposed to be techno concept album but I didn’t get it- rather listen to prog

I guess it’s fine but I’m not really into all this repetition. Plus when that dumb metallic sound appears it really pulls me out of it

Another one of those “What if we expanded the artistic possibilities of dance music by making it so you can’t dance to it?” albums.

Not available on Spotify - I found it on Amazon Music but I probably shouldn't have bothered. Nothing on here that I found inspiring even though I did recognise one of the tracks.

Fuck this fucking fuckshit.

This was not as bad as I expected it to be but the 12 minutes of beeping at the end really made me consider pulling this down to 2.

Somehow, I don't mind this at all. I've found myself inexplicably drawn to moody dub lately (well...really just anything involving Al Cisneros). At some point, though, it became tiresome. Then I started to actively dislike it and wonder whether it was ever going to end. And then I realized that YouTube had just casually moved on to playing whatever it thought I wanted to hear next. So I don't really know when the transition into dislike actually began. Giving this the benefit of the doubt - 3.5 stars, rounding up to four.

I know nothing of Andrew Weatherall or the Sabres of Paradise, and this has all the markings of another of the 1,001 book's informal "Bigger in the UK" series. The Warp Records imprimatur guarantees some level of quality, though for me personally, it also usually means I'll appreciate it but not enjoy it. So it goes with Haunted Dancehall, which unfortunately faded into the background pretty quickly, aside from "Ballad of Nicky McGuire" (which I liked) and another time when I thought I'd gotten an app notification, but it was from the song. By the time the sonar sounds arrived toward the end, I was ready for it to be over.

It's not on Spotify, but after reading the reviews I feel like I dodged a bullet

Nope

This started quite slowly but hit some high notes towards the end.

Not at all what I expected from a techno album. Very minimalist soumd structure, which didn't work for me until it did. Still falls victim to the same issue of all electronic albums of going on way too long (album and song length), but there are some interesting things going on that kept my attention more than I thought it would. The second half is much less engaging, and I would argue the album would be much better if just cut in half. Top tracks: Duke of Earlsfield, Planet D, Tow Truck

the first half is genuinely weak but it grew on me as I listened and it transitioned to the stronger back half. Rounding up a little but I’m in an ok mood for a change.

Definitely enjoyed this. It deserves higher than a 2.4, but I also only gave it a 3, so....

Odd sound for sure, like running through the inside of a cyborg's brain, organic and mechanical all mashed up into one long running current. Sounds like it should be paired with an animated movie about a little robot mouse fighting through a junkyard in a cyperpunk world. Its compelling to me and very easy to listen to even though it's delisted on my main streaming platform. Will keep their name fresh in my mind for the future.

How to describe? Dance/dancehall with heavily electro filters to sound robotic/futuristic. Bit of industrial feel too. Purely instrumental so far (track 2). And not all about the beats, drums do drop out for more atmospheric sections. It's fine, but there's not much to latch on to and it's so long. Best track - Wilmot 2.5 stars - it's fine, but too long. I'll round down to a 2. It just doesn't justify its existence

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This album sure was haunted.

Experimental at best, difficult to listen through entire album of essentially the same song.

I loved how mechanical this one sounded. Every song progresses nicely and it didn’t feel like it was wasting my time. Very much enjoyed this album. Favorites were Duke of Earlsfield, Planet D, Return To Planet D, Ballad Of Nicky McGuire, and Chapel Street Market 9am

Wilmot Theme

This one was kind of all over the place, but in an interesting way. “Wilmot” was pretty cool. The dub/jazz vibe was not really a sound I’m used to hearing mixed with electronic music. “Tow Truck” stood out too. That guitar riff had a definite James Bond vibe and made me picture some opening credits sequence. There were a few things like that scattered around the album that made me pay attention, but most of it was still pretty easy to let play in the background. Cool in spots but that was about it.

Not bad at all.

This was so good I memorized all the lyrics after 1 listen.

Nice electronic album with a dark undertone.

lol this was so weird. but i was boogying to it. but so weird

I am not sure about this one. Did not enjoy.

не думаю что буду переслушивать, но в целом вайбово, напомнило amnesia scanner.

Really a 1.5, last track kinda saved it from being a 1 tbh

huh..

Context is important. The fact that this came along when it did speaks to creativity that's further reaching then it's genre.

6/10… experimental / dancehall / *1994

I liked a few tracks, especially Wilmot

3-му альбому подряд ставлю 5*. Эти товарищи - открытие для меня. Очень мощный и интересный IDM. Скачал всю (к сожалению небольшую) дискографию

Sounds like a Dub record that’s been left to rot in a flooded studio for 1000 years before being reconstructed by robots. So weird that it’s really hard to rate.

I remember a friend had a Sabres Of Paradise 12” way back when this album came out, which was awesome. Might have been Wilmot on here, as that has the same tune, but isn’t the version on whatever SOP 12” that was. Disappointing this album isn’t like that. It feels unfinished, and never really goes anywhere. I’ve read people slating this and praising this but it’s an uneventful 2 for me, sadly.

First track: a toilet is haunted and will not stop running. A wizard is casting a spell trying to fix it.  Track 2: spell not working, now hitting with a wrench.  Track 3: zoombinis playing tennis Track 13: demented seagulls Last track: robot farts

def a weird one

I enjoyed this far more than I thought I would. I don't love it, but during the first track I was certain I was going to hate it. The soundscapes are inventive, with enough dynamics to keep things just interesting enough. This is not foreground music though. Letting it run in the back while my brain is processing other work I found it just fine. A decent groove, not distracting, but a little more intentional than some atmospheric albums I like. It is a bit too long of an album. I hit the halfway point feeling pretty good. If it wasn't for this project I would put it down and listen more on another day. And that's okay for any album.

Meh. Loses a star because its not on Spotify.

Interesting

Last track was cool but the rest of this mostly was not. This was more noise than techno it seemed.

Non eventful ambient sounds

DNF - I could make this, and, that is not a good thing

Bleep bloop album. Kinda mindblowing that this was worthy of a remaster. It's not the worst bleep bloop album on here, but like, why 1*

This was not as bad as I expected it to be but the 12 minutes of beeping at the end really made me consider pulling this down to 2.

0/10 songs so bad made me Pitiful that this band had to waste their money on the worst shit ever i would try to understand it if it was famous but it isnt. its not nich its not experimental its just fingernails on chalkboard sounds for 1 and 17 min

Super originale

Unsure why the fairly low rating. It's fine background music.

Just a bunch of noise

Not enough to keep me interested.

dude can you call it a concept album if it's that label dependent on the text you wrote that accompanies your album? I mean I guess it is because that's what's going on here. So let's break it down a bit, we got some fun dub with wubbing bass synths and very metallic, sloppy and slushing drums that feel industrial but are more on the friendlier side. They're not the clanks and bangs of a depeche mode or NIN album, but they're very poppy and friendly. They're a bit tinny at times, but it's fine. The ambient pads are nice and there's some loooooong attack pads that ease chords in and out of the passages. I feel that it's a bit of a shortcut to call this a concept album if you just write a concept that goes along with your music. It's great to help me lock in with work. I don't know about it being required listening. It seems to be a heavy influence of trip hop. And I can feel that halfway with Duke of Earlsfield. There are some distorted 808 bass hits here with a somewhat hip hop beat. I don’t think it should be a required listen though. I’ll respect the influence, and maybe more so on video game soundtracks, but yeah…not needed

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The (insert band name here) are a British electronic music group from (insert English town here). The (insert band name here) were formed in (insert English town or city here), England in 1992. (British Bloke) formed the group with engineers (**Or DJs) Jagz Kooner (Yeah that one probably works for most of them) and (additional pudgy, dorky white man) and became responsible for the (Insert name of meaningless house party here). I finally have a template for these reviews! Thanks, Wikipedia. Maybe I will reach into my pocket and flip you a quarter that you seem fond of begging for these days. I hate everything. I'm going back in time to perpetrate large scale arson against British dance clubs. Colonialism and pretentious techno passed off as culture. These are the worst things the British Isles have ever produced, and for these crimes they have yet to atone. 0 HIGHLIGHTS: Lizzie's in a box (in a box)

I think I nope’d out of this one faster than any other album so far. 745 albums in and still being served up utter garbage. There are reasons some of these albums are obscure. Because they suck.

Even if I liked Sabres of Paradise, I think I'd argue they don't need to be on this list. I love me a bit of ambient trance, but this is just garageband nonsense. I used to teach 6 year old kids in primary school how to make music on apps like remix live. And I'd challenge them if they used too many repetitive loops. I'd be having words with SoP if they submitted this as their final work. Edit update: I think even if I were sabres of paradise, I'd argue this shouldn't be on the list.

Really interesting and I’d listen to it again but has to go 3 stars based on other albums.

Hell yeah! Origins of electronica. This was waaayyy cool and much better than anticipated.

Inoffensive stuff, but the album is too long. Overall, it has the feel of a bunch of sketches made prior recording a real album.

So pleased to find this on the list. A singular, atmospheric vision. Was one of my main entry points into realising that electronica can - and should - be way more than a thundering 4/4. Rest easy, Mr Weatherall. Fail we may, sail we must ✊