Here are three out-there albums I'm really enjoying at the moment that fill that niche for very technical electronic music with an ambient bent.
1. OTT / Skylon (2008) [dicogs]An old album by this list's standards, but no less worthy of inclusion on this list. I've actually had Skylon on my Amazon wishlist for years but it's always been too expensive to buy a CD and seems set to remain so with copies reaching £16 and over.
Musically it's a strange album whose cover gives nothing away about the music inside, which mutates from straightforward ambient into Orb-like dubby bits and reminds me a little of my experience with the Verbrilli Sound as well.
2. Tipper / Forward Escape (2014) [discogs]
From the old to the very recent, my first experience of Tipper was Pins & Needles on the Keep It Solid Steel, Mr Scruff mix album and the self-titled album it comes from after subsequently tracking it down.
This one is a wholly download only affair, which I think is a shame given the amazing album artwork going on there. The music itself builds perfectly on the foundations laid by previous albums and works really well as a kind of laid-back late evening album.
3. Bluetech / Rainforest Reverberation (2011) [discogs]
Ever since hearing Mr Bill's remix of Unidentified Flying Octopus on Groove Salad, I had to get a copy of this album and fell in love with it. It reminds me a lot of the sort of mid-90s Ultramarine sound that I had grown up with
Either way, this is very catchy stuff indeed, some really technically excellent tracks and a great entry point to the rest of his catalogue.
Got an album you think I would love in the same vein? Hit me up in the comments!
