Still, feels incomplete with just 9 albums. "Missing" Plan 9 by Odd Nosdam, Beat by Bowery Electric.... But these were the first from the top of my head. Cheating anyway with "Complete Phase 1", as there's no such album, but I wanted to include Gorillaz / G-Sides / Laika Come Home and some loose tracks as a full thing, since I feel that this time in the band's history is so much more than its main album.

I suspect a good number of these are commonly found on people’s lists

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ever since i was teenaged, the included 9 have shaped how i feel about the art of music & creative expression.

1993-95 i wanted to make artsy & introspective raps like the ones heard in the first 2 albums. the remaining 7 LPs were mirrors for what was inside me, emotional states i wasnt yet able to articulate. I see my tastes as a mix of the rap, the beats, the textures, the tones, the sung poetry, the techno, the energy of all combined.

stuff that didnt make the cut:

sterolab, emperor tomato ketchup

little brother, the listening

del, no need for alarm

uli troyer, nok

actress, karma & desire

daft punk, homework

basement jaxx, remedy

*️⃣NONE OF THE 12"s, great songs on mid albums, classic club traxx, genius remixes/edits/blends/mashups unauthorized mixtapes, the dj/producer longform mixes that have influenced me in the 21st century are listed here. i dont believe the 'album' is irrelevant as a medium, but full-length albums have rarely been at the center of my musical world for over 20 years.

I hope that multi-genre albums featuring trip-hop tracks are allowed (since it’s a little bit more than just „inspired” by trip-hop) - I make stuff that tries to not hold onto one niche for too long, rather moving through them ephemerally. Trip-hop has always been somewhere close to my core, with my previous album (IMPACT) being more-less a trip-hop deconstruction, this one is more widely spread and in part inspired by the construction of the albums of new wave of trip-hop acts (like Space Afrika, who I consider one of those), as well as by old Polish films scores, musique concrete and a lot of other stuff. Mostly aiming at a somewhat hauntological feeling. It’s a little trip-hopish brick (with tracks like yuma, tr-kan or nc marauders) to the amazing polish free improv label Bocian Records, also releasing stuff like Ikue Mori or Mats Gustafsson, so I feel very honoured to be on the same album list. The album features amazing guest musicians, like Otim Alpha (legend of Nyege Nyege Tapes), Dawid Szczęsny (Normal Echo, Niwea, Earpeace, as well as an old Polish trip-hop act Husky) and more… Hope you’ll want to take a listen and I hope you’ll like it, as well as am curious what you think!

https://bocian.bandcamp.com/album/djsd