Okay: I've just finished my final(?) additions to my obsessive four-part spreadsheet that begins above. (And I've added links to the other three installments of the spreadsheet to that post.) The Guardian took forever to reveal its top five choices--that's mainly what I was waiting on--and in the meantime Paste and Jazzwise and some other outlets also published entirely new lists, which I've incorporated (selectively, maybe even capriciously) into the master list.
Adeem the Artist was the real surprise for me this year. A really interesting and enjoyable sound.
Wow--I absolutely loved his first two or three albums back in the day. Eager to hear these!
Their last album (late 2022's White Trash Revelry) was really good, too. Can't remember if it had an Atmos mix, though.
I think the Atmos mixes streaming on Tidal and Apple Music are 768kbps.
Yeah, sorry, wrong wording. Lossless is still compressed unless it's on a CD I guess.
That's interesting. Apple are a wily lot.
Exciting! Thanks for posting.
Finally found the remix/Atmos version of this; it didn't pop up just by searching on the album name, but when I eventually searched just for the band, it was right there. I've never heard (or even heard of) this band before. Maybe I should wait to comment until I've heard the whole thing, but my initial impression after a couple of tracks is that it's a nice combination of spacey Pink Floyd with some hard rock and prog stirred in. The mix is not super-immersive on my 5.1 system, but for a live album recorded in the late 70s it's not bad. All in all, an entertaining listen, so far.
Grobschnitt are one of the all-time Krautrock greats. Their first run of albums, up to and including Jumbo would be mind-blowing in Atmos. Especially their debut. Some of that weird German humour can be a bit distracting at times, but they're playing to a German audience here, who would be right at home with it, and there's not too much of it to distract from the amazing groove.
Would love to see a MC of Ashra Blackouts, and anything by Triumvirat will be fun.
And I just added Cosmic Jokers to my post. I know that was never a band but basically one hysterical weekend of acid freaking out that none of the players could remember even performing, but wow, such great albums came out of that.
I'm very familiar with Can, and somewhat with Neu!, but otherwise haven't heard of the Krautrock bands you listed. I'll try to check some of them out.
I believe two of the Cosmic Jokers releases are matrix’d quad, or at least they have that “Quadro + Stereo + Mono” logo on the cover artAnd I just added Cosmic Jokers to my post. I know that was never a band but basically one hysterical weekend of acid freaking out that none of the players could remember even performing, but wow, such great albums came out of that.
