vahid apologizes to ronan, tim and all

-- Alex in SF (clobberthesauru...), December 9th, 2006.

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i still think "get physical vol 1" is *highly* overrated, and i pretty much can skip everything except the first 1/3rd of it and the chelonis tracks. "body language vol 1" is a little better, it has two or three nice sequences (also two or three boring sequences) but compared to something like "kreucht + fleucht" not exactly mindblowing or epochal.

what *really* turned me around (outside of the chelonis album, but even the wackest euro techno labels - hallo disko b! - could usually pull a couple good albums out of a black american, cynical but true!) was "get physical vol 2".

for a long, long time i've been saying that labels like MFF and classic were doing the "quirky minimal" thing better than most minimal labels, and how i wish the minimal labels would really put their money where their mouth was and get housey, uninhibited, un-self-conscious, etc etc ... well, "get physical vol 2" is where that's at. it does the MFF thing even better than MFF, i am thinking tracks like dj t's "stalker", endlessly itchy-glitchy with percussion and keyboards but not leaning on total formlessness, it's still got a backbeat, i can dance to it, etc.

i also really like dj t's album (drexciya copyism, but drexciya's dead, so i guess the world needs more drexciya copyism, esp when it's this accomplished)

i also really like the two booka shade albums, haven't really thought about it too much but yes, turns out they're as good as everybody said!

oddly enough, i thought "body language vol 2" wasn't super-great. but "body language vol 3" looks awesome! what did i tell you guys about the dubsided movement?

i dunno why it got naysayed on ILX. what's the deal? shit is KILLER.

I'm not so into Boogie Wonderland though, the whole Chicago/acid house revival thing from the beginning of 05 hangs over it a bit too heavily.

"boogie wonderland" has fine parts but i agree, it's entirely redundant.\

i think the booka shade albums are tickling that melancholy-idm-electro nerve that i haven't felt any need to tickle for about five years now ... what's the last great album in that vein, jega's "geometry"? 7 hurtz's "electroleum"?

body language 3 has a very nice tracklist.

it certainly doesn't bother me that "frantic" off "memento" sounds *EXACTLY* like what james bernard or neutron 9000 or the orb were up to in the mid-90s, i just feel like mid-90s chill-out-room aesthetics are a much less played out reference point than late-80s chicago house or relief records or whatever.

interestingly, air liquide's new material (post-2004 ... check itunes if you haven't heard it) is straightforward electrohouse which would fit comfortably on any MANDY or tiefschwarz playlist!

"i just feel like mid-90s chill-out-room aesthetics are a much less played out reference point than late-80s chicago house or relief records or whatever."

yup, every time i hear "woman of the world" something similar comes to mind. it's kinda cynical though! i am all for 90s chill house recycling though.

http://www.808state.com/discogs/propages/promasso/subtracks.jpg

(not heard yet, not sure whether I can face burning my fingersoverdraft on yet more slightly underwhelming old dance legend comebacks this year...)

i like, but not so much as this or this or this ESPECIALLY THIS

massonix?

i haven't liked ANYTHING by 808 state since "pacific state" ... i didn't even like "prebuild" very much ... what is this all about? is it drexciya-ish or something?

some samples of the Massonix here - http://www.dotshop.se/ds/release.php?code=SKALD080 (it doesn't sound much cop to me frankly).

I don't know anything about vahid or his tastes, but is there some kind of hongro situation going on here?

i'd hardly say that's objectively "bad" but it doesn't float my boat. in fact, it makes me feel ... kind of weird ...

again, not bad, just not to my tastes ...

some of his remixes are well....quite straight up...maybe folks imitating him has led to this being the case...

That Cass & Mangan remix of Laid's "Believe In Me" is awesome also.

'So Much Love' (ft. Khan). i really like it