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anyone else “feeling” claude von stroke?
really, really, really good
more instruction about how and why a song can rip itself to shreds and sew itself back together [...] than in entirety of The Knife’s discography (waht?)
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/james-holden/the-idiots-are-winning.htm
It’s quite enjoyable then to report that the finest example of the genre, the most cutting, immersive and downright enjoyable experience comes in the last month of the year.
the crossover potential for this album is huge 10/10(!)
http://www.drownedinsound.com/release/view/8808
(yes, yes I know ‘indie’ reviews in possibly overrating/misunderstanding newfangled electronicry shocker part 33 but still...)
am I the only person who finds it a pointless misfire speeding into a cul-de-sac? The whole thing sounds like either demo tracks, or playing at the wrong speed. NOT in a good way either.
I ‘get’ what it’s trying to do (and I know some of the tracks DO work well in his sets when they get a bit of meat around the bones), but good intentions alone don’t make a good record.
or maybe I don’t “get” it :/
I think it’s a really good record, and pretty much all of Holden’s old stuff has passed me by, if that counts for anything
sounds like late Warp. ‘intelligent’ bordering on unlistenable while trying v hard to be twee. the remix album/12“es/whatever should be good, if there are any.
* late Warp pre-indie rock
we might need a new genre name for this & Mr Oizo & Ed Banger stuff; ‘flat house’, maybe?
Fandango we’re talking Stylus here. Have you forgotten the review that said that Luciano’s Sc.Fi.Hi.Fi was colder than the Audion Fabric Live mix and mentioned something about swallowing ketamine?!
It’s not the same reviewer? That one you mention was a prime example of that indie’gets’dahnce(all of a sudden) reviewing style indeed. Stylus (or Pfork, or [insert]) aren’t all bad by a long shot.
Drowned In Sound is routinely fucking awful though!
Yeah, it’s not the same reviewer. But I’ve yet to read a good review of dance music on Stylus. Drowned in Sound is shite, true.
Completely unrelated but bobbinsy. Just reading the Kompakt mailout the now
Speicher 44:
MATIAS AGUAYO TAKES THE FLUTE AND SUPPORTS
SUPERPITCHER WITH THIS INGENIOUSLY INSANE
SNOTTY BASS OPERA. WHAT A HYMN! THE OTHER
SIDE IS MADE BY AGUAYO HIMSELF IN
CO-OPERATION WITH M. ROSSKNECHT AS “BROKE”.
TECHNO!
I love Kompakt’s blurbs and Matias.
I like “lump” but other than that the Holden album is definitely pretty weak. A better remixer than producer?
i like ronan’s track reviews on stylus. gives me a good heads-up on what he’s playing (and not playing).
Oh, Beatz by the pound has some decent stuff in it occasionally. Though I feel I hear enough about what Ronan is into here tbh. For instance:
Likes: Get Physical, Liebe Detail, Mobilee.
Dislikes: Bodzin/Schumacher, Villalobos, Dahlback.
This week Beatz by the pound is doing a reader’s poll for the end of the year http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/beatz_by_the_pound/028-pulsating-prunes.htm I voted thusly:
-Best Producer: Sweet Ricardo
-Best Artist Album: My my “Songs for the gentle”.
-Best Mix Album: Audion Fabric (well someone has to vote for it)
-Best 12”: Cobblestone jazz “dump truck” (dumb track, lolz)
-Best Remix: Anja Schneider & Sebo K—Rancho Relaxo (Pan-Pot Black Ranch Remix) (although that Deer in the headlights radioslave remix is killer too).
Ronan likes and plays some Bodzin/Schumacher—also he played the Villalobos remix of “The Sinner In Me” in one of his recent sets.
I saw Michael Mayer spin the other night—fantastic, very intense and percussive, almost overwhelmingly er full sounding.
Why can’t we all just get along and listen to Kraftwerk
the funny thing is that we all do get along, and we all do listen to kraftwerk
anyone else “feeling” claude von stroke?
— jergins
oddly enough, yes! he’s done a great job at flying under my radar somehow. Just been listening to some bits & bobs. Me likey.
I have listened to such a stupid amount of records this year that I find polls etc insanely difficult...I made a top 30 and then 2 or 3 amazing records came out in the last 2 weeks. Didn’t dance music used to stop at Xmas???
I just realized that Da Mystery..was fandango. That was a nice surprise.
At the moment I’m feeling:
Elektrochemie—Mucky Star (so dirty! It’s like darkside Spektrum)
Guy Gerber—Seagull (for those who can’t get enough overblown pompous melodrama, this is totally deep shoegazer house, hypnotic and beautiful)
Loco Dice—A Chico A Rhytmico (delicate and very pretty)
Audiofly & Scarlett Etienne—Earsex (Sian Warm Real Mix) (More shimmering, unsettling deepness, kinda like Kompakt meets Sebo K)
Hug—Raido (tense, edgy, bleepy, melody-stuffed detroitish tech drama)
Re Claude Von Stroke, check out his promo DJ mix currently posted on 2–4-hours.blogspot.com—total pop-minimal!
xpost—hi bimble :)
I haven’t seen his album cheap (enough for me) anywhere yet, and considering it seems to be the singles + odds & sods I’m a little wary of dropping £15 on it.
that mix and more are at http://www.dirtybirdrecords.com/mixes.html by the way.
Tim reminded me to bump this... I liked that Claude Von Stroke mix well enough but the Justin Martin one on that page knocks it out the park! One of the best free CD length mixes I’ve downloaded all year (excepting Villalobos et al.).
Also finally having a listen to the Mike Monday album, pretty nice so far, more crossover/mainstream potential stuff I’d guess.
Luciano played this about 8 in the morning at Fabric and blew my mind. old school, ultra extended acid house with beautiful female vocals. I thought I’d never hear it again, but luckily it’s in a set he did in Bucharest the week before. this track is too fucking good to not be somewat famous, so perhaps one of you can ID it?
or maybe it’s new and I’m a fucking idiot
here’s the sendspace
alright, it’s Larry Heard
pretty cool Sarah Goldfarb single out “Homodiskotekus”, that has a lunar synth riff a few minutes in, makes me feel a little numb in the brain (riyl spacey minimalism)
x post
it’s actually a male vocal—it’s ‘the sun can’t compare’ by larry heard featuring mr. white. it’s my favourite house record of 2006 though it does sound like it could have been made any time in the last 20 years.
I realised it was Mr White, but I thought Mr White was the dude in the background. haha oh man. what a dumbass
still sounds like a woman but obviously I believe you
are we allowed to ysi on here? if so i’ll ysi the full song.
well if you’re not, I’d appreciate it if you could send me a link. I’d like to hear it independent of Luciano’s fucking around (which is great for residual reactivation, but ya know). andrew.beddow at gmail.com
Really like Anja Schneider’s remix of Plasmik’s “Eight To Nine”, although its prettiness makes it very clear just how IDM Anja is.
idm? I always think of Anja as kind of 100 percent house music....
I think I like the original a little better than that remix too, the end has weird sequencing where it sounds like someone hit a loop fx button a split second off time, keeps repeating at off times....
I HEARD that Larry record is amazing, sorry, can’t wait to hear it.
Not a diss—but some of her stuff (this, “Lily of the Valley” which I think is amazing) sound quite a bit like Black Dog/Plaid to me.
Could someone here kindly identify the second track on this mix:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ESCN9ZM0
2006–10–02 Harry Klein Club—Michael Mayer Part 1
Starts at about 005:30. Surely a great big obvious bobbin—if I’m using the term correctly—but I just don’t know from this booftaboofta german music.
Thanks!
wha’ppen to Areal lately?
Guy Gerber—Seagull (for those who can’t get enough overblown pompous melodrama, this is totally deep shoegazer house, hypnotic and beautiful)
YES
also tim, was it you who was talking about ‘stop look and listen’ by jesse rose? i discovered that i actually have it already and good lord it’s good.
Yeah that was me—it’s great and ridiculously long too! I’ve included it on a new back to mine comp I’ve made.
Motiivi + Speicher = LOVE
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are those the only names from that site you recognize, señor oberlin.edu?
xpost, thats great
weird... that site changed it’s layout, left me there (logging in to a new site w/new url) then changed back (at the old URK) without me being told some time in the last few months. ok!
I like this banner, but #4 has me stumped.
anja/allien/cardini/(alphabetical order?)/kitten/kruse
ok, I need sleep ._. schneider != vornamen
I like this banner, but #4 has me stumped.
It’s Lucca
Maybe It’s the remnants of alcohol in me, but whatever . . .
Ellen Allien:
http://www.discogs.com/image/A-4281-001.jpg Superpitcher:
yo!! the preview site for the new Gabriel Ananda album Bambusbeats is here
http://www.karmarouge.de/snippets/kr24_a1_offbeat_snippet.mp3
http://www.karmarouge.de/snippets/kr24_a2_bambus_snippet.mp3
http://www.karmarouge.de/snippets/kr24_b1_egge_snippet.mp3
http://www.karmarouge.de/snippets/kr24_b2_sweetdecay_snippet.mp3
http://www.karmarouge.de/snippets/kr24_c1_trommelstunde_snippet.mp3
http://www.karmarouge.de/snippets/kr24_c2_takeone_snippet.mp3
http://www.karmarouge.de/snippets/kr24_d1_takeoff_snippet.mp3
http://www.karmarouge.de/snippets/kr24_d2_lamakova_snippet.mp3
im not the president of Anandas fan club, but this sounds very promising!
ah wow! and so soon! the sentence On ‘Bambusbeats’ Gabriel Ananda presents us a reverse side of his extraordinary skills was hugely unpromising but i must say it sounds fucking awesome so far (two snippets plus the very pretty ‘lamakova’) in. ‘bambus’ sounds like it’s going to be a monster.
“dubble problematik” side of new tomas andersson is making me move. i wasn’t planning to play it out djing a party saturday—thought it might be a bit much for the peeps. but after many swigs of evan williams said fuggit and mixed it in. they continued dancing their asses off to my amazement and enjoyment.
love faith recordings collector’s series: volume 1—the modernist
anyone heard volume 2—kaos?
‘winter’ by aril brikkha really reminds me of something, i can’t remember what but something great. b-side even better!
also whoever talked aout the kalabrese album on ilx—so right! it’s so much FUN.
the dominik eulberg album has interludes of spoken word german and birdsong between each track! it’s pretty dancefloor-friendly.
“anyone heard volume 2—kaos? ”
It’s excellent—one of my top ten for last year.
new Pascal Feos very good, tho I am a sucker for the chords he’s using on a-side. Curious as to how he’s being received in Europe, because I hear almost nil about him here
I have liked all the releases on that label a lot...
I’m finding the Field album a bit monothematic so far. Maybe it will take time to sink in. The revelation at the end of a paw in my face did have me laughing though.
ditto
I have Ronan to thank for these but Jesse Somfay—Small Pebbled Forest is brilliant. Especially the bit when those chords crash in. I’m really feeling that Estroe track as well.
My new year’s resolution this year was to keep up with bobbins a bit more and I’m already failing :(
Zander VT-Dig Your Own Rave, and the new Audion are both pretty amazing. And Oner Ozer’s “Red Cabaret (Overture)”, is he going for a Fizheuer style with this? Sounds a bit like it. Also Justin Maxwell’s latest 12 on Palette is really good.
The Stylus review compared the Ozer single to Fizheuer today too. I can see it, but I don’t think it’s blatant or anything.
It’s excellent—one of my top ten for last year.
what was your top ten last year?
After ten years of using Neuton, Playhouse is now being distributed by Kompakt, which I think is pretty cool. I wonder if it will be a bit easier to find releases in the US/UK now...
Playhouse stuff is pretty easy to get in the UK already in my experience.
“what was your top ten last year? ”
The Knife—Silent Shout
Fuckpony—Children of Love
Booka Shade—Movements
Justin Timberlake—FutureSex/LoveSounds
V/A: Kaos & Sal P—Danse, Zero Gravite
V/A: Anja Schneider—Back To Back
T.I.—King
Lil Wayne & DJ Drama—Lil’ Weezyana (but I’ve never heard Dedication #2 in full so maybe I’d like that more)
V/A—Gypsy Beats & Balkan Bangers
V/A: Michael Mayer—Immer 2
I hadn’t heard Studio’s West Coast and the Rio Baile Funk 2 comp when I made that list though—both would be up in the top five. But I’m gonna try to sneak Studio and the Rio Baile Funk comps on to my 2007 list I think.
Can’t you just use Yearbook 1 for 2007 list?
That’s my plan actually.
anyone heard the martinez mixed restructured layers?
Efdemin “Just A Track” (on dial) has a great house music speech that seemingly comes out of nowhere.
“If house is a nation I want to be president! If you vote for me, I can make the sun rise, make the dancefloors a bit stronger, so you all can stomp your feet all night long. I will take you to the mountaintop and there the whole world will see the glorious right of this nation that is house!”
Efdemin has an album out in April—psyched!
efdemin’s “lohn and brot” is one of the best things i’ve heard in ages. can’t get enough of that track. moooooody.
I think Ronan said somewhere on real ILM that Bodzin make tracks that sound great production-wise but that he doesn’t have much interesting to “say” with them anymore (or something along those lines)(and forgive me if this wasn’t you Ronan). I normally agree with this, but I just heard “Daytona Beach” and it too sounds immaculately produced, but is menacing and monstrous and perfectly executed. This one sounds like a victory.
ESTROE :D
Yeah “Lohn and Brot” is amazing, as is Estroe “Driven” obviously.
Marco Resmann’s new Mobilee is really good, very “big”, sort of Ame/Basic Channel style...
has everyone heard Jesse Somfay’s “Small Pebbled Forest” yet? it is so triumphant! it honestly is what church music should sound like! maybe that’ll put some people off...but I love it.