Current bobbins

just a lil warm bath to start it off, sofia kourtesis, "la perla"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY1bZjXKKWA

That came out last year!

But! Sofia Kourtesis has actually released a song this week that samples Manu Chao of all people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4LNA-JZQeo

I love that, very Four Tet-ish.

It's possible that one of you all recommended this, but this comp is full of good stuff: https://organicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/organic-society-two-years-anniversary

xxp so good!

whoa, one bobbins thread for the rest of forever

Some recent orders

Sweely - ChatBoulette, on Limousine Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H30yawOyzM

Valen - skyscraper, on Joule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zZQUzRcEyg

Silat Beksi - Catchy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN8Tiefl8aE

Lou Karsh, Ataraxia, on x-kalay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVwYW7xvUCA

Not on YouTube, but loving this one by Ourra, “Night Glider”

https://starcreatureuniversalvibrations.com/track/night-glider

A very solid set of track there ed.b ^

Raw bangers, I presume this is an alias of SWAP MEET (who does those great retro-jungle releases)?
https://swapmeetdj.bandcamp.com/album/change-of-plans

Some good stuff on this: https://cheekymusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/falling-in-love

Just received the vinyl, and String Energy is the shit. You can hear it about 43 minutes into this mix I did over the weekend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc_Mtxyk8cM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxDg0wNwTbU

Mr. Ho - 000Baby (Alternative Mix)

Yessssss

and this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vomYarQQ-UU

Mr. Ho - Bail​-​E (Real Mix)

whole LP is sick

absolutely flipping out over the new-ish dj python EP, how fucking lush is this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pNK510iPY

was trying to do some work in the garden listening to that and i had to keep sitting down to steady my head

third listen in a row and i still feel like i'm going to pass out when the chimes hit

very good stuff itt thx all

cool setup DJI

Thanks! It's been keeping me sane in my isolation.

too ambient for bobbins, but its another one by python so i'm posting it here. very afx-esque imo, reminds me of SAWII

http://prioricamp.bandcamp.com/album/your-own-power-remixes

looking forward to hearing the rest of the remixes. NAFF has 100% hit rate from what i've heard

http://maara.bandcamp.com/album/ultimate-reward

love this early 2021 EP from them that i didn't hear until a few weeks ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfXtif-UN4U

OMAR S & DESIRE "54321" (12 Inch)

omar s on italians do it better :O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bf7Dr7CzmM

Morris Mobley - Glamour Profession

A big hello to all the steely dan coverers out there

I heard that on chewshabadoo's radio show once, it's great!

Something to pair with the Omar S/Desire collab perhaps, the extraordinary Solitude EP from Hypnotique on Bordello A Parigi -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DECUxEtkn18

(this might also be stretching the bobbins category a bit)

I heard that on chewshabadoo's radio show once, it's great!

Yes, took me by surprise this one. A big task to take on, never mind pull off so well!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW2UsL6vVro

Phil Evans - Smoovin

Airy light relief from Phil Evans, in this gut-wrenching week where I haven't felt much in the mood for music

Enjoying everything off Cesare Muraca's Uncertain Times EP but 'Phase' is hitting the spot in a "Plone go Bobbins" way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PJIn-2q4U8

I mentioned this before, but now it's out on digital. Track of the year, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qku4GQh5FcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUpMTuiqng8

Melchior Productions LTD - Ascending To Our Solitude

Off the new album, hitting home already

Melchior huh? I wonder if that's a Chrono Trigger reference

Ah no not likely. It's the only way I know that name but it's a thing outside of that

melchior is one of most distinct producers from that era of minimal, i still have a lot of affection for his sound. curious to hear his new album

Melchior Productions "The Blessing" is nearly a decade old and it's still one of my favourite pieces of dance music ever

good stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz3N4AE_dVY
Leon Vynehall • Sugar Slip (The Lick)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnq53ZR9v-w

"Vocoder" - via Jordan in the Floating Points thread

The Les Yeux Orange channel on YouTube tips me off to a load of great stuff.

Case in point: Xiaolin - Dance Of The Jungle Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6HCifH03xE

I heard that on chewshabadoo's radio show once, it's great!

Thanks Nick, always good to know we have at least one listener sometimes :D

I’m going to be forward now and plug that I’m on the radio with my co-presenter Clara from 8-10pm UK time. Twitter link to info

Possibly a monstrous question to ask but: what's the likelihood of the new Melchior getting some form of digital/CD release? I can't find any reference to this anywhere yet but may be looking in all the wrong places

If it’s Perlon they don’t do digital but the albums generally get a CD release

Although since the vinyl came out last month maybe not in this case? The 3lp might be too long for a single cd. Just speculating here

It is - I got the last on CD a few years after release; not sure whether to expect a CD release for this one in the next 6 months or so? The vinyl is apparently out now but I'm trying resist re finances

there will be a rip on slsk eventually if you're a degenerate like me

I feel you technopolis. I spent too much time trying to figure it out. It appears Perlon doesn’t always release their albums on CD (including their last album release, for bruno pronsato) and typically release the cd and LP at once. Ordering a 3LP when shipping costs are fast inflating is no small sacrifice…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-thfIs34WA

Operate - Sweet Talk, from 2020 but under the new rules I think it counts? VAR on the case

Digital only, but this is a very solid EP: https://humandiseasenetwork.bandcamp.com/album/leo-spasit-nuit-tranquille

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGAoaxhjIQo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH-J-77vdek

Soul Mass Transit System - Heart Sing (Passion Mix)

No frills Allardici 4-4-2 style from Leeds

loving these

machina - trusted

https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/Ybgq9AFCB7w52s6dA

New Tony Price album is very good

In late 2020, Tony Price found himself stuck in Los Angeles, unable to fly back to his native Toronto because of Covid-19 restrictions. But he found another way. A former radio DJ Price knew was selling their 1981 Lincoln Continental Mark VI, so he bought the car, intending to drive back to Canada in style. He found a bag of cassette tapes—homemade mixes and radio show recordings from the late '80s replete with motorik Detroit techno, thumping Chicago house and advertisements for products that only exist in memory—stashed in the trunk. The tapes and the old car made a perfect match, and Price played the cassettes constantly during the long drive from California to Ontario.

After his road trip, Price scoured the tapes for samples, pulling together what would become his new album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIJ6W7JygTQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2uTIma4nx8

digging this sim fossil ep, which neatly occupies the interzone of early house/new beat/italo

https://mistertedits.bandcamp.com/album/body-contact-ep-2

Well that’s right up my street, thanks. I enojoyed the Tony Price too.

sofia kourtesis essential mix

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0015sdp

can't get enough of this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYmg2dqhxY0

oden & fatzo - lauren

cuz i can't stay forever

so nice

https://ra.co/news/77174

WARM (Ron Trent) - What Do the Stars Say to You (17 June 2022)

Tracklist
01. Cool Water feat. Ivan Conti (Azymuth) and Lars Bartkuhn
02. Cycle Of Many
03. Admira feat. Gigi Masin
04. Flowers feat. Venecia
05. Melt Into You feat. Alex Malheiros (Azymuth)
06. Flos Potentia (Sugar, Cotton, Tabacco) feat. Khruangbin
07. Sphere feat. Jean-Luc Ponty
08. WARM
09. On My Way Home
10. What Do The Stars Say To You

Trent played drums, percussion, keys, synths, piano, guitar and electronics on the LP, which was mastered by François K.
The collaborators include decorated jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, Gaussian Curve member Gigi Masin, popular three-piece band Khruangbin and Azymuth members Alex Malheriros and drummer Ivan Conti.

Can't deny it, the new KH (Four Tet) tune is big

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IwAKmY774

I like the video a lot.

daniel avery - chaos energy

https://m.youtube.com/watch?mc_cid=7a7ebfd3dc

ah fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y5oBIG0ghA

Dig the KH but then, I like most everything Four Tet does

Rudolf C on limousine dream is a perfect pairing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YOsdDWlsNA

dreamy stuff by picture on kalahari oyster cult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKcSr7F6Sao

love that daniel avery tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUZ71XLuxKY
Vico Da Sporo • Yugo

Good sunrise vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhCEDSf8ZI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG5DYBr4TQk

Love that Moss album! "I Can't Escape From U" ❤️‍🔥

that Achterna is wonderful

from last year but what a choon:

Benoit B - Drums Symphony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stKHuas2jIw

one of my faves from last year for sure

That Moss record sounds a lot like he just got a Microcosm.

Loving Jamal Moss. Specially this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L3Ovtlz2as

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri7hyLxGQlQ

Kellon - Zambique

Jumble sale vibes from 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHEIIt_sfSY

the original crept up on me to become a real anthem so I'm fully on board with sticking a breakbeat over it

checking what alden tyrell is up to lately and found this, took a break from that ilian tape sound but sounding great this morning

ryan james ford - kaki (alden tyrell remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU5LrYiTQPU

lol Roy Of The Ravers is a great name

that Kellon - Zambique is wonderful

andrea oliva - “rio”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTUi7Cr_Dfw

look sometimes you just want to be pummelled by sequins and pianos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1wOCD0gNsA

xpost - yes you do!

okay, I forgot to name that one. It's Alan Fitzgerald - Learning to Love. Got me reaching for the French records; Crydamoure, Roule etc.

"Rio" is like a big-room Sofia Kourtesis, I love it

fango - elle cang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRDdZMYmemc

RIYL big clangy drumz

I hadn’t noticed there was a new Jamal Moss album, sounding awesome as always.

Today I am enjoying this, on the first record out from him for a decade: Anthony Teasdale - Jan's Hammer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgqlIn7eNG4

I was a bit confused thinking the name was familar, looked it up and Jexopolis used the same track name a couple of years ago.

This reminds me (maybe too much? nah, I'm ok with it) of a classic Francois K track, down to the squelchy synth solo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL037RwNCts

that's a beautiful jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddLjKZocbpY

Inkipak - Node (Distant Worlds)

haven't listened to any rodolfo wehbba in probably a decade, but caught this one the other day and it's been doing the trick.

wehbba, "dynamo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhmYkbmZr8Y

his recent / upcoming remix of jam & spoon's - odyssey to anyoona, while perhaps not my usual kind of thing, is pretty great.

really enjoyed listening to Inkipak’s dot album on the back of the track saer posted. this is “Metrion”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDGjsdS8gO4

I just went and bought a bunch of Inkipak stuff on bandcamp - thanks, saer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZMa7VsprYU

Silverlining - Schema, from the album that came out last year. Peak Yaya in the Asda

Inkipak tune is lovely

a few I've been enjoying lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zPI48JCEk

East Coast Love Affair - Chicago - an acid cover of the Roy Ayers 1983 single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utTXvrPfzKs

Boys Noize & ABRA - Affection (Playgroup Back 2 89 Remix) - as the title suggests, this is a freestyle homage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2FxgliqpTU

X-COAST - XTC V - 90's handbag revivalism complete with familiar samples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5QzeLfmtSE

Hidden Spheres - Euan 92 - uplifting piano chords over fake dreamy Italo-house.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GDNVaEM6XQ

rRoxymore - Midnight Shift - even on a label as "conventional" as Aus, this is still layered with queasy vocal samples and stuttered rhythms.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eXEZf91b-Q

Bella Boo - True Romance - feels like this year's "La Perla", wistful loved-up filtered-disco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5c9zo9UW4E

Barnt - This Is For Decor Only - monolithic stompy business for the Ibiza big-rooms, but weird enough to be idiosyncratic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkpxZgpAgAc

Josh Caffé - Do You Want To Take Me Home? (Steffi & Virginia Remix) - driving sleazy house, splits the difference between Berghain and Robert Owens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4blFDTi3YWg

Gramrcy - Gliding Again - 138bpm hard techno based on the best thirty seconds in My Bloody Valentine's "What You Want."

^ That's a great list. I'm all for "90s handbag revivalism"

Also that Fango - Elle Cang upthread is wonderful

nice selections! also been enjoying that josh caffé/steffi track

Sorry for being basic but I was listening to fred again…’s boiler room set earlier and it sounded great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0-hvjV2A5Y

because i’m old, i didn’t like it, which is a rather salty way of admitting i couldn’t connect with the music. but as a dj his energy is infectious and undeniable, and it was especially impressive how he handled the few hiccups. above all, it’s an important reminder that (in a club setting anyway) “good” music and good dj’ing don’t mean a whole lot compared to the undeniable power of a totally up-for-it crowd

hmm i need to edit my posts better

anyway, excited for my copy of the new gnork single to show up … any day now … maybe i’ll get it before youtube does!

https://soundcloud.com/inchbyinchdistribution/premiere-gnork-euphoric-vibes-rm12017

Fred Again.. seems on paper like someone whose music would be right up my street but every time I try it just leaves me indifferent. As tlg says though, that crowd are loving it and it's nice to see a Boiler Room that feels like an actual room and not just a festival tent.

Hidden Spheres - Euan 92 - uplifting piano chords over fake dreamy Italo-house.
love it

Lategreat: ah yeah agree somewhat. The music is not my usual cup of tea, just loved the energy of the set and the crowd. It’s been a minute since I last saw a boiler room where it felt like a party.

90's handbag revivalism complete with familiar samples.

Yes please, more of this please everyone

precipitation album just came out and it's as gorgeous as you might expect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaJeoSCMg0E

much appreciated

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkrN9Yc7kJI

Viktor Birgiss - That Time When (Deep Inspiration)

summery, shimmery, chuck another shrimpery on the barbie

This feels very reminiscent of something well known that is escaping me right now

Has some similarities to "Path of Most Resistance" by Pepe Bradock.

Yes! That is exactly the record I was thinking of, just couldn't remember the name

i missed these latest revives, really nice list boxedjoy. i can't remember if i posted this one yet or not but it's giving me a lot of joy lately.

austin atto, niles mason - linger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdKXzM1qOaU

Meanwhile that Bella Boo - True Romance tune has more than a passing similarity to So Weit Wie Noch Wie

sillygirlcarmen - bad blues

great non-schaffel karizma remix too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPi-Tl1nzvE

Move D • The Boogie Lander - Reggie Dokes Other Worldly Jazz Remix (Pandemix Live Jams Vol. 5 B2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ3a_-NfQ2w

I have no idea what a bobbin is. Can someone please define it for me? Genuinely confused and Google is no help.

Ich bin ein Bobbiner

Je suis Bobbin

Every Bobbin’s Free (To Feel Good)

Bobbins. pic.twitter.com/GQxqSfAwTX

— fell into a green dream (@Mount_Analogue) November 28, 2016

sorry, that's not helpful

Knew I could rely on ILM for a genuine, snark-free response.

I'm just going to assume y'all really like sewing machines?

afaict it's an old term first-gen british ilx came up with for for minimal / kompakt-y techno in the early to mid 2000s.

pretty sure it's just old-ILM speak for "house/techno/etc track", or at least that's how i've always read it

xp

now that there are < 10 dance music posters on ilm it doesn't really seem helpful to follow microgenre thread topics that closely or maybe i just don't care.

i wish we had a different name for house and techno threads but this one is somewhat adequate, i guess, if dated

bobbins is used informally in brit-english as a synonym for nonsense, and i'm guessing it was originally used on ilx in that sense but in an affectionate way?

I'm just going to assume y'all really like sewing machines?

i seem to remember the music in the bobbins threads being compared to sewing machines early on but the detective search work required to verify that is beyond me.

Interesting, thanks for your responses! I love that the term is hyper-specific to ILM. It's like a secret code language.

Anyways, sorry for the interruption. Back to the bobbins!

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/169/907/tumblr_lqe951gVzb1qzxegjo1_500.gif

Knew I could rely on ILM for a genuine, snark-free response.

It refers to bobbin' ya head?

I’ve always understood that bobbins are something for literally rolling thread, and this was the rolling thread for house/techno. Originally there was “minimal house bobbins” and “electro house bobbins” so I don’t think it was meant to describe a specific sound, but in the mid 00s we talked about kompakt-y techno (and the like) incessantly there, so the association stuck, though not by design, I don’t think.

i’m an american, been around since it first “dropped”, and this never did not make sense to me. although maybe i misunderstand it? i’d heard the expression “bits and bobs” a lot growing up (to mean a collection of random things) and always assumed “bobbins” was a particularly british version of that expression

Some recent bobbins ordered:

Huerta - liquid social ep https://soundcloud.com/subwax-bcn-distribution/lzr003

and continuing kalahari oyster cult’s incredible run:
fantastic man - alpha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy2TGRyfDSU

sillygirlcarmen - bad blues

great non-schaffel karizma remix too

📹

Ooh I freaking love the "rolling thread" explanation for the bobbins title!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MjrLGIZwo

Yaya details his take on it here

There's a house or techno track from about ten years ago or so and there's a guy's voice on it that says something that sounds like 'bobbins bobbins bobbins bobbins'

Not sure if this helps

thought we did this before and came to the conclusion bobbins are odds & ends

I’m no boffin though

now that there are < 10 dance music posters on ilm it doesn't really seem helpful to follow microgenre thread topics that closely or maybe i just don't care.

i wish we had a different name for house and techno threads but this one is somewhat adequate, i guess, if dated

― (grim) pump track (wales) (map)

Kinda feel this is a problem with house/techno and other electronic/dance adjacent genres. There’s very few discussion about it, it seems like it’s music designed not to be talked about lol.

Even on reddit which has 400+ million users I still haven’t found a decent subreddit for finding and discussing “bobbins”.

I miss the blog era. Those were the days were I could really rely on a handful of electronic focused blogs to discover amazing tracks.

i think part of the deal is that djs still rely on obscurity to establish reputations in the party industry

what do you mean, map? you mean ppl build reputations by playing obscure tracks from unknown producers, so they keep tight-lipped about it?

don't worry moka, 90% or more of past music criticism about techno / house was garbage (including at least 99% of my ilx posts from the 00s) so not missing much ... looking back, it seems to match most music criticism from the internet age, which is to say writers doing cheap sociology based on broad assumptions about partygoers and listeners etc, enhanced by lack of actual knowledge or understanding of dj'ing, production, distribution networks, regional scenes, actual party culture, etc

what do you mean, map? you mean ppl build reputations by playing obscure tracks from unknown producers, so they keep tight-lipped about it?

somewhat but i also don't think it's down to individual intent that much, it's just a part of how the industry has been built over the last few decades. a bunch of other factors play into it too, vinyl being a preferred format, class and exclusivity, etc.

lack of actual knowledge or understanding of dj'ing, production, distribution networks, regional scenes, actual party culture, etc

i would counter that the "actual" part of this doesn't exist. you either have it or you don't, there's no birds eye view of it, party culture exists wherever there are parties which is everywhere, it's by definition embedded / experienced. and it's very much shaped and gatekept by class. how authenticity discourse works in tandem with class is weird and interesting but i'd say that generally it "works better" when the producers / consumers in question are of a certain class or at a certain level of class.

just some random thoughts.

let me try to clarify

one of my all-time favorite pieces of music writing is from ilx's very own pinefox, who wrote a thing about going to the all tomorrow's parties at camber sands that was curated by autechre. of course, since they skewed heavily toward drone, noise and experimental, pinefox ended up hating all the music. there's a particularly funny bit about trying to enjoy a pint in the bar while some anonymous dj (who for some reason i always assume was baby ford) is banging out endless "honking" noises (i think i remember that right)

anyway eventually pinefox comes around to the conclusion that going to festivals really isn't about *the music* it's about seeing friends on the train, pints between acts, chilling at the campsite / cabin / airbnb (anachronistic but you get the idea), it's about the anticipation and planning and bumping into ppl blah blah blah. there are definitely important things going on in the music world (social relations if you're into cultural criticism, or maybe just important experiences if you're an emo diarist type) but they're not determined by the formal qualities of the music, they're mostly adjacent to it.

hopefully i'm not misrepresenting the gist of it (i think it's on freakytrigger if you want to go look it up?) but i thought this was all very beautiful and true. and i think it is especially true when you're talking about dance music, the sort without words that gets pressed onto 12" by shadowy nameless producer types, that really doesn't have "content" outside of formal qualities (no lyrics, etc). i suppose when you have lyrics and musicians who do interviews and take stances on social media, maybe it does influence the social relations a bit more, but with djs and parties it's definitely adjacent / tangential in my mind

to give you an example, in the late 90s, when jungle took off in california, a lot of ppl who weren't dedicated "dance heads" heard about it through djs like r.a.w. + mictlan. since dnb is like 150-180 bpm, it mixes nicely with hip hop, dancehall, etc (i'm sure we all know this) and so that was their gimmick, they made quite a few big mixtapes that started w/ rawkus style backpacker rap or the sort of us ragga you'd hear on labels like weeded, and then eased into jungle. so you had an influx of new fans, who didn't really come in through the existing house / techno scene but instead ppl that might be more into snoop dogg and bob marley than doc martin.

this is all well and good, but hey, it's like a paragraph, not a 1500 word thinkpiece. from there, you probably end up embellishing into bullshit if you want to map anything about the music onto the party. in my experience, the dynamics of the party are determined by a million things other than the music itself - who the promoters are, what the town is like, what the people that live there are like, whether there's public transportation, are there existing bars and clubs, are there nightlife ordinances. and you can definitely write about that stuff, people often do, i suppose. but i don't think any of that really determines whether ppl at the club are listening to deep house or hard techno, and vice versa

i moonlighted as a hack fitness music support editor for a year. they turned out 140 bpm clones of top 40 tracks, like several a week, for gym classes. one of the other editors used to say "at the end of the day we're just making party music." that has lodged in my head and sort of expanded to mean a bunch of different things, a mantra in response to a lot of the self-seriousness in like resident advisor-aligned dance music culture. not that i don't like or partake in that kind of thing! xp

yeah 100% agree. it's really not that complicated

similarly you can get into the specifics of dj'ing, but it's actually super boring. i guess supposedly i do some sort of weird deep kvlt gatekeepy mystical thing by mixing vinyl + rotary, but hey, it's not rocket science, i'm basically playing two metronomes and just trying to get them to match. i can speed them up or down, and i can bump them forward or back (you can't do that with a metronome). it's a binary operation - you're either 1) too fast or 2) too slow and there's no third option to it. eq'ing is also pretty boring when you get down to it, and effects (like eq'ing and a lot of other things) are best imo when used extremely sparingly. there's nothing magical about it, it just took about five years of daily practice to get good at it, and i happen to find it more fun and engaging than playing digital, plus fuck looking at a screen for any longer than i have to (i'm pretending to work on the weekend right now, honestly, i don't even have a tv)

so yeah this is all pretty boring stuff (maybe someone can ask former ilxor mikebee about distro networks!) and maybe i guess that's why we hew to dumb myths like "in koln they have trees and big windows and eat minimal spaghetti on birch laminate folding furniture, which is why kompakt sounds like this and not like berlin techno!"

Oh yeah I totally get that writing pabout dance/electronic music is usually trash. It’s very hard to try to convey why you think a bobbins track is good because it’s not really about de the ideas behind the music for most sub-genres. If you get too technical about it is boring for most people and then some reviewers either resort to the cheap sociology you mention or get too abstract to mean anything to anybody but themselves.

Actually most of the blogs focused on electronica I followed didn’t really review the tracks. They either posted mp3s/soundcloud/youtube other streaming links without little to no info on the actual tracks. Some like “little white earbuds” did provide some small reviews. Most of them only posted tracks iirc. Most of them are long dead links nowadays. I think “keytars and violins” is still around but posts like twice a year lol.

really cool posts tlg, lots of detail and fun to read.

this all reminds me that, in my small city, there is a crew of long time house music party throwers that have sort of claimed the mantle of the "cool" party people. you can talk to them for a minute and they'll straight up admit that that's their m.o. i have not been invited to join their "cool" club, which smarts a little bit. i was asking to join for like a year. but the reality is, i'm just really turned off by their insecure and giant egos and always have been. it's not like i don't have an ego myself, but i want a bit more effort made to contribute to lower / less pressure / more breathing room on their part and it's just never there. it always comes through every time i go to one of their parties. so i've come to the conclusion that it doesn't matter how big the headlining dj they're bringing in for their next party is, which in a few weeks is eddie fowlkes and ladymonix, because there will always be a bunch of things that make it hard for me to relax and enjoy myself at their parties. some of it i'm sure is me and my own insecurities, but if i'm being real, some of it is that they really do behave like assholes a lot of the time, objectively speaking.

so i'm a little bit stuck outside of the people who play the more "sophsticated" party music that i've been drawn to in the past, that i'm still drawn to somewhat.

one of the funnest party experiences i had recently was where i threw one, and the other two djs besides me were burner adjacent tech house party dudes who are just SO ENTHUSIASTIC and FUN TO WATCH and they put their heart into it, and this kid who plays ed banger stuff from l.a., which whatever, i have no association with that kind of scene so it was just fun to watch and some of the music was undeniably pretty good and party friendly.

another thing i should clarify: i think writing about social relations is important and good! after all, i do subscribe to three newspapers, and i read them. and i think it's great when resident advisor writes about the bad behavior of certain superstar djs, or the challenges producers from (insert whatever demographic) face.

but when i read, say, the food section in the local paper, someone might be like "here's all the challenges i faced trying to get a small business loan as a young guamanian chef, and to try to get ppl to come eat fancy food in unhip nbhd x" and the author might be like "i loved how they put unexpected spice x in the chicken kelaguen", but they're never going to write "the challenges so and so faces in trying to navigate his chamorro heritage are boldly expressed in the unexpected crunchiness of the lumpia"

ok haha wait i HAVE seen restaurant reviews like that, but only in shitty pretentious rags like the nyt

xp so true, i kinda wanted to jump in the "on dj'ing" thread to say that "referral from dj who already plays that spot" is going to outweigh anything you do (reaching out, making good mixes, social media curation) by 1000x, which i 100% think the shitty reality of it, but i don't want to be buzzkill

and honestly prosaic stuff like that (so and so happened to know so and so and invited him to use the studio in exchange for bag of weed) is really how a lot of things happen, vs the heady analysis you see in a lot of early 00s writing about dance music

also i don't think the "it's just party music" point means that what djs do is boring, just that it's ephemeral and about celebration, which can be a liberating realization imo.

xp yep it's really just about being in a network of people irl where they kind of start becoming akin to family... it's also not something that can happen *just through* the internet although i think the internet can support it.

Some of us have babies and stopped listening to dance music in proper social settings :,( the only way to find bobbins is in threads like this.

I just want music to run to or to bob my head to while having some me time while sipping wine at 10pm. For those of you who are still out there, keep the bobbins you find in the wild coming.

hey moka i relate to that, even though i don't have babies, i never go out anymore and my main productive listening time is when i'm running! i am looking for new bobbins on a weekly basis, some of it is admittedly a little corny, but i would like to contribute more as i still find ilm a really valuable resource.

Belatedly, can confirm that "bobbins" originally meant "rolling thread" - there were a couple of threads literally called "Rolling X Thread" in 2004 like for country, teen-pop etc but I think dance sub-trends were the first case of ILM doing year-specific rolling threads for things, so we ended up with "Electro-House Bobbins 2005". I think the fact that the term ended up only being used for dance stuff (and specifically techno and house) was kind of a historical quirk?

i'm glad people have cleared up the origin of the name, it makes a lot more sense than what was in my warped memory lol.

i don’t want to come off as overly judgmental here, so having failed at that, i’ll clarify just one more time

i’ll always have space on my shelf for “aesthetics of rock” and “philosophy of modern music” (lol) and “more brilliant than the sun”. the last one maybe most relevant here (though meltzer probably also relevant to the lizard brain rave / warehouse / big room stuff i love). it’s imaginative and exciting and fun and set the tone for 25 years, but is it right? when you listen to 4hero stretching breaks actually experiencing time travel? i dunno, maybe!

and there’s a third stream of stuff, that talks about the effect that formal properties and social relations have on you yourself (that also doesn’t then need to stretch itself into global conclusions) that a lot of people are really good at! i sometimes ignore this stuff, because if i don’t relate to the writer’s experience i find it hard to get into it, but i’m thinking of things like kogan’s writing or tim f’s yearly roundups.

but leaving that stuff aside, compared to the first form (of explaining the music, thinkpiece style) i think it’s always going to be more valuable to focus on the stories of the people (producers, promoters, above all maybe fans and listeners) rather than the focus too much on the music itself. so if i’m going to read music writing now i’d rather read things like “techno rebels”, veloso’s “tropical truth”, stolzoff’s “wake the town and tell the people” or matos’s “underground is massive”, to name a few, because i think they really tell the story of the music and listeners vs extrapolating a story about the listening experience from the music itself

tldr: imo history, hermeneutics >> semiotics, sociology

Great and illuminating posts, tlg!

i’m an american, been around since it first “dropped”, and this never did not make sense to me. although maybe i misunderstand it? i’d heard the expression “bits and bobs” a lot growing up (to mean a collection of random things) and always assumed “bobbins” was a particularly british version of that expression

I'm also an American and a regular lurker on this thread and I love the word bobbins in this context. I love it so much I created a folder called “various bobbins” comprised exclusively of stuff I learn about in these threads. It helps me keep track of stuff.

enhanced by lack of actual knowledge or understanding of dj'ing, production, distribution networks, regional scenes, actual party culture, etc
― the late great, Sunday, August 28, 2022 12:51 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think I understand all of this, basically, but the distribution network part. I always wonder how so many labels are able to produce so much vinyl so quickly, and just assumed it was some insider bobbin mystery or a secret pressing plant that only DJs know about

Sorry to derail. Love this thread

bobbins also extremely search-friendly

great posts all

Move D • The Boogie Lander - Reggie Dokes Other Worldly Jazz Remix (Pandemix Live Jams Vol. 5 B2)

this is an incredible tune!

also appreciate the posts upthread, good read

can't remember last time I went to a club but I know I loved it, should go again, there's a good one not far from where I live and friends do monthly nights/mornings

this is not exactly a bobbins, but ... speaking of histories ...

https://tresorberlin.com/product/tresor-true-stories-english/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TXhv2fe3w

Tri.Al.Trip - Truffles Mayo

outdoorsy shenanigans from Slovenia

I like that one a lot.

I always think of bobbins as meaning “a bit rubbish”, probably not helped by the original "electro house bobbins” thread because, well, a lot of “electro house” really was quite bobbins.

https://i.imgur.com/QAuZe6h.png

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0YDZqeKMnU

Man​/​ipulate - Primary

seafront sounds from Marseille

new Lea Lisa on Phonica, gorgeous early 90s UK techno throwback/homage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB9ArCIow4k

sort of echoing that move d pandemix thing in a way

mark e - heartaches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCxQZDKYYVE

160 bpm breakbeat acid juke? yes sir, i can hardcore

ebb “blue energy drink”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77gghTO2kOU

hello party crew! as you may or may not know South Africa (Mzansi) is the world’s prime House Nation. it’s the only place in the world where six+-minute tracks informed by Mr Fingers, Chicago, acid and other house variations fill up the pop charts on the regular. did you folx even know a bobbin is a South African delicacy?

all of this to say that I’m hoping this poll I created might get the amapiano party fired up again on ILM, because we’re seriously logging… lagging behind. here’s your invitation - I hope you will all participate:

drowning in a blissful ocean of log drums and keys: 🎹🎹 amapiano a-z 🎹🎹 an ilm poll

Happy to see Sascha Funke back on Kompakt. Not micro in the least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zf9KqVxsfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjU0mwBSUWw

Tri.Al.Trip - Izistegagozda

The other side of Truffles Mayo. This one slipped past at first but I've ended up liking it as much as the other side, more of an MBG vibe on particularly in the second half once the substitutions were made

new Nikki Nair single is insane (150bpm electro vibes)

https://soundcloud.com/djmag/premiere-nikki-nair-where-r-u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddX0SVT8qoI

Ted Amber - Looperman

bicycling

new Nikki Nair single is insane (150bpm electro vibes)

jesus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvLVXxkspJk

Andy Catana - Wav Encore

lil box o tricks from Vienna

I had forgotten Pantha Du Prince existed, last album I heard from him was Black Noise in 2010, but got a notification he released a new album today.

richy ahmed - bad boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNX5TOhejKY

That Nikki Nair EP is out btw, the a-side is really some shit

https://nikkinair.bandcamp.com/album/renormalization-support-group

matias aguayo - el camaron (ricardo villalobos remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs8bRgCovTY

i would break out of that ^ at either 3 minutes or 6 minutes tbh.

i wanted to say something about the richy ahmed track but wasn't sure exactly what. i guess the main thing is the interplay between the synth line and the vocal. that tension is ridden out perfectly. the rhythm track is another simple but choice thing about it.

denyl brook - tenacity ep on shall not fade has some heaters on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoZCQkPEuvk

Nice minimal house bobbins from a friend:
https://liquidcitymotors.bandcamp.com/track/forest-child-vocal-mix

I'm getting started on DeForrest Brown's book, anybody read it?

i don't love everything robert owens has been involved with lately, and this one is a little sappy tbh but i love the piano

robert owens, janne tavi - naked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcOn44ytKrQ

it’s the title track of his brand new album, his first in 12 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-kznsUgfx8

Velvet Velour - Show You The Door

inarguable

also by Velvet Velour, from last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofP38o5mCMA

Velvet Velour - Arrivederci

that Precipitation album is just the best thing, thx to whoever posted upthread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaJeoSCMg0E

glad you enjoyed it! he also put this out earlier in the year, which i think is an amazing track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-67hy4vJM0
Precipitation – Reina’s Theme

talking of japanese stuff, have been absolutely rinsing this gorgeous thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbrBv3QJU48
Archipelago Soundsystem - Txirimiri Jaz Tek [NC4K]

this has been a favourite this year too, seems quite underworld-esque?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgrlAjx4Smo
Maroki - ICBT1

love that Maroki. and Archipelago reminded me of this Leo Pol track that flips that same vocal (from SWV's Rain). Both put it to great use!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndbWLv6LN3E

We all need some Heaters this winter.

Dircsen -- Nervous Disorder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8L-XTzsfqk

I could totally imagine hearing Craig Richards playing that Velvet Velour - Show You The Door track in Fabric Room 1 back in the 00s. Not a dis :D

Room 1 feel for sure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtUhDoSwOFM

Alec Falconer, Harry Wills, & 2 step Bec- Working On Myself

no more alarms, no more early starts. no more traffic, and no one on the trains!

what a jam!

so good

can't seem to find a copy anywhere - all sold out. shame these things don't get put out on digital too

dog latin, there's a few for sale on the cogs: https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/19594933?ev=rb

https://badumtish.eu/products/alec-falconer-harry-wills-sock03
Get a nice pair of socks, too!

omg those socks!

possibly the wrong thread but this eden samara has really got its claws into me after a few listens. shanti celeste helped produce, kind of making me think of early nite jewel?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEU4NL8Alu4

and while i'm watering down the bobbins brand, i do like this horrible thumping new beat racket:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-w-SLnUrh0

i was in a similar spot, wondering whether to post this here. since we're posting eden samara and referencing nite jewel i think it works!

i'd never heard of yuu udagawa, randomly checked her out when i saw this single on a shop's website, ended up buying it. there's a couple house tracks, they're pretty good, the rest is rnb-adjacent electronica, also pretty good ... but something about the midtempo lead track really grabbed me. maybe the "not sure if these are good vocals" vocals that remind me of laurel halo's "quarantine"?

yuu udagawa - forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq9xLi-89NM

all music is bobbins it can't be watered down

and while i'm watering down the bobbins brand,

All music is bobbins it can't be watered down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4m-lgEV4jc

short clip from Elise Jilian b2b Farès A. @ SouPaPe _ Tunisia

Achingly familiar jaunt from a beach in Tunisia, just can't remember what it is. Or maybe I never heard it before and just like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYwfOatEdXA

Flanders- Homer's Odyssey

Moody victorian detour from Springfield

Love a bit of comedy dancefloor action :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8jQZM5rI5w

L&F - Floor'D

Sounds like solid fun all around on Mindhelmet 08

https://soundcloud.com/subwax-bcn-distribution/helmet_08

I've not been that taken with the previous helmets I've heard and was thinking the same for this helmet, but hats and helmets off alike for the last track, I'm into that

I agree! I was really excited about it when it first launched, then it went in a direction I find pretty boring (I’m not into that kind of thin, vaguely chiptuney house sound that’s been popular over the last few years) but the last two seem like a shift back to a fuller sound.

catching up but

possibly the wrong thread but this eden samara has really got its claws into me after a few listens. shanti celeste helped produce, kind of making me think of early nite jewel?

yes i love that track! did not know shanti celeste was involved.

that label (local action) has some gems on it

including this one which is probably even more outside of the usual for this thread. i played it and actually had some ratchet queens who only bounce to nicki minaj and megan thee stallion latch onto it.

uniiqu3 - microdosing (conducta remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7M9bKMmfBg

i could post the awful super freaky girl but that's just too chaotic, even for me, plus it sucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTI3-NdviP8

Pekkuliar & Driahn - Dazed Transmission

crispy tackle from Barcelona

feel like stirmonster might like this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhXCutPfW4I

for posterity: Terr - Only For Tonight

Loved hearing that the Terr track for the first time at Watching Trees, my friend are I kept referring it as the Miss Kittin one before we found out what it was.

I’m very much enjoying this bleepy, breaky, fun one today:

HearThuG -- Aha! Moment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-d4v-ddXM

:-)

Word, Tracer!

Here's a huge tune for tingling spines, on big systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr5RYuNHv7k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW-7NxFyn1M

The Mountain People - La Colline

Zurich sounding a little like Dusseldorf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8AWv8F_QOI

Hyperspektiv - 5th Plane

love this one, hypnotic!

hello party crew! as you may or may not know South Africa (Mzansi) is the world’s prime House Nation. it’s the only place in the world where six+-minute tracks informed by Mr Fingers, Chicago, acid and other house variations fill up the pop charts on the regular. did you folx even know a bobbin is a South African delicacy?

all of this to say that I’m hoping this poll I created might get the amapiano party fired up again on ILM, because we’re seriously logging… lagging behind. here’s your invitation - I hope you will all participate:

drowning in a blissful ocean of log drums and keys: 🎹🎹 amapiano a-z 🎹🎹 an ilm poll🕸

New Slow Life comp predictably delivers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WO3ldN0jM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qM8uEP20y0

i like that second one! great use of acid in a non-played-out way

speaking of, i always loved the imperial vibe of jam city’s “2 hot”, which always made me think of “haunted dancehall” era sabres doing trap music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHBzaWfqyGs

i just wished someone would redo it at a house / techno compatible tempo. well, someone on craigie knowes has! they threw in some 303 acid breaks and beamed it to the oort cloud and back for extra space dust

dream_e - musli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-96HSrQtGoU

they’re actually pretty much the same tempo, but imo the jam city track has such a strong half-step feel that i don’t think it sounds good mixed with ukg or w/e

Nothing really grabbed me on first listen to the Slow Life comp from first listen, quite like the Primary Perception track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0134Fcs1Bto

JMF - Point To Yourself (2014)

On DC based label Silence In Metropolis, which I'd never come across before,

oh no, wrong video entirely!

I'm all discombobulated! That is the correct track for this thread, but the wrong artist/title, it should be

Foehn & Jerome - Zeldas Thumb

I've now posted the JMF track to the bobbins of past thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMTYI352dZk

Co.inside feat Guru Charanand - O My Beloved

big sky

oh that's nice!

wow what is that?

Is it Melchior under a different name? I had to put money down on the (single-sided only) vinyl as there's no digital option. £15 for one tune is steep, but I've listened to it about 5 times since last night.

It reminds me very much of Mungolian Jetset's 'Mungolian Jet Set Moon Song' for many many reasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIsLLa5IJfE

Its a reissue of Patrick Wilson side project, though its not clear it ever saw light of day at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykF_Mh-qcbA

from the same era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNX3O85rSnM

this might be on the original

Might be a good indicator as to why only one track made the reissue, though there's a certain charm to it

That Optimystiks thing is incredible

O My Beloved arrived in the post today and I've listened to it four times on repeat. It's a fucking delight

I can't find much infor about Patrick Wilson because there are quite a few people with the same name. What was his deal anyway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOduyd4VmSA

An extremely mixed bag but with some gems like this nice corporate waterslide from 2004

some recent ones that I've been enjoying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3yGbpjt34

Benedek ft dreamcastmoe - Peace Of Mind - the whole EP this is from is excellent, but I like this one best - new jack swing orchestral hits over a Space Ghost groove and a trippy soul vocal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEJrPz42ME

Kornel Kovacs ft Aluna - Follow Me - she's toned down the affectations for some warm, micro-house styled 2-step

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFS4kpgI7gI

Earth Trax - Dream Pop - having a very prolific 2022, this makes me think of Get Physical attempting "Stella" but with tougher drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHhePIDdWvU

Call Super - Swallow Me - very much from the same place as his Telephones remix from a few years ago, but with more weirdness including a bizarrely thrilling "drop"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYWNROkV9uc

Shanti Celeste - Cutie - I think she's a great DJ and you can tell she really gets dancefloor dynamics, this is probably the most "big-room" I've ever heard a Hessle Audio release sound but still bursting with personality in the filtered vocals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwboXIA7Q3I

Pariah - Caterpillar - obnoxious bassline and unrelenting tension drums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6n6mSBPlQ

Genius Of Time - Sunswell - blissed-out deep house, "d'you like that?" yes very much so

shanti shanti shanti

she’s great and yeah that’s a good one, though seems to me hessle has been moving in a more commercial direction since pearson sound’s “alien mode” and (especially) pangaea’s “like this”

as far as stuff along that axis goes i was even more impressed w/ the new one by peach on psychic readings. still playing the galaxy girl ep to death, look forward to picking this one up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaxjqV6QlBA

kind of an update on the sound of detroit techno / uk idm aware producers who kept making chicago style house (derrick carter, gemini, dana kelley etc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6CUHFqDIw

Boink - Motorbike Music

Mancunian magic

Wow, the way those soft keys land like ripples on there surface of a pond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohB6Re40lyQ

Ada Kaleh - Affection Over Reason (SiT Remix)

sliding down the home straight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockGpcFaxco

morgan geist - feeling is mututal

calls it "quiet storm acid" (or something like that) in the press release

i guess mr selzer posted this in the morgan geist thread but i missed it

It's really good. He's always good obviously, and the A side here is great, but the B side I really love, I always like it when he stretches out and does something a bit more different.

― dan selzer

cosign 100% ("feeling is mututal" is the b side)

I like everything Two Shell put out this year and don't believe I've seen them mentioned here. Philip Sherburne covered them on P4k a couple times:

Since their debut, though, their music has become more colorful, awash in giddy UK garage rhythms, hiccupping R&B snippets, and unusually chipper major-key synths. They’ve got a particular thing for big, attention-grabbing samples—the kind that capture the ears of not just rapturous ravers but also copyright lawyers, which is presumably why some of the releases on their label Mainframe Audio have been vinyl-only.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/two-shell-home/

Joy Orbison’s game-changing 2009 single “Hyph Mngo” is their obvious lodestar; you can hear it almost verbatim in the hiccupping vocal loop of the opening “Ghosts” and the fluttering synths of “Pods,” which follows. While it’s hardly an obscure pick—no song did more to mark the end of the dubstep era and the beginning of the amorphous stylistic free-for-all that followed—it’s been a while since anyone zeroed in so doggedly on the song’s ecstatic qualities. Virtually every element of Icons feels engineered to replicate the dizzy rush of nightclubbing at its most exhilarating, when a new sound gets its claws into you for the first time.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/two-shell-icons-ep/

"Home" is my favorite track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WaJ7FnLN90

i kinda liked the first livity single (access ep), not as into the second one (soulcity ep). i think access was the only livity singles i didn't grab out of that "run", sort of lost interest in the label around the early 40s so didn't grab soulcity either.

then i read that sherburne piece, which 100% put me off further investigation

On Two Shell’s 2020 mix CD, ɪᴍᴘᴀᴄᴛ21, songs by canonical acts like Skee Mask and the Prodigy bumped up against shards of digital-native styles like nightcore and hyperpop. They’ve recently dusted their music with helium-huffing vocals reminiscent of SOPHIE and peppered their sets with cheeky flips of Sugababes and the Corrs. Digging is part of any DJ’s job, but hearing Two Shell drop chirpy remixes of unknown emo randos suggests an affinity with Gen Z’s digital avant-garde that you won’t find among most of their post-dubstep peers

no thanks

The audaciousness of Two Shell’s productions is matched by the slipperiness of the duo’s presentation. In their Boiler Room appearance at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound last month, they performed wearing absurd disguises—chain mail and cloth goat horns on one, clown wig and nylon-stocking face mask on the other—and were almost certainly pantomiming to a pre-recorded mix. There are even rumors that the two people behind the decks weren’t Two Shell at all. The deeper you descend through the Two Shell looking glass, the more the whole enterprise begins to take on the air of a grade-A piss take, a no-fucks-given sendup of contemporary DJ culture

definitely sounds like not worth giving a fuck about

sorry for the negativity. i guess i’m just that amazed / repulsed by the proposition that the antidote for self-important celebrity dj culture is … copying old moves from afx, daft punk, soulwax etc ie some of the most overrated celebrity djs of the last three decades?

Its good to express negativity sometimes! I don't know the exact proportions but somewhere between 5 and 15% of the time is healthy.

This is one of those times, I agree with the late great here

definitely sounds like not worth giving a fuck about

OTM. Death before cheeky flips of the Corrs.

If we haven't reached the positivity quota for the day, let me just say that Cutie by Shanti Celeste is amazing to my ears. I was intrigued by plenty of things skimming the thread, but that one went straight to my top of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KCDQyoRuo

CCO - Disphotic Layer

bright and breezy storytelling from a new label based in Liechtenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZrvw2dMqD0

Charcott - Mais (J. Garcia Remix)

mellifluous movements. from Sao Paulo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyL8nugDkvM

Garrett David - Emergency feat. Simone Green

touch of yaya toures city work here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0GRRWqPeug

Michael James - “Signal Issues”

Constant Sound label constantly killing it, I just love this twitchy funky minimal shit, whole EP is gyroscopic joy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z5ZACGCT40

Andres Remis - Magic Maglev

montpellier melodies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnSGIViYdw

A&A (Anunaku & Avalon Emerson) - Eternal September

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQImOo37OhI

Hamatsuki - Rett (Dj Sports Remix)

Tbilisi meets Aarhus in Glasgow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzbJXcYNKP0

Driahn - Watcha Flow

Morning reflections

Love this

Highlights of record-research trips out east

Mr Ho - Shoplift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqSEHVVUh4

Dott - Extra Flavour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZYZOVnwlk

Thoughts on the Príncipe label? I just ordered this LP:

https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/sa-de-em-1-lugar

since this seems to be the only thread with dj python discussion... i finally got around to listening to Mas amable and i'd be ready to proclaim it one of my favorite albums of all time if not for that never-ending ASMR track.

as someone who was brought to tears by that guided meditation track on the last jon hopkins album, i'm not against stuff like this but it doesn't work for me at all in this case. later tonight i'm going to light some candles, lay down, close my eyes, and give it another go since the instrumental is THAT GOOD.

I totally take that track as 100% tongue in cheek.

really? that was actually the one song i kept coming back to, its fantastic. completely hypnotic and the drums sound amazing

it sounds like it's the vocalist's first time ever speaking into a delay pedal and is in the process of figuring out how their voice works given the echoes and reworking whatever words they had prepared given that. the ASMR-style of speaking too softly too close to the mic is like nails on a chalkboard and is slightly too high in the mix to become part of the background.

i could be down with all this if it weren't 11 minutes long and the obvious centerpiece of the album. the juxtaposition of how much i enjoy the rest of what's going on with the record and how much i dislike this is the reason i care at all tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PzC6pebmm8

PQ17 – Transition Point

electro from deepest Tver, not somewhere I'd want to be right now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HWbYMkqvgI

Shaka - Resist

Never heard of Shaka before! Pretty extensive discography, but this is the first track I came across

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoX9uc9Alx9/

Forthcoming later this year from Voigtmann and Thoma Bulwer

idk much abt shaka either, but i did pick up this one on local talk a few years ago … every time i think to sell it to make space i am reminded how good the title track is. somewhere between newer kyle hall type stuff and classic uk deep house in ye olde paper recordings / nuphonic style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt_cPHJIlJA

floaty space cruiser vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOC8x0RxDig
Gilbert - High Rising

yes!!! i almost posted “reflections” from the same EP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azXK4PNzJpw

This encapsulates the best of both the mid-00s mathew jonson/cobblestone jazz/wagon repair sound and the mid-00s minimal sound mj/cj/wr were leading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_ynJkfGDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXEXyC59xI

Floog - Labeled

https://corald.bandcamp.com/album/core-group

mellow cosmic dub chugging

love the gilbert tracks, thank you bobbins thread!

nice bit of deep trumpet sad house:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoiIlS5Tw7o
Kareem Ali - Black Space Fusion

It's on my label so I'm clearly very biased, but I think this is a fine bobbin

https://limitedresourceslabel.bandcamp.com/album/drowt-lrl003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZFlLrqGr8U

https://www.instagram.com/p/CopwBeEIyF_

"I coulda died I can't get home"

Love the track in the first slide here

I'm sorry, but if I didn't love it I wouldn't be putting it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_4_Rqkw-48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_H_40Y1nk4

Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice - Check Ha Mood

Coming out of hibernation and catching up with two months of posts, my word that Shaka track is incredible!

I've always loved Check It Out by Nicki Minaj. The production is so by the book it becomes extremely melancholic.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CopwBeEIyF_

"I coulda died I can't get home"

Love the track in the first slide here

That is a NORTY one indeed.

Sounds a bit like Sweely?

not really bobbins at all but i don't care - new legowelt business is fucking amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsaXwqZ6vts
Pampidoo - Synthesizer Voice (Legowelt Remix)

yes, that's a big fave!

here's some bobbins in aid of Turkey & Syria Earthquake Relief.

slight spam aspect.

https://mustesnarecords.bandcamp.com/album/turkey-syria-earthquake-relief-comp-vol-2

That Legowelt is GR8! No shame in that spam.

Everyone needs a big dumb acid breakbeat banger from time to time?

not even noticed - Transition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynkx3P0t7TU

Legowelt remix is very enjoyable, ty.

That last one is a littttle too retro and repetitive for me but that kick drum is a very good boy, would probably be fun in a mix.

Cross-posting these from my club music thread, because who doesn't like drums?

I missed this all-drums record from Clap! Clap! and a percussionist last year, so fucking good
https://clapclap.bandcamp.com/album/torozebu

And actually a very similar vibe on this brand new & excellent LP on Maloca
https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/slop-drop-roll
Coen - Slop, Drop & Roll

this one bringing me so much joy at the moment. old school bouncy business, strictly not for sourpusses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FigP00sJ11g
Spriitzz - Where R U (Ibiza Mix)

About to dive into the 40 min Villalobos remix (of Ela Minus & DJ Python) that everyone's talking about.

First I've heard of it!

Have the drums come in yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7S11x6govo

DJ Boog - Acid Rock

twilight machinations from Wolverhampton

New The Abstract Eye EP is a good one, as I have come to expect from most Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker releases. Hard to pick a favourite, so here’s the whole EP: https://giftedandblessed.bandcamp.com/album/nine-oh-nine-ep

But maybe this one is the most immediate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUNR2U2gC5s

New Nathan Fake album out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3JXxxEPaOc

SO GOOD

https://djtrystero.bandcamp.com/album/castillo

self-explanatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUeGe-WYW10
Thakzin • The Magnificent Dance

new album on step ball chain from maara sounding good to me this afternoon

https://stepballchain.bandcamp.com/album/the-ancient-truth?from=fanpub_fnb_pr

This is from last year, but I heard this crazy banger on Minor Science's last NTS show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7W5xPhzEvU

seven months old at this point, but I just heard it for the first time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkkHrss-C0g
Flume ft. Caroline Polachek • Sirens (*Sofia Kourtesis Remix*)

may it never end

Quite like the new Kasper Marott album. It's less sprawling than the debut, more of what he does best. Perhaps nothing as great as Keflavik, but I'm listening to this one on repeat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPgeKq1kxH8

New Davis Galvin sounding great, I like the dissonant piano funk on Insee E:

https://davisgalvin.bandcamp.com/album/tessings

more montpellier melodies (after saer's upthread). Easy on the melody tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVJG3ysaR00

Som.1 – Ultimatum

hefty.

montpelier. i place to which i keep meaning to go, but which I apparently cannot spell.

This Will Hofbauer record on Wisdom Teeth is very slinky and vibey, really like it:

https://willhofbauer.bandcamp.com/album/the-shovel-is-a-shovel-was-a-shovel

https://www.domainedo.fr/sites/default/files/styles/currently/public/2022-05/affiche_montpellier-danse-2022-web.jpg?h=14792175&itok=Rsjit3Ln

right first time, but then proving my point. a+ :/

This one has turned my head a bit:

Mayell - Studio 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBVhV2C92Lo

Also, the new Surgeon album Crash Recoil really hits the spot, but if you aren’t already a fan it may not be for you.

nikki nair remixing filter disco for dirtybird, knocks it out of the park imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZBJyNpkC9Y

it's a bingo!

wow that's fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF1E4jJgfRk

Light Blue File - Ukato

Randomly came across this Buenos Aires bulldog

mesmerizing

kerri chandler - who are you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXyGLtagRHA

Re-posting for the current bobbins thread, not the past:

Hud Mo x Nikki Nair EP is so so fun, this is the bobbinsy cut
https://hudsonmohawke.bandcamp.com/album/set-the-roof

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucNskffeTYQ

nothing but good vibes B-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH2P3FEWIis

Anz Anz Anz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tvOdJwCulc

pangaea - installation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFFmsoNbMP4

have listened to that tune approx 1000 times this week

it's real good

someone was saying fidget house back in style? which thread was that

Discovered Client_03 - checks off all the boxes you want with high-res detroity electro, complete with anonymous, semi-conceptual name/titles/design.

Compliance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIivTbYxKQg

Sense Combiner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZZ7GVT_V0U

Sam Brickel - Neo Cortex (from forthcoming album on animalia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B2s2hutUOA

Call Super & Eden Samara - Sapling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JujuEVHmO_U

between this, "Illumina" and "Swallow Me" I think Call Super has just really stepped up his game

wow, that's great!

I apologize for my ignorance but... does that type of tune work in a club? call super played a local venue recently but... I can't keep my eyes open that late

anything can work if you play it right, which is why I found myself enjoying Xiu Xiu during his Boiler Room set with Objekt

someone was saying fidget house back in style? which thread was that

― the late great, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 18:30 (three days ago)

think this was us comparing Pangaea's "Like This" to the peak days of mid-00s fidget. It's definitely in the air - that new Nikki Nair & Hudson Mohake feels very fidget, RA was all over Nick Leon's "Xtasis", and I feel like Sally C "Downtown" and and KH "Looking At Your Pager" have been inescapable for the last six months

At first I thought you meant that Jamie Stewart did a B2B with Objekt, lol

xp yes that was it!

didn’t sinden and count of monte cristo have a “pager” track?!? HIT ME ON YO PAGER HIT ME ON YO PAGER

greg paulus, taylor bense - do you love me? martinez brothers edit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o67qDiatgI

a few I've been enjoying lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBT_FcfSwA

Fear-E - KRS - a big obnoxious synth patch, one for the Helena Hauff crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nt_4DOqnao

David Jackson & Cormac - Shooting Star (Six Times) - cover of an old Italo single, beefed-up and winking at you from the Panorama Bar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9_niEV6Q0

Louis de Tomaso - Disco Anthem - exactly what it says in the title, midway between "Keflavik" and "Inspector Norse"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoEOXI1Ihp4

Regularfantasy & Big Zen - Call U When I'm Done (Priori Remix) - disaffected electroclash voicemail vocals over prog revivalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3HMX3G6gXI

Omar-S & Desire - Hard Times - moody singalong vocal house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFMUXwgUs7Q

Tuccillo - I Believe - uplifting singalong vocal house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOV1rF7JM88

Addison Groove - Elevator - it's basically "Footcrab" for 2023 but a little stranger

“shooting star (six times)” has been on heavy rotation for me this week too, absolute bop

Alex Kassian - strings of Eden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZy0Ns4qGgk

Balearic and precious

that's lovely

dj deeon of all people with a total curve ball leftfield stunner on the resurgent “ambient juke” tip

dj deeon - slippery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7R6DqVWkzo

unfortunately it’s deceptively slow! and the rest of the ep was worse than uninspired, 124 bpm ish acid house by numbers whyyyyyyy … well, i guess maybe an occasional flurry of released / reworked jams isn’t such a bad retirement plan

can't tell from that whether or not you were aware that he died last week :(

https://ra.co/news/79310

oh shit, no i did not know!! well, that’s sad. this release was delayed awhile which is why i was late to it. deeon’s great but like any producer of workmanlike dance 12s idk there’s much to recommend past the first decade (although it’s always great to see them mix the stuff)

i heard another recent-ish (2022) release today, had a similar guilty thought. i was like … on UR? really???? it sounds like dirtybird! not going to post the artist name etc because i hate being negative about detroit techno but come on if you need to pay bills just repress “final frontier” or “galaxy 2 galaxy” already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f47Cw6HeQc

actually you know what that teklife thing deeon did a couple years was masterful!!

they presented it as new tracks and it sounded modern (and real cool) but i think he might have just dusted off real old demos from around when real fast pre footwork juke stuff took off … ended up reminding more of more rugged dj swisha / acemo / kush jones type stuff than teklife

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghU1n1QX2Ns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a3-Yn3iZ3Q

saw this on a michael mayer dj chart, very much my shit haha

BĘÃTFÓØT - LĀŸF (Populous Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV3NoGgLQYc

i'm not sure exactly what's going on here but i like it

fantastic twins - when it fades (we fade)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3f6nmlxxzE

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/sally-c-big-saldos-chunkers-3/

oooh chunky

this is bobbins of the past but if you like that mid 90s tribal chunkiness dub jamz release on wax pistols just got repressed

since they only did this one release and nothing else since 2014, wax pistols goes down in the highest echelon of berlin white label techno labels

takes about three minutes to get to classic status

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQznfFA-ZqM

absolute masterclass in neck breaking NY snare loops o_O))))))))))))))))))

Hell yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1KyJaAOqV8

Dondolo - Les Evanouisseurs

I don't think this is the Dondolo thats on discogs but maybe it is? breezy times either way

Feeling this:

Seb Zito - Horns of 23

https://shallnotfade.co.uk/album/horns-of-23-ep

Head High - Push It

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vDms6rDzPQ

DJ Prime Cuts - Rave

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSWIon7CxTU

new Head High is so good, "Push It" is my favourite but "Break Away" is so warm and lush as well

here's a few I've been enjoying lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A40-AKj-2JA

Len Faki - It's Time (To Move Your Body) - much more housey than I would expect from one of the big Berghain names

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVR59Iy3zoo

Alan Dixon & Will Tramp - Sunday Stomper (Piano Preacher Mix) - a blatant Floorplan rip-off but there are far worse things to rip off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRtmCyQyDys

Ladymonix - So Sweet - the whole EP is really good, ravey sounds made to feel like a small basement instead of a big festival tent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj1m7s6TRNk

Sofia Kourtesis - Si Te Portas Bonito - we've all heard this kind of wistful indie-leaning melancholy house before but she's so good at isn't she

ladymonix is so my shit. new head high? can't wait to get that. need to see what he's been up to over the last 3 years.

i've always liked len faki but quick fast forward reveals one of those vocal hooks with an unmistakeable euro / german accent, i realize it's my hangup but i just can't sell it without cringing a little bit.

oh that means you missed last year's compilation!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i__6ELWIp6A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UFpK1gAhCw

Head High - Blind
Head High - Changes

(for posterity)

i'm generally Len Faki ambivalent but for lift off potential, this one hits that spot, even in spite of the tired 909 hi hat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RslU6Lp5Qe4

DJ Spence Fan Needed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zx4ZNGNpW4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BACmJuzbsXI

on a lighter tip, its Alexis Cabrera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwKYhDEnp2M

Esspee - Hot Prowl

De Zerbi pulling a choice cut from the BN1 bench

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSEZWvVy1t0

Moon Boots - So Precious ft. KONA

poolside palaver

Verraco - Escandaloo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMp3WjWudo

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwGEAi4Mbvw/?img_index=1

Little preview of forthcoming Cem3340 release

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO220e6LYJ4

Ion Luwdig live cut

too bad about Diplo involvement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0-iYCD1LuA

Huge tune (96 Back - Laco) -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uPnCjKlPaQ

gnarly

Can't stop the Sound of Limo

Admo - Bathtub Rendezvouz: https://soundcloud.com/recordeep-mag/premiere-admo-bathtub-rendezvous-tsol009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEFqmOrUxQg
Nelson of the East - Sirena

are those pat metheny samples? I dunno, but I'm liking this

^ balearic eurodonk btw

crossposting from the club music thread, this new barker ep is totally flooring me.

https://sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/unfixed

oh yeah, second track on that is so fucking beautiful

really dig Amy Dabbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUgFW246APs

That Amu Dabbs is very nice.

OK, so I might just be posting this mainly for the lols…

Neil Landstrumm – BRIAN HARV 140

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztKW2PPtOP8

anyone have any nu-trance favorites?

reflex blue - back 2 earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzuo6EtFZzQ

bliss inc. - delusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK5NSEBxsrI

nice

babylon x - road 2 foradis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxMaJZ0m9W4

guy contact - out of my head (into my body)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvyHEtMI_-Q

Ah, my first thought about fave nu-trance is guy contact’s ep on craigie knowes from last year (I think I posted something from it upthread)

great call, i absolutely loved his EP on ONO from last year as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lePWs1LAhBw

Manabu Nagayama - Light And Shadow (Masalo Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3YVkWDuaqg

Denham Audio ft. DJ Fuckoff - Deep Breaths (Paranoid London Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vevb4_25MZs

The best Kylie tune, I bet this goes off:
https://hardtondiscoqueen.bandcamp.com/album/slow

https://leonce.xyz/album/gatherer

I didn't see any mention of this one in here, but I didn't even know this thread was here till today.

Sort of post Night Slugs / post UK Funky drums with techno riffs?

The best Kylie tune, I bet this goes off:
https://hardtondiscoqueen.bandcamp.com/album/slow

― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, November 11, 2023 4:50 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol i tried to get into this but it sounds like a mess to me, not in a good way. they're pretty hit or miss for me. i like "food of love" with dj sprinkles but even that one gets a little turgid imo.

ok going back to it, nah it's great, what was i thinking.

sometimes things that are like right smack in my wheelhouse i'm a little suspicious of up-front

on a different tip, i'm recently discovering hot shit house producer eli escobar. he has a great new album out. i think he's very good.

eli escobar - he loves me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv6xjQn0N0

Verraco - Escandaloo

YES

Caldera - Dolphin Skii. Hat tip Eris Drew for the ig story on this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kosRNeVN4Y

a few recent things I've been enjoying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF05y29GqnU

Midland - You Never Take Me Dancing - square synths and crisp percussion, feels like a better take on the lumpy kind of Daniel Avery/later-era Tiga sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1Qmx7LhQM

I.JORDAN & Planningtorock - TNB (Night Version) - the hard house revival continues, but with enough strangeness to feel more than a pastiche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4upjGRiCu6g

James Curd - I Am One, I Am Many (Adelphi Music Factory Remix) - nu-disco goes big-room house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3a3fDaG4io

Tino - Work My Body - yes we've all heard many tracks that sound like 1989 with this exact vocal but this is really well-executed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4FFwYQVIGk

Matias Aguayo - El Camaron (DJ Babatr Remix) - big percussive propulsive energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNFo1DV8YDY

Elkka - DJ Friendly - massive madness that's not pretending to be anything other than big dumb fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgJx0XbA-pc
DAPHNI - Cloudy (Kelbin Remix)
(that's Dan Snaith)

https://rhyw.bandcamp.com/album/mister-melt

This is pretty cool, electro around 140 BPM that reminds me of early "Croydon techno" style dubstep like early Benga, Artwork, and Skream.

I have endless amounts of time for electro that blends with UK bass stuff.

Also I strongly suspect he used an AI model called Musika for the title track's hooks, I did the same thing on an EP last year and it sounds really familiar. Although mine was nowhere near as good.

https://grrlmusic.bandcamp.com/album/honeybee

This title track is absolutely bonkers, like UK Bass music with a heavy Justice/French electro feeling, abrasive like some of the more out there mainstream EDM but super interesting sound design.

https://loif.bandcamp.com/album/plunge

Deep aquatic electro that surprisingly really doesn't sound like Drexciya, honestly it's got a bit of an Aussie psy trance vibe to me, or maybe something like Midi Milliz?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBgwIz_BfaI

Tsundere Twintails - Butterflies

peak time tea time

love it

In one sense an E2-E4 bootleg defeats the point, but if I had dj gigs I would play this

https://omunit.bandcamp.com/track/e2-e4-edit

brand new from one of my favourite producers of late, Lindsey Wang aka Polygonia - twitchy techno with a good ear for colourful melody often of a very chinese flavour, all her stuff is gold tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1VkI6p1q1A
Polygonia - Disha Shu

Catching Polygonia at The Cause on Saturday - hoping for a live set but flyer gives few clues

Oh I missed that post - how was she?

Well, annoyingly about 2 days before the night they cut off half the acts, which took away most people we wanted to see, including Tia Cousins and Jaye Ward… and stuck Pokygonia on at the start of the night, so we missed most of her set and the part we saw we were in the start-of-the-night zone so weren’t really focussing much. She was DJing rather than live and it seemed OK but the venue also had that annoying thing where the volume was low because they were building it up, so all in all no comment!

ah that's a pisser, too bad!

just done a quick raid on the apartment records back catalogue. the last thing they put out was the debut belacqua EP - some great wonky, wheels-just-about-to-fall-off techno, first track on it is this which is somewhere between the fall and the young gods 'did u miss me?':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHE7_rhAH00
Belacqua - Gunnish (Original Mix)

Yeah it’s a really fun track that one!

I like Apartment Records a lot. Kenny Hanlon is a very enjoyable DJ too if you ever get the chance to hear him play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hFd2eT5tow

Will Long: Too Much

Will Long... doing his thing

Some big tunes on this comp, but this one brings a smile to my face

https://clasicorecs.bandcamp.com/album/supercl-sico-vol-1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8zZlgc6up0

I like the Francis Harris version on that Will Long record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W90cWPqTraQ

Lizz - 909 R1

Leads me a bit towards this as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXo_kV6N6I8

Mike Shannon - Hover Drive

charming and jaunty

I made some bobbins!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbxtVj9PddY

Carpainter remix of another track on the EP:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLi-NKKlQ-w

Genius of Time - CS70 House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGbAC4W2Xxo

My friend Sakro just released this track called “walking into mirrors” probably one of my favorite bobbins he has done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lxHQJ3tk3Q

oh wow, i heard that on bandcamp a couple of weeks ago and i stuck it on my wishlist to remind me to listen to the whole EP when it comes out. nice one!

I wont tell where the sample comes from because I doubt it’s cleared and I don’t want to get him in trouble but I’ll say it comes from one of the coolest children’s cartoons ever.

new bobbins i'm enjoying

https://kalaharioystercult.bandcamp.com/track/grand-slammin

https://perm-vac.bandcamp.com/track/no-haters-extended-version

https://johnheaven4ever.bandcamp.com/track/te-siento-gazzi-remix

bought this i love it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdjhwl8Oz0
parris - why can't rabbits wear cowboy boots

Some quality Larry Heard style house here

https://davemoloney.bandcamp.com/album/blackout-ep

yes, the Parris is a good one.

this parris ep is excellent

https://aromapitch.bandcamp.com/track/millennium-surfer

reminds me of pretty arpeggiated bobbins of the 00s, like balearic kompakt with heftier drums

brand new from one of my favourite producers of late, Lindsey Wang aka Polygonia - twitchy techno with a good ear for colourful melody often of a very chinese flavour, all her stuff is gold tbh

I had never heard of her and randomly came across her youtube channel the other day. She has a few production tips videos that are interesting if you're into that kind of thing. I like her music.

https://alwootton.bandcamp.com/album/river-songs

love this al wootton ep, great dubby psychedelic techno

Cosign on the Al Wootton EP.

https://kareemali19.bandcamp.com/album/new-worlds-new-horizons

Kareem Ali is both prolific and astonishingly excellent

wonderful, thanks!

yeah he's made some great stuff! need to do some catching up though

also some excellent news: I seem to recall someone posting an edit of e2-e4 a while back? well alex kassian announced his own version of it today with a mad professor dub on the flip, willing to bet it will be an absolute beauty...
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6JaYykr6L3

oh bandcamp link
https://alexkassian2.bandcamp.com/album/e2-e4

alex fast becoming my go-to guy if ever i need a hit of the goosebumps

yup, best mad professor mixes of recent times!

there was also a recent OM Unit take on E2-E4 - https://omunit.bandcamp.com/track/e2-e4-edit

Is the soundtrack to Challengers by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross current bobbins? I think it may be.

e.g. Challengers: Match Point

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TNApAMcoAs

or The Signal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlaQfG9q-CE

the new Shinichi Atobe 12" on Demdike Stare's label is fabulous, especially this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPh9YgSxWbM

I am listening to a new XDB mix and a new Chez Damier track, “Do It” is giving me warm, chunky, 90s vibes.

No YouTube clips up as yet, but it is at 1h25m on the mix.

NC4K do put out some quality music, new one from Ko Yang is no exception:

https://nocollar4kicks.bandcamp.com/album/nc4k0035-wonder-bcn-ep-incl-max-in-the-world-remix

Last track is my favourite, deep but swinging uk garage with some lovely romantic plucked strings, very gorgeous imo

Bit reminiscent of SFA's 'flowers' if you like that sort of thing

Finally heard one of the mad professor e2-e4 dubs today, holy god

already screaming for a repress and its not even out for another two weeks

both Mad Professor mixes are so good. He's on a bit of a roll just now. This one is very good too -

https://www.juno.co.uk/products/chief-commander-ebenezer-obey-his-eyi-yato-remixes-vinyl/1015252-01/

new man power ft. louisahhh - big room house w/ the "i trawl the megahertz" monologue on top of it, incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW4seSoD6AU

i like it!

thomass jackson has been doing great stuff

https://thomassjackson.bandcamp.com/album/ufo-house-vol-ii

https://thomassjackson.bandcamp.com/album/the-trance-of-bird-watching-inc-chez-de-milo-remix

Mumdance going for euphoria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKp66E-gsbI

That Mumdance track is fantastic. *All* the MDMA

Sounds of the north west

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_-rvwvL9Yw

Jentzen - Yuspa

new Wallace has a sneaky trick, and also... it bangs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdNqa5qsRfk
Wallace - Tanzanite

Silat Beksi and Āman - Rise (from the altogether quite good Keep it Real EP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ariSjersEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gajykZDQark