PERLON: s & d

the new morane (particularly the b-side) is incredible. the new narcotic syntax is good and the fairly recent 'set me free' by kalabrese is super fun. but, i don't think there has been a bad perlon so just get the lot.

my pox would be -

dimbiman - koppchen
soulphiction - bust me
markus nicolai - manjando un carrito
akufen - quebec nightclub
copacabannark - s/t
pantytec - elastobabe
soulphiction - get it right
morane - the trick
minimal man - chicken store
kalabrese - set me free
morane - let me out (no, there's nobody in the cellar)

i saw sammy dee spin last night ... he was good. i would have liked more basslines, but it was still fun.

i would have liked more basslines

yup, they sure like their no bassline tracks.

oh hey, i was there too. i liked plexus' set better though.

feel sensual - thomas melchior
worldrecord holder - pile
perlipop - pile
bushes - markus nicolai
set me free - kalabrese
quebec nightclub - akufen
the unexpected guest - akufen
elastobabe - pantytec
all of the dimbiman tracks

But since everyone is basically repeating themselves now, allow me to say:

Pantytec's "Elastobabe" fucking OWNS

so jealous!

fuck fuck fuck that is the best thing ever

more info:
http://www.robotlovesongs.com/

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=15094

http://www.techhouselist.org/archive/1500/1594.html

i only had it on quietly cos my girlfriend's ill, but it just seemed to have a big kick drum under the original.

i'm still excited about discovering the villalobos klf remixes yesterday, anyway, so maybe i'm not in the right mood to appreciate this...

there's a brothomstates edit of "uptown" that came out on arcola that i really liked. i can't find a listening link but it does a great job of staying true to the original. he sort of streamlines it down to a couple of key loops (the bridge, the intro riff, prince squealing "uptown!!") and puts some restrained glitch effects on it to make it sound warm and fuzzy and hazy and echoey and spectral. really, really great.

Uptown might be one of my favorite songs EVER!

ysi: clique

sounds great in the mix too. PRINCE.

fucking fantastic remix. i own two copies!

i'm also curious as to what you guys think about the last villalobos single.

upcoming - dandy jack lp and a stefan goldman ep.

that said, the villalobos single is sort of a hybrid affair. i am being lazy and calling it a dancefloor-friendly version of his last album. lots of deep stuff and improv going on, but the groove is front and center...well at least as close to front and center as he gets!

i am curious if they are going to do anything special for release number 50.

the new melchior is really nice as well.

i would love if perlon released new work along the lines of the collaboration behind the "windowshopping" single (baby ford, zip, and melchior).

i think it's a shame they didn't get kalabrese to make more records. his two non perlon releases this year have been fab.

That Dandy Jack double pack is really swell.

Yes! do it....one of my fav perlon tracks. that swinging latin and echo'd drum sound just gets the people moving around the floor. the kinda tune that makes people put one arm up in the air and jump on one leg

(j/k)

In regards to the Dandy Jack album, if you just want to skim it, I'd say go from the end of "Arabs in the Desert" and into the beginning of "Samba Lubeck". To semi-repeat myself, in regards to the Dandy Jack album, if you want to give it a deeper listen, I'd say go from the beginning of "Arabs in the Desert" and through to the end of "Samba Lubeck".

the stefann goldmann is fucking fantastic. three killer tracks.

just bought cassy yesterday but haven't listened yet.

i didn't necessarily mean a whole night, more like get zip to play with you guys.

please tell me, where is the club when villalobos' "True To Myself" is the climatic killer dancefloor tune. where the crowd lose their shit.

cos whereever that club is (and there must be, otherwise i lose all faith), its the cloosest, sexiest, lithest best club ever.

did you play that cassy in the end, stir? I remember 'the kitchen' finally making some sense; when played REALLY loud it's killer

and I wd be down fr a perloptimo (!)

xpost, i stayed home and mixed and watched eraserhead instead. what a truly fucked up film. oddly beautiful though. the monsoon weather kind of killed any motivation i had left by the time i decided that it would be good to socialize outside of an ILM perlon thread.

Oh well. I was thinking about going, but ended up driving around in the rain until late. Now my street is flooded. I saw that Heartthrob is coming up at Kontrol though!

back to the perlon: loving the new stefan goldmann single too. all three tracks are great as philip says above.

also, like others here i have not given the dandy jack album enough time yet...

(Globetrottel is killer though)

- have you heard Luciano's Live @ Weetamix release? It's very much along the same line and progresses in a surprising manner, especially in the first half of the mix.

I'm sold.

http://www.mnml.nl/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7496&sid=ce08f445e6b919a58abbbc3e151be2ed

this is one of the Narcoboys from Perlon posting, just stumbled on this page while googling for "Superlongevity 4". Thank you all for your praise, I enjoyed reading every bit. Jedmond inquired about "4000 to the Floor". Well, this one will be mainly retrospective, probably CD-only and it is not quite sure when it's going to be out, maybe in 2007. Narcotic Syntax have other musical priorities at the moment, but I hope you'll enjoy our forthcoming 2x12"EP "Provocative Percussion" to be released on the Cologne-based WIR label (a spin-off of the Treibstoff community) in September. Keep the vibes and always remember: The Perlonoids do it only for you.

JDB

Btw. there is a new Stefan Goldmann coming up named Sleepy Hollow. Zip was spinning it from cdr, but it doesn't seem to be coming out on Perlon. Any info on this one?

and Zip played the main floor - which was pretty cool, but kind of different to the p.bar vibe.

Really really reaaaally wanted to stay till the absolute end for Dinky but had nothing left to give and needed... big rest. I should take more drugs I guess.

will someone make a perlon track with a giant dub bassline already tho??

So has anyone heard the new Melchior Productions LP (No Disco Future)?

Man I really want to, I didn't even know it was on Perlon. Personally I'm really intrigued by this claims about getting away from his microhousey style, which is usually what I find works against him (those same skittery hat lines and vocal snippet type tracks can only go so far unfortunately) Nevertheless I'm excited, I'm in a bit of a Melchior phase right now where I'm convinced he is more or less a genius. This is the result of recently giving Different Places a solid listen for the first time since last winter, and, more drastically, discovering Law of Grace about a month ago (after having heard it live in the summer, not knowing what it was then) which has pretty much reduced me to tears several times since I first downloaded it.

In other 'Lon news I encountered someone who's selling copies of Perlon 1 through 28 on vinyl. Man, if I had enough disposable money on me. . . (I did manage to get separate copies of the first Perlon release AND Frank Mueller Melodram for $4 each off him though :D )

would you part with a copy of rood?

and yeah, the aspect music cd is amazing.

I'm yet to listen to it but it's doubtful, although if you ever happen to be in Downtown Toronto you can always get it those other records off that guy. I'm actually listening to Let's Go Deep, which I also just got off him for $4 :D Melchior I love you.

In other 'Lon news I encountered someone who's selling copies of Perlon 1 through 28 on vinyl. Man, if I had enough disposable money on me. . .
Come to think of it, you'd probably have to be crazy to not jump at this, even for someone who isn't a 'real' DJ like myself. . . I could probably grab these (take away 3 12"s and a 2X12") for 90-120 probably, jeez, let me see if I have money left over from boxing day.

This brought up because I found a bargain copy of "Quebec Nightclub" by Akufen and am now listening to it, and "New Process" was just playing, and the part where it goes like "ev-rything. . you know", which is the part that I heard a loop of years ago and which arguably was responsible for really turning me onto techno and house and bam, there it came out of nowhere. Very pleasant surprise.

Oddly, I see Quebec Nightclub in the used bin frequently.

i love it when you source a sample that you know from a long time ago. it's like your past self popping in to say "good job".

pile

Got this Narcotic Syntax EP a few weeks ago and am loving it!

Pile - 1 of those Days = Ultimate Seattle Anthem

Worldrecord Holder is a great track, I don't know what else, if I have, heard anything else by them.

xxpost
electric liquid is the greatest! i love the vocals on that track.

I still think that is NS record is nothing short of A+, so I went ahead and bought the Reptile Sweat Accelerator Ep, and yes, Narcotic Syntax is has officially won my heart forever.

i liked your mix a lot EDB - esp the dozzy into klock mix

dont know narcotic syntax, will check it out

Thanks a lot.

Their productions aren't exactly numerous, but tracks like Electric Liquid and Cowabunga! are hard to forget.

Off topic, but does anyone know what happened to Ambrose?

no, but but Zip is playing in the building I used to work in tomorrow night, gonna have to go..

centrepoint?

I'd love to see Zip but don't really fancy going to that

Ambrose is still in Sheffield - he was down here a month or so ago but we missed each other. saw him at something at the russian bar earlier this year. I know he went to that amazing thing, but we couldn't persuade him to come to Free Rotation

yeah, Centrepoint, I used to work there in the mid-late nineties. I went tonight and it was positive London clubbing experience - for once! Nice people, good music/soundsystem, adequate facilities etc. Zip played a fantastic set, had a quick chat, such a cool guy.

anyone else see zip at fabric on sat?

no but i saw zip at the limelight in 2005 and was dancing onstage w john selway and geeta

and pantytec

he's a very fun dj!

So, Superlongevity 5 is out. Not sure I can afford the box set though!

'superlongevity' has a kinda appropriate/ironic/unfortunate feel to it these days (depending on viewpoint)

i had 3 & 4 iirc so will investigate

yeah, somebody feels the same here; http://www.discogs.com/Various-Superlongevity-5/release/2519446

There's maybe a handful of tracks in this compilation that have any business on a dancefloor. The rest is just tired old shit: a couple light little drum kicks, a few weird noises, maybe a some vocal belch or squeek or what the fuck ever! People...remember Detroit? And Chicago? Where's the soul? Where's the swing? Minimal burned itself out a while ago already. The Perlon packaging looks nice but its just a shell on a mostly empty product.

eh this sounds just my kinda thing

I have vol. 4 and only like two tracks: the one that's mostly hi-hats and the one that's all freestyle.

…after listening to it again those were Melchior Productions LTD's "In the Shadow" and Narcotic Syntax's "Raptors' Delight"

So, Superlongevity 5 is out. Not sure I can afford the box set though!

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This.

I think I'm going to wait until boxing day (aka Dec 26. aka Canadian/British Black Friday) and hope to find it in stores and get up to a third off. But this is unlikely. Otherwise I can get one place to order it for me straight, but it would be $140, which is just DO NOT WANT (well, it's actually DO WANT BUT DO NOT WANT TO PAY). Oh well.

I really want to hear the Narcotic Syntax track... is anyone selling mp3s??

"Where's the swing?"

kind of an inaccurate criticism to make of Perlon, surely

Oh man, I didn't realize Narcotic Syntax had a track on it (now there's a hugely underrated and immensely talented duo).

Does anyone know how many of these they're pressing. I really want it, but not at a rate of $20 per record...

Also included, a very special collectors item, only available with this release.

Also, anyone have any idea what this is?

anyone else see zip baby ford & dygas on fri night?

perlon 85 side b

Can you, y'know, say the name of it rather than make people go on discogs.

I was very, VERY happy to find Markus Nikolai's Back used on vinyl today! It still sounds absolutely fantastic. Having far more disposable income than I did when this stuff was getting released (i.e. when I was a broker-than-broke-ass college student) is a wonderful thing. Things change so quickly in the world of dance music; it feels like just the other day when I special-ordered Superlongevity on CD from my local store in Richmond, VA. (That was my one CD purchase of the, like, two or four week period, and I didn't or couldn't download back then either.) And now, pretty much exactly a decade later, I'm catching up on single-artist releases from back that have been just randomly popping up in Brooklyn record stores. Given the speed with which things come into and go out of fashion in this realm, it does make me wonder who's still listening to this early-2000s micro-/minimal stuff in 2011? Are there younger kids out there right now in listening to, I dunno, Vocalcity for the first time and having their faces blown off? Why am I more self-aware / pondering of the possibility of being horribly out of fashion when buying stuff like this than, say, early '80s metal or postpunk?

maybe because it seems like there's no great reason for anyone out there somewhere to be digging on 00s micro-mnml (besides, like, the music: but they have to know about it somehow)? it seems to me like it didn't pass into legend or anything, or hasn't yet. and its original audience kind of abandoned it / its producers fell off / the 'sound' lost its potency or fashionableness or relevance.

Sounds like a good take, j. I've been reading Reynolds's Retromania this week, and it feels like micro-mnml stuff is in that pit right now of never having been revived (and thus attracting younger, newer audiences)--maybe because not "enough" time has elapsed for a revival?--but the original releases being somewhat hard to find (aren't those old Force Inc. records long out of print for the most part?).

Aside from the really clinical, bass-light, clicky stuff has mnml really gone away? Zip is still regarded as one of the best DJs around, Cassy is the new resident at Circoloco, DC10 this year and of course Ricardo is still massive. All of them have widened their palette to include deep / classic / tech-house sounds but they still sound pretty minimal to me. Maybe I'm carrying the baggage of 15 years+ clubbing to define the genres properly or it's the clubs I go to?

i'm quite looking forward to hearing the new portable album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4hXj3db-I

depeche vocals + acid + dazzle ships synths

should be sick

portable live in dalston a couple of months backwas the best techno gig ive been to in a hell of a long time, I have vague memories of that tune.

Oh and given that we have just about got to the mid nineties of watery NY house and loop techno in the cutting edge dance music revival id say the micro boom will be about 2015

was that the sud electronic night in april?

yeah think he played that

nah it was slowpoke at the nest on easter sunday I think, I imaginre it was the same set

i'd almost given up on perlon but the new mara trax (b-side especially) is refreshingly great.

heard the a-side played a few times last year...bside of the new fumiya tanaka is good too (337)

"sini est" by ric y martin (villalobos and dandy jack) is INCREDIBLE.

The Portable album is A+, exactly what I wanted from him.

super late to these but the two Chris Korda releases are really excellent, especially Apologize to the Future. cool and unexpected to encounter antinatalist thought in a relatively "mainstream" space. also musically feels like somewhat of a return to Perlon's more quirky, irreverent roots

PERL 39 side B is p nuts, starts off sounding like sub-menu BGM from like a nondescript golf simulator on Sega Megadrive or something replete w/ requisite Japanese monologue then suddenly mutates into a tom-tom led schaffel groove lol

worth noting that currently hard to find for a reasonable price PERL 34 has been re-pressed and is due out next month—it's a fun one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5RLlzPfhM