Minimal house bobbins 2006

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You're right -- in Montreal, they were arranged in a semicircle on a stage, not in a line on a scaffold.

It probably seems foolish to start a 2006 thread with something from 2003, but I have finally go to hear the Narod Niki thing from Mutek and I love it! Any info, opinions, etc.?

narod niki = ?

luciano + villalobos live in october 05 is still my key set at the moment (can't remember the date/venue, will check my ipod later).

I hadn't heard of this before! Now I really want to go to Mutek :/

http://www.markglinsky.com/elp3.jpg

http://www.somarecords.com/news/#230

So far this year, the "big" minimal tune seems to be Paul Woolford's 'Erotic Discourse, I think I've heard everyone I've seen since November last year play it (I know, I know, technically 2005 bobbins but it was only a 500 copy one-sided release then)

I like it, but seeing as it is simply a basic rhythm track with a one-note riff being fucked about with by delay effects there only seems to be about 20 seconds which is really incredible and the rest seems to follow the law of diminishing returns.

What does eeryone else think?

Yep! see:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.asp?ID=7499

And I'm with Ambrose, in fact Brutalga Square works best on its own IMO.

scsi-9 said it's "minimal POP" though, not house.

beautiful music

This is my favourite minimal bobbin so far this year, tho I guess it's not minimal in the Hawtin way, what a nice groove it is though.

http://c.decks.de/sound/sound_v/va_freshep_acx-hb+3.mp3

x-post.

Another current minimal favourite is Dub Kult's "Twelve" (Traum), with ghostly vocal snippets and a nagging synth bassline. Proper spooky, love it.

Tracklist!?

there's only 3 tracks of 4, and they might be unmastered yet, cuz i have them from quite a time ago...

and the files are in .OGG (i couldn't find the original waves on my hard disks).

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2S0QLMME5QVM33DIAZFLWBSQJZ

and also, you might want to listen to this:

http://www.fragmentmusic.net/release_com.php?rel_id=8

this is an mp3 release of the same artist, mujuice.
wonderful music.

Is a pretty 'standard' minimal track up until the 4 minute mark, when a vocal 'hicupping' sample starts coming in, takes over the focus of the song, and then just keeps going higher in pitch for a couple of minutes until it can go no further, drops down again and then does some arpeggios for a couple of minutes, before then repeating the same arpeggio for the remaing 3 minutes of the song.

It sounds better than it looks! It has a really incredible hypnotic quality, kind of like '0 Superman' for dancing to.

Brutalga square is a brilliant tune. I was listening to Kosi comes around for the first time in quite a while today. Great album. Still haven't managed to pick up "Ach so", that will probably be my major bit of minimal appreciation for February.

any info on the releases date yet? the record is listed as a forthcoming release on the kompakt distro pdf, no specific date mentioned though..

i'm so jealous of you nique having the full tracks!!!
cheers again..

this is an amazing record you all need. definitely my favourite border community soundalike.

anyways here we go for one of those impossible track ID's:

oldschoolish Chicago/Millsian hammering piano with a slow rolling beat and added Beach Boysish sleigh bells. No really. I need this. :)

1. D.Uni:son - Orange
2. Cabanne - Boulinge
3. John Thomas - Basilic
4. Tadeo - Bateria Lup!
5. Samim & Michal - Exercise EP
6. Framework
7. Lineas De Nazca - Eje Central
8. Serafin - Starship Discotheque
9. P. Specke & D. Maxim - Rio Besenreiser
10. Matt John - The Rising Scope
11. Butane - Next
12. Solieb - Love Song
13. Donnacha Costello - Ok, That's Great, Start Over
14. Phage & Daniel Dreier - Chick's 'n Chips
15. Adam Beyer - Walking Contradiction (Part 1)
16. 2000 And One - Sunday
17. Alejandro Vivcanco - Las Velas No Arden
18. Ricardo Villalobos - Ichso
19. Thomas Melchior/Luciano - Father
20. Huggotron by J.Dahlback - glasshouse
21. Kuniyuki - Earth Beats (Percussion Dub)

I really love this new EP.

(a month old but still!!!)

after that is cadenza 5.5, a remix by clara ghavami (who?) of one of the NSI (non standard institut, aka pink elln & max loderbauer) tracks from cadenza 5, also pretty great on first listen.

?

Melchior + Luciano sounds like chocolate meets peanut butter.

Can you send on a mail or text cos I am not sure I have the correct address/number.

Is this the Luciano edit OF "Clara Ghavami"?

The three tracks on the NSI 12" were some of my favorite things about last year.

i think i heard it and it was amazing.

Actually, this is one of those records that makes me want to revive the old Northern Soul-style flyers where the best or rarest/most underground records he.she owns are listed underneath. I think it might be one of top 5 12"s for the year... everyone does their lists too early.

also on the klang tip (though i think it's actually ongaku) is that red one-sided 12" i blogged about. i don't remember the artists behind it because my housemate took my copy to donosti and didn't come home in time for me to get it back before i left for vacation. (javier, punch omar for me! and when you see mario, punch him too, for corrupting omar.) not really minimal house bobbins - i mean, in some ways its standard fare retro acid bobbins, but so well done, really captures the "jam" feel of good acid. house, i mean. i've never taken acid but i don't imagine jam would feel very good at all under its influence... too sticky.

More of that progressive/minimal crossover stuff. VERY Holden/Nathan Fake with a hint of Ulrich Schnauss/M83. Good stuff.

Grrr...not yet. Sounds great of course.

what about Senor Villalobos 'Que Belle Epoque 2006'? Relatively straightforward compared to 'Ichso' etc but the bits where the "bonus level melody" (aka the bit he sampled) comes in (around the 6:10 mark and at the end) are great...

'berlin...it's not a place...it's a state of mind'

rhythm & sound: smy remixes #1

a. let we go (villalobos remix)
b1. truly (vladislav delay remix)
b2. boss man (tiki’s pure blue remix)

vinyl 12", released feb 2006.

[b]!!![/b]

ha! that's my favourite part of it.

this kind of describes a lot of this stuff. though i like the way it does this. as someone who has always been on the lost/axis/mills/saunderson side of dance music, i like plip-plop for opposite reasons, but, maybe, kind of the same reasons. but the way it can often sort of swirl into nowhere, meander, lose direction, but then at the same time, its still bumbling along, and, oh, maybe it hadnt meandered after all, i cant remember, where are we again?

I've been saying it like "vogue" and half-consciously assuming some sort of Kylie Minogue reference.

Anyway, great track, it's totally weepie prog house though isn't it. It's Northern Exposure all over again! Holden, what hast thou wrought?

Is it time for us to give up on micro-goth and go for the weepie prog house as the vogue imaginary genre of choice 'round these parts?

minilogue sounds pretty different from holden, though--there's something very cologne about it.

ps. how's the producer as composer book? virgil used to be a professor of mine and gave a lecture summating that book. it ended with superpitcher as the end-all be-all. i was not exactly satisfied with that.

honestly i don't think the 'producer as composer' book is very good. pages and pages and pages on eno, and only two pages on the whole of hip-hop?! and so little on dub. and a desperate stab at 'electronica' in the last chapter, including a list of the chemical brothers' gear? it seemed very dated.

i think 'squarepitcher' and 'superpusher' are both better names than squarepusher!

ha! exactly. when the beat came in i said "cologne!" it reminds me of what michael mayer said when i interviewed him, that "in cologne the bass drum always goes like this! not like this!"

i am just reiterating the previous couple of posts in this thread.

the new superpitcher Speicher 35 ain't too shabby. arpeggiations! The b-side is supposedly trance but I haven't heard it yet.

Gabriel Ananda - Ihre Personliche Glucksomelodie
2Raumwohnung - Meloncholish Schoen (Tobi Neumann Remix)
Le Dust Sucker - Mean Boy (Dominik Eulberg Remix)
Dub Kult - On & On (Guido Schneider's On & On Remix)
Andre Kraml - Safari (James Holden Remix)

gabriel ananda & dominik eulberg - harzer roller

Senor Coconut - Electrolatino (R. Villalobos' 'lecktro Carino Mix)

:-0

Ridiculous (ly good)

and .... on top of my list:

Ndru - A Pony Named Clipklop - Liebe Detail

bodzin and huntemann - black ice
pan pot & daniel stefanik - the bells
patrick chardronnet - eve by day
georgio gigli - i can't breathe
am/pm - no matter whether

Are very good.

a.1 pantytec - maybe not
a.2 melchior productions ltd. - in the shadow
b.1 baby ford & zip - morning sir
b.2 luciano - blake purple frase
c.1 dandy jack and the third leg - ixchel
c.2 kalabrese - skamel
d.1 dimbiman - first laki
d.2 stefan goldmann - darkstar
e.1 cabanne - smiling papers
e.2 soul capsule - international party people
f.1 ricardo villalobos - balacharde
f.2 narcotic syntax - raptors' delight
g.1 markus nikolai - wheelsucker
g.2 matt john - landing h.1 soulphiction - her (jms dub)
h.2 horror inc. - the absent

someone else's 'funny wawa' really rules.

egg's 'fearless funny female' (mossa's hairless bony shemale remix) is also ruling today.

apparently superlongevity 4 drops mid-march. s'funny since time has been giving sl3 a bit of a critical reappraisal.

the plip-plop is so much FUN at the moment!

apparently superlongevity 4 drops mid-may. s'funny since tim f has been giving sl3 a bit of a critical reappraisal.

the plip-plop is so much FUN at the moment!

that funy wawa - any links to a longer clip than the one tim posted? i couldnt really seee what was amazing about it from that but then it was just the beginning, and by the end of the clip it just sounded like it was getting going.. this is the problem with 30s clips on t'internet - they are almost always from the beginning of a tune and more often than not it gives you little idea of what the tune is like as a whole

i know it's ILM heresy an it isn't just my mood: am i the only person who just cannot get into Perlon? they strike me as the Frank Zappa of minimal techno. i have always thought that humour does not belong in music and perlon stuff is all rub-you-up-the-wrong-way gimmicks and little pleasure. cred -25 points I know but it has to be said!

Great of course, but old minimal bobbins (2002 or so?)

John Tejada - The End Of It All meanwhile is sooooo good (or should that be in electro house bobbins? Ah well it's all house :)

why??

Markus Nikolai has a funny/goofy side but it's so marvellously secreted into his music. Back remains one of the most underrated albums of the entire German house/techno uprising era.

I can see how some Pantytec might be annoying in the wrong mood or setting, perhaps.

Re Someone Else's "Funny Wawa", yeah I think you have to hear the whole track, I'd say it falls somewhere between Dominik Eulberg and Areal (say, Metope), building from a fairly simple beginning to a crushing endless mechanical groove that you want to keep tearing chunks out of your brain forever.

Omar I wasn't sure when that Senor Cocunut remix came out, it's so dancy I had a feeling it might be old... but it's so beautiful too!

as of more/less new stuff i heard:

scsi-9 - puzzle ep ist cool
and
bruno pronsato - wade in the water / the river
and
smbp - falling stars ep, b1 track very nice!

also, i listened to sleeparchive - radio transmission like ten times and finally liked it too, the longer tracks
the short ones remain too annoying for me...

In other words, it would fit right into the first half of Eulberg's Fleucht mix.

Marek Hemann's "Mini 24" on Raum is very good. Also enjoying the remixes of Dash Dude "Television Saga" on Morris Audio. Argy's in particular is pretty cool.

now i'm trying to come up with good minimal collabos ('alpine rocket' excluded)

is minimal music auteur music?

'orange mistake'

"harzer roller"

ach, i think i'm just throwing out vague theories for the sake of it.

i think 'orange mistake' sounds very much like an example of luciano's sound/vision! but i don't know, i haven't listened to it in a while.

what about the ricardo villalobos vs. jay haze collaborations - there was some good stuff there. BTW you can download the entire 'prefer summer' six-track record for free here.

also i would think that the wighnomy brothers count as a collaboration!

ah and pantytec! minimal-maximal.

i reckon

luciano/melchior is another.

the plip-plop collaboration to end all plip-plop collaborations (villalobos and luciano as sense club) is not so amazing, though.

BTW ambrose i just listened to 'harzer roller' again and i like it much more than i did before!

I guess what I mean is that so often one of the duo is in what's known as the "DJ T" role!ideas but not actually producing, no disrespect to DJ T.

i listened to the most recent one but didn't buy it and went for the bang goes ep on bruechstucke instead.

all this 'harzer roller' talk is inevitably leading to me listening to it again. ambrose better be right or i'll be wanting those ten minutes of my life back!

ha ha ronan whenever i think of DJ T now, i remember what you were telling me about how you tried addressing him as "DJ T" and he said "no, please, call me T"

i should take a listen to that bang goes ep.

i think with 'harzer roller' you have to turn it down before it gets all sugary near the end, so it's really only five minutes of your life down the tubes. or am i speaking sacrilege here? ambrose you think that's the best part, surely?

the b2 is the one on that bang goes.

dont shoot me but....

what i have been calling HARZER ROLLER! is in fact the b side, "Schierker Kreisel". well obviously the A side isnt the B side, but I mean the tune I am obsessed with is the B side

but that b side is (repeat all breathless hyperbole here)

the a side is nice too! but not a big club tune i guess, but lovely and woozey. i think they messed up the order of the tunes.

listenign again to the B side, *that* bassline!!!! :O
*steel drums!!!!* :O :O

*twinkly nonsense!* :O :O :O :O

*here comes the big fat skanking bassline crushing the twinkles! :O :O :O :D!

im turning of the computer now and trying to sober up a bit

We almost made Harzer Roller a huge hit.

i was tryign to see what the fuss about Carl Craig is. incredibly ive only heard the theo parrish remix and er.... that "programmed" as innerzone orchestra or at least those are the only two tunes i could identify of his.

i sort of used to like "programmed" but that was when i was totally on a Gilles tip so the piano thing slayed me

for instance I love the "Falling Up" one but can't ever imagine playing it in the context of what I play.

I dunno, it just screams Detroit Techno to me or, US producer even. It's not that that makes me not like it, I just don't like the idea of mixing the two, maybe that makes me conservative but I think unless you're going to be radical and really mix genres then mixing house and techno aesthetics like Craigs and whatever Euro producer leaves you at risk of just being the sort of DJ who plays anything good that's house or techno and covers too many bases within the same genre.

Or to maybe be a bit more succinct, I guess I think it's better to be ruthlessly single minded when DJing, in theory anyway!

but it depends what you're in the mood for, you know? i mean you're not always in the mood for an intensely concentrated and all-encompassing listening experience where you feel like you're merging with sine waves or whatever. sometimes you want something that's forward-thinking but also frisky (like perlon) or anthemic and fun (like a lot of electro-house) or loose and groovy like lindstrom. otherwise i would probably be listening to nothing in dance music today except those recent carl craig remixes.

i suppose it depends on what YOU want the dominating thing to be.

i've heard all sorts of djs play 'falling up' in all sorts of sets and it always seems to work. i have always thought if you thought a record was amazing and you are a dj, you will find a way to play it without really worrying if it fits in with the sound de jour. as a wise man once told me - 'a good record is a good record'.

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I really don't think it really makes sense to think about Carl Craig as mixing house and techno. His aesthetic is too strongly rooted in the time before people thought of house and techno as separate entities.

ronan OTM in that the stuff just does *sound* different from a lot of the euro house/techno stuff he plays. i mean if you are playing an entire set of mainly current electro-house and you throw in a detroit track i can see how it could sound wildly different from everything else. not that different is a bad thing, but i see what he means.

not if it's pitched up. anyway, a bit of plod over the course of a night is a good thing imo.

i keep on reading this and thinking "gosh i wish i could live this lifestyle and go out and hear minimal stuff often enough to analyse dj sets" but then i realsied im seeing jeff samuel, matt john, and all of m_nus this weekend! yay!

I guess Ame are on a very strong CC tip aswell and I do like them alot and buy pretty much all their stuff (though again don't necessarily play it apart from on the radio).

ps might see you this weekend if you're in town....can send a mail..

I was suprised when I went to hardwax in berlin the techno section was 50/50 split between Euro and American labels.

-- Ronan

OTMFM x 10

I was suprised when I went to hardwax in berlin the techno section was 50/50 split between Euro and American labels.

-- Good Dog (methylated-spiri...), April 13th, 2006.

It's funny you say this Good Dog. Cause I'm in (an admittedly not-dance-centric area of) America (North Carolina) and about the only dance/techno/house stuff I see anymore is from Europe. And maybe it's too much ILM reading, but I don't even know of too much coming from America that I'd like to buy. I mean yes there's CC, Theo P, I love Bar-A-Thym, and I really liked most all of the Detroit Beatdown release (on a Japanese label, though) but I wouldn't even know of any "new" American releases or artists to be following. In fact, I'd take suggestions, at the risk of being an "awful soul boys who buy(s) no European records":), but that's just not true.

I know that here (Seattle) the locals who have any cachet-Pronsato, a former local, and Jerry Abstract-are on Euro labels or have Euro distribution.

/ignorant

well I say it's ABSOLUTE PANTS

yeah i'm not so big into audion either. actually mr. dear's music in general i just find to be too dry and boring.

personally i feel that mr dear's mix album fails to evade the tricky song-versus-track binary. as an artist i try to play around with both notions, so that the "song" remains as a corporeal latticework, holding everything together with personable charisma, while the "track" elements (riffs, beats, noisy eruptions) are marshalled into elaborately staged configurations, sometimes mimicking verse-chorus structures, and sometimes lavishly unveiled in epic movements

also ronan i disagree with you on tejada! i think he's more innovative than a lot of other producers out there. i can see what you mean about him sounding similar to a lot of other people sometimes, but his best tracks sound like no one else. he has a very distinctive sound that i think navigates the tech-house/electro-house divide really well.

BUY MY SKELETON BLEACH MIX CD! SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tim, 'Rej' always reminds me of Black Dog somehow.

-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald6NOSPA...), April 13th, 200

number 48 loves it, i am less sure about number 6, but he doesn't know why he's here

is shane berry's fillertet on here, i haven't really heard that out, or any mixes, but that's really great, plipplop template music, plipplop is best when theres a bit of fuzz

tim yeah i like "dog days"! but that's the only tune by him i like out of everything i've heard!

Actually a good deal of other producers do this (Matthew Dear, Jake Fairley... maybe it's a North American thing) but Tejada might be the only one who doesn't cloak his activities wth pseudonyms.

"Chorgs" is like his best tune.

As for the Audion Fabric, like Luciano's Sci-Fi-Hi-Fi it failed to keep me awake on my flight to NY. It seemed ok but a bit grim and dark, I don't think "Rej" triumphantly storms in either, more like "thank god". I've never been inclined to listen to it since the first two times anyway.

ha ha hahahahaha! i would never listen to a luciano mix to stay awake. there was yr mistake right there ronan!

and yeah good dog tejada's "asanebo" is beautiful isn't it? a sort of psychedelic plip-plop feel.

tim wrote something really good a long time ago about "sweat (on the walls)" that relates to ronan's argument: "Sometimes I suspect that John Tejada is forging his back catalogue on the basis that if all other German micro/electro-ish house disappeared tomorrow he’d still be able to offer a representative sampling of all its various nooks and crannies. Usually people who do this end up being a bit second-tier in all fields (jack of all trades etc.) but if there's a word that sums up "Sweat" it's... consummate. Perhaps that's why I'm starting with it: if you wanted a single track to explain to you where Germany's head is at right now, this would probably be it."

Thomas also played this amazing remix of The Modernist's "Protest Song" (which itself is like a better version of "This World") which I've never heard since. Not the Mayer version which I know and love. Maybe it was M.I.A.'s?

for lazy people! i.e. me :)

Andy OTM... I like really dry techno that's more revealing on a proper listen often though. Like that Louderbach album, although that's kind of dry and fluid(?) if that makes any sense! Whereas Audion is just straight up chafing, good if you're in the mood, but quite offputting if you're not. It's quite IDM in that way actually, and an unfortunate disconnect from the singles which rock out hard! "2Rabimmel 2Rabumm.." I would half put in this ill-defined category as well. And sh*tloads of Tresor type stuff too.

the recent melchior/luciano tracks own this thread. (cadenza 11??)

xpost, i agree w vahid - plip-plop *is* great!

ha ha, the name of the genre! was there an opening ceremony? there aren't many genre names or attempts at that i haven't complained about (so i can't say 'plip-plop' is a new low), don't worry dude. i will try and come back with some more positive feedback soon tho.

try that, if it works let us know. even if you don't get it working just now it'd be worth having since you're on broadband now.

*im totally bewildered by this solid groove thing. this is based on a comprehensive review of their back catalogue 2 of their remixes

what's to understand? minimal bleeps + boompty bass + broken beats + prefuse steez.

The Robag Wruhme remix of some Matthias Tanzmann track (Bulldozer?) that came out in February or something on Moon harbour is very good, heard it for the first time tonight.

the tracklist to the sascha funke mix looks like it could be excellent. i am surpised to see that "where we at" is on it because i found that single to be really disappointing.

also, audio werner is my favourite dude right now. interesting long conceptual trax, brimming with ideas, he's like a more accessible villalobos.

yes, let's! I listened to it twice last night and loved it, except when the freaky voices came on near the end.

Before that there's a detroit grand poobahs (or somebody) deep-voiced thing that's lascivious and off-putting. Still not as bad as 'Sweaty Balls' though;)

I was going to skip the Sascha Funke mix... I'm sensing this might not happen :/

Ah great, this means the mix can not suck. :) That Sleeperarchive is hot too. Another month before it's released isn't it? :(

1 efdemin - jean
2 tomson & daniel de la curtis - synthic
3 trentemoeller - serenitti (hemmann & kaden remix)
4 international pony - our house
5 zander vt - cut the lines
6 villalobos - what you say is more than i can say (isolee speak and spell remix)
7 schatrax - misspent years
8 transformer 2 - pacific symphony/italian smooth remix
9 sascha funke - in between days
10 carsten jost - uccellini
11 louderbach - grace (anxiety)
12 henrik schwarz, dixon & ame (feat derrick carter) - where we at
13 sleeparchive - acd-voice
14 voigt & voigt - vision 03
15 phantom ghost - these days

Trentemoller has a little dose of Tiefschwarz syndrome when it comes to original work vs remixes, I think, though "Kink" on 3rd Floor is amazing.

I don't know what it is but it's so soft & fluffy & pink.

I dunno how much of it (orchestra of bubbles) is house really!

2005 :(

we need more Dinky & Sylvie Marks minimal bobbins house this year :0

"Sunstroke" is a misnomer here: people talk about the track quite a bit but it's not really a big tune - DJs don't tend to play it much in my experience.

(the Afrilounge remix of "Body Language" was way underrated, BTW)

I like the Afrilounge remix of Body Language yeah, I guess on that 12 there was only one winner.

Nhar is kinda similar to Afrilounge, just a little proggier, but they both have that really stretched out delayed type style.

The A-side on the Afrilounge 12" sounded a bit like Jona to me: simultaneously harsh and cinematic and cold and groovy.

I go on about a few K2 tracks lately so I'm not sure! Gui Boratto is the one I said was the track of the year, maybe, it's a bit like something off the Ivan Smagghe Fabric with a touch of that Mr Oizo bassline and yes, a totally drawn out build up type track.

"I am down for this Jona love but didn't strike me as minimal?! "

Steve I think current Get Physical stuff esp. totally dissolves the boundaries between electro-house and minimal (and detroit techno and prog and...).

audio werner: on fucking FIRE, comment upthread about him being a more accessible villalobos quite OTM. just picked up a nice schaffhauser 12" on WARE w/ a killer audio werner remix. and the latest thing i have from him on hartchef (who the hell are they?) which i think without checking the label is this release, is solid gold.

re: the stylus reference upthread, can someone please explain that second graf to me? it's nice to be "flirted" with but i'm still confused as to what luciano or I have to do with the DFA remixes...

How's Dominik Eulberg live? I've been too lazy or uncoordinated to actually schedule one of my Chicago trips on a day that anyone good is playing there but this summer is sounding like it could be the time to rectify that.

We like Achso; we prefer Luciano’s Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi. 2 to Audion’s stunning Fabric 27 ‘cause it’s colder, less Detroit cum Chicago cum every mid-western town with wi-fi, bubbling with a frosty tropical heat that seems to freeze at the moment it burns.

Well, I think that Audion mix is less than "stunning," but that's a matter of personal preference. Luciano's mix is one of the least "cold" thing I've heard all year. I don't understand the references to Detroit and Chicago at all--they make no sense; it just seems like meaningless name-dropping. "Every mid-western town with wi-fi" makes no sense also.

Dance-punk was a crack in the door, an easy entry into a world of dancing or wall-flowering, which ever way you swallow your ketamine. But that was so. . .I can’t remember.

I get the idea that this is one of those reviewers who has never listened to dance music before the DFA. Ok, whatever, but anyone who has done k knows that you don't swallow it; people generally blow lines or bumps of it. Taking it orally would be quite a waste.

Yet DFA was there at the start. Say what you will now, but Herrs Murphy and Goldsworthy were my-housing to Daft Punk and The Slits when we were arguing out Nevermind v. In Utero."

DFA wasn't there at the start. James Murphy was in a rock band called Pony in the early 90s I believe, so he was probably arguing about Nevermind vs. In Utero as well. "Herr" is incongruous here, and "my-housing" is poor construction as well as a poorly thought out "clever" reference.

They continue to put out the white boy crunk as consistently as any remixers or production duos in the industry. There’s a reason there are enough foaming reactionaries to start an army; they’ve been contorting sugary pseudo-pop (Gwen, anyone?)...

There is nothing "white boy crunk" (wtf does that mean?!) about their productions. And how is Gwen Stefani 'pseudo-pop'? She is full-on pop, surely? I get the feeling that the writer has a disdain for pop music in general.

...into mainstays of hip, the oblique into Warhol mimicry, before we’d lost our sense of irony (you know, ‘cause it’s ALWAYS FUCKING THERE).

'Warhol mimicry' makes no sense and is out of place here, and the bit about irony makes me want to claw my eyes out

what does this have to do with plip plop anyway?

I like it .... blippy and catchy with a lot of space btwn things, almost like a Wighnomy track

apologies if this is months-old bobbins, I am well behind the clued-in Europeans on these threads

I shouldn’t be talking about this. Not here in the open.

vs.

Can we talk? I have to get something off my chest, and we’ve become so friendly over the years.

also just got the new roger23 and new losoul on playhouse.... goody goody goody.

don't know about superlongevity... i'm pissed that the CD promo just contains four-minute edits! not like i wasn't gonna buy the vinyl anyway.... *huff*

how on earth do you keep up?
two years ago i looked at that "electrohouse 2004" thread and tried to get all the things mentioned off slsk so i could listen. i didnt even manage all that, so i have 2 years to catch up on.

ultimately, i just feel like its all rushing by. with only my harzer roller Schierker Kreisel to comfort me

I don't know if this belongs in this thread, but what do you think of these explicitly communal labels - Wir im Rhythmus and We Are records - it seems like a funny trend.

and...how are the We Are records? i can't bring myself to import them...

i don't think anyone can. i buy / get sent around 40 12" singles a week and barely manage to get through / get to know those before the pile mounts up yet again.

i might also be giddy because i am meeting ryuichi sakamoto in the west village in three hours! (!!!!!!) and it's the most amazing new york day, weather-wise.

i'd describe myself as a super jealous, couped up new yorker at the moment.

the we are stuff is odd...i have three of the four 10"s, and i like them, but every time i try to play one out it seems to go all awry, vibe-wise, in the set. but then my housemate plays them and they kill me, so again, i probably just suck. i still don't know who we are is; i hear it's a buncha famous people but that could just be another sleeparchive-type rumor.

I've been wondering about this ever since Philip called it "A sticky Chicago fixation that can't help from going knock-kneed, a dab of Captain Comatose's unhinged soul, some gaslit gumshoe scuffery, a nose for the long groove and an eye on the mirror-bending horizon." I'm not really sure what gaslit gumshoe scuffery is, but I like sticky things from Chicago, small doses of Captain Comatose, and long grooves on the beach. Well, there is finally some info up on http://www.mentalgroove.ch/ as well as a pair of samples. I like them both, especially 1er Mai.

I'm sold!

how on earth do you keep up?
two years ago i looked at that "electrohouse 2004" thread and tried to get all the things mentioned off slsk so i could listen. i didnt even manage all that, so i have 2 years to catch up on.

I guess it's comforting I'm not alone here. Yet I have to check this daily too, otherwise I already feel thrown out of the loop.

x post

I'm sold!

-- jimnaseum

haha I wrote this !

Isn't there a 2006 Mutek thread floating about that I can't seem to track down? Much obliged for pointing me in the right direction.

xpost/end

i wonder if the music on them is as attractive as the colour 10"-es.............

and also, has anyone heard the recent sender release by "chizh & cast"? we had an argument about it with my friends, with opinions ranging from "awfully good" to "hoplessly shitty".... i'm the one to think "awfully good" rather than "hoplessly shitty", but i'd love to hear more opinions, thank you a lot.

http://www.ministryofsound.com/music/albums/MinistryofSound-Sessions-MixedbyJoshWink

Disc 1
Run Stop Restore “Corporal”
Donacha Costello “Colorseries Blue B”
Anja Schneider & Sebo K “Rancho Relaxo
Sten “Back Four”
Hardfloor “T2DAC” (Claro Intelcto Remix)
Quinn and Benny Rodriguez “7up”
Steve Bug “Summer Nights”
D5 “Flotation Tank”
Los Hermanos “Lines Of Nazca”
Radiohead “Everything In Its Right Place” Wink remix
DJ Skull “Don’t Stop The Beat”
Wink “Higher State Of Consciousness” Eyes In The Circle Of Life Remix- Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson “Love Letter To The Enemy”

Disc 2
DJ Yellow “Elusiv”
East Side Scientific “Nowhere”
Loco Dice “Jacuzzi Games”
John Tejada “Sucre”
Levon Vincent “Love Technique”
Hardfloor “Soulful Spirit Of House” Wink’s Spirit Of House Mix
Guido Schneider “As Dry As I can”
Written and Produced by Guido Schneider.
Octave One “Blackwater” Alter Ego Vocal Mix
The Orb “Masterblaster”
Jasper “Uncertain”
DJ ESP “Column Weave”
Subspace “ElektroFluxx”
Steevio “Dusk (live)”
Jeff Mills “Expanded”
Wink “Swirl”
Richie Inkle “Perspective”
Mateo Murphy “Shadows”

(I'm listening to Bugnology 2 right now. Nice, much better than part 1, which almost bored me to death.)

"the we are stuff is odd...i have three of the four 10"s, and i like them, but every time i try to play one out it seems to go all awry, vibe-wise, in the set. but then my housemate plays them and they kill me, so again, i probably just suck. i still don't know who we are is; i hear it's a buncha famous people but that could just be another sleeparchive-type rumor.

-- philip sherburne (psherburn...), April 20th, 2006."

As in the simple sketch book the sound which was constructed with the natural posture saying whatever, charm. At each time the sound which soaks in dramatic development and the body which lie hidden in the minimal ???? hears it increases freshness.

the record i am most excited about right now is the Ellen Allien and Apparat remix EP that just came out on bpitch. both the pier bucci and marc houle remixes are great in their own ways.

Here are some tunes I like which I think I heard about here first, what genre do they fall into?:

Nathan Fake - Dynamo (Dominik Eulberg remix)
James Holden & Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink
Rex the Dog - Prototype
Lopazz - Blood (Tiefschwarz remix)

And here are some tunes I like which I didn't hear about here, but probably fit in, what genres are they? [note to moderators - short samples included here, but not downloadable ysi, only undownloadable putfiles]:
http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-Dub-Kult---On-and-On-Guido-Schneider-remix
http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-Funk-Excursion
http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-gui-boratto-arquipelago
http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-john-tejada-paranoia
http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-luciano--quenum---orange-mistake
http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-melchior--luciano---solomons-prayer
http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-Solieb---Circus-Maximus
http://media.putfile.com/sample-of-vector-lovers-electrosuite

Also, any help here would be appreciated. Thanks.

In the past year or so "electrohouse" has broadened a little bit and gotten a little bit closer to minimal I guess. You could sort of call that Dinamo remix electrohouse or minimal.

Of the tunes you list most are categorised minimal, I would say, though as I say there is a sort of generalised link between electrohouse/minimal. Obviously it's all very confusing, not very much "minimal" about "Arquipelago" is there!

You should check out Gui Boratto's other 12 on Kompakt K2 also, "Sozinho".

then, i just got a 10" 'technostalgia 1' by citemuaj & niram iuqani (jaumetic & inaqui marin) - very nice!!!

-- geeta

I was kind of thinking this was a weird release for Bpitch then I kinda remembered Flieg Mit existed and now I'm really looking forward to this!

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/216617-01.htm

on a similar tip. looks like luciano's sci-fi hi-fi comes out this week!

Also it's quite progressive to my ears.

And my slow-burn favourite track in this vein is Neumann's remix of 2Raumwohnung's "Melancholish Schoen" which has percussion to match anything Villalobos has done (only poppier).

I actually like the Minilogue track though. Perhaps I have less against prog than you do. And anyway prog only got boring because its sonic pallette became so restrictive, and this nu nu micro-prog (as opposed to old nu micro-prog which was the second MRI album) works precisely because "progressive with clicks" junks that pallette for a newer, more expansive one. Plus there are greater highs and lows and narrative development and etc. in these nu nu prog tracks.

It doesn't lose the groove, but it isn't way off into Holden territory either.

i'm really shocked
richardo is totally crazy
the craziest one there, i think

i'm upset that i didn't like it at all
maybe 10-20 more plays will do their business... i hope ::))

that's how to do the superlongevity comps

2005 Bobbins but Goldfish Und Der Dulz Privacy (Chardronnet Mix) is a total gem of lush progginess. A-side Dj Shirakura - Routine Song (hemman & kaden remix) is more cut up minimal with a lovely Bucci-like bass-as-noise thing through it.

good news!

now i admit that my yesterday's statement was made under a too huge influence of ricardo's track... most of the compilation is definitely great as it was expected to be, but ricardo is totally crazy anyway. almost unbearable at high volumes.
oh i know i'll buy it anyway.

i think superlongevity 4 may be the best of that series.

yeah, see upthread. It's pretty good. I'm also really into Interkontinental 5 (so much better than 4 which I really disliked for some reason.)

I was wondering the other day if there is any recorded evidence (wink, wink) of those Villalobos sets at Der Visionare on Sunday floating around on the Net?

i was surprised to hear that interkontinental 5 was also mixed. i think it's a first for those, but it makes sense.

it seems like the minimal releases are threatening to turn into an avalanche these days. i am keen on hearing the new scsi-9 album.

That probably accounts for the only "pretty good" comment...so much stuff coming out it's hard to come up with some more in-depth view (although it's extra hard with Schneider somehow...I think Tim came up with a Future Days reference with which i'm going to listen to it next time.)

yes, i agree, but what is also pretty fucking great is how amazing the tracks coming out for the past couple of months have been.

i am thinking of the recent releases on m_nus (phil's pfork write-up was OTM), troy pierce remixes, matt john's remixes and stuff on perlon, superlongevity 4, cadenza, mobilee, that sascha funke mix, sasse's "losing control", the superpitcher side of the last speicher, recent stuff on my best friend and trapez, bugnology 2, get physical vol 2, the chelonis remixes, roman fluegel, losoul's "what radio", dapayk, sci.fi.hi.fi vol 2, etc, etc

the cabanne track on superlongevity 4 is so awesome.

c.f. My My or Dominik Eulberg who are both in different ways very rhythmically complex and jammy but wouldn't so easily compare to Can I don't think.

girl from botany bay is still easily one of the best releases this year, could you post the info for the new traum release - i'm definitely excited.

Yep, it's a slow-to-unfold remix of Billie Jean that holds the vocals in check. 6:46. Must be a white label. Found it on s1sk.

we are proud announce what could amount to a great big open air summer
hit
this summer 2006:

Minilogue- The Leopard (Traum v73)
The record will be released 6th of June!

He have attached the cover for you

Minilogue play live around the world week and often in front of
thousends of
people as they have been twice in Rio this year( Chemical music
festival..
in front of 22000 people!)

They played RAINBOW SERPENT AUSTRALIA 2006... visited New Zeeland for
the
first time.

The will play live in Berlin in the Panorama Bar in June and will
,promote
their record on TRAUM.

Regards, TRAUM

I couldn't really get into Botany Bay, it's pleasant but never really grabbed me, no genre tension, just pure trance.

The new one is......very nice, and the b-side gives a little tug on the brain but still did not make me go "wow amazing". Maybe good at 7 in the morning though yeah.

side two - Wolfgang Voigt vibes, just more relaxed and fun and time to yourself

Neither is as good as Thomas Schumacher's Rotor though!

Seconds the B-side has a nice dripping noise and a stronger build with some good trance type peak. I agree with the Dog here, I'd like to hear it early on a Sunday morning.

If we're going to use the comparison negatively it's more meaningful to say - "this reminds me of the worst/most mediocre aspects of progressive house and here's why..."

Otherwise, the obvious answer is, "yeah, isn't it great how Border Community etc. have wrung something so great from the cooling corpse of a genre that seemed creatively exhausted????"

I am amused how many times in this thread Good Dog has flip-flopped (or should that be plip-plopped?) his initial opinion of tracks.

Progressive house is a byword for sexless, plodding, 12 minute tracks that go nowhere precisely because that's what the fans and djs of the genre demanded. In particular, what the fuck is up with the drums on progressive house tracks? That clunky lurch that sounds like a garage beat ground down by 20 years as a car salesman which nobody's body moves naturally to and congas that sound as if they're being played by an actuary with muscle wasting disease. It's like the antithesis of rhythmic excitement.

Ultimately it's dance music for boring people who don't terribly like to dance. If you've been to see John Digweed play in the UK you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Audiences are important to scenes - a good audience feeds a scene and makes it alive. I dread the presence of a progressive house audience at minimal clubs for precisely this reason.

What made (makes?) minimal fun was the bite and snap in the rhythms and the unpredicability of the sounds and track structure, neither of which were typical of progressive. If you take those elements out of minimal i.e. if you make the progressions logical (minilogue) versus unexpected (my my, eulberg) then you have progressive house.

Yes of course it's stupid to be absolutist and claim that there were no decent progressive tracks EVER but even the legendarily even-handed Mr Finney would have to admit that huge proportions of this genre sucked absolute ass and that the things which drove this scene and this style of music are by and large negative conservative forces (the audience) and deeply mediocre musicians.

Therefore it's a pretty acceptable shorthand to say "progressive house" as a negative comparison because 90% of the time it's TRUE. Even the attempts at boosting its rep on this thread amount to little more than "occasionally, if a dj plays just one track, and chooses it well, it might be ok".

We may all have (common/edgy) preferences, but we don't have truth.

I don't necessarily agree about Minologue being especially linear (at least based on "The Girl From Botany Bay") and certainly Holden at his absolute best (the "Safari" remix) is kind of the opposite of linear.

And then of course there's all sorts of minimal and other (non prog house) dance music that we could also describe as being hyper linear as well - is Superpitcher a problem too?

So presumably what "prog house" stands in for when we use it as a negative point of comparison is a convergence of different factors, e.g. (hasty list):

- linearity of groove and fear of song structure (not necessarily the same as a fear of vocals or song-remixes - obviously there's a lot of prog house remixes of pop songs, vocal house etc.)
- limited, synthetic-but-familiar sound palette
- straightforward 4/4 rhythms, and a purging of funk/disco influence
- a fear of overt abrasion
- an over-reliance on very standard notions of build-up and breakdown, and general DJ-toolsisation
- a privileging of the expression of a certain type of anthemic-but-restrained emotionalism, perhaps with a slightly mournful quality

I gues the sonic conservativism of prog house as a whole lies in the way that all (or the overwhelming majority) of these factors are usually adhered to by any given prog house track - and I'll admit that generally speaking I don't like prog house.

Conversely, Booka Shade's "In White Rooms", my favourite track of 2006 so far, arguably adheres to every one of the above factors (with the caveat that it's far too short). So I have to take into account that even this convergence which I am otherwise decrying can produce music which I not only consider to be great, but near-perfect. Having said that, I can't imagine that everyone in the minimal scene suddenly trying to produce their own version of "In White Rooms" would be a good thing. But then what I like about this broad amorphous genre is that there never seems to be a moment where everyone is trying to make the same track.

For what it's worth, to me Border Community stuff doesn't appear to take the requirements above too much to heart. And it's also worth noting that the people making this music are people who are by and large moving further and further away from their prog house/trance roots. And while you might argue that the rest of the minimal scene is moving towards them, as I noted earlier there is definitely a counter-movement of people moving closer to some sort of minimal percussive deep house.

Follow you remix
"Serpentine"
Audio Werner
Old perlon
Some villalobos
Luciano

=awesome

Jacob I was thinking today that the Guido Schneider/recent Luciano/Serafin/Tobi Neumann/Jay Haze/Prosumer axis is a bit like they were all sitting round at Ricardo's place one day listening to Taka Taka, and the Brother's Vibe/Elevations mash-up bit came on, and simultaneously there was this big lightbulb above the table and they all said in unison: "holy shit, we can make a whole genre out of this!"

Well the demand is there. I saw Miss Kittin last weekend and response to the growly midrange overkill techno tracks was muted, but everytime there was a complex conga-esque pattern or hous-y snares people went nuts. It's a way of bringing a bit of femininity back to this scene, which is definitely needed.

This opinion not subject to change!

However I find tracks boring if there is not some kind of push and pull going on between prog and something else.

I find Holden interesting, Minilogue sort of boring so far.

I used to love prog. Especially Holden (horizons, pistol whip, i have put out the light, bloodlock etc). I agree Border Community have done really well to escape the death of the genre, as well as produce some really great trance, with the problems of that label as well. So far I like their tracks more than Botany Bay or The Leopard.

The interesting thing is to what degree can progressive style sounds comeback and to which audience. I agree that Guy Gerber's Stoppage Time is excellently used in Kiki's Boogybytes. It hits the bPitch crowd, and boring old Digweed heads start to get the new stuff a bit better too.

Unfortunately Minilogue, coming out on Traum is not the Eulberg, Ananda, Hacke stuff I love or look out for on that label. Minilogue so far to me is well executed new-prog, which is not so interesting as well executed minimal house.

OTM. Love the easy-to-feel synth lines, abhor the lack of rhythmic invention. Down with perfunctory percussion loops, whatever the genre.

Agreed...but DAMMIT IT FEELS SO GOOD.

Found this in the mail today. Sort of Minimal Bobbins for Dummies but really enjoyable. And I really like how the second cd goes into Millsian Bobbins for the last 20-30 minutes or so.

I agree. It almost sounds like what you expect a Zombie Bikers Return To A Higer State Of Consciousness bootleg would sound like. ;)

?? : ?? (revelee remix)
Catwash : Mohawke Dreams : Catwash
Ananda’s Bass Machinchen : Take Off : Triebstoff
Alex Under : El Diluvio Azul (Fe En Erratas EP) : Trapez
Colcut feat. Roots Manuva : True Skool (Switch rmx) : Ninja Tune
John Dahlbäck : Pop It Bad (Agoria rmx) : Craft Music
John Dahlbäck : Power 1 (Ozgur Can rmx) : Giant Wheel
Pan/Tone : Under The Influence : Sender
Misc : Frequenztraeger (Pan-Pot rmx) : Sender
The Shock : Manhattan : Boxer Sport
Robert Babicz Battlestar : Punkt
Black Strobe : Nazi Trance Fuck Off (James Holden rmx) : Crosstown Rebels promo
John Tejada : The End Of It All : Pallette
Jona : The Learnings : Get Physical

hope you dig it.

I've been heavily disheartened with (from my probably erroneous vantage point) what seems like the direction of minimal/electrohouse/nu-proggish bobbins lately, it all seems incredibly safe and uninteresting right now to me.

Bpitch (aside from the CD output) feeling way off form atm isn't helping me retain much enthusiasm. I'm feeling the need to finally get over my house prejudices (hugely in retreat for a few years now anyway) but not sure where to turn for a short, sharp education :(

I really don't feel the need for any more acidy stuff so I'm not keen to go the archive chicago route. I have the Herbert & Soulphiction albums in the post but I doubt they'll count... I'm not keen on most "deep house" (esp. real/funky/jazzy/"soulful") I've heard but this could be bullheadedness talking... What are some suggestions for just a good, rough, jacking, type of all-round decent house mix (or even album) (gospelly and/or pop-house touches fine also!) that could make me feel not so blase about shit in general?

I guess I'm thinking roots stuff, not Theo/Moodymann or other stuff known for being hip or otherwise outre and technically tweaked out. Although I could imagine the Carl Craig fabric mix maybe being worth picking up for this?

Also have this odd urge to pick up a Miss Kittin mix or something else electroclash-y (I've never quite managed to think Electrohouse is the bees knees for some reason aside from stuff which either pre-dates it or doesn't really feel like the same thing to me... I think it's the cokiness somehow).

This post is TOTALLY in the wrong thread, but thanks for having me, I didn't want to start a new one with this BS rambling.

type of all-round decent house mix (or even album) (gospelly and/or pop-house touches fine also!) that could make me feel not so blase about shit in general?

Ha! I got the thing for you: DJ Deep presents City To City part 2

Have you checked out any of the stuff on Philpot Fandango?

Have your heard: Hiem - She's The One (Circles In Time Remix By Mathew Jonson) on Crosstown Rebels??

I think it's the best thing Mathew Johnson has done.

i have yet to hear his higher state of consciousness remix but i really want to.

the swayzak remix he did a few years ago is really good as well.

kerri chandler - trionosphere live!!!

and how about the FREAKS? there are several good mixes out right now ... someone already mentioned the johnny rock + matt styles mix "see you @ the party", but i really prefer justin harris' new mix on KSR (look it up on discogs) and if you can track it down i REALLY recommend grabbing a copy luke solomon's "somemorefreakystuff".

what else ... hmmm ... well, there's several recent editions of ministry of sound's "sessions" that look nice. dj sneak and derrick carter!

I think natedey meant Certain Things Around You Part 2 when he posted this...Botany Bay has no Radiohead in it.

also really feeling the new sun god EP on Jack-FM (i think that's the label).

I dunno about this now, Listening to some seemingly neverending (many hours) Ellen mix and the Sascha Funke & Smash TV records stand out quite a bit in the company of the other stuff! I'm just kinda concerned that what Bpitch are doing lately (minimal trancey electro with damn near all the randomness stripped off) still feels like playing catchy-uppy, and still feels a little generic (as in will I care about the new stuff in 6 months time even?) I guess things are changing all around in Berlin but if Modeselektor start putting out gentle minimal anthems next it's probably all over! And "Queen Of Men" > "Air/Earth or Yellow Asteroids" by some distance quite obviously. However much leeway I'll give them for transitioning their sound right now.

http://blacknoise.blogspot.com

check it. Some of the more recent minimal sounding stuff feels very meditative to me and I count this as one of those.

i am really into the way some of the recent minimal tracks use melodic hooks in a very sparing yet effective way. 64 bars and then a 2 bar hook to create a slight build; repeat. it is the exact opposite of the way most house music works.

I know its sick! It just strings you along grabbing and tugging. If you head up to the links on my site check out OH MY GOSH. He has been on a bit of a trance kick for a while but he usually posts some quality minimal stuff.

I am highly anticipating the new minus collection out this month. http://www.m-nus.com/ probably not too much on the melodic side but still tasty.

I got an e-mail from Kjex asking me who Holden is!

Also the Villalobos remix of Senor Coconut's "Behind the Mask" is totally charming: weird and disorienting like the "Let We Go" remix and then all rinky-dinky and perky. Villalobos is maybe the only dance producer where I often think "I hope he records with a big live band on his next album".

whoaah [faints]

SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET

and yes having all those ee's is justified. It all starts with an e

(the original is horrific, dl'ing it = a somewhat scarring experience)

http://basicchannel.com/item/BMXD-1

Ha! i was hoping for one. Very handy.

"Okay it's proggy as hell but i'm loving the Minilogue mix of Jaia's "Orchestra 2.0"! Prog producers wish they were this good. When is this from?"

I've been listening to this constantly. I'm all for being a neo-progservative if it sounds this good (although really it's more like Gabriel Ananda at his most blatantly anthemic than "The Girl From Botany Bay")

Strange to see Schaeben & Voss doing a schaffel remix though! But it's not glammy so (as per Trentemoller's "Killer Kat") they get away with it.

The new Eulberg on Traum has one really nice motorik type thing on it. Also really really feeling "Father" by Luciano and Thomas Melchior (alot more than the lords prayer one on the flip), nice ten minute loop, the Dandyjack remix of Pier Bucci's "Tita" is better than the leaked Eulberg one, really enjoying that at the moment.

The new Extrawelt on Kompass is also pretty cool, if a little typical for them. Also Kaliber-Kaliber 002 is some mystery Swedish producer and sounds a bit like Anja Schneider on a slightly more electroey tip.

Matt John's 12 "Behind The Atoms", on Underline, is also pretty brilliant.

'i was a young boy
i was her sex toy
she was a desperate housewife'

this is amazing aahaha!!!!!

Also is another "minimal bongo" record. Definitely a mini-genre in the offing.

Actually I gotta say that I've hard the Heartthrob (very nice), Gaiser, Magda, Marc Houle, and Locodice tracks off min2MAX and excepting the Gaiser, none of them were "so what." I even thought I liked the Gaiser initially but later found myself really not caring about it. It seems like a pretty strong release based on the tracks I've heard, though. I'll definitely be picking it up.

i really hope the Circus Company school of stripped down hyper-bouncy bass lines + nonsense/cutup vocals will catch on soon :D

Excercise One-Debaya (Mobilee)
Rekleiner-The State Of Things (Hemann and Kaden Mix) (Connaisseur)
Jack Kilby-Integrated Circuit (Sixty Four)
Codec and Flexor-Do What You Want (Woody's Fumakilla Deep Freeze Mix) (Kitty Cuts)

i haven't really liked any of their 12"s since 'get it right' on perlon but this is primo late night ecstatic summer music that on a good soundsystem totally engulfs you. best snare of the year so far too.

this might be the first piece of new music i buy in a while.

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Who gets to rub the gents down with SPF 30? (Wouldn't want 'em to get rid of their endearingly pale complexions, now would we?)

I thought I gave you this a few months ago...did I, or am I nuts? (PS-- i'm on 3-4 pm today on wobc)

My favourite record at the moment is Hemmann and Kaden - "Roll In Moll".

I like Sascha Funke's though

Poor Sascha, don't think he stood a chance of beating it. Finally got BB Vol. 2, still not certain if I'm that fussed about it though (more listens).

[Ronan, did you get my email from the other day?]

you mean it is released somehow?? or it's just around the net somewhere?
i have sami's live from moscow, it's like the best music in the world!

michael, what's so bad about that sextoy track of jacktronix? i heard it only once and i don't remember it at all bar the fabulous lyrics. what exactly made you cringe?

Exercise one - Flight Cancelled

I am still not sold on the most recent coccoon comp. The Pier Bucci track is starting to grow on me. Very druggy sound.

has it been discussed here how great isolee - western story edits - side d (dixon edit) is?

Regarding the comment about Kiki mixing in key: are there many minimal or electrohouse DJs doing this? I've been very interested in harmonic mixing lately; I recently started logging the keys all of my tunes and taking a more structured approach in my sets.

Usually I avoid the harmony clashes of course, I guess alot of records are mixed before the notes come in, or some kind of interlock anyway.

Then a couple of weeks ago I found this: http://www.mixedinkey.com. I started messing around with it in conjunction with my Ableton and Serato rigs and it's like a web of connections between tunes that I had only glimpsed before has been revealed. The software doesn't always get the key right, so you still have to put in some work, but it's still pretty amazing stuff.

the music and the lyrics! very nice. inspiring and deep

er, i mean, a cd? very good, good news that

track ID please. Ryan Elliot started his Sonar set with this total stunner of a track. the lyrics:

get closer
get closer to your best friend
this is my mind touch
don't believe the hype touch
get closer to a friend
you will know it better finally

do you think i would like the Kiki mix tho?