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

This one's squirreled away on the b-side of Harrison BDP's last EP for Shall Not Fade but its absolutely perfect summer music imo. Drums as crisp as a new box of cornflakess, twitchy synths, shimmery pads and a fat old dub bass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcHYX0_Y2qU
That Wasn't A Micro-Dose

also Om Unit has been on one helluva streak lately eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4V09clJI4I
Bastian Benjamin - Mycelium (Om Unit Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXZX6S1xt0
Om Unit & James Bangura - The Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEyWb5xPcSE
Om Unit - Can You Dub It?

and to wrap up the bristolian triptych, this chugger is pretty groovy for something with less than 15 views on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2F00IJ99lc
Joe Harvey - Recall

Loving yourt playlist Tim F. All The Land is tremendous. I wanna know where that eerie chanted vocal sample is from - reminds me of Midsommar

Om Unit - Can You Dub It?

this rules

new ddwy on public possession is magic imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj8nUE6N0c0

Loving yourt playlist Tim F. All The Land is tremendous. I wanna know where that eerie chanted vocal sample is from - reminds me of Midsommar

― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Monday, 12 August 2024 11:19 (one week ago) link

Thanks DL! Imperieux's album from this year 'Losers Queue' doesn't have "All The Land' on it, but has a somewhat similar vibe throughout and is excellent.

Will definitely check that out. I've been jamming All The Land all week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeTN6BscD0o

John Manhard - Tickle My Pickle

for a crispy fall morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKKi84h3HiA

All Starr Motomusic - I Care (Radio Edit)

on the seafront again

Enjoying this LP of sequencer jams from Bass Clef (as Myriad Myriads) on TTT -
https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/shardcore

Great breakbeat bobbin, everything in its right place

https://playplay.bandcamp.com/album/devotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkJX7kR-SkE

https://hodgebristol.bandcamp.com/track/right-there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZUzK7MMutc

John Manhard - Where's the Szechaun?

These John Manhard records have been gradually growing on me of late

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrAETd3uCY

Local DJ - The New Way Of Doing Things

understated ephemera from Phil Evans

Actually these Local DJ tracks aren't Phil Evans at all, they're someone else unknown to me

love that track jordan

Thanks karl <3

(album's out a week from Friday!)

not sure where to put this but this was good on jackmaster

https://ra.co/features/4390?preview

I've found a lot of this stuff really uncomfortable the past few days. There's a sense that he was forgiven by many because he was good at being charming and fun as well as talented, and I don't dispute all that. But that's exactly how people get away with things. Szatan has posted on his socials about how Jackmaster gave him time in his early career. This isn't any different than people being beholden to the power and influence of Diddy and R Kelly, is it? An uncharitable reading of the situation is of a tastemaker with power who used their reputation to court and win over people. "What can you do, he's a pal." If someone is known for being fun, and you challenge that, you're known for not being fun. It's hard to speak out and say these things in the moment.

At the same time - he apologized, he was sincere by all accounts, he took steps to put it right. What more can you ask for? Yet it feels uneasy to me. He didn't get the full Ten Walls treatment. He was releasing EPs on high profile labels this year such as Crosstown Rebels. Did he really suffer the consequences of his actions, and what would or wouldn't have been enough? I don't know and I won't pretend to have an answer to that but I can see why his death is raising difficult conversations nobody has wanted to have for six years.

He could sync records together that sounded good. He admitted to sexual misconduct. I interviewed him in 2009 and saw him tweet homophobic words in 2010 yet I still repped for him afterwards. Am I any more or less of hypocrite than the industry that seemed to have deemed him too big to fail?

I'm sorry for all the people who knew him personally. He touched people's lives and made a difference. But I don't like the handwaving away of what he admitted to, with the inference it was substance abuse that made him do what he did at Love Saves The Day. It's not easy to make records sound as good as he did but it's quite easy to not commit sexual impropriety.

I'm sorry for the loss felt by people who loved him. I wish this conversation had been opened up at the time.

here's a few bobbins/adjacent things I've been enjoying lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32L__IeJwB0

Nyra & Richard X - Into Your Groove - organ house, filtered piano chords, familiar samples - shamelessly euphoric

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ9t5OGyKZ0

Musclecars - Tonight (Louie Vega Mix) - very traditional, purist, male vocal house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqb4ihWNIPA

Genius Of Time - Rave Breaks - trancy, proggy, breakbeat, tears at the festival main stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ2je9oGyr4

The Trip - Fly Life Xtra - an homage to Basement Jaxx, I have been really loving everything The Trip have released the past few years even if it's all very obviously pastiche material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y83DVhgL1dA

Grant Nelson - Rush - a cover of his remix of Stephanie Mills from the 90s, about time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7T-VkEy3ok

Bohm - Land Of Lost - heard this in a Steffi mix, very Detroit-via-Berlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZiMHShXM0

LWS - Steady On - weirdo minimal tech-house on Call Super's label

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

K-Lone - Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - shuffling trippy deep house

High five on the k-lone, been playing that loads. keep coming back to this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwyioh8yio
Fernanda Arrau - Hi Fernanda

Did he really suffer the consequences of his actions

he did.

the types of places he was playing massively changed and he literally never played on the circuit he used to ever again. Of course, he did resurrect his career but it was playing events he probably would not have played had he had the choice and i think this greatly impacted on him. he was also estranged from a lot of the people who had been his friends and peers earlier in his career.

it's a very sad and dark tale.

also Luca Lozano remix of Gat Decor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwt8jp20sGA
*​*​*​*​*​* _ *​*​*​*​*​*​* (LUCA LOZANO DAT GECOR REMIX)

oops xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4M-6mMwo8

Gabriel Belabbas - Ici (à Paris)

sounds of the qualifying rounds

This is DJ gold, just sayin'

https://traxman1.bandcamp.com/album/j-b-funkbomb-style-house-and-dance-reworkz-part-2

I wonder if these are the result of AI stemming (ie Think break without the tambourine?)

(or maybe he used different JB drums with the open Think tambourine)

this EP by Katerina on Rekids is incredible, really gorgeous production.

https://rekids.bandcamp.com/album/one

well not so into the Ovuca guy remix

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

Cygnus - Come On Let's Get It

late afternoon thoughts from Dallas

Edward on Smallville: all around excellent stuff

https://soundcloud.com/smallville-records/snippets-64-edward-eddie-green-ep

Superb functional, minimal midwest bobbins

https://liquidcitymotors.bandcamp.com/album/boiling-over

https://cod3qr.bandcamp.com/album/qr-d-292-vol124?t=1

New Djrum album (EP, mini-album?) is insanely good.

I was thinking about how much of my techcno (and related) listening this year has been dominated by female artists, and decided to put together a playlist. This could almost double as my EOY techno wrap-up:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7rocOlGG1AwrQHvRJGx4Qv?si=FFR8Dd2tRKi9kNH_uw_JxA

I should have waited a few days before finalising that, because the new Sakura Tsuruta album is beautiful

This playlist looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.

Fuck it I’m just gonna sneak in a Sakura track

Xpost - thanks!

Yes that looks great, look forward to diving in!

Feel compelled to mentioned the Olive T record though just in case you missed that one :)

Sounds like Saer-wave is in for 2025?

https://huercosplonk.bandcamp.com/album/one-day
https://ra.co/podcast/965

Lots of edits of african tracks leave me cold but i'm loving this Jkriv rework of Bessa Simons' Sii Nana...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkimQ26j-F0

And the new thing from Alex Kassian + Hiroaki Oba is just plain lush...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZtxeSIeKsU
Opal Sunn - Elastic / Phase 1

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

Alexander Skancke - This Is Not Organ House

It isnt

wow, i think this is the first time saer's ever posted something i already knew and liked. although i don't follow the techno/house of the past thread very closely, you've probably posted stuff i already liked there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BfJCuCU0Io

ISS010 strikes a chord with both factions of Skee Mask's fan base: the production nerds and the DJ set devotees. For the heads, it delivers his signature package of intricately layered sound design, dense percussion, and a wash of echo and reverb. But this time, the DJ devotees get their due as well. ISS010 marks a shift from Skee Mask’s breakbeat explorations to a more dance floor-focused sound, reflecting the heavily house and techno-infused energy of his current DJ sets. The seven-tracker blends syncopated rhythms with gorgeous melodies, weaving flashes of dubstep and ambient textures into rave-ready form.

Grime-indebted beats on tracks like “The Bills” could as readily host an MC as send a Detroit loft party into overdrive, while “Double Standard” combines shimmering synths with propulsive drums, making it well suited for introspective home listening or peak-time club play. In a major year for Skee Mask, ISS010 was a record that engaged both body and soul. - Fahad Akinsanya

Full record:
https://iliantape.bandcamp.com/album/iss010-iss010

wow, i think this is the first time saer's ever posted something i already knew and liked. although i don't follow the techno/house of the past thread very closely, you've probably posted stuff i already liked there

Thanks Karl, its possible one or two might have sneaked in there.

I'd heard a couple of Skancke's records before but didn't really connect, this one has a charm though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOgWvo7ZUd0

Bob G - Unclosed

jaunty from stevie's cousin