Explain to me what you like best about Luomo, what I might be missing. Go on, do it!
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 21 February 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Brock K. (Brock K.), Friday, 21 February 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 21 February 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― Clarke B., Friday, 21 February 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 21 February 2003 05:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― j0sh, Friday, 21 February 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 21 February 2003 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:18 (twenty-two years ago)
to listen to luomo, i'd first find the best sound system in your area. Then watch how Vladislav Delay [yeah, RIGHT] sections the vocals off, editing them slowly into existence. It comes str8 from kingston, and works the suspense factor out like a crink in your neck.
There are some music producers, some mentioned in this thread, that concern themselves with the sound, and nothing more. How it sounds. Hence the endless pseudonymetry [hey, you know]. Ultimately, the best motivation.
I'm pretty convinced Kompakt is like three dudes splitting the rent, and playing poker for the payments on the stereo.
― david day (winslow), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)
Unlike most of the Kompakt stuff, Luomo is minimal without actually being anywhere near as repetitive. Listen to it, and an extra snare hits here, more hats shuffling there, extra delay here and there... 'sound design' is a wanky word, but it's true. I've actually wondered whether he's used semi-random sequencing in some of the software he's using...
It just sounds awesome. That wonderful sheen he manages to get out... the incredibly strangled little stabs...
― dsp wanker (dsp wanker), Friday, 21 February 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― gaz (gaz), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)
the show I saw w/Nonstop Jen, JBR and Geeta only had one Vocalcity track ("Synkro") in the list, and while calling the new stuff a "pop breakthrough" is a bit farfetched, there was a real feel of impending outburst in that room. the new material is fucking incredible--"The Present Lover" and "Melt" from recent Force Inc./Mille Plateaux comps were played, and give a good indication of where he's headed. he's become so good at the technique Vocalcity uses (the filtered/stuttered/fucked-with vocals) and the beats/grooves/tracks are shinier and more gleaming-gold-metallic, but they're also really fucking warm and minimal and lived-in; I got the feeling that he worked every second of this music to get it exactly where he wanted it, whereas Vocalcity is a masterpiece of serendipity, a feeling-around-in-the-dark exercise that got him a lot farther than just turning on the light and locating his destination would have done.
the new album is in October; if it's anywhere as good as that set it's my album of the year.
― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 21 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 21 February 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 21 February 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)
Well, several of you have convinced me not to give up on it. I'll keep going back to it periodically (there's a lot of stuff that takes time to grow on me). And I'll give the new album a listen when that comes out, too.
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Friday, 21 February 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mark (MarkR), Saturday, 22 February 2003 06:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 22 February 2003 06:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Saturday, 22 February 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)
Vocalcity has a narrative from start to finish, but I've never managed to fully put it together. And I suspect the narrative is a great deal like Kelis' Wanderland, but at such an abstract level that I can't really articulate what I mean without sounding absurd.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)
The remarkable thing about this track is how he begins with four minutes of edits on the breaths in that line before finally laying it down halfway into the song. The last half of the song parses the phrase may into more "traditional" dub elemenets (though still deeper than the Eternal Recurrance).
It's the first half, though wherein the actual inhales and exhales are dubbed-up and spaced out. Is sounds subtle, but it's not. Then one by one the words filter in. I'm going to assume someone has worked with breaths in disco/dub before, but this was my first exposure to it and smacko.
I foundly remember driving out of the Rockies, just outside Denver, listening to that track, volume up, and hoping it would never end.
― david day (winslow), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 26 February 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 27 February 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Clarke B., Thursday, 27 February 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― todd swiss (eliti), Friday, 28 February 2003 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)
So how did you guys get hold of other tracks offa the new album?
I'll articulate/review the 12" later. Know this: He was great at Sonar 2002, and played all non-VocalCity stuff. A definite highlight.
And as for VocalCity: Tessio remains my fave, being the my introduction to him. I hadn't heard House beautiful as this since Blaze's "Basic Blaze" album. For a guy that spends too much time in a suit, this stuff is life-affirming.
― Nik (Nik), Friday, 14 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 15 March 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 15 March 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)
M Matos, are you referring to the Luomo show in Chicago? I thought it was amazing, too.
― disco stu (disco stu), Saturday, 15 March 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago)
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:57 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago)
― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:29 (twenty years ago)
― youngn, Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:38 (twenty years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:08 (twenty years ago)
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 November 2004 03:54 (twenty years ago)
-- jess (dubplatestyl...), February 21st, 2003.
everyone: perhaps following from jess's post, please recommend some music (specific tunes/records) that will help me put luomo into some kind of context.
it's not that i can't appreciate him -- quite the contrary -- but that i appreciate him as, above all, strange.... perhaps he will remain so even after much of the surrounding context is colored in, perhaps not.
but in any event please recommend some things to me. then i will start bothering people to copy them for me. :-)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago)
Herbert - Around the House; Bodily FunctionsV/A - Superlongevity 2Farben - TextstarMarkus Nikolai - BackRichard Davis - SafetyIsolee - RestV/A: Andrew Weatherall - HypercityV/A: Dan Bell - The Button Down Mind of Dan Bell
Some pre-microhouse-ish stuff that might help with the historical context:
Pole - Pole 1Oval - Diskont '94Porter Ricks - BiokineticsV/A - ...Compiled (Chain Reaction comp)Monolake - Hong Konganything by Vladislav Delay obviously
I'll add anything else if I can think of it.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:48 (twenty years ago)
can you explain the origin and meaning of the term "microhouse" maybe?
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:51 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:52 (twenty years ago)
Is this a joke/trap?
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:54 (twenty years ago)
― amateur!!st, Thursday, 18 November 2004 04:57 (twenty years ago)
so has a clean one surfaced yet? whoever came up with this idea must be either a sadist or a genius or both, i honestly cannot listen to it.
― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 04:49 (eighteen years ago)
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 05:20 (eighteen years ago)
― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:13 (eighteen years ago)
― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:56 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=luomo+%22paper+tigers%22+leak&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:32 (eighteen years ago)
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:05 (eighteen years ago)
― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 18:45 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)
― Jena (JenaP), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:41 (eighteen years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 03:17 (eighteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:13 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago)
― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago)
― stop moving. (cis), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:52 (eighteen years ago)
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago)
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― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago)
― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago)
― Baaderonixx: the lost ILX years (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago)
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago)
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:26 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:46 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:54 (eighteen years ago)
but not a dedicated Paper Tigers thread.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:03 (eighteen years ago)
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago)
― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:12 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago)
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago)
― Jena (JenaP), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago)
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:07 (eighteen years ago)
i can't even bring myself to give this another go.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago)
― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 7 September 2006 01:42 (eighteen years ago)
argh, tessio is still wonderful after all these years..
― Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr, Monday, 20 October 2008 01:48 (sixteen years ago)
"baby it's alright, we'll make it better..." to the end is the most perfect music in the world imo
― aaron d.g., Monday, 20 October 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago)
i forgot how much people liked the shorter edit of "really don't mind". i never heard it, how different is it?
― aaron d.g., Monday, 20 October 2008 03:05 (sixteen years ago)
i can't remember
― elan, Monday, 20 October 2008 05:25 (sixteen years ago)
just wondering if anyone who was disappointed by paper tigers has heard his live performance from vienna a few years ago? i think it might be my favourite luomo related thing of all,has a lot of paper tigers stuff on it but don't let that put you off,the songs really come into their own the way they're done live and i think it more than makes up for the dodgier stuff on the album.
you can download it at http://rs55.rapidshare.com/files/76514498/Luomo_-_Live___Icke_Micke_Club_Camera__Vienna_-_2007-02-23.mp3
(not sure what the rules are about rapidshare links but its just a liveset so i presume thats ok?)
― robin l, Friday, 30 January 2009 14:31 (sixteen years ago)