Matthew Dear / Jabberjaw / False

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North America's Most Promising Techno Producer?

A recent P.Sherburne recommendation. The 'Girlfriend' Perlon 12" is really quite good - esp. 'I Speak for Some of That' for pure hypnotic minimalism; the looped schizoid groove, mumbling voices down the phone line, blaring ring.

What else should I check out? Has anyone heard the Plus 8 False release? I've listened to the Spectral tracks, was bit so so.

― Michael Dieter, Sunday, 3 August 2003 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite new techno person. The Plus 8 tracks are compiled on an unttitled CD that came out a few months ago. I just got EP2 on Spectral and that has some great, tracky, eh, micro-techno on it.

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 3 August 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

EP1 and EP2 are both great, as is the Stealing Moves 12". "Dog Days" is a MONSTER, possibly my single of the year -- that's coming out sometime soon with some remixes (including one by Ricardo Villalobos, if I'm not mistaken). If you want to hear some live PAs and DJ sets from him, you can go to the archives section on this page.

― Andy K (Andy K), Sunday, 3 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

the plus 8 false release (album) is well worth seeking out...

― disco stu (disco stu), Sunday, 3 August 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah saw him with dabrye in london. it was a bit of a curates egg. but the parts that were good really were excellent

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 4 August 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i dunno i checked dear out, esp the spectral eps but he seems terribly rigid in um, an american kind of way. don't flame me ppl, i just say things. anyway this is where you get to laugh at me and tell me oliver hacke who i really love and reckon to be really on the top of this microgame is actually american too. his trapez ltd 7 with jeremy caulfield is stunning

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Monday, 4 August 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

well i happen to think he's well worth a listen - you weren't at the ghoatly night were you chip - he putt on quite a show there (well, he didn't at all actually but he was pretty great, sonically speaking)

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 4 August 2003 11:09 (twenty-two years ago)

a lot of my friends are rigid americans, too

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 4 August 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

haha self parody is indeed the way to my heart

he's certainly ok to listen to but he lacks a sort of looseness i guess that makes me think of him as some electronica processor chancing his hand rather than a creative house. it's shades of grey to some i guess, i only heard it in the shop

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Monday, 4 August 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

house guy

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Monday, 4 August 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

haha self parody is indeed the way to my heart

it's not parody true!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 4 August 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

his trapez ltd 7 with jeremy caulfield is stunning

yes!! the b-side is killer.

is oliver hacke american? i know caulfield is canadian...

i think the rigidness of the false releases is part of what makes them special (haven't heard the spectral releases tho). beginner's luck = tune. i think saying that rigidness is an american quality is way off the mark. unless you can qualify it a bit more, chip..

― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The False tracks are definitely more taut and precise than the Matthew Dear and Jabberjaw ones. Dog Days is the most loose-limbed track of his that I've heard*, including singsongy vocal lines that I cannot get out of my head.

*This does not factor in "Hands Up for Detroit," a disco-house track that's a lot more macro than micro. From what I know, it was a bit of a one-off for him.

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

nah really, ignore it. ;) maybe it's the packaging what's putting me off...? or a dislike of kid 606 style emphasis on "fucking shit up" that colours stuff deep in my mind? to say american is kinda random. but there's def something in the music. but see now if by the b-side you mean the allblack side without the trapez sigil then i'd say the a is the killer and the techy b leaves me colder. so maybe that's it. disco stu did you perchance like that yellow gabriel ananda 12 that gabba.net put up ages ago, the kind of deranged country radio one?

― Chip Morningstar (bob), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)

g.a. is one of my favorite trapez artists hands down. his recent release is the only one that didn't grab and mesmerize me instantly. i think the deranged country radio tune is on his first 12 for trapez.

i think it's the b-side of the ltd 12 that i like. the bassline sounds both prehistoric and robotic/futuristic. i can't remember what the a-side sounds like right now...will have to go home and listen to it again later.

― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i like mixing the warmer stuff with the colder stuff, the way false tracks play against a straighter tune that features a rhodes or something. (stiff against swing/schaffel is nice, too)

i wish kid606 wasn't the media darling he is. i like a lot of the stuff on tigerbeat6, but there's a lot of other music out there, too.

― disco stu (disco stu), Monday, 4 August 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Belated epiphany, 'Leave Luck to Heaven' is an English translation of Nintendo.

― Michael Dieter (Mika), Sunday, 16 July 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

So it is! It's a pretty esoteric idea though - the kanji are literally "leave" "heaven" "hall". or "place where you leave it to the heavens"

New Matt Dear 'Mouth to Mouth' is fantastic!

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 17 July 2006 00:11 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that was a mix CD when you mentioned it in the sci.fi.hi.fi thread before!
12" seems to be under his Audion psuedonym for what it's worth.

Audion album mix
Ghostly International / Spectral Sound s/d
Audion/ Ellen Allien split 12"

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 July 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

(thread needs some o' that)

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 July 2006 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think I remember hearing him play it at Sonar - track is one repetitive riff a la 'My Bleeps' and a looong rising plastic noise and that's it. And the bass only plays the 4/4 kick notes, which i am always a sucker for. Simple but effective.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 17 July 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what kind of nostalgia is at work with naming the album after Nintendo. It seems like quite a different point of reference than the technomythologies that first wave Detroit techno usually draws from. It speaks to a particular generation, in other words. That the NES was in present in one third of every household in the United States in 1990 seems pretty significant...

― Michael Dieter (Mika), Monday, 17 July 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

The logo from Spectral is also a homage to the ghostly enemies in Pacman.

― Michael Dieter (Mika), Monday, 17 July 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9e/Pacman.ghosts.png

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 17 July 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose that a certain strands of post-rave techno have an element of playfulness to them. I definitely felt this with kid606...

― Michael Dieter (Mika), Monday, 17 July 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

So, Matthew Dear has another full-length album coming out in June? Anyone else care? I thought his song on the last Spectral comp was so-so, but there's a song called "Neighborhoods" on one of the Ghostly podcasts that I like quite a bit.

The title of the new album is a Vonnegut reference, interestingly.

― mh, Friday, 2 March 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

Resident Advisor posted a tracklist + stremed track from it.
Seems resident advisor also forgot about backstroke in calling this his 2nd album. It also seems like this will be much less housier, as the track they put up certainly isn't.

― mehlt, Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

New Matthew Dear album is not house or techno I've been told. Really looking forward to hearing it.

― rchinn, Thursday, 15 March 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like the single, but I reallly like Leave Luck to Heaven so I'm anticipating this.

― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 15 March 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised he's reverting back to his name since he seems to be all about Audion/the audion sound right now.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 16 March 2007 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it's kind of wierd how I personally have started thinking of 'Matthew Dear' and 'Audion' as different. I noticed on that resident advisor page how they said Dear takes a break from his dancefloor-oriented Audion material (anyone remember ‘Mouth to Mouth’?) to go back to his real name and the music he started with: electronic vocal pop.

Which doesn't make total sense to me, because although I've read Matthew Dear himself say Audion is an alias for harder releases, and while that may be true, Leave Luck to Heaven was pretty dance-based (Fex, for instance, isn't poppy at all). Vocals and pop structure/durations of Matthew Dear's previous namesake stuff, I hope this isn't too far a departure out because I thought that signle sucked, and Leave Luck To Heaven is a true favourite of mine.

― mehlt, Friday, 16 March 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

Interviews and music-wise, it's seemed like he's shifting his eponymous work into more vocal pop, but without hearing the album that's a hard call to make since this one and Neighborhoods could be to the rest of the album as Dog Days was to the first. Saying he started with "electronic vocal pop" is really off though, since his first two solo releases (EP1/EP2?) were not that at all.

― mh, Friday, 16 March 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Not to mention all the stuff he recorded as False and Jabberjaw.

― Tim F, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

if you guys are right, the dudes at Ghostly got it wrong. Press release says "The album sees Matthew exploring the music he started with - vocal pop with electronic textures." Maybe he never released any of that stuff?

― good dog, Friday, 16 March 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

He's playing Boston this weekend, maybe I can get some (vague) answers.

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 17 March 2007 06:59 (eighteen years ago)

four months pass...

So, how about this new continuously mixed False album? I think the promos are out.

― mh, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

What about the rumor of an upcoming US live tour supporting (gulp) CSS? Makes no sense to me, but I guess weirder things have happened.

― JefferyMac, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Weird, I might be able to get my female CSS-loving (gulp) friends to go to that, though. Uh, now that I listen to my illict copy of this new False stuff, I'm wondering if he wasn't playing a lot of it when I saw him live last summer -- it was a shady outdoors thing in Chicago with a main stage w/Tiesto, Deep Dish, etc. and a tiny side stage that actually had some good stuff.

― mh, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

On first listen, the False album starts out really strong, dips a bit in the middle but gets really good again in the last 15 minutes or so. It gets quite deep with a twisted trippy disorienting sound; signature Matt Dear/False all the way through--syncopated with a lot of momentum and almost like electronic hoe-down music. Oddly, its the more tracky bits that are least satisfying--like "Fed on Youth" making an appearance is sort of eh because it's already too recognizable. The newer bits, strung together continuously in the mix are preferable.
I definitely need to listen to it on headphones to see if it sounds any different, but it's a solid B+ to me.

― saudade, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

anyone listen to his bbc essential mix yet? will get around to it eventually... seems to be on a predominately minimal tip. tracklisting here:

15th March 2008
Matthew Dear

Programme Intro
Matthew Dear ‘Dom & Sheri’ (Ghostly)
Hot Chip ‘No Fit State (Audion Mix)’ (EMI)
Marco Da Mata & Elle ‘Circling Dub’ (Acid Milk Recordings)
Santizzo, Makka ‘Goom’ (Supernova Digital)
Dapayk & Padberg ‘Theiss (Guido Schneider Remix)’ (Mos Ferry)
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts ‘My Main Man (Flying Filter Edit)’ (Hartchef Discos)
Reboot ‘Clear Motion’ (Below)
Reboot ‘Be Tougher’ (Cadenza)
E-Contact ‘Frozen Girls’ (Stock5)
Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra ‘Kisses (Over Temperature Mix I)’ (Get Physical)
Prompt ‘Evolve’ (7Noise)
Michael Ho ‘Break Free (feat. Lil Dirty)’ (Moon Harbour)
Prompt ‘Elephant’ (7Noise)
Supermayer ‘The Art of Letting Go (Ewan's The Art of Getting Low Dub)’ (Kompakt)
Ryo Murakami ‘Rise’ (Dessous Records)
Rozzo ‘I Wish I Was a Black Cat’ (Trackdown Records)
Jichael Mackson ‘Schnurz’ (Hartchef Discos)
Tim Woestenenk ‘Sunset Love’ (Quagmire)
Elflein & Fox ‘Map (Liebe Ist Cool Remix)’ (Synket)
D-Nox & Beckers ‘Shanghigh (Minilogue Remix)’ (Electribe)
Seth Troxler ‘Love Never Sleeps’ (Crosstown Rebels)
Life Lessons ‘Lee Curtiss’ (Unreleased)
Marc Neyen ‘Mad Suit (Pheek Remix)’ (Archipel)
Jichael Mackson ‘1000 Bugz feat. Blimp’ (Stock5)
Reboot ‘Tony Der Schieber’ (Combi Int.)
Kreon ‘Shake N Make (Reboot Remix)’ (Below)
Alka Rex ‘Ghost Convertibles’ (Musique Risquee)

― sam500, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 06:38 (seventeen years ago)

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