What is Magda like?

Her track selection is awesome, though, but how could it not be considering who she hangs out with? Still, she plays great stuff.

I last saw her 18 months ago, so I'm not certain that all my comments are still representative of her.

I want Names, I want Labels!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=38ON2TVZ

On holiday for that Fabric date... But I always much prefer seeing people in my home town rather than London... more intimate!

she might be playing leeds?

Hawtin's kitchen sink approach I need more Hawtin sets.

Hedgehogs "snuggling"!
http://www.discogs.com/image/L-150-11348-1079541442.gif

we certainly did, and it was great! which is why i'm excited to be seeing them again. i think it was about the 30th november last year.

eli, we should have stuck around for the afterparty in ricardo's hotel room - it was like crazy.

btw, i hung out with your pizza friend the other night.

1. Magda
2. Villalobos
3. Recloose
4. Nathan Fake

Two of these (inc. Mag) are here in the next two weeks and I might not be able to seee either!!!!

:(

Anyway, I learnt from tricky on the SF thread that Magda is playing at Rx this Saturday.

what about magda?

Also the samples of her new 12" on Boomkat sound bloody fantastic!

Made one festival and a couple of small gigs this year in the end, but hardly satisfied with that.

Making plans for January to make up for this silliness already.

Also missed Rex The Dog & Tomas Andersson... cos I really wanted to have a good bonfire night. Don't regret that though, the bonfire was awesome & huge & there was drinking :D

where is the continuity or story or even dare I say it the hook?

I mean ok I see the conceptual value blah blah records as tracks and all but seriously I can't get over some tiny feeling of records needing to be songs, even if pretty much everything I buy is a track and I argue to the hilt for the anonymity of the same.

Cameron: I agree it isn't so much like the Luciano mix, the comparison came from my first impression when I was expecting this mix to be much flatter, with less of a percolating bounce.

My main beef is it just isn't anywhere near energetic, or jacking enough (fourth gear, fourth gear!!) that 15 jahre groove set upthread just smokes this. And it really isn't even all that different sonically. This risks becoming a novelty, even though there are plenty of successful BITS (the disco, the bizzare morph-into-schaffel etc) overall it stays too constant, and it falls in and out of gripping you it's a mix for chin-stroking, for "listening" but not for the floor. Falls between stools for me.

Ronan do you like... Jeff Mills?

M_nus is a funny one for me, I listen to all their releases and think hmm, there's something a bit vapid about them though, does anyone else get that? Like empty technical precision.

Except "Seeing Through Shadows" which is one of my favourites this year for certain. But then Loco Dice is so not an M_nus artist.

This is like minimal porridge somehow, because of the unfortunately steady BPMs... tho' I gotta say for all the hatin' I'm still listening to it!

I dunno, for me I just see this as another technique, like wild EQ-ing, even if this mix isn't the best defence for it.

I'm a little unsure about a lot of m_nus too yeah, it gets very plastic on it's own but I gotta say SOME empty technical precision is worth it, like sitting in Polar Park in the sun and someone playing "25 Bitches" at four in the afternoon! Wow :O

It's definitely a very different vibe to "minimal" than the old hardcore stuff, or the baroque Villalobos stuff. I can understand why it gets accused of being glamorous (it is!).

Granted I have not heard it so it could blow me away somehow, but that is how I see it playing out.

I do like a bit of minus by the way. There were several good tracks on the last comp.

Not enough good basslines! And just generally not enough thought going into atmosphere or melody - too minimal! I don't want to here an interestingly programmed rhythm loop just by itself.

"Seeing Through Shadows" is the opposite of all of this, which is why it's so great.

haha, but yeah I do often think "this is good" when listening to M_nus but I never buy them. Then you hear producers like Konrad Black (whom I can't praise highly enough)or somebody doing stuff which feels like M_nus but with a really pervasive character to it, darkness I guess. M_nus is just kinda.......there, Troy Pierce really guilty of this IMO.

x-post yes non existent basslines, no sense of dub

It's just a contrast IMO, total wank if overused but a little goes a LOOONG way.

That said, Fandango is sort of OTM that the mix in whole meanders a bit too long at one constant level (which is ironic considering it has 71 tracks!)

Not enough good basslines! And just generally not enough thought going into atmosphere or melody - too minimal! I don't want to here an interestingly programmed rhythm loop just by itself.

Very OTM, which is why the Magda mix sort of surprised me by actually having constant basslines.

But blankness can be glamourous! Electroclash?

hey, speak for yourself dude! some REAL MEN still like their cheese stinky!!

Maybe, but i still stand by my "Transistions is a dub album" claim.

The Magda mix (I'm on the Luisterpaal right now), I dunno, I need this stuff once in awhile (mixed, other than the Plastikman albums I don't see the point of these m-nus tracks as stand-alone tracks.)

Yeah, I totally wouldn't extend that (barely thought through) comment about 'anti-dub' re: individual m_nus tracks to the mixes!

I need this stuff too! I DO actually like this mix you know (might even buy it). It's quite rubbery & fun. Just a smidge dissapointed it's been engineered to be so bloody restrained and Hawtin-esque (though not quite that extreme!) it sort of ends up "just another" CD in this vein when I was hoping for it to break away from that trend of quirky, but a little polite.

True. I was hoping for the same really.

De Luisterpaal is jamming at track 17, I was hoping for some gear change after that. ;)

I'm totally come round on this mix btw... except that I still think she's better (more danceable) IRL .

what is going on w this lady?

She's on tour now with Rich ...

MISSING: Magda's Record Bag

What is going on in the world today!?! First Matthew Dear's hard drive (which incidentally was returned by the guilt party after feeling a bout of remorse), now Magda's record bag. I mean hey, I realize we're in a recession but really?!?! Have people really sunk this low of late? What ever happened to PLUR!

From Magda: On Saturday night, my laptop bag was stolen from Centrum Club in Erfurt. We as djs and artists dedicate our entire energy and spirit to what we do. We work very hard to present music in our own special way. There is no better feeling than knowing that you and the people on the dancefloor are completely connected and knowing that we can share that feeling of excitement from hearing a new special track. In the end, we are not there to play for ourselves but for the people who support us and our music. I am deeply sad and disappointed to know that something like this could happen, especially in the dj booth, the one place where things should be safe. I feel like I have been stripped of the one thing that is closest to my heart. We are all in this together and we must respect each other, otherwise there is no point.

If you have any information about my missing items please contact KATRIN (at) CLONK (dot) COM

Magda

help me find one good magda set. all sets i've heard from her are either boring or mediocre.

Good luck with that.

hehe

If everything you've heard has been boring/mediocre, why keep looking? There's probably holy grails out there better than those of Magda.

Because I absolutely adore her looks :(

lol

when i saw magda, marc houle and troy pierce, they took the room and shook it like a snow globe for six hours

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, March 29, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8n421k7Vpg

still fondly remembered.

Live @ 16 Jahre Groove 12.11.2005 is a good one :)

I'm really liking her RA podcast, but I hear that's nothing like she normally plays...

anyone else feeling it?

really, really like it. Don't know a thing about her, but the mix smooths through a bunch of textures that shouldn't fit so nicely together.

Mite check that RA mix out as all the mixes ive heard from her have been pretty dull

yea, the mixes i've heard from her are pretty dull. i wonder if she's realy boring live.

What a hottie. You can see videos here: http://www.gypsymagda.com/framemain.html