Antye Greie & related projects thread

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I'm very much looking forwad to the Quio album myself, Minimally Dazed on the Gazon Gazolina 12" (produced by AGF) is simply disarming. Link here.

heh. never seen a pic of the guy before, seems even funnier somehow now :)

thanks for making the connection there ken.

(on preview) I have the e.p. Jena (not on er.. vinyl) I posted about it around here before. Anticipating. or at least curious about the full-length too (wasn't expecting it till next year though!).

Listening to another Katja Zavoloka track now (off her album, not agf related).. it's pretty beautiful and doesn't remind me of Venetian Snares this time. Which can only be a improvement.

about the Sue CIe thing, it makes sense. Antye's done a lot of music for video installations & stuff before (I've read). I think it comes over in her music honestly (some of 'Westernization Completed' was drawn from it). I've noticed some other really promising electronic musicians coming from that side of things (Natalie Beridze) too. I think there's a lot more latent creativity in approaching things from music/video combination angle first, and then moving out than there is going the other way myself (VJ-ing etc). Or maybe it's a natural, needed development to rein in/mentally focus the expanded scope (and potential failure in formlessness) possible in this area of music these days. Almost certainly I'm rambling now.

/coat

I think its perhaps deliberately serene & unhurried, but for a while I missed the jagged edges and unpredictablity of AGF's solo stuff.. I felt like the production had smoothed things out too much at first, at the expense of variety. What beats there are are very sparse, and nicely unpredictable bases for the songs. This all sounds dry, but there are nice pop-like moments too like 'Causing a Taifun' for instance.

There's a video for 'A Distant View' off the album here (top of page)
http://www.agfdelay.com/start.html which is sorta representative musically. Although there are more interesting tracks on the record thatn that ('Explode' 'From Morning On' 'Do Protest').

Lappetites - Before The Libretto
Quio - Like Oooh!
The Dolls - The Dolls

all released, can't really slsk right now, but am sort of sleeping on them (just can't afford to check them out) should I be?

Zavoloka & AGF - Nature Never Produce The Same Beat Twice
AGF & Sue.C - Mini Movies CD/DVD
Laub- title tba

Still to come. I may be catching her & Sue C live in a few weeks so might get an idea of how that second one will be.

I never did catch that live show... and I feel kind of bad I haven't caught up with the product avalanche post "Explode". Then again, little of it's really caught my ear in an exceptional way either sadly. But this is all going by samples & such...

I'm still on the fence about Antye's CDs, she rarely stays as abstract or deep as the show I saw, she's more interested in trying for pop structures. Apart from the Lappetites sound collage group jam, which I should listen to again before deciding on.

so apparently there's a new solo album... and is she really producing Ellen Allien's fourth proper solo album (due summer)???

I regret not going to that show so much now, damn.

"Words are Missing" pretty fine on first spin!

Cognitive Modules Party II is like, wow, goosebump e-d up idm-minimal-house (sorta) of the kind that appears to be not hip at all lately... and other bits more like wolf-eyes-cum-porno-soundtrack. I'm liking the adventurousness so far, wasn't really after her repeating herself.

Echoing Fandango there. The Wolf Eyes comparison on that song is interesting though to me it's a fairly obvious nod to Laurie Anderson as well. But yes, the whole album really is something on first blush; been a while since anything you could tag as 'IDM' has gained and held my attention from the first song.

the wolf eyes thing was just me with a sorts uneducated broad-brush saying 'ooh treated/gutteral vocals blending into distortion.. and stuff'

We're all flailing. (Some of us just get paid for it from time to time.)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10107

Domestic bliss and artistic bliss. It's hard to pull off, but Antye Greie and Sasu Ripatti have seemingly figured it out, as their second full-length under the AGF/Delay moniker will be released later this year.

Greie had a busy 2008, putting out two solo full-lengths as AGF as well as co-producing Ellen Allien's Sool, and she's looking to carry that on into this year with the release of Symptoms. Produced with her long-term partner Sasu Ripatti (who you may be more familiar with under the name Luomo, Uusitalo or Vladislav Delay), their AGF/Delay collaboration combines the duo's experimental and pop tendencies to create restrained vocal tracks that overflow with sexual tension.

As with their previous album Explode, Symptoms is full of dubby textures and micro-samples, whilst Greie adds her quirky vocals that drift between singing and spoken word. Greie's friendship and co-production work with Ellen Allien has meant that Symptoms will see the light of day on Allien's BPitch Control label, which should see AGF/Delay's sound brought to a wider audience this time around.

Tracklist
01. Get Lost
02. Connection
03. Downtown Snow
04. Outbreak
05. Bulletproof
06. Generic
07. Congo Hearts
08. Most Beautyull
09. Symptoms
10. Smileaway
11. Second Life
12. In Cycles

after a few months, I kind of find "Words are missing" a little overlong tbh. Getting through the whole disc is something of a chore... there's some really great stuff on there though still. I haven't really listened to the follow up(?) enough to form an opinion really, tentatively though I didn't feel convinced, at least not as much as this http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/3926/agf-dancefloordrachen-2008 review does!

I'm kind of curious that this new one is coming out on Bpitch Control... seems a little odd after all the fierce independence vibes of her & Vladislav's other stuff coming out on her own label or Humme. I still really like "Explode" and thinking back am quite surprised at how lush the packaging was for such a unheralded release (wonder if they broke even or lost money?).

Perhaps labels don't matter anymore though, apart from Modeselektor and a couple of others... ok Bpitch probably do still sell more (though I'm hardly buying/following them much anymore) but Luomo also seems well enough regarded that I'd be surprised if there was *that* big a gap between the number of paid-for copies sold. I haven't heard the Telefon Tel Aviv record (or much else of their catalouge really...) but I guess thinking about it Bpitch have always released a fair number of sophisto-glitch records (from TimTim to Damero to artists now who started on other labels...) so I'm not really expecting this to sound any different. Bpitch's sonic identity seems a fair bit weaker & more diffuse than it used to these days anyway (way way too many middling cardboard-sounding tech-house 12"s under the bridge for me now... still hope for a couple of good albums a year but I do think they've dropped off, considering I used to <3 <3 <3 them to my bones earlier in the decade...)

Hope this album is good or at least interesting anyway.

i've not really had chance to listen to the new one yet so no opinions 4 ILM but just wanted to post

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Gudrun Gut's collaboration with AGF "Baustelle" (construction site) will finally be broadcast
on march 19th on BBC3's Late Junction at about 23:56 GMT.
Tune in to hear the world premiere of these exclusive tracks.
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