Nathan Fake's been a bad influence on dance music

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he's hit and miss.

I think Dinamo was a pretty big deal though.

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you, sir, are an 'indie'. we know your sort around here!

I think Dinamo was a pretty big deal though.

i agree that its the best Fake track Holden was not involved in, but its way too cute and not very danceable, and hearing it out 5000 times didnt help any

I don't give a flying fuck if it or anything else "stands the test of time" whatever that's supposed to mean.

Perhaps you are on the wrong thread- this is where we discuss music not throw insults around cause you have no taste (or knowledge ) in music---- :)

what the F***ks a lexurian

it sounds like really really really polite trip-hop

again a good remix far better tahn the orig

ronan i remember once you said jon carter's tribal house was like the empitome of the house mix cd. does this statement still stand? if not, does this reduce the value of the tribal house stylings of mr jon carter??

I'm not sure if there have really been any bad Fake knock-offs. There have certainly been Holdenalikes (Minilogue, Ost & Kjex's "How Not To Be A Biscuit", the Jackson mix of M83 if you go back in time, "Mandarine Girl" and the post -"Mandarine Girl" tracks to some extent) but most of these have been great.

"Dinamo" was great but I prefer the Eulberg mix which is somehow simultaneously smoother and crazier.

it's a great CD, I guess house mix CDs have probably changed alot since then but I don't think that that really changes it being a good mix CD.

I've not heard Dinamo out yet but god damnit that Gazebo has legs.

Fake did make a minimal house 12 inch for Traum which is very good: "Dinamo" is a spindly number with this melody that bounces all over the place in a slightly disorinting fashion. "Coheed" is a weepy neuromantic slowburner.

But I actually prefer the remix 12 inch where the two tracks are remixed by Dominik Eulberg and Michael Mayer respectively - the remixes seem to bring out the great qualities of the originals more sharply.

plus Agoria never topped "L'Onzieme Marche".

x-post fez otm.

no?

Save for Dinamo and one other, I've never heard one of Fake's tracks out at a club. There'll always be a shoegazey side to dance but I don't think it's Nathan Fake's doing. He's just very visible and easy to cotton onto (mixes rock and dance, indie values, releases albums that get into the mainstream press, has the right haircut, is young and idol-worthy)

I like Agoria, esp. Les Beaux Jours and Wolke (flatteningly noisy) but the guy is a follower rather than a leader, not too original, always slighty bigger versions of other people's steps forward. Jacob, have you heard Cute and Cult and what do you think?

I guess I just draw the similarities between the two because of the overwhelming layers of amorphous midrange that they both use. Except Agoria is much more functional as dance music therefore I like it more.

What does Nathan Fake's haircut look like?

Sports a pretty standard seventies poodle but definitely rock. I imagine if you look at Nathan Fake's record collection there'd be a lot of the artier seventies prog/rock. He did call his album 'Drowning In a Sea of Love'!

Yeah, definitely similar in their mid-range noisiness. Agoria's mix CD drops the slow shuffle of Iggy Pop's 'Nightclubbing' out of the blue in the middle.

I just see it as some sort of post rock influenced post dance.....

when i first heard about it, i thought it was going to be straight up dance... and wasnt impressed.

its great for staring out of train windows to in sunny days...

not sure Id be fussed on the dancfloor.....

Okay it's fucking tenuous. But they remind me of each other as I think they use the same techniques (big overwhelming amorphous synth noises) albeit in slightly different fields of endeavour.

Me too. And with the same rate of success as decent post rock (ie one interesting track in every five or so).

^ 108 minutes of sky was pink/holden mix ripoffs!!! hell yeah :D

I DJ'd his straightforward acid track 'Untying the Laces' over the weekend. Liked that one a lot actually.