Stephan Bodzin _ Liebe Ist

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very unfortunate cover, but this is the dance album of the year so far

― ☪, Saturday, 12 May 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

yep this is really good after one listen

― lex pretend, Saturday, 12 May 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

a lot of it is very 'sky was pink' yes but clickier, bassier, very satisfying variations on the theme rather than recycling it. 'turbine' and 'kerosene' kind of stuck out at first.

― lex pretend, Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

not sure I could manage a whole album of bodzin

― Ronan, Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

it is quite intense, yes.

― ☪, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

This is very nice and all but so astonishingly derivative that I'm kind of having trouble taking it seriously.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

come on, its not that derivative. and the template is good! id rather have people rip off 'sky was pink' than m_nus.

― ☪, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

or human after all

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Does it have a ton of what I like to call his "bass moan." It's a beautiful sound, but only when he uses it to good effect. I have found that to be only about 25% of the time. When he hits, though, its massive.

― matt2, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

That first sentence was missing one of these "?" at the end.

― matt2, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

or human after all

amen lex!

― BleepBot, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

Okay I was wrong, this is very, very good indeed.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

It's still kind of shamelessly derivative in places but frankly if neither Nathan Fake nor James Holden could be bothered to make a good album then I don't see why Bodzin shouldn't step in and offset this wasted opportunity.

Does it have a ton of what I like to call his "bass moan."

If this is the sound that had me grinning embarassingly on the train during the big build in Luka-Leon and then again during Kerosene then, yeah, it's there.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Can't get over the Nathan Fake similarities enough, it's not like Fake has a wide body of work either, all these Bodzin tracks have been rips of one track, "The Sky Was Pink". For me Bodzin is great sort of candy floss but very unfunky a lot of the time and not that interesting.

Still will check this out though, I liked "Daytona Beach" quite a bit, cos at least it works in clubs.

― Ronan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't heard the album but all of the tracks I've heard over the last six months suggest to me that Bodzin is narrowing rather than widening his aesthetic, which is a nice one but I only really need "Miranda". Only the Depeche Mode remix has really surprised me - basically he should do more pop remixes! (Schumacher/Bodzin on The Knife was great too). I guess he's a bit like Misc. circa 2004 in that way. I can play any four tracks from Crunch Time and they sound great, but after that the monolithic aesthetic gets a bit wearing.

What I liked about the DJ promo mix from this time last year was how this aesthetic was plugged into slow-mo get physical disco ("SL Mirage" - still amazing!) and whirring electro-house and so on.

― Tim F, Thursday, 17 May 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

daytona beach is such a shithole! i can't believe someone would name a song after it.

― lfam, Thursday, 17 May 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

portishead named their entire band after a shithole

― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 May 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think Bodzin is a hack at all. There's a kind of glee and delight to his productions - as though he's just discovered how to make dance records and is just happy to be making all these noises in the studio. His videos on his website are the same, they're of him headbanging and dancing by himself behind the decks...to an empty club. what a total nut!

― good dog, Friday, 18 May 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

I presume he called it Daytona Beach after the 80s/90s arcade game, unless I'm imagining there was one called this. Pretty sure though.

― Ronan, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

There was an arcade racing game called Dayton USA. But not Daytona Beach.

― jim, Friday, 18 May 2007 09:31 (eighteen years ago)

Florida is a haven for drunk rednecks, Daytona is their unassailable fortress.

― later arpeggiator, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

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