akufen's "deck the house"

i'm in bits........

At like 2:30 in the morning last night I, for no good reason at all, turned on my radio, gave the dial one big turn without even looking at it, and out of nowhere it landed perfectly (on a radio with shitty reception, nonetheless) on a this track (and the station played pretty much just really cheesy indie rock afterwards). I was impressed, at least.

Seriously though, wasn't there word his 2nd album was going to come out this year, anyone know what's doing with that?

akufen is ok. total rip of todd edward's style, tho.

rip off, maybe, but he's still waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more interesting.

Psychometry 3.0 soooooooooooo good!

yaaaaawn

The lack of "woah, Jesus is great!" bollocks makes Akufen way more palatable than Todd Edwards.

To begin with, I did think 'Todd Edwards rip-off’ but there’s something in some of Akufen’s work that just has so much fun and joy which surpases even Edwards, sure as:

"1re Tournee"

http://www.junodownload.com/products/1294070-02.htm

Akufen is also more able to use space in music, whereas Todd - as much as I love him - is relentlessly dense.

Plus he’s an awesome DJ. And took the piss of Richie Hawtin’s risible “The Cube” marketing recently:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/events/flyer/2008/au-0725-59840-front.jpg

Todd Edwards never made anything like 'Skidoos' sadly

I never really followed anything he did after My Way - it was the title track and the first two or three on the album that really did it for me. Did he carry on further down the microhouse path or did he go for full-on wacky cut-up madness?

i just played this 12" for my mom last week - she liked it!

Nice mix here:

http://www.play.fm/playfm_artists.php?p_id=3046

Todd Edwards never made anything like 'Skidoos' sadly

― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:45 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ha, I nearly posted the exact same thing last night.

The last original production I've heard of Mark's was his horror inc.'s contribution to Superlongevity 4, which unfortunately, I didn't find particularly good at all.

What was his stuff for pregnant ladies like?

is there todd edwards stuff with radio sounds, static, crisp cut ups?

i dont think they're really that comparable from what i've heard. edwards seems much more informed by uk garage / 2 step whereas akufen comes from the minimal school, lots of space in the track, very clean sounding samples.

edwards is melody overload, akufen seems to imply melody through his choice of samples.

they're both similar in their funkyness i guess, but thats about it.

it'd be great if they worked on a track together, or if one remixed the other.

Edwards' priority seems to be more on traditional songwriting, his tracks are relatively coherent with each one only cutting up about three or four different sources. the cutups are instantly distinctive but it's mainly about the lead vocal melody, and that guy can write some incredible tunes. that last record of his Odyssey was seriously slept on, it should have been everywhere

what I love about 'Deck The House' is that I think he started off with an expert house chord sequence, then oriented the samples on top to compliment & harmonize with it to take it in more of a dissonant / Public Enemy direction, then subtracted the chord pads. The bass line points at the chords, the dozens of brief tonal stabs hint at the harmony & drive everything forward -- you can feel where the music should be, but the absence is disorienting, the only thing you can count on is the rhythm

always preferred the Herbert remix of 'Deck The House' tho

^ ban

i'm serious, i just suggest banned you for that

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/I_Ain

't Scurred?

The 'Pregnant Ladies' stuff is really great, and a testament to the fact he's not just radio samples and microhouse. Really really nice music.

man, this record

What's he been up to?

I think he's touring now actually (well, playing at various global mutek things, at least). I saw him play last May at Mutek, although I was a bit feverish and not entirely there. A lot of it was less housey, and more on the slower funk side of things. Nothing that blew me away, and he's still up to the same tricks, but I neither hold it against him (I can't fairly hold him up to my 'the guy who got me into house in the first place' standards, anyways), and I would certainly be interested in hearing some recorded stuff, whenever that may or may not surface.

these records still bang