Oslo POLL

Yes it's high time this indisputably brilliant and soulful label was discussed.

I think I like "Manipulation" best.

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I vote for Holmenkollen or the Vigeland Park. Or, wait, Huk Beach. :)

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woooooo

I voted for Orbitalife, purely cos I haven't heard the others!

How is that Guillaume?

It's really quite good. I was going to vote for it, but incomplete knowledge of the whole Oslo oeuvre dissuaded me. I actually tried ordering it a few weeks ago and was quite disappointed it wasn't in :(

Also, I think we're going to have to have a re-poll for this one.

Would have gone with Oslo 2

oslo 3 is a very good ep, but does anyone else agree that the fm bass line in "chapeele" is very similar to the one in "soulkaramba"? it puts me off slightly. i prefer the recent guillaume ep over his first one on oslo, i think it's close to the best thing he's done (but then i have been more into the trackier toolier dance records from this year)

i guess this is the right thread to discuss the sascha dive/johnny d split on love letters from oslo? the johnny d side is really really good, just one long, soulful rhodes solo over an endlessly percolating beat.

by soulful i meant DESECRATING THE HOLY ALTAR OF REAL DEEP HOUSE MUSIC, sorry

How is that Guillaume?

― lobsters on the pier (tpp), Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:05 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's really quite good. I was going to vote for it, but incomplete knowledge of the whole Oslo oeuvre dissuaded me. I actually tried ordering it a few weeks ago and was quite disappointed it wasn't in :(

― This time, or I'll perc you later (mehlt), Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:59 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Scratch that (I got the vinyl and) it's actually fantastic.

3 votes in total ?
clearly not everyones favourite label.
yet.

Hmm, not really feeling Oslo much to be honest. I do like 'Orbitalife', but I think I've hit a bit of a wall with this deep-house reboot. It's a bit hard to describe how I feel about Oslo without coming over all Pipecock, so I'll leave it at that. ^_^

i think writing oslo off as "deep-house reboot" is a bit of a misnomer when really only a few releases are remotely deep house (mara trax and "orbitalife"? "phey boom" maybe? the new damian schwarz?). i mean compare the label to other recently successful labels such as deep vibe, cecille, drumpoet community, or mountain people, where the feel is way more explicitly "deep". to me oslo is an excellent minimal house label, i think there are other significant culprits in the deep house revival if you really feel the need to point fingers

loving thE MOLLINARI Rmeix oN OSLO 1

quickest critical 180 on a techno label ever? i know emeperor's new clothes type posturing is hardly a new thing but it kinda sickens me the amount of people who are suddenly all anti-"mannheim sound", claiming it lacks "soul" or whatever. i spoke to one london dj on sunday night about this who also claimed to have never heard a villalobos record and never actually liked any of carl craig's "too commercial" 00s remixes, preferring more "real" "lo-fi" music made on "machines" by people from detroit or wherever. this kinda shit strikes me as being just as shallow and fake as whatever set of values it is these people are positioning themselves against

i can just about understand the u-turn on minimal, but wasn't oslo, cecille et al being hailed as the more soulful antidote to minimal like less than two years ago?

uh sorry about the all the scare quotes

lol @ never heard a villalobos record. what a badass.

i started getting back into dance music again last summer, when the backlash against the deep house rehash seemed to have already begun. don't really have an opinion on oslo or this whole trend because i haven't heard much of it, but i wonder if these successive critical 180s are more down to label quality control than you know, europeans being soulless robots or whatever (cue "you say that like it's a bad thing"). i haven't had the historical experience to say for sure. please point in the right direction if bobbins regulars have already hashed this out here.

I agree with you 100% r1o, and was actually thinking about this earlier today. I actually feel kind of bad at myself for having similarly lost a lot of early enthusiasm for Mannheim house, even when I was skeptical of a lot of the disparagement against Oslo, and am now tend to complain a lot about it. I'm not sure whether to attribute this to public fickle, label quality decline, or that this sound generally doesn't seem like it's the sort of thing that can stretch out to a whole style in itself without becoming spread extremely thin. Naturally its some combination of the three, though I still love listening to Orbitalife, etc.

On the other hand, people disparaging it on Pipecockean grounds, as in xxxpost, is a whole other issue.

Though I must say, though, I saw an opening DJ last week play pretty much all loopy mannheimesque house, and it was one of the most (legitimately) boring sets I've ever sat through.

i can just about understand the u-turn on minimal, but wasn't oslo, cecille et al being hailed as the more soulful antidote to minimal like less than two years ago?

― hotel califor.nia (r1o natsume), Tuesday, May 4, 2010 3:51 PM

think the problem some of the labels like oslo and cecille ended up having is that thing of being neither one thing or the other

anyway I think i would vote for the per eckbo orchestra track, totally love this track - perceptions are funny, this sounds like something that could well fit in a Zip set

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SQ1j5kuHSo

would love to know who that DJ was that said that r1o

I've met a few that big up Omar S and the like who were greedily lapping up M_nus releases only a year or two back. 'Minimal Denial'!