WUT WUT WUT WUT~~~

single of the fucking year finally gets a release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc6ZqhJWRhE&p=2103B2358040291E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZEB26zVKEI&p=2103B2358040291E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFiG0nNoaTs&p=2103B2358040291E

these tracks are so incredible, i can't even. so large, so opulent, intergalactic royal processionals~~

I like the third one the best. Is there a name for this genre of young person's dance music?

prob best just to go with "no" on that point for now

I really like the title track, best thing on Night Slugs so far by a considerable margin. I'd hardly describe it as "opulent" though, those synth noises sound like the producer's going out of their way make them to sound cheap and nasty.

wow the wut wut wut track is one of the best songs i've heard all year lex, just beautiful!

kind of interesting take on modern hip hop production...

the other two songs are good, but for some reason they seem like tracks that are waiting for some one to come record rap vocals over...

but they are good...

whats' the story with this band? uk? new? do they have an album?

actually the more i'm getting into it, the third one is really great too, the second seems the weakest to me...

but the "wut wut wut" high sample thing on the first song is one of those little bits of magic that is hard to match.

This is probably an artifact of my headphones but it sounds like most of the low end of "Wut" is missing, making this kind of a trebly, tremulous mess.

Also, thanks to years of listening to UK hardcore/jungle/dnb, all of these songs sound half tempo and sluggish to me.

"Every Time" is kind of great though, just to contradict what I just wrote.

This is probably an artifact of my headphones but it sounds like most of the low end of "Wut" is missing, making this kind of a trebly, tremulous mess.

― O'Donnell and the Brain (HI DERE), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 12:33 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah sounds quality is ass and i have nice headphones

tempos are pretty low...doesn't really seem like something you could dance to really, more listening music...

is this chillwave? idk what that really is

Yeah it's REALLY trebly, which is why I'm surprised at it being Lex's single of the year, for all his railing against treble in pop music. It's quite bassy as well though, just not much in between.

It's all about the cut-up vocals for me. The other two would be greatly improved by having someone shout "Pow pow pow pow Wacka Flocka Flame!" over the top.

If anything it's come out of dubstep, which explains the tempo and general sluggishness, but it's been big on dancefloors this year. Albeit the sort of dancefloor I tend to avoid.

maybe it would be good for line dancing, doing the achy breaky and slap leather etc

it seems like it would be good "slowly staggering through an opiate haze" music

Also, thanks to years of listening to UK hardcore/jungle/dnb, all of these songs sound half tempo and sluggish to me.

What about your years of listening to hip-hop though?

yeah it just sounds like a kinda goofy take on like diplomats type stuff

This is a good bit slower than like... 95% of the hip-hop I listen to!

I mean, just for tempo comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Et1siZhTk&feature=fvw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI-FTdtg1k8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gQP5r4IyU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1D41cNCFsA

etc

eh, i think it's pushing it call it any sort of flagship nightslugs release, it's good but there's easily other comparable releases.

re: the trebl-y-ness - have any of you heard this live on a good pa? the bass is killer.

It's trebly AND bassy, the version I have sounds pretty big on headphones.

"wut" is pretty sick

the first time i heard 'wut' i felt like it had always been there. instant classic!

there is definitely some clubworthy bass in there on "wut"--whoever said it's the midrange that is gone was otm.

this is kind of cool but yeah it's hard to know what to "do" with it--tempo-wise and given the spaced-out vibe it kind of reminds me of that g-side record w/out the rapping and nasa samples.

ok on the second song the combination of grandiosity + chintzy production is grating

this is way closer to hip-hop chillwave than lex will ever admit

what to do with it - BOUNCE people

the bass on this is huge! but there's no b-line, it's just a kick

"this" = "wut"

There is totally a bassline, although it probably doesn't carry through to a Youtube embed.

but i hear other low end? weird

i think the lack of bass is probably due to youtube quality...

its function in dancefloor sets is pretty amazing - it really disrupts most of them, just because the sound palette is just so full-on compared to everything surrounding it, but that's not really a bad thing. i'd never say these were bangers as such - they just sound incredible on club speakers that magnify their largeness. people don't so much get down to them as raise their hands up.

those synth noises sound like the producer's going out of their way make them to sound cheap and nasty.

i don't get this in the slightest - yeah it's trebly but it feels so clean, and there are so many ingredients (plus a ton of echo) that all three tracks have this incredibly majestic feel for me - these really overwhelming waves of sound that sound particularly amazing on club speakers. i love how detailed they are - that twinkling motif on "wut", the synth melody coming in towards the end of "every time", the whistle mid-"showstoppa". a lot of the higher-end melodies owe quite a bit to the more abstract grime productions of the mid-00s, and there's a huge juke influence in the beats (esp "showstoppa").

eh, i think it's pushing it call it any sort of flagship nightslugs release, it's good but there's easily other comparable releases.

it's prob my favourite night slugs release so far - certainly the most distinct (and the most demanded - they weren't going to release this so soon after "irl" (girl unit's debut)) but it built up such momentum that they had to. kingdom's that mystic ep and velour's the velvet collection ep are prob my other two favourite NS releases - they're so different too, properly banging, dark techno and gorgeous, melodic woozy funk (one for dâm-funk fans, i think) respectively. jam city's "arpjam" should be huge when it's released too.

whats' the story with this band? uk? new? do they have an album?

one guy, often hilariously assumed to be an all-female group. this is his second single - the first, "irl", is ok, pretty different though. he's done an incredible remix of c.r.s.t.'s "the bells", not on youtube but it definitely has the large, ecstatic walls of synths that these do.

this is way closer to hip-hop chillwave than lex will ever admit

i still don't know what chillwave is, specifically! is it the same as witch house? i like some of that.

i don't get this in the slightest - yeah it's trebly but it feels so clean, and there are so many ingredients (plus a ton of echo) that all three tracks have this incredibly majestic feel for me - these really overwhelming waves of sound that sound particularly amazing on club speakers. i love how detailed they are - that twinkling motif on "wut", the synth melody coming in towards the end of "every time", the whistle mid-"showstoppa". a lot of the higher-end melodies owe quite a bit to the more abstract grime productions of the mid-00s, and there's a huge juke influence in the beats (esp "showstoppa").

I think Matt is saying that the actual synth sounds used are tightly associated with grimier music. Certainly when I was listening to this I got a sense of musical density but nothing came close to coming across as "majestic", rather more like this is the sound of rave kids fucking in slow motion.

"showstoppa" is prob the most majestic of the three for me? i always think of a red carpet rolling out in space.

girl unit's also done two u&k mixes this year which probably help "explain" where his own aesthetic comes from -

http://palmsout.net/2010/girl-unit-mix-2010/
http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2010/08/girl-unit

i think i could see where yr. coming from re: "majestic" if i heard this in better quality. otoh every sound seems like it's probably in the roland mc-505 that i never figured out how to use.

like basically it's hard for me to get "majestic" out of a track that sounds like Skin Up played at half tempo

Yeah it's not intending to sound rich and deep and opulent because the actual synth sounds used are essentially the same kind of fake chiptune noises you hear on the Ikonika album, it's harking back to a particular 90s nostalgic way of sounding shimmery, and the cheapness of the sound is part and parcel of that. You compare it to the sounds on, say, the We Love album and one obviously sounds like they've gone to the trouble of making it sound rich and full and textured and the other hasn't, and probably isn't interested in doing so. It sounds preset-y basically.

a lot of the higher-end melodies owe quite a bit to the more abstract grime productions of the mid-00s

Exactly! Grime wasn't meant to sound opulent, it was meant to sound like cheap dirty beat-em-up music.

This thread title makes me want to bump "Superthug" at high volume.

just for comparison's sake, this is the Skin Up track this stuff reminded me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_G16ge4FYY

i like this!

nice post on this at passion of the weiss

http://passionweiss.com/2010/10/28/sach-o-girl-unit-%E2%80%93-wut/

man this song is addictive

WUT WUT WUT bay bay be bay be bay be bay be baybebaybe

yessssss

i feel like this should be a beat for a rapper that doesn't currently exist. we need to invent a rapper.

also it's awesome and hilarious to me that there is a gravediggaz youtube in this thread

WUT WUT WUT

This is nice isn't it? Kind of a midpoint between Joker, Sinden and Jackie Chain. I dig.

it's awesome and hilarious that Skin Up is on this thread :-D

find it strange that people "don't know what to do" with this ina post dubstep'n'crunk'n'Salem world.

shit dude, post-salem world already?

We can but hope.

this 'wut' track has been my jam for a few days now btw.. thx lex

works better in a mix. hearing it as a single lessen the true potential of it. just IMO.

i feel like this should be a beat for a rapper that doesn't currently exist. we need to invent a rapper.

i thought the same thing at first, but i actually think Black Milk would sound tremendous over this

shit dude, post-salem world already?

― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 29 October 2010 12:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Witch House is sooo early-2010s now. It's all about Swedish Industro-Bhangra in Hitchin these days.

I'm into this but not as much as I feel I should be. Maybe I need to hear a better quality version. Still love Kingdom and the Deadboy remix of Drake's "Fireworks" if that restores my uk chillwave cred.

Needs more

she say im down wih huh, i say bitch you alone
you lyin wit the flesh, lyin with the bone
she say i'm lyin wih huh, my mind in the SKREET
i say i'm not with me, i'm with she, i'm with she
now plane lights blinkin, off in da evenin
got me thinkin, wish i was leavin

nothing needs more that

those lyrics are great we should talk about that band more

bumpin

works better in a mix. hearing it as a single lessen the true potential of it. just IMO.

Show your work.

Kingdom makes great use of it here: http://www.factmag.com/2010/07/30/fact-mix-171-kingdom/
<3 that mix so hard.

that mix is gone. grrr.

it's in girl unit's own mixes that i linked upthread too

Gukbe- I'll send it to you.

Oh, you can still get it here: http://kkingdomm.com/audio/factmix_july2010.mp3

awesome, thanks guys.

WUT WUT WUT

hands-down the best UK dance track of the year – take it from me, i live in minneapolis and listen to neil young!

i am loving this track - i wasn't overly fond of "IRL" at the time but i should maybe reinvestigate

IRL is just horrible. Like having some massive lairy drunk smash into you on the dancefloor. And it's on every fucking set these guys put out.

Sometimes I wonder if all music in this vein was kinda ruined for me forever by the brilliance of Low Deep's "Straight Flush" - like I've actually burned out that part of my music retinas by staring at the sun too intently.

works better in a mix. hearing it as a single lessen the true potential of it. just IMO.

Show your work.

― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, October 29, 2010 4:51 PM (Yesterday)

why should I?

My this certainly does sound more impressive in high quality. Bass!

Night Slugs feature @ http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1254
Comes with a 47 minute mix.
Thanks Lex, WUT revisits me multiple times a day since the start of this thread :)

^^ jam city's "arpjam" on that mix is fucking insanely good, really hope that gets a release this year

Kingdom slapping the vocals from Ciara's "Ride" on top of "Every Time" was one of many highlights when I saw him a few nights ago.

oh SHIT i'd've lost my shit at that

Yeah, he kind of had my jaw on the floor the whole time. :) Sorry to veer off-topic, but I have really treasured Kingdom's tracks, mixes and remixes this year. His monthly event here has been the source of many euphoric nights. Can't remember the last time I was inspired to go out so much.

i get the fbook invites to those and EVERY TIME wish i could go. and i've never managed to catch kingdom over here either - once this year i got to interview him but on the night had a deadline crisis; the time after that i was in spain; and he's coming over in a couple of weeks, when i...will be in miami

AARGH

Oh good, the EP is on Spotify. INSTANT LOVE for "Wut" and "Showstoppa", WOW!

mike (and indeed everyone) should check out kingdom's stuff (esp "mind reader", "that mystic" and "fogs") - not exactly similar but approaching cut-up r&b vox/heavy bass from a different angle

actually i'll just bump his thread - Kingdom ft. Shyvonne - Mind Reader

I know "Mind Reader" quite well - Lex, you tipped me to it a few months back. Great track. Will try the other two.

single of the fucking year finally gets a release

single of the year? hm. i just heard it, and it is good. i can see where the processed vocals can be irritating/nervewracking after a while. tagged it to download later on emusic.

xpost whole Night Slugs catalogue is available on Spotify and that's so fucking sweet, just type label:"night slugs" in searchbox

this is very great except I want to say wut wut in the butt :(

Wonder what popular internet phrase Girl Unit will use for his next single?

LOL

Deserved that

dayo- I don't think that impulse is nearly as strong here as it is with, say, Trey Songz' "Bottoms Up" (Bottoms up, bottoms up/ stick it in your butt). :)

^^ jam city's "arpjam" on that mix is fucking insanely good, really hope that gets a release this year

i know lex loves them (not least as hes mates with them all) but can there just be a rolling nightslugs thread so there arent new ones started for these guys all the time?

This is pretty much the only Night Slugs thread isn't it? Mind Reader wasn't even on Night Slugs.

Don't think there's really much doubt that Lex sincerely loves all this stuff, he's not just street teaming his friends for the sake of it.

is this like the post dubstep "d.a.n.c.e."

:(

deadboy drake remix is so beautiful

ysi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oMgqdAPESY

Glad you like Jordan! Though it really does sound like "all I see is tiger woods..."

haha noooooooo that's all i'm gonna hear now

that + the james blake cover of feist = repeat bedtime listening atm

this is pretty dope

even tho the use of literal firework sounds at the beginning & end of the track is both obvious and i believe carried over right from the drake song, it works really well w/ the deadboy remix -- its sort of like you're looking up in the sky and witnessing this really pretty thing -- it gives me the the same sort of feeling of intense romance in my chest that i get when i see the fireworks scene in 'adventureland'

ok this crowd video of 'wut' is amazing, somehow it's even huger w/ fuzzy blown-out sound and shakycam, i want to be dancing right now.

endless <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

mixed also with endless ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; that i couldn't be there

(not that i'm complaining about having been able to sunbathe on south beach for the past few days)

\_OˬO_/ at the drop at 1:50

also lol at "face down ass up" reconfigured as a grace note for such a pretty and non-concrete, textually, vocal hook

not sure why i made the justice snark comment above, i don't know why i have inbuilt negativity towards this when actually anytime i open ableton i try and make music like this. think i have some contrarian feelings towards this just cos i live in london, but i like wut. agree with whoever said they wait for a rapper to come in, i feel a lot like this about lots of this kind of music.

agree about the comments about "what to do" with this music too...i've been in clubs where people "bounce" and it's extremely macho/tedious watching people posture...i guess if i went out to clubs where they play rap music it might be like that too but i dunno, maybe more fun.

It's the R&B cut-ups that really make this IMO... it doesn't really feel very functional but that's fine.

His remix of Lights On by Katy B is kind of horrible.

Love Wut and Showstoppa but kind of think both sound like they're missing something. Wut gets boring at its length.

Anticipating
http://img602.imageshack.us/img602/9245/jamcity.jpg

Say whatever about Night Slugs, their sleeve designs are just out-and-out great.

Listening through proper speakers for the first time... this is fucking AMAZING music

i shall be talking to girl unit (and braiden) tomorrow on resonance fm, 7pm http://www.resonancefm.com/ (pre-recorded interview w/girl unit and talking w/braiden live); i'm sure it'll be on the internet afterwards too

there will be EXCLUSIVE MUSIC played!

among the topics of discussion: which rapper girl unit would most like to hear over the top of these trax

interview in middle of this podcast - http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lollards-podcast/2010/11/freaky-trigger-and-the-lollards-of-pop-series-4-week-11/

Wow, the last four tracks on the Night Slugs label comp are really fantastic, especially Jacques Greene's 'Baby I Don't Know What You Want'. This sort of colourful space-funk sound works *so* much better for me than the more full-on thick-grey-line bass stuff that comes before it. I'm including 'Wut' in the former category obviously.

yeah the optimum one really surprised me, given what his ep was like. you should hear the velour ep if you haven't, it's all technicolour off-kilter funk like that - you can tell why dâm-funk's a kindred spirit.

this is my favourite on the compilation though, soooo good - posted it in the dance partisans thread already but never sure how many people actually look in there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs5sEaYGNBU

Really impressed by the few other Jacques Greene tracks I've heard, too. (<3<3<3 "Tell Me"!!)

His LuckyMe 12" was supposed to come out Monday but I'm not seeing anywhere to buy it yet.

funny that the Greene track mis/re-interprets Ashanti's "Baby I don't know why..." from 'Foolish'

think i like the Kingdom, Egyptrixx (maybe filler-y to some but i like the relative oddness) and Velour tracks most (aside from 'Wut') but it's all good and will get bought.

yeah Arpjam is just incredibly funky

http://www.urb.com/2010/11/30/urb-presents-jacques-greene-exclusive-mix/

1. Jacques Greene – The Look (Koreless remix)
2. Ango – Love Me
3. Jacques Greene - Tell Me
4. Mood II Swing – Move Me
5. Machinedrum - DDD
6. Jacques Greene - Good Morning
7. Nu-Birth – Anytime
8. 24 Hour Experience – All Nighter
9. Ramadanman & Midland – Your Words Matter
10. James Fox – New Jack Swing
11. Sasse & James Flavour – The Right Way (Tony Lionni Rremix)
12. Jacques Greene – (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want
13. Dubbel Dutch - Throwback
14. Aril Brikha - Groove La Chord
15. xxxy – Ordinary Things
16. Colours - Hold On (SE22 Mix)
17. Jacques Greene – Another Girl
18. Rick Ross ft. Drake & Chrisette Michele – Aston Martin Music

I think Arpjam (and Jam City in general) is strictly at the end of the spectrum I don't like, but I'm trying to be nice here.

yeah i haven't liked other Jam City stuff but i really like that one. obviously it's not a full-blown technicolor dream like some of the other tracks on this comp but i find the beat irresistable

irresistIble... jesus what is wrong with me

would love Arpjam a lot more if he'd thrown a big extra hook on top - not necessarily the mentalism extent of Ecstasy Refix but it doesn't outstrip that imo

my 2nd fav jam city track might be "in the park" - on his myspace - http://www.myspace.com/jamcitytrax - no idea whether there are plans to release it, he made it quite a while ago now, but i absolutely love the gothiness of it - the sample of blowing wind in the background and that sinister melody

this is not on night slugs, but the dance partisans thread doesn't seem to get many responses, so in the vein of "banging bass music with r&b samples", gotta recommend brenmar's at it again ep (out this week), in particular this a-ma-zing marques houston-sampling joint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD70jxSwCZ4

hmm, i don't usually like brenmar's live stuff at least but i think this is the first production i've heard from him, don't hate it

my idea of hell is being stuck in a room listening to this

describe this room

Chiming in on this being my favourite thing in the dubstep/bass continuum so far. Early dubstep I found a bit slow and dull, didn't mind the nosebleed Caspa stuff but it got boring after not very long at all, then all the Zomby/post-step stuff came out and was pretty good but seemed a bit IDM-y and missed the point of "bass" music. This is great stuff - a nice mixture of colour, danceability, poppiness and menacingness. Love the way dance music is going at the moment.

That Brenmar track is fun, I like it. All these dudes need to stop fannying around with samples and instrumentals and start working with some actual vocalists a bit more.

I like the Velour EP as well, Booty Slammer and Kick It Til It Breaks in particular.

All these dudes need to stop fannying around with samples and instrumentals and start working with some actual vocalists a bit more.

Haha I said almost these exact words to Steve Braiden on the radio.

Like it feels like British dance music is approaching some kind of Wild Bunch style tipping point but not getting there due to a) lack of vocalists, b) lack of record labels to put the good stuff out (WHY are there no dedicated funky record labels?) and c) a residual hangover from dubstep that values bass over beats and hooks. It's getting there though.

the vocalists closer to this scene that spring to mind - ahu, fatima - tend to veer towards off-kilter/abstract/skewed hip-hop stuff themselves rather than club bangers

i have said to girl unit that what i really want to see, maybe in about a year's time, is for the "wut" ep to be scored for orchestra

Scoring dance music for orchestra never really works, it either sounds like remedial classical music or loses something else in translation. Unless they're going to somehow orchestrate for an airhorn and pitched up vocals it would just ruin it.

i was listening to the night slugs comp today and my itunes jumped from Jacques Green to the Jonzun Crew, which was kind of mind blowing

Umm... On "Booty Slammer" by Velour, is the sample saying "Inside of Me" or "Sodomy"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFjwPTJIM6Y

It's definitely saying "inside of me". Isn't it...?

Just got the Egyptrixx album, pretty great upon first listen. Also, lots of excellent mixes are available on the night slugs web site.

It's definitely saying "inside of me". Isn't it...?

― Number None, Monday, 2 May 2011 16:17 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I don't know... is it?

i suppose you think the cover art is phallic symbolism too huh

Probably not that many songs mentioning sodomy they could have sampled it from

bury fc's 92-93 away shirt successfully reminding me of both night slugs and teh lex

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_3682_1.jpg

tags: too much time on ilx, kind of lol but mostly sad, funky house sceptics let me draw your attention to this

That's an MIA shirt, not a Night Slugs shirt. Maybe a Klaxons shirt as well.

http://assets.gearlive.com/music/blogimages/MIA.jpg

!!!

even spells my name right

i see the NS thing, i'm fairly sure i've seen bok bok wearing a shirt with a similar pattern

http://cdn.worldcupblog.org/mexico.worldcupblog.org/files/2010/06/campos.jpg

enjoy wonky beats and the rinse fm breakfast show?

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/w/i/willem-96-homej.jpg

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/i/m/image_7444.gif

talking of dva i am totally in love with this release on his label - http://soundcloud.com/scratchadva/dva008-shy-one-the

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_17343.jpg

^^^ The 1994 mediocre Premiership goalkeepers jersey is surely one of the most unnoticed fashion influences of our time.

Pretty sure there's an actual dubstep record sleeve with that exact pattern on it.

on reflection matt might be right and mia might even have designed that shirt herself ...in 92 she'd have been what... 35?

fucking hell those shirts

thought this revive was gonna be about the claude von stroke 'wut' remix

bahahaha

re mia

http://www.premiershirts.net/wearthat/wearthatshirts/hereford.jpg

the "uncle who is a pimp" look

Kinda puts a new complexion on the brostep debate.

http://www.oldfootballshirts.com/img/shirts/58/huddersfield-town-goalkeeper-football-shirt-1993-1994-s_2350_1.jpg

Belter.

http://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/0dc2d03fe217f8c83829496872af24a0/i/m/image_42139.jpg

mate of mine's actually got this one - exquisite

"roman glass" is a pretty little pair of words imo

think if i ever did go night slugs again i'd have to wear this with a screwface

"not that kind of musician", they'd tell me

Umm... On "Booty Slammer" by Velour, is the sample saying "Inside of Me" or "Sodomy"?

― Evil Eau (dog latin), Monday, May 2, 2011 10:49 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Had this exact same discussion at age 12 with friends about Smashing Pumpkins' "Disarm".

think if i ever did go night slugs again

...again? :o

this is more like night slugs uniform

http://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/11847_344178410470_723080470_9809607_6752171_n.jpg

rite so im playing the night slugs comp

mosca - like this, it's colourful and ~classy~ and vaguely minatory

lil silva - like the ardkore stylings, it's the sort of thing hacks would describe as 'dayglo' had the klaxons never existed

girl unit (bok bok rmx) - oh no, dubstep

kingdom - the part where the vocal gradually materializes through the distortion abt two minutes in is rather impressive, otherwise less so

l-vis 1990 - synthy ardkore peaks nice, rest a bit thin for five minutes

jam city - clear standout, gazing with cold dead eyes upon the night slug lessers like a hungry kestrel on a telegraph pole

I really dig (Baby I Don't Know) What You Want by Jacques something.

Any minute now

lil silva (2) - this sounds like something diplo would haved liked, had he lived to hear it

Don't actually like that Jam City track much, though i do enjoy other stuff of his that i've heard

yeah the jacques greene (ha very easy surname to remember for me, if not everybody else) track is the best

egyptrixx - really like this, crazy pitchbend and doppler effect trailloffs VERY oni ayhunish

bok bok and cubic zirconia - pretty good

optimum - not sure if there are any relevant opinions to be had about this track

so pleased to be with you at these moments nakh. this album finishes strong imo.

aww <3

i guess the 'problem', such as it is, is that this could be a single artist album....lot of preset swapping, very murky

jacques green - chipmunks! nice, not the best thing here tho

egyptrixx!

velour - this is p cool, lol dog latin

girl unit (2) - this is great, as you know

Can you choose a vintage football shirt to sum up the experience pls.

best jacques greene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79J58LlPiAg

^^yeah that shit is yoga f major

lol what

So did anyone catch Girl Unit on Rinse FM earlier today?

idk oppet, tho in a wider sense....

night slugs are probably at the level of bolton atm, impressive skills on a moderate budget

girl unit is CY lee, the fleetflooted showboat off to bigger things

egyptrixx is the johann elmander, pure unadulterated bigness of sound and spirit

lol what

my inner thoughts have been corrupted by big hoos

matt & rtc football jersey convo killed me

Another Girl is totally totally ace. Will rep for Jacques Greene forever, though, as he spins with a bunch of my friends in MTL. His sets are basically ILM catnip. Nights Slugs type shit with chopped and screwed mixes of Ciara, Yamaha + assorted Terius, 'Motivation', Cassie's Skydiver, etc. etc. etc.

His remixes of Cassie's 'Must Be Love' and Katy B's 'Broken Record' are also keepers.

Egyptrixx's singles are pretty ace and his live show back in February or whatever was killer, but the full length album didn't blow me away.

I'm liking the Egyptrixx album so far, but I'm kind of taking it track by track.

oh shit is jacques greene from montreal i had no idea

oh yeah the katy b remix is my other other jacques greene jam

alex are your friends dudes who (used to??) do the night trackin house night at that place in the old port whose name i cant recall always meant to go to one of those

yoga flame major

one can only hope warrior (liverpool) and under armour (spurs) will make as noble a transatlantic fist of the english football shirt as girl unit and kingdom did

lots of great new night slugs style stuff on ikonika's new mix http://ikonika.tumblr.com/post/5332443820/ikonika-summer-2011-mix

1. Debbie Deb - Lookout Weekend (Instrumental)
2. Untold - U-29
3. Jam City - Barely A Trak
4. Boddika - Basement
5. Egyptrixx - Liberation Front (Mike Q Remix - Bok Bok Re-Edit)
6. Ikonika - PR812
7. Pangaea - Runout
8. Jam City - Arpjam (Devil Mix)
9. Ikonika - With Your Face
10. Bok Bok - Reminder
11. A1 Bassline - Falsehood
12. Optimum - Afterglow
13. Mensah - The Resistance
14. French Fries & Bambounou - Hugz
15. Ikonika - I Make Lists

actually this mix is kind of amazing

6. Ikonika - PR812

this track!!!!

and the vip version of "arpjam"!!

Mensah - The Resistance

featuring asamoah gyan?

Jacques Greene is the best producer associated with Night Slugs at the moment I reckon (assuming Nzungunzu don't count, and Girl Unit is hit-and-miss). Seems to understand the importance of colour and having bass that does something other than throb and glower. A lot of other Night Slugs stuff talks a good game with its technicolour sci-fi landscape synths and the music seems drab in comparison.

Really didn't like the Egyptrixx album at all, have yet to hear any Jam City that's done much for me.

Actually I really like Velour as well.

you know velour = hyetal + julio bashmore, right? i hadn't particularly loved them pre-velour but separately they're kind of blowing my mind this year - hyetal's album is amazing, bashmore's "battle for middle you" was already one of my favourite tracks of the year and then he followed it up with the fantastic batty knee dance ep...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy9qMNXsDUw

Yeah, Bashmore rules. I think Mosca is great too but he needs to release more stuff.

Julio Bashmore is really good as well.

(Never actually heard of Hyetal, will check that one out).

Velour's really good, yeah. Bumsex references aside ;-) Was reading about Hyetal yesterday, hadn't heard of him before.

also on the batty knee dance ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5WBcwTtoQs

my fav trax on the hyetal album (which is a bit of a curveball from his prior productions)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ROES_YTydA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysiSKJGod64

Really didn't like the Egyptrixx album at all

not even Rooks Theme? shish

(yes, hyetal pushes the same buttons in me that witch house does, so i'll just pre-empt that zing there)

"Ribble to Amazon" is my favourite Bashmore production, real nice summery vibe. Couldn't get on with the Egyptrixx album at all.

i'm pretty much in like-not-love territory with egyptrixx's productions myself, though the ikonika remix of "the only way up" was awesome

There was one good track on the Egyptrixx album but I can't remember what, the rest sounded so... uninspired.

Thes might be my fave Bashmore and Hytetal bits...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiAJLBT8ue0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEqch0TgDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZapOXj0cDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auv1gIn3V3c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owd18iXONI0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8vf-4QxrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHY42rVRCpA

Dispite being really into both of them I wasn't feeling those Velour tracks, wouldn't mind hearing them do more though.Hyetal's collabs with Peverelist and Shortstuff are amazing though.

the importance of colour and having bass that does something other than throb and glower.

Most of the producers mentioned here seem to be working on a deliberately icy, inhuman sound..... it's hard for me to love a lot of it. Which is funny, because I used to get off - and still do - on extremely jacking techno. I dunno. There's an incredible fussiness to a lot of it.

Or maybe younger listeners aren't burdened with unpleasant memories of the jazzier side of jungle so it doesn't bother them as much..

unpleasant you say...

Heh. I realise this is not a unique complaint, and "this isn't dubstep" but still.

xxxxxxxp

alex are your friends dudes who (used to??) do the night trackin house night at that place in the old port whose name i cant recall always meant to go to one of those

― flopson, Monday, May 9, 2011 11:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yes. these days they do the night tracking house night type thing at Blizzarts on Thursdays for their Baller's Social Club Night, and open for whoever they bring into town. they have piknic electronique the weekend of OSHEAGA and have booked Girl Unit and DâM-FunK, which should be properly epic.

I really dug the Velour ep, actually. Probably my favourite Night Slugs release outside of Girl Unit. (And, surely, shouldn't we get a mod to change the title of the thread to some sort of all-purpose night slugs one for ease of discovery?)

cooooooooooool i will go as often as possible this summer

I always forget who is from Montreal on ILM. Heh. I'm sure we will bump into one another without knowing it!

i had no idea flopson was canadian let alone from MTL

People did not know Jacques Greene was from MTL.
People did not know flopson was from MTL.
There is only one realistic conclusion to draw here.

optimum - not sure if there are any relevant opinions to be had about this track

― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:31 AM Bookmark

we could talk about LONE and the return of pre-autechre IDM styles

also i've been following this thread with a bit of interest and my only question is why don't these guys get more love on ILM?

for my money much more exciting than night slugs

what sort of things were you thinking of? xp

there's bits of bleep all over this comp

i've had 'arpjam' running thru my mind all day

the optimum release that's really whoa was his debut on planet mu - max power/crash riddim/lily - all so confident and effective. his new track in that ikonika mix i posted this morning is really awesome too.

i like most of the releases i've heard on pattern though never noticed it as a label before now.

i can't get into lone's stuff at all :/

I love Lone, although any record with a tune called Petrcane Beach Track is pretty much bound to appeal to me.

PTN is pretty sweet yeah. Breach, Hypno, DJ Dom, T.Williams are all ace. The Hackman and Doc Daneeka 12"s are good too but not quite the same level for me. I love Ramp and Brainmath too, they've got to many good labels that lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIdzqO5tKO8

Wonder if T.Williams will have a release on Night Slugs, he's on the comp but it's with L-Vis 1990 and he's a massive weak link in the roster as a producer, quality DJ/label guy though.

I've been suprised how quite Night Slugs have been this year, we're almost half way through and only had an album and one white label from Pearson Sound it feels like they've slowed down a lot.

I guess there'll be the Jam City album at some point this year. Possibly something from Kingdom too

i know bok bok felt he wanted to devote a bit of time to his own productions by the end of last year.

i think t.williams is a fucking great producer - "heartbeat" is one of the pinnacles of everything happening around the scene

oh i guess you meant l-vis was the weak link tho, misread!

Yeah I <3 T.WIlliams he's amazing.

I think Jacques Greene and flopson should rename themselves Jacques Greene in MTL and flopson in MTL, respectively. Then people will know they're from Montreal. (Although tbh, I thought flopson was from either Edmonton or Calgary, whichever one rennavate isn't from.)

actually this mix is kind of amazing

6. Ikonika - PR812

this track!!!!

and the vip version of "arpjam"!!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 08:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark

YES!

Right now, I really want a T-shirt that says "Ikonika SUMMER MIX!!!"

the build in this just kind of ruled my mind for a few moments.

I thought Lone were just another Boards of Canada soundalike - am I wrong?

He's like a dancier BOC basically

Lone is closer to the Black Dog than Boards of Canada, everything I've heard isn't really like the latter at all.

Well his first album was basically a BOC homage - hip-hop drums pared with analog synths. The recent stuff has the same nostalgic vibe but with more of a 90's techno underpinning.

I must have the first album as I'd filed him next to Freescha. So I might need to check this out. Never really got into the Black Dog but am a massive fan of Plaid, so...

Lone's latest album is more in the B12/Stasis/As One/Likeminded vein of 90s UK "intelligent" techno as Vahid alluded to back thread, and well worth checking out

i say "latest" but I think it came out last year. didn't get around to checking his latest thing on R & S but samples sound pretty great, rave stabs and samples and floaty pads and bleeps

also i think he shares his name with a beloved ilxor who's sadly been rather quiet of late

lone is 808 state

PR812...like, can i plz have this track standalone right now?

didn't get around to checking his latest thing on R & S but samples sound pretty great, rave stabs and samples and floaty pads and bleeps

This could stand in as a description for basically any UK-based producer's releases in the past 12 months.

turns out jacques greene is a friend of a close friend of mine

Yes, MTL is a small place for a city of 3 million. (Well, 1.5 million in the city proper.) Even smaller when limited by age and music-scene.

On topic, the Ikonika mix is lovely.

also his name is not jacques greene

Oh, well, yeah. But talking about Ph1l via his real life name seems a bit rude. He went to such lengths initially to be all mysterious about it, distinguish it from his old moniker, etc. etc.

I mean, we refer to The-Dream as Terius for lolz but it's not like we go around talking about Tremaine Neverson or Sara Abdel-Hamid's Summer Mix or whatever.

PR812...like, can i plz have this track standalone right now?

― whenever the vein was to throb (the table is the table), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 21:02 (Yesterday) Bookmark

not quite, but *ahem* for a few days

just started listening to ikonika's mix and it sounds great. thanks lex!

btw, "abdel-hamid", is she muslim?

no - her dad's egyptian and her mum's from the philippines

"pr812" is the track that made me go whoa in the mix but i think "i make lists" might be even better, proper freestyle influence - love the way the mix closes with it after opening with debbie deb

oh yeah there's a new NS ep on the way - probably their grimiest release yet

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5023/5691937180_00a076d9a7.jpg

There's also a white label of Kingdom's Ciara/Girl Unit mashup (which isn't great tbh) with "Fogs" on the flip.

oh and this is a bit old but i don't think i posted about it anywhere when it came out - jam city's disko404 mix is also superb - http://disko404.org/podcast/podcast.html

1.DJ Lil Tal - Trax 4 Da Homies
2.Ghetto Brothers - Ghetto Disco
3.Hanna - Sanctuary 2
4.Thomas Bangalter - Turbo
5.Whatever, Girl - Activator (You Need Some)
6.2AM/FM - Poison Dart
4.Marcellus Pittmann - Loneliness Leave Me Alone
5.Alias - Cape Fear
6.Marcus Mixx - Psychousic
7.Boddika - Electron
8.Youngstar - Formula 3
9.Pay As U Go Cartel - Anywhere Instrumental
10.DJ Fatman - Back N Da Day
11.Wiley - Freeze (devil mix)
12. Armando feat. Sharvette - Don't Take It (Thomos Edit)

does any know if there was a Night Slugs related refix/edit of Yolanda Be Cool "Speak No Americano?" Or is that as nuts as it sounds?

Lil Silva did one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwcUvBoygmM

y

This Ikonika mix is a lot better than these sorts of mixes usually are, second half especially. What's the insane ravey one 10mins from the end?

I feel like the world has moved on since the Night Slugs wars of 2010 but if this is the direction the genre's taking in 2011 I'll be happy. Still not mad keen on the fallback metallic bass noise they seemingly use all the time though.

What's the insane ravey one 10mins from the end?

at ~21mins? i asked her, that's the optimum track

This Ikonika mix is a lot better than these sorts of mixes usually are, second half especially

how would you say it compares to the 20th april marcus set matt? choose your words wisely now.

This is where the Lone chat was...

http://wigflex.com/2011/05/12/lone-flex/

He's got another ravey one coming out on Wigflex it sounds pretty sweet.

The Ikonika mix is damn good, her mixes usualy are. The last one I heard of her's was: http://www.factmag.com/2010/11/29/fact-mix-206-ikonika/ which is on a par with it I'd say.

I enjoyed that Marcus set too its not an either/or thing for me. Although I like Petchy, Ill Blu, Funkystepz, Champion, etc loads better for my funky mixes. Marcus has been so shit at mixing when I've seen him live that I hardly tune in anymore to his show unless a load of people have been bigging up a recent one or something.

fall back son, i was only making a point specific to mdc

The first 20mins or so of the Marcus mix is great but I was listening before the Cup Final and stopped at kickoff, then forgot to go back to it. It's more fun than the Ikonika mix obv.

The first 20 min is probably the weakest! (relatively)

I order you back.

lol you crack me up rtc, such a grumpy goon :')

like i say it wasnt my intention to start a war again, i just wanted to see how lord haw-haw was getting on considering he never seems to forget to go back and finish listening to those yupstep mixes he kind of sometimes maybe likes on occasion.

:)

i can't really blame anyone for getting bored and not wanting to finish something that's like 6 hours long

i must warn you that further outbursts will be regarded as violating the terms of your diplomatic immmunity; sanctions may ensue.

like i say it wasnt my intention to start a war again

Given that not one photographer in the country managed to capture it you'll just have to imagine I'm posting huthbalotellielbow.jpg here. An unsatisfactory state of affairs but what can you do.

http://i.imgur.com/vh91H.jpg

"rtc is a smashing lad, he comes from a lovely family. he is not that type of lad, not that type of player."

the second hour of that marcus nasty set is just pure vibes - love the camaraderie - plus shantie on crunk vip is waaooow!

Wut (Claude Vonstroke Remix)

<3

there are two! i prefer the undressed mix

there are, and they are both titled teribly, perhaps in reference to 'yeah' with its stupid & pretentious mixes

this optimum mix is very good http://soundcloud.com/hyponik-com/hyp-041-optimum/s-xZw8B

jam city's top 5 hypothetical club locations <3 <3 <3 <3

http://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/high-fidelity-top-5-club-settings-by-jam-city

am also gonna make my annual fabric trip this fri for THIS

ROOM TWO:
NIGHT SLUGS PRESENT L-Vis 1990 'NEON DREAMS' ALBUM LAUNCH

L-Vis 1990 & The Neon Dreams (live)
Bok Bok
Julio Bashmore
Jam City
Girl Unit
Kingdom

that l-vis album is really superb btw, and i say that as someone who never quite felt his productions before.

Good to hear, as i can't say i've been a fan of his work up to now either

This is the lead single - love how gloriously relaxed it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2sCjO4UeBo

Am loving 'Play It Cool' off Neon Dreams fyi

^my favourite too

girl unit dropped 'wut' at fade to mind last friday and it sounded...weird? like i might not even have recognized it if it weren't for the synth melody. might have been the soundsystem.

might have been the Claude VonStroke remix?

possibly, i haven't heard it

http://images.xlr8r.com/files/news/kingdomart_110111.jpg

^^this ep is total vibes

http://soundcloud.com/blogtracks/kingdom-dreama-ep

holy shit, do I love Night Slugs' artwork

yeah for real. the artwork for the jam city EP is awesome too.

T-shirts have just become available, too

http://i.imgur.com/JgCjp.jpg

:( terrible artwork

not sure i've seen an NS release that hasn't had terrible art?

The artwork is the best thing about the label and I think has a significant impact on perception of the artists. I've lost count of the number of articles I've read about NS that start talking about colour even when the music is quite murky.

holy fuck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ACXKSM9uU

Nice one. I was enjoying this L-Vis 1990 BBC mix on my headphones this weekend while I was doing yard work. It's a little bit more in the Techno zone but includes that new Girl Unit track.

holy fuck

http://www.youtube.com/v/T4ACXKSM9uU&fs=1&hl=en

― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:30 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is just very good

yeah WTF their artwork is always amazing

on another note

JAM CITY ALBUM JAM CITY ALBUM JAM CITY ALBUM

"backseat becomes a zone while we glide"

"ensemble (club mix)" is holy-fuck astounding as well, "rezday" also very good

still trying to get into the jam city album tbh

oh i haven't even heard it yet i just like the track titles and i've really been enjoying waterworks and magic drops and the unreleased stuff too (maybe not as much as bok bok but still quite a lot)

did you get a promo? is it as wack as l-vis 1990's album?

I haven't heard the album yet but "Ecstasy Refix" and "Magic Drops" and "Arpjam" are my favorite Jam City

relevant : http://theclustermag.com/blog/2012/05/this-is-the-future-of-music-qa-with-night-slugs-girl-unit/

great interview BW! <3 phil

thanks! he's such a nice guy.

wait who are you with cluster, i acquaint with max and some peoples

yup good interview

is that article implying that he's from NY?

seems solidly UK to me? nice interview, BW!

i thought solidly london but he said something about ny in the early 00s like he'd been there

http://youtu.be/6rTwqPtRQnE

nice interview Brainwasher!

me and lex interviewed him ... jeez what, a year and a half now ago? o_O .. i think we asked a similar question about whether he wanted to write anything for a vocalist. it seems like such a natural progression.

hey lex tell us about the jam city album

is that a ltj bukem sample on "nite life"?

i'm kind of not sure what i think of it!

i do like the bonus track with main attrakionz a lot

ugh that track is terrible

really as bad an idea as it sounded on paper

nah rev it's wonderful

I really like both Main Attrakionz and Jam City but wasn't feeling that track at all unfortunatly. Looking forward to the album mind. Feels like its been in the works forever, I sware one of the Night Slugs guys said it was ready to go in 2010. They must have done a do over or something.

If nothing else a Jam City / Main Atrakiionz collabo is a good candidate for any 2012 time capsule.

tbh the new girl unit ep has kinda overshadowed the jam city album in terms of my attention - "ensemble" and "club rez" really are stunning, and i love that there's no attempt to even go near trying to recreate "wut" - is anyone else using the EP format so well right now?

how do you mean?

and where is FINAL JOOST?!?

man, that isley bros sample (replayed?) at the end of "double take". i don't think it's possible to sample "summer breeze" and fuck it up.

and "club rez" just totally rulez

i didn't know what thread to use for this. it's not on night slugs or anything but hearing it for the first time was overwhelming in a similar way to the first time i heard "wut". just that incredible melody pealing out

http://soundcloud.com/localactionrecords/blue-sleet-soundcloud-clip

there's another track on the ep called "fat city" which might be even better

i got double-clubrezzed at the clurrrrb the other night (including as the last song of the night). so epic.

http://soundcloud.com/b-e-b-e-t-u-n-e/sets/bodyguard-silica-gel
http://soundcloud.com/t_macabre/t-grime-mix-2003

in case u guys ever tire of having your food chewed up 4 u

lex you said upthread something about night slugs using the EP format better than anyone else, still trying to figure out what you mean by that and why you said it, seems like they use the format more or less like any other dance artist

That new Slackk EP on Local Action is indeed a beast. He's really nailed those fucked up synth melodies. Almost Transparent is ace too, the subtler synths work a treat on that one.

I think he meant Girl Unit himself rather than Night Slugs? But yeah I don't really get the point.

Is Ensemble (Club Mix) meant to sound like 'In Your Arms' by Mylo?

ikonika's new i make lists EP is finally out and it's incredible, maybe the best thing she's done yet - the melodies are just mind-blowing, the way she makes the synths sing, and the amount of cavernous space around them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpcLjpu3-1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qt7MSgd6pw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sl5MVOvOAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT3kLQdNG0c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiQPNtv6Wh4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMPw6Z85eQw

^^^very good ep

in other news, bok bok x xlr8r on night slugs' visual aesthetic

oop, forgot the link

http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2012/08/vis-ed-bok-bok

i once witnessed bok bok step (barefoot) on a slug at night. he wasn't v amused at the irony

lol

RT @bok_bok i hate when a track brings in one element at a time its so pompous

damn straight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6z8mAAzQw

Just came back from the Night Slugs/Fade To Mind showcase at SXSW. Saw Nguzunguzu, Kingdom w/Kelala, L-Vis and Bok Bok. The whole night was good, but L-Vis/Bok Bok were the highlight, and yes, they did Bring In Da Katz.

speaking of Bok, his new Fade to Mind mix is very good (and ends with 151 Feva Gang!)

http://soundcloud.com/fadetomind/fademix003-bok-bok

i once witnessed bok bok step (barefoot) on a slug at night. he wasn't v amused at the irony

this is a perfect two-sentence story

yes otm

saw Bok last night, he played a good but predictable set to a small, fairly wack crowd with too many dudes. I went to the monthly rare soul night at the same club last weekend and it was way more popping :/

what'd he play?

All the stuff I recognized was ns/ftm, some of which was p old ("irl" "stalker ha"), some new ("bank head", "ballad 4ad"). The stuff I didn't recognize was either on the techy side or ballroom trax

ah yeah

i've heard a ton of good things about bok bok as a DJ but have yet to hear a set that really blows me away

The other time I saw him (sept. '11) he was amazing tho

Heh. The promoter has euphemistically described last night's show as "cozy". And apparently RL Grime has sold out the same spot tonight.

Fisher 18-29 (62.1%) from 3 in playoffs.

obvious epic wrong thread.

new jam city is really out there

https://soundcloud.com/nightslugs/500-years-clip

reminds me of CONEMELT

http://www.last.fm/music/Conemelt/PT026

jam city album is really good.

classical curves i mean

Classical Curves is so weird but so good. Also really enjoying the new Egyptrixx album, feels a lot more intimate than I would expect from Night Slugs.

i haven't really figured it out yet

I'm still trying to absorb it too. So far it strikes me as much more of a straight up techno direction compared to the last one.

their re-release of "icy lake" is the first NS/FTM release i've really loved in years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pvlOYrC0wA

otoh their manifesto just confirms how much our aesthetics have diverged. couldn't be less interested in club music without melody or emotive artefacts

I kind of respect that manifesto and admire their attempt at aesthetic purity, but yeah, really not sure if it'll create stuff that's interesting to listen to.

I only really know NS through the twitter crew - do they all make Jersey House stuff now or is that just Deamonds?

http://www.jam-city.net/

Updated website with a new song. Not a direction I was expecting but I like it.

crossposted from 2015 techno thread

so amazing

http://www.stereogum.com/1732487/hysterics-girl-unit-empty/mp3s/

niiiiiiiiiice

Album stream

http://hypem.com/premiere/jam+city

(the hype machine still exists?)

this was a real "ambushed by unexpected emotion" album for me

on paper nothing about it should be my thing but it hits hard. the lyrics are great.

I loved Classical Curves but this is way better, although they are so different it feels silly trying to compare them.

classical curves left me very cold at the time but has actually sort of clicked in the light of this!

not heard the new one yet (why does night slugs' artwork seem so dull now?) but how could how we relate to the body or club thanz leave someone cold?

no tunes, not very hooky, not very danceable, just sort of clanky and metallic

not hooky, okay, i can see that, but those two songs had quite a lot going for them, sensual/warm textures-wise. no big tunes, sure, but enough other stuff in its place. never felt like it was dreary or lacking purpose/momentum, which is often what happens on dance albums. and if you like 80s R&B, i think you would be able to get behind them. not everything has to grab you by the balls!

i wouldn't have listened to an album of 80s r&b instrumentals!

but now you have the chance to! anyway, i get the criticisms of the album as a whole, but there are songs on there i think deserve to be heard in their own right. like, that kingdom track bankhead is one of the best things night slugs ever put out, and i consider those jam city songs of a piece with that. anyway, the new album seems to come with some ridiculous conceptual baggage but im hoping the actual music doesnt pay too much attention to it.

i wouldn't have listened to an album of 80s r&b instrumentals!

― lex pretend, Wednesday, March 18, 2015 4:32 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0IwtsLgmFc

Despite the press materials dressing this up it is essentially an "angry and disillusioned young man rallies against society" album, the kind of thing that has always existed, just done differently and well.

I think Classical Curves makes more sense now its influence has entrenched itself in contemporary dance music. Not to say that it is singular and unique - there were plenty of acts doing similar things - but it exists at a very specific intersection of zones that seems a lot less unnatural now.

classical curves def took a lil while to click for me but when it did, hoooo boy

Is this different in any significant way from the usual NS clanking murk or should I just not bother?

it's completely unlike anything on NS to date. on paper it's even less my thing but idk, the alienation and disillusion aren't just in the press materials, they're in the very good lyrics as well, and it's ultimately a very optimistic album

relevant to interests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02m9pn5

i like this new jam city a lot

same, pretty groovy

very wavey

I really disliked this on first listen.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

can't please everybody, i guess

This sounded amazing walking through my town centre at 6am this morning while everything was quiet and serene.

one listen in, liking it a lot. possibly fucking miiiiiles off here, but there's kind of a late 80s boyband as produced by andy stott vibe, also a murkified beachy thing happening too.

It just reminded me of any number of sadsack laptop dudes who can't really sing. I really hate that big aluminium synth all over this as well.

People I know were comparing it to Disco Inferno which just made the disappointment more acute, feels like he's just gone from one pole of lameness to another.

also a murkified beachy thing happening too.

yeah made me think of strategy

xp how rockist of you, matt dc

I can hear the DI thing actually, slight shades of 'The Last Dance' with that guitar.

I can totally see the sadsack laptop dudes thing but even despite that I still think this is really great. The two things it really reminds me of are last year's Dean Blunt and Maria Minerva albums (which were my two favourites of 2014). NickB's description is spot-on.

the lyrics give this an emotional heft beyond the usual sadsack laptop dude thing

i have never heard of disco inferno tho

wtf are you even a real ilx poster

jokes - but that's just too good.

not that i expect you to like disco inferno!

there are loads of 80s indieish bands i've always seen old-skool ilx reference (scritti politti, blue nile too). never heard any of them apart from one scritti politti song

The Blue Nile aren't indieish.

Disco Inferno are indieish though and you will probably hate those aspects of them.

This shit (Jam City) sounds good on random soundcloud listen but I'd need to sit with it a lot more to know for certain (and who sits these days).

Here is classic DI if you want to test that proposition though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFNX78vZE8

This sounds like something you'd play at an indie ren faire I'm into it

lex doesn't know "cupid & psyche 85" WTF

how is that surprising

this is not night slugs but i couldn't figure out where else to put it up

http://soundcloud.com/a-k-paul/landcruisin

searching "jai paul" in posts gives some funny results. point/counterpoint starring lex & rev.

this is very prince-y.

yes

lol I hate Jai Paul, I was just trolling lex

what's there to hate?

everything pretty much

He must be friends with virtually everyone in the media and the music industry. It's the only reason to think of for such continuing interest and anticipation around a dude with such a shoddy and minimal output. It's, what, five years since he was first hyped and you still read "Jai Paul might finally release his debut album this year!" articles on sites that should know better.

By this point they might as well be repping for Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.

Oh wait, this is his brother. Might give this a listen on the offchance he's the talented one in the family.

sick burns everyone *golf clap*

new comp sounding pretty okay

https://www.residentadvisor.net/feed/97057

https://jam-city.bandcamp.com/album/pillowland

new jam city album

It's more like current AG Cook than his old stuff and found it mostly pretty annoying as a result.

Is Night Slugs defunct?

also new Jam City (on Earthly / Mad Decent tho) https://ra.co/news/78713

the track I've heard from the new Jam City album is purposely I think kind of corny but it still sounds really good to me

I think Night Slugs is just swinging back into gear for their 15th anniversary. Not sure if they're gonna do new releases or just parties and reissues.

Voila, new Night Slugs

https://music.zaida-zane.com/album/boy-eyes

lol/sick/you're welcome

new Jam City is in my top 20 albums of the year for sure— ridiculously good

i’ve been getting back into night slugs, they had a lot of good records!

i recently got a copy of “the courts” 12” single w/ the main attraktionz + jam city feature on the other side, and that song sounds, if anything, even better now

i’m still more into the nswl white labels and club constructions in general but here’s my current pox

ns009 jam city “magic drops”
ns010 bok bok “southside”
ns017 girl unit “hysterics” (credited as hysterics)
nscc001 l-vis 1990 “club constructions vol. 1”
nscc003 kw griff “bring in the katz”
nscc006 jam city “club constructions vol. 6”
nswl004 jam city refixes (let me bang, endgames)
nswl007 pearson sound edits (deep inside, rod lee)
nswl010 helix + flirta d “no hook no bs”
nswl011 jam city “the courts / the nite life”

i mean “the courts” sounds better. probably helps that there’s a lot more “experimental club” compatible techno out there (on labels like timedance, livity, hessle, etc) … the cloud rap track sounds worse, still good but i can understand why it didn’t really get released

one that passed under my radar but i thought was interesting is “p jam” from the white label series, sorta jungle and sorta grime remixes of nightwriters “let the music you” … the grime version is unsurprisingly a lot more credible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NRIGg5-dhA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcZr8qQWqQo

but wtf jam city for finally releasing “final joust” free on twitter as a wav but not pressing any copies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR2lKUvN_BI

"Ecstacy Refix" >>>>>

yeah that’s the endgames one. i have to say i was probably more impressed w/ the original (when i finally looked it up) but he did a good job with it

apparently it’s called the “centurion mix” in some places and the “1983 12” mix” in others