this is great! listened to previous album at the time and it left no impression, maybe i was too hasty
'r&b concrète' is the sort of self decription that usually entices and then disappoints but it's quite fitting in this case
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 03:38 (thirteen years ago) link
this fuckin BURIES the competition
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
post linx
― acoleuthic, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a mediafire link on the second page of results, idk
and
http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4141569-lost-10-of-2010-1--actress-splazsh
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"r&b concrète" is not an 'enticing' description lmao
― zvookster, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:12 (thirteen years ago) link
self description
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda is
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
ilx is full of ppl having their grand claims for their music dismissed, just this once u gotta allow it's kinda apt
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
it could be apt
― zvookster, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
zvookster, runoff
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Been listening to this for the last ten days or so... there are a few songs ("Lost" especially) that stood out right away. The rest I've been warming up to.
Wire named this their #1 album of the year, btw.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm guessing a few respondents itt will have seen it there
not an egregiously 'wire'ish album tho, i can imagine ppl who have never heard of luc ferrari enjoying it
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
excellent album, though not quite one of my very favorites of the year. i've been playing it for a month or two, and enjoy it while it's on, but find that it leaves little impression after the fact. i wonder if this is perhaps due to the fact that it inhabits a genre i spend little time with (i have never heard of luc ferrari, ftr), so i'm less able to identify its most distinctive traits? anyway, i particularly enjoy the stretch from "maze" through "let's fly," songs that fans of this type of thing never seem to mention.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
don't wanna sound like a hater, but it's ok. I can see how people who haven't heard Steve Poindexter and Musique Records and Hieroglyphic Being might find it groundbreaking -- it kinda straddles the middle ground between that sound, and the abstract side of US deep house like DJ Qu and M. Pittman, w/ a bit of Chillwave enabled haze thrown in. but beyond the admittedly quite cool sound design the compositions seem to me a bit generic at times, I don't get how it "BURIES the competition". i do like the track "Hubble" a lot
he's a good dj btw, plays loads of Flyte Tyme and New Jack Swing and 90s house and stuff
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
a lot of the writing about this album concentrates on this "r&b concrete" angle as if "disembodied vocal samples" are somehow this new groundbreaking technique of modern electronic music production, when in actuality it is about the most cliched. hasn't Todd Edwards been "disembodying" rnb vocals since like, 1994?
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:09 (thirteen years ago) link
u do sound like a h8r and not a very interesting one
have heard first two of those and it's not a close relaish
i wouldn't make claims for splazsh being hugely innovative
u misunderstood a ref to another hyped south london producah who might get called 'r&b concrete' ;_;
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
how many tracks on this have "disembodied vocal samples" and how do u discern between those and common or garden vocal samples
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:15 (thirteen years ago) link
no need to get defensive, though if it helps boost your ILX status by all means. next step "sock master" amirite?
if anything i'm just trying to work out why this leaves me cold when I love so much of the stuff it cribs from. I guess you missed the part where I praised the sound design and mentioned that I like the track "Hubble" a lot, while touching on his excellent dj skills?
and if you can't hear Hieroglpyhic Being in something like say "Bubble Buts And Equations" then I don't believe you've heard Hieroglyphic Being
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:22 (thirteen years ago) link
havent we already had this convo about james blake, or is this diff somehow
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:26 (thirteen years ago) link
^^
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:31 (thirteen years ago) link
missing u know yr shit and have good taste but 'I can see how people who haven't heard Steve Poindexter and Musique Records and Hieroglyphic Being might find it groundbreaking' is the sort of pass/agg trainspotter drivel that's not rly conducive to good ilx
u will know i have not heard 'Hieroglyphic Being' cuz he is third in yr list and i 'have heard first two of those '
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
idk about james blake, don't rly care/rate/etc him
there's some talk of actress in one of the rolling dance threads btw, moonship digs it iirc
― zvookster, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:35 (thirteen years ago) link
no whiney weingarteno on this comment but really feel like most ppl that find this treatment of r&b interesting don't actually dig real r&b
this stuff is still pretty aight tho
― BIG SANTA aka the sleighdriver (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:35 (thirteen years ago) link
don't rly care about r&b beyond the big singles yuh
i like music concrete tho
of course it doesn't sound a lot like the former, and the schematic owes little to the latter but yknow it kinda works as shorthand for what he's doing
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:38 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure i get the (any) connection to musique concrete. it sounds like pleasantly spacey/funky idm to me. connect the dots?
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 06:44 (thirteen years ago) link
"u will know i have not heard 'Hieroglyphic Being' cuz he is third in yr list and i 'have heard first two of those '"
ok well my point still stands, if you can't hear the influence Steve Poindexter's label, Muzique Records, has had on Actress's album Splazsh then etcetc
sorry if it's "pas/agg trainspotter drivel" to actually know my shit about the subject at hand, but when you say something like "this fuckin BURIES the competition" you shouldn't be surprised that somebody else might say, well actually, there's other stuff out there that already sounds like this and does it better
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
god yr slow
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:15 (thirteen years ago) link
god yr butthurt?
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i didn't come here to argue dude, I'll leave your thread be *waves*
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
tsccchhhh
entrylevs
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
oh ok, Burial reference, excellent. bravo old chap
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:21 (thirteen years ago) link
still, I'm not so slow as to realize that "rnb concrete" is fucking lame
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah its kinda a lame thread title trinket to get the spesh addled vagrants like yrself thru the door, all counts towards the admission stats tho
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
my sympathies, nakhchivan, for post-launch events itt
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ikr
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
missing no just needs to chill a lil, i don't wanna scare off ppl who know more about techno than me
yeah apols for missing your pun. keep the ad homs coming though, you'll be reposted in zing thread in no time
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Apparently Actress samples Youtube in his beats, tons of tightly edited low bitrate samples stacked layer upon layer.
It definitely seems like a reasonable comparison to the original Musique Concrete guys.
And I'm a big Hieroglyphic Being fan and don't feel that Actress is at all a bad comparison.
With Jamal its huge amounts material to dig through, with Actress: 2 minute long tracks.
Maybe the argument should be between brevity and long-windedness?
― sistern, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
hmmm i don't really dig jamal moss very much and i don't think it's a great comparison unless you fixate on certain aspects of actress and the much better end of jamal moss.
the r&b-ish parts ("purple splazsh", "wrong potion") are the bits i like least. love love love the pleasantly spacy/funky IDM parts ("hubble", "bubble butts", "the kettle men"). i loathe the todd edwards influenced parts.
it didn't make my top 10, but it would've made #11 and if i made a list just on amount of time spent listening this would've been in the top 10.
i have hazyville but haven't really given it a listen ... what about his nonplus release? that was sick.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbSd7vgG-JA
^^ sounds more like urban tribe to me than burial or todd e
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link
srsly off topic but jamal moss is 75% wack
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
as is being detroit/chicago nerd, as anyone who witnessed moonship: the early years will certainly attest to
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:09 (thirteen years ago) link
:)
if i did, i would
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link
is this so? have heard this said of other producers, but not of cunningham. which may be to say, "i haven't done the research," but what's (not) done is done. and yeah, if true, that working process does make sense of the phrase/thread title. plus helps explain the pleasant fuzziness of the sound.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:13 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds pleasant but it's a little too clever isn't it, calling albums "hazyville" and stuff to bait the hauntology crew?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i just think he's best when he keeps it light, straightforward and beat oriented
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
I need to dig the album out again and give it another listen, shifted so much stuff around in my room I've got no idea where it is.
This is one of the few albums this year I felt compelled to own on vinyl.
― sistern, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:30 (thirteen years ago) link
And yeah, Jamal does have that Sun Ra quality control thing going on. When he's on he's definitely on.
Whereas all the Actress stuff I've heard was at least worth listening to more than once.
Hazyville included, some great shit on there.
― sistern, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i read the Youtube thing as well and it definitely goes to explain the graininess and warmth of the album -- kinda like an extreme update of the vintage sampler aliasing you hear on classic NY boom bap stuff
the Hieroglyphic Being/Muzique comparisons I only make with reference to Splazsh. it's that slightly unhinged, unpredictable approach to drum programming, wildly unquantized percussion patterns on top of straight 4x4 kicks, crunchy bass drums and hi hats that sizzle, and insanely unfathomable synth lines. he def has a more refined sense of melody and song structure that is his own, overall the album strikes me as an IDM dude's take on the abstract US house sound that's been popular over the past couple of years or so, that just so happens to fit in with the current chillwave/hypnagogic zeitgeist. despite not being crazy on the album, it's at least an interesting direction
basically though, I wanna hear more things like "Hubble" or "Paint, Straw and Bubbles", and less like "Senorita" or "Purple Splazsh"
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
his edit of this on Thriller is cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xceQvaDAl08
― missingNO, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the r&b-ish parts ("purple splazsh", "wrong potion") are the bits i like least.
OTM ... if there was $$$ to be made from making techno tributes to Prince then everyone would have been doing it years ago.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
re: hazyville, i like the hardcore references in "again the addiction"
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 30 December 2010 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
and on "crushed", too!
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is so good & not really r&b at all and i don't think people who don't really like r&b would ever mistake this with r&b. feel like the sounds on it are very tube-ey, i visualize a lot of the lines as orange neon lights, something really linear (yet obviously very contorted) about it. way better than james blake although i didn't get the bfd w/ that thread but i also don't know anything about dance music. i've listened to this album on drugs a lot
― flopson, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
moonship what's your top 10
― flopson, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
my top 10 favorite albums this year
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
moonship what are your top 10 favourite albums this year
― flopson, Thursday, 30 December 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
top 10 albums
demdike stare - liberation through hearingmartyn - fabric 50ben klock - berghain 04emeralds - does it look like I'm here?dBridge & instra:mental - fabriclive 50flying lotus - cosmogrammashackleton - fabric 55shed - the travellermadlib - medicine show volume 3anthony shakir - frictionalism
top 10 singles
martyn - is this insanity (remixes)mmm - nous sommes mmmwax - 30003eqd - 04locussolus - gunship
and other than that it was all from 2009: 2562, martyn, peverelist, zomby, the rest of that crew, wax and eqd sides by shed, scion versions, levon vincent, t++, dettmann and klock, function stuff on sandwell, milton bradley, frozen border, etc etc it all sounded as relevant or more this year as it did last year, and generally much more than what i read about in a lot of other dance music year-end lists :-(
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
your top 10 is lookin more like a top 5
― flopson, Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
& thanks
actually i forgot some off of my top 10 list
2562 - demons2562 - rear windowrustie - sunburstjoker - tron
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
what's your top 10, flopson?
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
no dance stuff or anything, and i have difficulty with albums so ten is kind of a stretch but i pretty much love all these
waka flocka flame - flockavellie-40 - revenue retrievinearl sweatshirt - earlgucci mane - mr zone 6/jewelry selectionnht boyz - power triangle
purling hiss - hissteriapc worship - s/t lp and 7" on shdwplypig - magneticsex church - 6 songs by sex churchdrunkdriver - s/t
― flopson, Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:48 (thirteen years ago) link
this demdike stare is awesome
― flopson, Thursday, 30 December 2010 04:56 (thirteen years ago) link
this didn't leave any impression on me the first couple of times i listened to it. i've been assured that it's a grower, tho not sure i care enough to find this out for myself. it's assuredly better than james blake tho.
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, 30 December 2010 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link
missingNO: your mentioning of the "slightly unhinged, unpredictable approach to drum programming [&] wildly unquantized percussion patterns on top of straight 4x4 kicks" brings to mind how psyched I was to have learned about Terrence Dixon back in late '08 through Cunningham himself referring to him (along w/ a bunch of other better-known Detroiters, whose approaches I don't hear quite as strongly in Actress' work) as an influence on the 1-sheet blurb for "Hazyville".
Most of the T. Dixon/Population One stuff released on Metroplex and elsewhere that I've heard (from the mid-'90s to recent) has rhythmically really reminded me of Actress, in terms of the funky misalignments, etc.
(Anybody here into Downliners Sekt? A similar-enough aesthetic to warrant asking...)http://boomkat.com/downloads/317164-downliners-sekt-hello-lonely-hold-the-nationhttp://boomkat.com/downloads/367254-downliners-sekt-we-make-hits-not-the-public
― Don't Make Me A Burrito (Craig D.), Thursday, 30 December 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Good to see Moonship's list there.
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Friday, 31 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
what's better
this - FWIW also **BUBBLING** just just outside the top 10, possibly nudging out dbridge or shackleton, FWIW also r&b concréte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIPQqf4O9j8
or this - is this r&b concréte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1fDsDsJsQg
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 31 December 2010 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
downliners sekt have the right sound but the beats are chopped up a little OTT for my taste.
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 31 December 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
actress' 2010 top ten features steve poindexter @ #1http://www.boomkat.com/charts.cfm?id=576&gID=11
― sisilafami, Sunday, 2 January 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening to this now. Not sure I get it - any of it. Tracks have been popping up on random for a while now and they've just sounded like awkward repeating patterns with little structure or development. So I've decided to listen to it as a whole. Don't hear any r'n'b whatsoever. I guess I will have to give it a couple of goes.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Thursday, 17 February 2011 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
what's there to get? it's house music, man. we're hardly talking fucking xenakis here
― missingNO, Thursday, 17 February 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I would call Actress neither house music nor easy to get to be honest.
― EDB, Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i dont really get it either, i thought it would be a grower...
― just sayin, Thursday, 17 February 2011 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
It doesn't really become house music until at least the fourth track, and even then it's pretty abstract. Some tracks, that Bubble Butts one in particular, is just plain annoying. Again, I'll def give it another shot, because I've a feeling it's the kind of thing that clicks once heard in context and from then on you can't do without.
― chandelier falling through a bar in a batman costume (dog latin), Thursday, 17 February 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i particularly enjoy the stretch from "maze" through "let's fly," songs that fans of this type of thing never seem to mention.
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 05:42 (1 month ago)
THIS, massively. Had forgotten how good 'Maze' is until putting it on again at the weekend.
I see he's on a bill with Demdike Stare and others in Bristol soon, that's hella tempting if I had any money at all.
― the worst dong of the last ten years (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 17 February 2011 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been slowly getting into the Splazsh album. Works well on headphones.
― sam500, Thursday, 17 February 2011 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Hazyville is good too, if a lot less evolved.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Thursday, 17 February 2011 11:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I heard and liked 'Hazyville' - relatively passively - when it came out, 'Splazsh' was a big evolution though. And it does keep rewarding. Both a grower and with some moments of great immediacy.
― the worst dong of the last ten years (Craigo Boingo), Thursday, 17 February 2011 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm gonna go to that Bristol show on Saturday I think
― Jari Litmandem (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 17 February 2011 12:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i like that he uses bits of cut up youtube vids or w/e, presumably just the audio but if u play mpeg videos in winamp 2.xx u get some chill ass noise so who knows
― nulty dread (nakhchivan), Thursday, 17 February 2011 12:09 (thirteen years ago) link
this is awful.
― gr8080, Friday, 18 February 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
people don't know how to troll anymore
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Friday, 18 February 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
whither phil paterson
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Friday, 18 February 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
this album is kind of infuriating but a few times listening to it it was the best, i don't know if i would recommend repeatedly trying it too many times -- try drugs maybe?
― flopson, Friday, 18 February 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i was gonna say, were u hi?
― ☠ (roxymuzak), Friday, 18 February 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i hadn't even heard the album when i made this thread, just the first two or three tracks
i don't like it as much as i did over xmas, but this and his recent singles are p good
― roy stride or die (nakhchivan), Friday, 18 February 2011 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I really like this
― corey, Monday, 21 March 2011 12:33 (thirteen years ago) link
New 12" is excellent too
― the worst dong of the last ten years (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 21 March 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno if the musique concrète comparisons are apt — it just seems like soulful house-influenced electronic with a fastidious approach to sounds. wonder what kind of soft/hardware he used
― corey, Monday, 21 March 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
also thankful this doesn't have that annoying cod 90s R&B filtered-synth squiggle that you hear on like everything that gets called dubstep or post-ds
― corey, Monday, 21 March 2011 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
tho thankfully this isn't dubstep or post-dubstep
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― sistern, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 08:01 (2 months ago)
this, p much
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Hubble has a very strange effect on my brain if I listen to it all the way through. It puts me in a sinister dreamlike trance that I can't quite describe, but have rarely experienced in music
― farielan chosder bout a chagh an i ballme trantuming (dog latin), Monday, 21 March 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Bubble Butts and Equations has been sticking in my head this week.
― mh, Monday, 21 March 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I didn't say it was!
― corey, Monday, 21 March 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
and i didn't say you said it was!
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Monday, 21 March 2011 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i've stopped playing this so much but it definitely caught me for a while
i find a lot of his tracks fastidious....in a good way! they are uhm 'well architected'
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Monday, 21 March 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
was surprised my friend who's an autechre fiend thought this was "meh", it seems to me like Ae fans would appresh this
― corey, Monday, 21 March 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this stuff a lot
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 21 March 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
someone post your favorite one or two things of his that are on youtube cause i listened to this last year and thought it was awful but am willing to re-asses
― gr8080, Monday, 21 March 2011 22:05 (thirteen years ago) link
dont know too much about your taste & there is a p wide range of stuff on the album ito danceability, experimentalness, minimalism. i like these tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcnRT-m9MYo&feature=BF&playnext=1&list=QL&index=1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivvzgXdf83w&feature=relatedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r7blGL1F8I&feature=related
― flopson, Monday, 21 March 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked that last one better than the other two but this shit just isn't for me I guess.
I like his logo/cover art tho!
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/41b7a5f8.jpg
― gr8080, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― farielan chosder bout a chagh an i ballme trantuming (dog latin), Monday, March 21, 2011 2:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it makes me sleepy
― adult music person (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
MAZE is what i wished the TR2N soundtrack sounded like
― diamonddave85, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
senorita has become my ipod rep from this album. so simple, but kind of addictive (and actually pretty!)
― Dominique, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Jordan - yeah sleepy, but I think it once made me have an inverse parasomniac moment where I kinda fell asleep while walking around with headphones and started tripping out. It was heavy man.
― farielan chosder bout a chagh an i ballme trantuming (dog latin), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
the b side of the new single is great
― kid 606: the nultness (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 22 March 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Senorita contains an Aaliyah sample, right? Hubble is one of those songs that I can listen to on repeat for 2 hours. Shigeto's album Full Circle is a good companion to Splazsh. He also plays live drums in his sets which took me by surprise (Shigeto, not Actress).
― Call on me (Spinspin Sugah), Saturday, 26 March 2011 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
If you love Actress like me then check out "Plastic World" by BNJMN on Rush Hour. It's like a lush, less austere Splazsh. http://phs.abstractdynamics.org/2011/03/two_albums_morphosis_bnjmn.html
― Professor Respect, Sunday, 27 March 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9_BO9Kr-zc
― The Geirogeirgegege (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
Agreed on the BNJMN comparison. In some ways they're very different; BNJMN has a much housier feel, closer to FaltyDL maybe, and definitely a good fit for Rush Hour. But the textural quality of their sound and their approach to compression definitely share some similarities.
Also, Andy Stott's forthcoming 2x12 on Modern Love has a very Actressy vibe, maybe crossed with Dettinger... Amazing stuff.
― pshrbrn, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
this is as good as anything's he's done
http://www.sendspace.com/file/1ky4su
― MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 July 2011 11:29 (twelve years ago) link
some of this sounds cool on an actress tip
http://soundcloud.com/lukid/preview-of-spitting-bile-ep
― back in a .gif ;) (flopson), Saturday, 13 August 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds good--nice turning-the dial/soundbite preview segues. I recall Lukid's "Boxing Club" 12" from last year sounding particularly great, too.
As far as Actress + Lukid = Thriller goes, I'm enjoying their brand-new Radiohead remix (v. similar to Actress' "Surfer's Hymn" Panda Bear remix from earlier this year):
http://soundcloud.com/radiohead/radiohead-give-up-the-ghost
― Went whole career w/o collabo, yo (Craig D.), Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
much prefer actress to lukid
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 August 2011 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
I fell for the thread title bait, but there's nothing even remotely concrete about any of the tracks I listened to???
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
explain
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
not saying this is my favourite titled thread but it has been painstakingly elaborated on upthread
― back in a .gif ;) (flopson), Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
it just sounds like synthesizers and drum machines. I didn't hear any "real" sounds or noises integrated into the work in any way. He might be sampling youtube videos or something, but the end result isn't any more "concrète" than any other music that has been made using a sampler since 1980.xp
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
it has been painstakingly elaborated on upthread
not really. people were like "oh he samples stuff from youtube. ok, concrète. cool"
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
so you would say that a requirement for music concrete is the use of environmental sound?
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
the last single harrier attk and some of the tracks released on twitter are the most 'sonically adventurous' things he has done
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
well, I don't want to make any requirements or dredge up an obsolete 60-year-old debate on musique concrete vs. electronic music. I just don't hear anything in this music that makes me think "concrete" in any way. Every track seems to contain synthesizers. Now maybe those are actually samples of motors or something pitch-shifted and layered to sound like synth pads, but if the end result just sounds like plain-ol electronic music, I don't really see the point in labeling it "concrete."
xp
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 07:26 (7 months ago)
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
not saying u are a vagrant, obviously
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
well ithink a quick skim of the article on wikipedia will clear it up for you wk
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
it strikes me that you have a very narrow view of what is musique concrete that doesn't even hew to what even Pierre Schafer described as the basis of musique concrete
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
don't take it the wrong way, nothing personal, you just don't understand what musique concrete is and you have obviously not read and understood the thread
Thank you, come again
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 August 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
maybe you should learn a little more about musique concrete than what you're getting from a quick skim of wikipedia
― the wheelie king (wk), Saturday, 13 August 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
well you might be interested to know that I have recently reread not one, not two, but THREE whole books about it
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
ugh plz somebody delete my posts in this thread fucking embarrassing shit ugh
― missingNO, Monday, 15 August 2011 04:44 (twelve years ago) link
i read in an interview that this dude was working as a foley artists before he made it in the techno game
― missingNO, Monday, 15 August 2011 04:46 (twelve years ago) link
and he records shit on a minidisc cuz of the low sample rate
― missingNO, Monday, 15 August 2011 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
Very late to this party as is my style, but a few thoughts after an initial 5-6 spins:
> "Hubble" is amazing, and quite unlike anything else I've heard. I can't remember if I read this somewhere or dreamt it (hopefully the latter), but I want to say that Actress called it "a study of 'Erotic City'"...
> The cut-up vocal tracks make me queasy, and it's a similar queasiness to seeing an unhealthily skinny girl walking really fast.
> I wish the album had more BASS throughout it; it sounds emaciated in parts, as if it had been gutted of bass rather than just built without bass as a foundation. This probably relates to my queasiness above.
> I do understand very much why so many people call this a grower and have given it many listens trying to "get it"... It's an almost painfully drawn-in-on-itself sounding record, a decisive statement of a very esoteric aesthetic; it almost feels as if its creator is autistic. I'm not sure if there's anything to "get," though, but I'm also not sure that matters.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
Haha, I love this post, Clarke. Bit more Actress banter here: FACT's 20 albums for 2011 including the whole thing about Erotic City.
― Yo wait a minute man, you better think about the world (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
Andy Stott's recent album Passed Me By is operating in a similar vein, but with BASS
― Number None, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
I like that Stott record; it's really solid. I think it's perhaps getting a little over-hyped in certain circles, but I enjoy it a lot. There's in immersiveness to it, however, that puts it in an entirely different ballpark than Actress for me. (Maybe that "immseriveness" is just bass!) Also, Actress's beats are sometimes skittery in a way Stott's aren't--not like drill-and-bass "wheeeee drum programming!" skittery, and not "purposefully degraded" skittery (like Burial's can feel... It's like a five-espressos skittery, as if he's playing his drum machines live (not quantized) but he can't stop shaking and twitching.
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
Dunno if there's a better thread for this sort of thing, so I'll just park this post here for the moment: the new Patten album GLAQJO XAACSSO is really fucking good. Similar kind of knee-capped beats to Actress and it's also seemingly been built out of all these odd off-cut samples that he's possibly fished out of the scraps bin. Where it is different is that it feels a whole lot lusher and denser. In some places it's kind of reminiscent of Disco Inferno in that you feel like you're trying to deal with this whole rush of sonic information all at once, you need to really stretch your ears wide-open to fit all of the sounds in. Well worth hearing imo.
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Monday, 3 October 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgHdw5HZrn8
― master musicians of jamiroquai (NickB), Monday, 3 October 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
plenty of good Actress this year > Lauren Halo remix, Panda Bear remix, Harrier ATTK / Gershwin, Parallel World. There is also a Honest Jons ad for an Actress meets Shangaan electro thing.
― wolves lacan, Monday, 3 October 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
The Adultswim interview with Actress that recently got posted is worth watching--I don't think he's ever really been interview on camera before, has he?http://video.adultswim.com/unclassified/actress-interview.html
― Spectrum Spools presents: Blogosfear (Craig D.), Monday, 3 October 2011 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah there's this one...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ot_u5_o5vY
It's not as good as the adult swim one though.
Looking forward to his new album, whenever that's coming out.
― jimitheexploder, Monday, 3 October 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
i dig that patten track
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 3 October 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
He did a remix of Kasabian. It's kinda good!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkjL4m9oyE&
― Number None, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Patten's album was mentioned upthread. I listened to it all the way through and thought it was pretty useless, but what did you guyses think?
― Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
agreed
― the late great, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
just too left-footed for me to get down with, though i felt the same way about the entire genre of dubstep at first and now i'm a convert
― the late great, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
before i check out the Kasabian remix i need to know if there's any Kasabian in it
― Nultified Ancients of Man U (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxoT4u5mcc
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Tuesday, 20 March 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
whoa, there is a new full-length?
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
RIP Actress
― Friends of Mr Caeiro (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Getting lots of good reviews so far btw
― Friends of Mr Caeiro (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:38 (eleven years ago) link
blah, not on Spotify or whatever yet
― mh, Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:40 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Wa7UN01eY
― Friends of Mr Caeiro (NickB), Thursday, 19 April 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
And it's really lovely, he's given in to his pretty side.
― Jedmond, Thursday, 19 April 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
psyched for the set tonight for unsound
― life's rich pageant then you die (uptown churl), Friday, 20 April 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
RIPrest in peacefassy get the coffinthen dem get the wreath
― the late great, Friday, 20 April 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
(no homophobe)
― the late great, Friday, 20 April 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
excellent album
― diamonddave85, Friday, 20 April 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link
like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWO7YZ-gZqk
― Dominique, Friday, 20 April 2012 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that is good but that whole Shangaan Shake series is all about that one Theo Parrish remix imo, that thing is a killer.
― Friends of Mr Caeiro (NickB), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
I spent a lot of time a lil while ago unsuccessfully trying to work that electro 2 track into a set
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 20 April 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
the MMM is thee shangaan remix imo.
― stirmonster, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
i want to do a shangaan remix poll, was thinking on the way to work about whether i'd vote for theo or MMM or old apparatus or peverelist, all so dope
<3 dj rashad and spinn's too but obv it's kinda just a particularly accessible footwork track w/ a shangaan sample or two
― the late great, Friday, 20 April 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
personally both of those actress mixes are a little too "out there" for me
― the late great, Friday, 20 April 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, The Lord's Graffiti is one muthafucka of a tune. He is very good.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 27 April 2012 02:00 (eleven years ago) link
Still digesting R.I.P personally ("Caves Of Paradise" is the standout for me so far--wobbly bassline phrase-length + phased fast hi-hats = sold), but this free John Cale remix is esp. great (more pitched-down/low-slung than anything on the new record): http://www.factmag.com/2012/04/20/download-actress-remix-of-john-cale/
― Groove is in the shart (Craig D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
i've only heard "marble plexus" so far and i loved it, looking forward to picking up the album hopefully tomorrow
― the late great, Friday, 27 April 2012 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
gah this album is fucking incredible
very "selected ambient works" imo
― the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
had this locked on repeat since i got it
"N.E.W." is so incredible
― the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite track on "splazsh" has always been "hubble"
you read my mind mr cunningham and made an entire album in that style
pretty sure one of the tracks on this is a remix of "crushed" from hazyville
― the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
― the late great, Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cosign all of this. never really got into splazsh, really digging this though.
― toby, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
this is really cool
never liked splazsh either
― r|t|c, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
dunno abt these last 4 tracks after 'glint'
kinda feel i need to start from the beginning again to work them out
― r|t|c, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
this is good
― Ms Tum-Bla-Wi-Tee (nakhchivan), Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:15 (eleven years ago) link
Liking this, the lord's graffiti and raven are the two that stood out on first listen.
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Monday, 30 April 2012 07:49 (eleven years ago) link
Is this streaming anywhere?
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:32 (eleven years ago) link
i'm alright with these last four tracks now. i don't enjoy them especially but the juxtapositions they provide lend a sense of consequence to the rest, however gnomic; ie without them this would be a too-well-contained and easily disposable nice bit of idm retro.
i like the middle section in particular, 'jardin' / 'serpent' / 'shadow from tartarus' - 'serpent' is very autechre homage to nokia 3310. in fact a fair few of the tiny insectoid music box melody tracks remind me of lp5/ep7 era ae, moreso than aphex at least.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
jardin is amazing...
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
you guys might be interested to check out shackleton's new "music for the quiet hour".
― sisilafami, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
A new Shackleton already? Still getting a lot of mileage out of the Pinch collab. Another Honest Jon's release? Reading the response on the new Actress album I will definitely check it out, couldn't get into Splazsh..
― willem, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:02 (eleven years ago) link
The new Shackleton is out on his own label:
http://boomkat.com/cds/523774-shackleton-music-for-the-quiet-hour-the-drawbar-organ
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
i keep thinking of the word "palimpsest" in relation to this album, like what you get after coming home at 7am and all the music you've heard all night is still rattling around in a jangly smear inside your head
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
I LOVE THIS
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Saturday, 19 May 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
I just picked up R.I.P yesterday and want to add to the chorus of praise... This is immediately more engaging and satisfying to me than Splazsh--more beauty, more restraint, more detail, more melodic development. It's a lovely record that it's hard to imagine any other producer making. I think it may even be a "deeper" record than Splazsh but without the sheen of inscrutability that led so many people to keep on and keep on with it; R.I.P is more immediate without being any less complex.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 7 June 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link
timely reminder for me that this is a good rainy day album
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 June 2012 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
i agree that it sounds a lot like autechre, especially the one track with the annoying birdsong sample sound and a couple others i can't recall are very much like the subtler confield-era stuff
― the late great, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
I can see where that comparison comes from, but this is so much warmer and more luscious to me than Autechre.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
Think I prefer Splazsh tbh - this is okay, but very similar in vibe to Oversteps-era Ae but not as involving. Might need a few more spins though.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
This is really good - his production style certainly lends itself to moody atmospheric numbers far more than it does the more beat-driven dancefloor-based material. "Tree Of Knowledge" sounds like lurching brostep recorded to a tape deck via a microphone pressed against laptop speakers to my ears.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:06 (eleven years ago) link
R.I.P. is going to save the lives of so many cracked-out kids, you know at 4am when the drugs won't let you sleep and no music sounds right - this will be the only album they can listen to
vahid otm
― hot slag (lukas), Sunday, 20 January 2013 09:33 (eleven years ago) link
whenever I listen to this it feels like a watered down version of madlib beat tapes, I wish I could get into it because in theory this is like my favorite shit
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 20 January 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
which madlib beat tapes are these?
― bass, Sunday, 20 January 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
I love this record. Keep coming back to it.
― Hutton dressed as Lahm (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 January 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
new 12" "silver cloud" is some beautiful sinister fuzzed out fucked-up mutant techno
― clouds, Friday, 25 January 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
is it as good as the la dusseldorf track of the same name
― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 25 January 2013 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah this is great - nice to have some longer tracks from him.
― toby, Saturday, 26 January 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
"voodoo posse chronic illusion" is so so good
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Friday, 15 February 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
yep
a new afx album would be nice but actress is kinda supplanting the old 90s greats imo
― polski smak (clouds), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
still unsure how I've listened to and enjoyed this dude's music for over two years but only found out a few weeks ago that he played professionally for West Brom
― Julian-Joachim Roedelius (DJ Mencap), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Friday, February 15, 2013 3:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
absolutely addicted to this at the moment
― Number None, Friday, 15 February 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
Even more intriguingly, it’s known that Cunningham was previously a footballer due to embark on a career with West Bromwich Albion, before injury forced him to retire from the sport at the age of 19 (a “crushing decision to make,” he says). What business, our inner snob demands to know, could a one-time professional hoofer of balls have making music as obtuse, as formally brilliant as this?
had no idea about this, rmde at the pleb who wrote that anyway
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
http://peterkempsrecordreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/actress-harrier-attk-gershwin-roy.html
also found this charming review by some pensioner
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
Remixes of Legowelt: https://soundcloud.com/clone-nl/legowelt-elementz-of-houz
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
his boiler room mix is still my all time favorite dj mix
― the late great, Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 20 January 2013 18:03 (4 months ago) Permalink
rip clicked w/ me and its completely stunning, I was looking at it in the wrong light entirely
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 26 May 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
what light are you looking at it in now?
― the late great, Sunday, 26 May 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PxHGxsI.jpg
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Sunday, 26 May 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
I actually haven't smoked in a long time!
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:40 (ten years ago) link
I can't really answer that intelligently, I guess I'm letting it be its own thing and not trying to compare it to anything else, and that has allowed my perception to the music to open itself up a little more
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:41 (ten years ago) link
I don't expect to be as spazzy as I wanted it to be originally maybe? idk
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:42 (ten years ago) link
my perception of the music, obv
Still think it's a lot less than the sum of the ideas that people use to describe it.
― Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:49 (ten years ago) link
― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:30 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― missingNO, Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:31 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 26 May 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
His new album is being released in October.
http://i.imgur.com/CDtNyaQ.jpg
(this is from Clash magazine)
― crowhurst, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
excellent news
― the late great, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
yesssssssss
― clouds, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
Ghettoville is the bleached out and black tinted conclusion of the Actress image.
Where the demands of writing caught the artist slumped and reclined, devoid of any soul, acutely aware of the simulated prism that required breakout.
Four albums in and the notes and compositions no longer contain decipherable language.
The scripts now carry tears, the world has returned to a flattened state, and out through that window, the birds look back into the cage they once inhabited.
Spitting flames behind a white wall of silence.
The machines have turned to stone, data reads like an obituary to its user.
A fix is no longer a release, it's a brittle curse. Zero satisfaction, no teeth, pseudo artists running rampant, but the path continues.
R.I.P Music 2014.
Actress
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 03:46 (ten years ago) link
LOL
No comment on that up there, but just came here to say:
if you like Actress, check out that Gardland "Syndrome Syndrome" album on Rvng Intl, it's dope
it's got it's own thing, but the effect sometimes reminded me of the more upfront Actress jams
― the tune was space, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 05:13 (ten years ago) link
sorry actress :(
― CardiacsPrincesse69xxx (Matt P), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 06:02 (ten years ago) link
it sucks to be young and sad, but there's a whole lot of liberating history before you.
― CardiacsPrincesse69xxx (Matt P), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 06:04 (ten years ago) link
― paolo, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 09:47 (ten years ago) link
Still excited for the new album doe
sad news
new saido berahino 12 on force tracks is my shit right now anyway tho
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 10:10 (ten years ago) link
i'm still excited too but it made me LOL
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
Pat O'Rourke, 33, Waterford.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
haha
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:34 (ten years ago) link
well played
will attempt to dig that Gardland thing out of the inbox in the meantime
― too much Michu, not enough meta (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Your dad sends his regards.
Love,
Mum
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's the one
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
- bob marley
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
PS: There's some chicken left in the fridge if you get hungry. Don't forget to water my plants.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
srsly though i'm stoked for this
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
yeah I love Actress. When is it out?
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
January 27. Check out his sweet jacket toohttp://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Actress-11.5.2013jpg1.jpg
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
psyched
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 15:02 (ten years ago) link
sennheiser headphones - good to see.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
he should probably lay off the purp.
― clouds, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
nah
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure that's just a press photo and this is the sleeve art:
http://ninjatune.net/files/images/actress/two/5021392853192.jpg
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
good art
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
i haven't checked ninja tune for a really long time (not since the mid-90s) but between this and machinedrum they're doing pretty good
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
and Lorn.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
They've got King Midas Sound now, too.
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Thursday, 7 November 2013 00:33 (ten years ago) link
https://bleep.com/release/48689-actress-grey-over-blue
― crowhurst, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
A lot of year-end round ups I've read have compared all sorts of artists to Actress and every time I investigate I am left disappointed. Who else actually has the same bleary, drained, warped sound?
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
everything on Opal Tapes?
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
lee gamble somewhat
― A Skanger Barkley (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
patten
― sisilafami, Tuesday, 17 December 2013 23:40 (ten years ago) link
Actress as forerunner to the year of "abrasive, conceptual techno."
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 18 December 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/grey-over-blue
― toby, Saturday, 21 December 2013 09:53 (ten years ago) link
so this is out on the seedy places of the internet now and i couldn't help myself. absolutely great album
― illegalblues, Monday, 30 December 2013 19:57 (ten years ago) link
good to know, thanks for heads-up
― the late great, Monday, 30 December 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
Ghettoville or the 12"?
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
I'm stupidly excited for both, really- this is the first producer in ages that's made me break my "no stupidly expensive import white labels" rule.
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
the album is out there
― Number None, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
ugh tired writin bad
but yes, I am repetitively, redundantly excited for this new album collection of musical song tracks
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Monday, 30 December 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
after a lot of love, there is a negative review in new mojo.
and an indication that this is the last release under this moniker ?
loving the jacket ..
― mark e, Monday, 30 December 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link
it is "the bleached-out and black-tinted conclusion of the Actress image" apparently
― Number None, Monday, 30 December 2013 23:00 (ten years ago) link
description makes sense after listening to it. really dark album. perfect for the bitter january/feburary cold coming up. gaze is a straight up jam
― illegalblues, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 00:54 (ten years ago) link
a lot of this sounds like dean blunt
― the late great, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 02:00 (ten years ago) link
as on hazyville and splazsh i like the uptempo tracks best of all
this is maybe too lo-fi for my tastes
― the late great, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 02:03 (ten years ago) link
kinda taking the "silver cloud" style even further. i'll have to hear this a few more times before i can say anything about it.
― clouds, Tuesday, 31 December 2013 03:57 (ten years ago) link
love the album cover, i wonder if i'll ever come around on his music
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 31 December 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, December 17, 2013 2:47 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
maybe the huerco s album "colonial patterns" (on software records)
― Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ (brimstead), Sunday, 5 January 2014 22:25 (ten years ago) link
terrence dixon's "from the far future pt. 2" is the most actress-sounding non-actress thing i've found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67GArweOYL0
― clouds, Sunday, 5 January 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
$120+ for box set you got to be kidding me ..
― the late great, Monday, 6 January 2014 04:25 (ten years ago) link
It's marginally cheaper direct from Ninja Tune- their site is quoting me the equivalent of $90 including US shipping.
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Monday, 6 January 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
Really couldn't get into that Huerco S album, it was just too grey and sludgy, I think Actress does this sort of thing with more variety in tone and emotion (although I have yet to hear Ghettoville)
― boxedjoy, Monday, 6 January 2014 20:54 (ten years ago) link
http://www.thebeatjuice.com/read/2014/01/07/4174/actress-q-and-a/
And I certainly haven’t retired! A lot of records out there at the moment are ones that I’ve recorded, and people don’t even know.
― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 January 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
Every Land was originally part of Paul White's forthcoming album but as the record has taken shape it just didn't fit any more (that, and the massive sample...). His new LP marks a whole new direction as he explores new wave, Krautrock, and much more. Someone said it sounds like Actress playing jazz, which is as close as anything we've come up with. There are some hints in his recent Boiler Room live show: watch it here.
http://boilerroom.tv/recording/paul-white/
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 04:26 (ten years ago) link
Last question. On Twitter, why do you follow Farrow & Ball? Why not? Haha. Because… Listen, my whole ambition in life is to live in a beautiful house. So, when it comes to like paints and shit… I want the best. And Farrow & Ball is pretty much the best.
― paolo, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 08:59 (ten years ago) link
Also the Ghettoville box xet is £50 on the Ninja Tune UK website. Might get myself involved with that
― paolo, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 09:02 (ten years ago) link
the box set is just ghettoville and hazyville on lp right?
― Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ (brimstead), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
+ ghettoville on CD + 32 page art book
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
+ hazyville on CD and whoops it's a 40 page art book
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
guess that'd be pretty cool to have. Probably sounds awesome cranked up.
― Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ (brimstead), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
vinylwise, i mean
5 LPs, 2 CDs and one art book
100 bucks still sounds kind of a lot for this
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
a lot of the tracks on ghettoville seem to invite playing around with different RPMs
― clouds, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 22:40 (ten years ago) link
This has been bugging me all day- is that a Bee Gees sample on "IWAAD"?
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:56 (ten years ago) link
From "Tragedy," maybe?
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Monday, 13 January 2014 03:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2014/jan/24/whys-actress-ghettoville-is-the-one-album-you-should-hear-this-week-video
― millmeister, Friday, 24 January 2014 11:33 (ten years ago) link
My favourite thing to do with Actress is to listen to it on headphones when I'm really really tired and just about to drop off to sleep. his best stuff warps around theta waves and opens up weird spaces in my mind, but I didn't get that from his last album at all - everything was much more surface-level.
― he said, even sexilyer, (dog latin), Friday, 24 January 2014 11:40 (ten years ago) link
come on man, that's a ridiculous criticism
― the late great, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:02 (ten years ago) link
eh what? I def thought R.I.P. had a more accessible superficial sound compared to Splaszh and this new one. It was okay, but I felt everything about it was more 'obvious', more 'defined' if you get what i mean?
― he said, even sexilyer, (dog latin), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
"accessible" says more about the listener than the music
"superficial" is a mode of listening, not a feature of music
"obvious", again, relates more to the listener than the music itself
"defined" = not sure what you mean
― the late great, Friday, 24 January 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
uh....
― he said, even sexilyer, (dog latin), Friday, 24 January 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
wut?
I want to like Actress but I find his stuff rather boring in practice.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Saturday, 25 January 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
First listen to Ghettoville, initial impression is what a magnificently grim and shitty record.
― keiji cretins (NickB), Monday, 27 January 2014 12:43 (ten years ago) link
As lovely as the crunch of broken glass in a piss-stinking stairwell.
I don't think it's that grim (compared to his other stuff anyway)
― paolo, Monday, 27 January 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
i am not yet impressed by this
― the late great, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
never found his stuff to be very immediate so am hoping ghettoville is as good as RIP (which sometimes i am still not sure about either, but there are moments on there that are some of my favourite things of the last few years) which took me a long time to figure out what was actually *there* in that thing
― StillAdvance, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:17 (ten years ago) link
Really love teh newie on 1 x listen, some really wow moments.
― ineloquentwow (Craigo Boingo), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
RIP works much better for me as a full album rather than track-by-track. Will definitely check this out.
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Monday, 27 January 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
― the late great, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:00 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
seriously?
― flopson, Monday, 27 January 2014 19:25 (ten years ago) link
srs
― the late great, Monday, 27 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
actually ... you know what, it IS 180g vinyl
― the late great, Monday, 27 January 2014 20:20 (ten years ago) link
i guess for 180g vinyl it's about right
― the late great, Monday, 27 January 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
5 lps sold individually would cost about 100$
― flopson, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 03:12 (ten years ago) link
weird album
― the late great, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 05:16 (ten years ago) link
takes a while to warm up
― the late great, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 17:27 (ten years ago) link
I'm listening now (only as far as contagious) and his ability to create *sounds* is better than almost everyone else in electronic music. Every single noise on this is so textured and interesting. What he does with those sounds is less interesting to me, sadly.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 18:03 (ten years ago) link
the beginning is quite clunky
― the late great, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
In fairness I've had the same reaction to all his albums. At the bit where it picks up now and enjoying it more.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
cliche of the day: the last track is like the shaft of sunlight at the end of blade runner
― the late great, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
more cliche would be if it has that embers burning/crackling sound all through it (still not heard this album)
― StillAdvance, Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:12 (ten years ago) link
warming up to it!
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 06:27 (ten years ago) link
i really like the bell tones in the first track, best bell tones since maphive 6.1
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 06:59 (ten years ago) link
love how they sound against the bass synth that comes in around 4 minutes
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 07:03 (ten years ago) link
i agree with matt dc, this album is really about the sounds.
the second track sounds like a lonely tugboat lost on a foggy, heaving sea.
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 07:09 (ten years ago) link
it's so appropriate that it's on ninja tune. so trip hop.
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 07:14 (ten years ago) link
struggled with this yesterday, second time around was much better. Rap is the standout for me, anyone recognise the sample?
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 11:42 (ten years ago) link
gonna guess it's 'wrap yourself around me' by david grant
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
http://www.juno.co.uk/MP3/SF459907-01-01-03.mp3
yeah
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 12:24 (ten years ago) link
n1
― cheeseburger, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
i agree with paolo. a lot of this album actually *isn't* that dark - it's the sound of a dude playing around with beats and funny noises.
― the late great, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
i don't think i'm ever going to "get" this dude's music. nothing happens! what are you supposed to DO to it.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link
listen
― sisilafami, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:17 (ten years ago) link
xpost, as I mentioned upthread, I found the best time to appreciate Actress is when I'm in a slumber state.
― doglato dozzy (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 12:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah. it's music for cold winter nights. hypnotic, eerie, menacing, a little seedy.
actress sounds great in the middle of a playlist of artists working in a similar vein, e.g., burial; shackleton and appleblim (skull disco); various prod.; the livity sound roster of artists; the bug.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 13:21 (ten years ago) link
shackleton got some vibey feelings on some of the records dunno about the others
― cog, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 13:32 (ten years ago) link
Kind of like that RA went out on a limb and gave this 2.5.
I feel asleep listening to it on a bus a few weeks, and still haven't consciously made my whole way through it. I found it a bit of a trial, but did not dislike what I heard.
Actress live, on the other hand, was one of the best shows I've seen in recent years.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 13:49 (ten years ago) link
A few weeks back, that is... although that bus trip did seem to last forever!
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 11 February 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
Yes - it lends itself well to mixes etc where you want to find a good segue between two ends of a spectrum.
― doglato dozzy (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 February 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
the first track on this goes on a while without doing much but I find it strangely compelling
might be its resemblance to the Chrono Trigger 2300 AD world map theme triggering subliminal positive associations
― a chance to cross is a chance to score (anonanon), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:05 (ten years ago) link
i had that same thought! that echoing bell.
― clouds, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
he mentioned that he's released music without the actress handle and it appears that stuff is out under the name levantis. should definitely check out the 12" that's out. great stuff. just like ghettoville but more beat oriented. he mentioned in some other interview that there was an earlier version of ghettoville that was a lot more techno influenced and it seems like some of those tracks could be these.
― illegalblues, Friday, 28 February 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
love this tune
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― illegalblues, Friday, 28 February 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link
ahhh how the hell you edit a post, now i look like a grandma
― illegalblues, Friday, 28 February 2014 18:38 (ten years ago) link
I love how interactive ghettoville is, it practically begs you to fuck with the bpms. Also the shitty packaging ensures each person's copy will have a signature of minor damage.
― brimstead, Friday, 28 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
i picked it up on vinyl and i swear most of the songs sound like they were originally conceived for 45' tempo
― illegalblues, Friday, 28 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
https://ninjatune.net/release/actress/xoul-ep
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 July 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link
Out of stock already :/
― paolo, Thursday, 24 July 2014 10:48 (nine years ago) link
dj kicks is a ***** masterpiece
― the late great, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 05:11 (eight years ago) link
How well does it flow? Heard some of the transitions were a bit on the jarring side.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 10:11 (eight years ago) link
Given that 'Pen Expers' is on there I can't see how it could be anything but.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 11:46 (eight years ago) link
smitten with this. outside of spotify irregularly making a hash of track transitions it flows v well
― ogmor, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 11:48 (eight years ago) link
pen expers arriving is amazing, just listen to it ffs
― ogmor, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 11:49 (eight years ago) link
can't wait to hear this.
― p:s nerds know (dog latin), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 11:58 (eight years ago) link
After a quick listen this morning, there's not a lot of mixing going on, the transitions are quick but mainly OK. Obviously, it's mainly about the selection of tracks.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 12:28 (eight years ago) link
(I am quite a fan of jarring transitions btw)
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 13:06 (eight years ago) link
pen expers arriving is amazing
It really is! The mix itself is great throughout but sort of... shapeless? Just when you think it's going somewhere it decides to wander off and see what's in another direction entirely.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
i only felt it was jarring the first couple of times i listened through, when i was listening for beat matching and finding none. after a few listens it really opened up for me. i feel like he is really pushing the envelope as far as matching up moods and vibes in tracks. almost every mix makes perfect sense to me now, and i'm amazed at the connections he makes between tracks.
― the late great, Thursday, 14 May 2015 08:10 (eight years ago) link
that's what he's best at though, is my thought on him - finding diagonal connections in music, that is.
― p:s nerds know (dog latin), Thursday, 14 May 2015 09:25 (eight years ago) link
Yeah it does feel like a consistent progression in terms of mood, if not in momentum.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 May 2015 09:29 (eight years ago) link
this is very fine work
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 16 May 2015 10:17 (eight years ago) link
thread title has put me off listening to actress until now.... but i really like this!
i don't think it's shapeless at all! most mixes i will stick on and zone out which is often exactly what i want. but the way this mix evolves suddenly and kinda strangely really keeps my attention focussed. i've found it great for running to.
― tpp, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 19:35 (eight years ago) link
dude's music is just as enervating and like listening to paint dry when he calls himself levantis as when he calls himself actress
― lex pretend, Monday, 16 November 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
did you just fart?
― brimstead, Monday, 16 November 2015 21:53 (eight years ago) link
one of the worst all time thread titles
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 November 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Actress is a totally amazing recording moniker though.
― Whoremonger (jed_), Monday, 16 November 2015 21:59 (eight years ago) link
how should actress make his music less enervating? throw some donks on it?
― brimstead, Monday, 16 November 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
Actress is opening for Animal Collective on the current leg of their U.S. tour, stoked to see them both soon
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 November 2016 02:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg1Pw0y-x8Q
― the late great, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 04:03 (seven years ago) link
"Look, I don't care, you've got to be in the video."
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Wednesday, 15 March 2017 05:14 (seven years ago) link
i knew their "retirement" wasn't gonna last
― clouds, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 12:42 (seven years ago) link
So is it pretty much confirmed that those one-off cassingles on Ninja Tune lately have been Actress? THAT KNIGHTSBRIDGE OG, DIAL 666 8100, and BANK OF ENGLAND?
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Saturday, 18 March 2017 01:21 (seven years ago) link
say what?
― the late great, Saturday, 18 March 2017 02:21 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, there's been a series of single-track cassette releases on Ninja Tune over the last couple weeks that have had people playing Spot the Anonymous Producer. The all-caps phrases are the artist names they were released under; the tracks are, respectively, "ZENO'S PARADOX," "UBER SPLIFF TO GATWICK" and "CHAOS RAIN"
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Saturday, 18 March 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
haha sounds dope
― the late great, Saturday, 18 March 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wTUQXiLV-Q
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
must admit i prefer the first single
― the late great, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 05:08 (six years ago) link
X22RME video has very brief shot of Crystal Palace park (the Bowl). So yay for that and I will likely buy your record.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 09:49 (six years ago) link
― the late great, Tuesday, May 12, 2015 10:11 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
late great OTM
― the late great, Friday, 7 April 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
This new single made me feel sick
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 7 April 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
how so
― the late great, Friday, 7 April 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link
i preferred the first single
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 7 April 2017 06:08 (six years ago) link
album out today
― clouds, Friday, 14 April 2017 13:36 (six years ago) link
"RUNNER" is so good
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 14 April 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
This may be my favourite yet. As expected, I quite like his pseudo-remix of Fauré's Requiem.
― pomenitul, Friday, 14 April 2017 20:21 (six years ago) link
Disappointed by this. I dunno, it sounds like a Clark album or something. Ok background music when it's on, but can't remember much about it after.
― Position Position, Friday, 14 April 2017 23:26 (six years ago) link
Yep
― Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Saturday, 15 April 2017 13:12 (six years ago) link
i like the new record a lot
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 17 April 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link
i still haven't heard it! my record store didn't get in their copies on friday. going to have to wait a few more days ...
― the late great, Monday, 17 April 2017 16:35 (six years ago) link
I think it is his best album yet.
― calzino, Monday, 17 April 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
mystery solved
https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/20825
― the late great, Monday, 17 April 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
This is fantastic, and probably his most accessible album yet. Either this or Splazsh is his best for me
― paolo, Monday, 17 April 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
this guy's music makes me fall asleep and have weird dreams. every. single. time.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 08:36 (six years ago) link
I like this album a lot but it might be more fair to call it a beat tape
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:58 (six years ago) link
His entire footballing career could have been one slow slide down the pyramid from West Brom and it would still have been more exciting than his music.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
or your posting
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:33 (six years ago) link
fuck excitement
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 20 April 2017 00:19 (six years ago) link
liking this a lot more than ghettoville so far
― clouds, Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
I like it a lot and think it does justice to the "r&b concrète" Nakh description in thread title.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:55 (six years ago) link
I cant even remember what Sweet Exorcist sounded like, but a lot of this is vibing listening to them on a tape walkman in the early 90's.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:07 (six years ago) link
One of my favourite Actress collabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1KLmphseFs
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 21 April 2017 23:12 (six years ago) link
New album is pretty great I think.
This might be a bit of a shot in the dark, but if any Glasgow posters were thinking of going to see him at the Art School this coming Saturday, I have a ticket but can't make it, so post here or Ilxmail me if you want it.
― off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 30 April 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
You would get the bonus prize of hanging out with ilxor paolo for the evening.
Event details here for anyone interested:https://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?946991
― off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 30 April 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
HIYA! my email is scottjamesramage at googlemail dot com
― boxedjoy, Monday, 1 May 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
Just sent you an email :)
― paolo, Monday, 1 May 2017 09:29 (six years ago) link
Why is "senorita" from his 1st album only 2 minutes, should have been 10 minutes or something, arrgh. Some other tracks too.
― Bregoni, Friday, 23 June 2017 09:20 (six years ago) link
I was disappointed by his new AZD I must say, too straight forward. But I saw it on the record store yesterday day and almost bought it.
― Bregoni, Friday, 23 June 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link
His latest album is beautiful and I cant stop listening to it and not enough people are talking about it
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link
AZD?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
I agree, I'm a big fan of Actress generally but it took me a long time to listen to this for whatever reason. I think there's something that happens in all popular music but seems amplified in electronic/techno, where the novelty of a new sound or approach wears of very quickly. So AZD is a perfectly elegant and beautiful expression, but it doesn't have that shock of the new. It's definitely been overlooked/underheard.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 21:18 (six years ago) link
I'm not well versed in Actress but definitely found AZD approachable while still esoteric, so A+ here
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
AZD has been growing on me. Hearing it the car has helped me appreciate its innate strangeness a lot more.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:00 (six years ago) link
there is an early Warp feel to this in places that reminds me of listening to Sweet Exorcist when I was a kid. I can understand it not getting universal love, but I have a lot of time for Actress's thing.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
It's been growing on me as well, since I wrote here earlier. Guess I had to listen to it in one long stretch, not the detailed listen, to appreciate it.
― Bregoni, Friday, 18 August 2017 08:02 (six years ago) link
Texture has always been one of the primary concerns of Actress (aka Darren Cunningham), his music melding peculiar samples with decayed dancefloor sounds to create abstract, R&B concrète
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/actress-london-contemporary-orchestra
― ogmor, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
tried this album a few times.didn't really do much for me.but its possible I was not in the right place for it.
― mark e, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
that levantis "romantic psychology" record is flipin spiffy. a cold damp cave / ceremonial robes
― massaman gai, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
ahh .. i should clarify, I meant the actress vs LCO album that's due out soon.
― mark e, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
it's not so different from the new oneohtrix, but still has that more subdued/poised, soupy actress quality that I find makes it very listenable
― ogmor, Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
ah man i LOVED the vs LCO single, looking forward to the album
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 June 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
wasn't really feeling AZD apart from "blue window", for some reason!
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 June 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
in the realm of 21st c. electronica even 'texture' doesn't seem adequate enough to describe the vibes actress is involved in.. it's more like "physicality" and "sensation".. really hard, high level lysergic interactions with textures and stuff.. idk ymmv
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 June 2018 21:55 (five years ago) link
Someone ordered a London Contemporary Orchestra
― paolo, Friday, 8 June 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
Possibly while high
'Faure in Chrome' from AZD does a better job of incorporating orchestral textures than most of LAGEOS, I'm afraid.
― pomenitul, Friday, 8 June 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
revisiting splazsh today, jesus christ "hubble"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 13:14 (four years ago) link
jesus christ the whole record really, i definitely loved it at the time but it's even better than i remembered, broken and perverse but also pretty straightforwardly funky and danceable, fractured techno swaddled in vast atmospheres + disintegrated vocal samples, and then at the end it gets kinda ugly and violent! love it
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
Actress rules. I'll never not look forward to new material by him.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
def one of the best artists of the decade
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:09 (four years ago) link
Absolutely, total hero
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 April 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
yeah agree
― Dan S, Thursday, 11 April 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
i was disappointed by r.i.p at the time, idk, maybe bc of the absence of vocals and it being less apparently danceable, it felt like a collection of inwardly-turned idm fragments to me. i am discovering, to my regret, that this was an extremely surface-level reading!!! "raven" and "shadow from tartarus" and "caves of paradise" are amazing and i don't even know what "jardin" is
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:40 (four years ago) link
I like the description of it as "a twilight interzone between rest and wakefulness"
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:51 (four years ago) link
(from the Wire end of year 2012)
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
feels in retrospect like R.I.P was a peak along with Splazsh
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:08 (four years ago) link
although Hazyville, Ghettoville, and AZD were all pretty much equally amazing
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
R.I.P. and Ghettoville are both amazing
― brimstead, Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:12 (four years ago) link
splazsh and ghettoville are my favorites
― the late great, Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:22 (four years ago) link
also he is an amazing DJ
This could either be something special or a complete mess:
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/131511-actress-x-stockhausen-sin-x-ii-2019
― Zeuhl Idol (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 April 2019 08:39 (four years ago) link
ghettoville is my favorite, absolutely scraped out
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
feel like i could put any track from it on a mix with early godflesh and no one would blink
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo0BniC5oco
― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 April 2019 15:04 (four years ago) link
New LP, Karma and Desire, coming out in October.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
... combining titles of two of my favorite records by artists named "Pharoah(e)"!
― The depressed somebody from the popular David Bowie song, (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
His new album was supposed to come out last month. I wonder what happened.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 November 2019 13:51 (four years ago) link
AT LAST
https://thequietus.com/articles/28603-actress-new-album-88
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 July 2020 01:11 (three years ago) link
I couldn't figure out the clue but I found a link to the unlocked album regardless
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 16 July 2020 06:41 (three years ago) link
88 is out now. Ninja Tune will release Karma & Desire in October 2020.
― calzino, Thursday, 16 July 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
oh now its obvious!
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 16 July 2020 07:45 (three years ago) link
Heavy later BoC vibe a few minutes in.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I'm really enjoying this so far.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 16 July 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
This drifts along very nicely, I like the deep bass sound. BoC vibes is otm!
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 16 July 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
this is awesome
― carin' (map), Saturday, 18 July 2020 02:56 (three years ago) link
I agree!
― paolo, Saturday, 18 July 2020 08:18 (three years ago) link
To me it sounds extremely Flying Lotus, and also maybe like he got some Korg Volcas? The synth textures feel very familiar to me (and I use a lot of Volcas). Also its more like a 22 minute beat tape than an album, but none of these are bad things, I'm into it.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
Although some of these beats wear out their welcome by the time they hit 2 min, as opposed to his murky & detailed tracks that feel like they could go on forever.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 20 July 2020 18:42 (three years ago) link
Actress is less sprawl-prone than FL. His tracks come across as self-enclosed, gnomic fragments ('hedgehogs', per Fr. Schlegel) more so than FL's comparatively maximalist approach. I'm also tempted to argue that Actress is paradoxically closer to the core Warp aesthetic than FL.
― pomenitul, Monday, 20 July 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
True, FlyLo packs a lot into his 2 min tracks.
On the plus side I'm currently listening to AZD again, what an album.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
i hear shake shakir in the newest actress but shake has just generally been on my mind so idk
― carin' (map), Monday, 20 July 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
lol at the emails from actress with subject lines looking like straight up spamanybody call the phone number?
― brimstead, Thursday, 24 September 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
i did there was some musicmeh
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Thursday, 24 September 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link
Karma & Desire strikes me as his piano album, and in some ways his vocal album as well, with feats. by Zsela, Sampha, Aura T-09 and Christel Well. He gets more out of this spartan palette than when he's collaborating with a full orchestra as on LAGEOS. There's also plenty of overtly electronic material that hearkens back to the work for which he's best known, so the the risk of monotony is averted throughout. At first pass, this has got to be one of his best releases so far.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
Also, 'Public Life', a bona fide solo piano piece performed by Vanessa Benelli Mosell, is better than anything on Drukqs imo.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 13:52 (three years ago) link
ohhhhhh my god
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
on one level seems like a straight-up gorgeous nighttime house record, on another seems like one of his most formally ambitious and realized projects
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:54 (three years ago) link
2020: year of the dance full-length for people who love doing it wrong
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 October 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I love when he convincingly reminds you that you don't have to choose.
― pomenitul, Friday, 23 October 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
in a year that was less stacked this would be my aoty easy. maybe it is
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 23 October 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
ok wow this is something else
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 23 October 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
Oh my actual goodness this is unreal
― the article don, Friday, 23 October 2020 23:59 (three years ago) link
This is superb. It'll sound daft, but it's making me miss London so much - London at night, black streets in the rain, the blind foreheads of houses, the promise of solace behind every door.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 24 October 2020 09:05 (three years ago) link
I hesitate to invoke the B word but a lot of the stuff he's doing with claustral atmospheres and the slurring of voices is kinda Burial-adjacent.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Saturday, 24 October 2020 09:22 (three years ago) link
I was just thinking that. Album feels like a cross between Drukqs and Burial. And it's fantastic.
― gman59, Saturday, 24 October 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
this is great, much better than the last mixtape, it feels so singular and uncompromising
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 25 October 2020 09:10 (three years ago) link
Actress is my favourite artist recording name ever, I think. I find it compellingly blank and suggestive at the same time.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovr3Zh28ZtQ
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 27 October 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
This is classic Actress but very much a headphones album (or at least a solitary/nighttime album), I made the mistake of putting it on during morning coffee time while my partner was around and it sounded really dumb in that context. :(
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
i listened to this over the weekend after first listens of a few other things and 1) i enjoyed it, 2) i was impressed by it, 3) i thought 'this is hipster music that will probably not go over great in a social context'
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
Haha.
'Gliding Squares' is the least Actress-y track on here but it's lovely.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
mornings have been pretty grey here so this record's been suiting them perfectly
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
the short film works very well imo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
though it's a hipster film that will probably not go over great in a social context
thanks for the tip y’all. fall has pushed into my part of the world and the drizzle started about halfway through this new album. perfect for this evening.
― sknybrg, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 00:47 (three years ago) link
So this is simply magnificent. Eine kleine nachtmusik alright, dropping in and out of clubs at night-time but never getting to the dance floor because you're vaguely distressed, slightly melancholy. And you want to get down! Instead of dancing the euphoria mixed with said melancholy in your head. Superb use of volume differences, subtle shifts in tempo, from 4/4 to the loneliness of a Burial runner.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
this is fantastic
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 6 November 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
lbi otm - except there's a lot of straight-up floor music here too that makes me miss dancing to hot/sexy/cool music so gd much
damn lbi nailed it
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:46 (three years ago) link
sorry you don't like me
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
I love the exchange between nakchivan and missingNO that kicks off this thread!
― the article don, Saturday, 7 November 2020 08:33 (three years ago) link
Incredible album, "Save" has been running through my head all day (or some meager echo of it, memory can't really capture it).
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 27 December 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
I've been asked to produce the new Lighthouse Family album.— AZD (@ctress_a) October 8, 2021
― brimstead, Friday, 8 October 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
The thing about Actress is that his music is always mixed almost entirely in mono.
I realise it's an aesthetic, but I find it really hard to listen to.
― raven, Saturday, 9 October 2021 07:13 (two years ago) link
I find his music far more challenging than, say, Autechre
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Saturday, 9 October 2021 08:00 (two years ago) link
Was gonna say that I feel exactly the opposite. I haven’t listened to a lot of Autechre tho, and this thread made me realize I’m only familiar with about half of Actress’ work. I also appreciate the sort of aimless quality of some of his music, which some here seem to regard as a weakness of his style.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 9 October 2021 09:09 (two years ago) link
wow i got weird on this thread, sorry! i'm still not a huge actress fan but like small doses. generally still think there is more style than substance and i don't find it challenging at all really.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 9 October 2021 12:01 (two years ago) link
lol i was being unreasonably combative myself, i do like you map <3
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Saturday, 9 October 2021 12:14 (two years ago) link
hey, thanks brad! i like you too. :)
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 9 October 2021 14:23 (two years ago) link
I love the exchange between nakchivan and missingNO that kicks off this thread!― the article don, Saturday, 7 November 2020 17:33 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― the article don, Saturday, 7 November 2020 17:33 (eleven months ago) bookmarkflaglink
i didn't love it at all, it was needlessly hectoring on nakchivan's part (which was apparently their thing despite being a beloved poster so more fool me i guess) and caused several days of psychological torment (yeah, i'm a weak one fr). obv my opinion and the way in which i stated it was shit but idk it did feel a little unsafe there for a minute as a neurodiverse person who has faced a lifetime of bullying (yah i know you don't really gaf about us beyond boilerplate please don't kys platitudes lol but still seems relevant) ... anyway i wish i hadn't stumbled upon this thread in the archives and wish i had never ever posted on this website but what are you gonna do (mods, pls do me a favour and delete/ban my account, ty)
― missingNO, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
probably my favorite musician of the decade. thick smoke always hanging in the air
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACxhOLmLyJI
Actress & Mount Kimbie - 'AZD SURF'
Not really into Mount Kimbie but this is very nice
― paolo, Thursday, 4 August 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
probably my favorite musician of the decade
After working on my ballots for the 2010s poll I think I agree with you
― paolo, Thursday, 4 August 2022 10:26 (one year ago) link
I didn't totally get Karma & Desire at the time and felt like I was missing something after I read the posts here, but it finally clicked while I listened to it while falling asleep last night. I think now that it has its hooks in me it may eventually replace RIP as my favorite, but time will tell. What a strange and unfriendly record this is. Are the people who compared it to Drukqs just talking about all the piano stuff, or the odd, seemingly random approach to sequencing?
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 5 August 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt4Miu5PuZg
― brimstead, Monday, 14 August 2023 15:21 (seven months ago) link
Happy he's back. I like this track, though I remain convinced he'll never again reach the heights of R.I.P.
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 14 August 2023 18:02 (seven months ago) link
new album... incredible
― ivy., Thursday, 9 November 2023 00:16 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crlGL-2hObw
hit that spdiff
― ivy., Thursday, 9 November 2023 00:17 (four months ago) link
This is great, listening to it constantly.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 9 November 2023 00:21 (four months ago) link
His set performing with Autechre in Sydney was a trip - began very disjointed and accumulated atmosphere and complexity, a lot like that track above. Dude was BUSY.
https://i.imgur.com/LQmxUqZ.jpg
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 9 November 2023 01:51 (four months ago) link
yeah, excellent album. kinda glad it's not as emotionally intense as the last one.
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Thursday, 9 November 2023 02:54 (four months ago) link
he’s one of the best
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 9 November 2023 03:00 (four months ago) link
the best. sounding great as always. can’t wait to give it a full listen.
― brimstead, Thursday, 9 November 2023 03:41 (four months ago) link
Saw him back at the 2013 Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival at really sick venue that is no more. Was by far the best thing I saw there and was this incredible constantly evolving series of beats and atmosphere that had me thinking he was the closest I'd seen to an Autechre set by someone else.
Them playing together would be amazing! So sad I wasn't in Sydney in time for that show.
― octobeard, Thursday, 9 November 2023 06:52 (four months ago) link
really makes the lo-fi/hi-fi distinction meaningless. neither annoyingly polished nor carelessly murky. also, unlike autechre, there's a distinct emotional core that unifies the music. it's also politicized without being didactic. what im saying is, it rocks
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:23 (four months ago) link
can't believe it's been almost 15 years since this thread was started. "r&b concrete" is still an alarmingly concise and accurate description.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:29 (four months ago) link
How is it politicized?
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 11 November 2023 11:34 (four months ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:30 (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
one of my faves of the century. new album roolz
― ava (paolo), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:09 (four months ago) link
it totally roolz. and the deluxe LP edition comes with an lp copy of 88!
― brimstead, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:31 (four months ago) link
Funny, this one didn't immediately strike me as much as previous albums, but I went back to it after reading the praise on this thread and it definitely clicked the second time, enough so that I immediately ordered the LP. I think headphones really helped me appreciate this album, and I'm not typically a headphones kind of person
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 17 November 2023 22:17 (four months ago) link
love this new album and also his recent mix for Mixmag
― boxedjoy, Friday, 17 November 2023 22:30 (four months ago) link
i really love this album but it always leaves me wanting to listen to Motorbass
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 25 November 2023 20:13 (four months ago) link