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
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.
― 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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
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 (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