Techno/house bobbins, 2009

Ronan, you're right, I was skipping over the NYC mentions a bit too much.

Hopefully they'll learn from Ferrer/Argy and soon be on their own and not figureheads like Loco Dice, M.A.N.D.Y., or DJ T.

and speaking of cecille, it's probably old hat to keep going on about this track, but i just learned that the vocal samples on "nesrib" come from "the right stuff" by vanessa williams!

!!!!!

i did not know that song!

:D

I am finding this Vanessa Williams thing very entertaining.

Keep in mind also, Seth Troxler (who I am to believe lives in Berlin, anyways) isn't playing big room (North American) Clubs, unlike the Martinez Brothers. At least if the distinction of where and how often these respective DJ's have played here is any distinction.

On that subject, what do people think of Love Never Sleeps by him, I feel I'm not 'getting it' from the samples I've heard, although my enthusiasm for Adam Marshall and his remix live on, though.

vahid, the idjut boys' DC mix is an Amoeba exclusive for North America, so don't order from Europe!

i am really enjoying chloe's live at robert johnson mix

I've heard rumors that Kompakt just shut down their mp3 site and shifted everything over the beatport.

There is nothing official on the kompakt site site but their online catalog is now empty.

Does anyone know anything about this?

They're now offering their entire back catalogue to stream on their site, also. What implications this has I'm not entirely sure, seems like something they'd do to boost mp3 sales on their site.

@lex: may you share the link with us, please?

uhm it's a proper cd mix, i'm sure it'll turn up on the internet soon? dunno when it's released

It says on the new Kompakt site that their new online store will be up in March.

chloe mix for robert johnson looks decent, but i'm real excited for the prins thomas and gerd janson volumes (smagghe not so much)

Oh wow, someone booked Sammy Dee and Frivolous here. Hooray!

Without having really payed much attention to the mix, do you think the 2X LP sampler for Matthew Dear's Body Language is worth it. Condenses some stuff I wouldn't mind having into one place, but I dunno, mix samplers have also been kind of, weird to me, for some reason.

i say go for it if you want the trax. invariably a cheaper way of getting stuff.

it's got "ambee", best track on BL7 imo

its

wait no, that needs an apostrophe

i think

you're contracting it and has, so the apostrophe works.

just got the Petar Dundov - Escapements album. only heard it twice so far but it's fantastic. some ambient tracks, some detroit elements, some trancey bits.

I saw Martinez Bros. dj in new york without knowing who they were (I only looked on the internet afterward and saw all the "omg theyr in high school" writeups) and I thought it was great, their enthusiasm was infectious, it was fun to watch em play with huge smiles on their faces and everyone in the booth with em doing a whiplash neckbounce to every track

they did play some pop songs like Crystal Waters but it wasn't the majority

It says on the new Kompakt site that their new online store will be up in March.

That's good. I've always liked the selection on their site, but the interface was truely awful.

their interface was indeed vile

Haven't heard the Martinez Brothers live because I literally never go to the few remaining big rooms left in NYC, but I'm glad there is anything that gets the kids into EDM and if they're playing poppy stuff too then good! I never understood why so many Americans hate electronic music when most music that is popular here is actually made with the same machines and programs as techno. I'm not looking for an answer to this question but TMB can be a positive force if they point out this fact to a younger crowd.

Also, Seth Troxler's best release of last year was done with Pat Russell--"Valt Trax" on Circus Company. Superb and trippy dark stuff.

wait, martinez bros play ebm?

http://www.kompakt.fm/blog/3voL2oiGLiJ4

new online store in March for physical records but all mps through beatport from now on.

a positive force?

After reading the first part of the looking back on 2008 feature on RA, and subsequently downloading the Tolga Fidan remix of Dilo (Somehow I was blown away when I first heard him in 2007, and then just kind of forgot about how good he is) and the Anthony Collins remix of Kreon and Lemos, I must say, these are some pretty masterful tracks.

tail-end 2008 stuff i have been enjoying:

le chien perdu - handsome interruption (i'm really a big sucker for staccato cut-up vocals in techno)
milton channels - black is black (MASSIVE tech house track)

would like to hear a radio slave mix of that "black is black" track

ben klock album is fantastic, maybe not something to be played end to end but full of great tracks and not much of your average techno artists album filler or downtempo bits

New Gui Boratto album is streaming here

i'm REALLY feeling kreon's 'jauce' - it's the track that sebo k's 'diva' promised but didn't deliver. anyone know what the sample's from?

Jauce is great as is the Masomenos collab Eps. The cute graphics are a nice touch too.

anyone here the MXM record on Philpot from last year? really like that, just picked it up.

and moonship, "black is black" as in the one by Belle Epoque? or los bravas? or extravagance.?

i've been loving the productions from Lerosa. I can't get enough of his sound right now.

i mean "black is black" by milton channels. it's a little too hectic for my taste.

desire, the nicolette + john tejada track on where (palette recordings) is absolutely perfect.
need to dig out her solo album from way back, as i think it needs more love.

The new Intrusion album, The Seduction of Silence, is fantastic. Nice and dubby.

desire, the nicolette + john tejada track on where (palette recordings) is absolutely perfect.
need to dig out her solo album from way back, as i think it needs more love.

Produced by Plaid.

IIRC nicolette did a really nice installment of dj kicks back in the day. yeah, this one, also with assistance from plaid

"i've been loving the productions from Lerosa. I can't get enough of his sound right now.

― brotherlovesdub"

little BSP here, but we have a nice interview with him along with a free .wav DL of a track exclusive to us:

http://infinitestatemachine.com/2008/12/08/lerosa-straight-outta-killester/

leo is the man, he keeps getting better and better!

Personally I find Lerosa's sound to be the most bland and boring of the bunch of producers making that style of deep-house. It's like Move D with even fewer interesting melodies or grooves to get excited about.

That said, I'm not incredibly well versed on his stuff, so perhaps I'm just ignorant.

Seconded on the Intrusion album, a great step for Stephen.

i wouldn't even really compare Lerosa to Move D at all. to me, he sounds like someone who should have been releasing records on Track Mode, not any specific producer but certainly in that same vein of feeling. definitely far more US deep house feeling than Move D or most other Euro producers.

too bad "us deep house feeling", as a whole, got ridden into the ground in 2008

I agree, Lerosa and Move D should be filed together in the record shop but their sounds are not the same. Lerosa sounds more like long lost Carl Craig demos than anything else. I'm sure that's me projecting what I want to hear in them but i've been listening to nothing else all weekend. I've just spent 30 bones on Juno downloading 320s of all his EPs and remixes despite having downloaded them from rapidshare already. All of this because for the 2nd time in a month the one track that was spectacular enough to make me ask the DJ what it was turned out to be Lerosa.

That's awesome. Again, I'm more than willing to be wrong if it means good music is to be had.

Anyone care to point out his essential tracks?

I like the Seeker EP best but really they all have good shit on them.

Arctor off the Lovers EP is one of my favs.

What does everyone think of the "new" Beatport?

Dave Clarke expects to see the death of all music he doesn't like, to be replaced by stuff he does. Next-level futurology there.

Dave Clarke: “It’s tough to predict 10 years in advance but thankfully minimal is now dead in cultured areas such as Europe.”

what a berk

edb otm...says it all about how much has actually happened in house/techno in the last what...3 years?

Yeah, To reiterate what I said before, the prolonged pronouncement of the death of minimal is just a way of keeping it alive for no reason than to rag on it and show off how relevant you supposedly are. From what I can tell people haven't really been playing banging dave-clarke style techno for some time anyhow, ragging on minimal now seems to just reek of a sort of desperation, (and it's not just dave clarke, too, even intelligent critics like the mnml ssgs guys have gotten good mileage out of proclamations of having "never (been) mnml" although they haven't really been doing that for a good while, actually).

It's interesting when you consider how lots of the critically lauded stuff of 09 - Levon Vincent, Marcell Dettman, Norman Nodge, etc. is very close to Robert Hood style Minimal techno, and at the same time is seen as a sort of antithesis to minimal. I'm curious how it would have been treated 3-4 years ago? Today, though, if a Mobilee circa 2006 record came out, I doubt anyone would make anything of it as "minimal".

My view is that techno hasn't really done all that much different since Acid Tracks and Voodoo Ray, people have just been calling it different things and getting really worked up about semantics.

"What is house", indeed.

vahid's suggestion is obv superior, if you don't agree you must not listen to much TECHNO/HOUSE BOBBINS 2010

can we call it DAVE CLARKE 2010?

JOSH WINK 2010

You used to be able put a minimal record on a record player. Today dave clarke opens his mouth and a torrent of shit literally pours out, drowning a pensioner leaving a hospice

Wow, can we call the new thread that!

obv nobody banging down the door to start a new thread...

well, with minimal dead, whats the point, really

The 2008 thread has been pretty boring (though without checking I'm pretty sure there are a couple of flamewars re the battle for the soul of house/techno upthread), and I think it's because of the vibeless broadness of its remit. "House/Techno" is not something that you can really get behind as a movement unless you have a wilfully perverse definition of what counts as "real".

I suspect that threads that are actually about a particular trend rather than just a kind-of sub-twitter about good new tracks would be much more successful and interesting.

Worth comparing with the original version of this thread back in 2004: 2004's Electro-House Classics

you could use that attitude to justify anything max...what's the point of getting up in the morning....or what's the point of breathing????

lol

I think we should have a YouTube Embends Only rule for the 2010 thread.

max stopped breathing before it was cool

Dude, first Kurt was taken from us, then Minimal, it's like, I don't even know anymore man...

RT @Josephhallam84 So, someones deleted Random Circuits so it no longer exists, how pathetic! All our work, mixes, gone forever!

so so sad, man..

still no new thread?

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2010/01/mnml-ssgs-mx48-redshape.html

Rolling Dance Partisans 2010 (Also bobbin, bobbins, bobbins!)