I still think that is NS record is nothing short of A+, so I went ahead and bought the Reptile Sweat Accelerator Ep, and yes, Narcotic Syntax is has officially won my heart forever.
― EDB, Friday, 11 September 2009 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked your mix a lot EDB - esp the dozzy into klock mix
dont know narcotic syntax, will check it out
― cherry blossom, Friday, 11 September 2009 14:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks a lot.
Their productions aren't exactly numerous, but tracks like Electric Liquid and Cowabunga! are hard to forget.
― EDB, Friday, 11 September 2009 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Off topic, but does anyone know what happened to Ambrose?
― Chewshabadoo, Friday, 11 September 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
no, but but Zip is playing in the building I used to work in tomorrow night, gonna have to go..
― mmmm, Friday, 11 September 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
centrepoint?
I'd love to see Zip but don't really fancy going to that
Ambrose is still in Sheffield - he was down here a month or so ago but we missed each other. saw him at something at the russian bar earlier this year. I know he went to that amazing thing, but we couldn't persuade him to come to Free Rotation
― cherry blossom, Saturday, 12 September 2009 06:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, Centrepoint, I used to work there in the mid-late nineties. I went tonight and it was positive London clubbing experience - for once! Nice people, good music/soundsystem, adequate facilities etc. Zip played a fantastic set, had a quick chat, such a cool guy.
― mmmm, Sunday, 13 September 2009 07:48 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone else see zip at fabric on sat?
― cherry blossom, Monday, 1 November 2010 11:13 (thirteen years ago) link
no but i saw zip at the limelight in 2005 and was dancing onstage w john selway and geeta
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 November 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
and pantytec
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 November 2010 11:16 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a very fun dj!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 November 2010 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
So, Superlongevity 5 is out. Not sure I can afford the box set though!
― mmmm, Friday, 3 December 2010 10:02 (thirteen years ago) link
'superlongevity' has a kinda appropriate/ironic/unfortunate feel to it these days (depending on viewpoint)
i had 3 & 4 iirc so will investigate
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 10:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, somebody feels the same here; http://www.discogs.com/Various-Superlongevity-5/release/2519446
― mmmm, Friday, 3 December 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
There's maybe a handful of tracks in this compilation that have any business on a dancefloor. The rest is just tired old shit: a couple light little drum kicks, a few weird noises, maybe a some vocal belch or squeek or what the fuck ever! People...remember Detroit? And Chicago? Where's the soul? Where's the swing? Minimal burned itself out a while ago already. The Perlon packaging looks nice but its just a shell on a mostly empty product.
eh this sounds just my kinda thing
― Ectothiorhodospira shaposhnikovii (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 December 2010 10:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I have vol. 4 and only like two tracks: the one that's mostly hi-hats and the one that's all freestyle.
― naus, Friday, 3 December 2010 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
…after listening to it again those were Melchior Productions LTD's "In the Shadow" and Narcotic Syntax's "Raptors' Delight"
― naus, Friday, 3 December 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― mmmm, Friday, December 3, 2010 5:02 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
This.
I think I'm going to wait until boxing day (aka Dec 26. aka Canadian/British Black Friday) and hope to find it in stores and get up to a third off. But this is unlikely. Otherwise I can get one place to order it for me straight, but it would be $140, which is just DO NOT WANT (well, it's actually DO WANT BUT DO NOT WANT TO PAY). Oh well.
― EDB, Thursday, 9 December 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I really want to hear the Narcotic Syntax track... is anyone selling mp3s??
― elan, Friday, 10 December 2010 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
"Where's the swing?"
kind of an inaccurate criticism to make of Perlon, surely
― missingNO, Friday, 10 December 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh man, I didn't realize Narcotic Syntax had a track on it (now there's a hugely underrated and immensely talented duo).
Does anyone know how many of these they're pressing. I really want it, but not at a rate of $20 per record...
― EDB, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Also included, a very special collectors item, only available with this release.
Also, anyone have any idea what this is?
― EDB, Friday, 10 December 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone else see zip baby ford & dygas on fri night?
― cherry blossom, Sunday, 20 February 2011 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
perlon 85 side b
― post, Monday, 4 July 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
Can you, y'know, say the name of it rather than make people go on discogs.
― EDB, Monday, 4 July 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
I was very, VERY happy to find Markus Nikolai's Back used on vinyl today! It still sounds absolutely fantastic. Having far more disposable income than I did when this stuff was getting released (i.e. when I was a broker-than-broke-ass college student) is a wonderful thing. Things change so quickly in the world of dance music; it feels like just the other day when I special-ordered Superlongevity on CD from my local store in Richmond, VA. (That was my one CD purchase of the, like, two or four week period, and I didn't or couldn't download back then either.) And now, pretty much exactly a decade later, I'm catching up on single-artist releases from back that have been just randomly popping up in Brooklyn record stores. Given the speed with which things come into and go out of fashion in this realm, it does make me wonder who's still listening to this early-2000s micro-/minimal stuff in 2011? Are there younger kids out there right now in listening to, I dunno, Vocalcity for the first time and having their faces blown off? Why am I more self-aware / pondering of the possibility of being horribly out of fashion when buying stuff like this than, say, early '80s metal or postpunk?
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 02:26 (twelve years ago) link
maybe because it seems like there's no great reason for anyone out there somewhere to be digging on 00s micro-mnml (besides, like, the music: but they have to know about it somehow)? it seems to me like it didn't pass into legend or anything, or hasn't yet. and its original audience kind of abandoned it / its producers fell off / the 'sound' lost its potency or fashionableness or relevance.
― j., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like a good take, j. I've been reading Reynolds's Retromania this week, and it feels like micro-mnml stuff is in that pit right now of never having been revived (and thus attracting younger, newer audiences)--maybe because not "enough" time has elapsed for a revival?--but the original releases being somewhat hard to find (aren't those old Force Inc. records long out of print for the most part?).
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Aside from the really clinical, bass-light, clicky stuff has mnml really gone away? Zip is still regarded as one of the best DJs around, Cassy is the new resident at Circoloco, DC10 this year and of course Ricardo is still massive. All of them have widened their palette to include deep / classic / tech-house sounds but they still sound pretty minimal to me. Maybe I'm carrying the baggage of 15 years+ clubbing to define the genres properly or it's the clubs I go to?
― mmmm, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
i'm quite looking forward to hearing the new portable album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4hXj3db-I
depeche vocals + acid + dazzle ships synths
should be sick
― missingNO, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
portable live in dalston a couple of months backwas the best techno gig ive been to in a hell of a long time, I have vague memories of that tune.
― straightola, Friday, 5 August 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Oh and given that we have just about got to the mid nineties of watery NY house and loop techno in the cutting edge dance music revival id say the micro boom will be about 2015
― straightola, Friday, 5 August 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
was that the sud electronic night in april?
yeah think he played that
― post, Monday, 8 August 2011 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
nah it was slowpoke at the nest on easter sunday I think, I imaginre it was the same set
― straightola, Monday, 8 August 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
i'd almost given up on perlon but the new mara trax (b-side especially) is refreshingly great.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
heard the a-side played a few times last year...bside of the new fumiya tanaka is good too (337)
― post, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
"sini est" by ric y martin (villalobos and dandy jack) is INCREDIBLE.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 March 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
The Portable album is A+, exactly what I wanted from him.
― Jedmond, Thursday, 15 March 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
super late to these but the two Chris Korda releases are really excellent, especially Apologize to the Future. cool and unexpected to encounter antinatalist thought in a relatively "mainstream" space. also musically feels like somewhat of a return to Perlon's more quirky, irreverent roots
― missingNO, Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
PERL 39 side B is p nuts, starts off sounding like sub-menu BGM from like a nondescript golf simulator on Sega Megadrive or something replete w/ requisite Japanese monologue then suddenly mutates into a tom-tom led schaffel groove lol
― missingNO, Friday, 8 October 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
worth noting that currently hard to find for a reasonable price PERL 34 has been re-pressed and is due out next month—it's a fun one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5RLlzPfhM
― missingNO, Friday, 29 October 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link