this thread will likely slip off sna in record time but i've been going through the discog of stian gjevik (EOD, CN, Radio-Logg) and it is remarkably consistent and great. same sort of acid funk as AFX has been doing since the analords but a greater tendency towards chiptune-ish timbres and a higher degree of melodicism than the kinds of process music like the extended jams on analord 9 (& like such as)
this will not appeal to the "why can't it be 1999 again" burnt-out former idm mavens of ilx but if you appreciate the classicist tendency of techno there's a lot to enjoy. it's a shame he never gets talked about outside of the circlejerk watmm fanboys bc he is one of the most prolific producers of recent years (and a nice fix if repeated listening to the analords has created an unfortunate tolerance to their joys, like me)
the EAP tracks has a normal cd-length release but there's also a self-released 71-track version and it's all mostly worthwhile, often bordering on great.
― vyvyan vanse (clouds), Saturday, 11 April 2015 13:49 (nine years ago) link
some youtubes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOnrR1w5BY8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4gQdSaWPk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdUD1X_ZVmo
banger:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqPVVy1ieGQ
sounds like an 8-minute remix of the intro to madonna's "holiday" done by larry heard, perfect sunny spring day music:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhMnwgrJRWE
― vyvyan vanse (clouds), Saturday, 11 April 2015 13:53 (nine years ago) link
his releases under the CN moniker go into some drexciyan/other people place melancholic android territory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SK0jeiu5JA
― vyvyan vanse (clouds), Saturday, 11 April 2015 13:58 (nine years ago) link
wémè and central processing unit seem like a label to follow; some kind of mass exodus of rephlex ppl going on -- just exploring at random i have yet to be really disappointed by any of their releases
this is not EOD but v good - FAH (the great-real-named robin de bekker) tends more towards UR-style minimalist detroit type trax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMoX_lKMczM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxXQWLtZK5U
― vyvyan vanse (clouds), Saturday, 11 April 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
i suppose i should make this a general thread for weme/cpu/post-rephlex and similar producers.
dave monolith (aka david barnard, bernard davies, mnlth, photodementia, etc) has been mining this vein v effectively for the past 6 years or so to almost no fanfare -- the programming on "welcome" is at least equal to the tuss records but i find him more imminently listenable and enjoyable than those releases. also has gotten +/- no attention from anyone. he has a knack for shifting fluid basslines and tracks that go in surprising directions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAu2EjahNjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgo3iILMvfE
― vyvyan vanse (clouds), Saturday, 11 April 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
this will not appeal to the "why can't it be 1999 again" burnt-out former idm mavens of ilx
u_u
― the late great, Thursday, 16 April 2015 07:26 (nine years ago) link
i found out about dave monolith's "welcome" from hardwax, and i like that one alright
i find this striking:
there's also a self-released 71-track version
― the late great, Thursday, 16 April 2015 07:42 (nine years ago) link
yeah i guess they were just tracks that he would add to whenever and arbitrarily stopped at one point. it's surprising how even the quality is throughout.
― truvada mangano (clouds), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:30 (nine years ago) link
i posted about aleksi perala's recent music in an ancient astrobotnia "is it afx????" thread which ofc went unnoticed -- the "colundi sequence" releases are incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81XMr6eieGY
― truvada mangano (clouds), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
wow that formatting, blergh
― truvada mangano (clouds), Thursday, 16 April 2015 13:33 (nine years ago) link
Cloudface album from last year (on opal tapes) was really nicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAB0KXFKeeE
― brimstead, Friday, 17 April 2015 04:56 (nine years ago) link
listened to the cloudface album a few times and it doesn't strike me as particularly special, but i haven't been overly impressed with anything on opal tapes. something about their releases is always "curated" seeming, too tasteful, lends itself too easily to being ignored. it is "nice" for sure but i think it's also kinda dull. (although all those things have been said abt the examples in this thread ofc)
― truvada mangano (clouds), Monday, 20 April 2015 13:55 (nine years ago) link
― the late great, Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:26 AM (4 days ago)
lol you were definitely NOT who i had in mind while writing that, in retro a dick comment but the exai and syro threads kinda pointed out whose taste i just can't get on w/
― truvada mangano (clouds), Monday, 20 April 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
after five months i finally got around to playing the last perala, quite exquisite at the right time
― nakhchivan, Monday, 11 May 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
thank you clouds
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Monday, 11 May 2015 04:54 (eight years ago) link
new eod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewdjMQrc2Jo
― hello, it me (clouds), Saturday, 5 September 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
lots of new releases on EOD's bandcamp -- the EODS series (up to 6 now) is particularly fantastic. by far my favorite techno musician working now.
http://eodtracks.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laWt6Nbx-h8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf58UvURX6I
― clouds, Friday, 19 February 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Very nice.
― what_have_you, Saturday, 27 February 2016 21:45 (eight years ago) link
Automatic Tasty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WKBAaxMwjw
― brimstead, Monday, 25 July 2016 07:02 (seven years ago) link
missed this thread before, bookmarked now
― Guangchang, thank you man (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 July 2016 07:05 (seven years ago) link
bump for clouds' thoughts on Automatic Tasty
― brimstead, Monday, 25 July 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
sorry, too busy downloading the entire automatic tasty discography
no seriously, this is brilliant -- like the ventolin ep/melodies from mars but with better production values. will be with this one for a while, thanks
― clouds, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
stian (EOD) has a new release out and a new alias (Dunal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1Y-X5vgqE
really loving this - inviting little freeform pentatonic improv acid/buchla experiments with a slight krautrock feel
― clouds, Sunday, 12 March 2017 14:53 (seven years ago) link
I don’t where to put this so I’m putting it hereYoshinori Hayashi - U (2019)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fBQRZN1Pug
― brimstead, Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:07 (one year ago) link