The Juan MacLean (RFI)

6FS was a really good live band, their drummer could play like a drummachine.

TRY BEST

no offense but that's like a DFA commercial slogan of the future

Floored me:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16116-feel-like-movin/

Haven't felt a groove like this since Happy House...

So excellent, yes.

Nice.

this is pretty glorious

but it's not happy house is it?

no, it's merely excellent

Not sure if I'm really so into Nancy Whang's vocals these days...

Especially since there's been so much great vocal house and pop dance music this year.

Yeah I'm not a fan of her voice at all, I actively dislike the Classixx song she appears on. She works well on Happy House because it's largely confined to soundbites that enhance the rest of the track ("you are so excellent", "launch meeee intooo spaaaaace") but most of her more song-based appearances don't really work for me.

That said, Tonight is probably my favourite Juan Mclean song, although she's heavily treated on that.

I'm so into her voice voice. I could listen to an album of Nancy Whang. The Classixx song wasn't really great imo. I think the lyrics to this one are pretty wack, but it's enjoyable listening.

Sorry. I got the Classixx song "All You're Waiting For" confused with Juan Maclean's "You Are My Destiny".

I like the Classixx joint and the other Juan track from this year a lot, not sure about this one. But I would be so down with a Nancy Whang album.

I like this a lot - the early 90s piano house vibe is awesome. Reminds me of Edward's World's "Soul Roots".

Good, good stuff.

good kick drum, I approve

good track

would LOVE a nancy whang album

melody's too infantile or something. prefer "all you're waiting for"

love everything I've got of these guys, but find sorting through house music in general tiresome and bewildering. did not like the Studio stuff I heard. what else is out there that's like this?

a) we don't know what you've got of these guys
b) Studio are not house music
c) we don't know what you've heard of Studio

it would be fun to answer your question otherwise!

I heard West Coast and was bored by it. I have Less Than Human, the Future Will Come, Feel So Good DJ Kicks, By the Time I Get to Venus and some other 12" I can't remember right now

Are you a fan of DFA acts in general?

Well I like LCD Soundsystem. Never listened to hot chip or their other acts.

My EOY #1s from two different years:

https://soundcloud.com/dfa-records/touch
https://soundcloud.com/brutal-music-1/justin-velor-back-to-the (longer version is on Spotify, even better)

This new song is great. Nancy Whang 5eva.

nice!!

i love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-dyQj1t35Q

That Octo Octa remix of 'Here I Am' was good (love the original too).

Is Juan Maclean going to end up with a better 2017 album than LCD Soundsystem? Likely.

does anyone else really love the boy ep (2016)?

this track is blowing my drunk and high motherfucking mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj0irpkz_PY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n4zJsuslIo

I haven't loved everything they've done the past few years but this is brilliant, the synths are just so sparkling and I think this might be one of the best performances by Nancy Whang

"Tonight" is such a banger.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/43928?fbclid=IwAR29AhwF_rfaSWfCpHM6pbX0ext9JGatcpisWoQVeN0l7v3yIQ7O8W8Q8EQ

A compilation of all the recent singles and a few new tracks is coming on September 20th. I kept thinking it was time for a new album (five years since In a Dream already!) and I guess this is the closest we're going to get for now.

Haven't kept up with their singles, must remedy (and can conveniently do so come September..)

the singles are all fuckin phenomenal

all the recent singles and a few new tracks

it's not all the singles, which I know just because literally hours before that story published I was retagging mp3s to make two compilations on my ipod ("mid-period" and "late period"). I think the title track is the only collected one without Nancy on it though

how I break it down to an extent:

01. What Do You Feel Free About? [2018 single]
02. Zone Non Linear [2019 single]
03. You Are My Destiny [2013 single]
04. Get Down (With My Love) [2014 single]
05. Feel Like Movin' [2013 split single]
06. Quiet Magician [new]
07. Pressure Danger [new]
08. Can You Ever Really Know Somebody [2017 single]
09. The Brighter The Light [2017 single]

not included:

Mirembe [2017 split single - as "Juan"]
Sad To Think [2018 single]
Quantum Reach [2018 split single - Amy collab]
Panic In Fort Greene Park [2018 "solo" boogie EP]
- Fine Time
- Don't Stop For Nothing
- Everybody Clap
- Panic In Fort Greene Park
Just Once More [2018 "solo" disco single]
Time Out Of Joint [2019 split single A1]
Everywhere At Once [2019 split single A2]

(bolds are explicitly by The / don't have Nancy. also of late and of interest: 2016 3-track EP by "Juan MacLean's Peach Melba," and a 2017 4-track EP of cocktail-party house with Shit Robot as Autofac. which sounds more like a name you should use for clattering machine techno imo. he also mixed all of Shit Robot's last album, and played on or produced bits of it, including a Juan / Nancy / Poopbot joint)

Mirembe [2017 split single - as "Juan"]

turns out this was someone on Discogs being dumb

another non-album single out next week, as a duo with Man Power called Juan Power - one of the b-sides is a remix of an otherwise unreleased track, so presumably there's more to come

(there's a soundcloud embed of the A-side in that story, but it won't load for me)

Thanks to this compilation for the reminder how great these singles have been, listening to this is making me want to go dancing immediately

thanks for the reminder, I want to get this

amazing comp/record

yayyyy

Really works well as an album. I still have no idea why the rest of the internet seem to sleep on how great they are. I listened to In A Dream recently and it sounded like a classic.

pretty stoked to go see this guy DJ tonight, poolside for halloween in waikiki. waikiki is bonkers on halloween, so i hope the event is not a shit show. happy halloween y'all. :)

Love this comp.

it's so fuckin GOOD

I listened to In A Dream recently and it sounded like a classic.

― kitchen person, Friday, September 27, 2019 8:39 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

it sure does

unreleased joint [by Juan Maclean (Master DJ & Producer)] opening his "chuggy and druggy" set on Beats In Space this week

nice. also uh nice photo *tugs at collar*

:D

Six-hour DJ set livestreamed from Good Room Brooklyn last week, now archived on Soundcloud (stream only)

New interview and streaming mix.

So I came home and had a flood of big releases, and a string of cancelled tour dates. It has been very surreal, having this music that’s mostly meant to be played in a club, be released. On the one hand you could say that it’s a bit of a waste. On the other hand, it’s all music I cared very deeply about, and the response has been phenomenal. So on the purest level, for me, it has been very gratifying actually.

I have a feeling next year will be even better. I’ve been having the best time in the studio, being super productive and generally making music that is very pure, entirely devoid of external pressures and considerations. I have also raised my intake of psychedelics quite a bit, which has been a huge help. It has been a very exciting time!

that mix is fantastic, thanks, listening now

This mix is great. Didn't expect to hear Space Cadet by Kyuss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEdow5rpWg

new track for Hard Fist comp is great

ty

From that interview last July:

It has been very surreal, having this music that’s mostly meant to be played in a club, be released. On the one hand you could say that it’s a bit of a waste. On the other hand, it’s all music I cared very deeply about, and the response has been phenomenal.

The thread has failed to keep track of his stuff for two years, and he really was cranking it out ahead of the pandemic:

Jul 2019: Lone Dancer EP ("solo" disco-y sample-based) (beatport link - others are bandcamp)

another non-album single out next week, as a duo with Man Power called Juan Power - one of the b-sides is a remix of an otherwise unreleased track, so presumably there's more to come

They had another six tracks intended for two EPs to launch a proper label, and dropped them as one BC-exclusive LP at the start of lockdown:

Mar 2020: THE JUAN POWER LP by Juan Power ("limited to 1000 downloads")

May 2020: Manthony EP ("solo" synthy techno)

May 2020: Yearning To High ("solo" on Alone Together comp)

Jun 2020: Here In The Twilight EP (acid house with disco leanings)

Dec 2020: Disco Stallion (mogadon house on Correspondant label comp)

Mar 2021: Ritual Device ("my long form ambient LP ‘Ritual Device.’ Intended for journeying during altered states of consciousness or inducing them.")

Apr 2021: I Can't Explain EP:

(“I produced every track on this EP under the influence of some type of psychedelic, mostly LSD. They are long, linear tracks that were composed after weekends of head down dancing in dark clubs, meant to induce the type of trance that comes from repetition and a certain kind of moodiness. They also have a bit of old school House flavor to them, with the looping of mangled 1 bar Disco samples. Per usual with these kinds of tracks, they were in my DJ sets for a couple of years as I fine-tuned them, and I end up getting very attached to them, particularly when other DJ’s start asking about them, and then I get to a point where I actually don’t want them released! But when Man Power asked if he could release them on Me Me Me, I immediately agreed, as I knew they would be given a sort of care and support that would make me happy to have them released into the world, as opposed to feeling they would just be released into a black hole.”)

Apr 2021: Grit / Unanswered (deep house collab w/ Amtrac)

Apr 2021: Under Pressure ("solo" on Hand To Hand comp)
Apr 2021: Skies Open ("solo", as above)
Apr 2021: Chopper ("solo" on A Lot of Love comp)

plus remixes released just during the pandemic:

Mar 2020: Club Tularosa - Starlight Ceremony (Juan Maclean Remix)
Apr 2020: Birds Of Pandæmonium - The Night (Juan Maclean Remix)
May 2020: Man2.0 - In The Vacuum Of Noise (The Juan Maclean Remix) (youtube link)
Jun 2020: Ferrari - Talk (Juan MacLean Remix)
Jul 2020: The World Wild Web & Tritha - Prophet (The Juan MacLean Remix)
Jul 2020: Jac The Disco - Goddess (Juan Maclean Remix)
Aug 2020: New World - Enough! (The Juan MacLean Remix)
Oct 2020: Time To Sleep - Taramoto (The Juan Maclean Remix)
Mar 2021: Museum Level - Sultan Pepper (Juan MacLean remix)

nice, ty for putting all that together

yeah, thanks, that's very useful

Thanks, sic. The MeMeMe ep is strange to listen to but I'm curious to hear them out.

The title track is very similar to Circus Bells but all made from one bar disco loops, quite an achievement.

i love it so far, "ain't no thing baby" is what i need from him rn

He actually messaged HOt M3ss before the pandemic asking to play and we were talking to him about it. I'm not quite sure he realised it was a 150 person capacity club though!

I still managed to miss that

unreleased joint [by Juan Maclean (Master DJ & Producer)] opening his "chuggy and druggy" set on Beats In Space this week

got released in the pando as well:

Jun 2020: Are We Still Dreaming? one 12-in left for sale / soundcloud


or that he had another collabo duo:

Jul 2019: Longlost - Take 8

He also did a 2-hour "Psychedelic House, Techno and Ambient" radio mix to launch Ritual Device, which looks like it might now be a monthly thing:

Ritual Device with Juan MacLean @ The Lot Radio 03 - 29 - 2021

Ritual Device with Juan MacLean @ The Lot Radio 04 - 26 - 2021

messaged HOt M3ss before the pandemic asking to play and we were talking to him about it.

fingers crossed for 2022!

Yes! Man Power did the same so maybe they were talking to each other about HM!

sic, I sent you a webmail via the ILX message function.

Damn, sic, thank you so much for putting that together! <3

did some nerdy sorting to see just how significantly (and steadily!) his rate of production has increased

2002-2004: 55 mins of singles, b-sides and compilation tracks
*2004: a 45-minute LP
2008: a half-hour EP
*2009: an hour-long LP (with a 13-minute single)
2010-14: an hour of singles, b-sides and compilation tracks
*2014: hour-long LP
2016-17: an hour of singles & EPs (under three names)
2018: an hour of singles, EP and comp track (under three names)
2019: 90 minutes of singles, EPs and comp tracks (under four names)
2020: 2 hours of singles, comp tracks, an EP and an LP (under three names) across ten months
2021: 2 hours over five releases under three names in thirty calendar days

This Matthew Dear remix includes a 3 min 50 guitar solo by Juan

https://correspondant.bandcamp.com/album/i-want-the-night

!

love it

awesome