today I went for one last round of record buying before xmas and saw a copy on 2LP (at beargain prices too) and am really enjoying it as I type.
The rhytms on this are truly great.
So what things did he do since then and were they any good?
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Ricardo Villalobos - 'What You Say' Isolee remix (white)Isolee - 'My Himatic' (Playhouse)Tiga - 'You Gonna Want Me' Isolee remix (PIAS)Egoexpress - 'Aranda' Isolee remix (Ladomat)Isolee - 'Monstermania' (white)Willson - (unreleased track) (white)Isolee - 'All Over' (white)
dunno if I'm feeling the latter half...
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, 3 October 2005 20:23 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 04:50 (7 years ago) Permalink
*what the fuck is the point of creating something that is designed to be an easy to access CD compilation of recent popular tracks from your label, and then putting the most drool worthy song on the vinyl editon. At least the Total series, have the excuse of a) not being exlusively best of compilations, and b) the vinyl exclusives being being aimed at the DJ use - the isolee remix falls into neither catagory. Sooky behaviour is now over, and thanks again for the mix.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 06:10 (7 years ago) Permalink
Similarly annoying was how Booka Shade put one of the absolute best Memento album tracks ("Aint' Got Much To Lose") on the vinyl release only, though at least in that case I was able to track it down.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 06:36 (7 years ago) Permalink
01 BLEU [05:28]02 INITIATE II [06:04]03 ROCKERS [05:35]04 MONITOR [06:24]05 SURFERS [06:27]06 SIMONE RIDES [06:12]07 KING OFF [05:35]08 CITE GRANDE TERRE [04:01]09 POISSON MORT [01:16]10 I OWE YOU (RMX) [04:37]11 LOST [09:30]12 BEAU MOT PLAGE (FREEFORM REFORM PT.1&2) [10:34]
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― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 4 February 2006 20:57 (7 years ago) Permalink
It's released.
― jeffery (jeffery), Saturday, 4 February 2006 21:16 (7 years ago) Permalink
tracklist:a1 - cite grande terre (lucianos luck of lucien edit)b1 - lost (and then stripped by the glimmers)c1 - djamel et jamshid (villalobos edit)d1 - bleu (dixon edit)
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okay, the a side of raum einz 12" (1997) is pretty good so far. really warm and queasy keyboards a la rest, but the drums are more bouyant, like on the western store record. maybe not the most cohesive thing he's ever done. it has this breezy five note ascending 1 2 3 4 descending 5 keyboard riff that screams seashore. where is that lebanese beach party thread?
also, this is just as detailed as anything he's ever done. there are so many sounds! it's almost too decadent but of course that is the perfect amount.
b side really wispy synth stuff... boring? yes. also trite. oh well. has a nice piano break near the end, though - sounds like end of dfa remix of relevee.
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October would be much better if the first 2-3 minutes were just cut. On the other hand Isolee's Albacares 12" for Mule is classic, tied together with a lovely goofy guitar loop. It almost makes the October 12" a deliberate slap in Diynamic's face - deny me my Stefan Marx cover etc.
― Jedmond, Sunday, 24 May 2009 22:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
^^ yes this new one on mule is great, b-side track is funky as hell too
― Executive Producer Wolf Dick (haitch), Thursday, 11 June 2009 01:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just catching up (a few months late) with "October" - which I do like a lot, but OH MY GOD THE B-SIDE ("A Nightingale") - a wonderful creation, full of unexpected twists and turns. Surprised that it hasn't been talked about here at all?
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
New album in January. :)
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
YESSSSSSSSSS
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Details from Resident Advisor
Isolee's next album is called Well Spent Youth, and will come out on January 21st via DJ Koze's Pampa Records.
Real name Raijko Mueller, Isolee is one of the most acclaimed producers of the past decade, thanks to his lush but minimalist style of house music. His early singles on Playhouse helped lay the foundation for microhouse in the '00s, especially 1998's Beau Mot Plage. Seven years later he released We Are Monster, an album that cemented his reputation as one of electronic music's richest talents and remains something of a classic today. Since then his output has slowed, with just a few EPs and compilation appearances in the past few years, though this fall he released a new 12-inch on Dial, The Fantastic Researches Of Yushin Maru.
Well Spent Youth features 11 new tracks by Mueller, making it his biggest release since We Are Monsters. It also marks the first album on DJ Koze's Pampa Records.
Tracklist01. Paloma Triste02. Thirteen Times an Hour03. Taktell04. Journey's End05. Going Nowhere06. One Box07. Celeste08. Trop Pres De Toi (97' Interlude)09. Hold On10. Transmission11. In Our Country Paloma Triste
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
ooh good - really liked the albacares ep from last year
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh and its on pampa!
can't wait, this is great news
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Psyched for this. Might be time to dig out Wearemonster again.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
When is it not time to!
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:43 (8 minutes ago)
yeah, and october/nightingale were awesome too
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
he's super talented no doubt
2011 hasn't even begun and we already have the album of the year, mean ol' Pampa for letting it leak so early.
― Jedmond, Thursday, 16 December 2010 05:04 (2 years ago) Permalink
holy shit, rapidshare is fast!
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― nax arrrrrgh (nakhchivan), Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
want!
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 16 December 2010 12:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is very good. wearemonster was super tuneful but this is more restrained, no really obvious standout tracks but the quality of the architecture is unmistakeable. reminds me a little of newworldaquarium's 'the dead bears' from a few years ago.
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 03:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
This splits the difference between Rest and Wearemonster. Pretty incredible album. Heavy replay value.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 20 December 2010 04:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i've had it playing pretty consistently for the last three days. i've never quite loved 'rest', although it must have seemed pretty amazing in 2000. wearemonster was of course great, but i think i like his recent singles more than either of them.
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 December 2010 04:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think I'll go with that as well, summery is wrong, but Isolee's restraint gives the tracks a certain lightness of touch that belies the tracks' compulsive details. Hearing Paloma Triste on Isolee's Beats in Space session (plus the relatively reduced length of the album tracks) had lead me to suspect that he'd turned Well Spent Youth into an outlet for his more tuneful work, but I'm kind of happy he followed through with the numbed* trackiness of his recent singles.
*High compliment obviously.
― Jedmond, Monday, 20 December 2010 08:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just became obsessed with We Are Monster after revisiting it this year. My tastes are at a point where I like more than ever since it came out.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 18:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
There are worse places to be - just make sure you have his Hermelin EP, and The Jacko Theme, both are continuations/improvements of his Monster style.
― Jedmond, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
hermelin is only thing of is i didn't rate
― No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper.rar (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 05:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
~his~
I've never loved the track Hermelin wholeheartedly, but Sleazy Bee sounds like g-funk made out of drool and slobber - and all the better for it, while Willy Skipper's gradual transmogrification into an oily acid belter marks the peak of Isolee's constant-mutation approach.
― Jedmond, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 07:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
If you ask me, the whole Hermelin EP is entirely ace
― EDB, Wednesday, 22 December 2010 14:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Incredible Isolee mix on this weeks Resident Advisor podcast.
― dsb, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 00:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Kind of underwhelmed by the new album, anyone have a different first impression?
― skip, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 01:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
I keep hoping that the version I grabbed is actually a fake
:(
― Z S, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 03:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's streaming here; http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/I'm really enjoying it. Certainly not the hooks and sound palette as Wearemonster. I think he said in an interview he didn't want to repeat the 'indie' sound and wanted it to be more electronic.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 07:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Got it in the post a month ago, gave it a listen and struggled to get into it though I was getting over i particulaly bad bout of flu. Im up for giving it another whirl, I like the last EP he did on Diynamic
― straightola, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 12:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
was wearemonster really 'indie'?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 12:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
'indie feel' is the phrase he used in interview here http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=244 I think of Wearemonster having an influence on Four tet etc, so perhaps that is what he is getting at? Well Spent Youth and Rest feel more 'electronic' in comparison.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 14:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wearemonster came out in 2005. four tet's previous album (before 2010) also came out in 2005, then he took a 5 yr break. i dont hear the influence, not to mention see how it's possible given that timeline ¯\(°_o)/¯
maybe if he was influenced by Rest?
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, 2 February 2011 14:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think maybe he's responding to the relative crossover appeal of Wearemonster, and that he just means that this is something less accessible (not in the way that say, Schrapnel is to those not heavily into electronic music).
― EDB, Wednesday, 2 February 2011 17:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
I just heard Isolee's Kandy Beat off the Katapult compilation. Oogly Boogly! Either it's been completely mislabeled or it's Isolee doing a Luomo (as a variation on four tet) - right down to the breathy vocals.
― Jedmond, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well Spent Youth is great.
I'm so late to the party on these guys, and on minimalist/micro/whatever kind of house this is.
― relentlessly googling hipster (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 July 2011 05:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Now I'm doubly confused: once by Kandy Beat and a second time by my Four Tet reference. The Luomo bit still holds.
― Jedmond, Thursday, 14 July 2011 08:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
FWIW I think this is an album that gets a lot better in its second half. I mean I love the fake slap bass in Paloma Triste but other than that I think it really starts to pick up at One Box. Celeste and Hold On are great to and Transmission is kind of the standout of the record for me.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Beginning of Fall is a good time to listen to Rest
― has important things to say about gangnam style (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 17:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
title track of the new ep is gorgeous
http://soundcloud.com/pamparecords/pampa013-isol-e-allowance-1
― lex pretend, Saturday, 16 February 2013 10:33 (3 months ago) Permalink
Like the way the track ends as something else seems to be in the beginning.
Thanks - love that, been catching up w/Isolee and others since xmas.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 February 2013 10:59 (3 months ago) Permalink
weird how it took so long to come out, he was on beats in space fucking ages ago playing new stuff. like a year or maybe two.
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Saturday, 16 February 2013 11:06 (3 months ago) Permalink
new track sounds amazing btw
― Ballboy to Afghanistan (LocalGarda), Saturday, 16 February 2013 11:10 (3 months ago) Permalink
man, allowance -- beautiful
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:21 (2 months ago) Permalink
three-song thing showed up on Spotify -- is that the whole EP or is more coming?
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Friday, 1 March 2013 03:22 (2 months ago) Permalink
just realised allowance is so like booka shade.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Friday, 22 March 2013 11:10 (2 months ago) Permalink
I'm hearing Allowance in lots of mixes used in different ways and it works so well every time, great track.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 22 March 2013 12:11 (2 months ago) Permalink
It's got more than a bit of a 'Night Falls' vibe to it but at the same time I could never imagine Booka Shade making a track like 'Allowance' even when they were good. It reminds me of something earlier as well that I can't put my finger on, something late 90s IDMish.
Amazing track anyway.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 March 2013 12:41 (2 months ago) Permalink
Looks like it's a 3 track EP. Disappointed 'Wobble' wasn't a Skrillex cover tbh. 'You could do your memories' also has a prettiness to it.
― rawr, Saturday, 23 March 2013 22:48 (1 month ago) Permalink