There's no Shackleton mention it seems. Three EPs is incredible music, tribal percussion dark ambient atmosphere and it's Techno. Bass is huge. People say it sounds like Muslimgauze, which albums?
I need more music like this.
Raime EP is cool too, very promising.
― laser precise purpose maker era, Sunday, 24 October 2010 01:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
He's doing the next Fabriclive, I think.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Sunday, 24 October 2010 01:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
You'll definitely find some discussion on the dubstep threads and some other dance music threads. (Not saying he doesn't deserve his own.)
― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 24 October 2010 01:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
So who is Vengeance Tenfold?
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2010 21:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
Odd I never noticed there's no thread about him.
― Moka, Monday, 1 November 2010 21:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
There could be a musical relation to Muslimgauze, not really know which songs or albums (and his output is exhaustingly vast) but I do recall hearing some Muslimgauze in the past that fitted the bill: Deep bass, tribal drumming, dark ambience.
― Moka, Monday, 1 November 2010 21:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also recommend: Demdike Stare, The Caretaker, Ramadanman
― Moka, Monday, 1 November 2010 21:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also been listening to this record this week:
http://boomkat.com/downloads/346280-ensemble-economique-psychical
Some tracks are reminiscent of Shackleton's style.
― Moka, Monday, 1 November 2010 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also (obviously) Mordant Music and Badawi.
Of the list you gave, I was able to see both Demdike Stare and The Caretaker this year. Well worth it.
― mh, Monday, 1 November 2010 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
An oldie but goodie:
― A brownish area with points (chap), Monday, 1 November 2010 22:46 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Sméagol-Eye Cherry (NickB), Monday, 15 November 2010 15:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
as I mentioned elsewhere, the forthcoming Horsepower Productions is great for old-style dubstep given a good bit of modern spit'n'polish.
― The Great Cool Lulu who sleeps in Riley... (dog latin), Monday, 15 November 2010 15:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
Vengeance Tenfold is the vocalist from Death is Not Final (on the rope tightens). I don't know if he does anything beyond vocals, but I think vocals is the main implication.
― EDB, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Wire's interview explains he's an old friend of Shackleton's. When I asked who he was, it wasn't as a query as to his contributions (which are kind of obvious), but as in "who is this guy, is this his only excursion into music, does he have a name he uses that is not Vengeance Tenfold?"
But yes, read the interview, it's great.
― mh, Monday, 15 November 2010 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ok thanks. I just found these three by accident the last week and they are outstanding. Sort of a 21th century dub techno based on ancient african rhythm? Seriously deep stuff.
T++'s Wireless belongs here too, even if I still can't parse the thing. I'll keep listening.
― Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
I prefer the earlier Skull stuff to 3 EPs tbh.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Those first two are from this comp (in case you didn't already know):
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Tradi-Mods-Vs-Rockers-Alternative-Takes-On-Congotronics/release/2637780
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
Also some news:
http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?Forthcoming=1
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Love Mordant Music a whole lot, so pretty keen on that first one.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
T++ is much more of a junglist thing i think than shackleton
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
on a vaguely similar "Sort of a 21th century dub techno based on ancient african rhythm?" tip you might enjoy this Kangding Ray tune from last year
rhythmically T++ reminds me a lot of that early 00s stuff people were calling "sublow", sort've the ravier end of grime -- stuff like Jon E Cash, Geeneus, Musical Mobb, that kinda thing
ot but Mordant Music also has a collab w/ Ekoplekz apparently due out this year, should be big
― missingNO, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:10 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's Fabric 55. Pretty cool stuff although I think Fabric should veto the next guy who wants to do a mix of all his own material now that there have been three in the span of what, a year? Year and a half?
1 Come Up 2 Moon Over Joseph's Burial 3 Hypno Angel 4 Visontele 5 Blood Rhythm With Wishy Drones 6 Operatic Waves 7 Closeness To Nature 8 Negative Thoughts 9 Death is Not Final 10 International Fires 11 Paper 12 Deadman 13 Point One, Sense It 14 Man On a String Part 1 15 Man On a String Part 2 16 Ice 17 Busted Spirit 18 Bottles 19 New Dawn 20 Something Has Got To Give 21 Massacre 22 Stripped
― dmr, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I liked the mix a lot though, hadn't heard any Shackleton since Sound Bwoy's Ashes so it was all new to me
― dmr, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
14 Man On a String Part 1
^ most interesting part of the mix, in my ears anyway
― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
dmr are you counting the villalobos one? that was a lot longer ago than a year + a half i think... or has there been another one apart from omar s
― just sayin, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
there have been three in the span of what, a year? Year and a half?
3 years - http://www.discogs.com/Ricardo-Villalobos-Fabric-36/release/1061625 released in 07
Sometimes own material works best. I don't see an issue and don't see why Fabric should veto producers who are at the level who do it - all three producers who've done it are exceptional
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow villalobos was that long ago. my bad.
I guess I'd like to actually hear a DJ mix from some of these guys instead of a quasi-album.
that said, I still listen to the Omar-S fabric a ton.
― dmr, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, it doesn't hurt that the Villalobos and Omar-S mixes are both totally ace in their own right.
― EDB, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
the skull disco stuff is great. 3 eps didn't really do anything for me, was kind of a relief to read in his interview with blackdown that he wasn't too fussy on it himself. i'd say the skull stuff is the more muzlimgauzey.
new fabric mix is 75% brilliant. the way the layers and rhythms interlock and shift is just what i've been looking for. i hope he has more of that up his sleeve.
just need to see him live now.
― sawan, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 09:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Of the new releases, Fireworks and the T++ remix of the same are definite favorites
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
Loving these Drawbar Organ EPs. Anyone heard 'em?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 3 June 2012 21:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
^^ Really good.
Shackleton on a NoMeansNo remix album? Whaaa? From their facebook:
Tracklist for the NMN electronic remix album, out later this year:
1 - Deadbeat - The River2 - Shackleton - Dark Ages3 - Miles (Demdike Stare) - Rags and Bones4 - Orphx - Metronome
― errant flynn, Monday, 4 June 2012 01:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
Woah. Dark Ages, cool.Shackleton's remix of To Rococo Rot's "Fridays" is his most rock-oriented to date, and it's fantastic. Looking forward to the remix album (EP?)
― willem, Monday, 4 June 2012 10:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
That remixer list makes me think I should check out that band.
― mh, Monday, 4 June 2012 15:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
This is most momentous news. (The Shackleton album's ace by the way.)
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Monday, 4 June 2012 18:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
― errant flynn, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
Now I'm not saying I'm old but that's seriously great
― willem, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
Anyone into the Pinch/Shackleton record? The first four tracks are fantastic, then it gets a bit samey.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:27 (7 months ago) Permalink
all of shackleton is a bit samey, unfortunately
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:30 (7 months ago) Permalink
i will say the pinch/shackleton album is much better than the shackleton 2xcd set, partly because of no spoken word and partly also because it still sorta sounds like dubstep as opposed to the dark ambient version of steve reich
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:31 (7 months ago) Permalink
but personally i more or less tuned him out after the fabric mix (even though i picked up pinch/shackleton and still listen to it occasionally)
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
Been listening to the Drawbar Organ EPs quite a bit recently. The organ adds colour and an extra dimension that is sometimes missing in his other stuff. Just need to hear it on a decent sound system and I'll be in 7th-heaven.
Not feeling Music For The Quiet Hour however. Maybe just need to spend some time with it.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:18 (7 months ago) Permalink
i loved the pinch/shackleton collab, like the double cd thing too, but i'm still letting it sink in properly. what i like about him are the mysterious physical spaces that his music evokes - sometimes it's like a fetid breeze blowing through a dark cobwebbed labyrinth, sometimes it's like shadows moving across a de chirico-esque haunted urban space. same sort of feeling as sawII era aphex maybe?
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
nicely put
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
that feeling of being in an empty, depopulated zone and yet feeling some sort of strange presence there
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
He certainly evokes the strongest and strangest mental images of any current dubstep (post-dubstep, whatever) producer. He'd be great at scoring movies I think.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
Shackleton live is something quite special. The organ noises do really open his sound palette, but I think that three albums in two years (granted, one was a collaborative effort) is a bit much and a little selectivity would probably edge his releases from being good to essential.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
i really love the drawbar organ eps, one of the best things i've discovered from various EOY lists - been listening a lot through hungover fugs this past week
i like music for the quiet hour too but don't feel like i've got a handle on it yet - i love how detailed and intricate it is
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 12:46 (4 months ago) Permalink
^ i didn't even really know what a drawbar organ was until about a minute ago
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:44 (3 months ago) Permalink
that's just a little app that replicates the actual thing btw
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:49 (3 months ago) Permalink
wait i am being super dense here
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 01:02 (3 months ago) Permalink
never drink and think