The producer known as ACTRESS and his r&b concrète

The Adultswim interview with Actress that recently got posted is worth watching--I don't think he's ever really been interview on camera before, has he?
http://video.adultswim.com/unclassified/actress-interview.html

Yeah there's this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ot_u5_o5vY

It's not as good as the adult swim one though.

Looking forward to his new album, whenever that's coming out.

i dig that patten track

He did a remix of Kasabian. It's kinda good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkjL4m9oyE&

Patten's album was mentioned upthread. I listened to it all the way through and thought it was pretty useless, but what did you guyses think?

agreed

just too left-footed for me to get down with, though i felt the same way about the entire genre of dubstep at first and now i'm a convert

before i check out the Kasabian remix i need to know if there's any Kasabian in it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxoT4u5mcc

whoa, there is a new full-length?

RIP Actress

Getting lots of good reviews so far btw

blah, not on Spotify or whatever yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Wa7UN01eY

And it's really lovely, he's given in to his pretty side.

psyched for the set tonight for unsound

RIP
rest in peace
fassy get the coffin
then dem get the wreath

(no homophobe)

excellent album

like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWO7YZ-gZqk

Yeah, that is good but that whole Shangaan Shake series is all about that one Theo Parrish remix imo, that thing is a killer.

I spent a lot of time a lil while ago unsuccessfully trying to work that electro 2 track into a set

the MMM is thee shangaan remix imo.

i want to do a shangaan remix poll, was thinking on the way to work about whether i'd vote for theo or MMM or old apparatus or peverelist, all so dope

<3 dj rashad and spinn's too but obv it's kinda just a particularly accessible footwork track w/ a shangaan sample or two

personally both of those actress mixes are a little too "out there" for me

Damn, The Lord's Graffiti is one muthafucka of a tune. He is very good.

Still digesting R.I.P personally ("Caves Of Paradise" is the standout for me so far--wobbly bassline phrase-length + phased fast hi-hats = sold), but this free John Cale remix is esp. great (more pitched-down/low-slung than anything on the new record): http://www.factmag.com/2012/04/20/download-actress-remix-of-john-cale/

i've only heard "marble plexus" so far and i loved it, looking forward to picking up the album hopefully tomorrow

gah this album is fucking incredible

very "selected ambient works" imo

had this locked on repeat since i got it

"N.E.W." is so incredible

my favorite track on "splazsh" has always been "hubble"

you read my mind mr cunningham and made an entire album in that style

pretty sure one of the tracks on this is a remix of "crushed" from hazyville

gah this album is fucking incredible

very "selected ambient works" imo

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had this locked on repeat since i got it

"N.E.W." is so incredible

cosign all of this. never really got into splazsh, really digging this though.

this is really cool

never liked splazsh either

dunno abt these last 4 tracks after 'glint'

kinda feel i need to start from the beginning again to work them out

this is good

Liking this, the lord's graffiti and raven are the two that stood out on first listen.

Is this streaming anywhere?

i'm alright with these last four tracks now. i don't enjoy them especially but the juxtapositions they provide lend a sense of consequence to the rest, however gnomic; ie without them this would be a too-well-contained and easily disposable nice bit of idm retro.

i like the middle section in particular, 'jardin' / 'serpent' / 'shadow from tartarus' - 'serpent' is very autechre homage to nokia 3310. in fact a fair few of the tiny insectoid music box melody tracks remind me of lp5/ep7 era ae, moreso than aphex at least.

jardin is amazing...

you guys might be interested to check out shackleton's new "music for the quiet hour".

A new Shackleton already? Still getting a lot of mileage out of the Pinch collab. Another Honest Jon's release? Reading the response on the new Actress album I will definitely check it out, couldn't get into Splazsh..

The new Shackleton is out on his own label:

http://boomkat.com/cds/523774-shackleton-music-for-the-quiet-hour-the-drawbar-organ

i keep thinking of the word "palimpsest" in relation to this album, like what you get after coming home at 7am and all the music you've heard all night is still rattling around in a jangly smear inside your head

I LOVE THIS

I just picked up R.I.P yesterday and want to add to the chorus of praise... This is immediately more engaging and satisfying to me than Splazsh--more beauty, more restraint, more detail, more melodic development. It's a lovely record that it's hard to imagine any other producer making. I think it may even be a "deeper" record than Splazsh but without the sheen of inscrutability that led so many people to keep on and keep on with it; R.I.P is more immediate without being any less complex.

timely reminder for me that this is a good rainy day album

i agree that it sounds a lot like autechre, especially the one track with the annoying birdsong sample sound and a couple others i can't recall are very much like the subtler confield-era stuff

I can see where that comparison comes from, but this is so much warmer and more luscious to me than Autechre.

Think I prefer Splazsh tbh - this is okay, but very similar in vibe to Oversteps-era Ae but not as involving. Might need a few more spins though.

This is really good - his production style certainly lends itself to moody atmospheric numbers far more than it does the more beat-driven dancefloor-based material. "Tree Of Knowledge" sounds like lurching brostep recorded to a tape deck via a microphone pressed against laptop speakers to my ears.