these guys have been bubbling up for a few years now with a string of releases and side-projects that share a sorta cosmic/proto-house/funk/new-age aesthetic. seems like they've been making more inroads lately with a nice label feature over at ra (with associated mix) and a beautiful swimmers mix on beats in space within the span of a week or so. also i've heard some good things about the whale parties in dc and other parties in philly, which is interesting because this stuff seems slooooow and not always danceable
started paying attention with the "swimmers groove"/"o yea" 12":
"big coast" came out last year and is also great, on more of an industrial-tinged reggae trip (what is this sample btw? it's very adrian sherwood):
i guess the breakout protect-u track is "double rainbow" but since i can't find that one on youtube i'll post this one instead:
i think everyone but fact sorta slept on the maxmillion dunbar album last year:
there is a lot more out there, much of it compiled on the ra/bis features, most of which is worth checking out ime. so yea... list your personal favorites, update this thread when new stuff comes out, and maybe somebody can be a bit more eloquent in describing/hyping this stuff?
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 08:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
ps sorry about the upper case in the thread title, didn't realize how obnoxious that would be
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 08:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
protect-u is super great live
― I DIED, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 09:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's cool that they do a live thing, guess i would have expected more of a dj-set thing. hopefully the label gets big enough this year for them to come out to the west coast at some point
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:33 (2 years ago) Permalink
protect-u was in SF like three months ago! all these guys are my buds from university of maryland.
― 69, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
search MANHUNTER, STEVE SUMMERS, MALVEAUX, INNERGAZE, FOOD FOR ANIMALS, CONFUSED HOUSE
― 69, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
^ha, was going to say that i want them to come to portland, specifically. i remember liking that steve summers track someone posted in the beardo thread (? i think):
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
love all this stuff, I got O Yea / Swimmers Groove right when it came out and then stopped paying attention (had a kid lol) until the Resident Advisor thing reminded me to check for more of it
― dmr, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
i think the steve summers HOUSE INVASION shit is the best
― 69, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 18:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
Party in Bklyn with live sets from Protect U, S. Summers, S. Moore and Swimmers / Ron Morelli dj'ing was a hilite of the winter. Solid music and all FT crew very cool people.
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 19:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/FutureTiming/status/40506286273470465
― dmr, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 22:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
on rvng, not future times, but the new maxmillion dunbar ep is great
http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/maxmillion-dunbar-woo
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 07:27 (5 months ago) Permalink
I really love this one, with vocals by John Davis from Q and Not U/Title Tracks:
― Walter Galt, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 12:51 (5 months ago) Permalink
honest question, what's so great about that MD track?
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
hey DC people this is happening soon:
/// THE WHALE ///FUTURE TIMES HOLIDAY PARTYSunday December 23, 2012U Street Music Hall /// 1115 U St. NW DCFree (over 21) /// $5 (under 21)
STEVE SUMMERS live setBEAUTIFUL SWIMMERS dj setMAXMILLION DUNBAR live setMONDO dj set
― Sadly, 99.99 percent of sheeple will never wake up (I DIED), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 15:39 (5 months ago) Permalink
idk it's charms seem pretty immediately obvious to me, i'm pretty easily won over with that type of texture i guess but to me that loop is fuckin gorgeous
― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 00:38 (5 months ago) Permalink
New Max Dunbar on RVNG Intl. Hot!
http://www.npr.org/2013/02/10/171191614/first-listen-maxmillion-dunbar-house-of-woo
― davey, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:58 (3 months ago) Permalink
listened to it yesterday. good stuff.
― dmr, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:59 (3 months ago) Permalink
enjoyed the new-agey-ness of some of it. pretty fresh.
― dmr, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 17:02 (3 months ago) Permalink
I wasn't too enarmoured with this at first but loving it now. Top grade ear candy is this.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 22 February 2013 13:09 (2 months ago) Permalink
died when the "enigma flute" came in during "peeling an orange in one piece"
― the late great, Saturday, 23 February 2013 03:10 (2 months ago) Permalink
great album
― flopson, Saturday, 23 February 2013 19:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
liking this!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 23 February 2013 22:13 (2 months ago) Permalink
<3 this MD album so much!
― the late great, Monday, 25 February 2013 20:48 (2 months ago) Permalink
hahaha yeah exactly
― dmr, Monday, 25 February 2013 21:03 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://www.spin.com/#articles/maxmillion-dunbar-interview-future-times-house-of-woo
Nice P. Sherburne interview
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 April 2013 14:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
I finally picked up House of Woo. really good record.
― dmr, Thursday, 11 April 2013 16:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
it's also mixed 10x better than "cool water"
― pea hen (clouds), Thursday, 11 April 2013 16:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah I didn't like that one much ... House of Woo is just as good as the Beautiful Swimmers 12"s imo
too early for me to have a real favorite on it but Ice Room Graffiti is up there right now
― dmr, Thursday, 11 April 2013 17:13 (1 month ago) Permalink