Zomby

seriously, no thread on this guy yet? (if there is, please delete this one!)

Anyway, new single for free download today: http://4ad.com/news/releases-7-and-g/

low-key, hoping he hasn't graduated into playing all chill all the time

Maybe there was one but it didn't show up when you searched

yeah maybe

there's been some talk on this thread - Rolling dance partisans 2011

I really, really like Dedication; it's one of the things I've listened to compulsively lately.

New album is kind of a snooze.

Such a massive let down after Where Were You In 92. He gives the game away in his recent WIRE interview where it doesn't matter so much that he comes across as a massive wanker who can barely string a sentence together but his line of if you don't like this album now you will do at some point in the future but if you don't in the future tough, because it wasn't written for you. (Translation: I know I've made a bad album and I don't care.)

just want more shit like Kaliko and Tarantula - most of the LP is slight, samey and underdeveloped but still cool in places

I don't mind the slightness of it, nor the "these are just sketches" feel it has. I think it sounds great, and the sketches are catchy and memorable; they carry emotional resonance on their very skinny frames. The only thing I'd change about it is the presence of Panda Bear... The album it comes closest to in some really intangible "feel" sense is, to me, the Richard D. James album.

it's the best stuff i've heard from him for sure

This album makes me want to put "Float" on loop.

I prefer this to any of the stuff I've heard before. His previous stuff just sounded like bad IDM shoved into a dubstep-sized hole. And I agree with Clarke here:

I don't mind the slightness of it, nor the "these are just sketches" feel it has. I think it sounds great, and the sketches are catchy and memorable; they carry emotional resonance on their very skinny frames.

Yes they are quite slight and sketchy - I was underwhelmed at first, but the Wire interview that Doran mentions upthread actually made me reassess this. Yeah, he comes off as a bit of a prick - extremely arrogant in some cases - but it was great to read about his technical/compositional approach to making music, and this is laid bare on this album which has very little clutter on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FriS8EVVJg

what terrible idm-dubstep!

I'm really enjoying the new album this morning.

It's a fantastic record. I'd put it down for a while and listened to it for the first time again day before last... Cohesive, precise, self-assured, and just terrific *sounding*.

I like it in a sketchy way.

what odds does ilm give for him actually showing up to his gig in seattle tomorrow?

slim to fuck all.

haha, I had considered going to the decibel festival and saw him on the list of artists to perform and kind of thought, "well, nope"

Has he really done any interviews other than that piece in The Wire?

Of course he has, cos he's just beak tuff: http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2008/12/beak-tuff.html

oh god, all he does is sit at home and smoke up and talk to his birds and make music! it all makes sense now.

This guy has a rep for not showing up to things?

"He's a jackass," mutters yet another hapless promoter, as Zomby fails to show up yet again.

Intro sentence to his interview in The Wire.

I'm going tomorrow night, I'll let you all know if by some chance he makes it. Has he ever shown up for anything?

He showed. It was one of the most hilariously contemptuous things I've ever seen, he played a bunch of his productions for the first half, at which point his computer overheated and he started simply playing gabber and snap music tracks he liked for the second half while wandering back and forth from backstage. He came back towards the end, played the Panda Bear track, then shut his computer and walked off. It was kind of a good time.

Probably backstage smoking up every few minutes!

SF show this Friday. Fingerz crossed.

one of the most hilariously contemptuous things I've ever seen

^^^^this

also onstage smoking up every few minutes as well.

for some reason the grin on the Guy Fawkes mask gave an impression that he was having a good time. and yeah, he'd lift it up an inch or so to smoke through it at least every 12 minutes or so. There was a real sense that he completely lost interest in performing after the first 30 minutes or so.

crummy show or am-i-getting-too-old-for-this-shit

cant decide

http://nightbusriddim.tumblr.com/post/16820672149/zombymusic-under-attack-soundcloud

I have no idea whatsoever who the person is firing shots here but as Zomby seems like an absolutely dreadful human being I'm happy to share anything that denigrates him

this guy, seriously

I like how the businesslike course of action would be to say "Hey, there was a legal issue with this other musician and it has been settled and if you check he was credited on that track and I have nothing more to say"

Then there's the dramatic approach

His twitter feed is pretty wild right now.

What a dingus.

A couple of Zomby quotes from the interview in self-titled are doing the rounds:

Who’s singing on “Natalia’s Song” then?
"A Russian singer. I don’t know her name. I’m surprised [that song] doesn’t have like 2 million [YouTube] views. It’s really a work of art. I’m really proud of some of my tunes. The aim’s always been to make records that haven’t been realized—the dream songs between the great songs you can’t quite hear."

and

"Like with “Natalia's Song”, I wrote it to give to Burial, really."

How do i like the first comment on that piece?

http://soundcloud.com/damu/damu-kernkraft-400

lol at the comment on that Soundcloud "coming soon on 4AD"

as if i didn't have enough reasons to fucking hate what 4AD have become

ZombyMusic ZOMBY ®
You cant fuck with me Ive nothing to hide and nothing to prove I dont back down and I stand for every word Ive said whats next
9 hours ago
Retweeted by AZEALIABANKS

she really is a dickhead eh?

I heard that if you can't handle Zomby at his worst you don't deserve Zomby at his best

maybe she just doesn't know what's going on and thinks Zomby's just being non-specifically empowered? But, probably not.

why did it make her a dickhead? she might've just retweeted it so the world could see

ZOMBY ® ‏@ZombyMusic

Stop baiting up classic grime and jungle tune for ur shit club remixes make something new u aren't paying royalties it's a bootleg

Roska Roska ‏@mrroska

. @ZombyMusic How can you talk about bootlegging when you blatantly stole someones tune? http://www.factmag.com/2012/01/31/natalias-song-did-zomby-even-write-it/

BA-ZING

What're we making of With Love then?

listening to "disc 2" now and it seems lazy on the sound design tip. but maybe he's going for a specific '90s Projekt Records presets-meets-trap beats vibe, idk.

almost every song has the same 808 sample

Wow this guy is a touchy bastard, isn't he.

https://twitter.com/ZombyMusic

In response to, among other things:

http://www.spin.com/reviews/zomby-with-love-4ad/

tweets being deleted from his twitter stream before my very eyes!

Roffle.

irony is that Spin review, while not exactly glowing, is hardly personally insulting in the way Zomby seems to think. Perhaps what criticisms there are felt a bit close to the bone?

loving the junglist throwbacks, esp "it's time"

Anyone know if there are any plans for With Love to come out on reasonably priced vinyl?

Yeah, I would buy it on vinyl if it wasnt £10 per piece (same for the BOC album)

Loving this on first listen!

Reckon he's being a bit disingenuous about the alphabetical sequencing. Well obviously it is alphabetically sequenced, but I wouldn't be surprised if he decided on the track titles after deciding the order. Some of the segues sound very deliberate.

Second disc's a little samey.

shhh, don't upset him!

Maybe he'll call off the twitter war when he hears I think the first disc is the best thing he's done?

this is really cool, abrupt endings and lack of editing aside

http://www.sickchirpse.com/zomby-vs-the-world/

The problem is that once he takes to the internet he sounds like that kid in school who thought he was a badman for smoking a joint outside the portacabins

I have similar feelings about the website sickchirpse.com

I noticed it is quite dreadful when I started clicking further..

Where was I in 2008? This is great. Sounds like he's maybe a dick so I won't read the stiff about him as a person.

dedication, the nothing ep and with love are even better imo

good. but overrated as hell

Yeah I've come to the conclusion he's not as good a producer as he thinks he is. Loads of interesting ideas, though.

no one could be as good a producer as he thinks he is.

his twitter feed is 90% how great he is and how he'll beat-up anyone who challenges his greatness. his music is good, tho.

who the fuck reads twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otstvzzutVE&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMi8pXOaR9M

So how about this then

After one listen I think it sounds more like Burial than Zomby and that one or both of them have been listening to juke recently

Wait I thought Zomby hated Burial?

zomby talks a lot of shit but seems like a top bloke

Well, this was a collaboration that played to nobody's strengths

did something leak? I've only heard the darkstar collaboration

this is actually quite excellent. like zomby producing burial, rather than zomby x burial, or zomby vs burial or whatever. all burials samurai slices and clinks and drizzly crackle but none of the other stuff that is considered his trademarks. be interesting to know who did what.

If everyone's making future music why does it usually all sound the same

The idea isn't to create a scene it's to create a vision

https://twitter.com/ZombyMusic/status/759817836730523648

ha.
https://twitter.com/ZombyMusic/status/754119270112628737

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YMi8pXOaR9M

For anyone else who didn't know where this was

is ultra going to be really good or what

three days out and I've only heard two songs!

guess what arrived in the mail today :D

is ultra going to be really good or what

It is indeed really good. Not really a major development of his sound but still a cracking album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvA9Y_AFxR4

The vocal sample in Fly2 is taken from this. I'll be keeping an eye on Banshee because that's one of the best tracks on the album

love the Darkstar collab track

ended up picking up a used cd copy of "with love" while traveling, since it's sometimes nice to listen to discs in the car on a long drive

better than i remembered, but i am 90% sure i was using "top bloke" ironically upthread since the guy's a notorious shithead

I used to post on the dubstepforum probably circa 2006/7 or whatever and zomby was on there, early in his production career when like "one spliff" or whatever that song was out and he was probably 18 or so., obviously a total prick of a poster.

anyway, there was another annoying poster, a 12 year old boy white-rapper who just spammed constantly. zomby took exception to this and wrote a post, which has become seared in my memory, saying that if this child ever released a record, zomby would go to a store selling it, take all the copies they had and piss on them

a few sites list his birth year as 1980 (!) but I'm guessing they all loop back to the same sketchy source

I think it was an assumption on my part based on his posting style