i was looking for a thread to talk about Chicago. i really love this album and, like you mentioned, very subtle.
i love that sample he uses where the girl says "OH MY GAAD! OH MY FAAAKING GAAD"
― Future_Perfect (LOLK), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's very subtle***
― Future_Perfect (LOLK), Thursday, 3 June 2010 14:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah its awesome
― plax (ico), Thursday, 3 June 2010 21:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
"nightlights" is the best house track all year. sumptuous, brash, and those laser reverb effects that turn up midway are devastating
efdemin album is well-produced fluff in comparison
― fuckd and bombd (r1o natsume), Thursday, 3 June 2010 22:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
wow efdemin is perfect, thanks
― cutty, Thursday, 3 June 2010 23:43 (2 years ago) Permalink
FM-style synth sound throughout Chicago is great. it's refreshing to hear something that isn't so analog or virtual analog sounding
― 0xCAFED00D (LOLK), Friday, 4 June 2010 02:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Definitely agree on that last point, I grew up on a steady diet of cheap sounding 8 bit FM synths.
And I think that its high time that chiptune influenced house and techno came into vogue.
― initiate slut mode (Siah Alan), Friday, 4 June 2010 06:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Errr, I'll sit this one out, thanks.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 4 June 2010 07:03 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well whatever.
I've given up on having fashionable opinions, I just know what I like.
I'm looking for stuff that sounds like Hieroglyphic Being using a SID synth, or something equivalent.
― initiate slut mode (Siah Alan), Friday, 4 June 2010 09:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
Don't get me wrong, do as you please by all means, it's just that personally I can't fucking stand chiptunes.
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Friday, 4 June 2010 13:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
This sounds like a great idea. Personally, I was hoping somebody would do hard grinding Regis tracks with soaring 8bit NES style melodies and some UK funky drums over the top. Recommendations?
― your original display name is still visible. (Display Name), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
Get a new joke writer?
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 4 June 2010 20:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
I had to find a new one. I used to get my jokes from House Is A Feeling but that guy closed shop awhile back.
― your original display name is still visible. (Display Name), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
made any good theo p facsimiles recently?
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wouldn't know, I keep trying to find them in stores but the pressings always sell out in a week.
― your original display name is still visible. (Display Name), Friday, 4 June 2010 22:48 (2 years ago) Permalink
hugs + cupcakes
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 June 2010 06:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
Now you're just asking for it...
― Tonight I Dine on Turtle Soup (EDB), Saturday, 5 June 2010 07:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
I wish moonship would post more these days. Oh, well. Back to lurking.
― initiate slut mode (Siah Alan), Saturday, 5 June 2010 08:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha...think your insult clock is set at 2006
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 5 June 2010 09:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
xp. woah, managed to completely fail to notice that he's gone totally AWOL.
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 June 2010 10:17 (2 years ago) Permalink
am I the only that dislike the vocal samples on Efdemin's new album? (and also on his mix album, for that matter). they sound pretentious and, i don't know, pointless in a tacked-on kind of way.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 5 June 2010 11:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
not really sure a sample of bart simpson playing a video game is particularly pretentious but sure, i suppose pointless, if you like. i don't mind them.
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 June 2010 11:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
it's a shame that the few posters worth reading on dance music around here are reduced to cheap zings nowadays
i should give that efdemin album another chance i guess. it *sounds* great and is obv well made but none of it really struck out at me on first listen, something that seems to be par for the course with alot of this contemporary deep house stuff that's coming out at the moment. also, played out respect the tradition signifier in the title
― fuckd and bombd (r1o natsume), Saturday, 5 June 2010 11:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
that new sandwell district thing is excellent, really melodic sci-fi techno
― fuckd and bombd (r1o natsume), Saturday, 5 June 2010 11:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
better cheap zings than expensive ones, but yeah I hear you!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 5 June 2010 12:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
efdemin album title is admittedly lame. Production is just beautiful. Album feels very slight for me on the first listen. Only a couple of engaging tracks. Not to be Geir but not much going on melodically especially when compared with the last one.
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 June 2010 12:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah i like that tho
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 June 2010 16:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
i do too. and definitely did too when i was listening to the dry - i don't mean that as a criticism - mid 00s minimal that this often reminds me of. I suppose it's preferable that this seems not really to be as Chicago as the title would imply in the sense that pat deep house revivalism is uninspiring.
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
i'll give it time. the track "there will be singing"(?) is a the one for me. TIP!
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
is a?
yeah, i mean the mnml ship-jumping of like 2007 just seemed really silly maybe, I get that the ultra-touchstoney stuff in this is pretty offputting considering the "deep" overload lately, but it still feels like a natural development of what the dude was doing on say America
― plax (ico), Saturday, 5 June 2010 17:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha...think your insult clock is set at 2006― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 5 June 2010 09:55 (13 hours ago) Permalinkxp. woah, managed to completely fail to notice that he's gone totally AWOL.― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 June 2010 10:17 (12 hours ago)
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 5 June 2010 09:55 (13 hours ago) Permalink
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 June 2010 10:17 (12 hours ago)
Who needs zings when the people who stick up for you say shit like this? This pretty much sums it up more than any insult could.
As far as adding something constructive to this thread; Night Lights by Oliverwho Factory on Planet E is dope. Ultra Fine by Omar S. on FXHE is really good as well.
My tip for new US producers to be up on right now is Jason Letkiewicz. He records under the names Steve Summers and Rhythm Based Lovers. Steve Summers is his acid pseudonym and he did a record on Jack For Daze last year and is just dropping a new joint on Echovolt this week. If you are looking for OG Chi house done right, don't sleep on it. Also check his Rhythm Based Lovers releases for really smooth new school boogie. He is a talented guy.
― your original display name is still visible. (Display Name), Saturday, 5 June 2010 23:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
congrats at not parsing i was talking about V, huevón.
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
altho i would like to say the steve summers stuff is ok i wouldn't like to get in the way of your free-flow of totally missing the point and being a moronic joke.
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
also you know he takes the source material and adds nothing to it, but like, that's a step-up for some people, you know.
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
feeling really murtaugh here.
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 00:44 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha, I like how you have to come back every few minutes for the last 36 minutes or so posting sorta zings. It's like you post something, pace around the room for a bit, post again, really think hard for 15 minutes and then give up in frustration.
The main problem you are going to have with zinging me about my music is that I am doing exactly what I want and I am having more success than I ever dreamed possible. I could list my achievements here, but I don't like to get real specific on message boards. Long story short, I have moved beyond what is normally considered successful for an underground vinyl-only artist in 2010. I did it with only three releases on a couple of no-budget bedroom labels with a studio that looks like a rummage sale.
Basically, it boils down to a few clowns on ILM who got butthurt when they got called on their wack taste Vs. the support of a lot of people who I never would have guessed would be into what I do.
Shake played my shit all across Europe during the Frictionalism tour and Tama Sumo plays my shit in the Berghain. Do you really think you can come up with a zing clever enough to take that away from me?
― your original display name is still visible. (Display Name), Sunday, 6 June 2010 01:52 (2 years ago) Permalink
cockpuppet
― fndgo, Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
lol, someone takes this too seriously.
― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
I am more succesful than i ever imagined but i still find time to write a paragraph about how well i'm doing to a dude who couldn't give a shit about me or my tracks on a message board.
Pretty sure Bill Gates isn't on yahoo chat right now saying how cool windows 7 is, mang.
― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just find your negativity and housier than though attitude tiresome. Made a few cheap jokes at your music, which hasn't really made any impact on me either way, and you come out with that extremely laughable screed. Glad to know wisdom doesn't come with age and that achievement is not its own award, you really need to show other people you've achieved and tell them how much worse their taste is on the internet.
― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Sunday, 6 June 2010 02:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Wait a second, Display Name = Disco Nihilist?
Huh, that'd be the first time I was mocked by an artist whose music I like.
― initiate slut mode (Siah Alan), Sunday, 6 June 2010 05:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hmmm, new artist gets a bit of success and it goes to their head non-shocker.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 June 2010 08:23 (2 years ago) Permalink
Well I just find this intercontinental pissing contest deeply boring.
We're a bunch of music nerds squabbling on a public forum, you'd think we could find things in common to talk about.
But no, its got to be about who's more "real". Who uses Ableton, who uses hardware.
Who grew up in Michigan, who grew up in Europe. Who gives a shit? Really?
I work 7 days a week in a factory in Wisconsin, my room is a fucking shrine to disco. Is that "real" enough for the asshole contingent?
Can I just geek out about the music I love and not tread on anyone's toes now?
― initiate slut mode (Siah Alan), Sunday, 6 June 2010 09:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
All spot on. Less bitchin' more bobbins.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 June 2010 09:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/jacobburns/sorry
http://soundcloud.com/6one6/quantec-increased-awareness
Good music that I've been liking in the last couple weeks, all politics and ego aside.
― initiate slut mode (Siah Alan), Sunday, 6 June 2010 09:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
I like the denseness of that SH101 Acid track I must say.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
i liked that snowdrift track
― plax (ico), Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:54 (2 years ago) Permalink
don't really hear whats so authentically boogie about it, could be on eskimo
― plax (ico), Sunday, 6 June 2010 10:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
he was talking about vahid! glad things are going well for you, shame you feel the need to make dour comments about music people like though, maybe you need more success to be happy enough that you don't need to hate other people. mostly the whole net/music fusion is fairly negative imo, others may disagree, but personally, and this is part coincidence, i have never loved what i do as much as i do now, amazingly there is life beyond blogging, who'd have thunk such a mad thing.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 6 June 2010 13:13 (2 years ago) Permalink