teengirl fantasy, miracles club, mi ami, 100% silk and the rise of HIPSTER HOUSE: S/D

ital uses a laptop, yes, but a lot of these acts don't. i have no idea what it'd sound like with better mastering, i guess the future times/l.i.e.s. stuff is an example of this tho

feel like the differences between these guys and more conventional house producers run deeper than just "these guys use synths" and "these guys use software"

this is absolutely true, i was referring to fidelity tho

but less chilled than future times

iirc the ital stuff is done on a computer but the mi ami record was done under a specific remit to use hardware samplers or trackers or something

sort of enjoy the notion of house sonics being explored by people who are more promiscuous in terms of production/process, fetishizing the sound of old house records in a more abstract way than retro-minded producers elsewhere that fetishize the hardware that was used to make them or in the case of the NYC necro-disco hotel lounge edit house thing, samples of the records themselves

the case of the NYC necro-disco hotel lounge edit house thing

^^ new thread?!?

saw this stuff described as "art-school techno" in a review today

link?

sort of enjoy the notion of house sonics being explored by people who are more promiscuous in terms of production/process

Is this comparison limited to the examples you then cite? Or just a general statement?

Because i don't think house music is particularly afflicted by a lack of sonic promiscuity.

http://www.yellowgreenred.com/

ctrl+f innergaze

what is necro-disco?!?

http://www.drben.net/files/China/Source_Materials/BooksALL/Communism/Mao-ManNotGod-FrThQ.jpg

whoops wrong thread

TS: standard tropical Italo dub vs NYC necro-disco hotel lounge edit house

i want to hear this impossibly exotic-sounding yet no doubt totally mundane crap house music!

Is this comparison limited to the examples you then cite? Or just a general statement?

Because i don't think house music is particularly afflicted by a lack of sonic promiscuity.

― Tim F, Thursday, October 6, 2011 6:47 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

yr right i take it back nvm

he probably means wolf and lamb

ital uses a laptop, yes, but a lot of these acts don't. i have no idea what it'd sound like with better mastering, i guess the future times/l.i.e.s. stuff is an example of this tho

again, i think a lot of this is about process and a lot of aversion to the use of laptops in performances (it's a philosophy i also subscribe to in my compositions). steve summers for instance will use only hardware on his performances and for his remixes he will do a single take using his live setup. the use of shhhh sounds for hats and other lo-fi sampling/production techniques is very true to house's roots as well, which is where i believe the philosophy derives. there's an idolization of people like rick wilhite who did not have access to serious mastering techniques and much of his stuff was legitimate bedroom studio production. whether these artists have access to mastering or the funds to spend on it is another question, but i feel like that is where the inspiration comes from.

necro house must mean like art department or wolf + lamb black

standard italo dub ... is that like social disco club?

but like i said there are connections to the more traditional house scene. On The Prowl just came out with a release on their sublabel Let's Play House (inspired by the monthly of the same name) that features a beautiful swimmers remix of a Runaway track. Runaway is undoubtedly part of the more refined sounding house music, but they don't perform live and neither do Beautiful Swimmers. all of these people are running in very close circles and we are a small community of like-minded individuals but people are doing very different things.

i don't think H&LA and Wolf + Lamb really belong itt

I thought Wolf + Lamb were being cited as a negative point of comparison.

house producers have been fetishizing the past since forever, and altho the necro-disco comment almost makes sense within the context of that post i agree that h&la and w+l do not belong here at all

sorry to harp on about this but i don't think the mastering / pressing thing is an aesthetic choice but rather down to not really giving it much consideration.

dissident records sound great btw.

Legowelt's record label is based in Portland now, I believe

did he move to portland?

I dunno I just got an email from their mailing list last year saying they wouldn't be accepting orders for a month due to moving to Portland.
Most of the stuff on that label is just nice dark lofi ambient stuff, not all that jackin.

I can see NNF folks being way into Legowelt's Smackos and Franz Falckenhaus stuff.

which label?

legowelt does not live in portland

sorry to harp on about this but i don't think the mastering / pressing thing is an aesthetic choice but rather down to not really giving it much consideration.

this is pretty much what i said. process driven composition that puts little priority on dance-floor mastering.

so 100% silk is putting out a 12" of peaking lights remixes huh

anyway i like this thread a lot, its like alien anthropology or s.thing, laptops in performance vs. laptops in dissemination idk

It's a nice twist, I must say.

moonship, his label is Strange Life

Anyway, the whole DIY angle of this stuff is interesting. Techno/house is so intrinsically DIY, it's cool seeing different permutations of how that mentality is expressed.

wow all the stuff on that label sounds awesome so far. legowelt is one of those guys with an intimidatingly massive back catalog, and then when you throw side projects / related artists / stuff on his labels into the mix it's just insane

if anyone has dug through it all and can give me a rough primer i would be v v grateful

favorite track itt so far is that magic touch one (last youtube posted before this post)

i want to hear it on a big system so bad!!

Magic touch best of the bunch imo

What a weird thread to read. I've known the boys from Blondes since 2003, and was at the first Teengirl Fantasy show. Those boys raided my computer in 2007 & 2008, and I know Nick in some other ways ;-) ....so I dunno, I'm totally biased.

What I will say is that I saw Teengirl Fantasy twice in late September, and though the first night looked like lolcollege (they were opening for James Blake), the second night was....genuinely a gay, gay party scene. And in addition, Nick and Logan just tore the fucking roof off the place. It was the best live performance I've seen this year. A lot of their newer stuff sounds infinitely more....Detroit. Like one thing they played totally channeled Delano Smith's early work.

also, does Ital dude still perform under the Sex Worker moniker? i fucking hope not.

i'm sure i've seen "Sex Worker" but i remember nothing about it. I saw mi ami a bunch several years back, has their sound changed?

^ yes, even since last year there has been a pretty big changeup

uh, yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iWvj4UQ8zQ

it's not a HUGE changeup, they more or less just decided to use a drum machine instead of real drums, so maybe categorizing it as 'house' is a little misleading. the side project 12"s are the real change in direction imo

i'm just starting to listen to a lot of this, to be honest

the whole concept makes me a little bit queasy

I have to admit that I'm kind of into the promo 100% Silk videos for each release. Here's the new one for Malvoeaux - 'Sunsets'

Also, why queasy Geeta?

Also, why queasy Geeta?

First it was like:

http://youtu.be/igzcvcGudLY

And then it was like:

http://youtu.be/lNb8FyCaMBA

And now it is like this:

http://youtu.be/wzxvOgcGLmk

I am not even trying to be all like keep it real/2black2strong. This stuff is like a half ass retarded indie xerox of a slightly earlier well-executed xerox.

good grief

make it stop

that third clip made me cry a little bit inside

i'm going to go back and listen to my early '90s new york house records

miracles club live = more fun than your *authentic* house records at home

i'm not saying it's 'authentic'

i'm saying it's better music