Damn, The Lord's Graffiti is one muthafucka of a tune. He is very good.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 27 April 2012 02:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
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/
― Groove is in the shart (Craig D.), Friday, 27 April 2012 04:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've only heard "marble plexus" so far and i loved it, looking forward to picking up the album hopefully tomorrow
― the late great, Friday, 27 April 2012 05:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
gah this album is fucking incredible
very "selected ambient works" imo
― the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
had this locked on repeat since i got it
"N.E.W." is so incredible
― the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― the late great, Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
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cosign all of this. never really got into splazsh, really digging this though.
― toby, Saturday, 28 April 2012 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is really cool
never liked splazsh either
― r|t|c, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
dunno abt these last 4 tracks after 'glint'
kinda feel i need to start from the beginning again to work them out
― r|t|c, Sunday, 29 April 2012 00:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is good
― Ms Tum-Bla-Wi-Tee (nakhchivan), Sunday, 29 April 2012 12:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Liking this, the lord's graffiti and raven are the two that stood out on first listen.
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Monday, 30 April 2012 07:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is this streaming anywhere?
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 04:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
jardin is amazing...
― ooooiiiioooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaoooooh un - bi - leevable! (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 11:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
you guys might be interested to check out shackleton's new "music for the quiet hour".
― sisilafami, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
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..
― willem, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
The new Shackleton is out on his own label:
http://boomkat.com/cds/523774-shackleton-music-for-the-quiet-hour-the-drawbar-organ
― btw didn't i braek ur heart (NickB), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I LOVE THIS
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Saturday, 19 May 2012 18:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 7 June 2012 13:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
timely reminder for me that this is a good rainy day album
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 June 2012 13:37 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― the late great, Thursday, 7 June 2012 15:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
I can see where that comparison comes from, but this is so much warmer and more luscious to me than Autechre.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 7 June 2012 16:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:44 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
R.I.P. is going to save the lives of so many cracked-out kids, you know at 4am when the drugs won't let you sleep and no music sounds right - this will be the only album they can listen to
vahid otm
― hot slag (lukas), Sunday, 20 January 2013 09:33 (4 months ago) Permalink
whenever I listen to this it feels like a watered down version of madlib beat tapes, I wish I could get into it because in theory this is like my favorite shit
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 20 January 2013 18:03 (4 months ago) Permalink
which madlib beat tapes are these?
― bass, Sunday, 20 January 2013 20:24 (4 months ago) Permalink
I love this record. Keep coming back to it.
― Hutton dressed as Lahm (LocalGarda), Sunday, 20 January 2013 20:32 (4 months ago) Permalink
new 12" "silver cloud" is some beautiful sinister fuzzed out fucked-up mutant techno
― clouds, Friday, 25 January 2013 23:51 (4 months ago) Permalink
is it as good as the la dusseldorf track of the same name
― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Friday, 25 January 2013 23:56 (4 months ago) Permalink
Yeah this is great - nice to have some longer tracks from him.
― toby, Saturday, 26 January 2013 06:54 (4 months ago) Permalink
"voodoo posse chronic illusion" is so so good
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Friday, 15 February 2013 15:50 (3 months ago) Permalink
yep
a new afx album would be nice but actress is kinda supplanting the old 90s greats imo
― polski smak (clouds), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:00 (3 months ago) Permalink
still unsure how I've listened to and enjoyed this dude's music for over two years but only found out a few weeks ago that he played professionally for West Brom
― Julian-Joachim Roedelius (DJ Mencap), Friday, 15 February 2013 16:19 (3 months ago) Permalink
― keef qua keef (Jordan), Friday, February 15, 2013 3:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
absolutely addicted to this at the moment
― Number None, Friday, 15 February 2013 18:11 (3 months ago) Permalink
Even more intriguingly, it’s known that Cunningham was previously a footballer due to embark on a career with West Bromwich Albion, before injury forced him to retire from the sport at the age of 19 (a “crushing decision to make,” he says). What business, our inner snob demands to know, could a one-time professional hoofer of balls have making music as obtuse, as formally brilliant as this?
had no idea about this, rmde at the pleb who wrote that anyway
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:03 (3 months ago) Permalink
http://peterkempsrecordreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/actress-harrier-attk-gershwin-roy.html
also found this charming review by some pensioner
― every soulless meta poster is a ✰ (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:04 (3 months ago) Permalink
Remixes of Legowelt: https://soundcloud.com/clone-nl/legowelt-elementz-of-houz
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:06 (3 months ago) Permalink
his boiler room mix is still my all time favorite dj mix
― the late great, Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:29 (3 months ago) Permalink