John Talabot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cCG7nJacE

Great news! John Talabot’s excellent Hivern Discs label starts a new “white-label” series, called “Blanc”. The new series will consist of one-sided 12” and will be limited to 100 copies available from the label’s website.

Each release will feature an uncredited cut from Hivern Discs’ current stable of artists, which includes Teengirl Fantasy, Pional, Aster, New Jackson, and John Talabot himself.

Already sold out, btw.

terrific stuff

Mixing the next DJ Kicks album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efjc1OoH8Qc

So...

This DJ Kicks mix is urgent and key. It's dark and moody, intense and 'humid' atmospherics, but still with his sensibilities for big hooks and melodies. Apparently the selection is "not for clubs," but I would happily dance to this all night. It is absolutely my shit right now.

Mines a similar vein as Immer 2 imo, especially that selection towards the end with SCSI-9, Jesse Somfay and the Sten Remix, but does so much more dynamically and vividly. 27 tracks as well, it's super-detailed in a good way.

cosign, it's lovely

the moment "old song" drops >>>>>>>>>

Mix of the year IMO.

Lex OTM re Old Song.

When is this out?

nov 12 apparently

it's at Juno
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/dj-kicks/505715-01/

this is awful in my view, apart from "old song" and one or two other tracks. just really clunky portentous trance.

Yeah I wasn't feeling it either, it just dragged mostly.

the spotify version has the tracks out of order

I think it's pretty great, though maybe too long? Miko otm about it being dark and moody, qualities which I know a lot of people didn't like about Fin

yeah it's more like balearic for post-ww4 radioactive nuclear fallout parched wasteland ibiza

thought it was a pretty awesome thing myself, albeit admittedly partly in the disquieting fearful sense of awe

did put it on for a night bus journey the other week and tbh it was just too intense man i was freaking out

Yeah that feels right, esp. "Escape From Detroit".

Interesting to see who's coming down where on this one.

i'd guess its eyerolls are probably much like when a daaaaark outlier spin-off of a beloved genre of mine gets hipster kisses out of the blue

to that i would respond yeah lol sozzles but talabot does weave a deeply rich and skilful tapestry here

It's weird, it just falls totally flat for me, I feel like that Dixon and Ame Boiler Room kind of took this sound as far as I'd want it to go.

Am on a long few weeks of p much only listening to Tim Hecker, Deaf Centre, and other stuff along those lines, cos they help me to do some writing work I've got on the go, so it may be bad timing for me.

I was only so-so about the album in the end too tho.

There is one track near the end I liked as well as Old Song, had heard it before, it's the DJ Samo one.

Old Song is all-time tho.

I particularly like the way he mixes the Young Marco remix of "Heterotopia" into "We Doubt (You Can Make It)". It's the kind of two-totally-different-songs-become-one trick that Villalobos used to pull off on the rare occasions when he felt like being gregarious.

The Dixon and Ame Boiler Room is a good reference point for this, but it has some of the "let's build a soundworld" portentous swirliness that I associate with the Wighnomy Bros' Metawuffmischfelge and Mayer's Immer 2.

i'd guess its eyerolls are probably much like when a daaaaark outlier spin-off of a beloved genre of mine gets hipster kisses out of the blue

Your night bus comment would appear to support this.

i am aware of all things

haunting shipwrecked boat riddims from the adriatic sea bed ;_;

Almost as if the machines are capable of weeping

Disembodied Gypsy Kings guitar lines hover and dissipate like phantoms in the rain.

as tim will certify this is still nae WONDERLAND09 from the uk funky days of yore

ya this mix bored the hell out ofm e

i quite liked it

Haha Matt I've probably written that exact line before.

rtc of course correct about Wonderland09 but that's one of the finest mixes of my or any lifetime, so.

i'm sure i'm just being awfully gauche but i really am finding it hard to fathom how you can listen to this in its entirety and pick out 'old song' (or the deployment of) as a particular highlight above all others... just seems like taking the mix on terms that arent its own

he kinda clangs the mix into it as well imo tbh, although being jarred isn't necessarily bad here

WONDERLAND09

??

Have only heard this mix maybe half a dozen times and have really enjoyed it every time, although it tends to wash over me in one go - although the dixon/ame boiler room did that for a while too before crystalising, so I imagine this will too.

(this mix = talabot)

ah ok wonderland09 is presumably a ref to this:

funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

anyone have a link?

I've still got Wonderland09 knocking around somewhere, will upload it at the weekend.

I thought he kind of clanged the Old Song transition as well but then I realised I was listening on Spotify and there was a track left out just before that. (WTF is up with that btw?)

i'm sure i'm just being awfully gauche but i really am finding it hard to fathom how you can listen to this in its entirety and pick out 'old song' (or the deployment of) as a particular highlight above all others... just seems like taking the mix on terms that arent its own

Almost entirely cos it's a few years old, I have it on vinyl in my parent's house, used to play it out a lot, and it was on a Superpitcher mix years ago, so all your points are fair!

i think the segue from the Untitled track into Round - Glass (kind of a google proofed-who is this guy?) works really well too. also all the comparisons to the Dixon/Ame Boiler set from last year are otm, didn't make that connection myself but it fits.

i'm sure i'm just being awfully gauche but i really am finding it hard to fathom how you can listen to this in its entirety and pick out 'old song' (or the deployment of) as a particular highlight above all others... just seems like taking the mix on terms that arent its own

he kinda clangs the mix into it as well imo tbh, although being jarred isn't necessarily bad here

― r|t|c, Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like the arrival of "Glass" is the actual "ascend into soothing house classicism" moment that everyone describes the arrival of "Old Song" as being - like, if you didn't know the latter already and then read reviews, when "Glass" starts up you'd think "oh this must be that Old Song track".

Separately, Mohr must feel like his title for "Old Song" becomes more and more appropos every day.

It was fitting even when it came out, and not cos it's like retro in a dance way, it just kinda sounds old in a different way.

like, if you didn't know the latter already and then read reviews, when "Glass" starts up you'd think "oh this must be that Old Song track".

I saw all of you going on about it and that's what I thought

Ha me too!

noobz

lol feel like insulting 'old song' a bit now... it's alright tho

haha i'm only messing with "noobz". i hope you all go on to enjoy indie trance for many years.

wonderland09 : http://we.tl/mayL6PyMqA

^^ cosign the absolute greatness. haven't heard the talabot yet.

I'm digging this. Way chill. Good morning music.

thanks v much for wonderland!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0i8u2GC0U
this is hitting the spot

yeah I'm digging this new one. Bit more muted than Fin but still just as lush

surprised this thread didn't get bumped for 'Voices'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJUEAOYDf8

talaboman record frickin rocks