The producer known as ACTRESS and his r&b concrète

can't wait to hear this.

After a quick listen this morning, there's not a lot of mixing going on, the transitions are quick but mainly OK. Obviously, it's mainly about the selection of tracks.

(I am quite a fan of jarring transitions btw)

pen expers arriving is amazing

It really is! The mix itself is great throughout but sort of... shapeless? Just when you think it's going somewhere it decides to wander off and see what's in another direction entirely.

i only felt it was jarring the first couple of times i listened through, when i was listening for beat matching and finding none. after a few listens it really opened up for me. i feel like he is really pushing the envelope as far as matching up moods and vibes in tracks. almost every mix makes perfect sense to me now, and i'm amazed at the connections he makes between tracks.

that's what he's best at though, is my thought on him - finding diagonal connections in music, that is.

Yeah it does feel like a consistent progression in terms of mood, if not in momentum.

this is very fine work

thread title has put me off listening to actress until now.... but i really like this!

i don't think it's shapeless at all! most mixes i will stick on and zone out which is often exactly what i want. but the way this mix evolves suddenly and kinda strangely really keeps my attention focussed. i've found it great for running to.

dude's music is just as enervating and like listening to paint dry when he calls himself levantis as when he calls himself actress

did you just fart?

one of the worst all time thread titles

Actress is a totally amazing recording moniker though.

how should actress make his music less enervating? throw some donks on it?

Actress is opening for Animal Collective on the current leg of their U.S. tour, stoked to see them both soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg1Pw0y-x8Q

"Look, I don't care, you've got to be in the video."

i knew their "retirement" wasn't gonna last

So is it pretty much confirmed that those one-off cassingles on Ninja Tune lately have been Actress? THAT KNIGHTSBRIDGE OG, DIAL 666 8100, and BANK OF ENGLAND?

say what?

Yeah, there's been a series of single-track cassette releases on Ninja Tune over the last couple weeks that have had people playing Spot the Anonymous Producer. The all-caps phrases are the artist names they were released under; the tracks are, respectively, "ZENO'S PARADOX," "UBER SPLIFF TO GATWICK" and "CHAOS RAIN"

haha sounds dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wTUQXiLV-Q

must admit i prefer the first single

X22RME video has very brief shot of Crystal Palace park (the Bowl). So yay for that and I will likely buy your record.

dj kicks is a ***** masterpiece

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late great OTM

This new single made me feel sick

how so

i preferred the first single

album out today

"RUNNER" is so good

This may be my favourite yet. As expected, I quite like his pseudo-remix of Fauré's Requiem.

Disappointed by this. I dunno, it sounds like a Clark album or something. Ok background music when it's on, but can't remember much about it after.

"RUNNER" is so good

Yep

i like the new record a lot

i still haven't heard it! my record store didn't get in their copies on friday. going to have to wait a few more days ...

I think it is his best album yet.

mystery solved

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/20825

This is fantastic, and probably his most accessible album yet. Either this or Splazsh is his best for me

this guy's music makes me fall asleep and have weird dreams. every. single. time.

I like this album a lot but it might be more fair to call it a beat tape

His entire footballing career could have been one slow slide down the pyramid from West Brom and it would still have been more exciting than his music.

or your posting

fuck excitement

liking this a lot more than ghettoville so far

I like it a lot and think it does justice to the "r&b concrète" Nakh description in thread title.

I cant even remember what Sweet Exorcist sounded like, but a lot of this is vibing listening to them on a tape walkman in the early 90's.

One of my favourite Actress collabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1KLmphseFs

New album is pretty great I think.

This might be a bit of a shot in the dark, but if any Glasgow posters were thinking of going to see him at the Art School this coming Saturday, I have a ticket but can't make it, so post here or Ilxmail me if you want it.

You would get the bonus prize of hanging out with ilxor paolo for the evening.

Event details here for anyone interested:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?946991