Lindstrom & Prins Thomas are the shit

it was all p cool but it is the first mix i've paid for (as opposed to it being shared freely) in years and years, and there are so many better free mixes this year in which i discovered more music.

PT's "Live at the Robert Johnson" is definitely more techno-heavy, and comes highly recommended. Paradise Goulash is really good but doesn't quite cohere in the way Cosmo-Galactic Prism did, but then again the latter is all-time

Yeah I feel like if you're going to actually sell a mix these days it has to justify being onsale. That either means being way better than the sort of thing you'd give to RA or a blog or something for free, or it has to feel more considered, or definably a bit more like an album. DJs like Mayer and Weatherall are consistently good at this, but I think the whole randomness of Prins's approach makes this more difficult, especially when there are jobbing Balearic guys whacking really good free mixes up every week.

I dunno, I'm a bit old fashioned when it comes to commercial v free mixes. I like decent sound quality, I like being able to see artist names and track titles, I like the implied permanence of a really good mix album, otherwise I'd rather just listen to a live recording or radio set. Doesn't help that there's just this enormous glut of free mixes out there and they're quite a time investment given that, unless you know the DJ, you don't know what you're getting into at the start.

you just have to start using soundcloud in the right way, then the good free mixes will flow like wine

it's the same as anything, a bit of nosing around, following some known djs, seeing who they follow. i tend to crave mixes at work though so i get through a lot. you do discover v good djs who aren't really well known.

I find Soundcloud quite an annoying interface to use, I can see why people like it but I find dutifully clicking through web interfaces (Soundcloud or Youtube or whatever) to be a really joyless way of listening to music. I'm looking at it now and there are like 14 Lord of the Isles mixes staring at me, it feels like homework and I can't be arsed.

I can't really listen at work, so any mixes I do listen to will be on my commute, and that's premium listening/reading space. Maybe I should make a new space, like incorporate techno cooking into my life or something.

you just have to start using soundcloud in the right way, then the good free mixes will flow like wine

it's the same as anything, a bit of nosing around, following some known djs, seeing who they follow. i tend to crave mixes at work though so i get through a lot. you do discover v good djs who aren't really well known.

Definitely the case, you come to realize how much name DJs are phoning it in. But it is the idea of nosing around, like going for a walk in the woods instead of going to the exhibition, then in the woods you suddenly realize there is a dappled light, its really quite something

I feel like its the difference between doors open 7.30 pint 7.45 band 8.30 pint 8.45 band two 930 pint 945 headliner 11 out treated like cattle, cloakroom queue, on the one hand - and a rolling meandering trip on the other, who knows where we shall end up, iim sure Montmorency will come back by nightfall

I dunno, the woods are enjoyable wherever you are, which is more than can be said for looking at an ugly orange webpage on your computer, slogging through some nondescript deep house in case something good comes up. That's not a walk in the woods, it's like shopping for shoes.

Oh I dont look at the page! I look at a picture of Kielder Forest!

It is true that most music is not only nondescript but offensive antagonistic garbage though, this i have learned through experience

https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/prins-thomas-dug-deep-into-his-crates-and-found-his-7-favorite-ambient-records-of-all-time?utm_Soruce=thumptwitterus

Album streaming on NPR

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/10/466134588/first-listen-prins-thomas-principe-del-norte

...and it's fantastic

that michael rother record he recommends above is brilliant, had never heard it. don't see the twin peaks comparison at all but that'll be one i listen to for many moons, i'm sure.

yeah i love that record! its the only solo record i have of his. bought it when i was in hamburg

That Michael Rother really is brilliant - there's a real clarity and sunniness to it, feels like such a good driving album as well as an ambient one. Like it's sort of midway between Kraftwerk and Dire Straits in its melodic sense.

yeah i went for a walk in the park yesterday and listened to it, it was very sunny and i quickly felt in a kind of transcendental mood. dire straits otm, there were parts where i was imagining how good it would be with singing, but probably better without overall. it's very strange, sort of goettsching standard procedure and then these pristine guitar "choruses".

must try some of his other stuff.

TBH every time I listen to a Dire Straits song that isn't Romeo and Juliet I never actually enjoy it, like it never lives to the platonic ideal of Dire Straits that I've built up in my head. But there's something about the pristine Knopfler-esque guitar sound I love when I hear it in other contexts (probably why I still love The War On Drugs despite their inherent corniness).

Anyway back to Michael Rother, you hear a lot of those guitar textures all over Prins's solo work, and the melodies are all over Lindstrom's stuff. The first track on Where You Go I Go Too definitely feels like it's consciously channeling this record.

This is killer though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdul4vImn2c

Principe del Norte 4xLP is fantastic.

It is great but I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't actually all ambient. I guess that was common with late 80s, early 90s ambient too but I was hoping for a fully beatless album.

Remixes incoming

https://soundcloud.com/smalltownsupersound/prins-thomas-cicube-remix

Smalltown Supersound will release three remix EPs based off Prins Thomas's Principe Del Norte album.

That record, released last week, saw the cosmic Norwegian producer looking back to the the '90s 'braindance' movement for inspiration, specifically ambient works by The Black Dog, The KLF and The Orb. The latter legends are among the heavy-hitters who contribute versions of Principe Del Norte for the upcoming three-part set.

Minimal star Ricardo Villalobos will also contribute two remixes of "C," and Young Marco, I:Cube and Sun Araw, the Californian psychedelic rocker who appeared on Thomas's epic Paradise Goulash mix, have been tapped for reworks too. Hieroglyphic Being starts off the series with a 12-inch featuring his two takes on album track "D."

The Hieroglyphic Being versions will be available next month, with a release date for the second EP, featuring the Villalobos, Young Marco and I:Cube remixes, yet to be announced. Full details on the 12-inch with Sun Araw and The Orb's submissions are still forthcoming.

wow that's a great set of remixers he has lined up

checked out that michael rother album as i too have an ideal version of dire straits that the real dire straits never quite live up too, a nice album tho it doesn't live up to that ideal either. guess i'm stuck with the durutti column for now.

NEW!

https://www.facebook.com/hplindstrom/videos/10153631877372762/

and the whole thing (w/ World First branding):
https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/idsa.68335fe5-e61f-11e5-8530-75008c879c4a

also here: https://soundcloud.com/feedelity/closing-shot

loving this tbh, helps me pretend it isn't March

omg this track is amazing - so effortlessly joyful. <3

love that track

Just now listening to this. So delightful!

It is great but I was a bit disappointed that it wasn't actually all ambient. I guess that was common with late 80s, early 90s ambient too but I was hoping for a fully beatless album.

yeah to me this was okay then drifted into crap modern trance-inflected beats. if you're gonna go ambient, go ambient, otherwise you're just standing at the feet of the gods waiting for a remix album to come out.

i mean, i had the suspicion the article in which he recommended his favourite ambient albums of all time would outlast this record in my consciousness but i didn't want that to be true.

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If you dig Katzenmusik you ought to check out Flammende Herzen as well, that is another beauty

The PT album was a great soundtrack for a sunblissed two hour roadtrip yesterday, maybe try it out that way

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Lindstrøm guest mix including some new songs here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b078xps4

X-post re. the Michael Rother record, check out "Katzenmusik 8" – the one w all the reverse guitars. To me that's the platonic ideal right there.

Live in session on 6 Music at the moment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07bl9ft

Finally getting around to listening to Principe Del Norte. One or two dud sides but overall a great listen. Did anyone buy the LP set? I'm a little burned out on having that much wax and after getting Paradise Goulash.

Yeah I did get the 4LP set but then I only bought the Paradise Goulash Versions on wax

Closing Shot is now out on an EP called Windings, with two tracks on the b-side Algorytme and Foehn.

LOVE Algorytme. Foehn is good too but holy crap @ when Algorytme takes off towards the end.

Algorytme at 4:00 is joyous

Saw him live tonight. Algortyme killed. Felt like a lot of people there didn't know (or weren't responding to) "I Feel Space" which was a bit grim.

Sad to have missed him last week. What was the crowd like? A few years ago it was all lindstrom loving nerds so I'm surprised to hear I Feel Space flopped.

Saw him live tonight. Algortyme killed. Felt like a lot of people there didn't know (or weren't responding to) "I Feel Space" which was a bit grim.

― Gukbe, Friday, July 29, 2016 1:36 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was there! Did you stay for Todd Terje?

When I said "tonight" I meant at the gig in DC.

Unless of course Todd Terje was a surprise guest there in which case, no, I didn't, and yes, I'm weeping at the thought of missing it.

Crowd in DC was pretty small. Those there seemed more into "Closing Shot" and "Home Tonight" more than I Feel Space. But really, a tiny crowd.

Oh! I saw Lindstrom open for Todd in BK on Friday. I should have looked more closely at when you posted the comment.

How was Todd?

I think him and the Olsens work better in a live setting than a recorded one

I saw him in DC the last time. It wasn't a big crowd but wouldn't call it tiny either. Just a bunch of nerds dancing. I wonder if he will be able to play there again...

wow "Home Tonight"