The Juan MacLean (RFI)

6FS was a really good live band, their drummer could play like a drummachine.

TRY BEST

no offense but that's like a DFA commercial slogan of the future

Floored me:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/16116-feel-like-movin/

Haven't felt a groove like this since Happy House...

So excellent, yes.

Nice.

this is pretty glorious

but it's not happy house is it?

no, it's merely excellent

Not sure if I'm really so into Nancy Whang's vocals these days...

Especially since there's been so much great vocal house and pop dance music this year.

Yeah I'm not a fan of her voice at all, I actively dislike the Classixx song she appears on. She works well on Happy House because it's largely confined to soundbites that enhance the rest of the track ("you are so excellent", "launch meeee intooo spaaaaace") but most of her more song-based appearances don't really work for me.

That said, Tonight is probably my favourite Juan Mclean song, although she's heavily treated on that.

I'm so into her voice voice. I could listen to an album of Nancy Whang. The Classixx song wasn't really great imo. I think the lyrics to this one are pretty wack, but it's enjoyable listening.

Sorry. I got the Classixx song "All You're Waiting For" confused with Juan Maclean's "You Are My Destiny".

I like the Classixx joint and the other Juan track from this year a lot, not sure about this one. But I would be so down with a Nancy Whang album.

I like this a lot - the early 90s piano house vibe is awesome. Reminds me of Edward's World's "Soul Roots".

Good, good stuff.

good kick drum, I approve

good track

would LOVE a nancy whang album

melody's too infantile or something. prefer "all you're waiting for"

love everything I've got of these guys, but find sorting through house music in general tiresome and bewildering. did not like the Studio stuff I heard. what else is out there that's like this?

a) we don't know what you've got of these guys
b) Studio are not house music
c) we don't know what you've heard of Studio

it would be fun to answer your question otherwise!

I heard West Coast and was bored by it. I have Less Than Human, the Future Will Come, Feel So Good DJ Kicks, By the Time I Get to Venus and some other 12" I can't remember right now

Are you a fan of DFA acts in general?

Well I like LCD Soundsystem. Never listened to hot chip or their other acts.

My EOY #1s from two different years:

https://soundcloud.com/dfa-records/touch
https://soundcloud.com/brutal-music-1/justin-velor-back-to-the (longer version is on Spotify, even better)

kinda got buried with a late Friday release on a (double?) holiday weekend but yeah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns_9TZ8mH2A

Not totally feeling the "Let's Go To Bed" lift but everything else works.

Excited for this.

http://pitchfork.com/news/55699-the-juan-maclean-announce-new-album-in-a-dream-share-a-place-called-space/

Definitely stoked. "the Nancy Show"? This is an album I've been waiting for.

Yeah reading that made me very happy. Maybe that should have been the album title?

FUCK YEAH!!!!!

Stoked!

I listen to my Nancy Whang playlist all the time. Can't wait for this.

*guitar solo*

FUCK YEAH!!!!!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 8:10 AM

please share this Nancy Wang playlist

also this is amazing

i'm in love with this song. it combines a bunch of my favorite sounds right now... menacing EBM pulse, gritty/down and out guitars, mystic space vibes, sickly sweet synthpop, and it's fucking pretentious and bombastic. amazing.

Nancy Whang Spotify Playlist:

http://open.spotify.com/user/brotherlovesdub/playlist/4SMV6ZuDFvI1JWGKHc9yTG

I tried to keep it to songs she sings more than just back up vocals on so lots of LCD stuff was left off. It's not meant to be a comprehensive list of appearances.

sweet, thanks!

Nancy Whang & Bonnar Bradberry - Working The Midnight Shift: http://open.spotify.com/album/3cUR2cKMt8ZMtEjtBye42Q

Nanacy Whang & Audiojack - Like An Eagle: http://open.spotify.com/album/2IbGqNS1vExE5PpcXKHMed

puting here because the Nancy love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nevAPJuBnQM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nevAPJuBnQM#t=173

nice!

not so into that new track but still looking forward to the new album

http://thump.vice.com/mixes/mixed-by-the-juan-maclean

Pre-orders for the new album are up.

The album is now streaming here.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/arts/music/pressplay.html?ref=arts&_r=0

can we get this thread locked so ppl only use the correctly-spelled one?

Is there a particular "The Juan Maclean" thread that has been serving as an all-purpose catch-all thread?

Because otherwise, I'll probably just go ahead and correct the spelling in this thread's title.

Yes please do!
(Most tJM action is here: Happy House - the Juan Maclean but a dedicated artist thread would be great imo)

Holy shit, I really love the new album.

Release is next week? I've had it on order for ages it seems, hopefully there'll be a download link in the mail soon

The release is supposed to be next week but Amazon now have it listed as coming out on October 7th. Hope that's not the case. I ordered it ages ago too.

this album rules, def surpassed my expectations

that is awesome to hear

feel like nancy whang is weirdly unheralded

ooh yeah i am liking the sound of this album

whoa, "charlotte"!

ha the retro typeface on the album cover reminds me of the one on the lena dunham memoir.

feel like nancy whang is weirdly unheralded

i dunno, her unheralding seems pretty pedestrian to me

Really great and solid throughout with APCS the obvious standout. Love A Simple Design right now.
Even Love Stops Here and Charlotte are more or less listenable, although I would prefer a vinyl special release with just the Whang-tracks.

It's on Spotify, btw.

Can't find the whole album on Spotify. Can you link to it?

The NYT is still streaming the album.

Love Stops Here is my fav. track that Juan has sung. His tone is just right. This is a beautiful album.

Does Peter Hook get a commission when DFA bands rip him off?

"i've waited for so long" is my jam

This album is fantastic.

album is fantastic. i don’t understand why he doesn’t get more club play. this album is full of bangers (e.g. charlotte is so so so perfect).

i was in berlin when white labels of happy house just started circulating and heard it 0 times. still mad.

when germans asked “what are americans digging?” and i responded with “JUAN MACLEAN!” they just shrugged and talked about americans not understanding polka techno.

Just got back from hearing his set. Loved the new stuff that I recognized on a system!
'

Def heard GMELT and "Happy House" out a lot in their time

Haha I don't go "out" but the only time I ever heard happy house "out" was at the metro before a Hercules and love affair show in like 2009

This album u guys

oh damn, "Running Back to You" is gorgeous 80s soul music I was not prepared for this

it's like the best song the Mary Jane Girls never recorded

brotherlovesdub, did it appear in the meantime? http://open.spotify.com/album/4BGSy2PuyRofUqvcnqi8K9
Inexplicably, it seems to be tagged as just 'Juan MacLean' sometimes.

Maybe it's not available on mobile? Still can't get it on my phone.

Country-specific, most probably.

big thumbs up for this album - "a simple design" is incredible.

is "charlotte" a totemic name for veteran trendy dance producers making straightforward bangers? am reminded (not sonically obv) of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SsT8J-7Jks

I preordered so hopefully the mp3s show up soon. Need this for my commute home.

Download link appeared in my inbox 3 hrs ago. All fired up and ready to go for tomorrow's commute

Oh, I guess I had it in my inbox already. Ended up ordering both the blue vinyl and the test pressing.

Not feeling this yet cuz I don't love Nancy Whang like you guys do.

didn't like her Classixx track either

When I realize I don't like somebody, I stop listening to their music. Diff strokes and all that, I guess.

it's like the best song the Mary Jane Girls never recorded

ugh i am so psyched to get to this song

rev otm

this album rules

that track is good but idk dudes i'm not loving the rest yet

"Running Back to You" sounds more like a Catherine Wheel outtake, i.e. DFA stuff circa 2005.

Simple Design is fucking fantastic.

"the sun will never set on our love" is my favorite

"Love Stops Here" is a great late-era LCD Soundsystem homage/ripoff

lol that bands that are on the same label and have overlapping members and have toured together and whose lead members used to be in a band together can rip one another off

Murphy was sometime soundman for 6FS, never a member afaik

he also produced an album but sure. it defnitely seems like they influenced eachother quite a bit regardless

James Murphy was in Pony same time as 6FS. I saw them in Bloomington and have their 7".

Whoa!

http://pitchfork.com/news/56751-nancy-whang-of-lcd-soundsystemjuan-maclean-releases-covers-donna-summer-parliament-kiss/

more direct link

http://www.gomma.de/2014/09/12/the-nancy-whang-casablanca-reworks-gomma203/

!!

!!

― The Reverend, Friday, 19 September 2014 19:33 (47 minutes ago)

!!

The Etienne de Crecy take on "Like An Eagle"/"Comme Un Aigle" is working a lot better than the Audiojack one.

album of the year candidate for me. simply gorgeous.

Same here. I went on a trip last week and it was all I listened to for two days. Played maybe ten times and just did not get bored of it. There may be a couple of higher highs on The Future Will Come but I think I prefer this one overall.

loving this more with each listen. weirdly charlotte is the song that took the longest to warm to, but now I love it. This is a top 5 DFA record, easily.

What a perfectly charming record.

"The Sun Will Never Set On Our Love" is such a good look.

i feel like there's nothing to say about this because it's so exactly what you expect and it's just john & nancy doing what john & nancy do but every moment really hits the spot so perfectly

yeah that's how I feel too m/l

I've grown to like much of it except when he starts to sing.

SITP needs a juan vocal-less edit, it sags so badly when his hot chip voice tramples all over the disco.

I know I'm talking shit because I like Phil Oakey.

ha, i am usually pretty alert to the problem of the unwanted male voice galumphing in but i felt this album dodged that pitfall

Right now only "The Sun Will Never Set On Our Love", "A Simple Design" and "Running Back To You" feel like all-time essential tracks to me. Not that there's anything bad here, though maybe the strike rate is a bit lower than on The Future Will Come.

I need to listen to this album but I am always hesitant to dwelve into a new one because of his voice, despite mostly adoring their previous albums.

Keep getting "Little Lies" uncanny valley moments with "You Were a Runaway".

John's vocals have bothered me a lot before but not at all here.

christ this album is amazing innit.

it really is! i can't think of a single interesting thing to say about it but it has given me a ton of pleasure lately.

me too. it's so good it makes me feel like a jerk for not giving enough time to earlier releases. i need to revisit!

'ive waited for so long' is ace

Finally ordered this

still not really feeling this much, someone point out what i'm missing (besides "running back to you")

fwiw I discovered yesterday that it almost becomes a different album when listened to on good headphones

does MacLean's voice improve?

He's only noticeable on a couple of tracks anyway iirc? Thought he was more distracting on the previous album (which I still love).

How are John (Juan? idk) and Nancy live? They're coming to town and I don't think it's just a DJ set (or else I wouldn't bother even thinking of going).

It's almost certainly a DJ set; they haven't played live since Jerry died AFAIK, although Juan says he wants to get a new band together soon.

(I saw 'em touring Happy House with Holy Ghost as the rest of the band, and they were phenomenal. There's a killer 19-minute live version of HH on vimeo w/ Jerry & Eric Broucek (iirc) that you should totally watch.)

Two DJ sets.

Did Jerry Play on The Future Will Come at all? I'm thinking about the drum rolls all over a track like 'Tonight', and how they really add to the emotional drive of the song, and how some of the songs on this new one would have been improved here with similar attention to rhythm. I do like it, but it feels a bit by numbers.

Jerry's on the title track and No Time, all other full-kit drumming is by Nick from HG!, inc Tonight. He's too busy co-writing and producing this one, so only drums on one track, with the HG touring drummer on a bunch.

'running back to you' is such a jam, it's like an even more spaced-out 'i can't go for that (no can do)'

Finally listened to this and not only is it great but I would go so far as to say as I like his voice at times on this album so well done everybody

new mix

Juan MacLean - Pop-Kultur-Mix for Thump
https://soundcloud.com/thump/juan-maclean-popkultur-mix-for-thump

New song out, nice nods to "Problemes d'Amour":

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRLvf7AARyk/

Full track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwFg-6DsOHU

Pretty serious DX-7 E2-E4 homage.

This new song is great. Nancy Whang 5eva.

nice!!

i love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-dyQj1t35Q

That Octo Octa remix of 'Here I Am' was good (love the original too).

Is Juan Maclean going to end up with a better 2017 album than LCD Soundsystem? Likely.

does anyone else really love the boy ep (2016)?

this track is blowing my drunk and high motherfucking mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj0irpkz_PY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n4zJsuslIo

I haven't loved everything they've done the past few years but this is brilliant, the synths are just so sparkling and I think this might be one of the best performances by Nancy Whang

"Tonight" is such a banger.

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/43928?fbclid=IwAR29AhwF_rfaSWfCpHM6pbX0ext9JGatcpisWoQVeN0l7v3yIQ7O8W8Q8EQ

A compilation of all the recent singles and a few new tracks is coming on September 20th. I kept thinking it was time for a new album (five years since In a Dream already!) and I guess this is the closest we're going to get for now.

Haven't kept up with their singles, must remedy (and can conveniently do so come September..)

the singles are all fuckin phenomenal

all the recent singles and a few new tracks

it's not all the singles, which I know just because literally hours before that story published I was retagging mp3s to make two compilations on my ipod ("mid-period" and "late period"). I think the title track is the only collected one without Nancy on it though

how I break it down to an extent:

01. What Do You Feel Free About? [2018 single]
02. Zone Non Linear [2019 single]
03. You Are My Destiny [2013 single]
04. Get Down (With My Love) [2014 single]
05. Feel Like Movin' [2013 split single]
06. Quiet Magician [new]
07. Pressure Danger [new]
08. Can You Ever Really Know Somebody [2017 single]
09. The Brighter The Light [2017 single]

not included:

Mirembe [2017 split single - as "Juan"]
Sad To Think [2018 single]
Quantum Reach [2018 split single - Amy collab]
Panic In Fort Greene Park [2018 "solo" boogie EP]
- Fine Time
- Don't Stop For Nothing
- Everybody Clap
- Panic In Fort Greene Park
Just Once More [2018 "solo" disco single]
Time Out Of Joint [2019 split single A1]
Everywhere At Once [2019 split single A2]

(bolds are explicitly by The / don't have Nancy. also of late and of interest: 2016 3-track EP by "Juan MacLean's Peach Melba," and a 2017 4-track EP of cocktail-party house with Shit Robot as Autofac. which sounds more like a name you should use for clattering machine techno imo. he also mixed all of Shit Robot's last album, and played on or produced bits of it, including a Juan / Nancy / Poopbot joint)

Mirembe [2017 split single - as "Juan"]

turns out this was someone on Discogs being dumb

another non-album single out next week, as a duo with Man Power called Juan Power - one of the b-sides is a remix of an otherwise unreleased track, so presumably there's more to come

(there's a soundcloud embed of the A-side in that story, but it won't load for me)

Thanks to this compilation for the reminder how great these singles have been, listening to this is making me want to go dancing immediately

thanks for the reminder, I want to get this

amazing comp/record

yayyyy

Really works well as an album. I still have no idea why the rest of the internet seem to sleep on how great they are. I listened to In A Dream recently and it sounded like a classic.

pretty stoked to go see this guy DJ tonight, poolside for halloween in waikiki. waikiki is bonkers on halloween, so i hope the event is not a shit show. happy halloween y'all. :)

Love this comp.

it's so fuckin GOOD

I listened to In A Dream recently and it sounded like a classic.

― kitchen person, Friday, September 27, 2019 8:39 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

it sure does

unreleased joint [by Juan Maclean (Master DJ & Producer)] opening his "chuggy and druggy" set on Beats In Space this week

nice. also uh nice photo *tugs at collar*

:D

Six-hour DJ set livestreamed from Good Room Brooklyn last week, now archived on Soundcloud (stream only)

New interview and streaming mix.

So I came home and had a flood of big releases, and a string of cancelled tour dates. It has been very surreal, having this music that’s mostly meant to be played in a club, be released. On the one hand you could say that it’s a bit of a waste. On the other hand, it’s all music I cared very deeply about, and the response has been phenomenal. So on the purest level, for me, it has been very gratifying actually.

I have a feeling next year will be even better. I’ve been having the best time in the studio, being super productive and generally making music that is very pure, entirely devoid of external pressures and considerations. I have also raised my intake of psychedelics quite a bit, which has been a huge help. It has been a very exciting time!

that mix is fantastic, thanks, listening now

This mix is great. Didn't expect to hear Space Cadet by Kyuss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mEdow5rpWg

new track for Hard Fist comp is great

ty

From that interview last July:

It has been very surreal, having this music that’s mostly meant to be played in a club, be released. On the one hand you could say that it’s a bit of a waste. On the other hand, it’s all music I cared very deeply about, and the response has been phenomenal.

The thread has failed to keep track of his stuff for two years, and he really was cranking it out ahead of the pandemic:

Jul 2019: Lone Dancer EP ("solo" disco-y sample-based) (beatport link - others are bandcamp)

another non-album single out next week, as a duo with Man Power called Juan Power - one of the b-sides is a remix of an otherwise unreleased track, so presumably there's more to come

They had another six tracks intended for two EPs to launch a proper label, and dropped them as one BC-exclusive LP at the start of lockdown:

Mar 2020: THE JUAN POWER LP by Juan Power ("limited to 1000 downloads")

May 2020: Manthony EP ("solo" synthy techno)

May 2020: Yearning To High ("solo" on Alone Together comp)

Jun 2020: Here In The Twilight EP (acid house with disco leanings)

Dec 2020: Disco Stallion (mogadon house on Correspondant label comp)

Mar 2021: Ritual Device ("my long form ambient LP ‘Ritual Device.’ Intended for journeying during altered states of consciousness or inducing them.")

Apr 2021: I Can't Explain EP:

(“I produced every track on this EP under the influence of some type of psychedelic, mostly LSD. They are long, linear tracks that were composed after weekends of head down dancing in dark clubs, meant to induce the type of trance that comes from repetition and a certain kind of moodiness. They also have a bit of old school House flavor to them, with the looping of mangled 1 bar Disco samples. Per usual with these kinds of tracks, they were in my DJ sets for a couple of years as I fine-tuned them, and I end up getting very attached to them, particularly when other DJ’s start asking about them, and then I get to a point where I actually don’t want them released! But when Man Power asked if he could release them on Me Me Me, I immediately agreed, as I knew they would be given a sort of care and support that would make me happy to have them released into the world, as opposed to feeling they would just be released into a black hole.”)

Apr 2021: Grit / Unanswered (deep house collab w/ Amtrac)

Apr 2021: Under Pressure ("solo" on Hand To Hand comp)
Apr 2021: Skies Open ("solo", as above)
Apr 2021: Chopper ("solo" on A Lot of Love comp)

plus remixes released just during the pandemic:

Mar 2020: Club Tularosa - Starlight Ceremony (Juan Maclean Remix)
Apr 2020: Birds Of Pandæmonium - The Night (Juan Maclean Remix)
May 2020: Man2.0 - In The Vacuum Of Noise (The Juan Maclean Remix) (youtube link)
Jun 2020: Ferrari - Talk (Juan MacLean Remix)
Jul 2020: The World Wild Web & Tritha - Prophet (The Juan MacLean Remix)
Jul 2020: Jac The Disco - Goddess (Juan Maclean Remix)
Aug 2020: New World - Enough! (The Juan MacLean Remix)
Oct 2020: Time To Sleep - Taramoto (The Juan Maclean Remix)
Mar 2021: Museum Level - Sultan Pepper (Juan MacLean remix)

nice, ty for putting all that together

yeah, thanks, that's very useful

Thanks, sic. The MeMeMe ep is strange to listen to but I'm curious to hear them out.

The title track is very similar to Circus Bells but all made from one bar disco loops, quite an achievement.

i love it so far, "ain't no thing baby" is what i need from him rn

He actually messaged HOt M3ss before the pandemic asking to play and we were talking to him about it. I'm not quite sure he realised it was a 150 person capacity club though!

I still managed to miss that

unreleased joint [by Juan Maclean (Master DJ & Producer)] opening his "chuggy and druggy" set on Beats In Space this week

got released in the pando as well:

Jun 2020: Are We Still Dreaming? one 12-in left for sale / soundcloud


or that he had another collabo duo:

Jul 2019: Longlost - Take 8

He also did a 2-hour "Psychedelic House, Techno and Ambient" radio mix to launch Ritual Device, which looks like it might now be a monthly thing:

Ritual Device with Juan MacLean @ The Lot Radio 03 - 29 - 2021

Ritual Device with Juan MacLean @ The Lot Radio 04 - 26 - 2021

messaged HOt M3ss before the pandemic asking to play and we were talking to him about it.

fingers crossed for 2022!

Yes! Man Power did the same so maybe they were talking to each other about HM!

sic, I sent you a webmail via the ILX message function.

Damn, sic, thank you so much for putting that together! <3

did some nerdy sorting to see just how significantly (and steadily!) his rate of production has increased

2002-2004: 55 mins of singles, b-sides and compilation tracks
*2004: a 45-minute LP
2008: a half-hour EP
*2009: an hour-long LP (with a 13-minute single)
2010-14: an hour of singles, b-sides and compilation tracks
*2014: hour-long LP
2016-17: an hour of singles & EPs (under three names)
2018: an hour of singles, EP and comp track (under three names)
2019: 90 minutes of singles, EPs and comp tracks (under four names)
2020: 2 hours of singles, comp tracks, an EP and an LP (under three names) across ten months
2021: 2 hours over five releases under three names in thirty calendar days

This Matthew Dear remix includes a 3 min 50 guitar solo by Juan

https://correspondant.bandcamp.com/album/i-want-the-night

!

love it

awesome

John/Juan has a new band (with Greg Droggitis) called Infinity Machine:

https://infinitymachine.bandcamp.com/album/infinity-machine-001

And they're playing my buddy's psych-hippy-noise daytime outdoor "venue" next weekend.

Excited!

i finally got his DJ Kicks and it's banging, so great

I appreciate my local bar for including "A Simple Design" on its regular playlist.

chill new age vibes

https://infinitymachine.bandcamp.com/album/angelic-ascent

Launch me into spaaaaaaaaaace

A Simple Design is a banger