The Field, "From Here We Go To Sublime"

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yes!! roffles

― tricky, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost dammit

― tricky, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

"There's a sort of 'nice in small doses' pretty blandness to it."

yup. i bet it would fairing better if it was under the 40 minute mark.

― tricky, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

i am boggled by people who think this album demands being listened to closely! if anything it feels like it's meant to just wash over you or zone out to it. AMBIENT, PEOPLE, AMBIENT.

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

the times this album has sounded best to me have been when i've been walking home late at night zonked out of my mind from tiredness

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

When I heard it again yesterday while drifting into an afternoon nap I was all "Ah, perfect."

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Darla has totally put out scads of music like this, going way back to the mid/late 90s, but so far as I remember none of it was anywhere near this good, what with the lowered indie / weedy / Flowchart / "lookit what I did in my basement over spring break" aesethetic (which I'm not knocking, just saying those were different days, when synth-pad Sundays covers were totes awes and it seemed totally convenient for Hyperreal to bring drum-machine samples and drug-chemistry seminars together at last).

But so people would take this less seriously as a Darla release for sure, but that probably says more about people's low opinion of little Darla and her treats than drinking the Kompakt Kool-Aid.

― nabisco, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

they've been ploughing this fucking indie-trance furrow for years now, it's starting to wear a bit thin not least when there is so much good house music around.

I would say the Field LP is where "indie-trance" finally starts to get interesting. Of course, I don't know much about trance in general, so that's not really what comes to mind when I listen to this.

― lou, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Can someone photoshop a review of this record onto one of those ads for pensioner laxatives?

― Ronan, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

http://web.media.mit.edu/~mike/moi/i/307-ParisIrelandLondon-2000-06-16.jpg

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"i say, we simply must have more of that delicious m_nus and tuning spork when we visit the vineyard this year."

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.sciences.adelaide.edu.au/programs/images/wine%20tasting1.jpg

"a subtly fruity bouquet with minimal hints of pine and well engineered aromatics"

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

ipreferthelindstromremix.jpg

― Ronan, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I would say the Field LP is where "indie-trance" finally starts to get interesting.

COSIGN.

and again, what I was trying to get at above by pointing out all the other records which haven't worked for me, whilst seeming to kick at the same or similar goals. And YET it feels like slim pickings still... frustrating.

― fandango, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

They make laxatives specifically for retirees?

― nabisco, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

they make ads specifically aimed at them

― Ronan, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

way back in the 90s i went to an afterparty for the shamen and moby. everyone at the party was hugely e'd off their faces (except for moby) and one dude was doing this sort of shuffle-y i'm-not-really-here jog-in-place dance which became synonymous with that culture for me because the vibe in that place was so intense and spaceship and unforgettable. the field would make a nice soundtrack for a comedown from that.

― tricky, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

dudes i would have a few glasses of red zin with this music any day.

my favorite oblique strongo comment on minimal coffee table is CAT FANCY DISCOTHEQUE

― tricky, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to say I see the Field as the delightful vino in this equation...at least relative to other ear candy.

Why don't these Field fans just go and listen to DJ Sammy? (besides Jess, who I know listens to DJ Sammy)

― Ronan, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i am boggled by people who think this album demands being listened to closely! if anything it feels like it's meant to just wash over you or zone out to it. AMBIENT, PEOPLE, AMBIENT.

otm

― lfam, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

if you approach it as techno, it sucks, but as ambient, it's pretty pretty.

― lfam, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I do agree with the ambient thing.

― Ronan, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.simnet.is/logan/discocat.jpg

― the table is the table, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

christ that cat has hooves

― tricky, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

haha i dont even remember cat fancy disco

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

it's on p. 147 of Chuck Eddy's Accidental History book

― Matos W.K., Monday, 26 March 2007 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

a better term for minimal might be "garbage disco"

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

but i kid

― strongohulkington, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i'd say that the "no bass" and "ambient" are totally OTM, but can someone (Ronan?) explain how this is endemic to Kompakt's sound? I can only think of Kaito an' the Superpitcher MFA remix that mine this territory...

plus, the simple fact that phil condemns this album as repetitve endears it to no end for me.

― BleepBot, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:10 (seventeen years ago) link

it was on the michael mayer/sfj new yorker party thread jess

one man's trash is another man's gold

http://www.lightmillennium.org/2006_17th/image/rrauschenberg_ca.jpg

― tricky, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes to be honest the idea that Kompakt spend all their time making indie-trance is one of those weird myths that sound totally correct as long as you don't stop and think about them at all.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

haha oh right

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

BETTER HOMES AND TRANCE

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

this one is better

http://brooklynrail.org/article_image/image/156/04_Minutiae__1954.jpg

― tricky, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i do loves me some rauschenberg

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

speaking of the art world, pfork totally cut my barnett newman reference AND my dj sammy reference

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

they also cut the arcade fire diss SURPRISE SURPRISE

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

that's disappointingly PC. although maybe you said they ate young children or something.

tim f OTM

― tricky, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link

i intimated they might not be as good as some have claimed

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

YOU DIDN'T!

― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link

i know, i know

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.revolutionarywebdesign.com/032203/images/x.shame.jpg

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

funniest post on that thread remains

THE UTNE RAVER

s1ocki (slutsky) on Monday, August 28, 2006

― strongohulkington, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i intimated they might not be as good as some have claimed

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486406571.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

that's what blogs are for

― lfam, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Well...Kompakt release so much that to say they spend all their time making any one thing would be unfair. But I think it's fair to say they've been hammering the indie-trance nail for a good while now, Mayer/Superpitcher as DJs and producers (especially Supermayer), Gui Boratto has definitely had his moments, several Speichers.

I mean seriously didn't anyone else cringe when reading the blurb for Tobias Thomas's mix with "LISTEN CLOSELY AND YOU'LL HEAR THE SMITHS AND THE WEDDING PRESENT". At this stage I'd be more shocked if they said "LISTEN CLOSELY AND YOU WON'T HEAR ANY BANDS THE PINEFOX LIKES REFERENCED", or "TOBIAS HAS HERE PAID HOMAGE TO THE WISTFUL RHYMES OF SNOOP DOGGY DOGG. TIP!"

― Ronan, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel a LOT fonder about this if I think of it the same way I think about say Orbital's first full-length... but do any Kompakt artists actually make that kind of sudden leap in quality on their second albums (hell, apart from Kaito, Köhncke, Guentner... I'm struggling thru' unfamiliarity with their stuff) or just sideways moves/further refinements?

or maybe I'm just really feeling it tonight (and I much prefer most of this to that "not as good as the original" Superpitcher MFA remix Ronan posits as the endpoint we shouldn't maybe have gone beyond? there's just more "there" about this. more vibe.) funny album, sometimes it feels like nothing special sometimes all I want to hear... until I don't.

That weakass acid line (in fact mostly the whole track) in "The little heart..." really bugs me. I think if that, and "Silent" were just shortened drastically or otherwise made lesser/linking tracks... this would actually be pretty damn perfect tbh.

― fandango, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Fandango that Superpitcher remix is one of the most amazing things ever!?!?

― Tim F, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I agree with fandango on that actually. That Superpitcher remix leaves me cold for some reason, this doesn't ... usually.

― lukas, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link

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