Techno/House Bobbins 2010

probably just "soul" as signify "vocals"

also bobbins = sewing machine spindle = totally soul less soulless souless fuc wat soulles.

sam500, that Benjamin Brunn is great!!! Thks - love the Andy Warhol interview loop and track 3 is quite special.

the two hieroglyphic being records on mathematics sub label +++ are flat out amazing. even though the tracks are already collected on the synthetic love life cd, i had to get them on vinyl (it seems this dude just lives to tax european noobs like myself)

if you like weird endlessly evolving but constantly jacking house music i cannot recommend these enough. there's a really manic, restless energy in this music, all of these unfeasible melodies and rhythms competing to be heard over the layers of cassette fuzz

there's a track on another new ep on mathematics that's just this african flute melody over huge tribal toms. it's so good but such a pain to mix with - it seems like the sequencer keeps going out of sync or something

anyone feeling Nina Kraviz - Pain In The Ass / I'm Gonna Get You on Rekids? Can't decide which track I like better... (might technically be VERY late 2009, not sure)

xpost: yeah, i love "I'm Gonna Get You" - great, great slice of deepness + nice vocals.

Didnt really get into the "Pain In The Ass" prob due to that bantering voiceover.

it kicks in around 3.30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqh4UE4fIJ0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN7k8V6UhIs

Techno was, and still can be, pummeling, relentless and downright brutal. Perhaps this is why it remains ever popular with Germans.

Hmm.

lol

that was tl;dr so thanks for highlighting that for my amusement.

any tips for any new pummeling, relentless and downright brutal new techno?

maybe this?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWtF8SNphPk

Mike Dehnert's Dico EP sounds excellent from the samples I've heard.

Delta Funktionen "Silhouette (Marcel Dettmann rmx)" left me pretty underwhelmed on first listen, but that's worth checking out.

heard this at optimo recently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md_OaPX4_j4

i'm quite enjoying this label at the moment

http://www.discogs.com/label/Do+Not+Resist+The+Beat!

noisy industrial techno from berlin

ha, what's that bauhaus thing? (if there are samples of the band in there, i don't hear it; maybe they mean the german version of home depot.) sounds like radio slave!

rionat, milton bradley has a really good remix on one of the new prologue 12"s (i think the last cio d'or 12"?) that sounds a lot like DNRTB #4...

hey, thanks for the sarky comments, REALLY APPRECIATED!

new mike dehnert ep is great, so is the alex cortex ep on pomelo

i don't hear any samples of bauhaus the band in there either. the youtube clip says "marcel dettmann??" in the description, so there's some fuel for the rumor mill.

I gave a shot at doing a top 100 bobbins of the decade, and I've kind of settled on these top 50, that is if anyone cares.

1 Soul Capsule – Law Of Grace
2 Akufen – Skidoos
3 Luomo – Tessio
4 Farben – Beautone
5 Matthew Dear – Dog Days
6 Pantha Du Prince – Saturn Strobe
7 Alex Smoke – Chica Wappa
8 Jurgen Paape – So Weit Wie Noch Nie
9 Luciano – La Limonida de Pepe Bombilla / Amelie on Ice
10 Vladislav Delay – Huone
11 Deadbeat – Organ in the Attic Sings the Blues
11 Ricardo Villalobos – Easy Lee
12 Closer Musik – You Don’t Know Me
13 Polmo Polpo – Kiss Me Again and Again
14 Burial – Archangel / Broken Home
15 The Juan Maclean - Happy House
16 DJ Sprinkles – Ball’r (Madonna Free Zone)
17 Isolée – Schrapnel / Pillowtalk
18 LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
19 Lawrence – Along the Wire (Superpitcher Remix)
20 Jichael Mackson – The Grass is Always Greener
21 Martin Buttrich – Full Clip
22 Hercules and Love Affair – Blind (Club Mix)
23 Dominique Leone - Clairevoyage
24 Partial Arts – Trauermusik
25 Metro Area – Miura
26 Matt John – Hawaii You
27 Peverelist – Junktion
28 Le Noir – Eleny (Radioslave Remix)
29 Rex the Dog – I Look Into Mid Air
30 Dave Aju - Anyway
31 Kalabrese – Auf Dem Hof
32 Ellen Allien – Sensucht
33 Petre Inspirescu - Le Crème Bonjour
34 Alex Under – La Bicicleta Son Para El Verano / Multiplicanciones D
35 Audion – Mouth to Mouth
36 Booka Shade – In White Rooms / Mandarine Girl
37 Oni Ayhun – OAR003 B
38 Narcotic Syntax – Cowabunga!
39 Lindstrom – I Feel Space
30 Ramadanman – Blimey
41 Hot Chip – Boy From School (Erol Alkan Remix)
42 Richard Davis – This Time
43 Delia Gonzales and Gavin Russom – Revelée (Carl Craig Remix)
44 Cobblestone Jazz – W/ Dump Truck
45 Chic Miniature – Escalando
46 Mari Boine – Vuoi Vuoi Mu (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
47 Mathew Jonson – Marionette
48 Nathan Fake – Dinamo / Undoing the Laces
49 Metaboman – Easy Woman (Robag Whrume Mix)
50 Sutekh – Untitled (Periods.Make.Sense. Track 8)

I don't know what to think about the fact that this is pretty well just white males.

Pretty boring list, actually, but nevertheless it's a pretty spot on representation of me (also take into account that I didn't start listening to dance music until 2006).

cozen that motor track is brutal

it is ridic

Oh god, Easy Woman is properly sexy.

1 Soul Capsule – Law Of Grace
2 Akufen – Skidoos
3 Luomo – Tessio
4 Farben – Beautone
5 Matthew Dear – Dog Days

luv u edb

This is worth looking into:

http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=7104

god, just wanted to say that the post about Kompakt above reminded me that i have been listening to A LOT of early Jurgen Paape recently. in fact, its mostly been UR, Jurgen Paape, and Ian loveday tracks in these parts as of recent. nothing new.

also, hey, it just occurred to me: whatever happened to Jichael Mackson?

yeah i agree, new music is shit

sike, just kidding

i'm thoroughly enjoying the new "alex o smith" record. was kinda lukewarm on here with me, the new one is a bit more upbeat, star-gazing ashra style arpeggios

the drums on "kosmos 1402" are so... crispy

afaik jichael mackson hasn't put anything out since the same but different ep last year. unless he has a new pseudonym

forgot about the polmo polpo cover version - nice inclusion!

http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/lwe-podcast-42-anthony-shake-shakir/

Should be picking up Frictionalism sometime in the next few days...

new gui boratto mix thing sounds great to me

UR - Somewhere In Japan - 12EP
Code: WPA-4UR-079
COMING SOON.......LATE FEBRUARY / EARLY MARCH 2010!!!
W.P.A. Mail Order ONLY release.

can you elaborate on that sir ilx-a-lot? been hammering No Turning Back (and the Whignomy Bros mix) recently.

ha, you can call me cutty

it's called "renaissance - the mix collection"

http://www.recordstore.co.uk/images/covers10/01.2010/renaissance_mix_collection_gui_boratto-300.jpg

i always am wary of people who started DJing after successful production career ie green velvet, james holden(for the first few years), half the kitsune roster. smacks of rank opportunism

what about the other way around?

more like smacks of rank wanting to eat

Dj's are now taking time off to produce tracks so they can get more DJ bookings. Don't hate the player (of records), hate the game (of booking).

SELLOUTS

I know sod all about techno/house bobbins but I do know that James Holden had a local DJing residency years before he produced a track successful enough for me to go "damn, I wish I'd turned up to that" so perhaps that is unfair (or perhaps I should fuck back off the bobbins thread)

though yes, production famous before DJing, point taken, just questioning "started"

Hmmm, the tracklisting for the Gui Borrato mix looks interesting enough but the proliferation of podcasts (I usually grab ones on FACT, RA, LWE regularly) has kinda given me mix fatigue. Maybe I should just stop downloading them....

^ Completely! To be honest, I've always been a mix junky so I find it very hard to resist. Having said that, the most exciting recent mixes have come from the UK / dubstep camp e.g. Scuba Substance, Shed FACT, Appleblim Fabric, Oneman's Winter Mix. Finding little to get excited about on the 4 to the floor side (with the exception of the mnml ssgs series).

the gui boratto mix is eh. most mixes are kind of eh, have no patience with them any longer.

also, pretty much any mix a la Renaissance or Cocoon or Mobilee or Get Physical = total garbage toss-off bullshit.

they proliferate like mushrooms, and though mushrooms can be tasty, they also grow in shit.

Dixon's Body Language mix on Get Physical is great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX2SXBLD4Nk

Dixon's Body Language mix on Get Physical is great!

you mean the one from years ago or he has a new one?

really feelin' this track from earlier this year, esp. when the distorted voices come in about halfway thru

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCJX4_JbYAE

this koze/isolee thing on beats in space is awesome

anyone diggin this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pUhQLRe6w4

nice acid-y cosmin trg remix here. He also did good EP earlier in the year, Liebe Suende

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEgg-p5oTzk

This is too much fun/too mad to pass up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EkGZK2g2qo

Along with MMM and Workshop 11 its prob my fave techno bits from '10

http://www.smileyhut.com/smileys/headbang.gifInner City - Good Life (Unreleased Schermate Tool) - 2010 - Unknownhttp://www.smileyhut.com/smileys/headbang.gif

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

Picked up that Bakey Ustl 10" today (along with Hype Williams' Find Out What Happens.. LP). The Bakey Ustl is frickin' awesome!!

i really really want mp3s of that bakey ustl ;_;

fkn vinyl-only releases

vinyl only has hit me quite a bit this year, ended up buying quite a few records even though i don't have decks or a record player, then had to get them digitized elsewhere. That said, totally understand the financial reasoning behind vinyl only releases (though I have basically no desire to get into that particular debate)

Haven't been able to afford much vinyl this year, but I did buy that Bakey Ustl the first time I heard it. Very fine.

I'm kind of surprised how little Glass Eights talk there is on ILM. In any case, I'm 1.2 listens into it and it's reeeeeal purdy.

'glass eights' is very nice! john roberts is playing here with omar-s and d'julz next weekend, i'm excited to hear him live.

A-side tracks of this: http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=8436

if the ep had only been the a-side, might have snuck into my top 10 for 2010

I hope it's alright to revive a past year's Techno Bobbins, as I wasn't sure where else to post this, but... I picked up The Traveller by Shed a few weeks ago, and it has grown to become something I listen to almost every day. It's really sublime, really creative without being ostentatious about it, it sounds great, it displays restraint and lays ideas bare without being "minimal," it feels gently enigmatic like lots of my favorite techno does.

Side question: how much digging into past year's techno/house do you guys tend to do? The scenes move fast, and given that I didn't buy much new music at all (relatively speaking) for the past few years, I'm playing catchup on '09 and '10 (and discovering lots!).

lots!!!

i actually spend much more time digging than checking new stuff.

i feel like when an album sounds "current" and it's from this year big fucking deal

but when i dig up something from 06 or 08 that sounds fresher than it did at the time, it's like a buried treasure rush

now that i think about that, maybe it's because i tend to hear one track, learn about a new label, and then sort of relentlessly track down their whole back catalogue if i like it enough

last year i found out about artless / mojuba

I have so, so far to go in exploring techno, but the ravenously-explore-label approach seems pretty sound... I suppose the labels I'm really starting to dig into at this point are Rush Hour, Delsin (mainly because of that Morphosis record from this year), and Ostgut Ton...

now that i think about that, maybe it's because i tend to hear one track, learn about a new label, and then sort of relentlessly track down their whole back catalogue if i like it enough

otm, I do this with artists or related artists

Honestly, fuck staying current. Not that I don't follow new stuff with very much enjoyment, to have the question "did it come out in the last year" define your listening tastes is myopic, counterproductive, and just silly. (This is why, for instance, I would welcome '10 or even '09 stuff in the 2011 thread. Better it be spoken there than have nowhere to go).

the nuum only moves forward iirc

sometimes doesn't bother to even look backward, or sideways