Ellen Allien & Apparat "Orchestra of Bubbles"

(I'm not going to review it here or anywhere else : the nine to fivers can have that easy check and I won't look like the obligatory sourpuss. Note to self : keep smiling in that upwardly mobile manner)

just meh??

blunt, yawn - be men. If you got something to say just spill it! The thread's gone a while without negative comments anyway, balance, discussion is good :)

*eyebrow leaves planet earth*

must listen again....

I feel regretful about mentioning it at the top of the thread now, but then I was expecting it to leak a few weeks before the release, like "Thrills" (and every other record out there) I guess I'd be buying it anyway so my conscience is clear(ish) but it now feels a little selfish in retrospect to be drawing attention to it... althought I hadn't quite anticipated how often (a lot more) compared to last year, direct http download links end up posted in the thread at some point nowadays. No p2p involved. It's just too easy.

every time i listen to it it sounds different; the only one i'm not sure about is 'leave me alone', does anyone know who's singing on it?

I'll definitely pick up a copy.

I got the promo around late Jan. Since then its been playing on our electronic channel "A Chance to Cure", and also on the main channel, in the battle for haters' hearts and minds. I haven't heard from Berlin that the release date is any later than the original April date.

www.accuradio.com/beta

The design has flaws, yes, but them's the beta breaks.

new running order, new track(s)! "final record will contain 13 songs. 2 of the "old" songs were edited."

01 turbo dreams
02 way out
03 retina
04 rotary
05 jet
06 sleepless
07 metric
08 floating points
09 under
10 do not break
11 leave me alone
12 edison
13 bubbles

seems to group the more similar sounding tracks together, will be interesting to hear how it works out

vinyl running order is unchanged (and missing the additions)

a1: turbo dreams
a2: way out
b1: retina
b2: jet
c1: floating points
c2: under
c3: leave me alone
d1: do not break
d2: metric
d3: bubbles

"Turbo Dreams" first single

available in a long version (side a) as well as in two remixes (side b) by pier bucci and marc houle

“Way Out” next single (release may 29, 2006)

p.s. (Lex) yes, the vocals are by Apparat on that song. There's an interview with them both in the new Slices DVD.

I don't mind "Way Out" (I still think the vocals are a little awkward & hate to say it) but I'm glad there's some counterpoint too.

they dated circa berlinette but i was told very emphatically that they are Not Dating Any More and the fact that they ever did has Nothing Whatsoever To Do With This They Respect Each Other For Their MUSIC!!!!

but it does sound very intimate, susan, you're right.

Weird that they dated! intimacy and trust here. i'm trying at this very moment to figure out what she's saying.

sure is so wrong:
sporting traits (possible worst/best line ever)
blah blah
tricky word (world?)
dry legs
still exploring
time/dry
way out
inside

ok that is pretty on nonetheless.
fandango i almost have trouble with the singing-how awkward/craning/amateur it sounds. its like situation w/ Mark Koz. whose singing is also not the perfect execution the rest of his musicmaking is - but i like hearing that 'i'm doing my own songs' thing.

i can't see how ellen's vocals on 'way out' are awkward at all - i think it's my favourite of all her vocal tracks, she sounds liberated and light-headed and full-blooded on it.

It's odd though that I feel like I can get closer to the music somehow when they aren't so exposed? But yeah, she does sound very free on it.

I think I thought it was "sporting dreads" at first! which really would have been complete happy-hippy-trance :D

anyway, still looking forward the the CD. I feel like this has reached fanclub levels of nitpicking here & I'm probably to blame.

maybe awkward because it's so far away from how ellen normally sings? i really feel it's her big pop moment, really brazenly, shamelessly anthemic. whenever i've played it out it's gone down v well, and it's going to be a single just in time for the summer raves...

I feel like this has reached fanclub levels of nitpicking here & I'm probably to blame.

i think this album more than deserves it! i was co-djing with my friend anna-marie on monday, and she played 'turbo dreams', and we were just looking at each other and saying - this music is so unutterably gorgeous! how is it possible for music to be this good!

Hey 99% of the rest of the time I love her vocals/vocal treatments... I mean it's not like she's Billy Corgan or something!! I don't want to get a little niggle out of proportion here, I'll end up sounding ungrateful when I'm very much not.

Jet
Retina
Do Not Break
Floating Points
Metric
Bubbles
Turbodreams
Edison
Way Out
(+ the bonus tracks?)

there's not really that much between any of them!

Oh, while I'm here I haven't posted this yet have I?

http://www.thinktoy.com/thinkmix.htm (scroll down for surprise).

Jet
Turbo Dreams
Floating
parts of Under
Edison
Way Out

fandango, do you do the thinktoy mixes?

I don't do the thinktoy mixes no, just stumbled across it recently. I don't like that mix hugely to be honest, although I like every track on it individually. It's a shame as I wouldn't have minded using it to recommend her to people. It's very hard to hear it with fresh ears after all this time though so I might be being too negative.

It is yes! I'm also glad someone else made the effort to do it ;) I lack the technical ability (ok, haven't bothered to learn) but it's something I'd thought about doing before.