Techno/House Bobbins 2010

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http://www.discogs.com/JS-4-Reworks/release/2120024

Proper release should be in stores shortly.

― the muddy waters of donk (Display Name), Monday, March 29, 2010 3:45 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark

just got this, very good music

http://soundcloud.com/planetedetroit/the-oliverwho-factory-nightlights

yep

On the new/forthcoming Planet E tip, this new Urban Tribe is niiiiiice:

http://soundcloud.com/planetedetroit/urban-tribe-insolitology

Anybody listening to Efdemin's new album, Chicago? I know the "deepness" and the album title can make your eyes glaze over, but it is actually surprising me by being a really satisfying and varied album. Subtle and meticulous as you'd expect from him, interesting percussion egged on by odd vocal snippets, really natural build up and breakdown of loops to keep the momentum ebbing and flowing. Good atmosphere that doesn't tip too far into cliche territory. It definitely doesn't blow you away, but I've found myself unconsciously coming back to it when I'm not sure what I'd like to listen to.

i was looking for a thread to talk about Chicago. i really love this album and, like you mentioned, very subtle.

i love that sample he uses where the girl says "OH MY GAAD! OH MY FAAAKING GAAD"

it's very subtle***

yeah its awesome

"nightlights" is the best house track all year. sumptuous, brash, and those laser reverb effects that turn up midway are devastating

efdemin album is well-produced fluff in comparison

wow efdemin is perfect, thanks

FM-style synth sound throughout Chicago is great. it's refreshing to hear something that isn't so analog or virtual analog sounding

Definitely agree on that last point, I grew up on a steady diet of cheap sounding 8 bit FM synths.

And I think that its high time that chiptune influenced house and techno came into vogue.

And I think that its high time that chiptune influenced house and techno came into vogue.

Errr, I'll sit this one out, thanks.

Well whatever.

I've given up on having fashionable opinions, I just know what I like.

I'm looking for stuff that sounds like Hieroglyphic Being using a SID synth, or something equivalent.

Don't get me wrong, do as you please by all means, it's just that personally I can't fucking stand chiptunes.

This sounds like a great idea. Personally, I was hoping somebody would do hard grinding Regis tracks with soaring 8bit NES style melodies and some UK funky drums over the top. Recommendations?

Get a new joke writer?

I had to find a new one. I used to get my jokes from House Is A Feeling but that guy closed shop awhile back.

made any good theo p facsimiles recently?

I wouldn't know, I keep trying to find them in stores but the pressings always sell out in a week.

hugs + cupcakes

hugs + cupcakes

Now you're just asking for it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqQFMjUySio&feature=related

I wish moonship would post more these days. Oh, well. Back to lurking.

I had to find a new one. I used to get my jokes from House Is A Feeling but that guy closed shop awhile back.

haha...think your insult clock is set at 2006

xp. woah, managed to completely fail to notice that he's gone totally AWOL.

am I the only that dislike the vocal samples on Efdemin's new album? (and also on his mix album, for that matter). they sound pretentious and, i don't know, pointless in a tacked-on kind of way.

not really sure a sample of bart simpson playing a video game is particularly pretentious but sure, i suppose pointless, if you like. i don't mind them.

it's a shame that the few posters worth reading on dance music around here are reduced to cheap zings nowadays

i should give that efdemin album another chance i guess. it *sounds* great and is obv well made but none of it really struck out at me on first listen, something that seems to be par for the course with alot of this contemporary deep house stuff that's coming out at the moment. also, played out respect the tradition signifier in the title

that new sandwell district thing is excellent, really melodic sci-fi techno

better cheap zings than expensive ones, but yeah I hear you!

efdemin album title is admittedly lame. Production is just beautiful. Album feels very slight for me on the first listen. Only a couple of engaging tracks. Not to be Geir but not much going on melodically especially when compared with the last one.

yeah i like that tho

i do too. and definitely did too when i was listening to the dry - i don't mean that as a criticism - mid 00s minimal that this often reminds me of. I suppose it's preferable that this seems not really to be as Chicago as the title would imply in the sense that pat deep house revivalism is uninspiring.

i'll give it time. the track "there will be singing"(?) is a the one for me. TIP!

is a?

yeah, i mean the mnml ship-jumping of like 2007 just seemed really silly maybe, I get that the ultra-touchstoney stuff in this is pretty offputting considering the "deep" overload lately, but it still feels like a natural development of what the dude was doing on say America

haha...think your insult clock is set at 2006

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Saturday, 5 June 2010 09:55 (13 hours ago) Permalink

xp. woah, managed to completely fail to notice that he's gone totally AWOL.

― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 5 June 2010 10:17 (12 hours ago)

Who needs zings when the people who stick up for you say shit like this? This pretty much sums it up more than any insult could.

As far as adding something constructive to this thread; Night Lights by Oliverwho Factory on Planet E is dope. Ultra Fine by Omar S. on FXHE is really good as well.

My tip for new US producers to be up on right now is Jason Letkiewicz. He records under the names Steve Summers and Rhythm Based Lovers. Steve Summers is his acid pseudonym and he did a record on Jack For Daze last year and is just dropping a new joint on Echovolt this week. If you are looking for OG Chi house done right, don't sleep on it. Also check his Rhythm Based Lovers releases for really smooth new school boogie. He is a talented guy.

congrats at not parsing i was talking about V, huevón.

altho i would like to say the steve summers stuff is ok i wouldn't like to get in the way of your free-flow of totally missing the point and being a moronic joke.

also you know he takes the source material and adds nothing to it, but like, that's a step-up for some people, you know.

feeling really murtaugh here.

haha, I like how you have to come back every few minutes for the last 36 minutes or so posting sorta zings. It's like you post something, pace around the room for a bit, post again, really think hard for 15 minutes and then give up in frustration.

The main problem you are going to have with zinging me about my music is that I am doing exactly what I want and I am having more success than I ever dreamed possible. I could list my achievements here, but I don't like to get real specific on message boards. Long story short, I have moved beyond what is normally considered successful for an underground vinyl-only artist in 2010. I did it with only three releases on a couple of no-budget bedroom labels with a studio that looks like a rummage sale.

Basically, it boils down to a few clowns on ILM who got butthurt when they got called on their wack taste Vs. the support of a lot of people who I never would have guessed would be into what I do.

Shake played my shit all across Europe during the Frictionalism tour and Tama Sumo plays my shit in the Berghain. Do you really think you can come up with a zing clever enough to take that away from me?

cockpuppet

lol, someone takes this too seriously.

I am more succesful than i ever imagined but i still find time to write a paragraph about how well i'm doing to a dude who couldn't give a shit about me or my tracks on a message board.

Pretty sure Bill Gates isn't on yahoo chat right now saying how cool windows 7 is, mang.

Just find your negativity and housier than though attitude tiresome. Made a few cheap jokes at your music, which hasn't really made any impact on me either way, and you come out with that extremely laughable screed. Glad to know wisdom doesn't come with age and that achievement is not its own award, you really need to show other people you've achieved and tell them how much worse their taste is on the internet.

Wait a second, Display Name = Disco Nihilist?

Huh, that'd be the first time I was mocked by an artist whose music I like.

Hmmm, new artist gets a bit of success and it goes to their head non-shocker.

Well I just find this intercontinental pissing contest deeply boring.

We're a bunch of music nerds squabbling on a public forum, you'd think we could find things in common to talk about.

But no, its got to be about who's more "real". Who uses Ableton, who uses hardware.

Who grew up in Michigan, who grew up in Europe. Who gives a shit? Really?

I work 7 days a week in a factory in Wisconsin, my room is a fucking shrine to disco. Is that "real" enough for the asshole contingent?

Can I just geek out about the music I love and not tread on anyone's toes now?

All spot on. Less bitchin' more bobbins.