Official ILM thread of mad TENSNAKE love for 2010 and beyond

yeah this feels pale compared to the orig which is unstoppable

tho that youtube rip cant be helping, maybe its a different story on a floor but i havent heard

That Azari & III remix is only notable for the 'OMG! The Power!' factor, otherwise I prefer the original.

Think we should stop overhyping Tensnake now in case we end up anticipating his album for 18 months and it turns out to be terrible. Still feeling Aeroplane burn.

more interested in anticipating an azari and iii album

Dunno, everything I've heard apart from Reckless hasn't been all that...

not even hungry for the power?

but yeah their remixes are not too interesting to me

Hungry for the Power EP has She's An Illusion and Manhooker which are both great!

US tour in November!

radical!!

i saw azari & iii dj the other night ... nowhere near as good as classixx - theyre def not great DJs - but they were playing really good songs. just not really reading the room or getting a sense of how to keep energy flow->ebbing u know?

& yeah i like a lot of those songs ok but nothing is really touching 'reckless'

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=12766

Ooooh.

UK house establishment Defected Records have announced details for their next In The House compilation, mixed this time by Hamburg-based producer Marco Niemerski, better known as Tensnake.

Niemerski has been putting out records since 2006, but saw his stock rise dramatically this year with the release of "Coma Cat," a steel-drum laden house jam that's undoubtedly one of 2010's most played club records. His sound often lies somewhere between cosmic disco and sunny house—a style that, based on the tracklist, dominates his new mix for Defected. Along with a few of his own productions, Tensnake In The House features party-friendly cuts by Armando, DJ Sneak and Tiger & Woods, plus edits and remixes by Jamie Jones and Norwegian disco dons Lindstrom and Prins Thomas. The compilation has its deeper side as well, thanks to selections by DJ Sprinkles and Basic Soul Unit, while Mount Kimbie and James Blake break up the 4/4 pulse a bit. Due out later this month, the release will mark Tensnake's first commercial mix CD.

Tracklist
01. Mugwump - Boutade
02. Zev - Don't Break It (Kenny Glasgow & Jonny White Remix)
03. Tiger & Woods - Dr. Burner
04. Tensnake - Need Your Lovin (Dub Mix)
05. Carol Williams - Can't Get Away (From Your Love)
06. Al Usher - Lullaby For Robert (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
07. Boom Clap Bachelors - L-O-V-E (Tuff City Kids Remix)
08. Lovebirds - Want You In My Soul (Hot Toddy Dub)
09. Shirley Lites - Heat You Up (Melt You Down) (Instrumental)
10. Kaine feat. Kathy Diamond - Love Saves The Day
11. Michael Mayer - Amanda
12. The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix Edit)

CD2
01. Mount Kimbie - Carbonated / Osunlade featuring Divine Essence - My Reflection (Accapella)
02. Âme - Fiori (Dixon Beat Edit)
The Wizard Brian Coxx - My Dream (Accapella)
03. Louie Balo feat. Spanky - Don't Shut Me Out
04. Coyote - Moving (Still Going Remix)
05. Mano Le Tough - Baby, Let’s Love (Iron Curtis Rmx)
06. Louie "Balo" Guzman - Keep It Simple
07. Butch - No Worries
08. Tom Demac - Crewcuts & Curls (Jamies Jones' Watercooler Remix)
09. Heaven and Earth - Prescription Every Night
10. Sneak Essentials - In Da Clouds (Da Original Dub)
11. Tensnake - Coma Cat
12. DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central Part 1 (MCDE Bassline Dub)
13. Basic Soul Unit - Things Pass (Original Mix)
14. Armando - Don't Take It (Thomos Edit)
15. Phase II - Reachin (Original Brotherhood Mix)

Defected will release Tensnake In the House on September 27th, 2010.

Tracklist looks tasty.

i interviewed this dude a few weeks ago (and azari & iii)! i don't know when it will be out or if it will be online.

Apparently "Coma Cat" is on Radio 1's playlist now...

!!!

It's slowly climbing up the charts as well, up to #98 from somewhere in the 150s last week. I wonder if it might actually become a Proper Hit.

oh Lesterpaws

Appearing on the new Friendly Fires' Bugged Out mix won't do Coma Cat any harm - great track btw!

is tensnake connected to ratsnake at all?

looks like no, forget i asked.

ratsnake >>>>> tensnake

that paul lester thing is awful. such incredibly bad writing, on the verge of gibberish

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/03/new-band-mighty-mouse is just as bad. outrageous to say "Maybe by the release of their own self-written album in early 2011 they'll have worked out what disco is." what an almighty wanker.

the new commercial 2-disc mix he did for defected is sorta incredible. RA thought so too

that tuff city kids remix of boom city bachelors is definitely a highlight (was that in a recent aeroplane mix? it's so familiar), same goes for ending disc one with an older michael mayer track followed by the amazing l&pt remix of chemical bros (definitely also in 2 recent aeroplane-related mixes ha, but works much better here imo)

Haven't heard it but the tracklisting is amazing, looks like it has the potential to be one of my favourite mix albums in years.

the boom city bachelors remix was on the brilliant arto mwambe RA podcast - great track

^ ahh, that's where it was! i need more arto mwambe in my life

tuff city kids is one of arto mwambe i think, plus gerd janson, if memory serves.

believe he is coming to US for first tour soon

anyone hear the new arto mwambe live at robert johnson vol 6 mix? looks like it's all original material, live mixing, etc

Xpost: that's great. I was just thinking last week that it's fair time Tensnake crossed the Atlantic. I'd love to see him.

And yes, that Boom Clap Batchelors remix is totally ace!

There appears to be an unmixed version doing the rounds, are most online stores selling the actual mix? I can imagine Swoon over Amanda being amazing.

the version form iTunes and Juno has both the mixed version and the unmixed tracks

So the one-track 'bonus mixes' are the full mix then?

Yes, AFAIK, but I haven't listened to the CD to compare them.

Last minute cancellation last night, medical reasons. Supposedly he had to undergo emergency surgery on a jaw? Get well soon.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/tensnake/posts/147977091913374

its dope that he brought back that m mayer 'amanda' jam, one of my fav kompakt traxx

Hmmn, I've never really 'got' Amanda, but that's for another thread, though some months back when I saw a DJ play it twice in a night, I did note how well well it mixes.

Anyways, I was listening to In the End this morning, and was just reflecting on how it's essentially a Perfect Track. I can vividly see myself in 15 years pulling it out and thinking "damn!, it doesn't get much better than this."

and get well soon tensnake!

November 11th – U Hall, Washington DC
November 12th – Smart Bar, Chicago, IL
November 13th – A Club Called Rhonda, Los Angeles, CA
November 14th - Public Works, San Francisco, CA
November 16th – Scion Show, New York, NY
November 18th – Wrong Bar, Toronto, ON
November 19th – Voyeur, Philadelphia, PA
November 20th – Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY

Success!

With one molar less to carry, he should be flying.

"It's really different. With "Coma Cat" I remember I heard this track by Anthony & The Camp...I don't know if I should really talk about it right now, as we're currently negotiating a formal deal. Basically, I heard the track and got inspired. I get inspired by all the kooky stuff in tracks I discover here and there. There are no samples at all, though. It's all replays apart from the vocals."
-- http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1248

I'm shocked. So he didn't sample it and just "borrow" the melody for this song without permission? Not quite right to me.

Loving the In The House mix.

its dope that he brought back that m mayer 'amanda' jam, one of my fav kompakt traxx

yeah in this context it's clear "amanda" is basically a disco edit.

Last week I ended up making a Tensnake 'album' for a friend of mine and it's tremendous:

1. False Pretender
2. Tavira
3. I Need Your Lovin' (Vocal)
4. Toshi's Battle
5. Coma Cat
6. Congolal
7. Holding Back (My Love)
8. Can You Feel It?
9. In The End (I Want To Cry)
10. Keep Believing

psyched to see him thursday!!

Really wish I could go to that.

psyched to see him thursday!!

Psyched to close for him on Thursday!!!

apparently he's playing "live" here at the end of the year? someone who's seeing him this week report back if it's just DJing but off a laptop

From the Tensnake interview on RA that was posted up thread, it's live as in his own material.

Yeah we saw him live at Corsica Studios a few months ago. It is just him and a laptop but on the other hand you get to see him play all his stuff on a (hopefully) decent soundsystem in a club environment.

pfffft

[xpost - it's probably just going to be outdoors in a park in 40°C heat unfortch. great lineup for a one-dayer but on NYD - if it doesn't sell out not much chance of club shows*. end aside to Matt]

(reads interview - Ableton with external controller, ah fair enough then)

same shows, Aeroplane's listed as DJing but Vito's advertising for an Australian girl singer to do the tour? confused promotion imo. (also stop worrying about someone who can do your album tracks, and hire Gisele to sing over your old stuff.)