― biz, Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― biz, Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link
I much, much prefer (and like!) the more structured stuff 'Dinamo' 'Outhouse' etc to the foggy, gauzy, nu-trancey overload of a lot of the material. It's all very pleasant certainly but wow is it sugary. It feels a little regressive.
That said I dtill have James Holden & others to check out. I may well change my mind.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 30 September 2005 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I didn't realise he owned this label actually.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 30 September 2005 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― heywood jablomi (heywood), Friday, 30 September 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link
That said I dtill have James Holden & others to check out. I may well change my mind. "
I think James Holden's recent stuff is really the core of the label and its future. The three key tracks for me would be his remixes of Nathan Fake, Andre Kraml and System 7 respectively (also Booka Shade's "Mandarine Girl" is probably the best fake Border Community track).
That's not to say there isn't some other awesome stuff not in this vein - e.g. both Petter's "Altogether" and the MFA remix of Dextro's "Do You Need Help" have this awesome brittle urgency matched with atmospheric eeriness that I love. But Holden's work from "A Break In The Clouds" onwards is what I think really defines the label and marks it out as something distinct and exciting.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 1 October 2005 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 1 October 2005 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 1 October 2005 08:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 1 October 2005 08:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― stevo (stevo), Saturday, 1 October 2005 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 1 October 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 1 October 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.progressive-sounds.com/artists/The-MFA/The-MFA-interview-1-2004.asp
"The first album I ever bought was The Prodigy Experience. I am definitely influenced by that early 90s rave and hardcore scene. I still like The Prodigy, Daft Punk and all sorts of drum n bass"
http://www.thescene.com.au/hype/2004_1_19_22.html
"I started out liking Jungle/DNB, I used to go the original Metalheadz nights at the old Blue Note to see Peshay, Goldie etc - and still do now to listen to Hype, Andy C etc."
― stevo (stevo), Sunday, 2 October 2005 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyone got the Holden set live@sonar from this year? It starts off a bit poorly mixing wise and tunewise but it's brilliant by the end, too many tracks I need to ID in it though.
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 2 October 2005 12:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 2 October 2005 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 2 October 2005 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― nocure, Sunday, 2 October 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah I didn't think you were being negative.
"I like the latest Holden, but I saw him playing two years ago and he was definetly progressive. Not progressive house, but sort of, erm, progressive-IDM ???"
I think he still is progressive - he's changed over the last two years and so has progressive - although we should acknowledge that compared to Border Community, Sander Kleinenberg and James Zabiela (the other erm standardbearers for the weirdification of prog) aren't particularly inspiring.
My point was more that the same record can now variously be classed as house, techno, electro, prog.... and yet with tracks like Holden's it's not a case of records being a greyscale krusty imitation gruel hodgepodge of the various micro-genres, but rather being so odd and intriguing that they can (and do) fall into several stylistic corners.
Alex Smoke is another producer which prog tries to claim as its own...
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 22 December 2005 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Merry Christmas (fandango), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
'the sky is pink' is probably one of the best things on the album, and i always think i'd much rather be listening to the james holden rmx instead.
it's all a bit too (sub-)boards of canada-ey for my liking, and too little of the dancefloor action.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Pheeeew, that's a relief.
I dunno, I'm hoping for some tech-MBV stuff like his live performances which are spellbounding (with that little stutterbox of his.)
Anyway, at this point I'm more interested in a Border Community label compilation than a single artist album.
― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 22 December 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― baby i'm waiting (cis), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
Omar OTM re: label comp.
― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Yes Tim, I think it's better than the original, which for some reason I never could really get into. But yeah 'Outhouse' also is my favourite.
― Omar (Omar), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link
exactly as i would have guessed :(
nathan fake originals (like cis, i make an exception for 'dinamo' though i think i love the eulberg mix more) sound, in comparison to these remixes, kind of cheap. they remind me of that spectacularly mediocre m83 band who not coincidentally are also vastly improved when remixed.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― baby i'm waiting (cis), Thursday, 22 December 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 22 December 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 23 December 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.bordercommunity.com/gallery.htm
― Yawn (Wintermute), Friday, 23 December 2005 00:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 23 December 2005 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Tracklisting:
CD1Apparat - Wooden Plastikman - Cor Ten Massive Attack Vs Mad Professor - Trinity Dub (Three) Kate Wax - Angel Blues Death In Vegas - Anita Berber Petter - Some Polyphony Vox Sola - Metro Pop Issikadis - Hotter Now (Stripped Down Mix) Holden - Lump Midimillz - Trace Function Harmonia - Watussi Holden - 10101 Skugge & Stavostrand - Medean Nathan Fake - Charlie's House (Apparat Mix) Lucky Pierre - Angels On Your Body Christ - Perlandine Friday Fennesz - Rivers Of Sand
CD2meta.83 - Opening Titles Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrunn Gerbrunn Motiivi:Tuntematon - 1939 Malcolm Middleton - Solemn Thirsty Aphex Twin - Xtal Milky Globe Vs Holden - Sun Spots Kalabrese - Aufm Klo Lazy Fat People - Big City Water Lily - Lottotron Reboot Trans Am - Cold War (War Is Stupid Mix) Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (Boards Of Canada Reprise) Egoexpress - Live At Sirius Prime Black Strobe - Nazi Trance Fuck Off! (Holden Mix) Plastikman - Cor Ten AFX - Every Day
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 19 February 2006 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link
yeah, that sucked. For a second though I thought it was Holden reading out a mission statement: "this mix is my gift to the world, let there be equality among men, let there be an unification of house, etc..etc..."
Lovely mix (although there is a live@Lausanne mp3 doing the rounds that i like even better.)
― Omar (Omar), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 13 March 2006 11:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Monday, 13 March 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
im still sort of unsure about BC. perhaps it is that bit too fluffy for me. they seem very now, but also out of kilter with everything else, at the same time
soopertrack i like, i always wondered when there would be a marco zaffarano revival;) gazebo is probably my favourite one though
― red flag over st pancras (gareth), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link
pretty good (I'm talking about the dub version). Maybe not as immediate as the Black Strobe remix after one listen, but another interesting version of his wipe-out style (copyright T.Finney).
― Omar (Omar), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link