James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

I don't think it's just me projecting my insecurities when there's articles out there entitled "mt kimbie takes duubstep over the brostep hump"

oh and I have friends btw

actually I'm quite popular and only hang out with hot chicks so I'm not sweating it ;-)

haaa ok, i can agree with you that that article is execrable. "However, Mount Kimbie's sound is no paint-by-numbers dubstep affair; it's deceptively complex" uhhh ... i guess people do forget that it's really really hard to take just a bassline and a drum track and make it bang. i can see finding their a little cluttered especially compared to leaner step/techno tracks.

but that doesn't mean i can't, or don't, like their music. anyways i feel like im becoming the damn mt kimbie spokesman or something so i gotta sign off of this thread

xp - Ok that headline is nonsense. But I don't think many readers of the article would come away thinking Mount Kimbie are proper dubstep any more than BoC are proper techno.

"proper dubstep" probably should have been in scare quotes there.

James&B: *ahem* I guess the only thing he's got in common with the genre is that he sampled it all over the CMKY EP, Aalyah, Kelis and alsorts feature on there. I've seen him DJ a few times now and fuck me he can play a set. He throws curve balls all over the place but makes them work somehow. I mean every time I've seen him he's played a diffrent Beyonce track mixed with a diffrent Coki track and made it sound not only good but fucking brilliant and a shit load of fun. When you hear his stuff next to Outkast and Zomby it all somehow fits and joins the dots. Its juts a but load of fun. His music hits sposts outside of that context to. He just make massive meladramtic tracks that move floors. Joker moves floors in a more obvious way James Blake twists it up a bit and when you ballance all that energy out just right James Blake's twisted vision is one hell of a dude to have in your record bag. Plus he's got way more than just that going for him, some kind of vocal thing is on the cards no doubt... So you ilixor dudes will be moaning about him again in a few years when p4k review his album in 'THE FUTURE!' ;) I'll chat about Mount Kimbie if this thread lives longer I was to bored by the convo you peeps where taking to bother with that angle.

maybe this is a conversation we need to have: is music that is marketed / promoted under bullshit premises necessarily also created / received under bullshit premises? and does any of that matter?

hey jimi try not posting when high, thx

no and no

xp

Dear moonship you need to hear James Blake mix Coki with Beyonce, cheers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91bqgMkxmv0

Plus same to you too, I mean what goon says 'maybe this is a conversation we need to have: is music that is marketed / promoted under bullshit premises necessarily also created / received under bullshit premises? and does any of that matter?' one smoked up mutha fucker thats who...

"mt kimbie takes dubstep over the brostep hump"

haha, awful title but have to love the phrase 'brostep'. this has infiltrated my current living situation and it makes me want to peel the skin off of my face. the straw-scene is real, people! even in gdamn portland

sorry for the tangent tho, pls keep discussing this awful music and help me understand why i hate it so much

i can't decide where the 1 is on "klavierwerke". you could hear it a couple different ways and it sure doesn't give it away.

my mate was on about his new ep but it's really nowt special is it?

but it's really nowt special is it?

i don't know what this means

but anyway i like the new ep, just not nearly as much as his last two. it feels like he's moving towards this sound for his full-length, super minimal + vocal-focused.

"nowt" = "nothing" if that's the confusion

ah. i'm american btw.

really dig the feist cover

really like this:

http://vimeo.com/15624524

God, that's beautiful.

I like Maybes, but am I alone in finding the Kimbie album rather dull?

no that's pretty much exactly how i feel

maybes is fine for burning one on a sunday afternoon, but that's about the most its style can aspire to and the album proves that.

the more i listen to the album, the better it gets

I had it on in the background when I was doing some other stuff, and it slipped by without leaving a single dent on my memory. Maybe I should make an effort with it, but not sure I can be arsed.

rewards close listening imo

http://soundcloud.com/freedom-or-death/james-blake-measurements/s-Z5cm3

ok, you can't even compare JB to kimbie anymore. game over, kids.

damn

very nice

i don't get it.

Doesn't sound particularly different from the other thing that's been leaked from his vocals album, "Limit to Yr Love". And I still don't love it (though i might come around); there's just something too deliberate and quote-unquote "soulful" to his singing (ie, his "really meaning it" voice is sorta cringeworthy). but i am deeply on board stuff like "I Only Know What I Know Now", find it beautiful and just-slightly (perfectly) new.

i wonder if i'd give these vocal tunes a chance if it was the first i'd heard from him, rather than passing it off as the next young white british soul dude. probably, because the minimalism is so striking.

(but knowing his EPs adds a sense of unpredictability/possibility)

limit to your love has been killing me

like killing me

and yeah jordan otm

I had it on in the background when I was doing some other stuff, and it slipped by without leaving a single dent on my memory. Maybe I should make an effort with it, but not sure I can be arsed.

― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:03 PM (2 weeks ago)
rewards close listening imo

― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:04 PM (2 weeks ago)

Turns out Jordan was right, I like it now I've played it on headphones a couple of times (we're talking about the Kimbie album).

I know this is totally irrational but I've been hating on the Limit To Your Love cover purely for the way he sings "waterfall". Also the original is incredible and the best Feist song by some distance and James Blake just can't really do it justice.

I really like CMYK EP, just saying.

The Untold remix is what I needed to hear, damn.

i need to not listen to the untold remix for awhile, i'm finding it difficult to not rip it off

also measurements - this is from a forthcoming record or what?

yup

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

so what is the word on the full length anyway, in terms of release date?

I know this is totally irrational but I've been hating on the Limit To Your Love cover purely for the way he sings "waterfall"

that's exactly my problem with it and yes, i also thought i was being irrational but it's a weird stumbling block which stops me enjoying the song.

i have not noticed this

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT~!! that version of 'night air' is not nearly as good as the original!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AqTvu5_plM