James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

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

pre-sample clearance >>>>

ok sorry that song is crazy awesome tho

fantastic mr fox is very blake-esque, but dancier. really like the 'evelyn' ep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2bjfV0uKFQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY5L85DQMW8

wonder how long he'll be able to keep using that name.

Very nice.

"measurements" sounds like bon iver

Video for Night Air. I'm probably complete off but I think he looks like Keanu Reeves and his music reminds me of Phil Collins albeit dubstep tinged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL0pTo9Z_XU&feature=player_embedded

You are not alone:

"Mountaintop ballad by someone destined for big things when his album drops next year. Preferable in its rain-splattered early form; once the backing choir turn up it gets a bit dry ice and Phil Collins, but everyone’s partial to a bit of ‘Sussudio’ every now and then."

realisin i only like the MOR end of post ds and not ds itself maybe

"fantastic mr fox is very blake-esque, but dancier. really like the 'evelyn' ep:"

I feel like a lot of "blake-esque" music owes something to Prefuse 73, but maybe I'm misplacing the roots of certain sounds/techniques.

Ya I'm that down with the singing in James Blake tunes.

it's probably right to look at prefuse as a godfather of the whole beat music scene (like the l.a. shit especially), but i don't hear a lot of specifics (as far as the beats and synths go) in common with the current crop.

(personally i kinda gave up on scott herren stuff...it always sounds great in the moment but doesn't stick at all)

or maybe hurting is otm:

http://www.thefader.com/2010/11/03/interview-fantastic-mr-fox/
Was that remix a similar sound to the hip-hop were producing?
The sound palette is the same. I kind of look to hip-hop for the sounds of like, high hats and snares and bass drums. I always try to get the sound like Prefuse 73 and Madlib, I look up to them a lot in terms of drum songs, then it’s transferring those noises to a different BPM. All of a sudden I realized it’s a lot more exciting and a lot more fun to produce at a tempo I wasn’t used to, but using sounds from the genre I was comfortable with. Before the whole dubstep thing blew up, I’d go to club nights and they never played anything I 100% liked, but now that depth and complexity of Prefuse 73 has been transferred to dance music everywhere. It’s a good time.

I guess I was primarily thinking of the whole ultra-cut-up vocal/musical glitch thing.

ive hit the CMYK ep like 3 times today, i dont know why it took so long to click with me.

Fantastic Mr Fox did a great EP last year with an old mate of mine from manchester Rich Reason, soca tinged galloping housey crossover stuff.

but like hasnt the vocal glitch been sortof a thing w/ post dubstep as a whole? im thinking like the four tet album and burial at the very least.

yeah, my sense is that the cut-up vocals are coming from a different source, like uk dance music that i wasn't paying much attention to yet, but that burial really solidified the whole ghostly stitching-together of different r&b acapellas thing.

also, for all the cutting & pasting, i don't feel like "glitchiness" is really an aesthetic goal for this music.

i don't feel like "glitchiness" is really an aesthetic goal for this music.

It is for Mt Kimbie I'd say - that's one of the main things they're bringing to the table.

but like hasnt the vocal glitch been sortof a thing w/ post dubstep as a whole? im thinking like the four tet album and burial at the very least.

― plax (ico), Thursday, December 9, 2010 4:28 PM Bookmark

Yeah, I think it has, just saying that I feel like a lot of that traces back to Prefuse 73.

Was gonna posit the Sunship remix of Sweet Female Attitude's "Flowers", but I guess the current post-dubstep crowd may well have listened to more Prefuse73 than late 90s UK garage classics despite dubstep's garage lineage, so, eh

(obv there are older antecedents, was just thinking in terms of genre boundaries which I guess don't apply any more anyway)

Todd Edwards to some extent exerted influence here.. Maybe...

(in terms of vocal cutup glitch maneuvers) but yeah not sure how much of the post-dubstep landscape acknowledged him as much as older UKG lineage.

as much as the older UKG producers DID, I mean