James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

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

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link

limit to your love has been killing me

plax (ico), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link

like killing me

plax (ico), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link

and yeah jordan otm

plax (ico), Friday, 5 November 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link

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).

A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:58 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:32 (thirteen years ago) link

I really like CMYK EP, just saying.

village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link

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

portrait of the artist as a yung joc (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link

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

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link

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

portrait of the artist as a yung joc (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link

yup

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link

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

plax (ico), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link

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

portrait of the artist as a yung joc (Hurting 2), Friday, 12 November 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

jed_, Friday, 12 November 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link

i have not noticed this

plax (ico), Saturday, 13 November 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link

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

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

whats goin on witchu iron mane (deej), Saturday, 13 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link

pre-sample clearance >>>>

whats goin on witchu iron mane (deej), Saturday, 13 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link

ok sorry that song is crazy awesome tho

plax (ico), Saturday, 13 November 2010 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

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.

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link

Very nice.

A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link

"measurements" sounds like bon iver

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link

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

Moka, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link

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."

Number None, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link

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

plax (ico), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link

"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.

mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link

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

A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link

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)

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link

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

mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 December 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

straightola, Thursday, 9 December 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link

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, 9 December 2010 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

A brownish area with points (chap), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Thursday, 9 December 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link

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)

moiré eel (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 10 December 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link

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

blank, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link

(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.

blank, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link

as much as the older UKG producers DID, I mean

blank, Friday, 10 December 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link

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.

― mandatorily joined parties (Hurting 2), Thursday, December 9, 2010 6:55 PM (Yesterday)

yeah i dont know why i phrased it like that i def think ur onto something, but yeah also todd edwards.

plax (ico), Friday, 10 December 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link

it's just that "glitch" makes me so strongly of late '90s/early '00s idm, glitch-hop, microhouse, etc.. and digital editing is so non-novel at this point, we're way past using it to sound abrasive or "glitchy". it's a pretty entrenched technique. i guess the term just rubs me the wrong way.

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link

eh, theres signifiers where the origins linger i think. like certain guitar sounds and metal for instance.

plax (ico), Friday, 10 December 2010 21:14 (thirteen years ago) link

sure, but i'd argue that the goal is different (ie less about sounding weird or futuristic, more about making those elements beautiful or banging)

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Friday, 10 December 2010 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link

so hes on polydor now? im quite interested to see comes out of that.

titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 13 December 2010 13:02 (thirteen years ago) link

So a while back I downloaded the Mt Kimbie album and was pretty eh about it (didn't seem very cohesive) so I didn't really investigate this vein of music much more this year until I finally downloaded the CMYK EP today and man it's pretty good huh? it's too short though.

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 13 December 2010 23:03 (thirteen years ago) link

James Blake album has leaked

Number None, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link

God I'm actually really looking forward to a full album!

Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link

klavierwerke ep has really grown on me

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:17 (thirteen years ago) link

is this gonna be all new stuff, or things from EPs?

Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=13158

"the wilhelm scream" <3

bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link

This is totally my jam right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4JPUTgYY-U

EDB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link


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