― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:09 (nineteen years ago) link
one was a quick 20 minute blast at Nitsa (check the Sonar thread) the other (on her site) was a portion of her main floor show, and unusually subdued and minimal-tech-dubby (up to that point, it may have got more interesting later on?).
I've heard better/more exciting sets from her to be honest.
― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/urban/oneworld/professor_ellen.shtml
Guess I'll have to search that one out on 5l5k sometime :(
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Jeez. There are bigger things to get annoyed by in life I know but ffs.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link
creamfields, andaulcia.
I think she's a fantastic, radical DJ!
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 09:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
'Down' remixes by dinky, fuckaloop & drama society out sometime. Looking forward to the Dinky particularly.
― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Nice write up here for this mix - A set that Ellen Allien recorded as a Sónar promo, originally hosted by Samurai FM, is now streaming from the "Online Radio" section of Allien's own website. Like everything Allien does, it's wet and dry, brainy and ravey, shocking and blasé all at once. I didn't know half the tracks-- like the crickets-in-rocking-chairs opener, or the plaintive yet blissed out Basic Channelly number that follows it-- but a helpful ILMer posted the tracklist here, so we can all trainspot together as Allien veers from planar click tracks into ridiculous kazoo fantasias, and from massive overdriven hangar bangers into the epic, John-Williams-goes-raving conclusion of Paul Kalkbrenner's newest "Ta-tü-tata", a record which-- like Sascha Funke's "Boy", also a recent Bpitch release-- everyone should own.
Funny how it never really clicked with me completely before now (found that whilst already listening and googling, like most pieces of "news" on Pitchfork I completely miss them at the time 'cos the layout is so crapshite) I love how it's so airy yet claustrophobic. I just wish I could squeeze it all down into 45 mins, it's a bit slow to unfold (and the mixing on the last three tracks is erm.. not the best, esp. for her).
― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:20 (eighteen years ago) link
!!
― gear (gear), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Sunday, 13 November 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
=)
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm still excited about the interview where she mentioned ideas for her Fourth album! (i.e. not this one).
Either way a semi-quiet stopgap 2006 could be good... I feel like I might burn out on Bpitch before I burn out on Ms. Allien though (and perhaps current dance stuff generally, maybe it's winter blues or I've just been following stuff, in my way, to the exclusion of too much other music... either way I've been a little less enthused of late).
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
She calls it their "first proper collaboration" anyhow, can't see any reason why she'd be obtuse about it. Holger Zilske has been credited with co-production on all three albums so far, I think he deserves more of the credit myself, for the sake of accuracy.
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
(omg bootleg with kate bush's 'mrs bartolozzi' is dying to be made)
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Just like Berlinette* wasn't boring & straight enough for the techno purists, but way too danceable for the IDM geeks. I think she's better than many artists in both areas at the moment.
It's all near-perfect for me though =)
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
I just find this rather slow, steady uptake in general (and Bpitch too, if the boat hasn't been missed completely now) frustrating. But then I'm a total fanboy and probably have all this totally out of perspective.
Susan, I'm not even sure if 'electronica/dance/techno' is 'huge' in Europe by the standards of previous years. It's also hard to gauge living in England (not London for me), it feels like a really backwards country a lot of the time now since the Britpop years. Not that d/t/e automatically automatically = forwards thinking, but dance music doesn't seem to be viewed as a creative sector here unlike er... The Libertines?? Oh, and Grime.
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link