RFI: Border Community - Nathan Fake, James Holden, The MFA, Petter etc.

Tracklisting:

CD1
Apparat - 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

CD2
meta.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

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.)

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

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).

Do you have them?

what tracks do they have?

-- blunt

I like hearing his stuff that way a lot more than on record! Pretty OTM description though... it's not so fucked up though (imo) just not ball-achingly over-"beautiful".

Listening to a Holden essential mix now... is it Border Community's mission in life to deliberately wring the unfamiliar only from the utterly familiar & played out sounds of old?

Like how that Nathan Fake record kind of makes an IDM 101/Ulrich Schnauss record with an actual spine, handily cutting most of the crud off in the process?

And this Holden set is like... absolutely bog-standard fluffy prog house, or at least it WOULD be if the whole thing wasn't seemingly pitched down to the entirely wrong speed (Black Dog's "The End Of Time" in slo-mo), but stay with it and it starts to become... kind of interesting!

It felt like he had built a setup with improv/noise features which had him so fascinated that he didn't entirely master it or became too overwhelmed by its possibilities. Also, considering that variations in sound dynamics (beyond the constant, obvious tweaking) were few and far between overall, said possibilities weren't truly explored. It sounded more like "OK, there's this mode in which I can hold it together, let's not stray too far because this shit's messy enough as it is".

Also, losing track of time is what's called for in these proceedings but when a performer doesn't seem to realise he is doing it too, it veers towards self-indulgence.

wait - you can snort e?

if you speak of me...

Eulberg is playing out a remix of All Together by Petter which is very nice. Is this Eulberg's own stuff? I really like it.

Also I did a Holden interview.

Yeah, like he has a button on his computer that says "press for instant Holden remix". Lovely remix indeed.

http://www.discogs.com/release/694121

skip straight to cd2.

Vahid it's a four year old prog mix! How unpredictable can it be?!?

nothing's really wooshy enough for me

someday im just gonna have to start making the dance music i want to hear

This is good isn't it, I especially love that second housey track on the Villalobos mix.

"someday im just gonna have to start making the dance music i want to hear"

Jess descriptions plz.