Ellen Allien - "Thrills"

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oh yeah the nitsa one was wicked! i was there but missed her sonar one cos i was in r hawtin. i love the idea of 20 min sets, it was perfect. she came in, fucked the place up, and finished. just like that

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

How the fuckity fuck did I miss this??

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 (twenty years ago)

The Kiki remix of "Your Body is My Body" is great, adding some more tasty synth melodies.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Nice to see that Mixmag can't even be bothered to get her name right on their covermount! Ellen Alien indeed. twats.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

not to mention the supposed 'sound of Berlin' compilation I saw that repeated the mistake!

Jeez. There are bigger things to get annoyed by in life I know but ffs.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

is her name pronounced 'alien'? no two people i know pronounce it the same way. alien, ally-en, a-leen...

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 23 September 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

okay this latest set from earplug (zine? url?) seems fine indeed.

creamfields, andaulcia.

I think she's a fantastic, radical DJ!

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

is it in the sept 15th issue? for some reason i don't see it. thx.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.earplug.cc/mailer/issue53/index.html :)

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

thx!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Monday, 3 October 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

this set is all like r&S and textured like silk... she can do sunny and house good.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

haha.. maybe it's a bit trancey, I am stoned.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

I keep meaning to buy this album

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

And you should. My album of the year so far

― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

So how are the remixes on the Your Body is My Body 12"? I've not heard them.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

The Kiki 'body trip' remix is amazing, synthy sunny happiness but I'm gonna get it on the new Camping 2 (cd) compilation. Skipped this 12". I don't know about the Troy Pierce mix, minimal, at a guess!

'Down' remixes by dinky, fuckaloop & drama society out sometime. Looking forward to the Dinky particularly.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

it's (kiki rmx) at the start of this set btw, just after the first orbital track - http://www.ump3.de/sites/ellen_allien_djset_creamfields_august2005.php

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

I don't suppose anyone's got that BBC One World session to YSI have they?

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 (twenty years ago)

(a link is always helpful) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/urban/oneworld/professor_ellen.shtml

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

John-Williams-goes-raving

― gear (gear), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:09 (twenty years ago)

I have no idea who that bit's referring to actually.

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:11 (twenty years ago)

or rather, who John Williams is (yes I should probably try IMDB.com, I should also go to bed now too).

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

I saw her live. She was so booooring.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Sunday, 13 November 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

New album Ellen Allien and Apparat out in april 2006!

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

collaboration... not separately.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:27 (twenty years ago)

Sounds interesting. I just listened to Thrills tonight for the first time in a few months and found myself enjoying it more than I thought I would. I still think the first track is a bit dull, but the rest are pretty good. It sounds better at night and at a relatively loud volume. I listened to it while driving, and it hit the spot nicely. Maybe it will creep back onto my year's best list.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:31 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm not sure what to expect really. Hopefully not anything too similar to stuff already released by either of them. Wonder if that proposed Ghostly International single will ever come out?

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 (twenty years ago)

I would expect it to be a follow up of Berlinette, since the production on that album was largely done by Apparat.

― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

If Stadtkind didn't exist I'd have a little more faith in that notion...

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 (twenty years ago)

This was kinda discussed upthread already anyway.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

New album :)! I have spent some more time lately listening to Thrills. Feel that its as good or better than I thought it was, but remains somewhat of a difficult experience. Still listening to some of Berlinette too -mostly Augenblick. AugB and parts of Thrills fulfulling the guitar/strings/metallic sound i'm missing from rock -- and almost feels like a better replacement. I still think the first track of Thrills is insane.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

i think the first track of thrills might be my favourite - there's something so physical and propulsive in it

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

'Down' is my favourite.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

'washing machine is speaking', too

(omg bootleg with kate bush's 'mrs bartolozzi' is dying to be made)

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

add Larry Heard's 'Washing Machine' in too and you've got a 'winner'.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

...and segue into 'washing up (tiga rmx)' at highest point of night

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Thrills will probably be my completely unexpected year-end fave LP. So underwhelming at first, but such a full and absorbing experience as it unfolds.

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

I think this kind of falls through the cracks- it's too electropop for the house-heads, too house for the indie-heads.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Ellen totally falls through the cracks as far as recognition goes, I've been saying that to people for ages. Or ranting at them ^_^

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 (twenty years ago)

it's weird... berlinette didn't do much for me but thrills... wow. i think it's the ARP--so heavy and harsh and warm

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

i don't know if ellen herself falls through the cracks - she has a massive rep as a dj, and loads of respect for being bpitch matriarch etc - but this album definitely seems to have. maybe cos it came out so early in the year. it's a top 10 lock for me though.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

i think if she had broader exposure she would get alot of crossover interest and some sort of explosion would occur. but i thought she was huge with electronica/dance/techno community in Europe, or is it just Germany?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

xposts - Actually you're right... her DJ profile has got a significant bump, and she wasn't exactly 'obscure' before, and I can now, if I so wish buy her record in Virgin Megastore so I should be happy!

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 (twenty years ago)

As far as "broader exposure" goes... I have to give credit to Pitchfork there (not that I loved the Thrills review, but they do cover her) the dance media have given her due time too, the parts of it that aren't completely conservative anyway. She's getting there.

― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

"electronica/dance/techno" is big in spain and germany at least (and i think france, to some extent) but that really means more in terms of media exposure and club/festival bookings. i don't think CD sales are terrific, though vinyl's sure easier to come by here (but this is a market where selling 8000 copies of a 12" is considered akin to going platinum). mainly it's that people don't screw up their faces and look like you're a puppy-killer when you like techno; they just ask if you were at creamfields with them this summer, and how much did you pay for pills.

i do think ellen and bpitch have done a very good job of breaking into US indie-centric media, along with kompakt and, before them (and more indie), warp.

and i can't WAIT to hear ellen collaborate with apparat.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

btw, hi susan!!!

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

i want to be involved with something that makes people look at me like i'm a puppy-killer. i guess its a good thing her popularity in mostly confined to spain/germany. hi phil!

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

Thrills still gets to me, one of my fave techno records of the year.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

Aww yeah! We be killing puppies for THRILLS!

― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)

Just like Berlinette* wasn't boring & straight enough for the techno purists, but way too danceable for the IDM geeks.

OTM. I thought it was too polished ... too much of the Kompakt-esque smoothness (which I like ordinarily) ... I strongly prefer the dirtier, sloppier "Thrills" (particularly stuff like "The Brain Is Lost").

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

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