James Blake, Mt Kimbie, CD/SD

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

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.

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.

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

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)

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

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.

James Blake album has leaked

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

klavierwerke ep has really grown on me

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

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

"the wilhelm scream" <3

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

yeah, this is nice too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxH5B5DEuWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3jWbqYByWQ

loving this. that added bitrate really amps up the songs that were already out there in lower-quality versions several notches.

yeah, i've heard that one but it's nice to get the full effect

he's really good at the single-hook song

wilhelm's scream is brilliant

i don't really know much about blake, just started listening to the eps a couple of weeks ago, so sorry if this is a dumb thing to day but the full-length is pretty different, huh? is he doing the singing or is it someone else? i like the vocals, on first listen i wish the songs had a little more going on, especially rhythmically, but they could grow on me

It's him singing.

James Blake album is awful. Played it once and now sending it to the trash. If i wanted some weak ass singer/songwriter shit, i'd listen to...? I have no idea, actually, because I hate shit like this. Just make beats and STFU.

you'd listen to darkstar ?

Darkstar album is 100x better than the James Blake album.

his label is doing a good job scrubbing this from all internet websites

Still available on the first page of a title + 2011 + .rar search though.

yeah i got it

It's a sisyphean task for those guys

Darkstar album is 100x better than the James Blake album.

i haven't heard a note of the james blake album and i can't imagine that this is true.

and, fwiw, i wanted to like the darkstar disc, since i loved their early singles.

I kind of hate the way it sounds like he's whispering things in your ear.

darkstar albim is great, stfu h8ers

album* uggghh late night + alcohol

The Darkstar album is bad. They made the wrong aesthetic choice, abandoning their "Aidy's Girl Is a Computer" sound.

"Just make beats and STFU."

i think hell keep making beats, he just wants to do the singer thing too. even though from listening (only) to limit to your love he does sound a bit limited/like he has a cold/like someone from the 80s.

"wilhelms scream" really is stunning

Is the full-length that commercial? I love the ep's but it's the type of stuff that alienates my friends. "CMYK" is astonishing.

The Darkstar album is bad. They made the wrong aesthetic choice, abandoning their "Aidy's Girl Is a Computer" sound.

^^^^^^^^^ absolutely right.

don't get all the love for 'Aidy's Girl' tbh it's just alright. i do like 'CMYK'.

That shitty Feist cover is seriously Dud.

The Darkstar album is bad. They made the wrong aesthetic choice, abandoning their "Aidy's Girl Is a Computer" sound.

yeah i really hate when artists follow their own muse and do something new, instead of pandering to their most boring fans who'd rather they went in circles and repeated themselves for the next decade

at least at concerts you can shout "AIDY'S!!!" and they'll probably play the hit, though, right?

what are you talking about?

of course they're entitled to follow their muse. they should. that doesn't automatically mean the resulting product is good. fans are entitled to feel that a band made the wrong aesthetic choice. i'm guessing you've made precisely the same assessment over the years, in the case of acts following their muse to places you didn't like going.

sure, but i wouldn't term it a "wrong" aesthetic choice. just a choice that i didn't much care for. it's not an absolute.

okay, sure.

mostly i didn't like being called a boring-fan.

Agree that "Aidy's Girl" is solid but overrated - "Need You" is much better imo.

hah sorry, far from it, i just get bored at work and IM LEARING TO TROLL so -- voila

xp