I prefer the earlier Skull stuff to 3 EPs tbh.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Those first two are from this comp (in case you didn't already know):
http://www.discogs.com/Various-Tradi-Mods-Vs-Rockers-Alternative-Takes-On-Congotronics/release/2637780
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Also some news:
http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?Forthcoming=1
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Love Mordant Music a whole lot, so pretty keen on that first one.
― seminal fuiud (NickB), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
T++ is much more of a junglist thing i think than shackleton
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
on a vaguely similar "Sort of a 21th century dub techno based on ancient african rhythm?" tip you might enjoy this Kangding Ray tune from last year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ufQ-ZghC3I
rhythmically T++ reminds me a lot of that early 00s stuff people were calling "sublow", sort've the ravier end of grime -- stuff like Jon E Cash, Geeneus, Musical Mobb, that kinda thing
ot but Mordant Music also has a collab w/ Ekoplekz apparently due out this year, should be big
― missingNO, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
He's doing the next Fabriclive, I think.
It's Fabric 55. Pretty cool stuff although I think Fabric should veto the next guy who wants to do a mix of all his own material now that there have been three in the span of what, a year? Year and a half?
1 Come Up 2 Moon Over Joseph's Burial 3 Hypno Angel 4 Visontele 5 Blood Rhythm With Wishy Drones 6 Operatic Waves 7 Closeness To Nature 8 Negative Thoughts 9 Death is Not Final 10 International Fires 11 Paper 12 Deadman 13 Point One, Sense It 14 Man On a String Part 1 15 Man On a String Part 2 16 Ice 17 Busted Spirit 18 Bottles 19 New Dawn 20 Something Has Got To Give 21 Massacre 22 Stripped
― dmr, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I liked the mix a lot though, hadn't heard any Shackleton since Sound Bwoy's Ashes so it was all new to me
― dmr, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
14 Man On a String Part 1
^ most interesting part of the mix, in my ears anyway
― The Macallan 18 Year, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
dmr are you counting the villalobos one? that was a lot longer ago than a year + a half i think... or has there been another one apart from omar s
― just sayin, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
there have been three in the span of what, a year? Year and a half?
3 years - http://www.discogs.com/Ricardo-Villalobos-Fabric-36/release/1061625 released in 07
Sometimes own material works best. I don't see an issue and don't see why Fabric should veto producers who are at the level who do it - all three producers who've done it are exceptional
― du mein bestie (micarl), Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
wow villalobos was that long ago. my bad.
I guess I'd like to actually hear a DJ mix from some of these guys instead of a quasi-album.
that said, I still listen to the Omar-S fabric a ton.
― dmr, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, it doesn't hurt that the Villalobos and Omar-S mixes are both totally ace in their own right.
― EDB, Tuesday, 11 January 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
the skull disco stuff is great. 3 eps didn't really do anything for me, was kind of a relief to read in his interview with blackdown that he wasn't too fussy on it himself. i'd say the skull stuff is the more muzlimgauzey.
new fabric mix is 75% brilliant. the way the layers and rhythms interlock and shift is just what i've been looking for. i hope he has more of that up his sleeve.
just need to see him live now.
― sawan, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 09:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Of the new releases, Fireworks and the T++ remix of the same are definite favorites
― mh, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Loving these Drawbar Organ EPs. Anyone heard 'em?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 3 June 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
^^ Really good.
Shackleton on a NoMeansNo remix album? Whaaa? From their facebook:
Tracklist for the NMN electronic remix album, out later this year:
1 - Deadbeat - The River2 - Shackleton - Dark Ages3 - Miles (Demdike Stare) - Rags and Bones4 - Orphx - Metronome
― errant flynn, Monday, 4 June 2012 01:26 (eleven years ago) link
Woah. Dark Ages, cool.Shackleton's remix of To Rococo Rot's "Fridays" is his most rock-oriented to date, and it's fantastic. Looking forward to the remix album (EP?)
― willem, Monday, 4 June 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
That remixer list makes me think I should check out that band.
― mh, Monday, 4 June 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
This is most momentous news. (The Shackleton album's ace by the way.)
― Ima Skim Read That Bitch (Doran), Monday, 4 June 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvn0h93uQw
― errant flynn, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
Now I'm not saying I'm old but that's seriously great
― willem, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone into the Pinch/Shackleton record? The first four tracks are fantastic, then it gets a bit samey.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
all of shackleton is a bit samey, unfortunately
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
i will say the pinch/shackleton album is much better than the shackleton 2xcd set, partly because of no spoken word and partly also because it still sorta sounds like dubstep as opposed to the dark ambient version of steve reich
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
but personally i more or less tuned him out after the fabric mix (even though i picked up pinch/shackleton and still listen to it occasionally)
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Been listening to the Drawbar Organ EPs quite a bit recently. The organ adds colour and an extra dimension that is sometimes missing in his other stuff. Just need to hear it on a decent sound system and I'll be in 7th-heaven.
Not feeling Music For The Quiet Hour however. Maybe just need to spend some time with it.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
i loved the pinch/shackleton collab, like the double cd thing too, but i'm still letting it sink in properly. what i like about him are the mysterious physical spaces that his music evokes - sometimes it's like a fetid breeze blowing through a dark cobwebbed labyrinth, sometimes it's like shadows moving across a de chirico-esque haunted urban space. same sort of feeling as sawII era aphex maybe?
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
nicely put
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
that feeling of being in an empty, depopulated zone and yet feeling some sort of strange presence there
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
He certainly evokes the strongest and strangest mental images of any current dubstep (post-dubstep, whatever) producer. He'd be great at scoring movies I think.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
Shackleton live is something quite special. The organ noises do really open his sound palette, but I think that three albums in two years (granted, one was a collaborative effort) is a bit much and a little selectivity would probably edge his releases from being good to essential.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
i really love the drawbar organ eps, one of the best things i've discovered from various EOY lists - been listening a lot through hungover fugs this past week
i like music for the quiet hour too but don't feel like i've got a handle on it yet - i love how detailed and intricate it is
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfpMPUctTaE
^ i didn't even really know what a drawbar organ was until about a minute ago
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
that's just a little app that replicates the actual thing btw
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
wait i am being super dense here
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
never drink and think
Just listening to the Pinch Shackleton album and wow...
― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Monday, 4 November 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Like, I had no idea either were capable of making something as unerringly pretty as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtTbrZMPh0s
― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Monday, 4 November 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
The recent ep is totally more of the same, but in a totally good way.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 2 November 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Who let Sam a go on Sleazy's music making machines? Good move.
― kraudive, Sunday, 9 July 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
both the Vengeance Tenfold collaboration and this are very, very impressive
https://boomkat.com/products/behind-the-glass-with-anika
― StanM, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
suddenly, a new EP! https://boomkat.com/products/furnace-of-guts
― StanM, Saturday, 22 September 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
This is some of his finest work yet. A real return to form after Sferic Ghost Transmits and Behind The Glass, which weren't very good
― paolo, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
I still like those two a lot (imho, he's been on a roll since Freezing Opening Thawing)
― StanM, Friday, 19 October 2018 06:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah this is really hitting me in a way I haven't felt since the Drawbar Organ pieces.
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Friday, 19 October 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.factmag.com/2019/08/15/shackleton-tunes-of-negation-album/https://soundcloud.com/cosmo-rhythmatic/tunes-of-negation-nowhere-ending-sky
― StanM, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
This album is so good and the best thing he's done since the Drawbar Organ EPs at least. This technically isn't a Shackleton album but apart from the vocals I'm not really sure what the other musicians are bringing to the table that he couldn't have done himself.
― paolo, Sunday, 10 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Yes, this is wonderful. It does have more of wide open and ensemble feel than typical for Shackleton, and with all the reedy organ tones it's giving me some similar vibes to the recent James Holden and Amon Tobin albums.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Monday, 11 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
new track on this as well: https://fabricrecords.bandcamp.com/track/shackleton-drawn-and-quartered
― StanM, Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
Likewise (and I'd completely missed that it existed, so thanks for posting it).
― toby, Sunday, 21 August 2022 06:54 (one year ago) link
It's amazing! Probably the best thing he's done since Three EPs. Very Skull Discoish
― paolo, Friday, 14 October 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
this album is absolutely immense Sunday music
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 16 October 2022 09:29 (one year ago) link
https://ra.co/news/78568
Clip sounds good! Shame about the title though
― paolo, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 16:43 (one year ago) link
Shackleton's collaborations are always the best
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Friday, 3 March 2023 19:45 (one year ago) link
excited!
― StanM, Friday, 3 March 2023 21:02 (one year ago) link
is it just me or is this new one ultra weird? i feel like i’ve gotten a bit too used to his tricks, but this one brings back the old “wtf is going on” sensation i’ve been missing since the fabric mix
― the late great, Friday, 16 June 2023 00:20 (eleven months ago) link
“serotonin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbk4oQ_Wncs
― the late great, Friday, 16 June 2023 00:21 (eleven months ago) link
Two other new projects, one from last month:https://modernobscuremusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-other-side-of-devastation
One out today:https://boomkat.com/products/choose-mortality
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 16 June 2023 03:30 (eleven months ago) link
xxpost - it didn't feel more left field or less accessible than Departing Like Rivers to me?
― StanM, Monday, 19 June 2023 08:46 (eleven months ago) link
lol - it's one of his most approachable in years: https://ra.co/reviews/35435
― StanM, Monday, 19 June 2023 09:14 (eleven months ago) link
the new one w/ heather leigh is real good, dude is on a roll
― adam, Monday, 19 June 2023 10:11 (eleven months ago) link
wouldn't say it's ultra weird by his standards but am enjoying it a lot, I generally prefer it when he goes a bit more percussive like back in the skull disco days than when he goes proggy and Coil-ish
― ava (paolo), Monday, 19 June 2023 10:50 (eleven months ago) link
I thought the new one was referring to "The Purge of Tomorrow". Too many new Shackletons!
I wish Flesh & The Dream was on Bandcamp
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Monday, 19 June 2023 13:53 (eleven months ago) link
hmm idk sounds different / weirder / more interesting to me!! maybe i have to listen to the prior albums again, but they all sounded to me more or less like a modern (not sure if “bass music”) update on fourth world music
that review is silly btw, never listen to resident advisor
― the late great, Monday, 19 June 2023 16:03 (eleven months ago) link
okay! :-)
― StanM, Monday, 19 June 2023 19:12 (eleven months ago) link
Bleep Mix with Zimpelhttps://soundcloud.com/bleep_bot/bleep-mix-271-shackleton-zimpel
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 23 September 2023 03:49 (eight months ago) link
thank you x 2!
― StanM, Saturday, 23 September 2023 07:13 (eight months ago) link
so this is how we find out that this is released next week!
https://bleep.com/artist/337016-shackleton-wacaw-zimpel-feat-siddhartha-belmannu
― StanM, Saturday, 23 September 2023 07:16 (eight months ago) link
single: https://bleep.com/release/396348-shackleton-waclaw-zimpel-the-ocean-lies-between-usalbum: https://bleep.com/release/396347-shackleton-wacaw-zimpel-feat-siddhartha-belmannu-in-the-cell-of-dreams
― StanM, Saturday, 23 September 2023 07:20 (eight months ago) link
oh, the download is available as soon as you order - released already, then
― StanM, Saturday, 23 September 2023 07:23 (eight months ago) link
oh damn - did anyone catch the live show on Sept 13th? London Jazz Cafe ( https://ra.co/events/1749385 )
― StanM, Saturday, 23 September 2023 10:34 (eight months ago) link
Sadly not - I was out of London or I would be really regretting not knowing about it!
Have only heard the album a couple of times but I really like it (perhaps not as much as their first, but that's a very high standard).
― toby, Saturday, 23 September 2023 11:37 (eight months ago) link
yeah, a lot more focus on the Indian vocals here - but I like it a lot, too
― StanM, Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:11 (eight months ago) link
Saw Shackleton a few months back doing a set around 3am at a Freerotation night at The Cause. It was a bit deep in the night so I can’t recall a huge amount of specifics excpet really enjoying it and that it was on the heavier more techno end of his sound.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:32 (eight months ago) link
New Shackleton!
https://boomkat.com/products/the-scandal-of-time
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2023 17:20 (six months ago) link
!
― StanM, Thursday, 9 November 2023 19:56 (six months ago) link
it's... I don't know what I think yet. A more subtle followup to the Anika collab from 2017? (or do I only think that because there's a German singer on there?)
― StanM, Friday, 10 November 2023 08:10 (six months ago) link
This is my (dis)comfort food! Three EPs chopped up maqam percussion with intermittent ghostly kleinkunkst melodies!
― bendy, Friday, 10 November 2023 14:46 (six months ago) link
I'm loving this, it's like chopped & screwed Dead Can Dance (in dub)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2023 19:20 (six months ago) link
(the instrumentation, not the vocals)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2023 19:35 (six months ago) link
the shackleton / zimpel / belmannu album is amazing
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:54 (two months ago) link
Yes, so good!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 9 March 2024 05:54 (two months ago) link
new track we missed last month?https://www.beatport.com/track/bloody-circumstance/18737536
― StanM, Monday, 11 March 2024 11:23 (two months ago) link