Shackleton

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.

Yeah, it doesn't hurt that the Villalobos and Omar-S mixes are both totally ace in their own right.

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.

Of the new releases, Fireworks and the T++ remix of the same are definite favorites

Loving these Drawbar Organ EPs. Anyone heard 'em?

^^ 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 River
2 - Shackleton - Dark Ages
3 - Miles (Demdike Stare) - Rags and Bones
4 - Orphx - Metronome

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?)

That remixer list makes me think I should check out that band.

This is most momentous news. (The Shackleton album's ace by the way.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvn0h93uQw

Now I'm not saying I'm old but that's seriously great

Anyone into the Pinch/Shackleton record? The first four tracks are fantastic, then it gets a bit samey.

all of shackleton is a bit samey, unfortunately

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

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)

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.

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?

nicely put

that feeling of being in an empty, depopulated zone and yet feeling some sort of strange presence there

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.

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.

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

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

^ i didn't even really know what a drawbar organ was until about a minute ago

that's just a little app that replicates the actual thing btw

wait i am being super dense here

never drink and think

Just listening to the Pinch Shackleton album and wow...

Like, I had no idea either were capable of making something as unerringly pretty as this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtTbrZMPh0s

The recent ep is totally more of the same, but in a totally good way.

Who let Sam a go on Sleazy's music making machines? Good move.

both the Vengeance Tenfold collaboration and this are very, very impressive

https://boomkat.com/products/behind-the-glass-with-anika

suddenly, a new EP! https://boomkat.com/products/furnace-of-guts

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

I still like those two a lot (imho, he's been on a roll since Freezing Opening Thawing)

Yeah this is really hitting me in a way I haven't felt since the Drawbar Organ pieces.

https://www.factmag.com/2019/08/15/shackleton-tunes-of-negation-album/
https://soundcloud.com/cosmo-rhythmatic/tunes-of-negation-nowhere-ending-sky

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.

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.

new track on this as well: https://fabricrecords.bandcamp.com/track/shackleton-drawn-and-quartered

This is great too: https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/primal-forms

oh wow

Saw him play live, I dunno, four or five years ago. Most of his set was the top-notch unrelenting tension he's known for, but the end of his set actually was like ten or fifteen minutes of ecstatic release. Not sure if I imagined it, or if it's in his recorded catalogue and I hadn't heard it, or if it really was what it seemed - a treat he rolled out just for a live audience.

ten or fifteen minutes ok probably five

Zimpel's collab with Holden this year is really great too, and his solo album Massive Oscillations.

I'm really liking the new one too. Never heard of this Zimpel chap before so will need to check out more of his work.

thanks for the reminder re: Shackleton/Zimpel!

I was supposed to see that duo do a live set last year but Shackleton fell through and it ended up being a Holden/Zimpel show instead. Kind of a slow start and I wasn’t sure if they’d played live together after having recorded. Good, though

Primal Forms is wonderful. The first full Shackleton album I've unreservedly loved.

Primal Forms is wonderful. The first full Shackleton album I've unreservedly loved.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, August 17, 2020 8:03 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Came here to post something similar (although at the time I unreservedly loved Music for the Quiet Hour / Drawbar Organ). I'm a massive Zimpel fan and I think this is a match made in Reichian (Riley-an?) heaven

Yum, another Tunes of Negation album to be released in November
https://thequietus.com/articles/29047-shackleton-tunes-of-negation-like-the-stars-forever-and-ever-album-details

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why does he sound like English isn't his first language

https://crackmagazine.net/article/long-reads/shackleton-in-conversation-al-wootton-holy-tongue/

An extensive podcast interview? Weird.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/138-shackleton-bass-mystery-and-devastating-beauty/id1604094585?i=1000673105713

Really enjoyed this insight into his context and methods, particularly how his collaborations come about. No modular synths for him! Such an affable dude for such ominous art.

we missed to mention this in January: https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-cell-of-dreams-live-version

and this, too! https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/the-three-hands-of-doom (Scotch Rolex, Shackleton & Omutaba)

There’s a new colab coming out on AD 93 called Light Space Modulator

New Pinch & Shackleton when

that'd be nice

from April:
https://boomkat.com/products/the-rising-wave
https://ad93.bandcamp.com/album/the-rising-wave

Light-Space Modulator = Shackleton + Marlene Ribeiro

and another collab from Oct 2024 (single) : Giridhar Udupa featuring Shackleton
https://boomkat.com/products/chakra-the-wheel

another new record from a couple of weeks ago: https://waclawzimpel.bandcamp.com/album/3-the-shackleton-versions

Preview track is extremely Shackleton: https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/euphoria-bound

yes yes

I missed the Saagara thing upthread but it's so phenomenal, as is the new track. I think he's going on a tear again, not that the last few years haven't been also good.

Also good:

https://hiverndiscs.bandcamp.com/album/drames-rurals-shackleton-mixes-2

Euphoria Bound is out and it's very nice & groovy

Give this man a lifetime achievement award.

Euphoria Bound is the best since Flesh & the Dream! I'm super curious re: what his approach is to the microtonal stuff; is he working out complex scales like Harry Partch or just winging it?

it's great. trippy as hell even by his standards and the drum programming is ace.

it’s really good

really bleak but also really fiery

New one is great, but it's almost weird to hear him solo now. Like even hearing obvious programming or drum machine sounds at all is a bit less mysterious than some of his more organic collaborations, but it's still sick.

The new one is very menacing and incredibly cool (complimentary). Love it.