― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Sunday, 13 November 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
=)
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 December 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jena (JenaP), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:10 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 04:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 09:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:35 (eighteen years ago) link
(omg bootleg with kate bush's 'mrs bartolozzi' is dying to be made)
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 December 2005 11:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 8 December 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 9 December 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:00 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx weaves a daisy chain for... SATAN!! (baaderonixx), Friday, 9 December 2005 09:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
It was always going to be a tricky one though, I mean "Berlinette" was just one of those huge, huge records for me personally. Also that has 'dirt' too (that wildy flanging, filthy bassline in Abstract Pictures - OMG) but yes, I can totally understand it coming over more considered, produced, premeditated overall. Thrills manages to do 'mimimal (in the most UN-minimal, fattened up & slamming way possible) and 'raw' at the same time.
― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
That feels pretty much the opposite of the 'cold' sound of Thrills to me. Give it a go :)
― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:57 (eighteen years ago) link
rereading/remembering upthread about your warmth issue Ronan -the type of warmth Thrills provides feels better to me than Berlinette's. so maybe if you didn't enjoy B, maybe you'll like T eventually. i just know when people say this electronica is so "warm" i often don't agree - feels like there's emotive melody or vocals or organic or lush sounds laid over some totally opposing material and i feel annoyed to try to make it work. i had that problem with some Berlinette tracks, but with Thrills its much more integrated. Mabye b/c its less about warmth of emotions than it is about the well...the body, or atleast some other more simple but all consuming aspect of being alive. its all the sex/hunting/building/running/breathing we have to do so much that that might as well just not worry about anything else. atleast this is how i'm feeling it right now.
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
I love 'Naked Rain', those airy, soothing but forceful synths are as satisfying as any point in 'Mandarine Girl' for me. 'She Is With Me' seems underappreciated too... I flipped out completely the first time I heard (a sample of) it. I loved the off-hand description I read somewhere about "she even finds time to break a piano over Autechre's knee" zing!
Clearly I could still write a great deal of crap about this record and what it seems to describe so effortlessly with sound for me. But I'll spare y'all that.
― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
altho prob not apparent, i'm restraining myself too!and yeah i would say it moody and somewhat emtional too -i don't mean to describe it so ridiculously Ayn Rand? but I think she's celebrating some of those things outwardly.
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
I think that might be how I feel about "Thrills".
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost - The whole field of genre labelling seems a tangled nightmare at the moment, which is also probably healthy, but still I find "Thrills" touching on House/ElectroHouse (and as you've pointed out before maybe descended from her "Fleig Mit" mix)... but no way would I sit it more than 25% in that category. It's quite a stretch for my understanding of what I take the term to represent (lighter, more playful & nimble dance music, less thumping & banging, more shuffling).
xxposts - I've actually heard quite a few mixes go south attempting to get her records in. Except for her own, unsurprisingly!
― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
(check her website charts this month ^_^ )
― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link