RFI: Border Community - Nathan Fake, James Holden, The MFA, Petter etc.

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some fairly glib impressions here hmm... they do seem "out of kilter" indeed, perhaps in a different (perhaps better) way than I'd previously imagined.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Sunday, 19 March 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

The weird thing about that live cacophony was, NF didn't seem to acknowledge his (pop-eyed and mouth agape and anything goes.. into my nose) audience and they didn't seem to mind. Well, clubbers will mostly keep bouncing off the walls because that's what they came for and have been doing for hours - there is wishful momentum involved.

It felt like he had built a setup with improv/noise features which had him so fascinated that he didn't entirely master it or became too overwhelmed by its possibilities. Also, considering that variations in sound dynamics (beyond the constant, obvious tweaking) were few and far between overall, said possibilities weren't truly explored. It sounded more like "OK, there's this mode in which I can hold it together, let's not stray too far because this shit's messy enough as it is".

Also, losing track of time is what's called for in these proceedings but when a performer doesn't seem to realise he is doing it too, it veers towards self-indulgence.

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 19 March 2006 13:28 (twenty years ago)

pop-eyed and mouth agape and anything goes.. into my nose

wait - you can snort e?

― Yawn (Wintermute), Sunday, 19 March 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Yes, you crush it in to powder first.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

not terribly recommended.
also, that minilogue "girl from botany bay" 12" (which rules my fucking world) is totally an honorary BC track... they should get some kind of decoder ring in honor.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 19 March 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

James Holden Essential Mix...the goodness! Also has a Nathan Fake liveset which blows his album away.

if you speak of me...

― Omar (Omar), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 08:36 (twenty years ago)

Holden's "At The Controls" mix, anyone?

― mike h. (mike h.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 23:02 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I dunno if I like the indie sound palette of At the Controls but the new Lazy Fat People - Big City is a track.

Eulberg is playing out a remix of All Together by Petter which is very nice. Is this Eulberg's own stuff? I really like it.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Sunday, 23 April 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I deleted that BBC session but... is that anything like his Mixes on CD?

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 15 May 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

fandango, that mix wasn't much cop I heard.

Also I did a Holden interview.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Saturday, 20 May 2006 11:32 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i really like doc martin much better than james holden.

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Sunday, 16 July 2006 07:31 (nineteen years ago)

you have just crossed the line into self-parody

― ferzaffe (flezaffe), Sunday, 16 July 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

the Holden remix of Madonna's "get together" is really bizarre. i like it alot but it also sounds like he knocked it off in about an hour. it's like a deliberate attempt to sabotage any fame that might come about as a result of doing it in the first place. it sounds like one of Thomas Brinkmann's weirder tracks.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 16 July 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

i like it alot but it also sounds like he knocked it off in about an hour.

Yeah, like he has a button on his computer that says "press for instant Holden remix". Lovely remix indeed.

― Omar (Omar), Sunday, 16 July 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Petter's "Some Polyphony" is amazing.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 July 2006 06:58 (nineteen years ago)

seriously guys, this "balance 005" mix (which is like years old now) is rather predictable, isn't it???

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

i am finding it sort of boring, compared to, say, the mixed relief/cajual comp i just got off ebay or the locodice/villalobos mix i just bought. am i missing the point?

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Monday, 17 July 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

fao vahid

http://www.discogs.com/release/694121

skip straight to cd2.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 July 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, what a tacky looking record.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 17 July 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed Ronan, that Petter track is just right.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 17 July 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

"seriously guys, this "balance 005" mix (which is like years old now) is rather predictable, isn't it??? "

Vahid it's a four year old prog mix! How unpredictable can it be?!?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

good call

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

lol, you guys!!

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

the balance mix is aight but its not wooshy enough for me

nothing's really wooshy enough for me

someday im just gonna have to start making the dance music i want to hear

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't like it on saturday night very much when i wanted to hear a baby ford CD but i liked it much better last night when i started that "recommend me music like steve hillage / jean michael jarre / e2-e4" thread.

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

b-b-but Baby Ford is on it!

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

"or the locodice/villalobos mix i just bought. am i missing the point? "

This is good isn't it, I especially love that second housey track on the Villalobos mix.

"someday im just gonna have to start making the dance music i want to hear"

Jess descriptions plz.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

yes baby ford is on it for a whole 1:19 but his monotone robotic bass jam is just used as a dj tools.

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:21 (nineteen years ago)

in this instance tim i think i mean incredibly light and fluffy and airy and wooshy trance-style stuff, like, i dunno, "the difference it makes" remix but even more, uh, wooshy.

also, i dont think this is possible but somehow driving and lighter-than-air at the same time.

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

giant rave anthems made out of compressed oxygen

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jess it doesn't really fit your description but seriously have you heard "In White Rooms" yet?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe gas's pop compressed into riffs and stabs

xpost: no, what is?

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

also maybe suburban knight's "midnight sunshine" with way overloaded lush pads behind it

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

basically i want to feel like i'm in a bouncy castle made of cotton candy

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

jess wants timo maas

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's the big trancey track from the Booka Shade album, like "Mandarine Girl" but with something of the emotional epicness of the Superpitcher mix of "The Difference It Makes" and it's own special "things will never be as perfect as they were at this particular moment" brand of nostalgic melancholy.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

his innermost desire: to drive a porsche, and park it outside of a pilates gym, and blast incredibly light and fluffy and airy and wooshy homemade trance-style stuff from the speakers, and thus pick up 35 year old blonde cokeheads

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

i recommend the b-side to the new Speicher by Tom Pooks for maximum cotton candy effect.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's so much easier being gay, this music is already playing while we're already having random anonymous sex, no elaborate stunts involving porsches required.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

haha i think i do want timo maas

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

except without all the pesky drums

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

These days I picture Tim walking the streets with a big sign that says: "Submit to 'In White Rooms' or the world will end!!" ;)

Too bad i can't really, really feel its might (and I try all the remixes too.)

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

"These days I picture Tim walking the streets with a big sign that says: "Submit to 'In White Rooms' or the world will end!!" ;)"

Sadly I haven't even heard the original played out yet! My party lifestyle is currently in abeyance.

I think partly it's just that "In White Rooms" and The Knife album are the only 2006 music I've felt deeply emotionally connected to (Ashlee Simpson's album excluded b/c of 2005 release date). There's other stuff I've loved but this is what has squeezed my heart. The connection is trance obv.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

i gotta say tim, i wasnt feeling in white rooms on first cursory listen today, but ill give it a few more spins tomorrow

― david allen grier (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

I was underwhelmed at first actually - of the first few tracks I heard from Movements I initially preferred both "Night Falls" and "Pong Pang". "In White Rooms" just sounded like "Mandarine Girl" minus the noisy sounds.

Having said that I honestly don't know whether you'll love it Jess. Our tastes diverge a bit more than they used to these days it seems.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

um ...

what did we decide about "At The Controls"??

i've been listening to it this morning, not sure i'm convinced. seems like a misuse of harmonia.

but damn, that nathan fake / apparat track is the loveliness.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i've only listened to the first disc though. maybe the second is more like it.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

holden - "lump" is incredible. i can't understand why this song hasn't gotten more discussion. it's sort of windowlicker part 2, but creepier and sad and almost as fun to dance to.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

i see i said the same thing in march.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Not really germane to the thread, but MANDY are doing the next At the Controls mix, it's out in a couple weeks i think.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 05:05 (nineteen years ago)

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