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

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

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.

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.

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.

Disk 1:
Mathew Dear - Tide
Isolée - Willy Skipper
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (My My Mix)
Jona - Smart Cats Vs Dumb Dogs
M.A.N.D.Y - Take Two Four
Alex Under - Collage
Dinky - Michelle
Señor Coconut - Electrolatino (Ricardo Villalobos 'Lecktro Carlño' Mix)
Osborne - Outta Sight
Jesse Rose & Henrik Schwarz - Stop Look & Listen (Henrik's Version)
Rockers Hi Fi - Push Push (M.A.N.D.Y Mix)
Booka Shade - In White Rooms (Mexico Version)
Mathew Jonson - Sub Atomic
Mile Caro & Franck Garcia - Far Away (Jennifer Cardini & Shonky Mix)
Cobblestone Jazz - India In Me
Kenny Larkin - Catatonic (Fourth State) (Stacey Pullin Mix)
Fingers Inc - A Path (Instrumental Mix)
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Feel Am
Michal Holy & Ajana Calugar - Black Vanilla Guitar

Disk 2:
Marden Hill - Bardot
Cat Stevens - Was A Dog A Doughnut
Rune Lindbaek - Junta Jaegar
Atjazz - Its Complete (Chateau Flight Darkside Mix)
Lopazz - Share My Rhythm
My My - Clean Break
Claude Vonstroke - Who's Afraid Of Detroit
Lindstrøm - I Feel My Space (M.A.N.D.Y Mix)
Heartz4 - Intimacy Girl
Ricardo Villalobos - Ichso
Sensorama - Where The Rabbit Sleeps
Scsi-9 - Senorita Tristeza
Chikinki - Assassinator 13 (Ruege Hagelstein 'Ride On Take Off' Mix)
Justin Martin - The Sad Piano (Charles Webster Mix)
Zweikarakter - Synthic
Djuma Soundsystem - Les Djinns (Trentemøller Mix)
Coldcut - Walk A Mile In My Shoes (Henrik Schwarz Radio Mix)

weirdly enough, that's almost EXACTLY how i feel about holden's mix, too!! i can barely get any interest going in the weird IDM / triphop shenanigans at the start of the first disc or second discs. i wish he'd edited the more propulsive parts of the mix together into one seamless whole ... i'd start w/ "anita berber" and stop again after the apparat track ... then maybe start AFTER "xtal" on the 2nd disc and go to "nazi trance fuck off".

that'd make a tight 80 minute mix.

i really want to hear this.

there is a germ of something worth pursuing here, but as a whole album it's the kind of thing you forget you even heard later it's so insubstantial. weird.

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

still waiting on this btw.

Um, school me in the ways of James Holden, if you please?

I wasn't going to stay for his whole set last night, but got totally SUCKED INTO it.

Who was it who said I would like this? Matt DC? Well, you were right. It's not even dance music so much as it's just... dronerock made with electronics. He totally does that whole "take one chord, one note, one sound, repeat until transcendence is achieved" that made me love Spacemen 3, NEU!, etc.

People were dancing, but my friend found me a chair, and I just sat on it in a kind of daze and wibbled. (The only problem is, if you sit on a chair at a dance gig, people assume you're on Ketamine and come up and spill their drugs all over you, bah.)

Where should I start with this?

went to Cluster eh? Jealous.

Nathan Fake's Album and James Holden's at the controls are the best places to start, as is their Essential Mix.

NF's Album is great for those fantastically bright days where you always seem to have the sun in your eyes but dont mind it.

Who was it who said I would like this? Matt DC? Well, you were right. It's not even dance music so much as it's just... dronerock made with electronics. He totally does that whole "take one chord, one note, one sound, repeat until transcendence is achieved" that made me love Spacemen 3, NEU!, etc.

You mean... it's dance music?

I mean, you have pretty much nailed down the appeal of minimal techno (of which Border Community is kind of a key landmark) right down in one sentance.

Umm anyway, reading the 2005-06 period of this thread would do nicely to start. Either they went off the boil or I lost interst. But anyway:

Nathan Fake - Sky Was Pink (James Holden Mix)
Fairmont - Gazebo
Petter - Six Songs (or whatever it was called)
Extrawelt - Soopertrack

Is the golden age of this stuff. For similar shit try Stephan Bodzin's album from 2007, and then read the Kompakt threads from start to finish.