John Talabot

I like half the tracks on this album

FACT Mix: http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2012/02/john-talabot-delivers-latest-fac

Forgot to mention that I saw dude play on Friday night, and while it was a DJ mix of other tunes rather than his own it was excellent, really captured that same endlessly rising layered build effect.

Highly recommended!

His Boiler Room podcast is really good also.

i keep revisiting the episode of beats in space he did

these talabot mixes are like catnip for me. i'm not sure that anyone else out there has the ability to balance dance purism and an indie aesthetic with even close to as much success. at least not in 2012.

really really enjoyed Phillip Sherburne's review on p4k.

i don't think i get this, it's really boring and the jungle/frog sounds on the first track are embarrassing.

agreed. i'm just not hearing anything interesting or engaging here. or worth dancing to.

i like the XLR8R podcast a lot though and have enjoyed the FACT mix so far.

Let us start a new club for people who are just perplexed by the ILX love for this dude + do not understand what we are missing.

grats to John Talabot for becoming the first dance act of the year that ILX feels is noteworthy enough for dissent

really feeling this FACT mix

what do you guys have against jungle sounds idgi

makes me feel like i'm listening to this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BPHNH67AL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

they were awesome when New Order did it and they're awesome now

karl otm

yea hard to go wrong with jungle sounds imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv4mhOdoH80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8y64gbVMv0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dLzLHUNrPs

yesssss, oh god that track is all time

Hating on jungle sounds is nagl. It's like hating on sea noises or something.

Anyone who's a bit nonplussed by this album should check out the excellent second 'If This Is House I Want My Money Back' compilation from last year, which features a more upbeat Talabot as well as a load of other dudes from this whole scene (Pional, Beautiful Swimmers, Permanent Vacation etc). Also if contains Mano Le Tough's 'Let's Not Talk About Love' which is one of the best records made by anyone last year.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-If-This-Is-House-I-Want-My-Money-Back-Zwei/release/3084122

^^^^ Every word of that is spot on. I love Talabot's tune on that but the Mano Le Tough is GODLIKE.

also this remix is a must hear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyhBFIKFeoA

Probably time for a Mano Le Tough thread soon enough, his Stories EP was also ace and there's an album in the pipeline that I reckon will surpass Talabot's.

yeah the stories ep was amazing, esp "take it back"

pretty much track Mano Le Tough is releasing is just sound palette catnip to me

pretty much EVERY track

Album coming out soon too.

talked a bit to him a couple of weeks ago, album coming after the summer.

Loving Mano Le Tough, ilxor TIP!

'if this is house i want my money back zwei' *was* really good, but i have been having a very hard time getting into this new permanent vacation 'selected label works' thing (save for the pional tracks i guess)

i also cosign on the mano

Yeah that third Permanent Vacation comp was really disappointing, far too many Sally Shapiro-type sadsack vocals all over the place. I really liked about half the second one and the first one is classic for all time, virtually everything there is wonderful.

The only problem with "don't leave me (friendly pattern version" is that the grinding boogie-machine outro should last five minutes rather than thirty seconds.

Remember being disappointed/bored with the first Permanent Vacation Selected Works compilation when it came out - especially since there seemed to be much more interesting neo-Balearic stuff around at the time, even the Fred Deakin Nu Balearica comp - but 'If This Is House I Want My Money Back Zwei' is really nice.

Also loving Mano Le Tough, thanks for the tip!

I substituted a few of the other Permanent Vacation releases from last year with the more lacklustre efforts on Vol 3 to make a better version. It really bothers me that Argy's "I Wish You Were Here" isn't on it.

Mano Le Tough is fab too, I love the remix of Aloe Blacc.

Really pleased to see all the love for Mano, he is a really good mate of mine from Dublin, he's been in Berlin 4/5 years and it's really working out for him now. His flatmate is another really good pal and will be doing stuff on Permanent Vacation also.

Please tell him to name his album Hangin' Tough.

When I play his tracks out they always get a great reaction, even from people who I don't think of as being into that side of house.

he actually got the name from this sort of party house/bunch of people in Dublin who referred to their flat as "hang tough".

Funny coincidence - I've known Mano for ~20 years, we used to live on the same road and hang out all the time as kids. I started following his work due to the personal connection but I do think it's great music regardless.

The only problem with "don't leave me (friendly pattern version" is that the grinding boogie-machine outro should last five minutes rather than thirty seconds.

i know right?!

I used to know this guy I met on Soulseek, he sent me so many strange Chicago tracks. His username was lil808. He sent me a list of the best Dance Mania releases, with catalogue numbers, and I followed that list like it was my religion, if I saw a record with that number I’d buy it on sight, he was never wrong. I built my taste in house music via friends, forums like Global Darkness or Clone Records, it was an underground world you know. Nowadays everyone is reissuing the strange tracks I’ve known for 10 years. It’s nice now when young people approach me at the booth to find out the name of a track, ‘cos there’s lots of information out there but people don’t always have someone showing them the way. The WBMX house mixes were a big influence on me, people like Mickey Oliver from the Hot Mix 5, I was so lucky that people sent me those files. Let me be romantic – we have lost a bit of magic over the years.

FACT interview

Talabot's nostalgia for the peek Soulseek filesharing era. And I remember at that time thinking how post-underground music was...

When The Past Was Present and So Will Be Now are both really great. but apart from those and a couple of other tracks, i think i'm in the 'this is a bit dull' camp :(

some of the other stuff just seems sort of...throwaway

after a couple more listens, some of this is starting to stick with me. "Oro y Sangre" is pretty cool

dunno it it's talabot, as it's listed as "unknown", but the earth wind and fire remix in the xlr8r podcast is amazing. if it is him it is easily the best thing he's ever done.

It's The Temptations /pedant