John Talabot

seeing him DJ in a few weeks, very excited

feel like this album is very prime Autumn vibes

He's a good live DJ.

oncoming autumn vibes but while the light and heat of summer are still in the air, is what i'm thinking

also the remix is excellent obv, and i say this as someone who found the chairlift original super boring

i was going to see john talabot until the xx album came out and was boring (they are touring together)

anyone know if there's an unofficial comp of his remixes/pre-fin stuff anywhere

shit club music

funny, the criticism i would've made is that it's a hair's breadth from not being club music at all, it's coffee-table house

i think that's why i like it

At this point criticising stuff as coffee-table house seems a bit pointless, all of us have coffee-table house skeletons in our closet.

I love his stuff! I'm getting older, you know.

Yeah I prefer "shit club music" to "coffee table house" as a criticism anyway!

My question about how much people listened to this wasn't just a rhetorical attack btw, I just genuinely have got no real further joy from it, beyond the first week. I am settling on the idea that I need physicality to house music or it doesn't really work for me, a lot of my buzz with it is connected to exercise lately!

But I feel like I hear better stuff in this vein on Beats In Space all the time.

Good dj tho I agree.

LG otm about this album

£5 in Urban Outfitters on CD.

also the remix is excellent obv, and i say this as someone who found the chairlift original super boring

― lex pretend, Saturday, September 15, 2012 12:09 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah, talabot turned a track i found meh into HOLY SHIT. that's the sign of a good remix.

divina pastora marathon otm http://pitchfork.com/news/48361-listen-john-talabot-and-pional-write-theme-song-fo-marathon-in-valencia-spain/

Sounds ok, kind of standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXOb9z_r7gs

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

Whoa, this mix is ***really good***, who knew???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWlR23bp4Zo

seeing him tonight as support for xx in a carling academy style venue. has anyone seen him play this kind of show? what to expect? also, how do you pronounce his name? "talabow"?

http://soundcloud.com/permvac/john-talabot-zanzibar-80s-tape?utm_campaign=timeline&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fpermvac%2Fjohn-talabot-zanzibar-80s-tape&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=soundcloud#_=_

His live set was nice, basically the album with a different track list. Him and Pional standing behind keyboards, triggering stuff and singing. I'm probably underrating it but I'm comparing it to seeing him dj, which was the best set I've heard all year.

er, "the album with a different track order"

yeah that was basically it. sounded great, but struggled a bit with the crowd tbh via insane suburban venue (~5k capacity, and licensing meant his set began at 8pm)

John Talabot

Feeling this Peaking Lights remix.

Huh? That link you've got there is a bit meta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZrQpmDgr3g

This mix he just uploaded from 10 Days Off last July is really nice as well: https://soundcloud.com/john-talabot/jt-10-days-off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9cCG7nJacE

Great news! John Talabot’s excellent Hivern Discs label starts a new “white-label” series, called “Blanc”. The new series will consist of one-sided 12” and will be limited to 100 copies available from the label’s website.

Each release will feature an uncredited cut from Hivern Discs’ current stable of artists, which includes Teengirl Fantasy, Pional, Aster, New Jackson, and John Talabot himself.

Already sold out, btw.

terrific stuff

Mixing the next DJ Kicks album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efjc1OoH8Qc

So...

This DJ Kicks mix is urgent and key. It's dark and moody, intense and 'humid' atmospherics, but still with his sensibilities for big hooks and melodies. Apparently the selection is "not for clubs," but I would happily dance to this all night. It is absolutely my shit right now.

Mines a similar vein as Immer 2 imo, especially that selection towards the end with SCSI-9, Jesse Somfay and the Sten Remix, but does so much more dynamically and vividly. 27 tracks as well, it's super-detailed in a good way.

cosign, it's lovely

the moment "old song" drops >>>>>>>>>

Mix of the year IMO.

Lex OTM re Old Song.

When is this out?

nov 12 apparently

it's at Juno
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/dj-kicks/505715-01/

this is awful in my view, apart from "old song" and one or two other tracks. just really clunky portentous trance.

Yeah I wasn't feeling it either, it just dragged mostly.

the spotify version has the tracks out of order

I think it's pretty great, though maybe too long? Miko otm about it being dark and moody, qualities which I know a lot of people didn't like about Fin

yeah it's more like balearic for post-ww4 radioactive nuclear fallout parched wasteland ibiza

thought it was a pretty awesome thing myself, albeit admittedly partly in the disquieting fearful sense of awe

did put it on for a night bus journey the other week and tbh it was just too intense man i was freaking out

Yeah that feels right, esp. "Escape From Detroit".

Interesting to see who's coming down where on this one.

i'd guess its eyerolls are probably much like when a daaaaark outlier spin-off of a beloved genre of mine gets hipster kisses out of the blue

to that i would respond yeah lol sozzles but talabot does weave a deeply rich and skilful tapestry here

It's weird, it just falls totally flat for me, I feel like that Dixon and Ame Boiler Room kind of took this sound as far as I'd want it to go.

Am on a long few weeks of p much only listening to Tim Hecker, Deaf Centre, and other stuff along those lines, cos they help me to do some writing work I've got on the go, so it may be bad timing for me.

I was only so-so about the album in the end too tho.

There is one track near the end I liked as well as Old Song, had heard it before, it's the DJ Samo one.

Old Song is all-time tho.

I particularly like the way he mixes the Young Marco remix of "Heterotopia" into "We Doubt (You Can Make It)". It's the kind of two-totally-different-songs-become-one trick that Villalobos used to pull off on the rare occasions when he felt like being gregarious.

The Dixon and Ame Boiler Room is a good reference point for this, but it has some of the "let's build a soundworld" portentous swirliness that I associate with the Wighnomy Bros' Metawuffmischfelge and Mayer's Immer 2.

i'd guess its eyerolls are probably much like when a daaaaark outlier spin-off of a beloved genre of mine gets hipster kisses out of the blue

Your night bus comment would appear to support this.

i am aware of all things