Anyone into the Pinch/Shackleton record? The first four tracks are fantastic, then it gets a bit samey.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
all of shackleton is a bit samey, unfortunately
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
i will say the pinch/shackleton album is much better than the shackleton 2xcd set, partly because of no spoken word and partly also because it still sorta sounds like dubstep as opposed to the dark ambient version of steve reich
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
but personally i more or less tuned him out after the fabric mix (even though i picked up pinch/shackleton and still listen to it occasionally)
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
Been listening to the Drawbar Organ EPs quite a bit recently. The organ adds colour and an extra dimension that is sometimes missing in his other stuff. Just need to hear it on a decent sound system and I'll be in 7th-heaven.
Not feeling Music For The Quiet Hour however. Maybe just need to spend some time with it.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
i loved the pinch/shackleton collab, like the double cd thing too, but i'm still letting it sink in properly. what i like about him are the mysterious physical spaces that his music evokes - sometimes it's like a fetid breeze blowing through a dark cobwebbed labyrinth, sometimes it's like shadows moving across a de chirico-esque haunted urban space. same sort of feeling as sawII era aphex maybe?
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
nicely put
― the late great, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
that feeling of being in an empty, depopulated zone and yet feeling some sort of strange presence there
― Superphysical Resurrection (NickB), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:25 (eleven years ago) link
He certainly evokes the strongest and strangest mental images of any current dubstep (post-dubstep, whatever) producer. He'd be great at scoring movies I think.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
Shackleton live is something quite special. The organ noises do really open his sound palette, but I think that three albums in two years (granted, one was a collaborative effort) is a bit much and a little selectivity would probably edge his releases from being good to essential.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
i really love the drawbar organ eps, one of the best things i've discovered from various EOY lists - been listening a lot through hungover fugs this past week
i like music for the quiet hour too but don't feel like i've got a handle on it yet - i love how detailed and intricate it is
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 12:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfpMPUctTaE
^ i didn't even really know what a drawbar organ was until about a minute ago
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
that's just a little app that replicates the actual thing btw
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
wait i am being super dense here
― a la recherche du tempbans perdu (NickB), Friday, 25 January 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
never drink and think
Just listening to the Pinch Shackleton album and wow...
― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Monday, 4 November 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Like, I had no idea either were capable of making something as unerringly pretty as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtTbrZMPh0s
― Fiddler on a hot tin roof (ed.b), Monday, 4 November 2013 03:21 (ten years ago) link
The recent ep is totally more of the same, but in a totally good way.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 2 November 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
Who let Sam a go on Sleazy's music making machines? Good move.
― kraudive, Sunday, 9 July 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
both the Vengeance Tenfold collaboration and this are very, very impressive
https://boomkat.com/products/behind-the-glass-with-anika
― StanM, Monday, 17 July 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
suddenly, a new EP! https://boomkat.com/products/furnace-of-guts
― StanM, Saturday, 22 September 2018 09:23 (five years ago) link
This is some of his finest work yet. A real return to form after Sferic Ghost Transmits and Behind The Glass, which weren't very good
― paolo, Thursday, 18 October 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
I still like those two a lot (imho, he's been on a roll since Freezing Opening Thawing)
― StanM, Friday, 19 October 2018 06:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah this is really hitting me in a way I haven't felt since the Drawbar Organ pieces.
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Friday, 19 October 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.factmag.com/2019/08/15/shackleton-tunes-of-negation-album/https://soundcloud.com/cosmo-rhythmatic/tunes-of-negation-nowhere-ending-sky
― StanM, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
This album is so good and the best thing he's done since the Drawbar Organ EPs at least. This technically isn't a Shackleton album but apart from the vocals I'm not really sure what the other musicians are bringing to the table that he couldn't have done himself.
― paolo, Sunday, 10 November 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Yes, this is wonderful. It does have more of wide open and ensemble feel than typical for Shackleton, and with all the reedy organ tones it's giving me some similar vibes to the recent James Holden and Amon Tobin albums.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Monday, 11 November 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
new track on this as well: https://fabricrecords.bandcamp.com/track/shackleton-drawn-and-quartered
― StanM, Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
This is great too: https://samshackleton.bandcamp.com/album/primal-forms
― toby, Saturday, 1 August 2020 12:35 (three years ago) link
oh wow
― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
Saw him play live, I dunno, four or five years ago. Most of his set was the top-notch unrelenting tension he's known for, but the end of his set actually was like ten or fifteen minutes of ecstatic release. Not sure if I imagined it, or if it's in his recorded catalogue and I hadn't heard it, or if it really was what it seemed - a treat he rolled out just for a live audience.
― lukas, Sunday, 9 August 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
ten or fifteen minutes ok probably five
― lukas, Sunday, 9 August 2020 04:33 (three years ago) link
Zimpel's collab with Holden this year is really great too, and his solo album Massive Oscillations.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Friday, 14 August 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
I'm really liking the new one too. Never heard of this Zimpel chap before so will need to check out more of his work.
― paolo, Saturday, 15 August 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
thanks for the reminder re: Shackleton/Zimpel!
I was supposed to see that duo do a live set last year but Shackleton fell through and it ended up being a Holden/Zimpel show instead. Kind of a slow start and I wasn’t sure if they’d played live together after having recorded. Good, though
― solo scampito (mh), Saturday, 15 August 2020 23:21 (three years ago) link
Primal Forms is wonderful. The first full Shackleton album I've unreservedly loved.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 00:03 (three years ago) link
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, August 17, 2020 8:03 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink
Came here to post something similar (although at the time I unreservedly loved Music for the Quiet Hour / Drawbar Organ). I'm a massive Zimpel fan and I think this is a match made in Reichian (Riley-an?) heaven
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 28 August 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
Yum, another Tunes of Negation album to be released in Novemberhttps://thequietus.com/articles/29047-shackleton-tunes-of-negation-like-the-stars-forever-and-ever-album-details
― willem, Friday, 9 October 2020 09:17 (three years ago) link
\m/
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 9 October 2020 09:52 (three years ago) link
Primal Forms is an absolutely phenomenal record.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 October 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
finally listened to it, really good wow! it's jammy in the best way, great energy. reminds me of amon duul lol.
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 23 October 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
― Matt DC, Friday, October 9, 2020 6:47 PM (four weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
qft
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, 6 November 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
Primal Forms is the witchy neo-krautrock nww-list album I didn’t know i needed this year
― fleet doxes (map), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
I fucking love The Idea of Shackleton but I'm always kind of underwhelmed by the music proper.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:24 (three years ago) link
Have you heard this one? If you like amon duul ii violin jams you’ll like this. It’s not super sharp or brainy, just good old fashioned psychedelic electronic goodness with some impassioned playing from zimpel. Idk it’s what I want right now, some unpretentious deep state lost in a forest stuff.
― fleet doxes (map), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:33 (three years ago) link
I did, yeah. It was pleasant enough but it didn't really grab me. I'll give it another spin soon 'cause I'm definitely all for Amon Düül II violin jams.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:35 (three years ago) link
There’s one section that goes all in with it (the violin jamming that is). It’s an easy album to sort of let float by and set a mood but i think it also breathes a lot and has great energy.
― fleet doxes (map), Sunday, 22 November 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
Yeah this is an amazing album and the best thing he’s done that I’ve heard
― Tim F, Sunday, 22 November 2020 08:21 (three years ago) link
the best thing shackleton's done?
― the late great, Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
or zimpel?
definitely stopped checking shackleton after the fabric mix but i still listen have time for the fabric mix, three eps and skull disco comps
― the late great, Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
oh damn - did anyone catch the live show on Sept 13th? London Jazz Cafe ( https://ra.co/events/1749385 )
― StanM, Saturday, 23 September 2023 10:34 (eight months ago) link
Sadly not - I was out of London or I would be really regretting not knowing about it!
Have only heard the album a couple of times but I really like it (perhaps not as much as their first, but that's a very high standard).
― toby, Saturday, 23 September 2023 11:37 (eight months ago) link
yeah, a lot more focus on the Indian vocals here - but I like it a lot, too
― StanM, Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:11 (eight months ago) link
Saw Shackleton a few months back doing a set around 3am at a Freerotation night at The Cause. It was a bit deep in the night so I can’t recall a huge amount of specifics excpet really enjoying it and that it was on the heavier more techno end of his sound.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:32 (eight months ago) link
New Shackleton!
https://boomkat.com/products/the-scandal-of-time
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2023 17:20 (six months ago) link
!
― StanM, Thursday, 9 November 2023 19:56 (six months ago) link
it's... I don't know what I think yet. A more subtle followup to the Anika collab from 2017? (or do I only think that because there's a German singer on there?)
― StanM, Friday, 10 November 2023 08:10 (six months ago) link
This is my (dis)comfort food! Three EPs chopped up maqam percussion with intermittent ghostly kleinkunkst melodies!
― bendy, Friday, 10 November 2023 14:46 (six months ago) link
I'm loving this, it's like chopped & screwed Dead Can Dance (in dub)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2023 19:20 (six months ago) link
(the instrumentation, not the vocals)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2023 19:35 (six months ago) link
the shackleton / zimpel / belmannu album is amazing
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 9 March 2024 01:54 (two months ago) link
Yes, so good!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 9 March 2024 05:54 (two months ago) link
new track we missed last month?https://www.beatport.com/track/bloody-circumstance/18737536
― StanM, Monday, 11 March 2024 11:23 (two months ago) link