nathan fake - drowning in a sea of love

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I think it's rubbish.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

i think you're rubbish.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I'm exagerrating as usual, but there must be a hundred records exactly like this! I wanted him to bring the new style.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:11 (twenty years ago)

i just wish i hadn't heard a hundred other records like this before, because this sounds like it would have been a good one to hear first. or more importantly i wish i hadn't thought that the holden mix of 'the sky was pink' is what nathan fake's album would sound like.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

that's very otm.

i dunno, i still really like it. it's a little more sinewy and better defined than most laptop electro records, but it's not as rich or as oppressively busy as something by, say, m83 or ulrich schnauss. (both of whom i love, albeit in very tiny parcels.)

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:28 (twenty years ago)

m83 sort of rocks, and I need that.

i wish i hadn't thought that the holden mix of 'the sky was pink' is what nathan fake's album would sound like.

yes

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

xpost mark p - those things are exactly what I like about it too (I seriously can't stand Ulrich Schnauss) when I like it.

But when it bores me (quite often) I want to curse it for not being brave enough to expand past a very limited "my first album" kind of comfort zone. And the very, very over-familiar genre territory (what firstworldman is OTM about).

But I'm sure he's got much more to give, and I hope he'll get a bit more ambitious with it too.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

he's young, there's time

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 20:08 (twenty years ago)

i don't like the nathan fake album much, but the genius element to it is that it's totally malleable--i see it less as an album, and more as pliable raw material for other people to remix, sort of along the same lines as M83 is total neo-shoegaze garbage that somehow gets elevated to genius levels when it's remixed by the right people. the remixes i've heard so far from this record kick ass, and i have a feeling that trend will continue. so i see it for what it is--pretty, whooshy sonic play-doh.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I saw soooo many copies of drowning in a sea of remixes when in melbourne, but never the original.

― etc, Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

geeta i am so with you in re m83

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

i mean that shit is pretty unlistenable straight.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

oh pshaw

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

you're a fan? really?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

i'm not saying it's any GOOD (tho it's not bad) but c'mon

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

my bloody vangelis

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

it might have to do with never having been a shoegaze fan on my part

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

not so into the pothead music anymore

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

m83 is just a little starchild-at-the-birth-of-the-universe-cosmic-choir-of-fire-angels for me

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

maybe i do too many drugs

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

my bloody vangelis

hahahahaha!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)

Do the M83 haters hate the dead cities, etc album as much, or just the newest one because there were more mixes to draw attention to the originals? I've heard the second album in at least one movie promo lately..

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

And this ..Sea of Remixes thing is only four tracks? That hardly qualifies as drowning! I was hoping for much more.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

M83 haters?

Just hate that last album ... as said above ... its too "starchild-at-the-birth-of-the-universe-cosmic-choir-of-fire-angels" ...

one man's ego gone terribly wrong. should've kept the other guy.

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Friday, 10 March 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

i'm with geeta on m83. all those schlocky layers make me feel a bit nauseous, like i'm listening to a synth version of stars. like nathan fake though, great for remixes!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 March 2006 10:57 (twenty years ago)

just a little starchild-at-the-birth-of-the-universe-cosmic-choir-of-fire-angels for me

That's why it's good of course. :) Unlike this Nathan of Canada album.

Sea of Remixes thing is only four tracks? That hardly qualifies as drowning!

Lol.
I've only heard the Fairmont rmx of 'Long Sunny' which is way better than anything on the album and the Apparat rmx which is kinda boring.

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 10 March 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

i'm listening to this album again... i like it a lot!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:15 (twenty years ago)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

sometimes i think my favorite border community related thing is the website .gif

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

i could watch that shit all day

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

that petter guy has a couple good tunes actually

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:27 (twenty years ago)

i don't know why but i like this so much more than m83... and pretty much anything else in this loose genre

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

geeta i said the exact same thing about his remix-readyness in my review! weird.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

mark p, sometimes i think you and i have the same brain.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

ATTACK OF THE ILX HIVEMIND

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I like this record but maybe am biased by having my best ever gig as support for a live version of it.

Border Community is quality though, always with the anthems.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

i am sort of surprised ronan likes it. would i be wrong to say...folktronica?

― red flag over st pancras (gareth), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I said folktronica before I even heard it.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Someone told me "Nathan Fake is going all indie, improv, shoegazey" and I shuddered "FOLKTRONICA!"

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:40 (twenty years ago)

krautronica!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:44 (twenty years ago)

snoozertrack

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:50 (twenty years ago)

Hobbitwerk (well, he looks a bit like Frodo doesn't he?)

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:03 (twenty years ago)

heard a live set at utrecht, opens with grandfathered, and i like that track a lot more now

― charltonlido (gareth), Saturday, 25 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I like that live set from the R1 essential mix tons more that the actual album.

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:56 (twenty years ago)

his breezeblock is more listenable for some reason, too. maybe the songs flow into one another better in these settings.

― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 25 March 2006 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I like this. Have I fallen foul of the ILX Hivemind again? I just wish it had something else... maybe pretty girly vocals like Slowdive? Then it would be the best thing ever. But right now it's pretty.

I wouldn't call it IDM or dance music at all, though. Wibbletronica, yes. But I couldn't dance to this even if I was on drugs. I would prefer to sit and drink chamomille tea and look out the window.

Yes, I like this indeed. I need to find some Ulrich Schnauss and M83 if that's what everyone keeps comparing this to. Give me more things like this, it's like shoegazing or wombadelica made with laptops.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 11:06 (twenty years ago)

If you like this I would check out some live sets, they're much more laptop-shoegaze-chaos inclined that the album, which I found a bit too studio-preserved.

http://www.backlash.ie/mixes.html (isn't this Ronan's night?)
(or - http://home.tiscali.nl/fullspectrum/Nathan_Fake_live_at_Full_Spectrum_Ekko_Utrecht_NL_20_1_2006.mp3)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LUS8E6LV (Nathan Fake/James Holden Live set on Radio 1)

I don't mind some M83, but I bloody hate Ulrich Schnauss! But I'm not you, etcetera.

― Delivering over 43,973,865,717,760 bytes per day | What are you sending? (fandan, Saturday, 1 April 2006 11:21 (twenty years ago)

(haven't actually listened to that first one myself yet)

― Delivering over 43,973,865,717,760 bytes per day | What are you sending? (fandan, Saturday, 1 April 2006 11:23 (twenty years ago)

Hrmm, thanks, I will download and listen. (ha, now I've finally got a decent computer that will play music.) I've only heard Schnauss once, at some shoegazing club - I asked a friend what it was, I liked it so much. But then again, I would like that kind of thing or I wouldn't be at a shoegazer club to start with!

I wonder if this will continue to grow on me, or if it will turn out to be this year's Manitoba?

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

I could imagine Ulrich sounding better/different in a club, his sound is very warm & cozy... Just does nothing for me at home, this is probably a personal thing 'cos I never really clicked with Four Tet or Manitoba either!! Nathan Fake has something that does edge it closer to the good shoegaze stuff though, whatever it is. I guess this is discussed upthread by more eloquent people than me.

― Delivering over 43,973,865,717,760 bytes per day | What are you sending? (fandan, Saturday, 1 April 2006 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I dunno; me, I think I'd like it to be even... more shoegazery. But then again, I'm listening to Slowdive now!

(Actually, it's funny because a lot of these IDM bands are namechecked on the liner notes to the rerelease of Just For A Day. However, what is striking me about early Slowdive (it's one of the few shoegazer bands I've not had a copy of in a while) is just how... *minimal* they were. The *sound* is huge and sprawling, but there's actually very little going *on* in this music. Wibbletronica sounds quite... *busy* compared to Slowdive.)

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Saturday, 1 April 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

More... almost exactly "like this" http://www.feedle.co.uk/

Hmmm.

― Delivering over 43,973,865,717,760 bytes per day | What are you sending? (fandan, Sunday, 2 April 2006 10:35 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

just hit me: jesse somfay is a better version of nathan fake!

― jermainetwo, Thursday, 26 July 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

I love Small Pebbled Forest - what's his other stuff like? I heard a remix of his the other day and it sounded kind of wishy-washy and chill-out area.

― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 July 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

well, my other faves of his in the shoegazey style are, yeah, "forest", "for one brief moment i was there", and this mix of differnet's "caring arms" i seem to be hyping on several threads.

― jermainetwo, Thursday, 26 July 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

Not shoegazy but "Lying in a Bed of Mist" is astonishing.

― Tim F, Thursday, 26 July 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

Finding the new album a bit busy (admittedly on a couple of plays).

― djh, Monday, 3 September 2012 19:21 (thirteen years ago)

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