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

TIAW is pretty far removed from The Sky Was Pink.

more's the pity

brb listening to stephan bodzin

It's less far from TIAW to Inheritors than it is from Sky Was Pink to TIAW. To my mind, anyway.

ok bodzin sounding a bit samey now.

aw, didn't realize he was down about all that

I know he kind of shrugged off his earlier trancier work, though

Not keen on the label in general, but this from 2004 stands up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cY8Ct9ENJk

James Holden wrapping up a live set on Beats in Space

& here it is:
http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/697

Not live as mentioned. I was confused because I heard one of his own tracks and Tim Sweeney posted a pic of him with some kind of controller which I thought was for synths. Late in the episode they talk about it being some new controller for Traktor.

This is probably my favourite record released this year. It's fucking wild fun.

This album is such a grower. I've persevered with it, purely because of the unanimous adulation it's receiving, despite finding it very disappointing on first play and a bit bland on a few more attempts at having it on in the background, but today it really clicked for me - the melodies stuck a bit harder, the textures seemed richer and the rhythms more crunchy and dramatic. It is definitely a late night album.

I know the criticisms of the Jon Hopkins album were "this sounds like minimal techno from last decade" but I do think it sounds like the kind of album Nathan Fake should have made at Border Community's critical peak, it is certainly better than the last one he released.

God I fucking love the way Rannoch Dawn builds manic tension.

Couldn't see a Clark thread and here seems a good a place as any:

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2013/11/clark

(Seemed a bit odd for xlr8r to be apologetic that it's a bit intense).

Anyone got tickets for Holden at the Roundhouse this weekend?

Looking forward to it, cant imagine he's do a live show without having it pretty much locked down.

Heard him at his modular rig during the Caribou Vibration Ensemble gig and it's immense.

Dreamt I saw Holden on TOTP, which was odd.

Have no recollection of that.

Still never figured out who The Late Great was/is.

v4h1d

Holden's mix on Avery's most recent Rinse show was incredible. Haven't heard anything like it.

Don't really know who v4h1d is, so...

you've only been posting in the same threads as him (inc this one) for a decade nick

Well yes, and I recognise it as a name on a messageboard and a set of opinions that go with it, but I have no ideas who v4h1d is beyond that. I've always been crap with keeping up with who people are on here unless I've met them or worked with them. And sometimes even then.

love you, too

Yeah, I don't know who you are, either, in terms of joining dots from ILX to elsewhere. It took me a year to realise who Imago was.

I didn't expect you too, I feel like tlg/moonship/etc has a pretty well-defined thread persona, but if you're not here often, it's probably not as rigid

Yeah, I don't think I'm here anything like often enough over the last four years or so to keep up with things.

i'm not asking you to know everything about him, i was just surprised you seemed not to have heard the name of one of ilx's most long-standing posters before

I didn't mean I don't know the name, just don't know who he/she is. When someone you've never met changes from one pseudonym to another on a messageboard you use vaguely infrequently and there's no avatars or account details etc to keep track, it's pretty difficult to know who's who.

identity is fleeting

have you thought about how this makes the late great feel?

i didn't think so.

btw I am tuomas

have you thought about how this makes the late great feel?

Irritated and hating on drippy indie-dance fanboys, probably.

Diddums.

great, now my cover is blown

Don't ever join the clandestine services.

sorry mang

Who the fuck is 'mang'?!

http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1247519186-scarface-photo-xl-scarface-6235696.jpg

Luke Abbott's new album is doing more for me on first play than the James Holden one ever really managed.

Anyone else go to the Holden/Koreless/Luke Abbott Terry Riley homaging thing at the Barbican last night? SO GOOD.

Sounds interesting. What was it like?

Funny, I dug out an old mix of Border Community stuff I made back in '06 to listen to at the gym just yesterday.

Going to see James Holden again next month! His live setup sounds cool.

Long modular synth pieces (c. 40mins) from both Holden and Abbott. Abbott's was a big drone piece, essentially, Holden's was incredible. He had a (fairly restrained) tabla player with him and the were sitting opposite one another, he hit on this one gorgeous melody and just let it run and run and run, building and building more synth lines over the top of it.

Koreless had a ten-piece string section, all sitting in a line, in the dark, each with one large light bulb in front of them. Each player played one note and one note only whenever their light came on, playing it differently according to the brightness and duration of the light. Koreless was off to the side of the stage, controlling the lights via computer and therefore essentially both conducting and scoring the piece in real time. It wasn't that minimal, the patterns kept changing and getting more and more complex, the whole thing was astonishing actually.

that sounds fantastic. i'd love to hear a version of In C played entirely on digital instruments or whatever...

sounds amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQsHZ0eyPl8

new james holden finally out next month, strongly suspect it's going to be incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58y6Kdv9ZV4

out on november 3 on border community

nice!

I was relistening to James Holden's "At the Controls" mix the other day and remembering how enjoyable his style is

Out tomorrow. Hope I can pick it up.