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i love that they are opening up their sonic palette too. the records sound bigger without compromising what you'd typically expect perlon to deliver.

that said, the villalobos single is sort of a hybrid affair. i am being lazy and calling it a dancefloor-friendly version of his last album. lots of deep stuff and improv going on, but the groove is front and center...well at least as close to front and center as he gets!

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 26 September 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

it's a lot less obscure sounding than his klf remixes, but it's definitely cut from the same mold, especially the b-side. (i absolutely love the klf remixes and they were the basis for the album iirc so this all makes sense. maybe.)

i am curious if they are going to do anything special for release number 50.

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 26 September 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

did anybody mention this luciano/mathew jonson co-op? it's sooo awesome! ("alpine rocket"). there's also some rumour going on about this stefan goldmann ep, with ricardo and hawtin spinning it to death - and at a night the test pressing got stolen right off ricardo's deck! now that's crazy. also looking forward to the dandyjack album. hmm...

― paulmall, Saturday, 1 October 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

i'm planning to play the B1 of the matt john tonight - seems like the most floor-friendly (sorry) track on the EP. the A side is nice, i still have no idea what's going on into it... much more k-housey than the B-side, more villalobosy with an akufen feel. i think it would clear most floors in BCN, though.

the new melchior is really nice as well.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 1 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

predictably i like the a side (it gets floor-friendly a few minutes in iirc). i will have to check the new melchior!

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 2 October 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

ah, by the way: perl 50 is the dandyjack-album ...

― paulmall, Sunday, 2 October 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

philip, are you talking about "galeria de bahia" or something newer? i thought "galeria" was surprisingly peak hour stuff. i mean it's still subtly repetitive and all of his stuff has that tracky dj tool feel (which i love), but this one feels like an attempt at a more mainstream feel instead of the after-after-hours vibe his stuff usually projects.

i would love if perlon released new work along the lines of the collaboration behind the "windowshopping" single (baby ford, zip, and melchior).

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 2 October 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

The new Dandy Jack CD on Perlon is ace. Funky and totally immersive, with a bit of a Nature Records flavour too (ie, Raiders of the Lost Arp, Marco Passarini.) In fact, some tracks might even be a bit too self involved/complex for the dancefloor? I have somewhat determined this by noticing the record sounded twice as good listening as I went to sleep last night then when I was taking the train to work.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 20 October 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

I put that on and after ten minutes I thought, "ah, another Perlon record. GOOD."

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

yay! so is the similarity to nature melodic or rhythmic?

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

the new perlon - 'my auntie' by cassy is rocking my day.

i think it's a shame they didn't get kalabrese to make more records. his two non perlon releases this year have been fab.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 15 December 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Perlon please please please please start selling digital downloads.

That Dandy Jack double pack is really swell.

― jeffery (jeffery), Thursday, 15 December 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah heard the new Dandy Jack is brilliant.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

i guess the dandy jack requires deep listening. i've skimmed through it a couple of times in the shops but it didn't make me want to buy it (i think it's the only perlon record i've not bought). everyone however tells me it's great. i just wish i had the time for deep listening!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 15 December 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

It's true, deep listening really helped me out with the record. It's in my top ten of the year.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 16 December 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

cassy's "my auntie" is a great single! the tunes are hypnotic and rhythmically disorienting like the best perlon, but take the sound somewhere closer to classic jacking house. is cassy the first (solo) woman to release on perlon?

― tricky (disco stu), Friday, 16 December 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

umming & ahhing over narcotic syntax's calculated extravagent licentiousness & reptile sweat accelerator EPs. anyone want to make a case for/against their purchase?

― etc, Friday, 16 December 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

Mind if I a) agree with Cassy love, b) agree with Dandy Jack love, c) make a very brief case for purchasing Narcotic Syntax d) agree with Stirmonster's views regarding Kalabrese, except for the fact I only know of one recent Kalabrese release (the excellent "Huhnerfest" on Stattmusik) and would like to know more about his other release.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 16 December 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

"calculated extravagent licentiousness"....

Yes! do it....one of my fav perlon tracks. that swinging latin and echo'd drum sound just gets the people moving around the floor. the kinda tune that makes people put one arm up in the air and jump on one leg

― matte (matte), Friday, 16 December 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

i work for a digital download company and we have the Perlon cataloge for sell. well, when we launch, we'll have the entire Perlon cataloge plus loads of other likeminded stuff. it's coming, be patient.

― biz, Friday, 16 December 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

YSI?

(j/k)

― Oh Oh Oh Oh Ah (fandango), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

this is the other one jedmond. he only has one track on it but what a track! when he sings the line about 'john coltrane', people lose it.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, I just heard a snippet at a store and have to track it down now.

In regards to the Dandy Jack album, if you just want to skim it, I'd say go from the end of "Arabs in the Desert" and into the beginning of "Samba Lubeck". To semi-repeat myself, in regards to the Dandy Jack album, if you want to give it a deeper listen, I'd say go from the beginning of "Arabs in the Desert" and through to the end of "Samba Lubeck".

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

"Casper House" was the most immediate track on my first listen to the Dandy Jack album.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

once again, i will stand 200% behind the dandy jack album (and at first i didn't like it AT ALL)... i really think it needs to be listened to in its entirety, over quite a bit of time... skimming just won't reveal much.

the stefann goldmann is fucking fantastic. three killer tracks.

just bought cassy yesterday but haven't listened yet.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Saturday, 17 December 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

it's prime 5am endup material. :)

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 17 December 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

I am convinced the reason people don't like better music over here is that clubs must close at 3. All this stuff goes in weird post 3am directions.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

i think the cassy would work in a primetime set though, but because it's perlon it's a really flexible record too. when i say "5am endup material", i am actually referring to a san francisco club that plays dark, dubby and pumping house starting really late in the night and going past dawn where people really dance. it's very much an anything goes serious nightclubbing type of vibe.

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

i intend to play it at 2am (ish) tonight.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

sweet! i am probably going to go hear dan bell tonight, maybe he will play it. he was supposed to play with zip too, but no zip...

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

that zip still eludes me. one day.....

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

you should have a perloptimo night!

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 17 December 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

i intend to! i have around a dozen perlons in my box, all filed in order of each successive colour scheme change. nerd!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

nerdy, yet undeniably classic!! you'll have to let us know if you do the night.

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

oh, i see. a whole night of perlon? i have a feeling i'd be the only person round my way who'd enjoy it.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

i was going to ask how the whorehouse has been going down.

i didn't necessarily mean a whole night, more like get zip to play with you guys.

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

although i bet a perloptimo mastermix would be hot.

― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:35 (twenty years ago)

we're doing a whorehouse tonight in glasgow, hence all the perlons. but yes, that is a plan for next year to do a perlon night with zip and hopefully former perloners morane live.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Saturday, 17 December 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

hi there!

please tell me, where is the club when villalobos' "True To Myself" is the climatic killer dancefloor tune. where the crowd lose their shit.

cos whereever that club is (and there must be, otherwise i lose all faith), its the cloosest, sexiest, lithest best club ever.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 18 December 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

it's in magda's pants.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 18 December 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

was listening to that new morane record on the train home; so strange

did you play that cassy in the end, stir? I remember 'the kitchen' finally making some sense; when played REALLY loud it's killer

and I wd be down fr a perloptimo (!)

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

i did play the cassy and a few other perlons but not as many as i'd hoped to. in fact i ended up playing a totally different bunch of records than i'd intended to for some reason. it was good to finally meet you cozen.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 18 December 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

How was Dan Bell, tricky?

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

that magda comment is priceless.

xpost, i stayed home and mixed and watched eraserhead instead. what a truly fucked up film. oddly beautiful though. the monsoon weather kind of killed any motivation i had left by the time i decided that it would be good to socialize outside of an ILM perlon thread.

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh well. I was thinking about going, but ended up driving around in the rain until late. Now my street is flooded. I saw that Heartthrob is coming up at Kontrol though!

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, is the Morane really good? I've only heard "Living On A Traffic Island" and wasn't really into it.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Sunday, 18 December 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

(dude i wish rx was not the default option for those into more adventurous forms of house and techno because it is not a real nightclub. i think it's cool and i go a lot, but it's a weird space. insert rant about the bizarre conservatism of sf's music scene here.)

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

(Oh, I don't think it's a great space for minimal house nights either! It's narrow and weird and too bright. It's a gallery. end rant.)

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

(exactly! it's part of the reason i didn't go last night)

back to the perlon: loving the new stefan goldmann single too. all three tracks are great as philip says above.

also, like others here i have not given the dandy jack album enough time yet...

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

i think i either really like or love everything perlon put out this year except for the narcotic syntax single which i don't remember even hearing.

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 18 December 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

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