BPITCH records... Ellen Allien, Sascha Funke, etc.

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Yeah, that was it. Are they good live? I've heard Apparat is really great and apparently has switched up what he does live in the last year or two...

― mh, Thursday, 22 February 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Modeselektor are great live yeah!

(continued from the sandbox thread....)

Lex: "there's a LOT of cut-up beats and glitchy sounds on camping 3"

What I was trying to say first time was "well.. duh?? it's a bpitch compilation!" :D

so, I listened to Camping 3 properly (of course I'm buying it anyway!) and... I'm not sure it is "rather dissapointing", likely not as good as 1 & 2 but not bad, on a par with the pre-Camping comps, and a similar good/dud ratio as those. Not as streamlined with the pop-rave ANTHEMS (again, as pre-Camping) but that's only one side of them really.

I'll never love the Tomas Andersson (simply bad) and TimTim (been hanging out with Jamie Lidell??) tracks but otherwise, some interesting changes afoot... the straight-ahead techno feels a LOT more minimal, muscular and dark all of a sudden, and even quite m_nus sounding, if less fussed over, and less hooky. Paul Kalkbrenner as ever completely hit and miss, Sylvie Marks/Hal 9000 come correct with a breathtaking electropop confection that's a lot more sonically inventive than they ever seem to get credit for! The Jahcoozi track I actually like a lot, Sascha Funke, Feadz always reliable!, Zander VT v.nice, Ellen Allien and Apparat instantly recognisable as their sound, Modeselektor already knew & it's top, the rest... all needs more listens. Something of a "getting back to our roots" comp.? I'm quite happy with it :)

― fandango, Thursday, 22 February 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

okay maybe not "sonically inventive" more that I scratch my head at how stale and unsurprising the 'electro' so many other people make & rely on ends up sounding by comparison...

― fandango, Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Camping 12 inches have extended/more dancefloor friendly versions of the CD tracks, if you are looking for a little less cut up beats.

― Michael F Gill, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Andersson's cut for camping is bad, yes, but I think his Mot Matsalen! 12" is fantastic. I love playing both sides one right after the other.

― Jena, Friday, 23 February 2007 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah Mot Matsalen! is good too, I've not really been feeling his stuff since he had a 'hit', seems like a return to form.

As for Camping, Larsson's track is good too, wasn't really into his e.p. for them but 'Off Voices' is sweet. Ben Klock's contribution doesn't really go anywhere, Paul Kalkbrenner's is quite amusing in it being the kind of subtle-subtle locked trance that... you can't tell if the beat just changed, or did I just move my head a bit?? Ten tracks I really like, four I don't. That's still a decent hit rate imho.

― fandango, Friday, 23 February 2007 06:30 (nineteen years ago)

hey guys, anyone have a clue as to where the music sample on the front page of bpitch is from? (if it is from anywhere else to begin with) http://www.bpitchcontrol.de/

They had an even better one up about a month and a half ago. It was less echo-ey squarve wave and more cut up and reversed-type textures.

― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

'mot matsalen' and 'dubbel problematik' are both fantastic! so much better than anything on camping 3...

― lex pretend, Friday, 23 February 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

actually, as much as I do like mot matsalen! it wears out it's welcome/tricks after the 4 minute mark... "so much better than anything on camping 3" = bollox, imo.

― fandango, Friday, 23 February 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

he's probably the most overrated artist on bpitch, really.

― fandango, Friday, 23 February 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

But then (unlike you lex, correct me if I'm wrong?) I can really only take that kind of high-pitched screaming laptop electrohouse in v.v.small doses, so YMMV with your taste.

― fandango, Friday, 23 February 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

anyone heard the Damero lp? great on first listen!

― nerve_pylon, Monday, 19 March 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Listening to it now, extremely nice!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

And the Camping 03 compilation has its moments. Like the Modeselektor/Ninjaman track to which I listen right now.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

It pains me to say it but Modeselektor's Boogy Bytes is AWFUL.

― fandango, Friday, 23 March 2007 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Not necessarily Bpitch, but I'm looking forward to hearing Ellen Allien's Fabric mix. I very gladly will mention I had the fortune of seeing her DJ last night, which consequently knocked off my socks

― mehlt, Friday, 23 March 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

It pains me to say it but Modeselektor's Boogy Bytes is AWFUL.

is it? i have it and i keep being put off by the track listing. modeselektor were probably my least favourite bpitch act anyway though...

― lex pretend, Saturday, 24 March 2007 07:12 (nineteen years ago)

What's on it?

― Telephone thing, Saturday, 24 March 2007 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

Er, never mind, found a tracklist. Wasn't aware that this was coming out so soon...

― Telephone thing, Saturday, 24 March 2007 07:50 (nineteen years ago)

modeselektor were probably my least favourite bpitch act anyway though...

oh I can't be bothered...

maybe "awful" is a bit too strong but for a "joining the dots between loads of not often mixed together" genres type mix it's alright in a technical way, and yes, there are a few fun moments, a few bumping moments dotted throughout but it's quite funkless overall, feels loooong, often a touch 'obvious', occasionally just clumsy, and I wanted to turn it off the whole way through frankly... and it's massively inferior to their Boomkat http://www.discogs.com/release/264741 mix from a while back, and if I was to compare them, I can't think of anything redeeming in the new ones favour :(

― fandango, Saturday, 24 March 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

this stuff is all starting to bore me to tears :/

i may be losing the minimal techno faith!

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 24 March 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I already am big time (and Ellen's Fabric mix tracklisting looks somewhat unpromising as well) but I'm not sure what that's got to do with Bpitch especially??

(for my money what stuff they have released that fits with the 'minimal techho (tech-house)' label hasn't ridden the trend well at all, with a massive exception for the first two surprisingly great BoogyBytes mixes...)

― fandango, Saturday, 24 March 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

ok, maybe I'm not going to dog latin this thread... I'm thinking 'minimal' in the post-Get Physical sense I suppose here.

― fandango, Saturday, 24 March 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

ah but here to restore all faith is the b-side to the nu kiki single! it is BANGIN INNIT

WANNA GO RAVING NOW

― lex pretend, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I was definitely overlooking Kiki in that ill-thought out ramble above (whose stuff I tend to like a decent portion of, even when it's tool-y)... I've only heard a sample of "Gute Nacht" though, but BANGIN ?? yet more discreet & streamlined very nice minimalectrohouse... zzz

nu-rave is your fault too :-p

― fandango, Saturday, 24 March 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

nah it starts off like that and then you have this awesome builds like a monster breathing down your neck and these oscillating theremin sounds and then a plinky-plonky descending melody which makes me lose my miiiiiiind

i fought the good fight 'gainst nu-rave!

― lex pretend, Saturday, 24 March 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Ok that slow-down from Baby Kate (Platikman Remix) into Apparat is perfect. Fabric 34 people. Discus.

― Jena, Saturday, 14 April 2007 05:03 (nineteen years ago)

So this is clearly mixed on decks, there's a few very noticeable slips too, like during the Estroe track where some handclaps come in where she was going to mix into something else, then fades them back in and lets the track play for a while. Also a couple of not quite on the beat transitions, it's kind of endearing.

― Jena, Saturday, 14 April 2007 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's pretty much stellar except the thom yorke song halfway through, way to kill a mood ellen. i'm going to program it out though and then it will be perfect. opening selection is so, so on point.

― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

On first listen I'm underwhelmed, but it will probably grow on me with a few more listens - sounds a bit more 'home listening' than her other mixes which is ironic considering it's for Fabric.

I'm very excited about going to finallyy catch her DJing live though - anyone else going on the 12th of May to see her DJ in room 2?

― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 14 April 2007 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh shurrup... is it her own remix (of Thom Yorke track) btw?

I haven't heard it, didn't think it had leaked yet (been looking!)

― fandango, Saturday, 14 April 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

you've basically attained geir status, lex

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 14 April 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh fuck off vahid, like half your crabby posts aren't total self-parody!

can't we all just get along </lil kim>

― lex pretend, Saturday, 14 April 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ok that slow-down from Baby Kate (Platikman Remix) into Apparat is perfect. Fabric 34 people. Discus.

-- Jena

yeah, serious chills right there... the Apparat track sounds absolutely heavenly in that spot.

As for the rest of it, I'm liking! seems very much like her actual dj-ing has been for a while now (though tbh I've not been too into it, even if it makes sense here) even though I can't help missing her old noise-making big & chunky style, it's very much of-a-whole, stripped of extraneous, flash-in-the-pan/cutting-edge sounds, sticking to straight techno & acid, kinda falls in line with what seems like the whole long-minimal/trancey/back-to-house trend in Berlin (as far as you can tell from such a distance. jergins to thread!) and playing it deep and for the 'heads' more. Although I'm not saying by that there's anything that screams '2007' here, the very opposite, it sounds like it could have come out almost any year (not saying it's 'timeless' like the Fabric press, just saying...).

I'm not sure if the middle third isn't a bit too homogeonous and same-sounding though (mind you the whole mix feels kind of monocolour), overall this gripped me far better than I thought it would, but felt like a bit of a slog second go. If there's a criticism, it feels a little funkless maybe, and while it's definitely deep & warm & emotional, it's so seamless it's somehow a lot less dramatic overall, none of her trademark wild transitions.

So there's still a lot that's Ellen-ish here, but a lot that nudges it into other peoples kinda-generic territory too on the down side. I'm not sure how much I really like it yet but definitely on the positive (if guarded) side, glad she's not just made the same old mix again anyhow.

― fandango, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

Could definitely be a grower this one.

― fandango, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

lex i know i capped on you the other day about complaining abt thom yorke in the ellen allien mix (for god's sake, it comes after the greyest hour of mopey gritty microhouse and semi-dubstep IDM!)

-- moonship journey to baja, Monday, April 16, 2007

Luckily, I know how to read vahid's posts and his open-eared approach to genre descriptions(!) by now.

He also inadvertently nails why this mix is reminding me of the Trentemøller album, of all things (+ the cover art!!). I DO like it, but I also feel like I want to smoke up with it maybe :/ I'd definitely agree it's not exactly 'fun' or particularly extroverted (though it's not totally unclubby (the whole Artificial Latvamaki/Cobblestone Jazz run in the middle...) even if it does still have it's charms & some great moments. I kind of wish she hadn't gone for such a melancholy (though I wouldn't call it overwhelmingly gloomy or 'dark'), uncommercial, and occasionally boring mix for Fabric though... it feels like a techno cliche. Plus after the Tiefschwarz borefest (though I *much* prefer this!) I doubt that many people will be getting moist about yet more in a similar vein.

― fandango, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

actually it's the bit after thom yorke that's semi dubstep ... but you get what i mean

― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

I had the same reaction .... i.e. "wow, this is getting really clicky for a few tracks in a row now, where is this going ... oh! Thom Yorke."

I don't even like the Thom Yorke record but I think that song works in the mix.

― dmr, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't listened to the Fabric one yet and will check it out asap, but has anyone heard this Time Out mix that's also coming out?

Even though it's not on bpitch, I'm also really looking forward to the Apparat album's release..

― mh, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

The Time Out thing isn't a mix, just a compilation really (it does have a little bit of fading in & out though).

― fandango, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's sort of the worst of both worlds in that most of it's unmixed but the songs are truncated anyway. I still enjoyed it a lot though. I haven't heard the Fabric mix but the Time Out one is not at all dry, homogenous, or uncommercial.

― 31g, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Ellen's Boogy Bytes isn't really blowing me away so far :/

Fabric 34 took a while to grow on me but there aren't any real "whoa! rewind that..." moments and transitions to latch onto here yet like that one it seems. But then her mixes do usually take a couple of plays to reveal their flow.

― fandango, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

i'm liking it more than the fabric so far, but i've only listened to it 5 times or something.

i finally get to see her in may so there might be some projecting going on, like "ooh maybe she'll sound like this"

― jergïns, Saturday, 8 March 2008 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

really can't get into this :(

it's far from bad like, but it's really uncharacteristic, largely missing all the usual things that makes her mixes great, could be anybody really. oh well.

― fandango, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

Aside from her new remix album, . Ellen Allien and Sascha Funke have new discs coming out soon on BPitch. Anyone heard them?

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

really enjoying boogy bytes vols 2 & 3 ... i think the modeselektor one is pretty fantastic over the first half, maybe not so great in the second. it's a good representation of a cutting edge downtempo / IDM mix. not really something i recently thought i'd need more of, but there you have it. looking hard for kiki's volume now.

i heard a big chunk of ellen's fabric mix yesterday in amoeba SF. hearing it on good speakers in a cavernous concrete-floored warehouse space made it sound really, really great.

― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

the Sascha Funke leaked ages ago and is actually out now I think... it's a bit weird. Very kind of plastic deep-house, and more indulgent than his singles have been since 'Bravo', like Kompakt-esque levels of farty indulgence, some nice sound engineering but I pretty actively disliked it in the end.

― fandango, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Kiki's Boogybytes is fucking ACES. Along with Cassy from that year I haven't heard a better CD mix since (or podcast... etc) and not expecting to... but then I've lost a lot of interest in techno/house overall for the moment in any form, so it might be that I'm just not open to it right now.

― fandango, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

For me, Ellen Alien hasn't bettered her Weiss mix from a few years back:

http://www.discogs.com/release/69619

The diversity of that mix was really refreshing: Squarepusher rubbing shoulders with DJ Assault followed by some supremely glitch IDM. What more could you want? Her subsequent mixes have been a bit 'meh' in comparison.

― sam500, Monday, 10 March 2008 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

sam how many boards have you posted this on?

anyway, some vague news c/o http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/10521

ELLEN ALLIEN GOT SOOL
POSTED 10:33
On May 27th Ellien Allien will release SOOL, her fourth studio LP, and her first since 2006's almost unfeasibly brilliant collaboration with Apparat, Orchestra of Bubbles. It's a more straight-forward, dancefloor-aimed affair than you might have hoped for, favouring supple, subtle minimal techno rhythm over the cascading synths and dreamy vocals that made Bubbles so moving and memorable. The BPitch Control boss is also behind Vol. 4 of the label's Boogy Bytes mix CD series, out March 31st; you can catch her DJing out and about at Dublin's SPY (May 16th) and London's Fabric (17th).

I hope this is good.

― fandango, Friday, 21 March 2008 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

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