Matias Aguayo

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I think this album has more in common with Adonis, Jamie Principle, Ron Hardy, than Dominik Eulberg or M.A.N.D.Y. I'm not saying it's retro or nostalgic, it doesn't sound like Chicago House, but it kind of feels like it at times

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

I get the Jamie Principle and Adonis references, but there seems to be less soul here.

Plus, I think maybe Chicago House is to Matias Aguayo as Sounding Sexy is to Trying To Sound Sexy.

But that might be a little harsh.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

ouch

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I've had this for a week now and I think it's brilliant. Very brooding and almost menacing in places. Just right. Take away "The Green and the Red" and the title track and it's perfect to my ears.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 18 November 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I was hoping to broaden the discussion on this record a bit, but nobody seems interested. The electronic bent ILMers are kind of absent lately maybe? Or maybe no one likes this record. Or maybe it's the time of year when everyone is content with

"Hey have you heard this remix? So fantastic!"

"Yeah, it is."

"Me, too."

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

"Could you YSI it, pleaze?"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 18 November 2005 21:40 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

So I'm still listening to this and still loving it. What does he use for the deep gurgly sound on New Life? I have no technical knowledge.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:44 (twenty years ago)

The bonus version of "De Papel" never fails to make me roffle in a good way.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:49 (twenty years ago)

I *really* want to love this, but I can't!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Do you like it?

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

...not really...

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

I say you gotta start with De Papel (both versions), New Life, and So In Love and let the rest creep up on you.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:17 (twenty years ago)

I think I like the title track best. Actually I sort of think the record gets progressively better as it goes along - at least if I skip track one as I like the bonus version of "De Papel" more than the original (more corny raps plz!).

It's a v. good album overall I think. I actually think a lot of it would work best though in a mix - I'd love to start a mix with "Are You Really Lost".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 15 January 2006 01:36 (twenty years ago)

this is a really exceptional record. i've been listening to it steadily since its release and i'm still not tired of it. shame it got a bit buried amidst the madness of kompakt's crazy second half of 2005.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:02 (twenty years ago)

i'll try again then

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 16 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

i think this is a nice, solid record. there are no moments of personal transcendence however.

can i derail another thread and say that jess is OTM about closer musik being the best artist lp on kompakt.

― cheshire05, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:07 (twenty years ago)

I think this may be a better LP than After Love though - the highs of "Departures" and "You Don't Know Me" may be higher but I think Are You Really Lost is more generally engrossing.

(I mean After Love is about as consistent as Touch, and the highs on the latter record (well, "Amabile" at any rate) are even higher!)

Oddly the a-side of the Kontrast record makes it appear that Leyers is moving in a similar direction as Aguayo - slow slow slow and totally trance inducing.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:18 (twenty years ago)

I think I agree with you tim, although the songs I like of closer musik, I really love, and the weaker ones I never listen to. I usually play 'are you really lost' from start to finish.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:42 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

I still find myself "singing" So In Love to myself all the time even though I haven't given the album a listen in several months. What a great track that is.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

same here :)

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

I've come to think this is kompakt's best album release, next to Closer Musik. "So In Love" has become my favorite track.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah "So In Love" is now my favourite track as well.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

I've come to think this is kompakt's best album release, next to Closer Musik. "So In Love" has become my favorite track.

this comparison has inspired me to give are you really lost another try.

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:39 (twenty years ago)

off to the radio station to give it a whirl

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:39 (twenty years ago)

spicy house! still great :)

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i think "Well" is one of my favourite songs of the past few years. i mostly like this record. Well, Drums & Feathers and De Papel are all fantastic.

HOWEVER

have you ever seen a cover worse than this?

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-523257-1134573193.jpeg

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-523257-1134573193.jpeg

it's really quite amazing is it not?

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

ah shit

http://www.soundvenue.com/upload/anmeldelse/2005-12/matiasaguayo_14122005_top.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I have seen much worse (at least its all in black and white, and its not overly inelegant...). Its also a very un-dance cover.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Saturday, 17 June 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

inelegant is exactly the word for it. not only is the drawing hideous but the way the text is layed out just baffles me.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I like the drawing but agree the text layout is messiness. What exactly is the drawing meant to be? It looks vaguely sexual whatever it is. Suits the music.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Saturday, 17 June 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

the live show is AMAZING

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 17 June 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

i think it's a side on view of woman with alot of hair putting her arm up to her face? i have to say the more i look at it (it is "un-dance", is that good?) the more i'm coming round to it.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, a women whose head is made entirely of hair! Actually the more I look at it the moreit looks like semi-porno drawn in the style of the moomins. Well its better than duff vector art/fractals isn't it?

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 18 June 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

NEW ALBUM IS A WORK OF SATANIC GENIUS.

Totally combines all the great qualities of the first album with "Minimal" with the output on his label. Starts of hypnotic dance and ends up totally weird - last track "Juanita" is like this epic dancehall number.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 09:30 (sixteen years ago)

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 09:31 (sixteen years ago)

when is it out? He was great live when I saw him a month or so ago.

― mmmm, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 09:40 (sixteen years ago)

in two weeks.
satanic? does he grunt?

― willem, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 09:41 (sixteen years ago)

excited abt this

― just sayin, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 09:49 (sixteen years ago)

More panting than grunting.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:03 (sixteen years ago)

i am incredible excited to hear this. i think mr. aguayo and his comeme label have been my favourite thing about 2009.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:06 (sixteen years ago)

incrediblY

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:09 (sixteen years ago)

Haha is it really called 'Ay Ay Ay'?!

― Matt DC, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:24 (sixteen years ago)

man i thought the single was really boring where it was trying to be inventive

― lorax body spray (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:26 (sixteen years ago)

Which single jordan?

― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:35 (sixteen years ago)

"rollerskate" - the "radio edit" was reviewed in pitchfork the other day. i guess the title & review threw me off a bit. i was expecting something a bit more... colorful? more disco? i mean, allowing that the guy is on kompakt and all but the idea of the song sounds cooler to me than the actual song does.

― lorax body spray (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:41 (sixteen years ago)

it does sound like the work of someone who might be satanic though

― lorax body spray (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:42 (sixteen years ago)

"Rollerskate" is one of the more minimal tracks - but did you like the first album Jordan? It strikes me as no less colourful than that stuff.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:46 (sixteen years ago)

this is the first that i've heard of him

― lorax body spray (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 10:49 (sixteen years ago)

!!! Okay Jordan, speaking personally I would say don't be too quick to judge, it took me ages to fully click with matias. Your reaction totally doesn't surprise me, I think I felt the same way about a lot of the Closer Musik material at first and then large swathes of his album at first. Not quite sure when and how it all clicked.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 11:08 (sixteen years ago)

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