The producer known as ACTRESS and his r&b concrète

So is it pretty much confirmed that those one-off cassingles on Ninja Tune lately have been Actress? THAT KNIGHTSBRIDGE OG, DIAL 666 8100, and BANK OF ENGLAND?

say what?

Yeah, there's been a series of single-track cassette releases on Ninja Tune over the last couple weeks that have had people playing Spot the Anonymous Producer. The all-caps phrases are the artist names they were released under; the tracks are, respectively, "ZENO'S PARADOX," "UBER SPLIFF TO GATWICK" and "CHAOS RAIN"

haha sounds dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wTUQXiLV-Q

must admit i prefer the first single

X22RME video has very brief shot of Crystal Palace park (the Bowl). So yay for that and I will likely buy your record.

dj kicks is a ***** masterpiece

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late great OTM

This new single made me feel sick

how so

i preferred the first single

album out today

"RUNNER" is so good

This may be my favourite yet. As expected, I quite like his pseudo-remix of Fauré's Requiem.

Disappointed by this. I dunno, it sounds like a Clark album or something. Ok background music when it's on, but can't remember much about it after.

"RUNNER" is so good

Yep

i like the new record a lot

i still haven't heard it! my record store didn't get in their copies on friday. going to have to wait a few more days ...

I think it is his best album yet.

mystery solved

https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/20825

This is fantastic, and probably his most accessible album yet. Either this or Splazsh is his best for me

this guy's music makes me fall asleep and have weird dreams. every. single. time.

I like this album a lot but it might be more fair to call it a beat tape

His entire footballing career could have been one slow slide down the pyramid from West Brom and it would still have been more exciting than his music.

or your posting

fuck excitement

liking this a lot more than ghettoville so far

I like it a lot and think it does justice to the "r&b concrète" Nakh description in thread title.

I cant even remember what Sweet Exorcist sounded like, but a lot of this is vibing listening to them on a tape walkman in the early 90's.

One of my favourite Actress collabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1KLmphseFs

New album is pretty great I think.

This might be a bit of a shot in the dark, but if any Glasgow posters were thinking of going to see him at the Art School this coming Saturday, I have a ticket but can't make it, so post here or Ilxmail me if you want it.

You would get the bonus prize of hanging out with ilxor paolo for the evening.

Event details here for anyone interested:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?946991

HIYA! my email is scottjamesramage at googlemail dot com

Just sent you an email :)

Why is "senorita" from his 1st album only 2 minutes, should have been 10 minutes or something, arrgh. Some other tracks too.

I was disappointed by his new AZD I must say, too straight forward. But I saw it on the record store yesterday day and almost bought it.

His latest album is beautiful and I cant stop listening to it and not enough people are talking about it

AZD?

I agree, I'm a big fan of Actress generally but it took me a long time to listen to this for whatever reason. I think there's something that happens in all popular music but seems amplified in electronic/techno, where the novelty of a new sound or approach wears of very quickly. So AZD is a perfectly elegant and beautiful expression, but it doesn't have that shock of the new. It's definitely been overlooked/underheard.

I'm not well versed in Actress but definitely found AZD approachable while still esoteric, so A+ here

AZD has been growing on me. Hearing it the car has helped me appreciate its innate strangeness a lot more.

there is an early Warp feel to this in places that reminds me of listening to Sweet Exorcist when I was a kid. I can understand it not getting universal love, but I have a lot of time for Actress's thing.

It's been growing on me as well, since I wrote here earlier. Guess I had to listen to it in one long stretch, not the detailed listen, to appreciate it.

Texture has always been one of the primary concerns of Actress (aka Darren Cunningham), his music melding peculiar samples with decayed dancefloor sounds to create abstract, R&B concrète

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/actress-london-contemporary-orchestra

tried this album a few times.
didn't really do much for me.
but its possible I was not in the right place for it.

that levantis "romantic psychology" record is flipin spiffy. a cold damp cave / ceremonial robes

ahh .. i should clarify, I meant the actress vs LCO album that's due out soon.

it's not so different from the new oneohtrix, but still has that more subdued/poised, soupy actress quality that I find makes it very listenable

ah man i LOVED the vs LCO single, looking forward to the album

wasn't really feeling AZD apart from "blue window", for some reason!