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

Jesse Somfay is what you need, such as his new album, very good, as in not shitty (like James Holden, for instance).

some shitty holden tracks i really like:

"i have put out the light"
"nothing"

and his rmxs of:
new order - someone like you
depeche mode - the darkest star

You can totally tell that he's a mathematician, from the way that he approaches music. I don't know how, but, erm, I think you can.
he said in an interview that his early stuff was made exclusively using trackers; a sure sign of some math/cs mentality

one thing that was refreshing about holden's mediocre album was its length, under 50 minutes. i do want to check out the somfay album but just thinking about the length of it (2 discs) exhausts me. one disc is "ambient" or whatever though, right? i still haven't gotten around to that 2cd minilogue album but maybe it's not worth it?

also, kinda bummed that it seems BC abandoned the "coloring contest" thing for their sleeve art

Ignore anything you read about disc one being ambient and disc two being techno, it's flat out untrue. There isn't really any straight up techno on it, the whole album is an exploration of sonic textures and soundscapes, some have repetitive 4/4 percussion, others don't (and no dancefloor material proper, really).

Anyone else listening to the new James Holden DJ Kicks release? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

And my favorite bit from the DJ Kicks thing, I just found out, turns out to be a version of a new Holden release out on !K7 - Triangle Folds

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

Spotify keeps on pausing for about 3 seconds between every track, which is not ideal for a DJ mix. And I can't read who the storming Mogwai remix is by (oh it's himself). But aside from that, yeah, this is pretty dope, but some more bangers would have been nice.

Anyone heard Holkham Drones by Luke Abbott? Think Kate for one would love it.

Its on spotify so I'm just putting it on now

OK, I like the name and Spotify can tempt me to listen to anything once, so I'll bite.

(Or at least until I dispell the illustion that Luke Vibert and a beloved ILX mod had a musical babby which would be awesome)

My biggest problem with this so far is the cover, really...

http://static.boomkat.com/images/356655/333.jpg

Does this dude *want* me to get an ophthalmic migraine looking at that?

Aye, the cover is a little... obnoxious. Well, the typeface is. Same on the rear tracklisting too.

Just about to go out for a bikeride with this in my ears. Anyone else listened yet? I fell in love with the opening track straight away, the rest is growing on me.

It was good, but I just really wanted to go back to listening to Diskjokke. Which is gonna be my problem with everything for the next few weeks, I suspect.

loved a remix of his that I heard last year (Mit - "Rauch"), I should check out the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Ya3g_TiPk

It was very Border Community, but a bit generic on first listen. I'll give it another go, but it didn't grab me like Nathan Fake does.

I never got on with Nathan Fake. Maybe I should try again.

i like the cover, but I like blurry text so I' a suckah

I'm a suckah

i can be a suckah for border community but this was pretty dull tbh. not bangin' or grindin' or squawkin' enough.

Anyone else listening to the new James Holden DJ Kicks release? Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn

So, I still agree with this...for the CD VERSION. DO NOT EVER BUY THE VINYL VERSION. It just came in the mail, and I am so, so SO disappointed. I knew it only had some of the tracks (it's a 2XLP, but even then it's length doesn't approach the CD version), but what I didn't realize is that most of the vinyl tracks are different mixes, and for some reason he decided to use mixes that are way worse and totally ruin everything. I'm just flabbergasted.

The Apparat one is coming in the mail, and if he ruined his tracks in a similar way (compared to the digital release I heard) I am going to shit my pants in the bad way

Is there a reason to even get the vinyl versions? Seems like they'd be decent unmixed, but a mixed 12" just sounds weird. Wouldn't flipping the record kind of kill it?

i assume they're unmixed?

http://www.junodownload.com/products/dj-kicks-dj-mix/1579466-02/

fully mixed version: £2 for the .wavs.

That's got to be good news for the person that bought the vinyls but still wants the full mix.

Holden's remix of The Sky Was Pink still pretty damn amazing

i guess Nathan Fake has a new album coming out
http://soundcloud.com/border-community/icenistrings

Yup, was listening to that on Spotify a bit

So the new Nathan Fake is good then? I'd always been a bit meh on the prospect of his albums but this looks like it could be decent?

http://www.factmag.com/2012/08/16/nathan-fake-steam-days/

it's aight

oh wait i wrote that review, lol

worth hearing, not especially wow, prob his best album yet but i wouldn't say it's a must-hear, just quite good

two word summary of your review, there? :)

I was more excited about the prospect of new James Holden until I heard this, which is nice enough but feels a bit too wonky.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFTXLT8V1UM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFTXLT8V1UM

(if someone could explain to me what I'm doing wrong with pasting a Youtube link that would be fab)

The album any good?

Yes! Absolutely loving The Inheritors. Really digging the whole strange earthy vibe to it.

MMHM VERY GOOD. It makes me want to read the book after which it is named... Has anyone read it?

I want this album.

his recent RA mix is great - "a companion piece to the album" he says
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=367

Blackpool Late Eighties is amazing.

he looks like shit in the new edition of mojo.
bloke seriously needs to get some proper food and sleep.

I like this record, I like the general pagan vibe to it. Quite a lumpy approach to rhythm, reminds me a bit of the some of the flirtations with dance by some of the bands at the noisier end of the indie spectrum (Fuck Buffoons, Astral Social Club... one song in particular sounds quite a bit like Atlas by Battles).

Oh, it's the Caterpillar's Intervention that's reminding me of Atlas.

It's the same schaffely glitter-stomp with the guitar strings being picked at just so.

Is it out yet? I didn't really get on with the last one but he's one of those producers I'm prepared to give the benefit of the doubt to on every release.

Out yesterday.

I've kind of avoided him until now as I've not been super impressed by Border Community in general, but he's a name that gets dropped so often by so many musicians I love, and the pre-release talk about this seemed like it'd be up my alley, so I picked it up.

He was born in (presumably) the same hospital as me, three weeks after me. Which is odd. If not remarkable.

I've not been super impressed by Border Community in general

Out of everything else I've heard of theirs, Holkham Drones by Luke Abbott is top quality stuff imo.

I find myself periodically surprised that Border Community is still a going concern, they just feel so of their time (ie 2005).

Aye, Holkham Drones was my favourite.

I fuck with this new Holden album. Damn.