it's just good mixing homes
Also I'm sure there was some mixing & mastering done on the mix as a whole
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 28 March 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
this seems like an ideal thing to listen to really stoned
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 28 March 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
lol yep
― flopson, Thursday, 28 March 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
I really want to see her live, why do DJs/electronic artists have to do such late shows
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 March 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
um
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 March 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
alexa what is a nightclub
yeah I know dude, I'm just near 40 and would really like for there to be maybe an evening club or something like that
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 28 March 2019 20:15 (five years ago) link
there are upscale events for that kinda stuff of the RBMA variety; i will certainly post here if she's in town, MA
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 28 March 2019 20:17 (five years ago) link
Next best thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yTIeANebtw
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 28 March 2019 20:21 (five years ago) link
London has an afternoon/evening club that ends at 11pm now, I'm going to see Ben Klock there on Saturday and tbh I'm approaching even that with some trepidation at my age.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 March 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
she's so good live
― ogmor, Friday, 29 March 2019 09:49 (five years ago) link
Really loving the DJ Kicks mix... It's worth noting that if you buy it from Bandcamp, besides the actual mixtape you'll get the original unmixed versions of all the tracks as a bonus! This is something they should with all mixtapes, IMO.
― Tuomas, Friday, 29 March 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
that's a really nice bonus
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 29 March 2019 12:06 (five years ago) link
This thing is unreal
― cheese canopy (map), Sunday, 31 March 2019 07:41 (five years ago) link
It's worth noting that if you buy it from Bandcamp, besides the actual mixtape you'll get the original unmixed versions of all the tracks as a bonus!
damn was hoping the K&D DJ-Kicks got the same treatment but no. although now I want to buy it on vinyl which ... why. why would I want a mixed album over four sides. but i do.
― lukas, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 06:45 (five years ago) link
full sub to the DJ Kicks Bandcamp is £85 for the year which gets you vinyl copies of each release as they come out, as well as streaming and d/ls and access to the archive of the last couple of years of releases. I signed up about a month ago.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 07:25 (five years ago) link
how many releases per year at that price?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 07:33 (five years ago) link
last year five, the year before that six, so I think you get pretty good value for money
― Neil S, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 07:36 (five years ago) link
yeah, sounds it.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 08:08 (five years ago) link
its the continuous mix on vinyl?
― flopson, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 08:53 (five years ago) link
seems weird
not sure what lukas is referring to
both the k&d and laurel halo vinyl are unmixed tracks
https://www.discogs.com/Kruder-Dorfmeister-DJ-Kicks/release/110174
https://www.discogs.com/Laurel-Halo-DJ-Kicks/release/13390242
― the late great, Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
O!
― lukas, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 12:40 (five years ago) link
I'm not trying to dampen anyone's enjoyment or taking anything away from LH, but while I enjoyed the mix, it didn't hit me as anything more special than a good mix? Idk, I hear really good mixes all the time these days (thanks to an overflow of sources like NTS, mix series from media outlets, other internet radio stations, etc).
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:08 (five years ago) link
it's a good mix
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:09 (five years ago) link
Yeah it feels like a good, slightly off-kilter mix but not radically better or worse than a lot of mixes you hear, including in the DJ Kicks series. I guess some of the comments on this thread are coming from people who don't listen to a lot of mixes but really engage with Laurel Halo as an artist? Which is fine, it's a very enjoyable and well put-together mix but I'm not quite feeling the rush.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
i listen to most of the dj kicks series; this felt like a standout.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
i would say on a technical mixing level good but not particularly special. on the other hand i think her selections are very very good. she has an ear for picking out weird tracks that sound good together. and a lot of the tracks on this were new to me, as were several of the artists, so there's that.
― the late great, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
I definitely don't listen to tons of mixes these days, and I was quite surprised how much this one hits a sweet spot for me. I don't at all think she owns this sound and would love more recommendations of similar off-kilter techno mixes.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
i listen to a lot of mixes and i think her selections for this have a wild and trippy energy with tons of enigmatic texture and the contrast between tracks is almost always unexpected and frankly bizarre in an electrifying way. i don't hear a lot of mixes that do that. also i don't even know what off-the-charts amazing technically great mixing would even sound like and don't much care to hear it if the selection isn't on par.
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
a few of the tracks have like an art-punk punch that feels legitimately destabilizing to me in a dance mix. i mean maybe what i don't listen to 'enough' of or whatever is like cutting edge nihilistic bizarre exploratory dance music in which case i'm very grateful for this mix.
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
a wild and trippy energy with tons of enigmatic texture
This nails exactly what I love about the mix. Reminds me a bit of Magda maybe.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
That all makes sense. I definitely remember when it was hard to access mixes, and commercial mixes were my first exposure to anything of the sort. Maybe now that everything is so easily accessible, elevating a mix to release status comes with unfair expectations.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
yeah i mean the micro-math of multiple little niche market hype bubbles interacting with each other seems to determine who gets shine among a large number of competent to great djs these days and that can get tiring but i try not to care so much when there are so many opportunities to hear excellent and transporting mix experiences day to day.
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
its a standout imo
― flopson, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:00 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
totally
― flopson, Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:45 (five years ago) link
I will say I think on a few listens I like the boiler room set posted above more than the DJ Kicks mix.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link
i am listening to quarantine rn
it is the best album ever
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Saturday, 6 April 2019 05:43 (five years ago) link
That DJ Kicks mix is still great, it deserves more love
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 22 September 2019 21:34 (four years ago) link
not that into DJ mixes in general, but I really like it
re-reading this thread makes me wonder what Ross is up to
― Dan S, Sunday, 22 September 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
hmmm I'm contemplating running a poll of her catalog.. I'm curious to see how that would turn out
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 23 September 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
(an album poll, that is, not a ballot poll)
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Monday, 23 September 2019 03:45 (four years ago) link
I think I still like Hour Logic the most, because of my attachment to the experience of discovering her work at a time when it felt like it was making a novel and exciting step towards a kind of new idm-ish sound for the 2010s, and was its own thing, before that would become relatively commonplace in the following years.
― ed.b, Monday, 23 September 2019 04:11 (four years ago) link
Quarantine. I'm still really amused how angry some people here got about that record.
― kraudive, Monday, 23 September 2019 12:05 (four years ago) link
King Felix spring is still her best record and slept on so yeah...
― Ross, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 1:04 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I just listened to this for the first time in years and it is incredible. Don't remember it hitting me so hard before. The drum programming is virtuosic, the samples and synths lush. All is well for the moment.
― J. Sam, Monday, 10 January 2022 04:43 (two years ago) link
The new Caterina Barbieri album giving me massive early LH vibes after a first bandcamp listen.
a lot more vocals that I was expecting, and the way they sit in the mix feels very Quarantine-era Halo.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Friday, 8 July 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
mix from julyhttps://soundcloud.com/discwoman/discwoman-27-x-laurel-halo
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:39 AM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink
if you haven't heard this mix, you owe it to yourself
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 14 November 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
she is on another level as a DJ, it's really impressive that every single track stands out in it's own way and the mix is stylistically all over the place, but somehow she manages to make it flow naturally and seamlessly. it's rare to hear something so eclectic that doesn't devolve into chaos.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 14 November 2022 21:23 (one year ago) link
I think I've said this before but seeing her DJ a few years ago was a great experience, lots of gqom and early bleep tracks, incredible energy
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:01 (one year ago) link
thrilled to announce my first album in five years, Atlas, is coming out September 22 on my new label Awe. You can listen to the first single 'Belleville', a piano ballad which features a harmony stack moment with @cobysey pre-order & more info here: https://t.co/9E8tirjQFs pic.twitter.com/wxJiutnNhj— Laurel Halo (@LaurelHalo) July 12, 2023
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 13:15 (eleven months ago) link