Not sure what to think of the Beatrice Dillon record yet. It seems studiously disinterested in sound design (although it's so dry that it probably sounds amazing on a loud system). I like the rigor of only using one bpm and having some strict limits on sounds & approach, but this will probably work better as one quirky track popping up in a mix vs a full album listen.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 10 February 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
was just coming here to post exactly one track from the dillon
https://open.spotify.com/track/27J1E34ijJP5i9OY9fZbNL?si=irNChf0vR_i8RFJnPprIag
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 10 February 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
my pick as well!
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 10 February 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
huh i like that album. good mix of electronic sounds and analog(-sounding) sounds
― na (NA), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 15:55 (four years ago) link
it’s good! but a little academic. im old enough to remember when deconstructed meant lots of breaking glass sounds
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
id say the Dillon is ‘electronica’ rather than ... the titular genre. for me, the latter is a descendant of a constellation of uk styles (weightless grime being a huge precursor) and sort of forges an experimental ethos from within the club tradition rather than foisting external experimental traditions into club (that’s electronica for me). im sure that distinction isn’t as tidy as that but it’s something ive been ruminating on. the fisherian “pulp modernist” slant to this inchoate genre is what i like about it
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
I like that. Also wow, I just read this today:https://dotheastralplane.com/2020/02/12/all-that-is-solid-melts-into-business-techno/#more-11438
New modernist formulations are needed and dance music is rife with potential...In the next part of this essay, I’d like to dive further into music that represents a new, capacious modernism. Across several essays, the late Mark Fisher, elucidated a conception of a pulp modernism that embraces the grotesque, the weird and a “heteroglossic riot of styles and tones.” Fisher’s original essay referred to The Fall, but the ideas within can be applied to a far more dynamic range of contemporary music. More on that tomorrow.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 13 February 2020 01:29 (four years ago) link
https://salviatek.bandcamp.com/album/herramientas-para-el-club-2020
Something to take a look through on Salviatek, I gravitate mostly to the beats from Mexico and South America and the stuff that has crossover with hard drum at the moment.
If anyone wants to dig through my Bandcamp listening it's below.
https://bandcamp.com/pattern_loading
― pattern loader, Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:10 (four years ago) link
NAAFI 10 yr anniversary comp:https://naafi.bandcamp.com/album/naafi-x
Been meaning to listen to more of this Minor Science record on Whities:https://whities.bandcamp.com/album/second-language
Mixed pop/rave-y club edits from Bored Lord:https://boredlord.bandcamp.com/album/in-case-we-never-get-to-rave-again
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 April 2020 16:23 (four years ago) link
this nazar kicks ass
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lu5WcIUo0YxtRBKituyIsFP-rKQo45GFA
disappointed by minor science ... too emo? looking forward to NAAFI
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Friday, 10 April 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
Also this DJ Delish EP is my fav dancefloor collection in awhile:https://djdelish.bandcamp.com/album/kv5-stern-learm
Sunareht released some b-sides that are still great, in his trademark drumless percussive style:https://sunareht.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-sagas-unfinished-ones
I copped this remix on Svbkvlt:https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/track/ganglion-gooooose-remix
Another great dancefloor record:https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/lax
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 April 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
newish batu just slaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqhMbi2YlOY
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 11 April 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
https://djmag.com/longreads/uk-club-music-evolving-how
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 11 April 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
Heard the first track on Aya's NTS show, really lovely:https://nsma-noise.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghosts-that-gave
(not to be confused with ilxor Unperson)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 13 April 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
Just came across this Strick & Avernian EP from last year (or maybe I heard and forgot), but these are absolutely perfect drum trax:https://avernian-and-strick.bandcamp.com/
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
I enjoyed the Minor Science record, but 'Balconies' is a much less fiddly banger compared to anything else on the there, it sounds like a Sinjin Hawke/Zora Jones track
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
I contributed to a track on here, but have to post anyway because it really is a great compilation: https://awesomeagency.bandcamp.com/
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 20 April 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
sick will check soon
i think i need to give the MS another chance; honestly just wanted an album full of 'volumes' reworks lol
new hodge kicks ass. bristol seems so cool (i know i am late to having this opinion)
https://hodgebristol.bandcamp.com/album/shadows-in-blue
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 20 April 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
Getting around to that Hodge record now and there are some sick tracks, like 'Sol' and 'Lanes'
I really like the track here from Clemency: http://truantsblog.com/2020/interview-clemency/
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
Today's Bandcamp crop
Osheyack on Svbkblt is really fun, sounds like Chinese folk music mixed with hardcore: https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/memory-hierarchy
Dane Law - Algorithmic Music for Synthesized Stringshttps://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/algorithmic-music-for-synthesised-stringsNo beats here, but I absolutely love this release from my APR friends. Hyper-focused and the title is self-explanatory, but a beautiful listen with a lot of variation within the limitations.
K-Lone - Cape Cira (Wisdom Teeth)https://wisdomteethuk.bandcamp.com/album/k-lone-cape-cira-lpStill getting into this but very pretty so far.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 April 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
Absolute all-star lineup on this remix EP, jesus:https://zulimusic.bandcamp.com/album/trigger-finger-remixes
Debut EP from Clemency, really hypnotic & minimal beats:https://clemencyuk.bandcamp.com/album/references
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 1 May 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
Getting overwhelmed by all these giant comps and 'rarities'/vaults releases, but definitely going to go through this R&S comp:
https://randsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-order-to-care
I've had the BFTT track for awhile, love that one.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
Also Ikonika's rarities comp has some greatness, including a new version of 'Shovel' (one of my fave tracks ever)
https://ikonika.bandcamp.com/album/rarities-vol2
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
Absolutely massive
https://tectonicrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/cocktail-party-effect
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 18 May 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
Obviously a deluge today, first of all the Google doc of 1000+ Black producers/artists for Bandcamp day: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OIUBp4kFxmpWJihhq6WLwJQR1Am4DsD59bEYlJZxeGY/htmlview?usp=sharing&pru=AAABcqVgZAE*Liusbx4IHxqJsSS8QdRLng
I'm going through all my notifications but some highlights so far:
Nidia on Principehttps://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-2
DJ Swisha x Kush Joneshttps://djswisha.bandcamp.com/album/outta-bounds-ep
A couple older DJ Swisha tracks that are still real funhttps://djswisha.bandcamp.com/album/i-feel-it-activation-groove
New York Dance Music III (Towhead Records)https://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/new-york-dance-music-iii
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 June 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
new Lurka is cool if a bit stressful
https://lurka.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-hi-tek-ep
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Friday, 5 June 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
This Nahash LP on Svbkvlt is pretty sick so far:https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/flowers-of-the-revolution
More dark percussion-heavy Matrix rave vibes from Ireland:https://floodireland.bandcamp.com/album/in-cascade(I have a collab on this one, full disclosure)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
hvl - alignment is massive ... swingy drums and minimal acid synths
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Sunday, 5 July 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
So if I love the Nazar record and have been talking about FIS for ages, this is the right place? Or like xin's record from last year?
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, 5 July 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
sure!
― solo scampito (mh), Sunday, 5 July 2020 23:59 (four years ago) link
fwiw there's a new Nazar EP as of Friday
― solo scampito (mh), Monday, 6 July 2020 00:00 (four years ago) link
This is the year of massive compilations that have too many tracks but are also infuriatingly high quality
New York Dance Music IVhttps://towheadrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/new-york-dance-music-iv
Verao Dark Hope (classic mode Principe)https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/ver-o-dark-hope
Physically Sick 3https://physicallysick3.bandcamp.com/album/physically-sick-3
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 July 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
While it is certainly in the realm of gqom, I think this new EP from Menzi is sick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7FahbPRU1M
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Thursday, 9 July 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
idk why i suck so bad at links, here is the HVL
https://kiyadama.bandcamp.com/album/alignment
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Thursday, 9 July 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link
Thanks for sharing that Menzi EP, tables. I posted a couple of gqom bangers (of the nonderground kind) on the Rolling Afro thread last week btw icymi ymmv etc
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 10 July 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
Np, breastcrawl. I need to set aside a day to go through the Afro thread, I returned to ILX in June and it was already so overwhelming that I bookmarked it three posts in.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
Also, glad you dug the Menzi! It's good.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 10 July 2020 18:34 (four years ago) link
best thing i have heard in ages is this by someone from poland :
https://malim.bandcamp.com/album/moonshine
it just kicks my head all over the place.
― mark e, Friday, 10 July 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
I like that, mark. it does what it's doing very well.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
yeah, i have subsequently dug into their other stuff in recent weeks.both of the tropicadelia mixtapes are really good fun.but nothing hits the spot quite as much as moonshine.
― mark e, Friday, 10 July 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
The gqom thing reminded me - I posted this on Rolling Afro back in February:
Desire Marea (half of queer duo FAKA) dropped an album last month with experimental art pop. There’s a video for “You Think I’m Horny”, but check out highlights like “Zibuyile Izimakade” and “Tavern Kween” as well.Pitchfork reviewed it, favourably. There must be other suitable threads for this - not sure which ones though. It’s probably not clubby enough for Jordan’s (post-)Reconstructed Club Music thread. Anyone have any ideas?
Not gqom, but South African, and on second thought it might actually fit here, some of the tracks anyway - experimental: yes, art: yes, pop: scratch that. Check also "Thokozani".
from that Pitchfork review: "on Desire, their exploration of the divine takes them in a many-splendored multitude of stylistic directions, often within the span of a single track: liturgical drone, galloping club beats, existential noise."
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Friday, 10 July 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
I really liked that Desire Marea album, the last track is incredible
― boxedjoy, Friday, 10 July 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link
https://houndstoothlabel.bandcamp.com/album/alterity
Tailor made for this thread
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Friday, 10 July 2020 21:15 (four years ago) link
Desire Marea stuff is great, thanks!
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Friday, 10 July 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
Love this amazondotcom + Siete Catorce EP:
https://subreal.bandcamp.com/album/vague-currency
And Lighght's new EP has some bangers:
https://lighghtmusic.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-i-cant-go-out-tonight-im-too-busy-going-in
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 31 July 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
This is a pretty unique record, sort of a blend of modern sound design, post-punk, noise, etc: https://thoom.bandcamp.com/album/pork
I believe she also produced most of this Lebanese rap record: https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sawa-sawa
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 7 August 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
On the fun dance music side, this is just pure siren sound effect joy:https://djhank.bandcamp.com/track/traffic-control
And this Leonce x Neana ep has some cuts for sure:https://leonce.xyz/album/steam-room
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 7 August 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link
That Houndstooth comp is out, lots of wild tracks, brings together a lot of ppl associated with different crews/labels (Svbkvlt, NAAFI, etc):https://houndstoothlabel.bandcamp.com/album/alterity
It looks like Houndstooth is picking up where Tri Angle left off with Lotic, Aya, etc
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 28 August 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
I was going to post it as possible Jordan-bait!
I have mixed feelings about that label jumping in and have fears it's a weird, semi-gentrified stamp of approval despite loving the music
― irn-scamp (mh), Saturday, 29 August 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
The Gooooose track on that is excellent, sounds really fresh but also some classic filter sweeps in there
― lukas, Monday, 31 August 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
Excellent news, the last Smurphy was wonderful
― boxedjoy, Friday, 30 October 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
That Smurphy is...whew, really good.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 2 November 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
The Nazar mix for RA is pretty wild (and dark). Really enjoyed the Jamz Supernova one too, more on the conventional side but it led me to this great South African ballroom track (reading about Kirvan Le Cap now, who sadly was murdered earlier this year):https://cajoux.bandcamp.com/track/s-wat-jy-wil
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
Do we feel okay about Howie Lee here? This came out a few months ago but I dig.
https://maloca.bandcamp.com/album/7-weapons-series
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 15 November 2020 21:47 (three years ago) link
Ooh this is great, ty.
Digging the latest Principe release:https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/c-digo-de-barras
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 16 November 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Thanks! I need to remember to check my "Bandcamp" email folder more often, I probably got an announcement about that but haven't checked in a minute.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 16 November 2020 22:56 (three years ago) link
xp ben ufo recommended codigo de barras via twitter and i have to say it's very cool
― fleet doxes (map), Monday, 23 November 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
What do we consider Giant Swan? The preview track from their upcoming EP is very noisy, I love it.
https://giantswan.bandcamp.com/album/do-not-be-afraid-of-tenderness
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 29 November 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link
Industrial techno, I guess? I enjoyed their debut, looking forward to the EP.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 29 November 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
It's too weird to be industrial techno, I think. That's there, sure, but there's also the Sewn Leather/DJ Dog Dick noise punk/grind thing, the more refined digital hardcore of the late 90s and early 2000s, and some dare I say OPN-like vibes on the debut. The track above is definitely not the best representation, but I love it still
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:11 (three years ago) link
I don't think it's too weird to be industrial techno, it reminds me immediately of Fortran 5
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Sunday, 29 November 2020 22:33 (three years ago) link
I was talking more about the debut, not the track above, though you have a good point!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 30 November 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
Listening to Richard Devine - Systik for the first time now and this is really good. If you enjoy Exai/elseq/NTS era autechre this is definitely somewhere in the same area.
― silverfish, Friday, 4 December 2020 16:33 (three years ago) link
Well here are three more compilations I'm slowly working my way through, everything is extremely high-quality and creative and I hope I actually listen to them more than once:
Timedance 5 year comp:https://timedance.bandcamp.com/album/sharpen-moving
Ghost Notes (Impey's label):https://ghostnotesworldwide.bandcamp.com/album/studies-vol-1
Svbkvlt (the advance tracks were amazing):https://svbkvlt.bandcamp.com/album/cache-02
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 4 December 2020 16:59 (three years ago) link
Also that Nazar EP (super dark, dubby kudoro):https://nazar.bandcamp.com/album/territorial-ep
And more ravey stuff from Bored Lored, who's released an EP on like every Bandcamp Friday, and they're all good:https://boredlord.bandcamp.com/album/convolution
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
Yeah, that Devine EP is probably the best thing he's done so far.
2xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
Ok lol @ at the 'more cowbell' track on the Svbkvlt comp
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 4 December 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
Have we talked about File Under UK Metaplasm here?
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:10 (three years ago) link
came for the cover art, stayed for the 808 bass
https://littlebeatmore.bandcamp.com/track/uhuru-republic-feat-splendore-konyagi-a-gogo
― the late great, Sunday, 6 December 2020 16:39 (three years ago) link
I think I posted the Rian Treanor album upthread, but it's wild, I need to go back to it. I like it more after learning it came out of working with some of the Nyege Nyege crew.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 7 December 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
It was a grower for me, but I think that's because it begins in a somewhat lackluster way, and then only really gets going by the fourth track, which is my favorite on the record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bTYKEgFYow
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 7 December 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
From there on, though, it's excellent!
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Monday, 7 December 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
Been listening this one a lot, it has some fun bangers: https://soniacalico.bandcamp.com/album/simulation-of-an-overloaded-world
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 22:29 (three years ago) link
Jordan I just want to thank you for being so constantly on-the-ball with this stuff, a lof of great stuff that would have otherwise passed me by in this thread
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 17 December 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:36 (three years ago) link
2nded
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Thursday, 17 December 2020 15:40 (three years ago) link
thirded!
― "Bi" Dong A Ban He Try (the table is the table), Saturday, 19 December 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
yup
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 December 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
this Sonia Calico album is amazing
― silverfish, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 16:52 (three years ago) link
after playing that Sonia Calico album, the first two tracks spotify auto-played for me were from two 2020 albums I like very much with similar vibes which haven't really been mentioned much here:
Blacksea Não Maya - Máquina de Vénus DJ Plead - Going for It
― silverfish, Tuesday, 22 December 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
this might fit here - awesome stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWXTQkNSRlcD'Vo • Mbalax
from the compilation Pluralistic Reflex on Byrd Out
fwiw - I don't any of these names: "D'Vo [is] the solo electronic output of Tilé Gichigi-Lipere of Cykada, Myriad Forest and more."
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Sunday, 27 December 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
Bandcamp link for that album: https://byrdout.bandcamp.com/album/pluralistic-reflex
― obsessed with quality over quantity or the need to produce tracks (breastcrawl), Sunday, 27 December 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
Love the sound world of that track.
Suggestions for 2021 thread title?????
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 28 December 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
rolling cyberpunk 2077
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link
lol. Rolling Matrix 4 Rave Scene.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 December 2020 21:14 (three years ago) link
this bangshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2a2sywLDag
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 January 2021 06:21 (three years ago) link
yes thanks to jordan for being a boss at not only curating but producing this style
perhaps just like "rolling experimental post-bass", is that too clinical? i can't think of any more jokes. but i do think that is the difference between this and the "doing it wrong" thread which is for more shredded and lo fi traditional house and techno (i think?)
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 4 January 2021 16:22 (three years ago) link
Aw thanks <3
I agree with that, although the word "experimental" can be a touchy word for some. I'll start a new thread soon!
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 January 2021 16:38 (three years ago) link
Rolling Re-Re-Reconstructed Club Music 2021
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 January 2021 17:31 (three years ago) link