Current bobbins

Johannes Volk - Inner Fusion

https://johannesvolk.bandcamp.com/track/inner-fusion

(I follow Ben UFO on Bandcamp and never, ever open the emails about stuff he bought ... except today, luckily.)

love that one

some recent things I've been enjoying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlWUJDge1uY

Finn - You've Got To (No!!!) - like a Dance Mania record played slowly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC0a7osaHpE

The Trip - My Paradise - euphoric proggy 90s pastiche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLLbhcnBgH0

Tom Trago - Take A Chance - sultry warm disco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9vi7ZV2ZLQ

BELLA - Orchestra Spring - from Sally C's label, Big Saldo's Chunkers, sounds exactly like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cMNAHRBd5w

AP & Gimbrere - Out Of My Hands - feelgood singalong pumping filter-house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240BBUD7Owk

Jex Opolis - If Ya Wanna - balearic Jersey garage house I guess?

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

Local DJ - F?ck That’s Har

more good stuff coming out of melbourne

ulo.s (aka reptant, aka lou karsh) - it’s phizzy in here (animalia)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71CV1wqvJqE

wooka - doowap (addition by subtraction)

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

I made a playlist of my favourite house and techno from 2024 so far:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hiG6W6NiGzNeK5O9j8Mqj?si=1lyBt4hXTrG6w7lRFPyMow&pi=a-RSZFQZ4-TbSv

ooh nice, thanks for sharing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_dy2kPp6RQ

Give me all your money

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

https://wallacejimmygs.bandcamp.com/track/tanzanite

this one's fun

Cinthie - You know how

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEYHiQb75os

new Loidis album is amazing, maybe my favorite Huerco project

Not so much current bobbins as bobbins-adjacent shuffle minimalism from last year but this rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Fd7mKB_B3g

Patcool - Patcool on the excellent Doo label https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaO5OBJGKS8

This one's squirreled away on the b-side of Harrison BDP's last EP for Shall Not Fade but its absolutely perfect summer music imo. Drums as crisp as a new box of cornflakess, twitchy synths, shimmery pads and a fat old dub bass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcHYX0_Y2qU
That Wasn't A Micro-Dose

also Om Unit has been on one helluva streak lately eh?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4V09clJI4I
Bastian Benjamin - Mycelium (Om Unit Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXZX6S1xt0
Om Unit & James Bangura - The Page

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEyWb5xPcSE
Om Unit - Can You Dub It?

and to wrap up the bristolian triptych, this chugger is pretty groovy for something with less than 15 views on YT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2F00IJ99lc
Joe Harvey - Recall

Loving yourt playlist Tim F. All The Land is tremendous. I wanna know where that eerie chanted vocal sample is from - reminds me of Midsommar

Om Unit - Can You Dub It?

this rules

new ddwy on public possession is magic imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj8nUE6N0c0

Loving yourt playlist Tim F. All The Land is tremendous. I wanna know where that eerie chanted vocal sample is from - reminds me of Midsommar

― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Monday, 12 August 2024 11:19 (one week ago) link

Thanks DL! Imperieux's album from this year 'Losers Queue' doesn't have "All The Land' on it, but has a somewhat similar vibe throughout and is excellent.

Will definitely check that out. I've been jamming All The Land all week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeTN6BscD0o

John Manhard - Tickle My Pickle

for a crispy fall morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKKi84h3HiA

All Starr Motomusic - I Care (Radio Edit)

on the seafront again

Enjoying this LP of sequencer jams from Bass Clef (as Myriad Myriads) on TTT -
https://thetrilogytapes.bandcamp.com/album/shardcore

Great breakbeat bobbin, everything in its right place

https://playplay.bandcamp.com/album/devotion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkJX7kR-SkE

https://hodgebristol.bandcamp.com/track/right-there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZUzK7MMutc

John Manhard - Where's the Szechaun?

These John Manhard records have been gradually growing on me of late

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMrAETd3uCY

Local DJ - The New Way Of Doing Things

understated ephemera from Phil Evans

Actually these Local DJ tracks aren't Phil Evans at all, they're someone else unknown to me

love that track jordan

Thanks karl <3

(album's out a week from Friday!)

not sure where to put this but this was good on jackmaster

https://ra.co/features/4390?preview

I've found a lot of this stuff really uncomfortable the past few days. There's a sense that he was forgiven by many because he was good at being charming and fun as well as talented, and I don't dispute all that. But that's exactly how people get away with things. Szatan has posted on his socials about how Jackmaster gave him time in his early career. This isn't any different than people being beholden to the power and influence of Diddy and R Kelly, is it? An uncharitable reading of the situation is of a tastemaker with power who used their reputation to court and win over people. "What can you do, he's a pal." If someone is known for being fun, and you challenge that, you're known for not being fun. It's hard to speak out and say these things in the moment.

At the same time - he apologized, he was sincere by all accounts, he took steps to put it right. What more can you ask for? Yet it feels uneasy to me. He didn't get the full Ten Walls treatment. He was releasing EPs on high profile labels this year such as Crosstown Rebels. Did he really suffer the consequences of his actions, and what would or wouldn't have been enough? I don't know and I won't pretend to have an answer to that but I can see why his death is raising difficult conversations nobody has wanted to have for six years.

He could sync records together that sounded good. He admitted to sexual misconduct. I interviewed him in 2009 and saw him tweet homophobic words in 2010 yet I still repped for him afterwards. Am I any more or less of hypocrite than the industry that seemed to have deemed him too big to fail?

I'm sorry for all the people who knew him personally. He touched people's lives and made a difference. But I don't like the handwaving away of what he admitted to, with the inference it was substance abuse that made him do what he did at Love Saves The Day. It's not easy to make records sound as good as he did but it's quite easy to not commit sexual impropriety.

I'm sorry for the loss felt by people who loved him. I wish this conversation had been opened up at the time.

here's a few bobbins/adjacent things I've been enjoying lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32L__IeJwB0

Nyra & Richard X - Into Your Groove - organ house, filtered piano chords, familiar samples - shamelessly euphoric

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ9t5OGyKZ0

Musclecars - Tonight (Louie Vega Mix) - very traditional, purist, male vocal house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqb4ihWNIPA

Genius Of Time - Rave Breaks - trancy, proggy, breakbeat, tears at the festival main stage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ2je9oGyr4

The Trip - Fly Life Xtra - an homage to Basement Jaxx, I have been really loving everything The Trip have released the past few years even if it's all very obviously pastiche material

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y83DVhgL1dA

Grant Nelson - Rush - a cover of his remix of Stephanie Mills from the 90s, about time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7T-VkEy3ok

Bohm - Land Of Lost - heard this in a Steffi mix, very Detroit-via-Berlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ZiMHShXM0

LWS - Steady On - weirdo minimal tech-house on Call Super's label

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

K-Lone - Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - shuffling trippy deep house

High five on the k-lone, been playing that loads. keep coming back to this one too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRwyioh8yio
Fernanda Arrau - Hi Fernanda

Did he really suffer the consequences of his actions

he did.

the types of places he was playing massively changed and he literally never played on the circuit he used to ever again. Of course, he did resurrect his career but it was playing events he probably would not have played had he had the choice and i think this greatly impacted on him. he was also estranged from a lot of the people who had been his friends and peers earlier in his career.

it's a very sad and dark tale.

also Luca Lozano remix of Gat Decor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwt8jp20sGA
*​*​*​*​*​* _ *​*​*​*​*​*​* (LUCA LOZANO DAT GECOR REMIX)

oops xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4M-6mMwo8

Gabriel Belabbas - Ici (à Paris)

sounds of the qualifying rounds

This is DJ gold, just sayin'

https://traxman1.bandcamp.com/album/j-b-funkbomb-style-house-and-dance-reworkz-part-2

I wonder if these are the result of AI stemming (ie Think break without the tambourine?)

(or maybe he used different JB drums with the open Think tambourine)

this EP by Katerina on Rekids is incredible, really gorgeous production.

https://rekids.bandcamp.com/album/one

well not so into the Ovuca guy remix

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

Cygnus - Come On Let's Get It

late afternoon thoughts from Dallas

Edward on Smallville: all around excellent stuff

https://soundcloud.com/smallville-records/snippets-64-edward-eddie-green-ep

Superb functional, minimal midwest bobbins

https://liquidcitymotors.bandcamp.com/album/boiling-over

https://cod3qr.bandcamp.com/album/qr-d-292-vol124?t=1