BPITCH records... Ellen Allien, Sascha Funke, etc.

Ellen's Boogy Bytes isn't really blowing me away so far :/

Fabric 34 took a while to grow on me but there aren't any real "whoa! rewind that..." moments and transitions to latch onto here yet like that one it seems. But then her mixes do usually take a couple of plays to reveal their flow.

i'm liking it more than the fabric so far, but i've only listened to it 5 times or something.

i finally get to see her in may so there might be some projecting going on, like "ooh maybe she'll sound like this"

really can't get into this :(

it's far from bad like, but it's really uncharacteristic, largely missing all the usual things that makes her mixes great, could be anybody really. oh well.

Aside from her new remix album, . Ellen Allien and Sascha Funke have new discs coming out soon on BPitch. Anyone heard them?

really enjoying boogy bytes vols 2 & 3 ... i think the modeselektor one is pretty fantastic over the first half, maybe not so great in the second. it's a good representation of a cutting edge downtempo / IDM mix. not really something i recently thought i'd need more of, but there you have it. looking hard for kiki's volume now.

i heard a big chunk of ellen's fabric mix yesterday in amoeba SF. hearing it on good speakers in a cavernous concrete-floored warehouse space made it sound really, really great.

the Sascha Funke leaked ages ago and is actually out now I think... it's a bit weird. Very kind of plastic deep-house, and more indulgent than his singles have been since 'Bravo', like Kompakt-esque levels of farty indulgence, some nice sound engineering but I pretty actively disliked it in the end.

Kiki's Boogybytes is fucking ACES. Along with Cassy from that year I haven't heard a better CD mix since (or podcast... etc) and not expecting to... but then I've lost a lot of interest in techno/house overall for the moment in any form, so it might be that I'm just not open to it right now.

For me, Ellen Alien hasn't bettered her Weiss mix from a few years back:

http://www.discogs.com/release/69619

The diversity of that mix was really refreshing: Squarepusher rubbing shoulders with DJ Assault followed by some supremely glitch IDM. What more could you want? Her subsequent mixes have been a bit 'meh' in comparison.

sam how many boards have you posted this on?

anyway, some vague news c/o http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/10521

ELLEN ALLIEN GOT SOOL
POSTED 10:33
On May 27th Ellien Allien will release SOOL, her fourth studio LP, and her first since 2006's almost unfeasibly brilliant collaboration with Apparat, Orchestra of Bubbles. It's a more straight-forward, dancefloor-aimed affair than you might have hoped for, favouring supple, subtle minimal techno rhythm over the cascading synths and dreamy vocals that made Bubbles so moving and memorable. The BPitch Control boss is also behind Vol. 4 of the label's Boogy Bytes mix CD series, out March 31st; you can catch her DJing out and about at Dublin's SPY (May 16th) and London's Fabric (17th).

I hope this is good.

http://assets4.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/47104.ellenaliensmal.jpg?

Purty!

oh cool, didn't realise this was being (press) released everywhere now. nice cover, and the german song titles are back...

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/49405-ellen-allien-announces-isooli-tracklist-release-date

sam how many boards have you posted this on?

-- fandango

fair question! yes, i think i got a little carried away bigging up weiss. i'm like my mum - when i get something in my head i can't stop banging on about it.

hmm no dedicated thread and little anticipation either? aww :(

I am not sure what to make of SooL at all!

and pop fans, theres NO pop here!

first review in http://smalltownflirt.blogspot.com/2008/04/omg-ellen-allien-4-is-terrifyingthe.html

so boogybytes 4 got some rather bad reviews.

hi dere

i like it

i love it. her best mix since weiss.

Has anyone seen Berlin Calling? I found Paul Kalkbrenner's performance (and soundtrack) a treat.

Search: http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10253 (it l34k3d and it's AMAZING)

Did the mono promo leak? I'd rather wait than check that, I think.

Now that you mention it, yeah, no, it's not very stereo :-/

Just got an Amazon.de alert about Ellen's latest mix CD, Watergate 05:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=11402

Anyone heard it? Thoughts?

nothing special after a few listens to be honest... similar feel and approach to her BoogyBytes mix.

Not BAD, better than average probably but I'm just not that 'into' it so far after a few listens :/

Another Amazon.de alert:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0034YLWCE/ref=pe_3811_18653821_snp_dp

ooh, new product?

Can't read German. Is that a new Ellen Allien recording or is it another mix/compilation?

Sool was a bit headscratching for me but Thrills remains one of my new favourite albums. I know I'm in the minority on this, but I prefer it to Orchestra of Bubbles.

a new Ellen 12" single - out in March

Sool was a bit headscratching for me but Thrills remains one of my new favourite albums. I know I'm in the minority on this, but I prefer it to Orchestra of Bubbles.

thrills and OOB are pretty much on a par for me - they're so different i find it hard to directly compare them, one so hard and cold and the other so warm and soft. two of the absolute best - maybe even THE best - dance artist albums of the 00s though.

the new mix is nice enough but i'd rather have another album now tbh

btw good to see you back k8 :)

I think it's perhaps the hardness and the clinical crunchiness on Thrills that makes me like it so much. Those sharp-as-razor distorted guitar samples. There's just this beautiful sense of precision about it, it's such an odd contrast, the abandon of the record's themes contrasted with this totally precise machine-like music. Something so wonderfully Germanic about that.

otm, they're both so physical but in contrasting ways - one where you have to move against the music, one where you sink into it.

I think that's the problem with OoB, I don't really have the desire to move to it. Thrills, however, makes me bounce around like a demented feret.

I was just listening to it on the way to work this morning (it's good way to work music) and it's one of those albums that makes people move away from me on the tube coz I'm bouncing up and down in my seat. I don't really get the same experience with OoB.

Not BAD, better than average probably but I'm just not that 'into' it so far after a few listens :/

Sounds like everything she's ever done.
Well, orchestra of bubbles is really great, but at this point I feel like caring about Ellen Allien is just a tedious effort with an empty reward.

Kate has nailed my thoughts and feelings re. Thrills.

Thrills, however, makes me bounce around like a demented feret.

Google Image Search for "demented ferret" brings up a picture of Fergie, fwiw.

That's funny. GIS for demented ferret brings up this for me.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Die_ENIAC-Einheiten_-_links_wahrscheinlich_der_Speicher_für_eine_einzige_Dezimalziffer.jpg

Which is very Ellen Allien picture if you ask me so that suits me just fine.

So the We Love album is pretty great.

http://www.myspace.com/welovewelove

it is really, really great.

I like how the album kept surprising me a bit as it went. *Always* a good sign.

What's it like?