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.
― fandango, Saturday, 8 March 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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"
― jergïns, Saturday, 8 March 2008 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― fandango, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Aside from her new remix album, . Ellen Allien and Sascha Funke have new discs coming out soon on BPitch. Anyone heard them?
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― fandango, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― fandango, Sunday, 9 March 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sam500, Monday, 10 March 2008 00:33 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― fandango, Friday, 21 March 2008 17:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://assets4.pitchforkmedia.com/images/image/47104.ellenaliensmal.jpg?
Purty!
― Telephone thing, Friday, 21 March 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― fandango, Saturday, 22 March 2008 11:32 (sixteen years ago) link
-- 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.
― sam500, Saturday, 22 March 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
hmm no dedicated thread and little anticipation either? aww :(
I am not sure what to make of SooL at all!
― fandango, Saturday, 5 April 2008 13:15 (sixteen years ago) link
and pop fans, theres NO pop here!
― fandango, Saturday, 5 April 2008 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
first review in http://smalltownflirt.blogspot.com/2008/04/omg-ellen-allien-4-is-terrifyingthe.html
― fandango, Saturday, 5 April 2008 13:20 (sixteen years ago) link
so boogybytes 4 got some rather bad reviews.
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
hi dere
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 05:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i like it
― jergïns, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 05:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i love it. her best mix since weiss.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 11:37 (sixteen years ago) link
Has anyone seen Berlin Calling? I found Paul Kalkbrenner's performance (and soundtrack) a treat.
― mmmm, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Search: http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10253 (it l34k3d and it's AMAZING)
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 19:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Did the mono promo leak? I'd rather wait than check that, I think.
― mh, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Now that you mention it, yeah, no, it's not very stereo :-/
― StanM, Wednesday, 25 February 2009 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Jeff W, Friday, 5 February 2010 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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 :/
― fndgo, Friday, 5 February 2010 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Another Amazon.de alert:
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0034YLWCE/ref=pe_3811_18653821_snp_dp
ooh, new product?
― Jeff W, Friday, 19 February 2010 10:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 19 February 2010 11:01 (fourteen years ago) link
a new Ellen 12" single - out in March
― Jeff W, Friday, 19 February 2010 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 19 February 2010 12:10 (fourteen years ago) link
the new mix is nice enough but i'd rather have another album now tbh
btw good to see you back k8 :)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 19 February 2010 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 19 February 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 19 February 2010 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 19 February 2010 12:27 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― EDB, Friday, 19 February 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Kate has nailed my thoughts and feelings re. Thrills.
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Friday, 19 February 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Thrills, however, makes me bounce around like a demented feret.
Google Image Search for "demented ferret" brings up a picture of Fergie, fwiw.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 19 February 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Masonic Boom, Friday, 19 February 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
So the We Love album is pretty great.
http://www.myspace.com/welovewelove
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 August 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
it is really, really great.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 30 August 2010 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I like how the album kept surprising me a bit as it went. *Always* a good sign.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 August 2010 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
What's it like?
― Neggin' you crapative (NickB), Monday, 30 August 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate to be lazy but I haven't figured out the best words for it yet. Lex or anyone else, want to give it a try?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 August 2010 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i haven't either, and i'm too hungover today :/
um, kind of paranoid propulsive electro that's just really beautifully and inventively produced; constant left turns as ned says, but very immediate and accessible too; comparisons that come to mind include ellen allien's thrills and chloé's the waiting room though it's not exactly like either. i've been rinsing it for about a month and it feels like i still hear something new every time.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 30 August 2010 18:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the fact that the biggest/most immediate pop numbers appear at the END of the album. More bands should be so confident.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 August 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Pls remind me about this tomorrow when I'm back at work...
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, 30 August 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
i honestly see no way that you won't love this, k8.
listening to it now and as well as the sounds they use being constantly inventive and surprising, the textures are just absolutely gorgeous. talking orchestra of bubbles-level gorgeous here.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 30 August 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
This is an incredibly hard band name to search for. Way too many "we love techno" and "we love 80s music" results.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the only place you can hear their stuff atm is the myspazz that ned linked - i couldn't find anything on youtube and the album's not out til sept.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
That might be the other reason I couldn't find anything. Dammit.
I hate using MySpace these days, it's like MS have gone out of their way to make it cumbersome and difficult to use. :-(
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 10:01 (thirteen years ago) link