classical curves def took a lil while to click for me but when it did, hoooo boy
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:53 (nine years ago) link
Is this different in any significant way from the usual NS clanking murk or should I just not bother?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 19 March 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link
it's completely unlike anything on NS to date. on paper it's even less my thing but idk, the alienation and disillusion aren't just in the press materials, they're in the very good lyrics as well, and it's ultimately a very optimistic album
― lex pretend, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:25 (nine years ago) link
relevant to interests
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02m9pn5
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 19 March 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
i like this new jam city a lot
― the late great, Monday, 23 March 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
same, pretty groovy
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 March 2015 02:28 (nine years ago) link
very wavey
― the late great, Monday, 23 March 2015 03:34 (nine years ago) link
I really disliked this on first listen.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― the late great, Monday, 23 March 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
can't please everybody, i guess
This sounded amazing walking through my town centre at 6am this morning while everything was quiet and serene.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 23 March 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
one listen in, liking it a lot. possibly fucking miiiiiles off here, but there's kind of a late 80s boyband as produced by andy stott vibe, also a murkified beachy thing happening too.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Monday, 23 March 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
It just reminded me of any number of sadsack laptop dudes who can't really sing. I really hate that big aluminium synth all over this as well.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:30 (nine years ago) link
People I know were comparing it to Disco Inferno which just made the disappointment more acute, feels like he's just gone from one pole of lameness to another.
― Matt DC, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
also a murkified beachy thing happening too.
yeah made me think of strategy
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 March 2015 22:34 (nine years ago) link
xp how rockist of you, matt dc
― the late great, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:35 (nine years ago) link
I can hear the DI thing actually, slight shades of 'The Last Dance' with that guitar.
― cgi bubka (NickB), Monday, 23 March 2015 22:37 (nine years ago) link
I can totally see the sadsack laptop dudes thing but even despite that I still think this is really great. The two things it really reminds me of are last year's Dean Blunt and Maria Minerva albums (which were my two favourites of 2014). NickB's description is spot-on.
― boxedjoy, Monday, 23 March 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
the lyrics give this an emotional heft beyond the usual sadsack laptop dude thing
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:45 (nine years ago) link
i have never heard of disco inferno tho
wtf are you even a real ilx poster
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:49 (nine years ago) link
jokes - but that's just too good.
not that i expect you to like disco inferno!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:50 (nine years ago) link
there are loads of 80s indieish bands i've always seen old-skool ilx reference (scritti politti, blue nile too). never heard any of them apart from one scritti politti song
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link
The Blue Nile aren't indieish.
Disco Inferno are indieish though and you will probably hate those aspects of them.
This shit (Jam City) sounds good on random soundcloud listen but I'd need to sit with it a lot more to know for certain (and who sits these days).
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:58 (nine years ago) link
Here is classic DI if you want to test that proposition though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BFNX78vZE8
― Tim F, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 12:02 (nine years ago) link
This sounds like something you'd play at an indie ren faire I'm into it
― 龜, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
lex doesn't know "cupid & psyche 85" WTF
― the late great, Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:12 (nine years ago) link
how is that surprising
― swae lee is the sremmurd for rae dad (crüt), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
this is not night slugs but i couldn't figure out where else to put it up
http://soundcloud.com/a-k-paul/landcruisin
― the late great, Friday, 25 March 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
searching "jai paul" in posts gives some funny results. point/counterpoint starring lex & rev.
this is very prince-y.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Friday, 25 March 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
yes
― the late great, Friday, 25 March 2016 16:44 (eight years ago) link
lol I hate Jai Paul, I was just trolling lex
― Hey (Extended Mix), Saturday, 26 March 2016 05:45 (eight years ago) link
what's there to hate?
― the late great, Saturday, 26 March 2016 06:34 (eight years ago) link
everything pretty much
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 26 March 2016 11:07 (eight years ago) link
He must be friends with virtually everyone in the media and the music industry. It's the only reason to think of for such continuing interest and anticipation around a dude with such a shoddy and minimal output. It's, what, five years since he was first hyped and you still read "Jai Paul might finally release his debut album this year!" articles on sites that should know better.
By this point they might as well be repping for Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 26 March 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Oh wait, this is his brother. Might give this a listen on the offchance he's the talented one in the family.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 26 March 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link
sick burns everyone *golf clap*
― the late great, Sunday, 27 March 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link
new comp sounding pretty okay
https://www.residentadvisor.net/feed/97057
― the late great, Thursday, 24 November 2016 06:28 (seven years ago) link
https://jam-city.bandcamp.com/album/pillowland
new jam city album
― ufo, Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
It's more like current AG Cook than his old stuff and found it mostly pretty annoying as a result.
― nashwan, Saturday, 14 November 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
Is Night Slugs defunct?
also new Jam City (on Earthly / Mad Decent tho) https://ra.co/news/78713
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Thursday, 23 March 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link
the track I've heard from the new Jam City album is purposely I think kind of corny but it still sounds really good to me
― Dan S, Thursday, 23 March 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
I think Night Slugs is just swinging back into gear for their 15th anniversary. Not sure if they're gonna do new releases or just parties and reissues.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 23 March 2023 03:42 (one year ago) link
Voila, new Night Slugs
https://music.zaida-zane.com/album/boy-eyes
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 24 March 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
lol/sick/you're welcome
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Friday, 24 March 2023 20:32 (one year ago) link
new Jam City is in my top 20 albums of the year for sure— ridiculously good
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 20 July 2023 15:54 (ten months ago) link
i’ve been getting back into night slugs, they had a lot of good records!
i recently got a copy of “the courts” 12” single w/ the main attraktionz + jam city feature on the other side, and that song sounds, if anything, even better now
i’m still more into the nswl white labels and club constructions in general but here’s my current pox
ns009 jam city “magic drops”ns010 bok bok “southside”ns017 girl unit “hysterics” (credited as hysterics)nscc001 l-vis 1990 “club constructions vol. 1”nscc003 kw griff “bring in the katz”nscc006 jam city “club constructions vol. 6”nswl004 jam city refixes (let me bang, endgames)nswl007 pearson sound edits (deep inside, rod lee)nswl010 helix + flirta d “no hook no bs”nswl011 jam city “the courts / the nite life”
― the late great, Thursday, 20 July 2023 17:37 (ten months ago) link
i mean “the courts” sounds better. probably helps that there’s a lot more “experimental club” compatible techno out there (on labels like timedance, livity, hessle, etc) … the cloud rap track sounds worse, still good but i can understand why it didn’t really get released
one that passed under my radar but i thought was interesting is “p jam” from the white label series, sorta jungle and sorta grime remixes of nightwriters “let the music you” … the grime version is unsurprisingly a lot more credible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NRIGg5-dhA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcZr8qQWqQo
but wtf jam city for finally releasing “final joust” free on twitter as a wav but not pressing any copies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR2lKUvN_BI
― the late great, Thursday, 20 July 2023 17:45 (ten months ago) link
"Ecstacy Refix" >>>>>
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 20 July 2023 22:10 (ten months ago) link
yeah that’s the endgames one. i have to say i was probably more impressed w/ the original (when i finally looked it up) but he did a good job with it
― the late great, Thursday, 20 July 2023 22:51 (ten months ago) link