nothing danceable about this stuff though.
― truffle-flavoured french fry (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
blake sounded like sub joy orb to me
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 2 June 2010 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Mount Kimbie Sketch on Glass EP is excellent. Haven't really got into any Blake I've heard so far.
― seandalai, Wednesday, 2 June 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
really enjoy Mount Kimbie on record BUT saw them live for the first time t'other week and my god were they boring lifeless plodding and a number of other things that are not fun to watch.
James Blake is pretty patchy IMO but when he gets it right, like on the Untold remix and "CMYK", he gets it really REALLY right.
― henry rollin rollin rollins (big spoon), Thursday, 3 June 2010 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
in retrospect lumping them together may have been a mistake, leading to admittedly misleading burial comparisons at least regarding mt. kimbie.think the burial influence is pretty undeniable for blake tho, if not necessarily a point that needs to be dwelled upon ... anyways i guess what i really was curious about was how people felt about the lack of danceability. i love how the dubstep rhythms are reappropriated -- in something likeblake's remix of 'maybes' -- and twisted into these shuddering, almost-danceable-but-not-quite forms.
― uptown churl, Thursday, 3 June 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the thing is, I would have thought the same thing, but I have seen both CMYK and the Destinys Child remix absolutely destroy dances. kind of made me take him a bit more seriously, ridiculous thing to say I know.
would love to hear the Untold remix on a good system, never had the pleasure.
― henry rollin rollin rollins (big spoon), Thursday, 3 June 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
The Mt. Kimbie remix of LV & Untold's 'Beacon' was seriously nice. Been listening to that a lot.
― sam500, Thursday, 3 June 2010 09:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Crooks-Lovers-Front-Cover.jpeg
― sam500, Thursday, 3 June 2010 09:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://boomkat.com/cds/310793-mount-kimbie-crooks-lovers
very excited for this, in spite of the cover.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it's awesome
― cutty, Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2010/07/12/stream-hear-mount-kimbies-crooks-lovers-exclusively-on-fact/
:D
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 July 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
omg @ that cover
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
This is fuckin A. Wanna say its kinda four tetty though, they've pretty much dropped any uk bass/purple wow influence they had
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i need to hear this really late at night
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link
they've pretty much dropped any uk bass/purple wow influence they had
i'm not disagreeing, but 'blind night errand' seems more like a straight dubstep track than anything they've done before
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah maybe, first listen etc. I guess its partly to do w/ the dubstep that my friends listen to which is way more aggressive than the stuff that i was listening to around the time of Maybes
― plax (ico), Monday, 12 July 2010 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
After a few listens this isn't really measuring up to the EP's for me. Seems like they're using a lot of the same tricks but in a less effective way. And then there's something like "Field" (I'm guessing the title is a nod to Axel Willner) which is pretty cool but the awkwardness of the transition just kills it.
― Number None, Thursday, 15 July 2010 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
I like this
― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Sunday, 18 July 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this, too. i understand the burial comparisons (hollow-sounding song-structures, diva-voices), but it's a really different vibe.
mind you, i love burial's work. this is just different.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 18 July 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i think my favourite Blake things are the remixes he did under Harmonimix
Bills Bills Bills - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDWHGz2ma_Q
A Milli - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGcOVgv3P6A&feature=related
― merked, Sunday, 18 July 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh that A Milli mix is horrible
― is breads of india still tite (admrl), Monday, 19 July 2010 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link
(sorry, thanks for posting though!)
RA podcast, about the billionth mix i've heard this week w/ actress on it. not a bad thing though.
― plax (ico), Monday, 19 July 2010 10:03 (thirteen years ago) link
you've heard a billion mixes this week already? excellent work
― 不合作的方式 (r1o natsume), Monday, 19 July 2010 13:21 (thirteen years ago) link
actress is great in a billion different ways though, hes got a track that'd fit pretty much anywhere
― straightola, Monday, 19 July 2010 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
good time management
― r (ico), Monday, 19 July 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i remember reading that he'd never heard a milli before, just came across the acapella.
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Monday, 19 July 2010 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
What is this, microstep already?
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 July 2010 08:48 (thirteen years ago) link
not heard the mount kimbie album yet but the ep reminded me of four tet, definitely.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 26 July 2010 09:47 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, this before i move off song, from the mount kimbie disc, is one of the best things i've heard this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ7AF8IG7Eg
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 28 July 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
By the third track I was all ready to dismiss this as dull instrumental trip-hop dubstepped up a bit but then it suddenly opened up and became kinda lovely. Carbonated is so so great.
Still think it opens weakly though, maybe if you're going to be this textured and low-key you need to balance that with being more melodic?
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 28 July 2010 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
what is the idea behind that cover tho? every time i see it i think its some piss take or something from vices dos and donts section that makes me think mount kimbie are a bit cuntish.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 28 July 2010 09:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Liking CMYK
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 August 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
had to drive to work at 5 am today and listened to a podcast mount kimbie did for xlr8r, sounded so great when it was dark and no one else was on the road. excited for the new james blake ep too.
― the parking garage has more facebook followers than my band (Jordan), Thursday, 23 September 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Slept on the Mt Kimbie album until a few weeks ago. My feeling is similar to Matt DC's - lame frontend but it really picks up from Carbonated on...love this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzxmWxkXgCg
― seandalai, Thursday, 23 September 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
actress' splazsh is one of my favourite albums of the year
also oneohtrix point never and some other dude have a project called games that is in a similar vein to all this post-dilla c&s rn'b ish
― no snrubs (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 23 September 2010 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"C&s rn'b ish"Great sequence of letters. Anyway the Kirbie album has turned out to be one of my favourites of the year. Still not really getting the hype with James Blake
― Number None, Friday, 24 September 2010 07:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The cover is so brilliantly odd and compliments the sounds perfectly.
Somebody is due some loyalties. Some pie money
― Fer Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Friday, 24 September 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't really think games sounds like this it all - it's more in the blurry synth vein, with a few chopped up vox thrown in, and more straight ahead rhytmically.
also, i feel like i made a mistake lumping blake and mt kimbie into one thread -- maybe this could be just the mt kimbie thread?
― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Friday, 24 September 2010 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, the games stuff i heard wasn't really about the beats.
― the parking garage has more facebook followers than my band (Jordan), Friday, 24 September 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
not to be all ilm contradictarian jerk ... i do wish games sounded MORE like mt kimbie; more chopped vox, less synth noodling
― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Friday, 24 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xluhIFKZi9M
Pretty dope, no?
― Faerie Liquide (admrl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry, I only just heard this
games is pretty beats, maybe less so than jb or mk but not as much as you guys are making it seem
youtube for reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bd1RhWNOIo
― a sean te (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i really like that track but it's coming from a different space musically than the titular artists on this thread; it sounds, well, american, cause it is -- the loping, more hiphop derived beats, as opposed to the step rhythms of mk/jb. but this is splitting hairs. im glad all of this music exists
― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
teflon dong
― a sean te (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that's true about hip hop beats but hip hop beats are beats too you know. glad u like it and i am not being laughed off of this thread though :)
games is pretty ~chillwave~ tbh
― a sean te (samosa gibreel), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
that games track is cool but i still think the drums are entry-level (which is fine because it's not especially drum-focused music, and everything else is done really well).
― the parking garage has more facebook followers than my band (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
games has nothing to do with this bros
― cutty, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
games is 80s retro stylings, james blake and mt kimbie are looking forward not back
i recommend every release by mount kimbie.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 27 June 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link
It's their clear peak imo
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 27 June 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link
And it holds up too.
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 27 June 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
This is surely his best song-based album (although of course I liked him best before he learned to write a proper song)?
A friend of mine has a duet on this album which is truly mind blowing to the me of 2010 - 2012. Or 2021. I think it's a highlight for sure.
― change display name (Jordan), Saturday, 9 October 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
i've been kind of lost on him since the dust settled on assume form (which i still think is great). i was feeling impatient a couple weeks ago and decided to skim the scattershot of singles and eps he's done in the meantime and it all just felt kind of stopgap. i should give it more of a chance.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 9 October 2021 15:24 (two years ago) link
gave it a front to back listen on our walk just now and i really like the music, but his vocals are so unenthusiastic. thematically, he's repeating himself more than ever and he just sounds so stagnant, like he's bored of everything he's singing about. it's decent overall, but i can't imagine going back to it with any frequency.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, 9 October 2021 17:42 (two years ago) link
"he sounds bored" is kinda where i've landed with Blake for the past five years or so
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 October 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
Idk I think he just sounds like James Blake
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2021 21:14 (two years ago) link
Except his influences are pop music and being in L.A. instead of dubstep and being in London
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 11 October 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
we may be saying the same thing
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 October 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
How about their mental health? Can we have an article from his girlfriend instead?― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 11 October 2019 18:44 (two years ago)
What a bizarre position to advocate, that people should be compelled to confess because someone they are involved with is objectionable to satisfy ones pseudo-political hang ups. Not that I cared for Blake's article but the responses to it have been peak pop idol fandom, and of course the inverse of the popstar is the fascist statesman-like orator. Very brexit-like this whole controversy was. Bowie did arrive at a key realisation coked out of his gord, (dance der mussolini) he just didn't then read Amadeo Bordiga's critique of democracy and abandon his liberal career to make unlistenable scronk for communist nerds. So in essence he only ever committed to his bovine fetish. A pity, it really is. Destroy the rockist vs poptimist binary now! pure hooligan plunderphonics!
There's a limit to your love James Blake, stop making tweepop and it will be unlimited.
― RobbiePires, Tuesday, 12 October 2021 09:18 (two years ago) link
JB backing up Monica Martin <3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G4T6L7tm4I
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 24 February 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
Enjoyed this podcast with JB, at least the bits where he gets very specific about his process. How the remixes where he would reharmonize acapella tracks led to doing the same with his own music (ie making a whole track, then scrapping it and using it as sample/source material for the 'real' track), and producing for other artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Mz7d6vjX4
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 April 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
Mount Kimbie released a Speakerboxxx/Love Below style EP, with the L.A. guy doing collabs with Danny Brown and Liv.e, and the UK guy doing hard UK bass tracks on the flip
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
Both good but living in London makes for more interesting music :)
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 2 September 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
special guest last night at a deep medi night :
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcZePaBWAAAsQVy?format=jpg&name=large
my lad went for goth trad, but said that james was 'quite something'.
― mark e, Sunday, 11 September 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
Kai's half of the Mount Kimbie record is probably more to my tastes, but Dom has become a pretty great rap producer. Feels very lived-in, which makes sense he's been playing the L.A. game for awhile now. Both sides sorta feel like mixtapes to get other gigs but also lots of nice stuff, and I'll probably listen to it more than any of their last few albums.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 7 November 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
Haven't listened to the new record yet but I'm into his Mixmag mix, lots of unreleased bits and edits, takes me back to 2010 - 2012 (except with a lot more house vibes for 2023). https://mixmag.net/feature/james-blake-cover-dj-mix
Overall I'm glad he's back around to DJing and thinking about the dancefloor, can only be good for his music.
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2023 14:58 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=615pYYcd2AE
said i just want youto know that you are really specialoh i oh i oh i oh i
― ivy., Friday, 8 September 2023 17:19 (six months ago) link
was not expecting to completely fall for the new james blake lp today
― ivy., Friday, 8 September 2023 20:52 (six months ago) link
I need some more listens, it kind of floated by on headphones and I actually think that this is a non-headphones JB record, but I love to hear that.
On a nerd level I listened to his RA interview and he was saying that he built most of the tracks around snippets from modular synth jams (and that looking at a DAW on a laptop ruins his day now) and you can totally hear that. But the keyboard playing & singing (which still must be manipulated on a computer I assume) keeps it Blakean.
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2023 20:59 (six months ago) link
loved that mix.
james blake is probably the most insane 180 degree turn i have ever done on an artist.used to pop into Fopp during my lunchhour and his debut was always on.hated it.fast forward to a couple of years ago when one of my lads bought me 'assume form' for xmas.and yeah, that penny dropped hard.his recent mad video re 'big hammer' = massive WTF.loved it.
― mark e, Friday, 8 September 2023 21:02 (six months ago) link
Haha wow, I'm the exact opposite. Obsessed with the first three EPs and the debut album, and while I've liked a track here and there since, I've been mostly wanting him to release something that gives me the same feeling. And I think Big Hammer is the worst track on the new one, lol (it is a cool video though).
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2023 21:18 (six months ago) link
i love Big Hammer.such a mad mad track for a supposed major artist ..
― mark e, Friday, 8 September 2023 21:34 (six months ago) link
I'll give it another shot. I want him to make even madder tracks like he used to!
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Friday, 8 September 2023 21:35 (six months ago) link
also .. album release today.yet his website/amazon etc says sept 22 !?
― mark e, Friday, 8 September 2023 21:37 (six months ago) link
i think i love Big Hammer cos it's clearly james just having fun and trying to break out of the sadcore groove that he is predominantly known for.
― mark e, Friday, 8 September 2023 21:39 (six months ago) link
latest jb has won me back. "i want you to know" is maybe my favorite thing he's yet done and the rest of the album is crazy diverse in the best ways. chaotic and experimental one moment, pretty and beat-heavy the next. really feels like he's pushing himself again. he's definitely not on autopilot for this one.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Sunday, 7 January 2024 01:50 (two months ago) link
gearing up for the new mount kimbie, i found this live recording of 'maybes' off the crooks+lovers sampler-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKkFGYgzF1omount kimbie - 'maybes (live in berghain)' (2010)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 25 March 2024 17:58 (three days ago) link
New album is amazing. Strong Motorik vibes
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:48 (three days ago) link