I think your example of Isolee is a good one ... also Vitalic, which has mostly bangers but I definitely don't fast-forward the slower ones like "The Past" ....
With Audion, though -- if I have all the singles, do I need to get Suckfish? (i.e., the fact that I bought all three singles shows I like Audion, but I'm thinking maybe I don't need any more of this stuff right now.) Verdict?
― Renard (Renard), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
I do think they're less good than the singles though, by a fairly huge margin, of excitement, mainly. Even if they're alright on their own. That's where I'm having difficulty playing this through as a whole piece at times. Also (techno album y'know) some of them could do with trimming down a couple of minutes. That said this isn't a particularly overlong feeling record IMO.
I'm kind of struggling getting my head around this as a detroit techno record though! It's just such a white-hot burning RAVE MONSTER when it peaks. But what it does have, is that odd squiggly, jacking Derrick May-esque FUNK, along with the headbanging... and thats why I think I (at it's best) LOVE this, but feel almost nothing for the similarly "full on" sounds of Vitalic.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
But if you already have the singles and enjoy them in that form, then ... well, to summarize, fandango OTM.
― National Roffle Association (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― National Roffle Association (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm totally in the same boat fwiw (except I do have an iPod, and occasionally grab a 12" if unavailable on CD). By ILM standards I'd never claim to be more than a fairly 'casual' music lover, despite the slight germanic electronic obsession of the last few that drew me here in the first place... The "singles", that is the A-Sides of the three, are the ones which bang with the most furious bangingness (you can probably work it out from that, but I won't spoil it by saying if you prefer to appreciate the whole of it as "album".
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
By ILM standards I'd never claim to be more than a fairly 'casual' music lover, despite the slight germanic electronic obsession of the last few that drew me here in the first place...That's the boat I'm in.
― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
*quick visit to discogs.com*
Kisses - The Pong - Just Fucking - Suckfish
(This actually means nothing to me until I get home and have a chance to check out these tracks again.)
― National Roffle Association (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
"Suckfish" is also a far more minimal record, building up to its RAVE MONSTER moments in very different (and less obvious) ways.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link
on the Just Fucking 12" the b-side is a Roman Flugel mix that I like better than the original
― Renard (Renard), Friday, 20 January 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I fucking love how raw & ripped sounding it is, whether in the textures or the sudden bursts of noise or just the rhythms. I've been sorely missing that in a lot of softly-softly electrohouse 'dance' (but I still like Kompakt!, this isn't trying to join in with the techno purist snobbery backlash... just a feeling I've had that I can be more certain of now). Yeah, this is a really good record I think! (belated) Top Ten '05 contender perhaps.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 20 January 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Any thoughts yet?
It strikes me as strange that this is a release as Audion, as it's far less upfront and 'sexual' than Suckfish and it's singles were.
― Raffles: Gentleman Thug (Raffles: The Gentleman Thug), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― harshaw (jube), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chantilly Bass (ChantillyBass), Saturday, 22 April 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link
TITTY FUCK
YAAAAAAAAOW!!!
― WHALE WARS (jabba hands), Friday, 21 November 2008 02:37 (fifteen years ago) link
thread was tl;dr
but listening tonight, after many failed attempts to get it via normal listening, on headphones for the first time ... and ... YAAAAAAAAOW!!!
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 27 February 2009 09:46 (fifteen years ago) link
But what it does have, is that odd squiggly, jacking Derrick May-esque FUNK
finally hearing this in tracks like "your place or mine"
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 27 February 2009 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link
"Look At The Moon" is really exciting here where I'm sitting.
What other Audion stuff in, oh, say the last year?
― ok star grumbles (lukas), Sunday, 6 September 2009 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link