Shedding the past was one of the best Techno records of the past decade. Very detailed and layered if maybe a bit paranoid and claustrophobic. It still my favorite album to test audio systems and headphones. Resident Advisor agrees with me. Their users and writers voted for it as best album 2008. This year's the Traveller is more stripped down but it as some brilliant IDM inspired moments. Helping me sort out my Aphex Twin fix.
Anyone else with me?
― Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 04:38 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck yeah
he's the best new techno artist of the last 10 years
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
For those of you not familiar with his work, here's a little taste (youtube quaLity, mind you):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqSXtiWB7khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJDJFgDQJmwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpAjl1wX40
― Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Mindblowing on a clean and loud soundsystem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Gvwea-QLQ&feature=related
― Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
dude those are like his worst tracks
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
i really like 'the bot'.
and 'leave things' is probably uncharacteristic but i can't stop playing it anyway.
― j., Tuesday, 19 October 2010 05:41 (thirteen years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja
Imagine how his best ones must sound like!
― Moka, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 06:36 (thirteen years ago) link
well played
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 06:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i agree, new album has some great tracks but as a whole ive not been playing it through. Fair play to the guy for experimenting but his best tracks tend to be when he's doing more of a straight detroit thing with boomy berghain facing production (ie well done my son). Check out his older tracks on his own label solocation, all downloadse on boomkat now.
Seeing him do the new album live in london was a pretty dire experience given the energy of his older live sets, htough admittedly you could blame the dire mix of south london club tourist thugs and the noodlearmed electronica boys that made up the crowd and cables atrociously quiet soundsystem
― straightola, Tuesday, 19 October 2010 13:32 (thirteen years ago) link
what was it like?
new EQD out now!!
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
only just heard EQD 005 - awesome stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkSiN4pv__E
reach for the lasers!!
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
The EQD compilation is just too good.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
he has a new album coming out in a week, too! on fire.
― hot sauce delivery device (mh), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 14:04 (eleven years ago) link
SHEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
― the late great, Monday, 13 August 2012 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
"the killer" is totally rugged
― the late great, Monday, 13 August 2012 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
anyone catch shed b2b mumdance on rinse FM?
― the late great, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
something new or that one from a few years back? I listened to the released one but it's been a while
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
ah, found it. september this year? checking it out!
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 21:08 (six years ago) link
last night actually
https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/mumdance051217
― the late great, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
well, I’m behind! thanks the the heads up
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
https://ostgut.bandcamp.com/album/oderbruch
― j., Saturday, 30 November 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
Oh wow I started this thread almost a decade ago. I always feel stupid reading my younger self.
I still think shedding the past is brilliant and is one of the top 20 electronic albums of the 00’s.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 November 2019 09:39 (four years ago) link
a true artiste is this one, sample track sounds great.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 November 2019 09:44 (four years ago) link
just been blasting this out, lovely album.
― calzino, Saturday, 30 November 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
This is spectacular. Perhaps his prettiest album?
― Tim F, Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
omg
― ingredience (map), Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
visiting family in the Midwest where it's cold and gray, perfect introduction to this album
― lukas, Saturday, 30 November 2019 23:58 (four years ago) link
That sample track is an interesting departure, sounds like he's been listening to some Pole?
Moka tbh I was impressed with your thread starter. I just saw in that other thread you mentioned that you got into the music mid-00s which means you quickly developed good taste (or you just started with a strong community to educate you).
― viborg, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:15 (four years ago) link
Sterbende Alleen, wow. There's a sweeping majesty to it that I'm loving. What would those melodies and timbres usually be associated with? Very cinematic in a way isn't it.
I have to listen with sub-bass. I know it's there, just beyond my reach...
― viborg, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
sub-bass yeah... I appreciate the audio equipment test at the beginning of the killer
― brimstead, Sunday, 1 December 2019 00:49 (four years ago) link
shed has always been pretty, like a crisp pressed shirt and nice jumper
― djdirtbagstyle, Sunday, 1 December 2019 01:43 (four years ago) link
Loving this one, perfect time of the year for it.
Viborg: thank you! In 2007 my father gifted me his soundsystem and it was my first audiophile-level setup. It was a game changer after hearing music on cheap headphones and Shed quickly became an early obsession. I can’t even remember how I first bumped into it, I think it was the residentadvisor review that piqued my interest but I did consume a lot of music from electronic-focused blogs at the time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 1 December 2019 02:00 (four years ago) link
I just saw in that other thread you mentioned that you got into the music mid-00s which means you quickly developed good taste (or you just started with a strong community to educate you).
god save the bastards that do it now
― j., Sunday, 1 December 2019 02:52 (four years ago) link