― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link
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― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:41 (seventeen years ago) link
i was listening to ... uh ... this cd and this cd and "return of the space cowboy" and "royalties overdue".
― DEEDS NOT WORDS (vahid), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:43 (seventeen years ago) link
michael mayer grew up in the black forest region of germany. when i met triple r, he said he liked living away from the city center, around lots of trees, and that being around the woods and the water was very important. he said he was a "child of the Rhine"--he is quite the hippie. then again, most germans would probably be considered hippies by american standards.
the pre-kraftwerk band Organisation had a great jam called "silver forest". there are probably tons of krautrock references to forests, but i should go to bed.
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 06:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Villalobos swamp techno = like rainforest dance music but sort of sluggish and congealed.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
as for forest techno - i concur = konigsforst is badass. the cover is really badly printed tho!
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.zavoloka-agf.com/http://www.discogs.com/release/614632Antye Greie & related projects thread
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― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
http://duskdigital.com/albums/dusksleeves/BFLCD42Bklt1.sized.jpg
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― imbidimts, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I was at a Persian market the other day and they were selling CDs by a dude called "V*hid" and I was trying to imagine the beats.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
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― ratty, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
So there is some Ukranian lady with mounds of analogue synths, named Zavoloka supporting the ginger one at upcoming gigs - is this the same person?
Because I am *all* about the arty electronic ladies with mounds of analogue synths but the description upthread is really not chiming with what I'm hearing on Spodify?
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:04 (twelve years ago) link
So far, this is not "Deep Forest" type techno at all, in fact barely techno, but more wibbly wubbly droney space electronics in a Laurie Spiegel stylee? But with beats, it's not all wub. (Then again, is Appalaichan Grove proto-Forest Techno?)
I'm listening to an album called Vedana from 2011, perhaps her earlier stuff is very different. I like this album, tho.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I went and listened to an album from 2005 and it was indeed glitchy rubbitch. But this later stuff is very very good and droney and wonderful.
Ah, the joys of reviving abandonned threads from 2006 and talking to yourself.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 21 July 2011 12:06 (twelve years ago) link
the ginger one is touring?
was listening some AGF/Delay stuff last night while it was raining. still good.
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 21 July 2011 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
The Ginger One is currently on the eternal "Pay My Alimony" Tour.
Zavoloka seems to be supporting in Copenhagen and Manchester? Anyway, I like her recent stuff. She seems to have done an album with AGF, too, which I'll listen to.
Wish the thread title were spelled correctly though. :-/
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 21 July 2011 12:15 (twelve years ago) link
The pic on the WHP's website caught my eye
http://www.zavoloka.com/zavoloka_photos/zavoloka_at_GRM_INA.jpg
(warning: very very VERY embiggened image)
And sometimes, you can just look at an artist and know that you will like them? That. I am so easily swayed by massive pieces of semi-homemade looking beknobbed oscillators. Shallow, moi?
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 21 July 2011 12:20 (twelve years ago) link
Talking of shallow I was going to say she looks pretty
― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 21 July 2011 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
I've also just realised this picture was taken HERE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_national_de_l%27audiovisuel
and nearly fell off my chair because it's not just massive analogue kit, it's massive analogue kit belonging to the French equivalent of the radiophonic workshop? ::swoon::
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Thursday, 21 July 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
talking of tasty gear somehow this thread led me on to a thomas p heckmann youtube binge thinking that some of his techno is foresty but it's not really
anyway his studio is a good source of gear porn
http://blog.rebellen.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Thomas-p-heckmann-synthesizer-museum.jpg
man i need more techno like this in my life
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 21 July 2011 13:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that was taken at INA-GRM. not exactly the equivalent of BBC Radiophonic, but the birthplace of musique concrete, founded by Schaeffer w/ Henry.
and the modular she's playing is the classic Coupigny: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2008/11/mighty-coupigny-modular.html
used most widely by Parmegiani, if you know his late 60's/early 70's pieces you know the Coupigny. after Parmegiani's music started getting rediscovered in the late 90's, visitors to GRM started asking about it so they brought it up from the basement
I checked out zavoloka's soundcloud page, not all that radical but nice and I like the vocal samples
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 21 July 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
music of course does not need to be radical alla time
Thomas Heckmann has his own synth museum as well if I recall. He's underrated as far as I'm concerned. I listened to Raum just the other day. Get yr Shranz on..
― mmmm, Thursday, 21 July 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
I wonder if my mind would go straight from "forest techno" to "Gas" if he had not called an album Königsforst
(by which I mean, is the music intrinsically foresty, or only because he put it in a box labelled "forest"?)
anyway space-beats Spiegel-techno is just as intriguing, thank you thread
― the ascent of nyan (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 21 July 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
I think the sample based nature of Gas is evocative of the natural landscape for sure. I used to listen to Pop while imaging a small brook or stream flowing past. Currently listening to Elfish Echo pres. Sato Yumiko which has a forest feel to it's dubby techno beats.
― mmmm, Thursday, 21 July 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, thanks for the clarification, Milton, I'm not at all familiar with Musique Concrete and my descriptions of INA-GRM were based solely on poorly translated webpages. Still looks like an amazing place and glad to have an ID on the synth.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Friday, 22 July 2011 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
the split single with clifford / seefeel on polyfusia a couple of years ago is worth a listen. and the recent svitlo ep is great too.
(i sent off to ukraine for the first couple of lps after hearing the seefeel split ep. the new ones are available on amazon. yay, internet!)
(and for me it was this photo: http://www.zavoloka.com/zavoloka_photos/zavoloka_at_EMS_b.jpg )
― koogs, Friday, 22 July 2011 11:42 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone heard Syngonia yet? She's been one of my favorite finds the last 2-3 years on the experimental/IDM front. Curious how it compares to Vedana
― octobeard, Thursday, 9 March 2017 19:20 (seven years ago) link
i've heard it only twice but it hasn't grabbed me as much yet. it seemed to have more regular beats on this one.
(it's the third part of a sequence which started with Viter in 2007, if you've not heard that. Air, Water and now Earth)
plenty of other back catalogue stuff available too.
― koogs, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link
I've only heard Nature Makes The Same Sound Twice but will definitely check this out.
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 10 March 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
"Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice" **
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 10 March 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link
another listen suggests that there are a lot more programmed "drums" on this new record, a drum track driving things or, at least, distracting from the underlying tunes. which is ok, but not really my expectation of a zavoloka record.
another listen to vedena suggests that the drums were always there, they just didn't bother me as much 8) (they are slower and more distorted here, less drummy somehow, maybe that's it)
― koogs, Friday, 10 March 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
my absolute favourite thing of hers is svitlo
https://soundcloud.com/zavoloka/svitlo
the bit from 3:20 onwards is my current ringtone
― koogs, Friday, 10 March 2017 12:06 (seven years ago) link
Just listened to the new one last night. Very nice... but yes, less adventurous and epic as Vedana, but still really solid. Kinda wish it was a bit longer actually.
― octobeard, Friday, 10 March 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
New one really clicked today. Love how the beats are covered in a static blanket. Definitely a grower which almost sounded rote on the first few listens; but this is some fine insectoid techno with lovely ambient bits
― kolakube (Ross), Friday, 22 December 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
New album, Ornament popped up via Spotify Hipster Boyfriend and it is predictably wonderful!
I am forever looking for this thread, to revive and go "this is some awesome shit, maaaan" and never finding it because of the misspelling. Should we maybe get that changed?
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 16 October 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
sad to see Kvitnu stopping. i must have about 20 odd things from that label (and would've bought more during their sales except i could never remember what i already had)
― koogs, Friday, 16 October 2020 12:52 (three years ago) link
They were a very cool little label, and I always meant to buy more from them than I did, but usually by the time I got to looking at their neat stuff, it had usually sold out!
I think Zavoloka have her / their (I think it may be more than one person now?) own bandcamp and I should go and throw some money at them because it's A+++ quality stuff.
― Branwell with an N, Friday, 16 October 2020 13:01 (three years ago) link
This is the label they're on now:
https://prostir.bandcamp.com/album/ornament
she now seems to work with Kotra a lot, whose solo stuff had too much of a prediliction for white noise for me.
am sure the Kvitnu bandcamp page will continue.
their last release was a white 7" single with a locked groove of silence, called 'Silence'. https://kvitnu.bandcamp.com/album/silence
― koogs, Friday, 16 October 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link