John Talabot

I think this guy deserves his own thread, especially since winter is coming up and we could do with a blast of summer house vibes. I love the colour and warmth in all his productions and remixes, especially the obviously-titled Sunshine, and I can't get enough of the deliriously blissful chipmunked vocals on his remix of Aufgang's "Channel 7". It's almost a direct contrast to the vocal sample manipulations so rife in post-dubstep sounds just now - like, if the r&b cut-ups and synthetic textures evoke sadness, then Talabot's work signifies pure joy and release.

Also, apparently "John Talabot" is an alias of someone who is already known - does anyone know anything about this?

"Sunshine" was my absolute jam summer09 but I haven't really paid much attention since--what should I seek out?

His remix of Al Usher's "Hilversum" (as "Silverhum") is one of the high points of the Ewan Pearson mix CD for Kompakt - the full-length version of that is great.

the 'Summerized' mix on his Soundcloud page; http://soundcloud.com/john-talabot is pretty cool. I remember reading he was a resident of a big club in Barcelona I think.

He is one of the best producers out there for my money, just so lush and melodic. His music makes me want to go and dance on a boat somewhere.

Search - Sunshine, Naomi, Matida's Dream and his remixes of Delorean, Glasser and the aforementioned Al Usher remix.

"matilda's dream" is amazing. check out his tahiti 80 remix too...

Reviving this because, as has been noted in the Glasser thread, the title track from his new EP featuring the aforementioned ethereal chanteuse is slightly more brilliant than anything else he's done so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfPP6Y1gEic

His remix of Mario & Vidis' Changed is really hitting my sweet spot. I love what he does, so much tension and release. His way with vocals is above and beyond his peers.

"families" might be my favorite track of 2011 so far

His remix of Shit Robot's "Take Em Up" is really good too, but the trojan horse in his career so far is "La Ninya (Afrodub Version)", which is all sunset nostalgia and whirling guitars covered in haze and smoke. The playlist I've made of all his remixes and original productions has made great sunbathing music with the recent good weather here too - can we pull our money together and hire him for a boat party?

Tracklist for that playlist would be greatly appreciated, Boxedjoy.

On my mp3 player it's just a folder called "John Talabot" with the contents of the three EPs and all his remixes together, and that's about two hours long. However, I did just burn this CD-R for a friend:

Permanent Vacation - Zucker Hut (John Talabot Remix)
John Talabot - La Ninya (Afrodub Version)
Blue Daisy & Anneka - Raindrops (John Talabot's Cosmic Rework)
Tahiti 80 - Darlin' (John Talabot's Oscuro Baile Remix)
The xx - Shelter (John Talabot's Feel It Too Remix)
Glasser - Learn (John Talabot Remix)
John Talabot - Matilda's Dream
John Talabot - Sunshine
Al Usher - Silverhum (John Talabot's Wilderness Remix)
John Talabot - Naomi
John Talabot ft Glasser - Families

which clocks in at 77 minutes and sadly has no room for neither the Aufgang 7 or Shit Robot remixes - but then again, a boy's got to keep some of the treasures for himself, right? I do like the names he gives to the remixes too, although I'm not sure why some get fancy names and some are just "John Talabot remix".

No Delorean remix either, blimey.

I like the Delorean remix but I don't think it's far off the vibe of the original and, especially as they keep covering/remixing/interpreting each other's songs, I think the links there are obvious enough. Plus, he doesn't push the vocal science quite so far on it, and maybe it's just the happy hardcore fan inside me but I really like how he manages to manipulate his sources with air and delerium.

Obviously it's a testament to his talent that something so good itself could be perceived as a relatively "normal" track in his career.

The "composer" field of the "Families" MP3s bought from iTunes lists the name "Oriol Riverola Soto" - is this his real name? Not that it makes anything more clear.

"Lover's Tradition" off that is fantastic, better than the Glasser collaborations.

wasn't impressed with 'families', glasser's vocals, which i usually like a lot, didn't stick. need to listen again.

on the other hand, this is marvelous and has been on repeat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMoC-sOqyw

It's the Teengirl Fantasy and the Mario & Vidis one have been the ones that have convinced me of his talent.

Oh yes.. inc. classic Schatrax & Osborne's Arto Mwambe remix.
http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2011/05/john-talabot

wow 'lover's tradition' is great but almost a bit much - i mean, he obv has a great feel for summery house but about three quarters it gets so bombastic that i can't help imagining talabot like, confronting a crowd of carefree listeners at a festival, all NO YOU FOOLS, LOOK TO THE SUN, WHEN WILL PEOPLE LEARN TO TAKE SUMMER SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!

this is killing me today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIij1a2iAGg

search: his remix of Find A Way by joakim - it was on beatsinspace last week. maximum bliss.

this one (from his xlr8r mix, which i can't get enough of) is a damn fine edit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyhBFIKFeoA

have yet to be let down by any of the hivern discs releases

yes @ party girl edit

fyi this album is amazing

it keeps making me start dancing in inappropriate places

it's so...UP

i already know i am gonna end up dancing around to it at afterparties a LOT this year

(it's called ƒin)

I didn't think I could be any more excited about hearing this too.

How do we feel about Pional's releases so far? I feel it's a very similar territory being mined.

Also, if anyone could identify the bouncing Strictly Rhythm-ish piano house track at 1hr6 in this mix I would be immensely thankful.

i love almost everything i've heard from pional. i just bought a used copy of the delorean remix from a year or two ago, which is rad. i think "in another room (pional's reduxed version)" is my favorite track, but "where eagles dare" is p excellent too.

damnit do i want to hear this jt full length. are there any older songs or is it all unreleased material?

so rad -- http://soundcloud.com/john-talabot/so-will-be-now-feat-pional

all new songs afaik

pional's on two of the tracks ("destiny" is EVEN MORE AMAZING than "so will be now") - i've never heard his own material though!

i'm a bit nervous about the JT album. as much as i love lots of his remixes etc, i sometimes find whole albums by producers with that very up, wide-eyed style a bit hard to take. hope i'm wrong tho!

If you listen to a load of his remixes in a row he can feel quite formulaic and very limited (possibly consciously so) in his sound-palette, although the best are amazing. Kind of hope he's saving the best for his album, which is more than you can say for a lot of producers with a string of great remixes behind them.

If there's even one track on the album as good as "Leave Me (Friendly Pattern Version") I will be v. happy.

i haven't heard that one but of what i have heard, it's def a case of saving his best for the album - the limited sonic palette makes it a more coherent listen (and actually, there's a deceptively wide range of sounds in there, they're just all put to the service of the talabot aesthetic) and some of the melodies are just incredibly good. also, best sense of build-and-release in dance music since prime booka shade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXDPWB7-_0M

imo one of the best tracks of the last few years, above and beyond talabot though i do like lots of his stuff.

this is not a remix and is pretty great. idk what a whole album like this specific track would be like, but i assume that isn't really the case anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcSQF-_cOMM

Man is a genius and album is brilliant.

Yep, the album is a really really nice listen. "Destiny" is the track that struck me first time round (not on Youtube unfortunately), but I'm sure I'll have a new favourite tomorrow.

Barcelona house producer John Talabot has a knack for capturing the very specific kind of bliss associated with dancing on Mediterranean beaches at the height of summer. A penchant for rising chords means that all his melodies make you feel like raising your arms and face to the sun. Talabot also has arguably the greatest sense of build-and-release in dance music since prime Booka Shade: ƒin is full of incredible tension-releasing moments, from the extended break in Destiny to the entrance of Missing You's bouncing bass. The generosity of Talabot's sound can also be ascribed to the amount of disparate ingredients he puts to use in service of his aesthetic – particularly the variety of human voices on display. There are wordless chants and bright, optimistic pop hooks; an echoing scream is plucked from a horror film and deposited in the middle of a carnival on Oro y Sangre, while on So Will Be Now, cut-up vocals coalesce gradually and gorgeously into recognisable language. All of humanity seems to be here – and it's busy celebrating being alive.

i know we've had the whole sunshine thing throughout this thread but the (really great) album is kind of teutonic and a bit wintry to me...pional has that icey vibe to his tracks too.

also sort of a US vibe, "when the past was present" is prob my favourite so far, and it sounds like a joyce sims loop given some reverb.

I kind of agree with LG - maybe not necessarily re "wintry" but it does vibe indoors and late-night for me rather than "face to the sun".

most pimpin album of 2012

omg @ this record

yeees. No favourites yet, which is a good sign.

love that people are loving this

i know we've had the whole sunshine thing throughout this thread but the (really great) album is kind of teutonic and a bit wintry to me...pional has that icey vibe to his tracks too

Booka Shade comparison is probably on point here in that tracks like Mandarine Girl and In White Rooms were alternately really chilly and teutonic and then suddenly really hands-in-the-air and balearic sounding.

I feel like this album starts off pretty icy and then warms up. Actually a lot of this reminds me of The Field, although much better than The Field because he's much better at doing space and build-and-release.

on my first two listens i'm def in the "wish this was more summery" camp but its growing on me

It's weird, it just falls totally flat for me, I feel like that Dixon and Ame Boiler Room kind of took this sound as far as I'd want it to go.

Am on a long few weeks of p much only listening to Tim Hecker, Deaf Centre, and other stuff along those lines, cos they help me to do some writing work I've got on the go, so it may be bad timing for me.

I was only so-so about the album in the end too tho.

There is one track near the end I liked as well as Old Song, had heard it before, it's the DJ Samo one.

Old Song is all-time tho.

I particularly like the way he mixes the Young Marco remix of "Heterotopia" into "We Doubt (You Can Make It)". It's the kind of two-totally-different-songs-become-one trick that Villalobos used to pull off on the rare occasions when he felt like being gregarious.

The Dixon and Ame Boiler Room is a good reference point for this, but it has some of the "let's build a soundworld" portentous swirliness that I associate with the Wighnomy Bros' Metawuffmischfelge and Mayer's Immer 2.

i'd guess its eyerolls are probably much like when a daaaaark outlier spin-off of a beloved genre of mine gets hipster kisses out of the blue

Your night bus comment would appear to support this.

i am aware of all things

haunting shipwrecked boat riddims from the adriatic sea bed ;_;

Almost as if the machines are capable of weeping

Disembodied Gypsy Kings guitar lines hover and dissipate like phantoms in the rain.

as tim will certify this is still nae WONDERLAND09 from the uk funky days of yore

ya this mix bored the hell out ofm e

i quite liked it

Haha Matt I've probably written that exact line before.

rtc of course correct about Wonderland09 but that's one of the finest mixes of my or any lifetime, so.

i'm sure i'm just being awfully gauche but i really am finding it hard to fathom how you can listen to this in its entirety and pick out 'old song' (or the deployment of) as a particular highlight above all others... just seems like taking the mix on terms that arent its own

he kinda clangs the mix into it as well imo tbh, although being jarred isn't necessarily bad here

WONDERLAND09

??

Have only heard this mix maybe half a dozen times and have really enjoyed it every time, although it tends to wash over me in one go - although the dixon/ame boiler room did that for a while too before crystalising, so I imagine this will too.

(this mix = talabot)

ah ok wonderland09 is presumably a ref to this:

funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

anyone have a link?

I've still got Wonderland09 knocking around somewhere, will upload it at the weekend.

I thought he kind of clanged the Old Song transition as well but then I realised I was listening on Spotify and there was a track left out just before that. (WTF is up with that btw?)

i'm sure i'm just being awfully gauche but i really am finding it hard to fathom how you can listen to this in its entirety and pick out 'old song' (or the deployment of) as a particular highlight above all others... just seems like taking the mix on terms that arent its own

Almost entirely cos it's a few years old, I have it on vinyl in my parent's house, used to play it out a lot, and it was on a Superpitcher mix years ago, so all your points are fair!

i think the segue from the Untitled track into Round - Glass (kind of a google proofed-who is this guy?) works really well too. also all the comparisons to the Dixon/Ame Boiler set from last year are otm, didn't make that connection myself but it fits.

i'm sure i'm just being awfully gauche but i really am finding it hard to fathom how you can listen to this in its entirety and pick out 'old song' (or the deployment of) as a particular highlight above all others... just seems like taking the mix on terms that arent its own

he kinda clangs the mix into it as well imo tbh, although being jarred isn't necessarily bad here

― r|t|c, Thursday, November 28, 2013 7:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel like the arrival of "Glass" is the actual "ascend into soothing house classicism" moment that everyone describes the arrival of "Old Song" as being - like, if you didn't know the latter already and then read reviews, when "Glass" starts up you'd think "oh this must be that Old Song track".

Separately, Mohr must feel like his title for "Old Song" becomes more and more appropos every day.

It was fitting even when it came out, and not cos it's like retro in a dance way, it just kinda sounds old in a different way.

like, if you didn't know the latter already and then read reviews, when "Glass" starts up you'd think "oh this must be that Old Song track".

I saw all of you going on about it and that's what I thought

Ha me too!

noobz

lol feel like insulting 'old song' a bit now... it's alright tho

haha i'm only messing with "noobz". i hope you all go on to enjoy indie trance for many years.

wonderland09 : http://we.tl/mayL6PyMqA

^^ cosign the absolute greatness. haven't heard the talabot yet.

I'm digging this. Way chill. Good morning music.

thanks v much for wonderland!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p0i8u2GC0U
this is hitting the spot

yeah I'm digging this new one. Bit more muted than Fin but still just as lush

surprised this thread didn't get bumped for 'Voices'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJUEAOYDf8

talaboman record frickin rocks

oh wow it had totally missed my radar. really good on first listen, looking forward to spending proper time w/ it.

same, sounding very good in the heat

I'm a bit nonplussed by it myself to be honest. It lacks the euphoria and sunshine of Talabot's solo work and the personality of Boman and all the Studio Barnhus axis.

i mean i admit i was pretty high when it was finally opening itself up to me but yeah there's def not much in the way of direct sunlight

yeah, this passed me by. need to check it. i listened to FIN an absolutely obscene amount.

I still think his peak was the pre-Fin singles and remixes.

Haven't heard this yet but "Six Milion Ways" sounds exactly up my alley

Samsa is my jam and far and away the best thing on this. I appreciate what they're going for here, but sometimes the melodic ideas run their course pretty quick for me and it feels weird. For the most part this is a killer summer record though and is very good as a companion to movement.

*feels weird cuz this is a deep house record and not sure why I care about whether a melody has changed after 7 minutes

holy shit this album is G R E A T

hmm.. I just haven't been able to get my teeth into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfdsbVzTMMk

enjoying the hell out of this at my desk rn

great song to wake up to today, Brad, thanks

oh yes

really like Joakim's contribution to that new Permanent Vacation compilation this is from, it's just a remake of his remix of Antena

Was on Beats In Space last night

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/947

(the live sets from Jex Opolis, Shy Layers and Eddie Ruscha worth checking out too)

Definitely into checking out the Shy Layers live set. Haven't heard of the other two but thanks for the tips.

Jex Opolis is great. Check out last year's Ravines album.

And Eddie Ruscha has released lots of great albums as Secret Circuit and was also half of Laughing Light Of Plenty with Thomas Bullock