Isolee

2011 hasn't even begun and we already have the album of the year, mean ol' Pampa for letting it leak so early.

holy shit, rapidshare is fast!

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want!

this is very good. wearemonster was super tuneful but this is more restrained, no really obvious standout tracks but the quality of the architecture is unmistakeable. reminds me a little of newworldaquarium's 'the dead bears' from a few years ago.

This splits the difference between Rest and Wearemonster. Pretty incredible album. Heavy replay value.

yeah i've had it playing pretty consistently for the last three days. i've never quite loved 'rest', although it must have seemed pretty amazing in 2000. wearemonster was of course great, but i think i like his recent singles more than either of them.

I think I'll go with that as well, summery is wrong, but Isolee's restraint gives the tracks a certain lightness of touch that belies the tracks' compulsive details. Hearing Paloma Triste on Isolee's Beats in Space session (plus the relatively reduced length of the album tracks) had lead me to suspect that he'd turned Well Spent Youth into an outlet for his more tuneful work, but I'm kind of happy he followed through with the numbed* trackiness of his recent singles.

*High compliment obviously.

Just became obsessed with We Are Monster after revisiting it this year. My tastes are at a point where I like more than ever since it came out.

There are worse places to be - just make sure you have his Hermelin EP, and The Jacko Theme, both are continuations/improvements of his Monster style.

hermelin is only thing of is i didn't rate

~his~

I've never loved the track Hermelin wholeheartedly, but Sleazy Bee sounds like g-funk made out of drool and slobber - and all the better for it, while Willy Skipper's gradual transmogrification into an oily acid belter marks the peak of Isolee's constant-mutation approach.

If you ask me, the whole Hermelin EP is entirely ace

Incredible Isolee mix on this weeks Resident Advisor podcast.

Kind of underwhelmed by the new album, anyone have a different first impression?

I keep hoping that the version I grabbed is actually a fake

:(

it's streaming here; http://3voor12.vpro.nl/luisterpaal/
I'm really enjoying it. Certainly not the hooks and sound palette as Wearemonster. I think he said in an interview he didn't want to repeat the 'indie' sound and wanted it to be more electronic.

Got it in the post a month ago, gave it a listen and struggled to get into it though I was getting over i particulaly bad bout of flu. Im up for giving it another whirl, I like the last EP he did on Diynamic

was wearemonster really 'indie'?

'indie feel' is the phrase he used in interview here http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=244 I think of Wearemonster having an influence on Four tet etc, so perhaps that is what he is getting at? Well Spent Youth and Rest feel more 'electronic' in comparison.

Wearemonster came out in 2005. four tet's previous album (before 2010) also came out in 2005, then he took a 5 yr break. i dont hear the influence, not to mention see how it's possible given that timeline ¯\(°_o)/¯

maybe if he was influenced by Rest?

I think maybe he's responding to the relative crossover appeal of Wearemonster, and that he just means that this is something less accessible (not in the way that say, Schrapnel is to those not heavily into electronic music).

I just heard Isolee's Kandy Beat off the Katapult compilation. Oogly Boogly! Either it's been completely mislabeled or it's Isolee doing a Luomo (as a variation on four tet) - right down to the breathy vocals.

Well Spent Youth is great.

I'm so late to the party on these guys, and on minimalist/micro/whatever kind of house this is.

Now I'm doubly confused: once by Kandy Beat and a second time by my Four Tet reference. The Luomo bit still holds.

FWIW I think this is an album that gets a lot better in its second half. I mean I love the fake slap bass in Paloma Triste but other than that I think it really starts to pick up at One Box. Celeste and Hold On are great to and Transmission is kind of the standout of the record for me.

Beginning of Fall is a good time to listen to Rest

title track of the new ep is gorgeous

http://soundcloud.com/pamparecords/pampa013-isol-e-allowance-1

Like the way the track ends as something else seems to be in the beginning.

Thanks - love that, been catching up w/Isolee and others since xmas.

weird how it took so long to come out, he was on beats in space fucking ages ago playing new stuff. like a year or maybe two.

new track sounds amazing btw

man, allowance -- beautiful

three-song thing showed up on Spotify -- is that the whole EP or is more coming?

just realised allowance is so like booka shade.

I'm hearing Allowance in lots of mixes used in different ways and it works so well every time, great track.

It's got more than a bit of a 'Night Falls' vibe to it but at the same time I could never imagine Booka Shade making a track like 'Allowance' even when they were good. It reminds me of something earlier as well that I can't put my finger on, something late 90s IDMish.

Amazing track anyway.

Looks like it's a 3 track EP. Disappointed 'Wobble' wasn't a Skrillex cover tbh. 'You could do your memories' also has a prettiness to it.

New 3-track out, p nice. I love the bass whomp on the first track.

the kick whomp I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJTF_Qe7mJM

rest is the best album ever made

it really is though

I bought it years ago based on hyperbole (or heartfelt sincerity!) about its greatness and never really got it.

It's definitely a classic dance full length for me, sounds so ahead of its time too. Can't believe that stuff came out 1999/2000. Funky squiggly digital shards, headphuq tech

On the basis of this thread I'm listening to 'Rest' for the first time in maybe ten years and wow. I know 'Beau Mot Plage' has unimpeachable classic status already but people should really talk more about the rest of the album in the same breath as 'Alcachofa'.

It’s good but Villalobos is on another level (and not just on Alcachofa).

I've seen those photos of him gurning, you're right

ok yeah yeah i know isolee "rest", last night i played a beau mot plage remix

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

but really friends ... losoul "belong"!

Belong is a wonderful album - I’ve been super into LoSoul’s 90s stuff lately. I mean, I aways was into it but have been finally buying those record in the last year. That said, I just got “Getting Even” last week, after long being hesitant about it - I was right, it’s not very good. But Belong though.

Anyways, Rest is good but I’ve never felt it compared to Wearemonster, which is definitely among my top albums of the 21st century.

Ginster 12" is pretty good. "Sudden Frost" is possibly the highlight.