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Really didn't like the Egyptrixx album at all

not even Rooks Theme? shish

(yes, hyetal pushes the same buttons in me that witch house does, so i'll just pre-empt that zing there)

"Ribble to Amazon" is my favourite Bashmore production, real nice summery vibe. Couldn't get on with the Egyptrixx album at all.

i'm pretty much in like-not-love territory with egyptrixx's productions myself, though the ikonika remix of "the only way up" was awesome

There was one good track on the Egyptrixx album but I can't remember what, the rest sounded so... uninspired.

Thes might be my fave Bashmore and Hytetal bits...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiAJLBT8ue0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEqch0TgDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZapOXj0cDo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auv1gIn3V3c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owd18iXONI0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8vf-4QxrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHY42rVRCpA

Dispite being really into both of them I wasn't feeling those Velour tracks, wouldn't mind hearing them do more though.Hyetal's collabs with Peverelist and Shortstuff are amazing though.

the importance of colour and having bass that does something other than throb and glower.

Most of the producers mentioned here seem to be working on a deliberately icy, inhuman sound..... it's hard for me to love a lot of it. Which is funny, because I used to get off - and still do - on extremely jacking techno. I dunno. There's an incredible fussiness to a lot of it.

Or maybe younger listeners aren't burdened with unpleasant memories of the jazzier side of jungle so it doesn't bother them as much..

unpleasant you say...

Heh. I realise this is not a unique complaint, and "this isn't dubstep" but still.

xxxxxxxp

alex are your friends dudes who (used to??) do the night trackin house night at that place in the old port whose name i cant recall always meant to go to one of those

― flopson, Monday, May 9, 2011 11:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yes. these days they do the night tracking house night type thing at Blizzarts on Thursdays for their Baller's Social Club Night, and open for whoever they bring into town. they have piknic electronique the weekend of OSHEAGA and have booked Girl Unit and DâM-FunK, which should be properly epic.

I really dug the Velour ep, actually. Probably my favourite Night Slugs release outside of Girl Unit. (And, surely, shouldn't we get a mod to change the title of the thread to some sort of all-purpose night slugs one for ease of discovery?)

cooooooooooool i will go as often as possible this summer

I always forget who is from Montreal on ILM. Heh. I'm sure we will bump into one another without knowing it!

i had no idea flopson was canadian let alone from MTL

People did not know Jacques Greene was from MTL.
People did not know flopson was from MTL.
There is only one realistic conclusion to draw here.

optimum - not sure if there are any relevant opinions to be had about this track

― no xmas for jonchaies (nakhchivan), Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:31 AM Bookmark

we could talk about LONE and the return of pre-autechre IDM styles

also i've been following this thread with a bit of interest and my only question is why don't these guys get more love on ILM?

for my money much more exciting than night slugs

what sort of things were you thinking of? xp

there's bits of bleep all over this comp

i've had 'arpjam' running thru my mind all day

the optimum release that's really whoa was his debut on planet mu - max power/crash riddim/lily - all so confident and effective. his new track in that ikonika mix i posted this morning is really awesome too.

i like most of the releases i've heard on pattern though never noticed it as a label before now.

i can't get into lone's stuff at all :/

I love Lone, although any record with a tune called Petrcane Beach Track is pretty much bound to appeal to me.

PTN is pretty sweet yeah. Breach, Hypno, DJ Dom, T.Williams are all ace. The Hackman and Doc Daneeka 12"s are good too but not quite the same level for me. I love Ramp and Brainmath too, they've got to many good labels that lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIdzqO5tKO8

Wonder if T.Williams will have a release on Night Slugs, he's on the comp but it's with L-Vis 1990 and he's a massive weak link in the roster as a producer, quality DJ/label guy though.

I've been suprised how quite Night Slugs have been this year, we're almost half way through and only had an album and one white label from Pearson Sound it feels like they've slowed down a lot.

I guess there'll be the Jam City album at some point this year. Possibly something from Kingdom too

i know bok bok felt he wanted to devote a bit of time to his own productions by the end of last year.

i think t.williams is a fucking great producer - "heartbeat" is one of the pinnacles of everything happening around the scene

oh i guess you meant l-vis was the weak link tho, misread!

Yeah I <3 T.WIlliams he's amazing.

I think Jacques Greene and flopson should rename themselves Jacques Greene in MTL and flopson in MTL, respectively. Then people will know they're from Montreal. (Although tbh, I thought flopson was from either Edmonton or Calgary, whichever one rennavate isn't from.)

actually this mix is kind of amazing

6. Ikonika - PR812

this track!!!!

and the vip version of "arpjam"!!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 08:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark

YES!

Right now, I really want a T-shirt that says "Ikonika SUMMER MIX!!!"

the build in this just kind of ruled my mind for a few moments.

I thought Lone were just another Boards of Canada soundalike - am I wrong?

He's like a dancier BOC basically

Lone is closer to the Black Dog than Boards of Canada, everything I've heard isn't really like the latter at all.

Well his first album was basically a BOC homage - hip-hop drums pared with analog synths. The recent stuff has the same nostalgic vibe but with more of a 90's techno underpinning.

I must have the first album as I'd filed him next to Freescha. So I might need to check this out. Never really got into the Black Dog but am a massive fan of Plaid, so...

Lone's latest album is more in the B12/Stasis/As One/Likeminded vein of 90s UK "intelligent" techno as Vahid alluded to back thread, and well worth checking out

i say "latest" but I think it came out last year. didn't get around to checking his latest thing on R & S but samples sound pretty great, rave stabs and samples and floaty pads and bleeps

also i think he shares his name with a beloved ilxor who's sadly been rather quiet of late

lone is 808 state

PR812...like, can i plz have this track standalone right now?

didn't get around to checking his latest thing on R & S but samples sound pretty great, rave stabs and samples and floaty pads and bleeps

This could stand in as a description for basically any UK-based producer's releases in the past 12 months.

turns out jacques greene is a friend of a close friend of mine

Yes, MTL is a small place for a city of 3 million. (Well, 1.5 million in the city proper.) Even smaller when limited by age and music-scene.

On topic, the Ikonika mix is lovely.

also his name is not jacques greene

Oh, well, yeah. But talking about Ph1l via his real life name seems a bit rude. He went to such lengths initially to be all mysterious about it, distinguish it from his old moniker, etc. etc.

I mean, we refer to The-Dream as Terius for lolz but it's not like we go around talking about Tremaine Neverson or Sara Abdel-Hamid's Summer Mix or whatever.

PR812...like, can i plz have this track standalone right now?

― whenever the vein was to throb (the table is the table), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 21:02 (Yesterday) Bookmark

not quite, but *ahem* for a few days

just started listening to ikonika's mix and it sounds great. thanks lex!

btw, "abdel-hamid", is she muslim?

no - her dad's egyptian and her mum's from the philippines