― matt2 (matt2), Thursday, 9 February 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, 9 February 2006 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 9 September 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― jergins (jergins), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 9 September 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Saturday, 9 September 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link
okay, the a side of raum einz 12" (1997) is pretty good so far. really warm and queasy keyboards a la rest, but the drums are more bouyant, like on the western store record. maybe not the most cohesive thing he's ever done. it has this breezy five note ascending 1 2 3 4 descending 5 keyboard riff that screams seashore. where is that lebanese beach party thread?
also, this is just as detailed as anything he's ever done. there are so many sounds! it's almost too decadent but of course that is the perfect amount.
b side really wispy synth stuff... boring? yes. also trite. oh well. has a nice piano break near the end, though - sounds like end of dfa remix of relevee.
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 10 September 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Sunday, 10 September 2006 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Sunday, 10 September 2006 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 10 September 2006 04:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 10 September 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 10 September 2006 11:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Sunday, 10 September 2006 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Sunday, 10 September 2006 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― breakfast pants (disco stu), Sunday, 10 September 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Thursday, 14 September 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
the new single's a little blah, straightahead techhouse with some neat sounds but none of the sense of melody of playfulness of wearemonster
― people of the world (jergins), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
curious
― cutty, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
HOlding anyone up to the standard of Wearemonster is flat out unfair!
― mehlt, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 01:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Well how about holding the single up against the rest of Isolee's catalogue? Oh wait that's still unfair. I guess you're right that the single is fantastic when compared to pretty much any other techhouse I've heard, but....
I have to admit I was a bit surprised by the release - after his recent remix of the Imps I was more worried his new work would be a bit aimless rather than focussed but blah techhouse with neat sounds.
― Jedmond, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 02:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't heard the single. How is that IMPS CD? (I asked on another thread but got no response :( )
― mehlt, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 03:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I've only heard it in bits and pieces as the 12"s were released - I would say its a by-the-numbers release - but considering the people involved - fehlmann, isolee, jelinek, etc that it is still pretty damn good. The Strategy remix was a pretty nice surpise. I wasn't expecting anything much from him - but he provided a nice piece of cartoonish bump.
I shouldn't be too mean to October yet - have only listened to it a couple of times. It's just that I was appalled by the idea of not judging Isolee by his previous work - I like judging Isolee by Isolee standards because he's spent a decade or so meeting them.
― Jedmond, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
is this on playhouse? bizarre, i hadn't heard anything about it....
― pshrbrn, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
it's on diynamic
― rio (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 4 March 2009 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
xxpost: I think you were taking me a bit too seriously (though I have bought many records on the basis of 'this is the guy who made wearemonster') Just saying it's a hell of mark to meet, for anyone.
― mehlt, Thursday, 5 March 2009 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't worry I wasn't taking you too seriously (hell, I/everybody knows Wearemonster was a let down after Can't Sleep All night).
― Jedmond, Sunday, 8 March 2009 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
october is fucking great
way more restrained but it's still got all his lovely little twists and turns in the arrangement
the 'fun' is all under the surface of that very generic pad stab
can't wait from another album from this guy
― Crackle Box, Thursday, 21 May 2009 08:46 (fourteen years ago) link
October would be much better if the first 2-3 minutes were just cut. On the other hand Isolee's Albacares 12" for Mule is classic, tied together with a lovely goofy guitar loop. It almost makes the October 12" a deliberate slap in Diynamic's face - deny me my Stefan Marx cover etc.
― Jedmond, Sunday, 24 May 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ yes this new one on mule is great, b-side track is funky as hell too
― Executive Producer Wolf Dick (haitch), Thursday, 11 June 2009 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Just catching up (a few months late) with "October" - which I do like a lot, but OH MY GOD THE B-SIDE ("A Nightingale") - a wonderful creation, full of unexpected twists and turns. Surprised that it hasn't been talked about here at all?
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 27 August 2009 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
New album in January. :)
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
YESSSSSSSSSS
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Details from Resident Advisor
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/news/2010/isolee-well-spent-youth.jpg
Isolee's next album is called Well Spent Youth, and will come out on January 21st via DJ Koze's Pampa Records.
Real name Raijko Mueller, Isolee is one of the most acclaimed producers of the past decade, thanks to his lush but minimalist style of house music. His early singles on Playhouse helped lay the foundation for microhouse in the '00s, especially 1998's Beau Mot Plage. Seven years later he released We Are Monster, an album that cemented his reputation as one of electronic music's richest talents and remains something of a classic today. Since then his output has slowed, with just a few EPs and compilation appearances in the past few years, though this fall he released a new 12-inch on Dial, The Fantastic Researches Of Yushin Maru.
Well Spent Youth features 11 new tracks by Mueller, making it his biggest release since We Are Monsters. It also marks the first album on DJ Koze's Pampa Records.
Tracklist01. Paloma Triste02. Thirteen Times an Hour03. Taktell04. Journey's End05. Going Nowhere06. One Box07. Celeste08. Trop Pres De Toi (97' Interlude)09. Hold On10. Transmission11. In Our Country Paloma Triste
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh good - really liked the albacares ep from last year
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
oh and its on pampa!
can't wait, this is great news
― need to impressive a girl? (Z S), Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Psyched for this. Might be time to dig out Wearemonster again.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
When is it not time to!
― EDB, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
― cherry blossom, Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:43 (8 minutes ago)
yeah, and october/nightingale were awesome too
― calpolaris (nakhchivan), Thursday, 25 November 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
he's super talented no doubt
New 3-track out, p nice. I love the bass whomp on the first track.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:16 (five years ago) link
the kick whomp I mean
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:49 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJTF_Qe7mJM
rest is the best album ever made
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 19:59 (five years ago) link
it really is though
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 8 April 2019 16:40 (five years ago) link
I bought it years ago based on hyperbole (or heartfelt sincerity!) about its greatness and never really got it.
― Duke, Monday, 8 April 2019 21:22 (five years ago) link
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
― brimstead, Monday, 8 April 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
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'.
― Matt DC, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
It’s good but Villalobos is on another level (and not just on Alcachofa).
― pomenitul, Friday, 12 April 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link
I've seen those photos of him gurning, you're right
― brimstead, Friday, 12 April 2019 22:40 (five years ago) link
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"!
― the late great, Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:24 (five years ago) link
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.
― ed.b, Saturday, 13 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
Ginster 12" is pretty good. "Sudden Frost" is possibly the highlight.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 14 April 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
new album sounds really good in this hot weather we're having: crisp, bumpy and rumbling all at once
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:01 (ten months ago) link
I would def take rest over wearemonster, always felt like the latter’s acclaim was a little ott
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 15 June 2023 23:26 (ten months ago) link
agreed, I do like “today” off wearemonster a lot, though, it reminds me of flash and the pan or something
― brimstead, Friday, 16 June 2023 00:02 (ten months ago) link
I actually listened to Wearemonster recently for the first time in many years and was mostly like yeah this bangs
― jaymc, Friday, 16 June 2023 00:04 (ten months ago) link
Wearemonster is not as good as Rest, and yes some of the acclaim was more reflective of how Isolee's rep had grown in the interim (Rest and Vocalcity both had a lot of people playing catch-up between 2001 and 2003, but Isolee more than most probably got a boost from the crossover acclaim for Alchachofa as well) than of the album itself, but it's still pretty great, and its layered mutating disco sound really caught the moment, it feels a bit like a prequel to the first Lindstrom and Prins Thomas album that came out later in the year.
― Tim F, Friday, 16 June 2023 02:50 (ten months ago) link
the packaging of “rest” is timeless and classic, that probably rubs off on how i hear the music (vs his other efforts)
they just reissued the holy garage remix single, which has 1996 isolee on one nice and 1996 losoul on the other, their remixes neatly encapsulate their dynamic
― the late great, Friday, 16 June 2023 02:56 (ten months ago) link
I always liked Wearemonster better for whatever reason
― But his face would not turn into hot Kirby (Evan), Friday, 16 June 2023 13:41 (ten months ago) link
I never got the ambivalence towards wearemonster, or the idea that it pales compared to rest. To me it’s such a high-water mark of my favourite dance-music sounds, whereas Rest is great but never had that kind of gut-level feeing. The Stefan Marx covers on isolee releases feel more classic to me too, compared to Rest. But Wearemonster also has the benefit of being released at a formative time for me, so I may be biased. But I also just love about everything isolee does and have huge respect for him, so I suppose I don’t really care which album is less good.
― ed.b, Friday, 16 June 2023 14:02 (ten months ago) link
for me it’s something like this: isolee and losoul stand in front of a bubbling cauldron, asking themselves “what can we possibly add to improve this heady minimal house brew?” after some consideration, one of them says “i know, we’ll add a generous splash of post rock!”
and the soup was forever ruined
― the late great, Friday, 16 June 2023 14:40 (ten months ago) link
"my hi-matic" is one of my fav tracks ever, it goes on a whole ass fantasy adventure without ever feeling like it's breaking minimal house kayfabe like some of the other tracks do
― ciderpress, Saturday, 17 June 2023 04:30 (ten months ago) link