maybe because it seems like there's no great reason for anyone out there somewhere to be digging on 00s micro-mnml (besides, like, the music: but they have to know about it somehow)? it seems to me like it didn't pass into legend or anything, or hasn't yet. and its original audience kind of abandoned it / its producers fell off / the 'sound' lost its potency or fashionableness or relevance.
― j., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
Sounds like a good take, j. I've been reading Reynolds's Retromania this week, and it feels like micro-mnml stuff is in that pit right now of never having been revived (and thus attracting younger, newer audiences)--maybe because not "enough" time has elapsed for a revival?--but the original releases being somewhat hard to find (aren't those old Force Inc. records long out of print for the most part?).
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Aside from the really clinical, bass-light, clicky stuff has mnml really gone away? Zip is still regarded as one of the best DJs around, Cassy is the new resident at Circoloco, DC10 this year and of course Ricardo is still massive. All of them have widened their palette to include deep / classic / tech-house sounds but they still sound pretty minimal to me. Maybe I'm carrying the baggage of 15 years+ clubbing to define the genres properly or it's the clubs I go to?
― mmmm, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
i'm quite looking forward to hearing the new portable album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm4hXj3db-I
depeche vocals + acid + dazzle ships synths
should be sick
― missingNO, Friday, 5 August 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
portable live in dalston a couple of months backwas the best techno gig ive been to in a hell of a long time, I have vague memories of that tune.
― straightola, Friday, 5 August 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
Oh and given that we have just about got to the mid nineties of watery NY house and loop techno in the cutting edge dance music revival id say the micro boom will be about 2015
― straightola, Friday, 5 August 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
was that the sud electronic night in april?
yeah think he played that
― post, Monday, 8 August 2011 09:07 (twelve years ago) link
nah it was slowpoke at the nest on easter sunday I think, I imaginre it was the same set
― straightola, Monday, 8 August 2011 09:48 (twelve years ago) link
i'd almost given up on perlon but the new mara trax (b-side especially) is refreshingly great.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
heard the a-side played a few times last year...bside of the new fumiya tanaka is good too (337)
― post, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
"sini est" by ric y martin (villalobos and dandy jack) is INCREDIBLE.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 15 March 2012 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
The Portable album is A+, exactly what I wanted from him.
― Jedmond, Thursday, 15 March 2012 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
super late to these but the two Chris Korda releases are really excellent, especially Apologize to the Future. cool and unexpected to encounter antinatalist thought in a relatively "mainstream" space. also musically feels like somewhat of a return to Perlon's more quirky, irreverent roots
― missingNO, Thursday, 7 October 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
PERL 39 side B is p nuts, starts off sounding like sub-menu BGM from like a nondescript golf simulator on Sega Megadrive or something replete w/ requisite Japanese monologue then suddenly mutates into a tom-tom led schaffel groove lol
― missingNO, Friday, 8 October 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
worth noting that currently hard to find for a reasonable price PERL 34 has been re-pressed and is due out next month—it's a fun one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m5RLlzPfhM
― missingNO, Friday, 29 October 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link