teengirl fantasy, miracles club, mi ami, 100% silk and the rise of HIPSTER HOUSE: S/D

but yeah i really like the two valet records, and the last song on the 2nd album definitely hints at this direction

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hC8MOYoYQk

err...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hC8MOYoYQk

a lot of this stuff just reeeeeeeeeeeeks of portland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmV31r6-IW8

i guess someone who used to be in glass candy is involved w/that, to make the connection to idib even more obvious

feel like first-wave IDIB is absolutely the antecedent of 100% silk in every applicable sense, johnny jewel from glass candy started out making noise/drone as twenty-six and iirc used to brag in interviews about palling around with wolf eyes, pretty much blazing the trail from noise/lo-fi to dance that many of the people named itt are currently following

easy to look at 100% silk as filling the void IDIB left when glass candy and chromatics went on hiatus and the label mostly just put out nu-disco 12s that could have just as easily come out on dfa or permanent vacation, wouldn't be surprised if that's how they saw themselves, glass candy and jewel's solo "mystery producer" mirage singles seem like the template for so much of it

i guess to some extent the early dfa connections to no wave / black dice / six finger sattelite are the beginnings of this template, and i have no doubts that you could reach much further back than that if you wanted to.

but yeah, james brooks otm

another thing that had me torn is when i read about ital's production technique

part of me is like whoa, that's really cool, but part of me is like, why? and then all of me answers its because someone spent a lot of time in critique sessions talking about *process*

where did you read about that? i am curious (he kept deliberately unplugging the cord from the headphone jack at the aforementioned show, aiming for sooome type of effect i presume but it sounded awful and everyone was just sorta confused)

what's his production technique like?

Surely 100% Silk is the house to IDIB's disco? The Silk stuff is far more trackier. And I'm just going to throw in the Invisible Conga People are easily my favourite act from this axis.

Ital's production technique is discussed here: http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/podcast/lwe-podcast-97-ital/

I think IDIB is more connected to 70s and 80s disco and early house/techno, whereas this stuff is a further rooted in the 90s when house and techno were more established.

That video for Miracles Club "Church Song" looks so much fun, one for the "videos I want to live inside of" thread. It was the song I was dancing around my kitchen too a few weeks ago when I accidentally broke a glass and stood on it, so now it has a bittersweet connotation for me.

Can we also join the dots between this stuff and: "My Girls"; Delorean; Sincerely Yours (the record label); John Talabot?

alexis blair penney is worth checking out too- pretty embedded in the aunt charlies queen scene in sf, most of her album is being produced by teengirl fantasy, this remix is p nice imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5gBd4YN8eQ

fellow ilxor sanfrandisco is working with her on something too (hope it's ok to mention that!)

i wish some of these artists would take mastering and pressing quality a little more seriously as they often sound dreadful on a club system.

yeah i mean i didn't mean to imply that 100% silk was just a rote continuation of the exact music IDIB started out releasing, more just like picking up the ball that IDIB sorta dropped when they turned into a comparatively standard-issue nu-disco/edits label

always got the sense that glass candy/chromatics really resisted any attempts to be connected to the larger context of what else was going on in music at the time, refusing for example to allow official remixes or cooperate with warp or dfa or any of the other labels that were absolutely pursuing them

sorta feel like maybe anyone who was a fan of theirs that followed that worldview would have valued not the fact that they referenced disco but that they approached dance music in general from a point of view that was more in line with the ethos of noise/punk/DIY music than anything people actually played in clubs

like to think of 100% silk as those people, who maybe always assumed IDIB would continue to explore that approach and follow the natural progression of influences from 80's disco to 90's house, and ended up deciding to do it themselves once it became clear IDIB wasn't ever going to get around to it

I didn't meant to suggest otherwise - just to point out how 100% provide a continuum in more than just one way.

i wish some of these artists would take mastering and pressing quality a little more seriously as they often sound dreadful on a club system.

it's probably deliberate in some examples but that doesn't make this point any less valid

i wish all artists would take mastering and pressing quality a little more seriously as they often sound dreadful full stop

yeah absolutely, amanda brown even sounds enough like ida no on some of those recent la vampires collaborative EPs that they almost function as elseworlds alternate universe glass candy singles that plug different influences into the same basic approach for kicks

I'm actually a little hesitant to almost dismiss stuff like the artists on 100% Silk with a name like "hipster house" (not that that was necessarily the intention here)... that area involves your more psych-y/post-drone types... who for my take tend to be a little more involved and experimental than the usual "LOLindies-going-____".

besides, the psychedelic tendency to mess with the form is a way things can mutate and evolve, so I'm kinda feeling it, actually. Maria Minerva is one of my favorite things out there right now

those maria minerva releases sound a lot like nite jewel with worse recording equipment

i think a lot of ppl in this thread (me too obv) are 'feeling it', so i do apologize for a potentially pejorative term. but it is effective, no?

throwing a dash of the h-word in the title of any thread is a proven recipe for getting a lot posts

Well "The indie end of the noise spectrum having a go at house thread" is a bit banal for a title.

i really like the magic touch 12", but i am a huge jonas reinhardt fan so

i know and have had pleasant, friendly interactions with a lot of these ppl so i can only hope the term wouldn't piss them off (it probably would to a degree but it's all in the name of META). i *do* want this stuff to take off tho because it is one of the only things i care much about in the musical world of pdx (besides mississippi records of course)

i think the point I was trying to make in my earlier post (quoted in the question for this thread) is that this stuff codes as "hipster" in ways that I'm almost tempted to call objective - rather than the kind of pedigree-based "oh this person is a poser"/"lolindie" implication of the word which can only ever be relational to the speaker.

Objective significations of hipsterism in this material:

1) faux-period sleeve art;

2) faux-period monikers (not "Teengirl Fantasy" which is hipster in a different way, but definitely "100% Silk", "Miracles Club", "Magic Touch", "Ital"); and

3) notwithstanding (1) and (2), an air (sonically and discursively) of distance from the very things that (1) and (2) mimic, not superiority or even necessarily straight sonic differentiation, rather a sense that the original artifact is defined by its aura of inacessibility and unreproduceability - a time of lost innocence etc. etc.

basically 100% Silk : early house :: Stereolab : space age bachelor pad music.

http://images.hhv.de/catalog/old_detail/00247/247914.jpg

its okay to be a hipster guys

yeah, for sure, guess I just wanted to note the distinction since I'm see a lot of merit in some of the stuff, and 'hipster' does have its connotations... but yeah I see where you're coming from. xxxxpost

I don't mind being a hipster! I just like to break down how the term works in particular cases b/c it's got a million different meanings.

Especially considering it's broadest meaning is basically people younger than the speaker who aren't bogans.

said elsewhere on ilx, but I kind of know one of these dudes

you know a hipster?

'this stuff was covered already on the chillwave thread' - some annoyed msgbrdr

chillwave i love you but i've chosen hipster house

I like this...does that make me bad and dirty?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EghSZ232Fgc

chillwave i love you but i've chosen hipster house

honestly i love this stuff too, time passes, the world keepsss spinning

if the latest dominant legs 7" counts then i want to mention it itt

^ the dominant legs track i found sounds like fairly standard indie-dance fare but maybe it's not the one you're referring to?

i like the idea of a more diy/release-heavy approach to dance music. plus, this stuff is dfa-level cheap on vinyl in the us

it's outrageously expensive by the time it gets to the UK (like £11 for a 12") but this might have something to do with Phonica and fucking Volcanic Tongue being two of the main folks carrying it

I like the Mi Ami 'Dolphins' EP a whole bunch, ditto the Ital mix for FACT, but this ish is largely out of my price range right now for the most part

A lot of the Teengirl Fantasy album sounded really hamfistedly produced to me, even when the tunes were there, you got the sense that the producers weren't really comfortable or natural enough in their approach to the music to really take off.

Love the Talabot remix of Cheaters though. Not heard any of the rest of these guys, don't really want to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UiUHmH4Ctc

Agree that the Teengirl Fantasy album was weak overall, especially compared with the epic Cheaters original and the John Talabot remix.

Actually, Talabot holds an interesting place in this, he links up a set of coordinates mentioned already. Especially on his XLR8R mix, which connects Tri Angle (Altered Zones fave) to 100% Silk to Permanent Vacation, for instance.

i wish some of these artists would take mastering and pressing quality a little more seriously as they often sound dreadful on a club system.

I sort of agree somehow, although this is obviously the most ridiculous complaint for something like a sublabel of NNF! I actually played out a track from the Maria Minerva and it was a mess on a big system, unsurprisingly. This means that the stuff probably is geared toward live performance, rather than DJing at the moment, which is a sort of rock-ist frame, but also emerges around the cultural politics of distribution that these labels are involved with. Lo-fi as a critical stance to the free content of network culture. Now that I think of it this way, probably doesn't belong at all in the bobbins thread.

Besides all that, I have to say, what I'm constantly drawn to is how tracky a lot of this stuff is (I think that was also mentioned up thread). Maybe this is something other than Tim's hipster house definition based on the distancing effects and retro-stylistics.

i'm patently too dance-ist.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aALlMKcIB40/Toy6YjmhglI/AAAAAAAAADw/aVI1RWY7-jk/s1600/novembersilk.jpg

ha i'm glad this stuff has been delineated here, i had no idea it was a...thing. certainly didn't know miracles club were in it - they're (she's?) the only act mentioned with a song i really love ("light of love"), i'd just assumed it was some faceless balearic re-edity dude. i like the talabot remix of teengirl fantasy too but it's not a scene that appeals in any way.

Errr... is it a scene though? I feel like it might just be a thing at this point ;)

(Also, this is great):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-ZZhXYmmdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnRKb_KS3as

truth is i never listen to this stuff after i see the artist names

DOMINANT LEGS?

i mean, how can a single live up to a name like that?

great thread! aside from the usual debate on nomenclature I’m into it

would bookmark

it's hilarious that on a website dedicated to talking about music people seem to be getting more and more allergic to actually talking about music

i mean, what's wrong with a debate on nomenclature? in chemistry, there are professors whose only job is to worry about nomenclature, and whether a new compound should be classified as being in this group or that group.

I think it's the specific nomenclature that people are trying to stave off here rather than nomenclature in general

What else should I listen to on Trilogy Tapes?

Checked out Huerco S this morning in the background, like the textures and atmosphere, but it did seem to lack dynamics.

Is this the thread where we say how great the Unicorn Hard-On album is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RccHLLOhoc8

I like Night Diamond on that release, but as much I might regret saying it, I'm not sure it really qualifies as hipster house!

yeah... imo it sounds more like post-electroclash idm? like mochipet or dj donna summer or something

you know i have to admit i quite like this new steve moore

http://soundcloud.com/stevemoore2600/nemesis

^ this is great. i waited far too long to check out the lovelock album, but it is totally great too. he has his own thread right?

very excited about the mood hut stuff mentioned upthread btw, pacific nw represent

feels like an insult to call young marco hipster house, but hey w/e i'll run with it since others are already talking him up here. this remix from last year is going for CRAZY $$$ on the discogs, it was only a run of 100 tho and i guess it's getting a repress from rush hour soon: https://soundcloud.com/#youngmarco/tony-g-simple-dreams-young

zombi has a thread, but this doesn't really sound like zombi

are we going to need a rolling ambient synth thread this year?

i definitely wouldn't be opposed to it. i like the knew age hippies thread but then i end up missing out on the darker spectrum spools-type stuff

i guess it would work in the IDM thread

Steve Moore just posted about a movie he scored:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/01/15/dan-stevens-the-guest-youre-next/

What is the IDM thread?

it's called "idm in 2014"

idm in 2014

'rolling golf channel 2014'

that channel is so boring! a thread on it would only be more so imo.

not as boring as idm in 2014 amirite

I'm down with Golf Channel IDM in 2014

i want a thread where ppl who post in this thread, balearic, and knew age just post stuff they find that they know ill like. rolling recommendations for max thread

did you like SPIKE?

max what are your thoughts on the secret circuit album

I'm down with Golf Channel IDM in 2014

Yes, this.

i liked them both!

buddy of mine with a new record coming out on 100% silk: https://soundcloud.com/100percentsilk/golden-donna-pale-dream-rider

with all the octo octa love around here, this is definitely a recommendation

https://vimeo.com/41865217

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