house/techno bobbins 2012

Think of should go to one of FP's nights at plastic people one of these months... (is it selfish/gauche/RONG! of me to want him to just pump out nothing but house bangers like arp3 and vacuum boogie?)

That Sotofett is great. Expecting good things from the Sex Tags crew this year. Not exactly house I guess but I'm keen to get my hands on one of Rush Hour's James Mason reissues. Discogs prices have been crazy in the last few years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvc1FWjIwsI

When I've heard him play it's nowt but house jams, he's smooth as hell. Classics, odd ball funk, detroit business, just party house all night long. He's a killer DJ. Go see him man.

Oh mmmmm that sounds sweet. If that aint house I don't know what is.

thx for the tip on the james mason, it does sound p rad so far. tho from what i've heard that is def the housiest track

I want someone I know to throw a party where everyone gets really fucked up and they attempt to play that 12hr Mayer mix in its entirety.

that person could be you!

Xposts: Having seen FP dj before I know that much, I was talking about his productions.

Come on somebody, make the Spotify playlist already.

Or is that kind of self-defeating as approx 10% of the songs mentioned here will have made it to Spotify?

I don't know if this is the right thread to post this in but Jim-E Stack's new EP is kind of amazing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVGkj_g_Zq4

He's pretty fuck'd, we just had a mix/interview from him n'all.

http://www.sonicrouter.com/2012/01/sr-mix-115-jim-e-stack-good-years/

You should prob be here tbh: Rolling Dance Partisans 2012

it's all good though.

Another belatedly discovery of 2011 but why didn't anyone tell me about the Margaret Dygas self-titled on Perlon? Very much a dry, skeletal affair, typical of the label I guess - I'm not the biggest expert but on at least a superficial level it's very much like Villalobos' "Alcachofa" texturally - but there's enough darkness to remind me of Chloe while moments such as the live drums on this remind me of Four Tet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIYXlDhb-hQ

I don't want to use the m-word but there's a reason that whole thing took off and stuff like this makes me kinda miss it.

i heard about that dygas record somewhere... thought it was ilx? maybe not tho

this has been growing on me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6uUiEuVHhU

sounds pretty hot creations-y but i guess it's on wolf + lamb

I like the danny daze track but can't really deal with the hot creations thing

that cottam track from way upthread is amazing, it's my sax automatic kneejerk love kicking in. the b-side "twang" is fantastic too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5990RGzzVqU

I like the danny daze track but can't really deal with the hot creations thing

― Cashmere Combabe, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:44 AM (6 hours ago)

what is the hot creations thing? i usually don't know what people mean when they say this. i believe there is a wolf + lamb thing that i also don't get

hot creations thing = lee foss "u got me", miguel campbell "something special", danny daze "your everything", hot natured "forward motion", clockwork "it's you again", etc.

it's not too crazily different than the wolf + lamb thing, but with (usually) more prominent vocals/pop hooks. it's lee foss and jamie jones' label idk

no, i mean, i get that its a label with songs, i like a lot of them, but the way people talk about it leads me to think that it is something extra-musical which they don't like about hot creations

I don't get it either. Maybe it sounds better at a rooftop party in LA or poolside in Miami? The plodding house beats, grating vocals and corny R&B samples. All I know is to AVOID Hot Creations/Hot Natured nights in London LIKE THE PLAGUE. Topless, sweaty 17 yr olds in sunglasses pushing on the dance floor.. no thanks.

Maybe it sounds better at a rooftop party in LA or poolside in Miami

i love it because it sounds exactly like a rooftop party in LA or poolside in miami

ah, okay, well, i live in FL so i'm more inclined to associate poolside miami with the hot creations sound than sweaty 17yo londoners

Topless, sweaty 17 yr olds in sunglasses pushing on the dance floor

this sounded awesome until it dawned on me that you were probably talking about guys

it makes me want to go to more hot creations nights in london, certainly

lol

xp

I just got the first Hinge Finger from Madteo: http://www.discogs.com/Madteo-Bugler-Gold-Pt1/release/3269305 it's a well nice slab of odd ball house.

Looking forward to this too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGVP5A36nsY

i would absolutely go to a hot creations night in london for reasons that have only partly to do with shirtless guys

My experience with sweaty 17y/o Londoners has been more tedious and gross than anything else. Makes sense, since Hot Creations, Wolf and Lamb, et al make tedious and awful music that's by and large to be avoided like the plague, shirtless guys or no.

But that's just me.

it makes me want to go to more hot creations nights in london, certainly

just....don't. i love all the music but seriously when people talk negatively about the 'hot creations thing' this is probably what they are talking about. so much aggro.

oh and dance music snobbery i guess

the lary crowds combined with the shit 'TBC' venues, promoters knowingly overselling said shit venues two, three times over capacity and getting old i imagine means in 2012 i will be choosing my london nights out p selectively

has anyone heard some of the wolf + lamb mixes where they get on the mic? in theory i'm all for a bit of innovation in the dj box but it is incredibly cringey, sounds like a bad teen disco in suburban dublin when he's roaring "when the beat drops, i wanna see how low y'all can go!!" - albeit with jesse pinkman accents.

Well I didn't mean to open a can of worms about this re:'the hot creations thing' - I should have said sound rather than thing, wasn't really referring to anything else. I find their sound a bit cold is all!

I just bought a marcus mixx record! although it wasn't that one

jesse pinkman accents!!

the talking on the mic is 100% them trolling listeners like ronan imo

i haven't heard the mixes where they talk over it, when i saw soul clap there was no mic action and it was a pretty chill crowd

this hot creations/crosstown rebels sound was pretty refreshing when it first came out. "l word", "forward motion", "without you" are aces. but then they keep retreading the formula to the point that it became boring and predictable. I can't stand Maceo Plex.

I can't wait for the inevitable curation of Hot Creations because it will be one disc of great post-minimal vocal house and it will be all I need.

from this scene I mean, not by itself alone.

im very tempted to start a separate s/d thread but i really really love everything ive heard on the life + death label partic the pillowtalk ep from late last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESHsqWl4A_c&feature=related

anyone have suggestions/thoughts??

i like both pillowtalk eps, probably like the one on w+l even more than that ^ one tho. what else is on that label?

i think what hot creations is doing has a lot more in common with azari & iii style vocal house revivalism than anything else, and i love it - even tho yes it can be somewhat formulaic

theres a dOP 12" 'after party' that i really vibe and a bunch of remixes by ppl that i vaguely recognize. they arent updating their website which is p lol but they only have four 'official' releases

the talking on the mic is 100% them trolling listeners like ronan imo

listeners like who? what's a listener like me? might want to update your ilm filofax.

also love this, it's like "you've fallen completely into their trap"...OR maybe there's no problem with speaking on the mic, they just say really stupid cringey shit.

lol trolled

haha

;-)

honestly i only ever heard them do it on their BiS broadcast, where they openly stated "people keep calling in asking for us to stop talking... so we're gonna talk more!"

i think we talked abt this before tho

The Forward Strategy Group is really good, all clanging, metallic textures against industrial dones - makes me think of Andy Stott's recent material but played at 45 instead of 33.

― boxedjoy, Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:41 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how did I just now notice this via a year-end list today? Sounds up my alley, going to listen when I get home

Somehow or other I accidentally posted this in the Gay thread (!), but, as I said there:

This is some sounds like B12 in 2012 absolutely WOW type shit right here (thanking u LWE end of year tracks list):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Q2sPleFtU

Whoops, I meant this mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80TlUX7ueTk

did they use the same percussion patterns here??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Z8H0nlj5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzu0bijHgGQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wZZyFlne84

1999! That's Persuader's Vasastaden.

of course! was supposed to go on the ID thread but no one looks at that, and this thread isn't long for this world so why not

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

and then this going back to my roots / changes of life sounding thin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igEulc4K90I

Damn, how have I missed that Paranoid London track for so long? Been telling everyone about it only for them all to say they know it already.

So is it just me or are these incredibly similar?
They are quite similar. (Just in case you've been waiting for somebody to respond)

is there any reason for the lack of lil louis digital/cd releases? it sucks when I want to listen the conversation and all i have is this low volume vinyl rip with nonexistent bass.

*listen to