Forgot to mention that I saw dude play on Friday night, and while it was a DJ mix of other tunes rather than his own it was excellent, really captured that same endlessly rising layered build effect.
Highly recommended!
― Tim F, Monday, 6 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
His Boiler Room podcast is really good also.
i keep revisiting the episode of beats in space he did
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 6 February 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
these talabot mixes are like catnip for me. i'm not sure that anyone else out there has the ability to balance dance purism and an indie aesthetic with even close to as much success. at least not in 2012.
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 08:37 (twelve years ago) link
really really enjoyed Phillip Sherburne's review on p4k.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think i get this, it's really boring and the jungle/frog sounds on the first track are embarrassing.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
agreed. i'm just not hearing anything interesting or engaging here. or worth dancing to.
― jed_, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
i like the XLR8R podcast a lot though and have enjoyed the FACT mix so far.
― jed_, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
Let us start a new club for people who are just perplexed by the ILX love for this dude + do not understand what we are missing.
― Drexciya's Midnight Runners (Wheal Dream), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
grats to John Talabot for becoming the first dance act of the year that ILX feels is noteworthy enough for dissent
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
really feeling this FACT mix
― Prince Rebus (donna rouge), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
what do you guys have against jungle sounds idgi
― psychgawsple, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
makes me feel like i'm listening to this:http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41BPHNH67AL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
they were awesome when New Order did it and they're awesome now
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
karl otm
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
yea hard to go wrong with jungle sounds imo
― psychgawsple, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv4mhOdoH80
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8y64gbVMv0
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dLzLHUNrPs
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 9 February 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
yesssss, oh god that track is all time
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 9 February 2012 05:48 (twelve years ago) link
Hating on jungle sounds is nagl. It's like hating on sea noises or something.
Anyone who's a bit nonplussed by this album should check out the excellent second 'If This Is House I Want My Money Back' compilation from last year, which features a more upbeat Talabot as well as a load of other dudes from this whole scene (Pional, Beautiful Swimmers, Permanent Vacation etc). Also if contains Mano Le Tough's 'Let's Not Talk About Love' which is one of the best records made by anyone last year.
http://www.discogs.com/Various-If-This-Is-House-I-Want-My-Money-Back-Zwei/release/3084122
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 February 2012 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^ Every word of that is spot on. I love Talabot's tune on that but the Mano Le Tough is GODLIKE.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 February 2012 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
also this remix is a must hearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyhBFIKFeoA
― du mein bestie (micarl), Thursday, 9 February 2012 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
Probably time for a Mano Le Tough thread soon enough, his Stories EP was also ace and there's an album in the pipeline that I reckon will surpass Talabot's.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 February 2012 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the stories ep was amazing, esp "take it back"
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Thursday, 9 February 2012 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
pretty much track Mano Le Tough is releasing is just sound palette catnip to me
― I DIED, Thursday, 9 February 2012 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
pretty much EVERY track
Album coming out soon too.
― two lights crew (seandalai), Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
talked a bit to him a couple of weeks ago, album coming after the summer.
― sisilafami, Thursday, 9 February 2012 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
Loving Mano Le Tough, ilxor TIP!
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 9 February 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
'if this is house i want my money back zwei' *was* really good, but i have been having a very hard time getting into this new permanent vacation 'selected label works' thing (save for the pional tracks i guess)
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i also cosign on the mano
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 9 February 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that third Permanent Vacation comp was really disappointing, far too many Sally Shapiro-type sadsack vocals all over the place. I really liked about half the second one and the first one is classic for all time, virtually everything there is wonderful.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 February 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
The only problem with "don't leave me (friendly pattern version" is that the grinding boogie-machine outro should last five minutes rather than thirty seconds.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
Remember being disappointed/bored with the first Permanent Vacation Selected Works compilation when it came out - especially since there seemed to be much more interesting neo-Balearic stuff around at the time, even the Fred Deakin Nu Balearica comp - but 'If This Is House I Want My Money Back Zwei' is really nice.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 9 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Also loving Mano Le Tough, thanks for the tip!
― toby, Thursday, 9 February 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
I substituted a few of the other Permanent Vacation releases from last year with the more lacklustre efforts on Vol 3 to make a better version. It really bothers me that Argy's "I Wish You Were Here" isn't on it.
Mano Le Tough is fab too, I love the remix of Aloe Blacc.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
Really pleased to see all the love for Mano, he is a really good mate of mine from Dublin, he's been in Berlin 4/5 years and it's really working out for him now. His flatmate is another really good pal and will be doing stuff on Permanent Vacation also.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
Please tell him to name his album Hangin' Tough.
When I play his tracks out they always get a great reaction, even from people who I don't think of as being into that side of house.
― I DIED, Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
he actually got the name from this sort of party house/bunch of people in Dublin who referred to their flat as "hang tough".
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 February 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
Funny coincidence - I've known Mano for ~20 years, we used to live on the same road and hang out all the time as kids. I started following his work due to the personal connection but I do think it's great music regardless.
― two lights crew (seandalai), Friday, 10 February 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
i know right?!
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Friday, 10 February 2012 09:32 (twelve years ago) link
I used to know this guy I met on Soulseek, he sent me so many strange Chicago tracks. His username was lil808. He sent me a list of the best Dance Mania releases, with catalogue numbers, and I followed that list like it was my religion, if I saw a record with that number I’d buy it on sight, he was never wrong. I built my taste in house music via friends, forums like Global Darkness or Clone Records, it was an underground world you know. Nowadays everyone is reissuing the strange tracks I’ve known for 10 years. It’s nice now when young people approach me at the booth to find out the name of a track, ‘cos there’s lots of information out there but people don’t always have someone showing them the way. The WBMX house mixes were a big influence on me, people like Mickey Oliver from the Hot Mix 5, I was so lucky that people sent me those files. Let me be romantic – we have lost a bit of magic over the years.
FACT interview
Talabot's nostalgia for the peek Soulseek filesharing era. And I remember at that time thinking how post-underground music was...
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 11 February 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
When The Past Was Present and So Will Be Now are both really great. but apart from those and a couple of other tracks, i think i'm in the 'this is a bit dull' camp :(
― jabba hands, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
some of the other stuff just seems sort of...throwaway
― jabba hands, Monday, 13 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
after a couple more listens, some of this is starting to stick with me. "Oro y Sangre" is pretty cool
― dmr, Monday, 13 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
dunno it it's talabot, as it's listed as "unknown", but the earth wind and fire remix in the xlr8r podcast is amazing. if it is him it is easily the best thing he's ever done.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Monday, 13 February 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
It's The Temptations /pedant
― Number None, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit, no it's not. Apologies
― Number None, Monday, 13 February 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
back in your box.
― I'm going to allow this! (LocalGarda), Monday, 13 February 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link