The producer known as ACTRESS and his r&b concrète

Getting lots of good reviews so far btw

blah, not on Spotify or whatever yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Wa7UN01eY

And it's really lovely, he's given in to his pretty side.

psyched for the set tonight for unsound

RIP
rest in peace
fassy get the coffin
then dem get the wreath

(no homophobe)

excellent album

like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWO7YZ-gZqk

Yeah, that is good but that whole Shangaan Shake series is all about that one Theo Parrish remix imo, that thing is a killer.

I spent a lot of time a lil while ago unsuccessfully trying to work that electro 2 track into a set

the MMM is thee shangaan remix imo.

i want to do a shangaan remix poll, was thinking on the way to work about whether i'd vote for theo or MMM or old apparatus or peverelist, all so dope

<3 dj rashad and spinn's too but obv it's kinda just a particularly accessible footwork track w/ a shangaan sample or two

personally both of those actress mixes are a little too "out there" for me

Damn, The Lord's Graffiti is one muthafucka of a tune. He is very good.

Still digesting R.I.P personally ("Caves Of Paradise" is the standout for me so far--wobbly bassline phrase-length + phased fast hi-hats = sold), but this free John Cale remix is esp. great (more pitched-down/low-slung than anything on the new record): http://www.factmag.com/2012/04/20/download-actress-remix-of-john-cale/

i've only heard "marble plexus" so far and i loved it, looking forward to picking up the album hopefully tomorrow

gah this album is fucking incredible

very "selected ambient works" imo

had this locked on repeat since i got it

"N.E.W." is so incredible

my favorite track on "splazsh" has always been "hubble"

you read my mind mr cunningham and made an entire album in that style

pretty sure one of the tracks on this is a remix of "crushed" from hazyville

gah this album is fucking incredible

very "selected ambient works" imo

― the late great, Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:44 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

had this locked on repeat since i got it

"N.E.W." is so incredible

cosign all of this. never really got into splazsh, really digging this though.

this is really cool

never liked splazsh either

dunno abt these last 4 tracks after 'glint'

kinda feel i need to start from the beginning again to work them out

this is good

Liking this, the lord's graffiti and raven are the two that stood out on first listen.

Is this streaming anywhere?

i'm alright with these last four tracks now. i don't enjoy them especially but the juxtapositions they provide lend a sense of consequence to the rest, however gnomic; ie without them this would be a too-well-contained and easily disposable nice bit of idm retro.

i like the middle section in particular, 'jardin' / 'serpent' / 'shadow from tartarus' - 'serpent' is very autechre homage to nokia 3310. in fact a fair few of the tiny insectoid music box melody tracks remind me of lp5/ep7 era ae, moreso than aphex at least.

jardin is amazing...

you guys might be interested to check out shackleton's new "music for the quiet hour".

A new Shackleton already? Still getting a lot of mileage out of the Pinch collab. Another Honest Jon's release? Reading the response on the new Actress album I will definitely check it out, couldn't get into Splazsh..

The new Shackleton is out on his own label:

http://boomkat.com/cds/523774-shackleton-music-for-the-quiet-hour-the-drawbar-organ

i keep thinking of the word "palimpsest" in relation to this album, like what you get after coming home at 7am and all the music you've heard all night is still rattling around in a jangly smear inside your head

I LOVE THIS

I just picked up R.I.P yesterday and want to add to the chorus of praise... This is immediately more engaging and satisfying to me than Splazsh--more beauty, more restraint, more detail, more melodic development. It's a lovely record that it's hard to imagine any other producer making. I think it may even be a "deeper" record than Splazsh but without the sheen of inscrutability that led so many people to keep on and keep on with it; R.I.P is more immediate without being any less complex.

timely reminder for me that this is a good rainy day album

i agree that it sounds a lot like autechre, especially the one track with the annoying birdsong sample sound and a couple others i can't recall are very much like the subtler confield-era stuff

I can see where that comparison comes from, but this is so much warmer and more luscious to me than Autechre.

Think I prefer Splazsh tbh - this is okay, but very similar in vibe to Oversteps-era Ae but not as involving. Might need a few more spins though.

This is really good - his production style certainly lends itself to moody atmospheric numbers far more than it does the more beat-driven dancefloor-based material. "Tree Of Knowledge" sounds like lurching brostep recorded to a tape deck via a microphone pressed against laptop speakers to my ears.

R.I.P. is going to save the lives of so many cracked-out kids, you know at 4am when the drugs won't let you sleep and no music sounds right - this will be the only album they can listen to

very "selected ambient works" imo

vahid otm

whenever I listen to this it feels like a watered down version of madlib beat tapes, I wish I could get into it because in theory this is like my favorite shit

which madlib beat tapes are these?

I love this record. Keep coming back to it.

new 12" "silver cloud" is some beautiful sinister fuzzed out fucked-up mutant techno

is it as good as the la dusseldorf track of the same name

Yeah this is great - nice to have some longer tracks from him.

"voodoo posse chronic illusion" is so so good

yep

a new afx album would be nice but actress is kinda supplanting the old 90s greats imo

still unsure how I've listened to and enjoyed this dude's music for over two years but only found out a few weeks ago that he played professionally for West Brom

"voodoo posse chronic illusion" is so so good

― keef qua keef (Jordan), Friday, February 15, 2013 3:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

absolutely addicted to this at the moment