The producer known as ACTRESS and his r&b concrète

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

Even more intriguingly, it’s known that Cunningham was previously a footballer due to embark on a career with West Bromwich Albion, before injury forced him to retire from the sport at the age of 19 (a “crushing decision to make,” he says). What business, our inner snob demands to know, could a one-time professional hoofer of balls have making music as obtuse, as formally brilliant as this?

had no idea about this, rmde at the pleb who wrote that anyway

http://peterkempsrecordreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/actress-harrier-attk-gershwin-roy.html

also found this charming review by some pensioner

Remixes of Legowelt: https://soundcloud.com/clone-nl/legowelt-elementz-of-houz

his boiler room mix is still my all time favorite dj mix

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

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 20 January 2013 18:03 (4 months ago) Permalink

rip clicked w/ me and its completely stunning, I was looking at it in the wrong light entirely

what light are you looking at it in now?

http://i.imgur.com/PxHGxsI.jpg

I actually haven't smoked in a long time!

I can't really answer that intelligently, I guess I'm letting it be its own thing and not trying to compare it to anything else, and that has allowed my perception to the music to open itself up a little more

I don't expect to be as spazzy as I wanted it to be originally maybe? idk

my perception of the music, obv

Still think it's a lot less than the sum of the ideas that people use to describe it.

missing no just needs to chill a lil, i don't wanna scare off ppl who know more about techno than me

― Rockcrit from the Tuoms (nakhchivan), Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:30 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah apols for missing your pun. keep the ad homs coming though, you'll be reposted in zing thread in no time

― missingNO, Tuesday, December 28, 2010 11:31 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

His new album is being released in October.

http://i.imgur.com/CDtNyaQ.jpg

(this is from Clash magazine)

excellent news

yesssssssss

Ghettoville is the bleached out and black tinted conclusion of the Actress image.

Where the demands of writing caught the artist slumped and reclined, devoid of any soul, acutely aware of the simulated prism that required breakout.

Four albums in and the notes and compositions no longer contain decipherable language.

The scripts now carry tears, the world has returned to a flattened state, and out through that window, the birds look back into the cage they once inhabited.

Spitting flames behind a white wall of silence.

The machines have turned to stone, data reads like an obituary to its user.

A fix is no longer a release, it's a brittle curse. Zero satisfaction, no teeth, pseudo artists running rampant, but the path continues.

R.I.P Music 2014.

Actress

LOL

No comment on that up there, but just came here to say:

if you like Actress, check out that Gardland "Syndrome Syndrome" album on Rvng Intl, it's dope

it's got it's own thing, but the effect sometimes reminded me of the more upfront Actress jams

sorry actress :(

it sucks to be young and sad, but there's a whole lot of liberating history before you.

LOL

Still excited for the new album doe