Matias Aguayo

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i love this album. press the 'buy now' button! miles better than the justus albums. usually vocals drive me crazy but something about his lyrics/delivery brings me joy.

― biz, Sunday, 16 October 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I love this one too. Sleek, spartan, empty.

It's the Ferenc album I'm not really getting (I mean it's good but never really leaves an impression.)

― Omar (Omar), Sunday, 16 October 2005 07:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i agree with omar. what's weird is that you could use sleek, spartan and empty as negative connotations for the ferenc album and positive for aguayo. it's the beats. the ferenc album feels parochial whereas the aguayo feels open and now.

both doppelleben and are you really lost? are fantastic though. hard to pick between the two.

kompakt is turning into warp. (if it hasn't already)

― tricky (disco stu), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

ahaha. It totally is already I think.

Especially if you consider the respective mp3 shops & the other labels they take under their wing or help distribute.

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 16 October 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Now we just have to wait for Thom Yorke to declare his love for Kompakt to bring us full circle.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 16 October 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Next Radiohead album will start with two gauzy foggy tech-house tracks with Thom singing in German.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 16 October 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Yet you could still imagine them singing it in a stadium.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 17 October 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

This is great... weird and original!

― login name (fandango), Friday, 28 October 2005 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

This album comes in the middle of the electro house fuzz ... like fresh air to my ears.

― ifeelspace, Friday, 28 October 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Since it hasn't been mentioned before, there's a 5-hour DJ set with Matias Aguayo and Chica Paula at Betalounge, dated January 15, 2005. It's a very nice and diverse set, and if anyone recognizes the track at 3:33, please let know!

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that 3 hours and 33 minutes? :)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link

yep, any ideas as to what that may be?

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd also like to mention that I'm quite happy with the way Realplayer streams are growing in bitrate these days, that set comes in at a steady 135 kbps, which renders it almost rippable.

― Jena (JenaP), Friday, 28 October 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

mmmm yes this album is very very good, much love for "Well" as well.

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 30 October 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link

I did an interview via email with Aguayo a couple of weeks ago. It's on a swedish website but the Q and A is still in english. Go here if you are interested:

http://www.digfi.com/default.aspx?id=8051

― emil, Thursday, 10 November 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks for that :)

This record is one of the few times where no writer-type seems to have quite nailed and described exactly the same thing I'm hearing in anything I've read, or maybe they have but it's all in bits & pieces.

I dunno, the sweatiness and sexiness is there. In how the slow tempo almost seem to reflect a need to move, but not any kind of hyperactive exertion. That would kill you in the heat. I love how organic this all feels, like it's been made out in the desert, with whatever pots & pans shit was close to hand, far away from any kind of regular electronic studio... in fact the whole thing feels spicy & heat-soaked, burning up, dusty... almost tribal, but without the usual 'banging'-ness. I guess the 'not driving too fast' thing in the press release reflects that 'road movie' feel. I mean 'So In Love' just has that vibe of someone totally losing their shit as some crazy unexpected affair is about to end, or leave that insane level of intial unsustainable pleausure. It hasn't quite happened yet, but it's subconsciously approaching.

I like the Closer Musik stuff I've heard too, but it's SO different to this. When that's minimal it's all cold, considered, worried & twitchy, and what warmth there is, is very much that detroitian electronic kind of 'warmth'. It's a completely urban record, albeit still one with hurt feelings.

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 04:51 (eighteen years ago) link

The fingerclicks in 'Drums and Feathers' (and that ever so slight fade (echo?) after, like it's been recorded plain, and live in an empty space) sound like they'd absolutely KILL played loud over the right system.

― Worst song, played on ugliest guitar (fandango), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link

i played "drums and feathers" out the other night, and you're right.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Sunday, 13 November 2005 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I played 'Radiotaxi' in a set of mainly older electro/disco/proto-house and it worked well. It mixes nicely with 'Bring Down the Walls' by Mr. Fringers/Robert Owens.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Interesting. I mixed "De Papel" with Mr Fingers "Gallimaufry Gallery" the other day. Went down very well.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Sunday, 13 November 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Fantastic album. Really.

― Tobias Rapp (Tobias Rapp), Sunday, 13 November 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I've been back and forth with this album and can't decide whether the sultriness of it is fantastic or just kind of silly. Regardless, I'm surprised as to the amount of coverage it's receiving, even for a Kompakt release. (Ref: Andy Kellman's review on allmusic for the most insight and melodrama. It's on the Spotlight today. You'd think Closer Musik's break-up was of Morrissey/Marr proportions.)

Also, what kind of house is this exactly? Is it house? Minimal techno? Is it the trendy Ketamine House? Or a new, sleazier K-Y House? Discuss further please- it's still not clear to me....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Re-post.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

"drums and feathers" is definately the club track.

― dd_____ (dayvidday), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I think this album has more in common with Adonis, Jamie Principle, Ron Hardy, than Dominik Eulberg or M.A.N.D.Y. I'm not saying it's retro or nostalgic, it doesn't sound like Chicago House, but it kind of feels like it at times

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I get the Jamie Principle and Adonis references, but there seems to be less soul here.

Plus, I think maybe Chicago House is to Matias Aguayo as Sounding Sexy is to Trying To Sound Sexy.

But that might be a little harsh.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

ouch

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I've had this for a week now and I think it's brilliant. Very brooding and almost menacing in places. Just right. Take away "The Green and the Red" and the title track and it's perfect to my ears.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 18 November 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah I was hoping to broaden the discussion on this record a bit, but nobody seems interested. The electronic bent ILMers are kind of absent lately maybe? Or maybe no one likes this record. Or maybe it's the time of year when everyone is content with

"Hey have you heard this remix? So fantastic!"

"Yeah, it is."

"Me, too."

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 18 November 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

"Could you YSI it, pleaze?"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 18 November 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

So I'm still listening to this and still loving it. What does he use for the deep gurgly sound on New Life? I have no technical knowledge.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

The bonus version of "De Papel" never fails to make me roffle in a good way.

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I *really* want to love this, but I can't!

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you like it?

― fandango (fandango), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

...not really...

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I say you gotta start with De Papel (both versions), New Life, and So In Love and let the rest creep up on you.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 13 January 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I like the title track best. Actually I sort of think the record gets progressively better as it goes along - at least if I skip track one as I like the bonus version of "De Papel" more than the original (more corny raps plz!).

It's a v. good album overall I think. I actually think a lot of it would work best though in a mix - I'd love to start a mix with "Are You Really Lost".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 15 January 2006 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link

this is a really exceptional record. i've been listening to it steadily since its release and i'm still not tired of it. shame it got a bit buried amidst the madness of kompakt's crazy second half of 2005.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 16 January 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i'll try again then

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 16 January 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

i think this is a nice, solid record. there are no moments of personal transcendence however.

can i derail another thread and say that jess is OTM about closer musik being the best artist lp on kompakt.

― cheshire05, Tuesday, 17 January 2006 06:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I think this may be a better LP than After Love though - the highs of "Departures" and "You Don't Know Me" may be higher but I think Are You Really Lost is more generally engrossing.

(I mean After Love is about as consistent as Touch, and the highs on the latter record (well, "Amabile" at any rate) are even higher!)

Oddly the a-side of the Kontrast record makes it appear that Leyers is moving in a similar direction as Aguayo - slow slow slow and totally trance inducing.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I agree with you tim, although the songs I like of closer musik, I really love, and the weaker ones I never listen to. I usually play 'are you really lost' from start to finish.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

I still find myself "singing" So In Love to myself all the time even though I haven't given the album a listen in several months. What a great track that is.

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 1 May 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

same here :)

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I've come to think this is kompakt's best album release, next to Closer Musik. "So In Love" has become my favorite track.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah "So In Love" is now my favourite track as well.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I've come to think this is kompakt's best album release, next to Closer Musik. "So In Love" has become my favorite track.

this comparison has inspired me to give are you really lost another try.

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

off to the radio station to give it a whirl

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

spicy house! still great :)

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

i think "Well" is one of my favourite songs of the past few years. i mostly like this record. Well, Drums & Feathers and De Papel are all fantastic.

HOWEVER

have you ever seen a cover worse than this?

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-523257-1134573193.jpeg

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 17 June 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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It's essentially acapella house music, isn't it? I like this record best when there are no instruments involved at all, just the sound of voices imitating the clicks and snaps and detuning pling plong noises you'd treat as standard in minimal. It feeds perfectly into my argument upthread about Aguayo totally getting the inherent silliness and ridiculousness of even the most po-faced European techno.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 4 December 2009 10:47 (fourteen years ago) link

I like this a lot too. One of the most refreshing records I've heard in a while.

― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Friday, 4 December 2009 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link

like this a lot but up there with Are you really lost and After Love? Not quite sure.

― Pedro Paramore (jim), Friday, 4 December 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link

I don't really think I've given this a fair shake yet but up to now... hasn't really clicked like I would have expected, am a bit on the fence :/

― fndgo, Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link

(also)

― fndgo, Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Mix:

http://soundcloud.com/sampler_podcast01

― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 March 2012 10:50 (twelve years ago) link

He does a remix on the new Afro-Colombian comp on Soul Jazz called "Jende Ri Palenge". The whole collection is great, and it's worth much more than a Matias obscurity.

― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Sunday, 11 March 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

https://soundcloud.com/comeme/sets/matias-aguayo-the-visitor/s-8mEFq

― i didn't even give much of a fuck that you were mod (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 June 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link

two years pass...

Just released:

http://rionegro.bandcamp.com/album/rionegro-matias-aguayo-sano-gladkazuka

http://remezcla.com/features/rionegro-review-comeme-interview/

― etc, Thursday, 5 November 2015 19:57 (eight years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg9yZsp8CCM

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 13:37 (five years ago) link

still nuts, then.

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link

Great track

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link

kind of falling off the mati aguayo train in recent years. will give this a listen later

― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link

video better than track

― or something, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link

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