Audion album mix

The other stuff is fair-to-decent but I can't help skipping it, as far as low tempo techno goes it's sub-Monolake, probably sub-Kalkbrenner... it's okay but not anything outrageously special and frequently aimless and overlong.

The singles though. f*** me! I listened via iPod - yeah good, tried through a real hi-fi... BANG BANG LOUD BANG LOUD LOUD BANG BANG SIZZLE!!!

They've been through the Daft Punk Louderizer alright. And that NOISE out of nowhere in the last 50 seconds of "The Pong" - My ears!! It's like a rave whistle overdriven two bars into the red :-O

Hurts so good.

Fabric 27: Audion!

Incidentally, I gotta say Audion >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Matthew Dear

I wasn't remotely interested in most of Ghostly/Spectral's offerings before (except that if I was more of a hip-hop head I'd probably admire Dabyre a bunch) but Audion is pretty astounding at times.

I'm not really surprised this didn't show up in the top 100. But one of the most common complaints I read about album-length dance-music releases is how they're spoiled by attempts to provide relief/contrast. Suckfish is full-on and relentless and it still manages to hold my interest from start to finish. I have a feeling the jokey track titles prevented some folks from taking it seriously.

To which I'd add that filling out an album with contrasting, less-dancey tracks (or with genre studies, dancey or otherwise, outside the artist's main focus) runs two risks. First, it can put artists in the position of doing stuff they're just less good at. And second, even when those filler tracks are all right on their own terms (so I'm not using "filler" in a negative sense here), they turn the album into a "journey through a series of moods" that's not likely to match what I'm feeling, or hungry for, as a listener. These are just "risks", not automatic pitfalls, and sometimes an artist can pull it off (the way Isolee does on wearemonster, by making it so much fun to go along for the ride).

I'm not always in the mood for Suckfish, but when I am I think it plays rather brilliantly from start to finish. (Caveat: maybe if I were more tapped-in to to the fine distinctions of the dance-music world, I'd here some of those tracks as "genre studies" after all?)

I think your example of Isolee is a good one ... also Vitalic, which has mostly bangers but I definitely don't fast-forward the slower ones like "The Past" ....

With Audion, though -- if I have all the singles, do I need to get Suckfish? (i.e., the fact that I bought all three singles shows I like Audion, but I'm thinking maybe I don't need any more of this stuff right now.) Verdict?

I do think they're less good than the singles though, by a fairly huge margin, of excitement, mainly. Even if they're alright on their own. That's where I'm having difficulty playing this through as a whole piece at times. Also (techno album y'know) some of them could do with trimming down a couple of minutes. That said this isn't a particularly overlong feeling record IMO.

I'm kind of struggling getting my head around this as a detroit techno record though! It's just such a white-hot burning RAVE MONSTER when it peaks. But what it does have, is that odd squiggly, jacking Derrick May-esque FUNK, along with the headbanging... and thats why I think I (at it's best) LOVE this, but feel almost nothing for the similarly "full on" sounds of Vitalic.

But if you already have the singles and enjoy them in that form, then ... well, to summarize, fandango OTM.

I'm totally in the same boat fwiw (except I do have an iPod, and occasionally grab a 12" if unavailable on CD). By ILM standards I'd never claim to be more than a fairly 'casual' music lover, despite the slight germanic electronic obsession of the last few that drew me here in the first place... The "singles", that is the A-Sides of the three, are the ones which bang with the most furious bangingness (you can probably work it out from that, but I won't spoil it by saying if you prefer to appreciate the whole of it as "album".

By ILM standards I'd never claim to be more than a fairly 'casual' music lover, despite the slight germanic electronic obsession of the last few that drew me here in the first place...
That's the boat I'm in.

*quick visit to discogs.com*

Kisses - The Pong - Just Fucking - Suckfish

(This actually means nothing to me until I get home and have a chance to check out these tracks again.)

"Suckfish" is also a far more minimal record, building up to its RAVE MONSTER moments in very different (and less obvious) ways.

on the Just Fucking 12" the b-side is a Roman Flugel mix that I like better than the original

I fucking love how raw & ripped sounding it is, whether in the textures or the sudden bursts of noise or just the rhythms. I've been sorely missing that in a lot of softly-softly electrohouse 'dance' (but I still like Kompakt!, this isn't trying to join in with the techno purist snobbery backlash... just a feeling I've had that I can be more certain of now). Yeah, this is a really good record I think! (belated) Top Ten '05 contender perhaps.

Any thoughts yet?

It strikes me as strange that this is a release as Audion, as it's far less upfront and 'sexual' than Suckfish and it's singles were.

TITTY FUCK

YAAAAAAAAOW!!!

thread was tl;dr

but listening tonight, after many failed attempts to get it via normal listening, on headphones for the first time ... and ... YAAAAAAAAOW!!!

But what it does have, is that odd squiggly, jacking Derrick May-esque FUNK

finally hearing this in tracks like "your place or mine"

"Look At The Moon" is really exciting here where I'm sitting.

What other Audion stuff in, oh, say the last year?