Isolee

I'm hearing Allowance in lots of mixes used in different ways and it works so well every time, great track.

It's got more than a bit of a 'Night Falls' vibe to it but at the same time I could never imagine Booka Shade making a track like 'Allowance' even when they were good. It reminds me of something earlier as well that I can't put my finger on, something late 90s IDMish.

Amazing track anyway.

Looks like it's a 3 track EP. Disappointed 'Wobble' wasn't a Skrillex cover tbh. 'You could do your memories' also has a prettiness to it.

New 3-track out, p nice. I love the bass whomp on the first track.

the kick whomp I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJTF_Qe7mJM

rest is the best album ever made

it really is though

I bought it years ago based on hyperbole (or heartfelt sincerity!) about its greatness and never really got it.

It's definitely a classic dance full length for me, sounds so ahead of its time too. Can't believe that stuff came out 1999/2000. Funky squiggly digital shards, headphuq tech

On the basis of this thread I'm listening to 'Rest' for the first time in maybe ten years and wow. I know 'Beau Mot Plage' has unimpeachable classic status already but people should really talk more about the rest of the album in the same breath as 'Alcachofa'.

It’s good but Villalobos is on another level (and not just on Alcachofa).

I've seen those photos of him gurning, you're right

ok yeah yeah i know isolee "rest", last night i played a beau mot plage remix

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

but really friends ... losoul "belong"!

Belong is a wonderful album - I’ve been super into LoSoul’s 90s stuff lately. I mean, I aways was into it but have been finally buying those record in the last year. That said, I just got “Getting Even” last week, after long being hesitant about it - I was right, it’s not very good. But Belong though.

Anyways, Rest is good but I’ve never felt it compared to Wearemonster, which is definitely among my top albums of the 21st century.

Ginster 12" is pretty good. "Sudden Frost" is possibly the highlight.

new album sounds really good in this hot weather we're having: crisp, bumpy and rumbling all at once

I would def take rest over wearemonster, always felt like the latter’s acclaim was a little ott

agreed, I do like “today” off wearemonster a lot, though, it reminds me of flash and the pan or something

I actually listened to Wearemonster recently for the first time in many years and was mostly like yeah this bangs

Wearemonster is not as good as Rest, and yes some of the acclaim was more reflective of how Isolee's rep had grown in the interim (Rest and Vocalcity both had a lot of people playing catch-up between 2001 and 2003, but Isolee more than most probably got a boost from the crossover acclaim for Alchachofa as well) than of the album itself, but it's still pretty great, and its layered mutating disco sound really caught the moment, it feels a bit like a prequel to the first Lindstrom and Prins Thomas album that came out later in the year.

the packaging of “rest” is timeless and classic, that probably rubs off on how i hear the music (vs his other efforts)

they just reissued the holy garage remix single, which has 1996 isolee on one nice and 1996 losoul on the other, their remixes neatly encapsulate their dynamic

I always liked Wearemonster better for whatever reason

I never got the ambivalence towards wearemonster, or the idea that it pales compared to rest. To me it’s such a high-water mark of my favourite dance-music sounds, whereas Rest is great but never had that kind of gut-level feeing. The Stefan Marx covers on isolee releases feel more classic to me too, compared to Rest. But Wearemonster also has the benefit of being released at a formative time for me, so I may be biased. But I also just love about everything isolee does and have huge respect for him, so I suppose I don’t really care which album is less good.

for me it’s something like this: isolee and losoul stand in front of a bubbling cauldron, asking themselves “what can we possibly add to improve this heady minimal house brew?” after some consideration, one of them says “i know, we’ll add a generous splash of post rock!”

and the soup was forever ruined

"my hi-matic" is one of my fav tracks ever, it goes on a whole ass fantasy adventure without ever feeling like it's breaking minimal house kayfabe like some of the other tracks do