BPITCH records... Ellen Allien, Sascha Funke, etc.

Search: http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=10253 (it l34k3d and it's AMAZING)

Did the mono promo leak? I'd rather wait than check that, I think.

Now that you mention it, yeah, no, it's not very stereo :-/

Just got an Amazon.de alert about Ellen's latest mix CD, Watergate 05:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=11402

Anyone heard it? Thoughts?

nothing special after a few listens to be honest... similar feel and approach to her BoogyBytes mix.

Not BAD, better than average probably but I'm just not that 'into' it so far after a few listens :/

Another Amazon.de alert:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0034YLWCE/ref=pe_3811_18653821_snp_dp

ooh, new product?

Can't read German. Is that a new Ellen Allien recording or is it another mix/compilation?

Sool was a bit headscratching for me but Thrills remains one of my new favourite albums. I know I'm in the minority on this, but I prefer it to Orchestra of Bubbles.

a new Ellen 12" single - out in March

Sool was a bit headscratching for me but Thrills remains one of my new favourite albums. I know I'm in the minority on this, but I prefer it to Orchestra of Bubbles.

thrills and OOB are pretty much on a par for me - they're so different i find it hard to directly compare them, one so hard and cold and the other so warm and soft. two of the absolute best - maybe even THE best - dance artist albums of the 00s though.

the new mix is nice enough but i'd rather have another album now tbh

btw good to see you back k8 :)

I think it's perhaps the hardness and the clinical crunchiness on Thrills that makes me like it so much. Those sharp-as-razor distorted guitar samples. There's just this beautiful sense of precision about it, it's such an odd contrast, the abandon of the record's themes contrasted with this totally precise machine-like music. Something so wonderfully Germanic about that.

otm, they're both so physical but in contrasting ways - one where you have to move against the music, one where you sink into it.

I think that's the problem with OoB, I don't really have the desire to move to it. Thrills, however, makes me bounce around like a demented feret.

I was just listening to it on the way to work this morning (it's good way to work music) and it's one of those albums that makes people move away from me on the tube coz I'm bouncing up and down in my seat. I don't really get the same experience with OoB.

Not BAD, better than average probably but I'm just not that 'into' it so far after a few listens :/

Sounds like everything she's ever done.
Well, orchestra of bubbles is really great, but at this point I feel like caring about Ellen Allien is just a tedious effort with an empty reward.

Kate has nailed my thoughts and feelings re. Thrills.

Thrills, however, makes me bounce around like a demented feret.

Google Image Search for "demented ferret" brings up a picture of Fergie, fwiw.

That's funny. GIS for demented ferret brings up this for me.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Die_ENIAC-Einheiten_-_links_wahrscheinlich_der_Speicher_für_eine_einzige_Dezimalziffer.jpg

Which is very Ellen Allien picture if you ask me so that suits me just fine.

So the We Love album is pretty great.

http://www.myspace.com/welovewelove

it is really, really great.

I like how the album kept surprising me a bit as it went. *Always* a good sign.

What's it like?

I hate to be lazy but I haven't figured out the best words for it yet. Lex or anyone else, want to give it a try?

i haven't either, and i'm too hungover today :/

um, kind of paranoid propulsive electro that's just really beautifully and inventively produced; constant left turns as ned says, but very immediate and accessible too; comparisons that come to mind include ellen allien's thrills and chloé's the waiting room though it's not exactly like either. i've been rinsing it for about a month and it feels like i still hear something new every time.

I love the fact that the biggest/most immediate pop numbers appear at the END of the album. More bands should be so confident.

Pls remind me about this tomorrow when I'm back at work...

i honestly see no way that you won't love this, k8.

listening to it now and as well as the sounds they use being constantly inventive and surprising, the textures are just absolutely gorgeous. talking orchestra of bubbles-level gorgeous here.

This is an incredibly hard band name to search for. Way too many "we love techno" and "we love 80s music" results.

i think the only place you can hear their stuff atm is the myspazz that ned linked - i couldn't find anything on youtube and the album's not out til sept.

That might be the other reason I couldn't find anything. Dammit.

I hate using MySpace these days, it's like MS have gone out of their way to make it cumbersome and difficult to use. :-(

oh, you seem to be able to d/l an edit of "hide me" here - http://www.kompakt.fm/blog/2DT5aPpAB7kY

...and i think the album must be out/about to be out now, and there are youtubes emerging, and i love this track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU654l6ozi4

must have this

The We Love album really is amazing, love how it starts off all dark and gradually becomes more and more celebratory, and is just hands-in-the-air by the end.

They're great live too, DIY robot/Stormtrooper suits and a load of weird instruments. Good theremin action as well.

It made me appreciate the new Ellen Allien record so much more as well.

was double booked the night they played London, it makes me happy & sad to hear they were great.

more people need to be talking about this album

Thought about starting a thread for it but there isn't really anything to say about it.

yeah i know - it's basically "stuff you like, but done PERFECTLY" - and so consistently great that whenever i try to list my favourites off it, i end up listing half the album

yep really like this and 'Dust'. wish they'd do a vinyl pressing of the We Love lp.

Forthcoming collection of Dust remixes is pretty great. Tim Hecker, We Love, Nicolas Jaar, Bodycode...

want!

Anyone following this year's releases? Chaim "Alive" and Aerea Negrot "Arabxilla" are on my "give another chance" pile, feel like the latter has more interesting highs in terms of straying from the Bpitch archetype but some of the tracks about Berlin hipsters are nigh unlistenable.

Haven't got past the title track off Arabxilla yet where she's singing about buying carrots at Tesco etc.

The Werkschau compilation from the start of the year is a very mixed back, but there are some great tracks on it - Ellen Allien's "The Kiss" and Kiki & Lenz's "Morning Maniacs" are the obvious standouts, and I really like the Telefon Tel Aviv track with Robin Guthrie at the end ("The Sky Is Black") despite its obviousness.

i could not take that aérea negrot record at all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4f1VjjsMdk

Was killing myself trying to remember what mix this was, remembered what "Maria" sounded like but not the track name ... remembered Freaky Bitches and that put me over the top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgKv3m7GYeM

It's great.