The producer known as ACTRESS and his r&b concrète

kinda taking the "silver cloud" style even further. i'll have to hear this a few more times before i can say anything about it.

love the album cover, i wonder if i'll ever come around on his music

A lot of year-end round ups I've read have compared all sorts of artists to Actress and every time I investigate I am left disappointed. Who else actually has the same bleary, drained, warped sound?

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, December 17, 2013 2:47 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

maybe the huerco s album "colonial patterns" (on software records)

terrence dixon's "from the far future pt. 2" is the most actress-sounding non-actress thing i've found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67GArweOYL0

$120+ for box set you got to be kidding me ..

It's marginally cheaper direct from Ninja Tune- their site is quoting me the equivalent of $90 including US shipping.

Really couldn't get into that Huerco S album, it was just too grey and sludgy, I think Actress does this sort of thing with more variety in tone and emotion (although I have yet to hear Ghettoville)

http://www.thebeatjuice.com/read/2014/01/07/4174/actress-q-and-a/

And I certainly haven’t retired! A lot of records out there at the moment are ones that I’ve recorded, and people don’t even know.

Every Land was originally part of Paul White's forthcoming album but as the record has taken shape it just didn't fit any more (that, and the massive sample...). His new LP marks a whole new direction as he explores new wave, Krautrock, and much more. Someone said it sounds like Actress playing jazz, which is as close as anything we've come up with. There are some hints in his recent Boiler Room live show: watch it here.

http://boilerroom.tv/recording/paul-white/

Last question. On Twitter, why do you follow Farrow & Ball?

Why not? Haha. Because… Listen, my whole ambition in life is to live in a beautiful house. So, when it comes to like paints and shit… I want the best. And Farrow & Ball is pretty much the best.

Also the Ghettoville box xet is £50 on the Ninja Tune UK website. Might get myself involved with that

the box set is just ghettoville and hazyville on lp right?

+ ghettoville on CD + 32 page art book

+ hazyville on CD and whoops it's a 40 page art book

guess that'd be pretty cool to have. Probably sounds awesome cranked up.

vinylwise, i mean

5 LPs, 2 CDs and one art book

100 bucks still sounds kind of a lot for this

a lot of the tracks on ghettoville seem to invite playing around with different RPMs

This has been bugging me all day- is that a Bee Gees sample on "IWAAD"?

From "Tragedy," maybe?

http://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2014/jan/24/whys-actress-ghettoville-is-the-one-album-you-should-hear-this-week-video

My favourite thing to do with Actress is to listen to it on headphones when I'm really really tired and just about to drop off to sleep. his best stuff warps around theta waves and opens up weird spaces in my mind, but I didn't get that from his last album at all - everything was much more surface-level.

come on man, that's a ridiculous criticism

eh what? I def thought R.I.P. had a more accessible superficial sound compared to Splaszh and this new one. It was okay, but I felt everything about it was more 'obvious', more 'defined' if you get what i mean?

"accessible" says more about the listener than the music

"superficial" is a mode of listening, not a feature of music

"obvious", again, relates more to the listener than the music itself

"defined" = not sure what you mean

uh....

wut?

I want to like Actress but I find his stuff rather boring in practice.

First listen to Ghettoville, initial impression is what a magnificently grim and shitty record.

As lovely as the crunch of broken glass in a piss-stinking stairwell.

I don't think it's that grim (compared to his other stuff anyway)

i am not yet impressed by this

never found his stuff to be very immediate so am hoping ghettoville is as good as RIP (which sometimes i am still not sure about either, but there are moments on there that are some of my favourite things of the last few years) which took me a long time to figure out what was actually *there* in that thing

Really love teh newie on 1 x listen, some really wow moments.

RIP works much better for me as a full album rather than track-by-track. Will definitely check this out.

5 LPs, 2 CDs and one art book

100 bucks still sounds kind of a lot for this

― the late great, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 2:00 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously?

srs

actually ... you know what, it IS 180g vinyl

i guess for 180g vinyl it's about right

5 lps sold individually would cost about 100$

weird album

takes a while to warm up

I'm listening now (only as far as contagious) and his ability to create *sounds* is better than almost everyone else in electronic music. Every single noise on this is so textured and interesting. What he does with those sounds is less interesting to me, sadly.

the beginning is quite clunky

In fairness I've had the same reaction to all his albums. At the bit where it picks up now and enjoying it more.

cliche of the day: the last track is like the shaft of sunlight at the end of blade runner

more cliche would be if it has that embers burning/crackling sound all through it (still not heard this album)

warming up to it!

i really like the bell tones in the first track, best bell tones since maphive 6.1

love how they sound against the bass synth that comes in around 4 minutes