The producer known as ACTRESS and his r&b concrète

shackleton got some vibey feelings on some of the records dunno about the others

Kind of like that RA went out on a limb and gave this 2.5.

I feel asleep listening to it on a bus a few weeks, and still haven't consciously made my whole way through it. I found it a bit of a trial, but did not dislike what I heard.

Actress live, on the other hand, was one of the best shows I've seen in recent years.

A few weeks back, that is... although that bus trip did seem to last forever!

actress sounds great in the middle of a playlist of artists working in a similar vein, e.g., burial; shackleton and appleblim (skull disco); various prod.; the livity sound roster of artists; the bug.

Yes - it lends itself well to mixes etc where you want to find a good segue between two ends of a spectrum.

the first track on this goes on a while without doing much but I find it strangely compelling

might be its resemblance to the Chrono Trigger 2300 AD world map theme triggering subliminal positive associations

i had that same thought! that echoing bell.

he mentioned that he's released music without the actress handle and it appears that stuff is out under the name levantis. should definitely check out the 12" that's out. great stuff. just like ghettoville but more beat oriented. he mentioned in some other interview that there was an earlier version of ghettoville that was a lot more techno influenced and it seems like some of those tracks could be these.

love this tune

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ahhh how the hell you edit a post, now i look like a grandma

I love how interactive ghettoville is, it practically begs you to fuck with the bpms. Also the shitty packaging ensures each person's copy will have a signature of minor damage.

i picked it up on vinyl and i swear most of the songs sound like they were originally conceived for 45' tempo

https://ninjatune.net/release/actress/xoul-ep

Out of stock already :/

dj kicks is a ***** masterpiece

How well does it flow? Heard some of the transitions were a bit on the jarring side.

Given that 'Pen Expers' is on there I can't see how it could be anything but.

smitten with this. outside of spotify irregularly making a hash of track transitions it flows v well

pen expers arriving is amazing, just listen to it ffs

can't wait to hear this.

After a quick listen this morning, there's not a lot of mixing going on, the transitions are quick but mainly OK. Obviously, it's mainly about the selection of tracks.

(I am quite a fan of jarring transitions btw)

pen expers arriving is amazing

It really is! The mix itself is great throughout but sort of... shapeless? Just when you think it's going somewhere it decides to wander off and see what's in another direction entirely.

i only felt it was jarring the first couple of times i listened through, when i was listening for beat matching and finding none. after a few listens it really opened up for me. i feel like he is really pushing the envelope as far as matching up moods and vibes in tracks. almost every mix makes perfect sense to me now, and i'm amazed at the connections he makes between tracks.

that's what he's best at though, is my thought on him - finding diagonal connections in music, that is.

Yeah it does feel like a consistent progression in terms of mood, if not in momentum.

this is very fine work

thread title has put me off listening to actress until now.... but i really like this!

i don't think it's shapeless at all! most mixes i will stick on and zone out which is often exactly what i want. but the way this mix evolves suddenly and kinda strangely really keeps my attention focussed. i've found it great for running to.

dude's music is just as enervating and like listening to paint dry when he calls himself levantis as when he calls himself actress

did you just fart?

one of the worst all time thread titles

Actress is a totally amazing recording moniker though.

how should actress make his music less enervating? throw some donks on it?

Actress is opening for Animal Collective on the current leg of their U.S. tour, stoked to see them both soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg1Pw0y-x8Q

"Look, I don't care, you've got to be in the video."

i knew their "retirement" wasn't gonna last

So is it pretty much confirmed that those one-off cassingles on Ninja Tune lately have been Actress? THAT KNIGHTSBRIDGE OG, DIAL 666 8100, and BANK OF ENGLAND?

say what?

Yeah, there's been a series of single-track cassette releases on Ninja Tune over the last couple weeks that have had people playing Spot the Anonymous Producer. The all-caps phrases are the artist names they were released under; the tracks are, respectively, "ZENO'S PARADOX," "UBER SPLIFF TO GATWICK" and "CHAOS RAIN"

haha sounds dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wTUQXiLV-Q

must admit i prefer the first single

X22RME video has very brief shot of Crystal Palace park (the Bowl). So yay for that and I will likely buy your record.

dj kicks is a ***** masterpiece

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late great OTM

This new single made me feel sick

how so

i preferred the first single

album out today

"RUNNER" is so good

This may be my favourite yet. As expected, I quite like his pseudo-remix of Fauré's Requiem.