unkle. c/d

oh, and just for the record, the UNKLE vs QOTSA stuff is ace.

but it seems he knew how to get the good stuff out of his collaborators.

motivating others was always his skill, from selling records in a shop to signing acts to his not-yet-existent label to hustling Mo'Wax releases to the press.

also see Alex Paterson, very nearly as musically and technically incompetent as Lavelle, yet no matter who he's working with, the end result sounds distinctively like The Orb and not that person's other work.

did George Clinton do anything practical in terms of music-making once the Parliaments stopped being a harmony group? either way, his array of insanely talented players rarely wrote a stunning or memorable song outside of his orbit

Yeah, there are many of people in electronic music like this, especially among those who started as DJs. For example, Westbam is a great live DJ, but most AFAIK of the actual production on his own tunes is done by his silent partner Klaus Jankuhn. And one of my favourite "sampladelic" albums is Hal Willner's Whoops, I'm an Indian, but based on the liner notes it seems Willner's main job was to provide the samples on it from his vast record collection, and most of the production was done by Mocean Worker. And it's still different and better than any Mocean Worker record I've heard.

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I think Goldie, at least early in his career, also didn't much know about music production, and most of the technical work on his classic records was done by Rob Playford and Mark Rutherford. But he had a vision of what he wanted jungle to sound, and those records became more groundbreaking than anything his partners had done on their own.

http://www.electronicbeats.net/mentors-how-4hero-programmed-goldies-software/

Goldie is definitely a good example

is this supposed to sound like old library music? 2015! who knew?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1lwvxyveJQ

That talk talk sample on rabbit is dope

even i found the latest album somewhat lacking ...

did unkle come up on the record collection music thread? because...

b**** n**** with the audacity to blaspheme me
got yourself caught in a motherfucking tragedy

I was maybe too persistently mean about James Lavelle in here

so that documentary that apparently came out(?), did anyone here see it?

i dunno, lavelle is pretty lame, as good as his label was ...

apparently there's also the issue of a kickstarter campaign from 2013 that has yet to deliver:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mowax21/urban-archaeology-21-years-of-mowax/comments

new Ronin album/mixtape starts off with the usual UNKLE widescreen/downtempo/moody excess, and then takes a swerve.
best thing james has released in ages.

Admittedly I just skimmed through it — from what I heard the production is fine for the most part if still mining around that good ol prog house vein. Some of the vocals are less than appealing.

tis all about the 'if we dont make it' edit that uses a sample from an old soul classic for me.
of course, its UNKLE, and so, its never going to break boundaries.
but i am a sucker for the UNKLE thing.