House & Techno Bobbins 2017

Just bought the entire discography of some Portuguese dude named Relapso:

http://relapso.bandcamp.com

Currently listening to the three Echo EPs, with Mirage up next.

unofficial edit of Barac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nSdWBl0-9g

I really liked Grant's Cranks LP from last year on Mork
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsXKPPFCOsU

I like the second track on this axe on wax, touches of "thats my yes".possibly a late great type of record

https://soundcloud.com/axeonwax-records/axtx004-rvl-rvl-001-ep-out-soon

how to do pastiche so well it doesn't matter, by the black madonna

https://soundcloud.com/theblackmadonna/theblackmadonna_heisthevoiceihear

black madonna is batting 1000 rn

I really like The Black Madonna as a force within dance music and her presence feels vital when so much of the culture is being dominated by white straight men. But I wish I liked her music as much as I like her politics.

what's not to like about super competent disco edits?

I mean in theory I like the idea of something that sounds like "He Is The Voice..." but it comes off a little too studied and forced. Compared to something like eg Floorplan's "Tell You No Lie" there's a lack of a certain kind of ramshackle energy.

"Exodus" is the one that really leaves me cold, I think it manages to lose everything that makes the source material so joyful and uplifting.

yeah, longer 'he is the voice' goes on the more its ersatz inexpertise comes thru

i really liked "exodus"!

my hands-down favorite BM track is "we don't need no music" though

And the Rahaan video it's sampled from is still the most house thing ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9CVglCTDnU

super cool! ty for posting that

some really great stuff on this allergy season/discwoman anti-trump charity comp

https://allergyseason.bandcamp.com/album/physically-sick

Good mix of familiar and unfamiliar names there, any particular highlights?

New Mood Hut Kinetic Electronix is predictably dope. DewDropInn was on that Mood Hut megamix from a while back, finally gets a release.

https://soundcloud.com/mood-hut/mh015-kinetic-electronix-music-for-beings

this is gonna be good

https://soundcloud.com/regelbau/rb06-previews

Second track is great!

on the regelbau record

and the third track too!

discussion of the new black madonna got quite heated in the RA comments box! first time i've ever seen an RA thread locked ...

new jus-ed album on the way, sounds sick

https://soundcloud.com/undergroundquality/sets/transition-lp

was the RA discussion about the black madonna's name? have long thought it was a dubious choice. i remember when i first heard of her squinting at photos thinking "well...maybe she's just very light-skinned...?"

has an ra comment thread ever been that progressive, ime the discourse is usually at the level of a shitty subreddit

some of the discussion was about her name, some of it was about whether she was an obnoxious person (i.e. is she too poltiical for her own good) and some of it was along the lines of this thread (are her tracks good pastiche or bad pastiche)

not sure why the thread was locked actually since it seemed pretty tame, i imagine there must have been some more offensive comments that got deleted

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna

according to a professor of medieval art history i know (my sister) the question of whether the black madonna actually represents a black person has been in active debate for more than 500 years

so i guess i am willing to give her a pass?

why does black metal have so few black people

has an ra comment thread ever been that progressive, ime the discourse is usually at the level of a shitty subreddit

― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Monday, January 23, 2017 1:48 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was going to make an attempt to describe the discussion level, and this is pretty much perfect

the comments griping about chicago having better djs that aren't booked, etc, always straddles the line between a possible real complaint and people just making random accusations

it's like, is the commenter actually part of this scene or a dj and has failed to get booked at smart bar, or do they know someone who has been rejected, or are they just pissed because the black madonna gets booked other places instead of whatever dj they want to see

it reminds me of the classic complaints on local places where someone would ask "why are you booking this local guy again and not <insert international superstar dj>??"

like some street festival a decade ago booked talent from outside town using whatever ad money they got from the local scion car dealership and someone is asking why they didn't get tiesto

LOL was it omar-s? he was sponsored by scion for a minute

oh, most definitely not

this wasn't a festival sponsored by scion, this was a festival sponsored by *the local scion dealership*

I'll give them credit, they did get some reasonable names over the years, but there was a hard pivot from "90s d&b hangover" to "edm enthusiast" in their target audience

Never heard of this producer before, but came across Folamour's Chapeau Rouge the other day. LOVING this whole album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3hVhiag4S0

The fourth track on the regelbau record is really good too!

this sander baan record is quite charming, enjoying the table tennis feel!

https://soundcloud.com/veniceberg-records/every-light?

Ricardo Villalobos plays this one constantly, got a 4/5 on residentadvisor and he is actually a good friend of mine and he's releasing this one on Raum now so I have to share:

Sakro - no time to explain
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bnbj3fxoQwI

nice! congrats to your friend

sakro is dope

particularly enjoyed his houseworx releases

took its time but the alex & digby record is now out, its a bit of a spindly lad

https://soundcloud.com/hello-repeat-records/alex-digby-mink-hello027-preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QumcUA1M8hE

Loving this and the whole comp, but especially this.

whoa

https://soundcloud.com/comeme/nasty-woman

man, i want to feel that, but slam poetry cadence is just

apparently a sample of an actual speech from the women's march?

I can imagine it *really* working in a club

this fjaak album is really good.

four on the floor at 160 bpm <3

https://soundcloud.com/glacial-industries/liquid-city-motors-current-source#t=0:00

The bar stuff in the Navigation are always putting Mulen records on, can't really argue, he's a relentless lad though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc2FnNE1KaQ

Yeah that's quite tasty

Back at the breakfast club with el maestro FDG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1CrQ0fA28A

probably more likely an old record, got that 4-4-2 away at deepdale vibe, two nippy wingers and a half time pint

and high octane boisterous business with the lads in Montevideo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsjPvfoVTj4

feel like we should have a lo-fi house thread but not sure why

― the late great, Monday, December 4, 2017 11:22 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cosign
i need to know if it's ok to like this stuff (only half kidding)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Jm_RdMq8Q

Like, one of house music's best features is its functionality and that function is to sound great on the dancefloor. To deliberately make a track sound like shit just seems like hipster fetishism at best

― i know kore-eda (or something), Monday, December 4, 2017 12:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

bah essentialism
ilx has been through all this before on the hipster house thread surely, but i think maybe certain 'raw' house/tech visions of detroit/chicago led to the extreme lofi these guys are proffering, but yeah these new tracks probably don't have enough BOUNCE/dynamic range to rock hips adequately... these people probably are hipsters that like early industrial music and stuff though..

i'll just leave this here...

765 tracks of Raw / House / Lo-Fi / Acid House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3XwaAg2J7M&list=PL18KNj7BtkMjcp3DdirhNMGOyjHMNRjx0

I have, and love, some old Trax stuff etc that sounds like it was pressed on a digestive biscuit but this stuff ain't that

ha for sure! the stuff i like (such as the No Moon track i posted), goes for a more FACT home listening vibe

we can put a lid on this can of worms if it's good, i didn't mean to track dirt in the temple

That No Moon track isn't bad at all, I also loved stuff like Torn Hawk and Eleventeen Eston a couple of years back but they didn't seem intended for the floor

not at all, eleventeen eston is more like instrumental hall and oates demos or something

House and Techno bobbins should be any <i>good</i> new house including all sub genres imo.

Got a copy of this finally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo0l0yQ2OsQ

Any ideas on either of the records Francesco is playing? The Paris one I think mightn't be easy but the Montevideo one seems like it shouldn'tbe too hard. I don't know what either is and they might be better off on the bobbins of the past thread but one of the moderators said that thread isn't accessible to most people, something to do with TCP/IP whatever that is

I reckon we need a "Can you ID this House record played by a Romanian DJ" thread?

True thread Balkanization!

and Francesco is from Italy!

A charming ephemeral wander through a copse. lightweight feelings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK5g4gnNFMI

I totally missed this Second Storey album, it's got some really inventive tracks:
https://secondstorey.bandcamp.com/album/lucid-locations

how difficult that production style makes mixing w/ vinyl

― the late great, Monday, December 4, 2017 2:22 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm curious what you mean exactly?

I'm sure you're right about how it sounds on a system. I wouldn't call myself a fan of the lo-fi house thing but I like the over-saturated, over-compressed textures as a deliberate aesthetic choice. Probably better for headphones.

just that when the sounds are smeared out it's difficult to beatmatch accurately

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

I was a bit on the fence about this Arseniu track at first but its wormed its way in, seems very reminiscent of something but not sure what!

Not sure if this Romar has been posted but it's nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENI9Aka_SJs

https://soundcloud.com/perc/perc-chatter-hodge-remix

damn that perc / hodge is rugged

thumbs up

was just thinking about perc today

listening to this bad trip from 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mz5gceWiNE&list=RD9Mz5gceWiNE

Seeing him tonight!

guess that link is bad

try agane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mz5gceWiNE

there's a bit more of that Hodge remix on his RA podcast
https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=581

No headphones and I am working in a cabin so there are only laptop speakers but its sounding good, from Cap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUK8JwfTwlQ

love to listen to perc tbh

Glad to see the newest LOFT release getting well-deserved love from RA:
https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/21790

I haven't been that keen on what I've heard of Triptil but this has a throwaway charm, records that mention the moon have a slight head start too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi0ZiK5mF9g

Kaelan - Meandering Rivers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyissGCbR3g

https://soundcloud.com/placenoblame/sets/michael-ferragosto-its-real-this-way

This is consistently the least spotify friendly thread but for those compiling your year-end lists, this playlist includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Electronic Music Thread Spotify Playlist

welp, going to be another winter of home listening for me. not complaining when it's as gorgeous as this:

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

I heard this serene record from Takecha drifting across from the away end, what a charming crows they were

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

as well they might be, 2-0 up they are, with this one shimmied in right after it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bmWgLjtj0k

i got that first takecha on vinyl earlier this year

SO DOPE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kazIV4fvmU

i like heckle

also i like that label in theory though it always sells out by the time i get around to it

i'm a big fan of heckle's "voices and visions" and "trema" EPs

has dj different - manhattan drive been posted yet? it's a stunner

Maybe just for the first part:

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