but you'd vote for 'full on' over 'nervous tracks'?
― (Jon L), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
yes. and I'd vote for a remixes comp over both.
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
ok, just ordered 'Full On'. thanks for the leads. just read your edwards v. akufen article in the voice -- although I agree that 'happy accident' plays a large part in akufen's method, I think he goes a long ways beyond purely random structuring. what I like about 'deck the house' is that the synth pads that would hold down the chord changes aren't there, but you can still reconstruct them in your head from the samples, they've all been precisely tuned & chosen. & I have a high tolerance for ADD sample onslaught.
recent akufen comp tracks seem to show him reintroducing the synth pad chords, and my attention falls right off when things go overt
― (Jon L), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
IMHO.
― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
How annoying/intrusive are his religious lyrics? I have low tolerance for such things.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link
And that's not to mention all the MacDonalds stuff which is very Akufen-y...
― Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link
it's very intrusive on "prima edizione". well at least very front and center anyway, some people would probably argue it's central enough to his music that the concept of "intruding" on the music is sort of odd. annoying? your mileage will vary. i will admit i get annoyed. spencer apparently doesn't.
the other stuff - the nervous comp, the locked on comps - is also spiritual but in a much more generic ny gospel garage house sense. i'm assuming you've already listened to enough garage and house that the odd gospel influence / vocal doesn't bug you too much.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 02:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess gospel influences come with the territory, but if they're vague enough (and the music's exceptional), I can let 'em slide. Ironically, Pharoah Sanders' "The Creator Has a Master Plan" is one of my favorite songs ever.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Re Nervous Tracks: it's good, but not very Edwardsian in the way that would come to mean soon thereafter. The two 'Full On' comps are better starters. And the mix he did (of pretty much all his own stuff, as per policy) for the recent Pure Garage 'Four To The Floor' comp is ace.
Re Akufen: I have lots of the same reservations as above, but seeing him play once sort of rewrote the book on him for me. He started off kinda boring, but worked the clicky-bumpy underbelly into an outrageously dark and acid-y mess before long. Itchiing to hear this new mix to see if it's as itchy as it could be.
― Andy, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 05:38 (nineteen years ago) link
cd 1 has some really rubbish tracks that more like noise then musictracks are bleek and nothing stands out ... like listening to the same song 21 times over
these are good too
Don't let the name "garage" put you off, this is a far cry from the grimey beats that have put so many people off the genredo yourself a favour, kick rubbish 'grimey beats' to the curb and GET THIS NOW!
i guess even on the other side of the atlantic the more things change the more they stay the same.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 05:50 (nineteen years ago) link
And don't worry Matos, I know Akufen deserves all the comparisons to Edwards that he can read - it's just that you brought it up, and I refuse to do the international sign of the knowing wink.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link
I like Akufen's shuffly tracks for the way they avoid that straightness in the groove.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 07:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin (martin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
anyone goign to eskimo dance in notts then? nuff akufen
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin (martin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin (martin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 12:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin (martin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin (martin), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
glad to hear this as i've been meaning to pick it up. the last time i went to tower i had it in my hands, but i bought something else instead (they had those depeche mode singles boxsets on sale).
the edwards christian thing is completely overt, but i can't think of music that is more flat-out euphoric.
― tricky disco, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― tricky disco, Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
re todd edwards. im not that familiar, but it does seem as though he has a 12" out every few weeks, and i find it hard to distinguish between all his prolific output. As a result I decided to buy 'shut the door' (this is the classic, right?) and be done with it.
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Why you always gotta be the turd in the punchbowl?
― Julio down by the schoolyard (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 23 June 2004 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link
but akufen usually does (except for some wankier remix tracks) balance the micro sampling with groove and most of the time he uses funk bass lines.
― twelve, Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 24 June 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio down by the schoolyard (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 24 June 2004 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link