House & Techno Bobbins 2017

tl;dr - vancouver dance music isn't real enough for the authenticity boy

heh ironically the one guy who was real friendly to me that night was moving to glasgow

my go-to approach is to find a part of the room where people are dancing, don't pay attention to what people who aren't dancing are doing, and talk to no one

^^^^ FYI that works in every city

bendy bobbins in little wye valley from Steevio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ritn_tZ0iM

on a Geordie label, how about that?

^^^^ FYI that works in every city

TIP! ;)

mh - that's right!

flopson, will say I saw Nite Jewel recently and everyone was dancing, so it's not always the case :-)

tbh I can't just instantly go from zero to dancing, usually involves kind of working my way into it and/or having a couple drinks, so if the crowd sucks and the drink service sucks the occasional misfire happens

i show up at shows mashed most of the time to avoid misfires ha

Steevio was part of the Newcastle scene in 80s/90s.

He was!

from wye aye man to wye valley sorry everyone

Jim, I think your post has a lot of truth re: the music scene here. However, I think Vancouver perhaps doesn't have as much of a history of music in that sense that the UK does, so it's baby steps.

oh this is a little shameless with the sampling but its very nice! one for the vibey canalside summer afternoons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psF0iz8fHps

― saer, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:46 (one month ago) Permalink

the sample in the Aquaphresca record is from Sun Ra's Door of the Cosmos. It was pretty obvious it was Sun Ra but didn't know which record til now

el maestro FDG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77n528rEeWw

first two tracks here are both great, whatever they are. less so the third

Sorry wrong thread, but then what is the right thread? Its a thorny issue alright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B67WGrsWmiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z78kx7enFg

Check out Solid Blake's EP on new Glasgow label Outer Zone if you're in the mood for some electro

this is a good thread!

new Broken English Club LP on LIES goes hard
https://soundcloud.com/l-i-e-s/broken-english-club-the-english-beach-lp-clips-lies-094

I'm iffy about Vancouver house for *extremely* petty reasons: I was once painfully rejected by someone that's friends with the Mood Hut guys and introduced me to them before they went big. I also think a lot of that music is pretty overrated, perhaps because it's received a lot of nepotistic hype via Andrew Ryce at Resident Advisor, who tends to consistently give glowing reviews to what I think are quite average records from people from Vancouver/his friends/whoever. Maybe I'm being paranoid (I don't think it's deliberate aggrandizement but it has a touch of conflict of interest) but I've gotten to the point where I just pass over his reviews of Mood Hut/Pacific Rhythm/etc records.

I miss posting here but I so rarely buy records from the present year that aren't already covered on places like RA. The only things I've got worth mentioning are Sven Weisemann - Separate Paths (https://svenweisemann.bandcamp.com/album/separate-paths-ep), a solid EP on Delsin which sounds exactly what a solid EP on Delsin would sound like, and Niro - It Takes Two (https://soundcloud.com/padsdiscs/sets/niro-it-takes-two-pads002), a kind of fun ep of quirky house.

i stopped reading RA or any music crit other than writers that also post here before the vancouver thing got rolling. i didn't know RA hyped them up, i still associate RA with minimal, techno, deep house, and whatever english people are making now, post-bass music maybe. if anything i would've guessed RA was skeptical of vancouver and their ilk

huh, I’ve disagreed with a few of AR’s write-ups but maybe never paid enough attention to Vancouver stuff to notice a bias. I’ve almost said hi after spotting him on several different occasions at shows on the east coast. got the impression he travels a lot

on a semi-related note, I’m disappointed that Vice is closing down thump. It was a really mixed bag but there were a handful of things I really appreciated

I read about the Skytrain in Vancouver last year! I don't get much further west than Colwyn Bay that often though here is a record by Petre Vali

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfWKEfq2f80

and its pretty obvious who this is though I have never seen him on Arriva North Wales where there are many suspicious passengers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUKxe42qXec

Looks like they are still playing 4-4-2 in Frankfurt and who can blame them. Meat pies on speed dial and still cheeky rabonas for the crowd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XXp_KVr9NE

Looks like they are still playing 4-4-2 in Frankfurt and who can blame them.

This thread is worth it for your deadpan descriptions alone :D

I read about the Skytrain in Vancouver last year! I don't get much further west than Colwyn Bay that often though here is a record by Petre Vali

howling at this

I know f all about "vancouver house" (never exactly been a dance music guy i guess) but shit I've lived in the van my whole life and I get a kick out of the fact that that scene exists because there really isn't much of a musical legacy here, or many big current artists either :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9dRbgfWfY

one of my current faves

* better link sans intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWpWJ4daZkQ

Here is the Voyant record in full now! solidarity with the serene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rY6k7HdbO0

I know almost nothing about beach football but these Bologna boys seem to have it cracked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFDx53ezqHM

for locals, its says. but I'm sure they wont mind!

bassa clan are dope

i like it, very new york latin house

speaking of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou6USrd8Xjw

This is going to be embarrassing tomorrow, but ... Energy Flash is some Ode to a Grecian Urn "I must change my life" shit

no one's posted this one yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_Mi0XOQ1vY

i like the part that goes WAH WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP WOMP

here's your half year update note that the playlist is as fully updated as the service allows, which is to say (appropriately enough) about halfway or so

ILM's Rolling Electronic Thread 2017 Spotify Playlist

tlg otm

Only £2.50 left should i walk home? Let the skies open, put it towards the new mark mac record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyTTydp4a1g

i had that single in my hardwax cart but ultimately decided it was TOO RIPE

Another Ferrero Rocher, ambassador? yes mate!

this, by moon, is a great album - kind of electro in the other people place style, some house also.

https://open.spotify.com/album/2ouTVQr042iPbXFu2zD6KG

some bits and pieces I've been enjoying lately:

Gerd Janson & Shan - Surrender - filtered disco house hasn't ever really gone away but I've noticed in the past few months there's a lot of releases that sound like that 1997 sound of tough kicks and ecstatic samples and this is a personal favourite.

Bullion - Blue Pedro - this is really cheesy, like something off that disappointing Todd Terje album, but I actually love this because it's so shameless - it's the Blue Peter theme done as arpeggiated disco.

Andras - Vinyl Only - all three tracks from this are great in a retro, analogue way.

Moscoman - Big Jack Arbon - stompy percussion which turns into big glassy melodies.

Morgan Geist - Ocgc - pristine disco as always, but I think the Megaprojects series has let Geist show a more maximalist, anthemic side.

Radio slave - Children Of The E (KiNK SP1200 Remix) - every single time I go out just now I hear his remix of Unit 2's "Sunshine" which is obvious and devastating but I think this is actually the best thing KiNK has done recently.

Rico Puestel - If I'd Care More - shiny Ibiza techno, the highlight from Cocoon Compilation Q, which is better than the 17th release in a chain of compilations should be.

Dark Sky - Kilter - rumbling wompy bass from Modeselektor associates.

Riva Starr - Another Race - Riva Starr have been very prolific and I've never really paid any attention but I saw a video of Steffi playing this at Glastonbury and it sounded excellent - tech-house that sounds like hi-nrg italo with lots of trippy effects.

Peverelist - Still Early - undulating sunrise techno, feels like a natural successor to "Clunk Click Every Trip" which is now scarily nine years old.

Mosca - Peyote Sitch - Livity Sound have a good few ones out just now from Forest West Drive and Hodge as well as the Peverelist album but I really like the slightness of this, the pitched cowbell melody anchoring the weird sounds around it.

Bufiman - Peace Moves (DJ Normal 4 Ever Armstice Remix) - breakbeats and whistles and deep chords.

Mallard - Untitled (Breaks) & Earth Boys - Trail Mix - heard both of these on recent Test Pressing mixes on NTS. Lumping them together because they both do the same thing, which I guess would be lush, balearic rave.

(sorry for the basic write-ups but I didn't want to just post a dozen links and leave it at that)

one for all the snakecharmers out there - you couldn't get away with this one at Boundary Park but there's always the afters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDJKr5KaDhY

that kink remix is great!! i liked both sides of the original "children of the e" but i like this even better.

love the mosca too, probably best thing on livity sound since kowton's "on repeat"