leon vynehall - rojus

this is a huge disappointment coming after Rojus, easy to admire but hard to enjoy

huh that's weird, i think it's a lot more fun than the concept suggests

anyway i love it

I don't admire the concept as much as I admire the technical accomplishments of it - how good it sounds, the reach of feeling it's trying to convey; you can really tell that it's both laboured-over and sincere. But it's also just really unengaging.

I came to the new one looking for Rojus-style bangers and got something a bit abstract, not sure about it possibly sounds better on headphones as Matt DC said

what is this concept that you speak of?

new album is exceedingly gorgeous--matt dc otm about headphone listening. he does a great job foregrounding the modern classical and ambient aspects that have always been hiding within his work, while still making something that is still recognizable as house music.

uhhhhhhhhh guys vynehall's dj kicks is the fucking bomb

Yeah I listened to it last night and it's incredible, he covers so much ground without every really breaking the spell. I love that it takes 17 tracks before you hear a 4/4 house kick and yet almost everything before it is amazing, and feels like a coherent mix rather than a half-arsed compilation. The final jungle/IDM section is the only bit I could happily lose.

I'd never heard 'Set Me Free' by The Bygraves before and what a song.

it is excellent - I have trouble picturing someone actually paying money for a DJ Kicks album in 2019 but def worth hearing in some manner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyQ5MLLZfRc

this is my pick from it, late 80s private Canadian AOR synthpop

it's aight

kinda boring ... "subtle" as mike skinner would say

That’s not wrong but it’s also true of most of the commercially released house dj mixes I have enjoyed over the past few years (e.g. Call Super, Midland, DJ Seinfeld).

So maybe the problem is me. But anyway this rules.

subtle and boring are good

printing this post to show my wife

i would not call the call super fabric mix boring or subtle but would agree on the other two!

i actually did like this mix well enough but was not blown away

oh i really love this lol

appeals directly to the hard-yet-intuitive genre-switching mix maker in me

hard in what sense?

mostly just talking about the breadth of the selection. confusingly-worded sentence/idea

I'm intrigued enough to probably get this mix, but am cautious after being very disappointed by the Koze DJ Kicks, which was similarly beloved for its eclectic tracklisting, genre-hopping, and loose mixing. It seems pretty unfair to automatically compare them because they're part of the same series, which I suppose is me asking if people like this for reasons they liked the Koze one (for what it's worth I love the Call Super fabric in its eclectic, loose-mixed genre hops).

i would not call this loosely mixed

Rare, Forever is out today. sounding really cool so far as you'd expect.

damn, this album just sounds great w/ headphones, as you'd expect

Yep, this is fantastic. Is it reductive to say that it's like a better version of the last Floating Points (solo) album?

very much enjoying this, but i don't really hear the comparison to floating points' crush (though it's certainly a lot better)

Perhaps more accurate to say it's what I wanted Crush to sound like.

that i get