Lindstrom & Prins Thomas are the shit

on first listen this is just beguilingly good imo, very near the top of the new age / ambient / balearic revival of the last 15 years.

the promise to emerge and gain life through repeated listens.

Definitely been true for me. Things that just seemed formless the first time through take on texture and shape. Especially on that first track, which I really like.

there is a lot of tangerine dream pastiche on this but it's better than that sounds i think. right now i feel like there's a lot of unrealized potential here, like it points in a lot of different exciting directions at once? i'm not sure how or if it all gels but there's something simultaneously compelling and distancing about the harmonic drift that makes me want to keep listening to it.

there's flashes of loveliness on this but it's just a little too freeform for me, indulgent where it could be refined

this is worthwhile https://soundcloud.com/dkmntl/dekmantel-podcast-262-prins-thomas

new one!

Meanwhile back in Balearic 2020, @feedelity and @prins_thomas are set to release 'III', their first new album together in eleven years. "Our partnership is very democratic—we never turn down each other's ideas. And if it goes wrong, we blame it on the other guy!" - PT.

— Ralph Moore (@RalphusMoorus) October 6, 2020

!!!

i really adore II so i'm extremely excited

yeah that was a great record, everything good about both their styles, combined.

it's probably my favourite either of them have done

Great news! I still break out 'II' frequently as well, love the atmosphere on that record so much.

When's this out, I wonder?

November 20 it seems, after browsing around for a bit

So stoked. I love these guys together.

November 20 it seems, after browsing around for a bit

Thanks

They also have a collaborative Jaga Jazzist remix out now too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ctkVZqM-OY

Has anyone heard Prins' trance album from a few months ago?

Yeah I checked it out on Spotify in the summer, it's lovely

Jaga Jazzist are interesting in their own right but that remix is so great.

Yeah they are and it is. Off topic, but Todd Terje's remix of JJ's "Oban" from a couple years back is great as well

Terje Oban remix is lowkey one of his best imo, such a lush arrangement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7N79v84wew

sounds great

love it, can't wait to hear the rest of the album

agog @ the apex remix

yeah the apex remix is fantastic

More excellence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkArDbObvf4

Jaga Jazzist remix is great but the Pirra remix is even better. I just prefer them in ecstatic disco mode to noodly Krautrock mode and using the Van Halen Jump chord progression is my kind of shamelessness.

this is fantastic

Spotify Hipster Boyfriend decided I needed to hear the Pirra remix this morning, and holy hell, my algorithmic hipster hubbie, yes I do!

using the Van Halen Jump chord progression is my kind of shamelessness.

thank you! I knew it was reminding me of something but couldn't place it earlier.

II was def one of my favorite albums in 2009 but I haven't really listened to it since. Or anything else that came out around that time, come to think of it. No idea why.

Fully expect the new one to be killer if Martin 5000 is any indication

also i keep misreading this as "Lindstrom & Prins Thomas are shit"

My grandfather invited me to a cruise in the Caribbean back in 2006 and one of the few full albums on my ipod was their first album. It pretty much was the only thing I listened to for a week. It’s a precious album attached to good memories and sunny weather for me but I can’t remember when was the last time I played it.

I do remember there’s always something interesting up ahead... every time you’re about to think “well this loop doesn’t seem to be going anywhere...” they smash you with a resolution that skyrockets the whole thing to another level. It’s a trick they do in almost every track, sometimes twice per track iirc and it’s blissful if you have the patience for it.

They’ve both grown massively as producers/musicians, some of the charm from that debut has been traded for wit. Very excited to hear what’s next based on these remixes upthread and the new track.

From 2018, but released a few months ago: Lindstrøm performing am hour-long commissioned work titled Blinded By The LEDs for Henie Onstad art museum, live on 20+ analogue synths, vocoder and drum machines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an8Z60q9nyY

Some of the pieces were subsequently recorded for his 2019 album On A Clear Day I Can See You Forever, the only recording he has ever made without a laptop. (Discussed upthread.)

This is out now

checking it out. first track already getting me to *that place*. amazing drums

i spent a lot of time with "on a clear day i can see you forever" and have to say it always left me wanting. i feel like lindstrom (and maybe prins thomas too) have so much potential but sometimes the jamminess can be frustrating as well as exciting.

first track "grand finale" (lol) is a keeper, gorgeous

on to the single. this sort of demands one get baked before listening doesn't it.

every photo taken through ocean waves ever

they've done it again!

(made an album)

"small stream" is a little rhodes waltz with some analog techno in the bg.

sorry i'm liveblogging this because i'm bored and it's friday.

oranges. spacey

hmm i think the slower tracks on this are my favorite so far, incl. "oranges"

really dumb move on Bandcamp's part that if you check out an album and start playing it, buying it will stop the music

"harmonia" ethereal drum circle

xp yeah the ux on bandcamp has some issues

oh damn "birdstrike" is .. also gorgeous

Just started in on headphones. Sounding lush so far