Matias Aguayo

can i derail another thread and say that jess is OTM about closer musik being the best artist lp on kompakt.

(I mean After Love is about as consistent as Touch, and the highs on the latter record (well, "Amabile" at any rate) are even higher!)

Oddly the a-side of the Kontrast record makes it appear that Leyers is moving in a similar direction as Aguayo - slow slow slow and totally trance inducing.

this comparison has inspired me to give are you really lost another try.

HOWEVER

have you ever seen a cover worse than this?

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-523257-1134573193.jpeg

it's really quite amazing is it not?

http://www.soundvenue.com/upload/anmeldelse/2005-12/matiasaguayo_14122005_top.jpg

NEW ALBUM IS A WORK OF SATANIC GENIUS.

Totally combines all the great qualities of the first album with "Minimal" with the output on his label. Starts of hypnotic dance and ends up totally weird - last track "Juanita" is like this epic dancehall number.

:)

when is it out? He was great live when I saw him a month or so ago.

in two weeks.
satanic? does he grunt?

excited abt this

More panting than grunting.

i am incredible excited to hear this. i think mr. aguayo and his comeme label have been my favourite thing about 2009.

incrediblY

Haha is it really called 'Ay Ay Ay'?!

man i thought the single was really boring where it was trying to be inventive

Which single jordan?

"rollerskate" - the "radio edit" was reviewed in pitchfork the other day. i guess the title & review threw me off a bit. i was expecting something a bit more... colorful? more disco? i mean, allowing that the guy is on kompakt and all but the idea of the song sounds cooler to me than the actual song does.

it does sound like the work of someone who might be satanic though

"Rollerskate" is one of the more minimal tracks - but did you like the first album Jordan? It strikes me as no less colourful than that stuff.

this is the first that i've heard of him

!!! Okay Jordan, speaking personally I would say don't be too quick to judge, it took me ages to fully click with matias. Your reaction totally doesn't surprise me, I think I felt the same way about a lot of the Closer Musik material at first and then large swathes of his album at first. Not quite sure when and how it all clicked.

Aguayo is playing live at Fabric on 14th nov (w/ Magda, Jennifer Cardini, Tobias Thomas and Superpitcher)

Jordan - search for 'Minimal' and 'Bo Jack Pop'.

I think what I love about Aguayo is his sense of humour, and not in a wacky Bentley Rhythm Ace way. The discourse around dance music can be so dry sometimes and he cuts through that - by acknowledging the slightly ridiculous side of what people are going to do to this music.

His best records are highly functional tracks that nevertheless seem explicitly designed to subtly accentuate the funny side of watching a room full of people gurning and dancing badly while on drugs (or, alternatively, being one of them).

I think what I love about Aguayo is his sense of humour, and not in a wacky Bentley Rhythm Ace way. The discourse around dance music can be so dry sometimes and he cuts through that - by acknowledging the slightly ridiculous side of what people are going to do to this music.

this makes sense to me, i mean this idea certainly apparent in "rollerskate" regardless of its quality

Jordan, go here and to "De Papel," "New Life," and most especially "So In Love."

http://www.kompakt.fm/releases/are_you_really_lost

only listened to Rollerskate once.. didn't really click with it but I am SO looking forward to this regardless.

"Are You Really Lost" I still like as much as I did when babbling on this thread horribly about it in 2005... I'll probably buy Ay AY Ay blind just 'cos this guy is a total dude basically.

I don't really enjoy trying to be desperately up to the minute about music tthese days either but of what Comeme stuff I've heard i LOVE the new Rebodello. Guerrero!!

I'm super excited about hearing this. I don't guess this will have any of the overt sexiness of Closer Musik?

A different kind of sexiness, less pervy and more hot impromptu party.

I find it really interesting how his sound has evolved (even taking into account that Dirk Leyers probably did most (?) of the music for Closer Musik), there's a real erm "logical progression" with each release, to the point where the vewry live-sounding tribal rhythms on this sound totally natural and comfortable.

It's kinda roughly comparable to the difference between Luciano circa Blind Behaviour and Luciano now, though I think Matias has pushed further than Luciano does on Tribute to the Sun towards a kind of blissed out live party jam feel.

'are you really lost' is a record i def regret not voting for in the 00s poll

btw tim, did you ever post your ballot somewhere?

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

i like his appearance in this better than the new record, tbh. and i love matias.

also, the BumBumBox parties look so fun. i want one in west oakland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Qmaf4t4wE

this one is from sao paulo...

i love water on my skin, i love to lean against the wind
i love to walk alone at night, i love the city lights
'cos i'm lonely but i'm not the only, 2, 3...
you don't know me - sssh/

I'll never tire of this.

'are you really lost' is a record i def regret not voting for in the 00s poll

^^ Me too, though I'd have to examine to see whether it definitely would have made it (e.g. do I like it more or less than Rhythm & Sound's w/the artists?). I don't want to post my ballot because I'm ashamed of how wrong I got it. Never try to list the 100 best records of the decade in one hour.