Fabric 17 - Akufen

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.

cd 1 has some really rubbish tracks that more like noise then music
tracks 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 genre
do 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.

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.

I like Akufen's shuffly tracks for the way they avoid that straightness in the groove.

anyone goign to eskimo dance in notts then?
nuff akufen

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.

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.

Why you always gotta be the turd in the punchbowl?

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.

All the basslines on the "Deck The House"-ish tracks on the album sound like they were played on the same bass preset.

uh oh if his next record is anythign like the last live show I saw of his, then we are in trouble. granted, that was in a tate lecture room, and we were all sitting down, but it was limpid rubbish, just a lot of wishy washy ambient preset noises, and some dead cheesy water running samples and those silly jungle bird calls last heard on Enigma and every Bukem tune ever. IT was meant to be music for hsi friends unborn child, lets hope he keeps it on a private basis....

and dave yeah i second the anna kaufen idea. that are like the 'club' akufen. well the one 12" i have is decent.

and well, if when you are talking about the 'funk bassline', you mean 'deck the house', then that is the most pussy bassline ever. i remember everyone on ILM raving about it when it came out, but it is totally lame. like, it would be ok, but its so polite. Pump it up man, you released it on 12", you want it played in a club so just tweak the levels or something! i mean, honestly. maybe he shoudl have released it as anna kaufen ,then he would have had license to properly beef it up.