oh that's nice!
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
wow what is that?
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 10:23 (one year ago) link
Is it Melchior under a different name? I had to put money down on the (single-sided only) vinyl as there's no digital option. £15 for one tune is steep, but I've listened to it about 5 times since last night.
It reminds me very much of Mungolian Jetset's 'Mungolian Jet Set Moon Song' for many many reasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIsLLa5IJfE
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 11:47 (one year ago) link
Its a reissue of Patrick Wilson side project, though its not clear it ever saw light of day at the time
― saer, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykF_Mh-qcbA
from the same era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNX3O85rSnM
this might be on the original
― saer, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
Might be a good indicator as to why only one track made the reissue, though there's a certain charm to it
― saer, Wednesday, 16 November 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
That Optimystiks thing is incredible
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
O My Beloved arrived in the post today and I've listened to it four times on repeat. It's a fucking delight
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 17 November 2022 11:22 (one year ago) link
I can't find much infor about Patrick Wilson because there are quite a few people with the same name. What was his deal anyway?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 17 November 2022 11:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOduyd4VmSA
An extremely mixed bag but with some gems like this nice corporate waterslide from 2004
― saer, Thursday, 17 November 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
some recent ones that I've been enjoying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3yGbpjt34
Benedek ft dreamcastmoe - Peace Of Mind - the whole EP this is from is excellent, but I like this one best - new jack swing orchestral hits over a Space Ghost groove and a trippy soul vocal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEJrPz42ME
Kornel Kovacs ft Aluna - Follow Me - she's toned down the affectations for some warm, micro-house styled 2-step
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFS4kpgI7gI
Earth Trax - Dream Pop - having a very prolific 2022, this makes me think of Get Physical attempting "Stella" but with tougher drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHhePIDdWvU
Call Super - Swallow Me - very much from the same place as his Telephones remix from a few years ago, but with more weirdness including a bizarrely thrilling "drop"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYWNROkV9uc
Shanti Celeste - Cutie - I think she's a great DJ and you can tell she really gets dancefloor dynamics, this is probably the most "big-room" I've ever heard a Hessle Audio release sound but still bursting with personality in the filtered vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwboXIA7Q3I
Pariah - Caterpillar - obnoxious bassline and unrelenting tension drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll6n6mSBPlQ
Genius Of Time - Sunswell - blissed-out deep house, "d'you like that?" yes very much so
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 20 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
shanti shanti shanti
she’s great and yeah that’s a good one, though seems to me hessle has been moving in a more commercial direction since pearson sound’s “alien mode” and (especially) pangaea’s “like this”
as far as stuff along that axis goes i was even more impressed w/ the new one by peach on psychic readings. still playing the galaxy girl ep to death, look forward to picking this one up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaxjqV6QlBA
― the late great, Sunday, 20 November 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
kind of an update on the sound of detroit techno / uk idm aware producers who kept making chicago style house (derrick carter, gemini, dana kelley etc)
― the late great, Sunday, 20 November 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6CUHFqDIw
Boink - Motorbike Music
Mancunian magic
― saer, Saturday, 26 November 2022 02:02 (one year ago) link
Wow, the way those soft keys land like ripples on there surface of a pond
― ed.b, Saturday, 26 November 2022 03:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohB6Re40lyQ
Ada Kaleh - Affection Over Reason (SiT Remix)
sliding down the home straight
― saer, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockGpcFaxco
morgan geist - feeling is mututal
calls it "quiet storm acid" (or something like that) in the press release
― the late great, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
i guess mr selzer posted this in the morgan geist thread but i missed it
― the late great, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
It's really good. He's always good obviously, and the A side here is great, but the B side I really love, I always like it when he stretches out and does something a bit more different.― dan selzer
― dan selzer
cosign 100% ("feeling is mututal" is the b side)
― the late great, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
I like everything Two Shell put out this year and don't believe I've seen them mentioned here. Philip Sherburne covered them on P4k a couple times:
Since their debut, though, their music has become more colorful, awash in giddy UK garage rhythms, hiccupping R&B snippets, and unusually chipper major-key synths. They’ve got a particular thing for big, attention-grabbing samples—the kind that capture the ears of not just rapturous ravers but also copyright lawyers, which is presumably why some of the releases on their label Mainframe Audio have been vinyl-only.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/two-shell-home/
Joy Orbison’s game-changing 2009 single “Hyph Mngo” is their obvious lodestar; you can hear it almost verbatim in the hiccupping vocal loop of the opening “Ghosts” and the fluttering synths of “Pods,” which follows. While it’s hardly an obscure pick—no song did more to mark the end of the dubstep era and the beginning of the amorphous stylistic free-for-all that followed—it’s been a while since anyone zeroed in so doggedly on the song’s ecstatic qualities. Virtually every element of Icons feels engineered to replicate the dizzy rush of nightclubbing at its most exhilarating, when a new sound gets its claws into you for the first time.
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/two-shell-icons-ep/
"Home" is my favorite track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WaJ7FnLN90
― Indexed, Friday, 2 December 2022 21:21 (one year ago) link
i kinda liked the first livity single (access ep), not as into the second one (soulcity ep). i think access was the only livity singles i didn't grab out of that "run", sort of lost interest in the label around the early 40s so didn't grab soulcity either.
then i read that sherburne piece, which 100% put me off further investigation
― the late great, Saturday, 3 December 2022 00:09 (one year ago) link
On Two Shell’s 2020 mix CD, ɪᴍᴘᴀᴄᴛ21, songs by canonical acts like Skee Mask and the Prodigy bumped up against shards of digital-native styles like nightcore and hyperpop. They’ve recently dusted their music with helium-huffing vocals reminiscent of SOPHIE and peppered their sets with cheeky flips of Sugababes and the Corrs. Digging is part of any DJ’s job, but hearing Two Shell drop chirpy remixes of unknown emo randos suggests an affinity with Gen Z’s digital avant-garde that you won’t find among most of their post-dubstep peers
no thanks
The audaciousness of Two Shell’s productions is matched by the slipperiness of the duo’s presentation. In their Boiler Room appearance at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound last month, they performed wearing absurd disguises—chain mail and cloth goat horns on one, clown wig and nylon-stocking face mask on the other—and were almost certainly pantomiming to a pre-recorded mix. There are even rumors that the two people behind the decks weren’t Two Shell at all. The deeper you descend through the Two Shell looking glass, the more the whole enterprise begins to take on the air of a grade-A piss take, a no-fucks-given sendup of contemporary DJ culture
definitely sounds like not worth giving a fuck about
― the late great, Saturday, 3 December 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
sorry for the negativity. i guess i’m just that amazed / repulsed by the proposition that the antidote for self-important celebrity dj culture is … copying old moves from afx, daft punk, soulwax etc ie some of the most overrated celebrity djs of the last three decades?
― the late great, Saturday, 3 December 2022 00:57 (one year ago) link
Its good to express negativity sometimes! I don't know the exact proportions but somewhere between 5 and 15% of the time is healthy.
This is one of those times, I agree with the late great here
― saer, Saturday, 3 December 2022 04:35 (one year ago) link
OTM. Death before cheeky flips of the Corrs.
― stirmonster, Saturday, 3 December 2022 05:05 (one year ago) link
If we haven't reached the positivity quota for the day, let me just say that Cutie by Shanti Celeste is amazing to my ears. I was intrigued by plenty of things skimming the thread, but that one went straight to my top of the year.
― Nabozo, Saturday, 3 December 2022 22:35 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KCDQyoRuo
CCO - Disphotic Layer
bright and breezy storytelling from a new label based in Liechtenstein
― saer, Monday, 5 December 2022 07:59 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZrvw2dMqD0
Charcott - Mais (J. Garcia Remix)
mellifluous movements. from Sao Paulo
― saer, Saturday, 10 December 2022 08:04 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyL8nugDkvM
Garrett David - Emergency feat. Simone Green
touch of yaya toures city work here
― saer, Monday, 12 December 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0GRRWqPeugMichael James - “Signal Issues”Constant Sound label constantly killing it, I just love this twitchy funky minimal shit, whole EP is gyroscopic joy
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Tuesday, 13 December 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z5ZACGCT40
Andres Remis - Magic Maglev
montpellier melodies
― saer, Wednesday, 14 December 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnSGIViYdw
A&A (Anunaku & Avalon Emerson) - Eternal September
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 21 December 2022 11:13 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQImOo37OhI
Hamatsuki - Rett (Dj Sports Remix)
Tbilisi meets Aarhus in Glasgow
― saer, Thursday, 29 December 2022 09:20 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzbJXcYNKP0
Driahn - Watcha Flow
Morning reflections
― saer, Monday, 2 January 2023 08:43 (one year ago) link
Love this
― nxd, Monday, 2 January 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
Highlights of record-research trips out east
Mr Ho - Shoplifthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqSEHVVUh4
Dott - Extra Flavour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZYZOVnwlk
― ed.b, Friday, 13 January 2023 14:43 (one year ago) link
Thoughts on the Príncipe label? I just ordered this LP:
https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/sa-de-em-1-lugar
― Evan, Friday, 13 January 2023 15:43 (one year ago) link
since this seems to be the only thread with dj python discussion... i finally got around to listening to Mas amable and i'd be ready to proclaim it one of my favorite albums of all time if not for that never-ending ASMR track.
as someone who was brought to tears by that guided meditation track on the last jon hopkins album, i'm not against stuff like this but it doesn't work for me at all in this case. later tonight i'm going to light some candles, lay down, close my eyes, and give it another go since the instrumental is THAT GOOD.
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 21:20 (one year ago) link
I totally take that track as 100% tongue in cheek.
― Evan, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 22:30 (one year ago) link
really? that was actually the one song i kept coming back to, its fantastic. completely hypnotic and the drums sound amazing
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
it sounds like it's the vocalist's first time ever speaking into a delay pedal and is in the process of figuring out how their voice works given the echoes and reworking whatever words they had prepared given that. the ASMR-style of speaking too softly too close to the mic is like nails on a chalkboard and is slightly too high in the mix to become part of the background.
i could be down with all this if it weren't 11 minutes long and the obvious centerpiece of the album. the juxtaposition of how much i enjoy the rest of what's going on with the record and how much i dislike this is the reason i care at all tbh
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 25 January 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PzC6pebmm8
PQ17 – Transition Point
electro from deepest Tver, not somewhere I'd want to be right now!
― saer, Sunday, 5 February 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HWbYMkqvgI
Shaka - Resist
Never heard of Shaka before! Pretty extensive discography, but this is the first track I came across
― saer, Sunday, 5 February 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CoX9uc9Alx9/
Forthcoming later this year from Voigtmann and Thoma Bulwer
― saer, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 07:17 (one year ago) link
idk much abt shaka either, but i did pick up this one on local talk a few years ago … every time i think to sell it to make space i am reminded how good the title track is. somewhere between newer kyle hall type stuff and classic uk deep house in ye olde paper recordings / nuphonic style
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt_cPHJIlJA
― the late great, Wednesday, 8 February 2023 07:28 (one year ago) link
floaty space cruiser vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOC8x0RxDigGilbert - High Rising
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Saturday, 11 February 2023 23:47 (one year ago) link
yes!!! i almost posted “reflections” from the same EP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azXK4PNzJpw
― the late great, Sunday, 12 February 2023 03:06 (one year ago) link
This encapsulates the best of both the mid-00s mathew jonson/cobblestone jazz/wagon repair sound and the mid-00s minimal sound mj/cj/wr were leading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us_ynJkfGDo
― ed.b, Thursday, 16 February 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXEXyC59xI
Floog - Labeled
― saer, Thursday, 16 February 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
https://corald.bandcamp.com/album/core-group
mellow cosmic dub chugging
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 17 February 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link