Current bobbins

Its a reissue of Patrick Wilson side project, though its not clear it ever saw light of day at the time

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

Might be a good indicator as to why only one track made the reissue, though there's a certain charm to it

That Optimystiks thing is incredible

O My Beloved arrived in the post today and I've listened to it four times on repeat. It's a fucking delight

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?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOduyd4VmSA

An extremely mixed bag but with some gems like this nice corporate waterslide from 2004

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

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

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)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny6CUHFqDIw

Boink - Motorbike Music

Mancunian magic

Wow, the way those soft keys land like ripples on there surface of a pond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohB6Re40lyQ

Ada Kaleh - Affection Over Reason (SiT Remix)

sliding down the home straight

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

i guess mr selzer posted this in the morgan geist thread but i missed it

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

cosign 100% ("feeling is mututal" is the b side)

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

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

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

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?

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

definitely sounds like not worth giving a fuck about

OTM. Death before cheeky flips of the Corrs.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KCDQyoRuo

CCO - Disphotic Layer

bright and breezy storytelling from a new label based in Liechtenstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZrvw2dMqD0

Charcott - Mais (J. Garcia Remix)

mellifluous movements. from Sao Paulo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyL8nugDkvM

Garrett David - Emergency feat. Simone Green

touch of yaya toures city work here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0GRRWqPeug

Michael James - “Signal Issues”

Constant Sound label constantly killing it, I just love this twitchy funky minimal shit, whole EP is gyroscopic joy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z5ZACGCT40

Andres Remis - Magic Maglev

montpellier melodies

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

A&A (Anunaku & Avalon Emerson) - Eternal September

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQImOo37OhI

Hamatsuki - Rett (Dj Sports Remix)

Tbilisi meets Aarhus in Glasgow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzbJXcYNKP0

Driahn - Watcha Flow

Morning reflections

Love this

Highlights of record-research trips out east

Mr Ho - Shoplift
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpqSEHVVUh4

Dott - Extra Flavour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RZYZOVnwlk

Thoughts on the Príncipe label? I just ordered this LP:

https://principediscos.bandcamp.com/album/sa-de-em-1-lugar

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.

I totally take that track as 100% tongue in cheek.

really? that was actually the one song i kept coming back to, its fantastic. completely hypnotic and the drums sound amazing

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PzC6pebmm8

PQ17 – Transition Point

electro from deepest Tver, not somewhere I'd want to be right now!

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

https://www.instagram.com/p/CoX9uc9Alx9/

Forthcoming later this year from Voigtmann and Thoma Bulwer

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

floaty space cruiser vibes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOC8x0RxDig
Gilbert - High Rising

yes!!! i almost posted “reflections” from the same EP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azXK4PNzJpw

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXEXyC59xI

Floog - Labeled

https://corald.bandcamp.com/album/core-group

mellow cosmic dub chugging

love the gilbert tracks, thank you bobbins thread!

nice bit of deep trumpet sad house:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoiIlS5Tw7o
Kareem Ali - Black Space Fusion

It's on my label so I'm clearly very biased, but I think this is a fine bobbin

https://limitedresourceslabel.bandcamp.com/album/drowt-lrl003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZFlLrqGr8U