Âme / Ame

Let's talk about this genius duo. I'll start with my favorite works of them.

Favorite track: Hydrolic Dog
Favorite remix: DJ Gregory - Elle
Favorite mix: Coast 2 Coast
Favorite album: s/t

track: mifune
remix: akabu 'phuture bound'
mix: fabric
album: the only one

I second the remix of Akabu's Phuture Bound...

i feel ok being the first to say
rejrejrejrejrjerjerjejrjejrej

track: 'balandine' and 'rej'
rmx: etienne jaumet 'repeat again after me'
mix: fabric 42
album: do not have any âme album :/

lex, you have to listen to their only album! one of the few house album that's perfect from start to finish.

ok i will! really not sure why i hadn't picked it up. i don't think i have the coast 2 coast mix either.

my record player's broken and plays everything at 33rpm but my record of 'rej' is 45: it turns into this kind of sultry crocodile music?

only have the "rej" and "kuma" eps, but they're great. lush minimalism?

charted recently by matt edwards:

Artist / Mike Oldfield
Title / Tubular Bells (Ame remix)

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omg! that makes so much sense.

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Âme's 2006 Lowlands set. Anyone care to share it?

I'm still deeply in love with his 2006 Essential Mix, largely cause he breaks out the "Insomnia" remix at just the right time.

FIND IT. KEEP IT. WORK IT. SHARE IT.

I mean them. They. They do that.

alternatively you can search for ame's set at flex vienna, also 2006. i bet it's not much different from the one at lowlands.

Thanks! That Lowlands set is practically Google-proof.

http://kwaakkwaak.alardgovers.nl/ame/example_nobius_platinum.html
http://3voor12.vpro.nl/speler/ondemand/29695421

does that help?

Very much so. I did already see the 3voor12 link, but no set is so good that I need to install a RealPlayer plugin to find it.

Thanks to Safari Activity Window, I had no problem finding a DL link from the other one though.

http://kwaakkwaak.alardgovers.nl/sounds/ameliveatlowlands2006edited.mp3

Feel free to call me out if jacking their link is bad form.

"Very much so. I did already see the 3voor12 link, but no set is so good that I need to install a RealPlayer plugin to find it."

haha, lol!

So the Flex Vienna mix I got is 4 hours long, but Lowlands mix is just 30 minutes?

Lowlandsmix is 2.5 hrs iirc. Maybe I still have it somewhere at home. Can check.

the flex vienna is 4 hours because it contains duplicate part at the middle. you gotta do some cutting to listen to it properly. cut the part starting 02:09:17 until the last 50 minutes & 15 seconds.

or should i say until the start of the last 50:15

Coast 2 Coast is in the Head/Zavvi clearout for wallet busting £2.75.
cos of this thread its now on my desk and about to get ripped.
better be good.

ha, let me know! might grab it too if it's still there when i next head into town.

actually, i was wrong it was £2.25 ..
bear in mind this was the bristol shop lex, but if you are interested etc etc ..

I really like the Coast 2 Coast mix, but it takes some time to sneak up on you I think. It's determinedly unhistrionic.

easily best mix cd of 2007 for me. tim, what is unhistrionic?

As in it's relatively laidback throughout, and never ostentatious in presenting its charms - no massive anthems or bangers really, or even "what was that" weird tracks or eclectic/surprising selections.

I guess it kind of peaks with the Carl Craig remix of "Poor People Must Work" and also "Sleepy Hollow", but on their other released mixes those would be build tracks rather than peak tracks.

However it's the best of their released DJ mixes in spite or maybe because of those things: it's just a lovely collection. There's something really gorgeous sounding about pretty much every track here. I adore the Chateau Flight and Buddha Khan tracks, and the Losoul remix of Freaks.

"As in it's relatively laidback throughout, and never ostentatious in presenting its charms - no massive anthems or bangers really, or even "what was that" weird tracks or eclectic/surprising selections."

--well, i don't know about you but i think ct satin's "i found a friend" is massive. this mix introduced it to me.

Oh yeah but that's probably the one mildly ostentatious "hey look at this undiscovered singalong curio from the past" moment. Anyway I'm not criticizing the mix at all!

These guys have been so consistent and excellent for years, I am looking forward very much to this. Their version of Underworld's "Crocodile" is such big fun, "Envisions" is a total anthem and "Ku Kanjani," the single from last year with Amampondo, was heavily under-rated.

Sort of surprised they haven't just up and released the best house album of the 21st century.

which is better, their live PA's or dj sets?

The Ame live PA I saw was outright transplendant. More or less perfect, actually.

Someone, I can't remember who, linked to this four hour set in one of the Todd Terje threads to talk about the mix into "Bizarre Love Triangle" but the rest of it is just as much fun:

http://soundcloud.com/r_co/me-live-club-silo-closing

haha that was me. fucking ecstatic moment. I can imagine myself crying if I had been on the dancefloor.

I don't know why this track doesn't get more love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHsZ7ZOWb3Q

thanks for that link!

Such awesome and consistent producers, I'm really looking forward to this.

Primary Structures aka their FACT mix was great too, I love the way it goes from the Charanjit Singh track into the galloping opera-techno of The Knife's "Seeds". Plus NDF's "Since We Last Met" is the best wispy, frail house track in recent years.

kinda feel they're underrated though