how is there not a thread or even any mention of this album on ilm??? so so so so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlqd02099A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxjPN_iUiVY
richjuz:
Jessie Ware’s part-time producer Julio Bashmore has created a dance album (Knockin’ Boots) that’s approximately 5,000 times more exciting and alive than the output of his cohorts in Disclosure. It’s the rare house-music LP that I want to listen to all the way through every time. Its vintage sources are impeccably curated. It is thick with texture and infested with hooks. It sounds modern without coming off as overly concerned about functioning within trends like EDM or deep house. I love it a lot.
― flopson, Saturday, 10 October 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
GOOD JOB WITH THE BBCODE N00B
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 10 October 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
it used to be html in thread titles iirc
― flopson, Saturday, 10 October 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
death to false dance music
― the late great, Sunday, 11 October 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
you don't like this shit??
― flopson, Sunday, 11 October 2015 02:03 (eight years ago) link
LOL i haven't heard it, i've just been wanting to say that for a while
i was a big fan of some of julio's early work: footsteppin', rubble to amazon, father father, ask yourself, battle for middle you, au seve were all jams i played to death
but i felt he really dropped off after "au seve" and so haven't sampled the new one
― the late great, Sunday, 11 October 2015 02:57 (eight years ago) link
this remix was a gem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Lm9s-96fc
how does the new stuff compare to that
― the late great, Sunday, 11 October 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link
guess i should just listen to the clips
― the late great, Sunday, 11 October 2015 03:01 (eight years ago) link
yeah just check it out dude
apparently this album is considered a break from his previous stuff (which i only checked out retroactively) but it doesn't sound that different from 'au seve' to me. maybe it's a little more chipper?
deadboy remix is sick
― flopson, Sunday, 11 October 2015 03:19 (eight years ago) link
Never thought much of him before, but I can't get enough of "Holding On", "Knockin' Boots", and this collab with Seven Davis Jr:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znt-pde6Cik
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 11 October 2015 11:15 (eight years ago) link
Au Seve itself was kind of a turning point in his own journey from wonky bass music to straight-up high street house, and give me the latter every time. This album is pretty good but there's been a real glut of this stuff over the past couple of years and it feels short on transcendent moments.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 11 October 2015 11:26 (eight years ago) link
I love this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si3YMVIrWFg
― tayto fan (Michael B), Sunday, 11 October 2015 11:48 (eight years ago) link
This album is pretty good but there's been a real glut of this stuff over the past couple of years and it feels short on transcendent moments.
― Matt DC, Sunday, October 11, 2015 7:26 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
there's always a glut of house music but this album is full of TMs IMO. also maybe more importantly every song is memorable and catchy, no boring tracks, that's rare for a house album in my admittedly limited xp
― flopson, Sunday, 11 October 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
still haven't checked out the new stuff but have you heard "father father"? no lie it's one of my all-time top ten vocal house tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jH2wQUd86g
― the late great, Sunday, 11 October 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
that's rare for a house album
in what genre is it not rare??
― brimstead, Sunday, 11 October 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah i like 'father father' people were freaking out about it here when it came out, which is why was so surprised there was no mention of this album yet. honestly i think the songs on the new album are even better
xp- ur right i could have been more extreme, rare for a house album to not be 95% boring
― flopson, Sunday, 11 October 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
Not listened to this album yet but I'm hoping it's more "Battle For Middle You" than "Au Seve", I like both very much but for very different reasons.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 11 October 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
thought this album was a disappointment tbh, really characterless & with none of the pop moments like "au seve" i'd expect from bashmore going pop-house
thought he was a much more distinctive producer in the batty knee dance ep/"battle for middle you" days - stood out from a lot of awkward wonky bass stuff by cramming so many more ideas and hooks into his stuff, but post-"au seve" he hasn't done that vis-a-vis pop-house
― lex pretend, Monday, 12 October 2015 08:39 (eight years ago) link
I was surprised by this - I like the album, and disagree that it's characterless. In fact, the reason I checked it out was after hearing "Holding On", and thinking that harmony in particular was weird for a house track. Almost bi-tonal, with the root chord brushing up against this III chord -- not sure if intentional, or just a by-product of how the synth patch or vocals trail off. Not to mention the verse melody emphasizes the tritone! I thought it sounded pretty unique, and the album as a whole strikes me as an off-kilter take on what Disclosure has made "basic" (aka characterless).
― Dominique, Monday, 12 October 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
thought this album was a disappointment tbh, really characterless & with none of the pop moments like "au seve" i'd expect from bashmore going pop-house --lex pretend
every song on the album is poppier than 'au seve' though?
― flopson, Monday, 12 October 2015 14:35 (eight years ago) link
as in vocals and choruses? "au seve" is a zillion times catchier tho
― lex pretend, Monday, 12 October 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
Holding On is incredible.
― impossible raver (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 12 October 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
'Rhythm Of Auld' is lovely but in general he wears his influences too on the sleeve without doing enough to escape pale imitation or the lacklustre middle ground between it all.
― nashwan, Monday, 12 October 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, October 12, 2015 10:41 AM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah the album is crazy catchy, indelible hooks out the waz. revisit it you'll see what i mean. 'au seve' is great but the best tracks on the alb are as good or better
― flopson, Monday, 12 October 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
loving this so much. kinda ridiculous it's going to be in shadow of Jamie XX's LP for at least a while. The whole Bashmore brand seems to be ill marketed this side of the atlantic, he deserves a crossover success IMO. I am not familiar with this scene, I discovered him thanks to Jessie Ware.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 5 December 2015 01:48 (eight years ago) link
Finally got around to this and it's really good! I feel like he uses voices and samples to better effect than most his peers.
there's been a real glut of this stuff over the past couple of years
The only recent (at a push) things this has explicitly reminded me of are KiNK's "Hand Made" and Tom Trago's "Use Me Again." Have I not been paying close enough attention or is there a lot more out there that sits at this specific intersection of disco, deep house and slightly retro anthemicness?
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
not that i recall this well enough other than to side-eye it but marquis hawkes' social housing is akin but good
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link
Oh synchronicity - read this while listening to Marquis Hawkes "Fantasy", from said LP.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link
thx for the tip, this sounds p good and yeah exactly the same retro samples pop house style
despite my frantic proselytizing itt for the bash album not amounting to much i still think it's a masterpiece. feel like ilx uk dance partisans just got a bad whiff about it from the wrong corners of the music press or something. Dominique OTM about bizarre harmony on 'holding on'
― de l'asshole (flopson), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link