Omar-S / FXHE

like what?

I love the Day/Night record (that's the one with the Supremes sample, right?), but have yet to find any others that have truly grabbed me ... mostly because Omar's stuff is so hard to find in shops (probably should order direct, I suppose).

That is the best thing he has done. I don't think it is possible to make a more stripped down lo-fi house record.

Check here:

http://infinitestatemachine.com/2007/08/06/a-conversation-with-omar-s/

I can't say enough good things about pipecock's blog.

I don't blame rarity on yr inability to find other good material. Everything is available as an mp3 sample on his site:

http://www.omarsdetroit.us/

Dude got struck by lightning once and he hasn't come with anything as strong since.

http://www.omarsdetroit.us/snips/004day1.mp3

this is the only other thing that strikes me:

http://www.omarsdetroit.us/snips/new_mp3_snips/congaless.mp3

u mad

check 100% house, give it to me, just ask the lonely

foe-show !!!

http://www.omarsdetroit.us/snips/111_6.mp3

that whole record! the maker!

I've been meaning to start this thread for months. Now that it's here, I don't have much of a chance to contribute. Check for sounds clips of OASIS Seventeen, Nineteen, and Twenty-Two. Great stuff. Also his newest one with Theo "Grand Son of Detroit Techno" is as strong as anything else he'd released. I love "Day" as much as anyone but he's hardly a lightning strike once producer. Pipecock needs to get on here and spread the gospel.

Also the T.O.M. Project release on Sound Signature with Theo P and Malik Pittman is mindblowing.

I would rather listen to Rick Wade.

haha, here i am to "spread the gospel" ;)

hey, i love rick wade as much as the next man (in fact, i have all his house records except the first Harmonie Park which is near the top of my wants list) but his stuff is certainly more samey than omar-s'. and really, i at least like everything omar-s has done, and i love a large portion of it. but this isnt a competition, both of those guys make excellent music.

here's my favorites from omar-s:

1. "Just Ask the Lonely" - what a fucking track. when i first got it on CD (it was out on CD for like a year before it was on wax) my friend jwan and i played that shit like 10 times straight. amazing.

2. "The Maker" - another one of those super sublime soulful electronic joints. pure beauty.

3. "In Side My Head" - super nasty funky shit, somewhere between techno house and electro and dragged through some dirt.

4. "Set It Out" - excellent use of an old electro vocal, he turns it into a beautiful deep jam.

5. "Churchill" - minimal nasty jacking joint, good for layering with disco records.

on the real though, so much of his shit is good. for as cheap as you can get everything straight from him, i reccomend just buying a bunch and mixing them up. the hiphop EP is really nice, too, very underrated.

yeah, that track "shine on me" from side-trakx is like heaven to me

i especially like "give it to me". it sounds disco with the guitar sample, and the bassline (which turns to acid near the end) is funky like peacocks. the vocal loop says "give it to me" every other measure for the first half, and then he lets the other measure drop, "let me have it". near the end he cuts off "give it to me". the structure is very simple and beautiful. so is the music.

give it to me
let me have it
give it to me
let me have it
give it to me
let me have it

yeah ive killed dancefloors with "give it to me" many a time. probably the first omar-s that really killed it like that, for me at least. i might take that one out with me tonight in fact!

i've been meaning to check out 006. i'm always looking for minimal sounds that go with disco, so thanks.

all right. I might have to order up some omar then (or at least give it another listen). thanks for the reccomends.

I dug him till I read that interview you posted on DetroitLuv, pipecock.

EFFYALL001: Omar S vs. Eddie Fowlkes - Village Ghetto LP (4x12")

a1. Fuck Y'all (Original Mix)
a2. I'm Da Shit Eddie

b1. Fuck Y'all (Fuck Flashin Dub)
b2. No, I'm Da Shit Omar

c1. Fuck Y'all (Mike Huckleberry Shot Out Mix)
c2. Village Ghetto Land (Omar's Remixin Shit From Da 80s Makes Me Da Shit Rework)

d1. Fuck Y'all (Tacos & Louse Experiment)
d2. Village Ghetto Land (Flashin's This Shit Was About Me Stealin Shit To Make This Shit Remix)

Bonus Beats. Settin' Techno Back For Like 35 Years (OS & EFF Fuck Y'all Bullshit Muthafuckin' Playa-Hatin Ass North 8-Mile Bitches Mix) (Locked Groove)

he certainly is not going to win the democratic nomination for 2008

"EFFYALL001: Omar S vs. Eddie Fowlkes - Village Ghetto LP (4x12")

a1. Fuck Y'all (Original Mix)
a2. I'm Da Shit Eddie

b1. Fuck Y'all (Fuck Flashin Dub)
b2. No, I'm Da Shit Omar

c1. Fuck Y'all (Mike Huckleberry Shot Out Mix)
c2. Village Ghetto Land (Omar's Remixin Shit From Da 80s Makes Me Da Shit Rework)

d1. Fuck Y'all (Tacos & Louse Experiment)
d2. Village Ghetto Land (Flashin's This Shit Was About Me Stealin Shit To Make This Shit Remix)

Bonus Beats. Settin' Techno Back For Like 35 Years (OS & EFF Fuck Y'all Bullshit Muthafuckin' Playa-Hatin Ass North 8-Mile Bitches Mix) (Locked Groove)"

"I dug him till I read that interview you posted on DetroitLuv, pipecock."

you can always count on dluv for some retardedly racist shit to come out of suburban white kids. i love it.

i knew there was a reason i held off making this thread for so long.

Watch the scene in Hi-Tech Soul where Eddie Fowlkes talks about the credit card scam while clutching a tall-boy and tell me this shit isn't funny.

one of the things i like about 'the maker' is that bit near the end where he brings the keyboard melody that is nearly identical to the melody from chez damier's 'i never knew love'.

i love that melody so much, but i just can't get with chez's lyrics. "i never knew love / but i think i love you." really? who has never been in love with somebody? it's like he cut off his head to convince this girl (or guy? i don't know) that he loves her. it's so beyond belief but maybe it could work in the right moment with the right person.

so omar took the melody (same synth, too) and put it in a song with better lyrics and the same loving feeling.

A new Omar-S 12" is out. The sound clip here sounds oh so nice: http://www.omarsdetroit.us/eps.html

does it just build up and release like that?

is that all the record do?

see, your lazy ass got to do something with it

it sounds like a trance record pipecock

i guess that all depends on your definition of trance. is it a record that could be considered trance inducing? sure. is it anything resembling the genre called "trance"? only if youre so drunk you can't think.

i did a guest mix for the TAPE blog that should be dropping tomorrow or the next day that features this new track as well as a bunch of other detroit house shit, ill post a link when its up.

as promised:

http://allsexistape.blogspot.com/2008/01/guest-mixtape-tom-cox-aka-pipecock.html

the Omar-S cut is definitely one of the highlights of the mix IMO....

Looking forward to this pipecock. Thanks for the heads-up.

is that all the record do?

-- pipecock, Sunday, 6 January 2008 22:41 (2 days ago) Link

You get some of those stupid ass motherfuckers probably from the suburbs or some shit like that who don’t even know what the fuck he’s talking about, been listening to trance music for like 6 months and shit, ain’t been listening to trance since back in the 90's like me, know what I’m saying. You know how those motherfuckers is.

;)

so, who is shadow ray?! is it derr1ck m4y?

omar s

i know... i want to believe

maybe it's the slightly dorky looking nervous guy he sends out to do his dj gigs?

(ps great dj)

he won't tell me, but i think shadow ray is made up.

i like the one-sided one that spins backwards that elan gave me. like a lot. i think i'm gonna try to use it in this mix i'm working on right now.... i've decided that using the computer to mix is for losahs. (okay, actually, i've just been practicing on the decks a lot and have gotten much much better.)

shadow ray

derrick may

and he said that derrick gave him some equipment

"shadow ray

derrick may

and he said that derrick gave him some equipment

-- elan"

indeed he did get some equipment from him, but i would DEFINITELY bet against it being derrick may. i've heard rumours that Transmat talked to him at one point about signing some tracks.....

oasis doesn't really sound like derrick may anyways. but we can dream. they both seem like very, shall we say, strong minded individuals.

I'm sure it's not him, but as for OASIS not sounding like D. May, I have to say that tracks like OASIS Seventeen, Nineteen, and Twenty-Two (yes these are the same three that I mentioned above, but they really are standouts to me) are definitely what I could imagine D. May sounding like these days.

well, if it does turn out to be derrick may i guess i'm sitting on some treasures

"I'm sure it's not him, but as for OASIS not sounding like D. May, I have to say that tracks like OASIS Seventeen, Nineteen, and Twenty-Two (yes these are the same three that I mentioned above, but they really are standouts to me) are definitely what I could imagine D. May sounding like these days.

-- matt2"

i actually dont disagree with that. its tough to be sure, but that shit does have some of the hallmarks of great D.May productions.

what are the hallmarks of great derrick may productions?

yeah i suppose i just prefer not straightforward house. i was probably just looking for easiest comparable. U is wayyyy deeper. plus i hugely prefer the vocals on U as well. maybe i listened to too many edits to like the col abrams vocals

thanks for dumping that porn sample in the middle of this album omar-s, i only had it at top volume

haha, yeah... and the track underneath it is quite nice, but man that is a skeezy porn sample

The track under the pr0n IS really good... Man, the new album is really fantastic, huh? My favorite tracks after just a couple listens: "Skynet 2B", the title track, and "Ganymede"... But so solid. I wondered the other day when the P-fork review showed up if he was bombarded with mail-order requests (especially given that the review specifically said that was the best way to get the music)!

god this is so fucking sick.

the album? or is there something new

Not sure what Matt meant, but yeah, there's something new; really digging it:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS86JxhyiP4

still you say criticize

:O

king kong of house

there's some awesome stuff on the new album

the nelson county ep is great. he has such a distinctive grammar re: house.

the xlr8r podcast from may is crucial

reading back over this thread is embarrassing

deeply deeply embarrassing

who are you embarrassed for?

myself

I was a bit down on this after hearing the opening track but the rest of the new album is so fucking good. The last track, Heard'Chew Single, is nearly perfect.

this dude rules imo

best winter bus/train riding music

let's talk about how much omar-s rules

i saw him DJ over the summer and the first thing he did when he got in the DJ "booth" (really just a big table between the speaker stacks with the DJ gear on it) was to kill all the lights in the house. then he took down the purple spotlight that was pointing at the DJ booth. he actually grabbed the spotlight and pulled it down. then he stuck it on the floor under the table with the light facing the dancers feet. and then he started his set.

and he played this, too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35mH1DK9fLk

the first oasis CD is really good

thank you for letting me be myself is really good

early tracks i love:
"miss you"
"always there"

he has a lot of records

are all the "side traxx" releases in that same instrumental hip-hop style as the first?

To answer an old question and since I just discovered there were more than 2, NO

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

This track from Vol. 4 is kinda like a slinkier version of vol. 1

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

the vol. 1 sound that is

this second life is kinda awesome? omar-s by numbers kinda awesome, but damn

He has been rather “killing it”, as they say, these past few years

Maybe he’s just always been killing it since 03 or whenever

sheer genius

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

he's the best

new track sounds super

new album - £60!

yeah wtf. i guess occasionally living in the states throws me a bone - assuming ordering through fxhe is going to be a lot cheaper.

though i'll probably wait for downloads tbrr *shrugs*

Tip!

I'll wait as well, tbh.

I'll Do it Again makes quite a scene at Hot Mess.

"bitch, I fucked your girlfriend too/ shirts and skirts, it's all the same!"

haha omgggg how did i miss that one

hahaha!

RIGHT?

from 2019, good lord this is irie, can I get a whole album of this, please?

“Love me like cooked food (feat. Nardo Ranks)”

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

Awful stuff here.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzRRYckOI5w/?hl=en&img_index=1

jfc

i saw omar's post earlier and wandered what was going on

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzSl2FeAn4M/

wondered

i had heard several bad stories previously to the point i had stopped playing his music, so sadly this is not surprising.

Dee Diggs said as much in her reply to Supercoolwicked's post

I'm not in the scene to hear stories but his interviews always seemed to have an aggressive tone. Some of the samples he's used I found very off to the point I can't listen to his work. I like productions in that style but there are people doing better work. Sad to see DJs and producers taking pity on him and sending him support.

bad vibes have dripped from this guy for years, decades now. i don't recommend re-reading this thread, but it's all there early on. final straw was openly mocking victims of d. may a few years ago. my listening life will be just fine w/o AOS.