Michael Mayer - "Immer"

umm what other mix cds have i been listening to? american gigolo... err that may be it i fear.

"Immer" is a micro-house mix, yes? Who's on it?

(seriously, like 17 cd's now. it's all about the al green this summer.)

A Rocket In Dub - Rocket No. 3: is like a romance inside an iron lung. The low-end frequencies sing seductive love songs to the high-end frequencies.

Carsten Jost - You Don't Need A Weatherman (Superpitcher Mix): is typical (translation: flawless) Superpitcher-style methadone haze + bird song.

Thomas Fehlmann - Gratis: tech-house reimagined as the closing memorial song to an ant-robot council of war, the ant- robot leaders draped in their finest silk. (apologies - I have developed a sudden and distasteful penchant for automatic writing)

Phantom/Ghost - Perfect Lovers (Unperfect Love Mix): the absolute peak: Lachrymosa strings slowly glide downwards into chilling, mysterious house-pop ("We are perfect lovers, besides the fact that we're not there")

Frank Martiniq - Adriano (M. Mayer Remix) - the "psychedelic" backing music for the drug-trip scenes in a new version of Orgazmo scored by nu-electro artists. This is a good thing.

I'm curious what others makes of that moment (44.20 in) when Mayer fades out Akufen's glorious psychometry vol. 3 and, err, drops the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No 5 in C-sharp major. cousin omar desribes it i his KindaMuzik review as too much of a forced humanistic gesture in this sleek technological landscape.

alongside with mayer's majestic mix of frank martiniq's adriano its probably my favourite moment in the mix. what does the rest of the ILM massive think?

btw Stevo where did you find a copy? I never see a copy lying around here and had to order it straight from Kompakt.

How easy was it to order directly through Kompakt?

That Tobias Thomas mix-cd on Kompakt is also really good btw

so how typical of "microhouse" is this mix?
is this what people are talking about when they use that term?
(the only other stuff i know is a few mp3s,and i've heard people who mix this sort of stuff a few times,although they refer to it as "deep techno" or something...)

i haven't heard the mix yet though,so i possibly shouldn't comment....i must try and get it somewhere...

Selway - Flying Far
Mayer's remix of Adriano
Carsten Jost - You Don't Need A Weatherman
Thomas Fehlman - Gratis...

...in that order and a special prize to Akufen's Psychometry vol 3.0 for reminding me of Change ft. Luther Vandross on a diomorphine and ketamine bender when someone brings in the mescal.

I think the Mahler is great! It ain't "too much of a forced humanistic gesture in this sleek technological landscape". It is part of the greatness of microhouse (which relates to the greatness of Daft Punk) that it plays around with our ideas of humanity, soul, depth, warmth, emotion. Does anyone have the same objections to Kraftwerk's Radioactivity & Franz Schubert? Microhouse takes K's man-machine in different directions. It's machines becoming human (the differences between Chain Reaction - Hypercity - micropop/digital disco) rather than men becoming machines, but the interesting question is what kind of human?

I can see how it could seem out of place. I played clarinet in a good school orchestra for several years, but to me, in this context, after so much 'deep' repetition, it sounds like high-quality ambient muzak. I don't know the Mahler piece and if you do it's best not to think of it as a Mahler quote. Next to the Akufen and all the stuff before, it makes a much-needed striking contrast and soothing relief in a largely seamless mix. When it drops, we're so deep into the humanity of texture and repetition that it works not in the trad musical way but as an oasis of lush texture freed from repetition's tyranny, that relaxes us for a second before the final stretch, and makes us think. I say 'tyranny' because as much as I adore it, the only thing that occasionally bugs me about 'Immer' is how damn hypnotising and almost dehumanising its 'deep' 'human' grooves can get when you're completely immersed in them. So maybe the Mahler even saves the album!

Thus it is a signifier for an old idea of humanity that has come to mean something else. Next to 'Perfect Lovers', it comes to represent movie melodrama and Eurocamp, almost functioning like the MOR stuff in 'Discovery'. The track is the dramatic entrance of the human voice that microhouse is so great at. (Tessio on Hypericty of course) The insertion of a different humanity challenges the straightforward 'vocals = humanity' idea.

i wish this particular one didn't have the vocals.... :-(

but i really like this record

is "lachrymosa" like a wine-based drink?

And it is one of the best albums ever.

It is, and I'm thinking the upcoming Superpitcher mix could be the younger brother to Immer because it's got the same nocturnal glow through and through. It may not have the shock of the new that Immer had, but the track selection is just as good.

is it? i don't think anything on there matches "perfect lovers" or "rocket no. 3" or "gratis" or "you don't need a weatherman" to name only my favorites. good call on the "younger brother" thing, though.

But you're right, they aren't as many "all-time classics" on the disc, even if I would make a case for the Oliver Hacke and Wighnomy Bros. tracks being as good as anything they've ever released/featured.

Does this mean microhouse is officially big now?

I mentioned over on Dissensus that I reckon a lot of Matthew Jonson's big rep is based around the fact that he's the scene hero for a lot of techno-heads who, by dint of their techno allegiance, were suspicious of microhouse for a long while.

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I listened to this the other day and it was good, but I think I prefer Fabric 13.

I have no idea why it need to be a sequel mix. As if MM hadn't put out other mixes in between (although correct me if these were Kompakt only mixes or something of the sort).

I think Fabric 13 still is better than Immer, which while it has that perfect track selection that flows perfectly from one another, Fabric has some of the most character I've ever heard in a mix. Admittedly I could give a shit for Michael Mayer's mixing, but he has this rare ability to weave a story out of a mix (which I think he does a bit less in Immer)

Also went back to both recently (spurred, if anyone cares, by hearing "Saturndays" on the Junior Boys body language mix, then wanting better Mayer stuff). I love the first half of the Fabric mix, but find that it drops off badly. Whereas the first half of Immer feels like a slow build towards a fantastic second half.

we are
perfect lovers
beside the fact
that we're not there

and i think it is alright
that we are only seen by night!!!!!!

was listening to this on headphones yesterday. are there any other akufen trax as dope as psychometry?

quebec nightclub!

Selway - Flying Far is so incredibly good in this thing.

yeah that's my favourite.

Immer 3 is coming out this summer

Tracklist:
1. Courtney Tidwell – Don’t Let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson’s Ambient Mix)
2. Closer Musik – Departures
3. Ben Watt – Guinea Pig (DJ Koze Remix)
4. Tim Paris – Edges of Corrosion
5. Smith N Hack – Falling Stars
6. Raudive – Slave
7. Massive Attack – Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
8. Popnoname – Hello Gorgeous (Terranova Remix)
9. Charlotte Gainsbourg – The Operation (Superpitcher Remix)
10. Culoe de Song – The Bright Forest
11. Kinky Justice – New Day

ooh, love "falling stars"

Charlotte Gainsbourg – The Operation (Superpitcher Remix) - This is so good. As heard on Tobias Thomas' Speaking In Tongues mix. Falling Stars is also amazing. Justus Köhncke's version of New Day is cool. A lot of these tracks have been around a while.

Should I have listened to Immer 2?

yes! i love it about as much as the orig

first 2 songs are probably my favorite songs ever, i'm interested in how he mixes them.

I miss closer Musik. And Departures is one of my favorites. I hope this mix is as romantic as the first one.

yeah a bunch of not-new tracks here huh?

6. Raudive – Slave

this is that grace jones sampling track......'romantic' def isn't the word

re: using old tracks

‘Immer’ means ‘always’ in German, and fittingly the mix series has always been anchored in tracks that, for Mayer, have a certain timelessness, with less emphasis on the new and untested.

miss the immer label tbh. how sick was that benjamin diamond/connective zone split?

last track must be that justus kohncke cover of 'new day' by round two/basic channel that i heard about a while back

this looks great!

Ben Watt – Guinea Pig (DJ Koze Remix)

This is one of my absolute favourite DJ Koze remixes (probably my favourite in fact) and is perfect for an Immer mix.

Mayer using old tracks seems sensible as well in that this overall style is generally "outmoded" now.

This looks perfect, just the right thing if he's going to do another mix in the series.

Culoe de Song – The Bright Forest

Fan of this ever since his RA podcast.

Kinky Justice track was on Myspace a while back

So hyped for this

Immer = Always = Classic tracks. I never made that connection before!

Mayer = Always Classic too. Really looking forward to Immer 3.

Anyone able to ID any of these tracks i've cut from an '05 Mayer set?

http://www.4shared.com/audio/8LFAaAYB/Mayer05.html

the second track is the b-side of http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Koze-AKA-Monaco-Schranze-Gebr-Teichmann-Speicher-25/release/365614

Some great tracks in this 2002 Mayer set: Love Family Park

the last track on micarl's link is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_yDfY8CVFU

Tracklist looks amazing. Is there an official release date for this one?

8th June

Have been rather enjoying this, even minus the Massive Attack track (not on the digital release for rights reasons, apparently).

His set from his recent Sunday Best NYC is posted on their website, was skimming through it and it sounded interesting, should one be interested.

this should work http://www.sundaybestnyc.com/

iTunes UK pricing error means you can currently pick up the continuous mix for 79p if anybody is interested

So so so so so tempted...even though I've got it coming in the post on CD tomorrow...

Just gave in. Cheers for the heads up!

Heh, I've got the cd coming in the post too but that could be a couple of days yet!

What is, like, the IMMER of 2012? I need a new mix

going back to immer apropos of nothing and it sounds better than ever.

Actually just listened to this yesterday. Still an A+ mix, still one of my all-time favorites.

blech romantic sentimental ambient music

j/k this is a good mix but i prefer the sprockets

speichers, not sprockets

haha, as I was posting that, I was anticipating some push back from you

pure jokes

Mayer DJ-Kicks in May: https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=38629
Tracklist looks great, headwear not so much (Roísín Murphy's the only one who can pull off something like that and look graceful (as it reminded me of her Overpowered cover photo))

OMG the DJ-Kicks is so great, it gets into the peak time fluffy ecstasy pop zone early on and just stays there.

the alter ego track on this is pure filth

but .. that cover ...

It's a fucking fantastic mix eh, when he drops Please Stay it sounds even fresher than it did at the time

I was all over the Carl Craig mix (and to a lesser extent the Tiga one) of that Alter Ego tune when it came out, to the point where I hadn't even heard the original, but yeah, pure filth xp