Wolf and Lamb

Srsly. "In The Park" gives me chills. And the way they bust out Grace Jones is just perfect.

the beats in space one is great, i was kindof obsessed w/ the soul clap remix of that jamie foxx track. wolf+lamb is a great label for fans of male diva vocal house

i kinda didn't realize how much i liked these guys/this label until recently but yea. i'm loving the w + l album, the soul clap stuff, zev's "don't break it", "time for us", most everything i come across tbh

Search: no regular play's "slide away"!

my favourite w+l stuff

no regular play - ladyluck (slow hands remix) (i think slow hands is one to keep an eye on, i really like the auld lang syne edit he did for nye, its free on their website) zev - forget the world and dont break it, soul claps rnb edits and aphrika by seth troxler (as well as the nicolas jaar stuff)

the beats in space podcast makes soul clap seem like the funnest guys to hang out w/. i ended up listening to it billions of times over the last few months bc i had like 3 podcasts and a studio remix on my ipod.

lots of levan (7th heaven AND a peech boys iirc)

Haven't heard the actual release yet but the radio promo mix for the DJ Kicks is lovely. "In The Park" still on track to be a top 10 single of the year for me also.

I'm enjoying it a lot from what I've heard.

loving this! whats the deal w/ these promo mixes? are they usually similar to the mix that gets released? and is half of it mixed by wolf + lamb the other half by soul clap or...?

I meant a promo of the DJ Kicks mix. It's more a sort of showcase of "look what our mates have made" than a Soul Clap vs Wolf + Lamb affair - both duos moving in roughly similar circles to each other. The good thing about it is that it's got W+L deep house minimalness working at the same as Soul Clap's funky italo(?) style, but it never feels disjointed as you'd probably have a hard time guessing which duo picked which tracks. It's definitely not an Immer compilation or anything like that - lots of electro and boogie-influenced stuff. Great fun at high volumes, deep and bubbly on headphones.

id say soul clap are digging on boogie rather than italo

yeah, boogie is a better way of describing it. I'm not so hot on my late-80s/early-90s house categories admittedly.

idk i think its just that 80s nyc disco sound that i will <3 forever, nuyorican boogie paradise.g, loose and bassy and just coming to the boil

Soul Clap also seem to love house mixes of R&B tunes from circa 1990, which makes perfect sense of course. I think they're interested in R&B as something that exists alongside house rather than as a kind of pre-house/post-disco thing.

Well, they're still disco, but more in that timeless continuum sense that embraces both house and R&B. This is what distinguishes them from, say, Metro Area, who used italo and disco as a way of creating a sense of distance from house.

It's more like what if Moodymann was really into Janet Jackson.

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I don't know if it's just the blurb I've read about their 90s paries, but Soul Clap kind of remind me of the eurodance-ish stuff I was listening to when I first came to music as a young'un - Black Box, 49ers, Mantronix, JT & the Big Family - but much more silky and polished.

yeah dog latin i meant the promo as well, it's just that its called the radio promo mix, so i was just wondering if its the same thing as the official one?

Yeah I think it's the same.

radio promo thing sounds excellent so far, it's cool how they more or less kept it within the w + l camp yet there is still a pretty wide range of styles going on

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004J80CUW/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1SR1YX6KKG88GF6W62RC&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294

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junodownload has the individual tracks plus mixed version, which should be mandatory for releases like DJ kicks...

as does Boomkat so thats £9 for all the tracks lossless & the mixed version.

fuck....

whatever i'm still playing the sh*t out of this!

god that is so annoying grrr

no regular play - 'takin' u back'

is a jammmmmmmmmmm

hey grl i think about that

Love love love the DJ Kicks, esp twisted soul vocal on Lonely C.

Adding my voice to the love for the DJ-Kicks mix - especially the final ten tracks, starting from Slow Hands "Rough Patch".

Can't stop listening to this, bought the unmixed tracks from Beatport. The mix works, but I like being able to let the better tracks stretch out. The Nicolas Jaar soul edit in particular is way better at 7 minutes than 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdQ1fgXfz1o

New favorite. Transcendent break/build from 3:30.

yah thats great man

yea that one def benefits from being stretched a bit, the original is surprisingly good too (if not w+l)

really want the unmixed tunes...

wish they'd go back and do some other DJ kicks as mixed & unmixed. I'd love that James Holden one.

This still sounds superb though, the trumpets at 1:40.. oh my..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdRtpW8n_c8

Boo, there was no separate unmixed CD, and I hesitate to buy the same tracks twice over...

Would LOVE an unmixed version of the Apparat DJ kicks. Still, looking forward to hearing this this evening.

i looove the trumpet tone greg paulus gets on his tracks, vaguely reminds me of the horn tones on a lot of arthur russell stuff

http://boomkat.com/downloads/342925-apparat-various-dj-kicks

Apparat unmixed & lossless.

as much as i appreciate the unmixed tracks i think the mixing in the dj kicks is fucking excellent. you know it's a good sign when even the transitions get stuck in your head

but i guess with 27 tracks there is probably a greater chance for the transition to get stuck in your head than the track itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbXvJKlZ2s

Only just discovered this R Kelly house edit but I can't stop listening to it.

I love how the DJ Kicks is so classy and spacious, yet messy and fun. Is there anything coming out from this stable that isn't solid brilliance?

glad to see more love for the dj kicks, the press reaction seems like it was generally positive but i definitely was expecting more of a reaction from the indie world a la nicolas jaar or james blake. which is a bummer because it is so much better than either of those records

It's not an "album" though, which is what the indie crowd tends to respond to.

idk erlend oye dj kicks did pretty well w/ the indie crowd iirc

Yeah but he covered The Smiths

see how it works?

Sad to think that we've made so little progress in the decade-or-so since "Radio Soulwax Part 2".

Is the Wolf & Lamb album (their artist album not this DJ Kicks) any good? It's in my list of "things I'm going to download and listen to when I have a proper chance".

There is no such thing as progress in music

I mean in convincing people to be more open-minded... I also think the last Robag Wruhme mix compilation with the name I can't spell or pronounce would have been easy crossover material though, maybe I don't know anything.

You need a narrative with these things, hence the Villalobos Fabric mix getting some of that kind of press.

Indie peeps get interested in dance music once dancing no longer seems like the central point. Hence the Field being the biggest Kompakt artist for that crowd.

Wolf + Lamb and Soul Clap are both way too connected with actual dance crowds. They've definitely crossed over with the coolsy dance types though, to the point that people complain about them getting the hype that ought to go to steffi or Tom trago or etc.

^^

had The L Word on repeat (from the Social Experiment mix) in the car today, fantastic.

been listening to so much of their dj kicks & nicolas jaar singles from last year was loading up on wolf + lamb releases & noticed matos reviewed most of their stuff for ra does he still hang out here ever

Bits of the DJ Kicks mix really remind me of 2006ish Get Physical but filtered through a post-Balearic horizontal afternoon drinking in the sunshine vibe.

this is a really good point actually...and the way they've created a way for things to be mixed together again.

Seeing w+l/soul clap tomorrow night!

so annoyed i still havent seen these dudes, they seem to play in london all the time

http://soundcloud.com/soulclap/dreams-edit

Great set at U St last night.

Yes they were pretty fantastic - I think we recorded the whole 4+ hours.

ysi?

On BIS this week

what other wolf + lamb related mixes are ppl really into? already know the soul clap resident advisor one (and love it)

http://soundcloud.com/r_co/soul-clap-essential-mix-05-03

Lots of fresh sounding DJ-Kicksy material rubbing up against Glass Candy, Depeche Mode and Madlib, amongst others.

Also just spent a good hour browsing about Soul Clap's website/blog, they seem to have a lot of podcasts and whatnot that can be downloaded.

Not quite on the same path musically, but they've done this amazing mix to promote a night they did a few months ago, based on 90s house sounds and just on the right side of cheesy. There's a Tuff Jam remix of Coolio (!) which sounds absolutely vicious in this context.

i've been getting a lot of good mileage out of the 5 years at the marcy mix since it came out... it's a hell of a lot of fun

Yeah, it's a pre-drinking staple for me now

I was at the U Street show too, they always seem to have such a great time playing! Please let us know when you up that recording

Whe recording came out well from a technical standpoint, now we've got to edit it and get their approval before sending it into the wild. I'll post it here if & when we do!

thanks!

They put out their own podcast (Wolf and Lamb radio) where they sporadically put out mixes or live sets from people on the label. I think my fave is an old one Zev live at the Bunker which was one of my intros to them. Totally worth checking out.

thanks for the recs guys!

that Marcy 5 Yr mix sounds pretty shit as far as encoding/quality goes. is there a better copy than the one posted above?

really like that warpaint remix from the essential mix

I know there's some talk of Night Plane over on the techno/house thread but it's definitely worth mentioning him as one to watch. "Str8 2 Ur Heart" is noir-Balearic excellence and his Soundcloud has a lot of promising stuff on it.

The Nightplane track on the Social Experiment mix ("Parallel Lines") sounds awesome in that context. As does Benoit & Sergio's "Principles".

yea sr8 2 ur heart is great!

On BIS this week

― du mein bestie (micarl), Sunday, May 8, 2011 8:57 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

this is up now btw

I really want Social Experiment 002 unmixed as well, just for the completist in me.

I don't see it mentioned upthread, but I may have mentioned in the Mark E,Revenge Slo Motion House thread last year, anyway The Soul Clap XLR8R mix from 2010 is still fully awesome:

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2010/02/soul-claps-boston-mix

glad to see more love for the dj kicks, the press reaction seems like it was generally positive but i definitely was expecting more of a reaction from the indie world a la nicolas jaar or james blake. which is a bummer because it is so much better than either of those records

― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 20:32 (1 month ago) Bookmark

My attempt to get the indie world listening to Soul Clap/W+L

srsly tho, I know the Ilx doesnt dig self-promotional and kinda off topic posts, but some of you W+L/SC DJ Kicks fans should be into this mix I made and I'd appreciate any listens/feedback/love/hate to get me closer to trumping the chump that somehow has gained 2000+ plays for a (imho) pedestrian mix. Thanks!

(or just DL the slightly tighter version from sndcld and dont say anything; either way hope you enjoy)

the beats in space mix is great

http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/572

really like the voices of black stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0_g5DmLm7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcU136K4Glw&feature=related

Live was pretty crazy, the dj booth was as much a party as the dance floor

yeah totally!

I really want Social Experiment 002 unmixed as well, just for the completist in me.

― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Thursday, May 12, 2011 8:05 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

only just got this (the mixed version i mean) and its really great, definitely seems like i prefer soul clap to wolf + lamb

If you've ever wanted to hear Mel Blatt from All Saints sing "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" over a smooth piano-house track with percussion not disimilar to Salt-N-Pepa's "Push It", then the Soul Clap album is for you.

she's on another track too that i like better. the press release about how they met is kind of hilarious. i was mostly disappointed by the album though, kind of dry, punctuated by unfortunate wackiness

i have to hear this, i really like the idea of soul clap making a divisive pop opus

not pop enough for that :(

seems like a far cry from the wolf + lamb album tho, right?

you mean the w+l dj kicks? i haven't listened to that since this time last year and it didn't leave a huge impression on me

i meant the wolf + lamb album, which was a p understated affair

i guess i'd argue that this thing is pretty 'pop' tbf, but it fails regardless. its problem has more to do with pretending like it has this uber-funky weirdness vibe going on, but not being even close to weird enough in actuality to pull it off. if you're going to have crazy spoken word intros that evoke dudes like andre 3000 or prince or george clinton or w/e they shouldn't be forced. and they shouldn't be this boring. i mean, lines like "a circumcised man gains powers of our universe, shaping him into a being of interplanetary dopeness" do not sell themselves

lex was right when he said this album was 'dry', p much the opposite of funk. i thought that the dj kicks thing actually achieved a nice balance of smoothness and weird-ass funkiness but this album is just blah

anyone heard the soul clap fact mix?

http://soundcloud.com/mixfeed/soul-clap-fact-mix-324-04-12

can't tell if i like this or hate it. fucking despise that "get low (incoming bitch)" track though, jesus. sounds like if limp bizkit made house music, not least with them roaring over the mic in any previous set i've heard it in.

some good stuff on here, though it's way closer to jazzy jeff's mixes than any of their previous stuff.

This Soul Clap album isn't exactly unpleasant but kinda dull at the same time? Like it simultaneously feels halfhearted and like it's trying way too hard.

lol

https://www.facebook.com/WolfLamb/posts/428263613868604

Anyone else love the new Deniz Kurtel album?