Official ILM thread of mad TENSNAKE love for 2010 and beyond

This dude has made some of my favourite tracks of the past few years and yet I always seem to fail to notice when a new one comes out. I think he's overdue his own thread.

Also his RA Podcast is totally getting me in the NYE mood.

Anyway, search, destroy, anticipate, give love here.

Search - Holding Back My Love, Tavira, Congolal, plus his remixes of Sally Shapiro and Toby Tobias - all very Aeroplane but with less of the sheen and more obvious debt to house music.

Also this clip of Coma Cat which is coming out on Permanent Vacation sounds amazing. So bouncy!

rather corny imo

That's kinda the whole appeal!

death to false tech house

i'm with vah1d

i like 'can you feel it' & his remix of that junior boys song.

this was the first tensnake song i heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZSXrIjdGls

imo not as good as classixx but still good

i mean not as interesting as classixx as remixers, as far as i know classixx never remixed that particular song

lol @ tensnake being corny/false. wtf does that even mean?

he's soft like baby shits

then i don't wanna be hard

reposted from the bobbins thread Tensnake's In the End (I Want You to Cry) is just perfect.

That's one reason why I tend to love December, thanks to year end charts, all this wonderful stuff I've passed over is delivered straight to me.

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I also bought that junior boys remix record a few days ago, personally I prefer all the other remixes, but keep in mind I don't like the Junior boys to begin with, so remixes can often only go so far.

i actually like his remix of the faint a lot too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt3TugoQAZY

First thing I heard was Around The House. I still like it.

coma cat is just :o :o. and that part of holding back my love is one of the most beautiful music moments in 2009.

ok yes "coma cat" is effin amazing. kind of like a more developed version of "tavira", which was already an all-time fave. looking forward to the rest of the new ep on permanent vacation as well

yah coma cat is dope!@!

'need your lovin' is even more explicitly boogie. the dub mix >> the 'original version' is too pastiche-y
'get it right' is cool too

its like tensnake meets that classixx track "i'll get you"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zAke1nL8Ug

oh god i love that classixx song. also seriously smitten with both versions of "need your lovin", tho i think i might prefer the pastiche

think 'coma cat' might just be huge, it's got such broad appeal. i can't get it out of my head.

love the vocal sample pitch changes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEom5tDqzEw

this is coool

This music is equally difficult to hate or love. I can't completely dis it because the guy is trying to be somewhat ambitious in his arrangements and programming. The main problem is that he doesn't have strong hooks, good breakdowns or much harmonic development.

That seems like the problem with so much of the nu-disco stuff. It feels really middlebrow.

Again, I don't hate it and it is better than a lot of stuff out there, but there is better stuff you could be listening to. If I had to choose between this or an old boogie/new wave/Moroder record, I would take the older record. Same tempos and sonic territory, but better songs, rhythms, and performances.

(that being said mixing this stuff seems a hell of a lot easier than mixing boogie. The chords don't move around as much)

well yeah obv -- doesnt the main nu disco thread start w/ jess harvell calling it the new trip hop or some shit

its funny i think the reason tensnake stands out tho is hes way more into hooks & memorable atmosphere than 99% of these dudes

Tensnake is extremely hooky. Everytime I hear somebody mention M-Cat I get the Coma Cat vocal replaying in my head

kind of amazing how many times i've heard "coma cat" played out this year, and i really don't even go out that much. is this just random coincidence or are sf disco nights actually indicative of this song sorta blowing up ???

really love this dude unsurprisingly. middlebrow soft techno dilettantes unite

i'll unite but he's not techno is he?

tech house?

Think calling Balearic stuff middlebrow is missing the point a bit, seeing as nu-Balearic is all about reclaiming stuff that's previously considered a bit middlebrow or hippy or just plain bad taste.

Exhibit A being SYNTH PANPIPES.

Is there an album scheduled? Maybe I should hope my favourite producers keep knocking out stellar individual singles, rather than play against their strengths.

*xp to myself, make singles rather than saving themselves for albums, that is.

http://soundcloud.com/tensnake/azari-iii-reckless-with-your-love-tensnake-remix-snippet

JOCK JAMZ!

This music is equally difficult to hate or love. I can't completely dis it because the guy is trying to be somewhat ambitious in his arrangements and programming. The main problem is that he doesn't have strong hooks, good breakdowns or much harmonic development.

LOL Coma Cat doesn't have a strong hook or a good breakdown?
In The End I Want You To Cry? Cmon dude.

i don't really get trying to compare the harmonic complexity of boogie or moroder versus nu-disco. tbh it's kinda a misnomer, nu-disco is more like deep house meets french house, it's pretty far removed from the orchestrations of past synth-based disco.

tensnake used to be a french house guy, which kinda makes his production make more sense to me. but it's definitely more house than disco, listen to his RA mix, it's all house.

continued LOVE for tensnake. I need your lovin' (dub) has been on repeat for months for me.

former tensnake alias:

http://www.thefader.com/2009/08/28/marc-moureau-a1-mp3/

previews of material due out on SUMMER EP

PAN FLUTE JAM? YES PLS
http://soundcloud.com/tensnake/liefde-out-soon-in-summer

sample of jean-luc ponty (a little over-used imo)
http://soundcloud.com/tensnake/dance-trough-the-night-summerama-part-ii

LOL Coma Cat doesn't have a strong hook or a good breakdown?
In The End I Want You To Cry? Cmon dude.

i don't really get trying to compare the harmonic complexity of boogie or moroder versus nu-disco. tbh it's kinda a misnomer, nu-disco is more like deep house meets french house, it's pretty far removed from the orchestrations of past synth-based disco.

I was referring specifically to that Embassy remix deej posted above.

As far as Coma Cat EP goes, it is totally competent. I understand why it has commercial appeal. The problem is that I have a fairly decent collection of the stuff he is cribbing from and the old records just seem to have a lot more life in them. I would rather listen to old RCA, DJ International and Supertronics records.

His dance stuff is loud, cleanly mixed and everything is in the right place. It's really well done, which makes it hard to say what is missing. When I listen to it I feel like I am listening to the auditory equivalent of someone trying to recreate film grain and scratches using filters in Final Cut Pro. It is like taking the vocabulary of old records, mix in modern commercial dance tropes and then shoehorn the mixture into a slick in-the-box production.

Its really easy to respect and really hard to love.

I find it really easy to be love, he's a dilettante really, and a very good one at that. Also totally unashamed to be completely corny, I'd love to hear how that rip from The Power goes down on a dancefloor.

damn tensnake just doesnt have soul

no release date set for Reckless (With Your Love) yet? by far the best thing i've heard this year!

I just heard that Mano LeTough remix of Tensnake and I love it. Total daybreak raving, borderline cheese with the sax, but irresistible.

isn't reckless w. your love azari and iii?

tensnake rmx a few posts up

lol its cos i think the names are similar but then i think margaret and evelyn are similar names so

so, does this only exist in "snippet" form?

I just heard that Mano LeTough remix of Tensnake and I love it. Total daybreak raving, borderline cheese with the sax, but irresistible.

everyone buy mano's records...he is a really good dude!

it's bewildering that he decided to sample that jean-luc ponty song. maybe he hadn't heard "balearic incarnation"

remix of reckless w. your love azari and iii is getting released at the end of August.

ja!

amazed by how much stuff he's actually done. love 'coma cat' obv but 'need your loving' is probably my favourite so far. does anyone know of a good bio of him?

In The End I Want To Cry is probably his peak, Coma Cat excepted. It's emo and joyful at the same time in all the best possible ways. Also it reminds me of Waterfall by Atlantic Ocean.

Recently rediscovered the mix he did of Junior Boys from a few years ago which is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v10CG_GYU3k

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

classixx played this tonite & it was O_OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO on a loud system

is this 320in it anywhere yet?

cant get this out of my head. jacques renault played it on friday and it really does sound great at a club (even if the club has a sorta shitty sound system, as was unfortunately the case)

original is still my fav

yeah this feels pale compared to the orig which is unstoppable

tho that youtube rip cant be helping, maybe its a different story on a floor but i havent heard

That Azari & III remix is only notable for the 'OMG! The Power!' factor, otherwise I prefer the original.

Think we should stop overhyping Tensnake now in case we end up anticipating his album for 18 months and it turns out to be terrible. Still feeling Aeroplane burn.

more interested in anticipating an azari and iii album

Dunno, everything I've heard apart from Reckless hasn't been all that...

not even hungry for the power?

but yeah their remixes are not too interesting to me

Hungry for the Power EP has She's An Illusion and Manhooker which are both great!

US tour in November!

radical!!

i saw azari & iii dj the other night ... nowhere near as good as classixx - theyre def not great DJs - but they were playing really good songs. just not really reading the room or getting a sense of how to keep energy flow->ebbing u know?

& yeah i like a lot of those songs ok but nothing is really touching 'reckless'

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=12766

Ooooh.

UK house establishment Defected Records have announced details for their next In The House compilation, mixed this time by Hamburg-based producer Marco Niemerski, better known as Tensnake.

Niemerski has been putting out records since 2006, but saw his stock rise dramatically this year with the release of "Coma Cat," a steel-drum laden house jam that's undoubtedly one of 2010's most played club records. His sound often lies somewhere between cosmic disco and sunny house—a style that, based on the tracklist, dominates his new mix for Defected. Along with a few of his own productions, Tensnake In The House features party-friendly cuts by Armando, DJ Sneak and Tiger & Woods, plus edits and remixes by Jamie Jones and Norwegian disco dons Lindstrom and Prins Thomas. The compilation has its deeper side as well, thanks to selections by DJ Sprinkles and Basic Soul Unit, while Mount Kimbie and James Blake break up the 4/4 pulse a bit. Due out later this month, the release will mark Tensnake's first commercial mix CD.

Tracklist
01. Mugwump - Boutade
02. Zev - Don't Break It (Kenny Glasgow & Jonny White Remix)
03. Tiger & Woods - Dr. Burner
04. Tensnake - Need Your Lovin (Dub Mix)
05. Carol Williams - Can't Get Away (From Your Love)
06. Al Usher - Lullaby For Robert (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
07. Boom Clap Bachelors - L-O-V-E (Tuff City Kids Remix)
08. Lovebirds - Want You In My Soul (Hot Toddy Dub)
09. Shirley Lites - Heat You Up (Melt You Down) (Instrumental)
10. Kaine feat. Kathy Diamond - Love Saves The Day
11. Michael Mayer - Amanda
12. The Chemical Brothers - Swoon (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix Edit)

CD2
01. Mount Kimbie - Carbonated / Osunlade featuring Divine Essence - My Reflection (Accapella)
02. Âme - Fiori (Dixon Beat Edit)
The Wizard Brian Coxx - My Dream (Accapella)
03. Louie Balo feat. Spanky - Don't Shut Me Out
04. Coyote - Moving (Still Going Remix)
05. Mano Le Tough - Baby, Let’s Love (Iron Curtis Rmx)
06. Louie "Balo" Guzman - Keep It Simple
07. Butch - No Worries
08. Tom Demac - Crewcuts & Curls (Jamies Jones' Watercooler Remix)
09. Heaven and Earth - Prescription Every Night
10. Sneak Essentials - In Da Clouds (Da Original Dub)
11. Tensnake - Coma Cat
12. DJ Sprinkles - Grand Central Part 1 (MCDE Bassline Dub)
13. Basic Soul Unit - Things Pass (Original Mix)
14. Armando - Don't Take It (Thomos Edit)
15. Phase II - Reachin (Original Brotherhood Mix)

Defected will release Tensnake In the House on September 27th, 2010.

Tracklist looks tasty.

i interviewed this dude a few weeks ago (and azari & iii)! i don't know when it will be out or if it will be online.

Apparently "Coma Cat" is on Radio 1's playlist now...

!!!

It's slowly climbing up the charts as well, up to #98 from somewhere in the 150s last week. I wonder if it might actually become a Proper Hit.

oh Lesterpaws

Appearing on the new Friendly Fires' Bugged Out mix won't do Coma Cat any harm - great track btw!

is tensnake connected to ratsnake at all?

looks like no, forget i asked.

ratsnake >>>>> tensnake

that paul lester thing is awful. such incredibly bad writing, on the verge of gibberish

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/03/new-band-mighty-mouse is just as bad. outrageous to say "Maybe by the release of their own self-written album in early 2011 they'll have worked out what disco is." what an almighty wanker.

the new commercial 2-disc mix he did for defected is sorta incredible. RA thought so too

that tuff city kids remix of boom city bachelors is definitely a highlight (was that in a recent aeroplane mix? it's so familiar), same goes for ending disc one with an older michael mayer track followed by the amazing l&pt remix of chemical bros (definitely also in 2 recent aeroplane-related mixes ha, but works much better here imo)

Haven't heard it but the tracklisting is amazing, looks like it has the potential to be one of my favourite mix albums in years.

the boom city bachelors remix was on the brilliant arto mwambe RA podcast - great track

^ ahh, that's where it was! i need more arto mwambe in my life

tuff city kids is one of arto mwambe i think, plus gerd janson, if memory serves.

believe he is coming to US for first tour soon

anyone hear the new arto mwambe live at robert johnson vol 6 mix? looks like it's all original material, live mixing, etc

Xpost: that's great. I was just thinking last week that it's fair time Tensnake crossed the Atlantic. I'd love to see him.

And yes, that Boom Clap Batchelors remix is totally ace!

There appears to be an unmixed version doing the rounds, are most online stores selling the actual mix? I can imagine Swoon over Amanda being amazing.

the version form iTunes and Juno has both the mixed version and the unmixed tracks

So the one-track 'bonus mixes' are the full mix then?

Yes, AFAIK, but I haven't listened to the CD to compare them.

Last minute cancellation last night, medical reasons. Supposedly he had to undergo emergency surgery on a jaw? Get well soon.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/tensnake/posts/147977091913374

its dope that he brought back that m mayer 'amanda' jam, one of my fav kompakt traxx

Hmmn, I've never really 'got' Amanda, but that's for another thread, though some months back when I saw a DJ play it twice in a night, I did note how well well it mixes.

Anyways, I was listening to In the End this morning, and was just reflecting on how it's essentially a Perfect Track. I can vividly see myself in 15 years pulling it out and thinking "damn!, it doesn't get much better than this."

and get well soon tensnake!

November 11th – U Hall, Washington DC
November 12th – Smart Bar, Chicago, IL
November 13th – A Club Called Rhonda, Los Angeles, CA
November 14th - Public Works, San Francisco, CA
November 16th – Scion Show, New York, NY
November 18th – Wrong Bar, Toronto, ON
November 19th – Voyeur, Philadelphia, PA
November 20th – Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY

Success!

With one molar less to carry, he should be flying.

"It's really different. With "Coma Cat" I remember I heard this track by Anthony & The Camp...I don't know if I should really talk about it right now, as we're currently negotiating a formal deal. Basically, I heard the track and got inspired. I get inspired by all the kooky stuff in tracks I discover here and there. There are no samples at all, though. It's all replays apart from the vocals."
-- http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1248

I'm shocked. So he didn't sample it and just "borrow" the melody for this song without permission? Not quite right to me.

Loving the In The House mix.

its dope that he brought back that m mayer 'amanda' jam, one of my fav kompakt traxx

yeah in this context it's clear "amanda" is basically a disco edit.

Last week I ended up making a Tensnake 'album' for a friend of mine and it's tremendous:

1. False Pretender
2. Tavira
3. I Need Your Lovin' (Vocal)
4. Toshi's Battle
5. Coma Cat
6. Congolal
7. Holding Back (My Love)
8. Can You Feel It?
9. In The End (I Want To Cry)
10. Keep Believing

psyched to see him thursday!!

Really wish I could go to that.

psyched to see him thursday!!

Psyched to close for him on Thursday!!!

apparently he's playing "live" here at the end of the year? someone who's seeing him this week report back if it's just DJing but off a laptop

From the Tensnake interview on RA that was posted up thread, it's live as in his own material.

Yeah we saw him live at Corsica Studios a few months ago. It is just him and a laptop but on the other hand you get to see him play all his stuff on a (hopefully) decent soundsystem in a club environment.

pfffft

[xpost - it's probably just going to be outdoors in a park in 40°C heat unfortch. great lineup for a one-dayer but on NYD - if it doesn't sell out not much chance of club shows*. end aside to Matt]

(reads interview - Ableton with external controller, ah fair enough then)

same shows, Aeroplane's listed as DJing but Vito's advertising for an Australian girl singer to do the tour? confused promotion imo. (also stop worrying about someone who can do your album tracks, and hire Gisele to sing over your old stuff.)

*(though last year this meant that at 5pm a community radio show announced that Aeroplane, Riton, Tiefschwarz and 2Many DJs were playing in the basement of a gay bar on NYE)

DC show postponed due to visa issues - to be rescheduled within the next couple weeks.

noooo

can u make sure it's the night before my day off again? thx

revised tour schedule:

Nov 18 - Toronto - Wrong Bar
Nov 19 - Philadelphia - Voyeur
Nov 20 - New York - Le Poisson Rouge
Nov 23rd - Washington - U Hall
Nov 24th - Chicago - Smartbar
Nov 26th - San Francisco - Public Works
Nov 27th - LA - A Club Called Rhonda

Saw him last night and he was really great. To my surprise he played a live set, and he did it really well, very good flow, good working of the crowd, etc. The only problem was that at like 50-55 minutes it was too short.

I don't know his oeuvre that well, but he played a lot of tracks that I will make the assumption are unreleased, which sounded really good.

Doesn't he always just play live sets?

Pretty sure he's gone on record saying he can't DJ.

thinking of going to the New York show tonight

ill probably be there!

oh! cool. well I emailed you about another show with this sort of tacked on the end as an aside but maybe I'll make it to this after all, I'll have to see how things shake out! not totally sure yet

I'll text you if I go

but will you sext him

I sext max every day anyway so yes

shh deej will get jealous

EVERY day??? wtf

but especially when tensnake is playing

WSext tensnake

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2010/9/15/1284555716358/Tensnake-006.jpg

DC tonight!

yes! i'm psyched all over again... he's in the country and everything this time, right?

got a facebook msg last week that SF show is cancelled

he is in the country. new york show was fun.

It is just him and a laptop but on the other hand you get to see him play all his stuff on a (hopefully) decent soundsystem in a club environment.

Basically this but with some on-the-fly tweaking, teasing out certain bits of "Coma Cat" to delay the drop of a familiar part, stuff like that. I had fun.

fun x 2

hate it when I do that

max stood me up btw

Promo mix for defected here
http://soundcloud.com/defectedrecords/tensnake-defected-promo-mix#new-timed-comment-at-3060726

01. Ilija Rudman: ‘What Am I Gonna Do’ [Dub Mix]
02. 6th Borough Project: ‘Do It To The Max’
03. Mim Suleiman: ‘Nyuli’
04. Jamie Jones: ‘Ruckus Discoid Dub’
05. Erdbeerschnitzel: ‘Tonight Is Today Is Tomorrow’ [Arto Mwambe Remix]
06. Lovebirds: ‘Love & Happiness’
07. Jacques Renault: ‘Miranda’
08. Jacuzzi Boys & Bastian Schuster: ‘Lady Lover’
09. Moodymann: ‘Shades Of Jae’
10. Guy Gerber: ‘Lost In You Like A Chinese Cookie’
11. Jamie Loyd: ‘May I?’ [Quarion Remix]
12. Aloe Blacc: ‘I Need A Dollar’ [Tensnake Remix]
13. Lee Foss: ‘Run Around’

download here
http://www.mediafire.com/?hc11fchoo3mm8b4

ha i get to see him with frankie knuckles

~tomorrow!~

12. Aloe Blacc: ‘I Need A Dollar’ [Tensnake Remix]

! want

he killed it in dc! really seemed happy when the crowd reacted to his tweaks and beat drops and stuff... nice smile :)

played the hits and sounds like there'll be some dope new tracks soon...

11. Jamie Loyd: ‘May I?’ [Quarion Remix]

This one is awesome, glad to see someone resurrecting it.

12. Aloe Blacc: ‘I Need A Dollar’ [Tensnake Remix]

huh, just heard it. not very interesting.

aloe blacc remix is great, but doesn't get going until 2 1/2 or 3 minutes in. But from then on, it's gorgeous

Going to see Tensnake tonight, VERY excited about this

obsessed with the "reckless with your love" remix right now

^just started listening to it properly. It sounds very '90s' to me for some reason...coming off stuff like Deee-Lite and Fatboy Slim.

for some reason! i mean ffs, he drops "everybody dance now" right in the middle of it.

lol

i still prefer the 1st one but yeah its dope

1st meaning original

for some reason! i mean ffs, he drops "everybody dance now" right in the middle of it.

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I was gonna say...

Yes, This track is essentially a dictionary entry on 90's pop-dance music (which is obviously it's charm).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UaQEs0cR2c&feature=player_embedded

Definite xpost to the summer jams thread

instantly recognizable from his set a few weeks back... feeling it

this is out there too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmMvO47q8fc&feature=related

That's been doing the rounds for ages - was on his RA podcast from over a year ago, glad it's finally got a release though.

official vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaBKb3NId4U&feature=player_embedded

does someone have an mpeg layer three?

some friends of mine made that vid in dublin...

For all the Live + Mix thing is essentially a career-high megamix, it's great listening.

i fucking love "you know i know it" - of the two new tracks i think it's way better than "something about you"

hey the little dragon remix is worth finding. good vocals, v v slow.

http://soundcloud.com/tensnake/mark-e-call-me-tensnake-remix

it's steppy but i still like it? i like the dixon version that he used in the robert johnson mix better tho

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

dixon and original mixes of the mark e are jams

hotness: http://soundcloud.com/tensnake/tensnake-dj-set-for-okini

Love love love that Tiger & Woods edit of Britney's "Boys" that's in that set.

didn't see it mentioned on this thread, but i really like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS20U1ZQE7U

anyone fuck w/ this

http://soundcloud.com/vitalic-noise/friendly-fires-hurting

pretty decent but I can't really deal w/ Friendly Fires vocals. that's why that Aeroplane rmx of them was so genius, getting Au Revoir Simone to re-sing the track ...

iirc they just mixed up the ARS vocals that were already there

no way

tensnake mix isn't bad, but the benoit & sergio is the jam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYeoUA7dPaI

ugly post, sry

i like that better than the tensnake mix actually, thx for the tip

I like that remix, brings out the 90s pop vibe that the original was aiming for and failed to hit. Tensnake version > Benoit & Sergio version, but Tensnake > Benoit & Sergio pretty much across the board.

pretty decent but I can't really deal w/ Friendly Fires vocals. that's why that Aeroplane rmx of them was so genius, getting Au Revoir Simone to re-sing the track ...

this, basically

i don't mind the friendly fires vocalist, actually. i also kinda dig their mixes, the ra podcast wasn't half bad

http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/09/fact-mix-337-tensnake/

exciting

Love that Lauer "Tranceman" remix he's done (on the end of the FACT mix). It's like an early prog house classic.

Yeah that Lauer mix is astonishing.

what's the track with the girl rapping? is that azealia banks?

it's how i imagine her to sound.

It's Mr. Oizo. Does have kind of an Azealia Banks vibe but it's not her

it's a very good rap.

the Lauer and Sugardaddy remixes are brilliant. Not too sure about this though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl2tv2t3a2E

I like this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JvU681cwI

dude basically strapped the whole 90s thing up to a nuclear rocket and fired it one million miles over the shark

oh my god

probably the worst tensnake work yet. one would expect this kind of track from a compilation at walmart titled "today's house anthems" or something.

i generally like this guy's stuff but i saw him djing recently and it was terrrrible. for some reason felt the need to go for euphoric build & release every two minutes.

not his best by some distance but it's still pretty fun. needs a dub mix

There is a dub mix I believe. I actually kinda like this but it's totally shameless.

that main hook is hilarious. so naff. i sort of like it in a lol way but it is definitely in the territory of music you hear from the one club in the tiny suburban town in dublin i'm from, on over 40s night.

Can't believe the guy who gave the world Coma Cat is going for obvious and bombastic...

That said, I kinda think this isn't anywhere nearly as naff as it wants to be, the actual song is a bit lacking.

Doing Radio One's Essential Mix tonight

Edit: Next weekend not tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006wkfp/episodes/guide

I think my mad love for Tensnake is definitely waning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmfTWjkoo90

I just heard this 58bpm song today. I think my mad love for Tensnake begins and ends with it.

"See Right Through" is such a blatant Hot Creations rip, beginning to wonder if this guy has any individual sonic identity.

thinking about it he was never really gonna be one of those producers with a peak lasting beyond a hot couple of years

that said i quite like "58bpm"

I've not really liked anything since Coma Cat but that and the run of singles leading up to it were fantastic.

Not sure he really has any real sonic identity of his own but when you're on a hot streak that doesn't matter.

I mean of his own tracks, he's thrown out several good remixes since CC but his own stuff has been kinda lacking.

not feeling "See Right Through" or "58bpm" but this remix of the former is cool

https://soundcloud.com/medlar/tensnake-feat-fiora-see-right

albummm:
http://www.factmag.com/2013/12/06/tensnake-debut-album-glow-hear-love-sublime-featuring-nile-rodgers-and-fiora/

that's not terrible but can't help but think he could have produced something far better with rodgers in tow. also it seems to be re-using the coma cat melody?

I like "Need Your Lovin"

so the album is on spotify

it's... not worse than the aeroplane album? but still pretty much abandons anything that might have excited people about his first few years of singles

I'm only two tracks in but the forced 'ARE YOU ALL HAVING FUN YET?' rictus grin is so obvious.

Got to track three and couldn't be fucked to continue. It was like a nu-disco office party thrown by an overenthusiastic sales director.

totally disagree, love this album. p much every track superb, except the opening of the 3rd or 4th one with that daft reggae type bit but song gets good. billion steps above the ridiculous shite that the aeroplane album was and the daft punk album was. and not a super snoozefest like the todd terje album.

surprised mainline and coma cat weren't on it, surprised but pleased. the nile and fiora tracks are superb but im prob loving 58bpm the most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4BFdjjk3g&feature=kp

best album as a whole i've heard in years, baffled by the 'forced fun' sneer but hey whatever floats yer boat

i feel like that forced fun thing actually works on some of his tracks ("something about you" comes to mind), but here there is nothing to balance it out... it's just straight-up glossy discopop the whole way through.

i would prob be way more inclined to like this or be objective about it if i didn't have preconceived ideas about a tensnake album, viewed in the context of his career this just really feels like major mainstream edm moves. which, yknow, maybe it really works on those terms and i'm just not interested

58 bpm was one of my favorite tracks last year, but I was mostly lukewarm on his earlier stuff. He's definitely triangulating on a different audience now.

well he's made a pop album yeah, if you're expecting some beardy headnod widdling you're prob gonna be disappointed xpost

58bpm was out last year? only ever dipped into the odd bit of his stuff in the past so not hugely invested in his career arc or whatever, to me this is exactly what i wanted - straight up catchy disco-influenced 2014 dance music

58bpm was paired with See Right Through as a single last summer/fall.

lol at the idea that tensnake was ever "beardy headnod widdling"

He's definitely triangulating on a different audience now

for a while there it seemed like he could do this without completely abandoning what made those earlier singles great. but nope.

straight up catchy disco-influenced 2014 dance music

makes the classixx album look high-concept in comparison

So much of Glow sounds like—well, not like, but at least influenced by—Prince ca. 1980-85 that I don't give a shit about Tensnake's history. This is great stuff.

meh, i don't see much prince influence here - especially compared to the glut of other acts that worship him. i have nothing against pop-disco but this is pretty damn corny pop-disco imo

So much Some of Glow

"surprised mainline and coma cat weren't on it"

"straight up catchy disco-influenced 2014 dance music"

You know Coma Cat is 4 years old, right?
http://www.discogs.com/Tensnake-Coma-Cat/release/2110738

you know it's his biggest hit single, right? and it's his debut album, right?

lol at the idea that tensnake was ever "beardy headnod widdling"

natural conclusion of matt dc's outrage at 'forced fun', apologies bro

I was just pointing out it's not 2014 dance music

mess of an album, it's oddly charmless despite its shininess. it doesn't even really succeed as pop.

I've listened to this a few times and it's not getting any better. The last three tracks are probably the strongest and there's nothing else as bad as the fuckawful Thabo and Jamie Liddell collaborations but it all feels so ROTE and by-numbers.

He's lost the kind of effortless melodic knack that he had at his peak (which I suppose is 07-10 or so). Like, listen to the bounciness and joyousness of the hook he laid under that Sally Shapiro remix and compare it to this.

It's nowhere near as bad as the Aeroplane album but it shares the same problem, which is this in-at-the-deep-end shift from great remixes and instrumental or sample-based tracks to "proper songwriting". And he can't write songs. Like, at all.

So much of Glow sounds like—well, not like, but at least influenced by—Prince ca. 1980-85 that I don't give a shit about Tensnake's history.

There are approximately 8 million records in this vein and really if I could wipe one musical thing off the planet it would be European disco dudes doing Prince homages. They can never pull it off. FWIW I don't find this that Princified either.

It's also really obvious that Nile Rodgers has been tacked onto some of these tracks as an afterthought, when he should be the motor of any groove.

it doesn't even really succeed as pop

i think this is all that really matters here. i could bitch about how this sounds like tensnake got swallowed whole by mainstream edm / bottle-service club culture blah blah but that's not really the problem, the problem is that tensnake has never proven that he's adept at this type of sugary vocal pop.

plenty of other disco-house producers have tried and failed at this type of thing - obv aeroplane but everytime i see juno's disco charts or browse soundcloud or w/e there's always some otherwise decent producer who just brought in a vocalist and clearly has no idea what he/she is doing writing "songs". the kathy diamond album was amazing (same with "whispers") but the past few years have made me loathe the words "featuring kathy diamond"

otm psych...

Jamie Liddell collaboration

oh no

can't say I'm a big fan of his recent work, but I saw him spin last night at a warehouse party and his set was one of the greatest things I've ever been lucky enough to hear live. just epic euphoria from start to finish; he closed out by playing "Blue Monday" and it was maybe the fifth-most-enervating thing he played. if you ever have the opportunity to see him live, DO IT.

jelly

was curious about the type of stuff he played out these days. good to hear he hasn't fully committed to the style on the album

I quite like this album without really loving any particular track on it. Although "Kill the Time" is quickly growing on me.

couldnt even make it thru the snippets

I don't hate this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYxGNp099q0