Techno/house bobbins, 2009

i just seem to have some kind of inexplicable vendetta against josh wink, i enjoy his music and hes a good dj. I think its his hair in the 90s

http://electronic-sets.com/imagenes/josh-wink.jpg

i have exactly the same vendetta!

sounds like what loco dice might put out if he were on rekids, or something like that

I don't mind Wink so much anymore but I can remember having a similar vendetta, just because he just seemed so terminally popular in Ireland. Also he has that everlasting career thing without really being mad interesting or iconic or anything else really.

I heard the RA podcast is great tho.

the Josh Wink podcast isn't particulary good imo, however this week's Thomas Brinkmann one is great.

i was really surprised when i saw him in belfast in about 2001, i was dragged there and then he was dropping tunes like 4heros mix of URs amazon, and kept it deep and quite synopated at times, unbelievable. thinking about that has just made me realise the similarity of that tune and EQD002, trippy arpeggios and chuggy beats.

should really post in bobbins of the past but check the similarity. goosebumps listening to it again.

uh, are you talking about wink or brinkmann??

wink of course! i doubt brinkmann would be playing in belfast in 01! See my upthread hair-cuss

"i just seem to have some kind of inexplicable vendetta against josh wink, i enjoy his music and hes a good dj. I think its his hair in the 90s

― straightola"

my vendetta against josh wink is quite explicable, it's because he sucks. playing good records every now and then does not a good deejay make. all his production is trash.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/148993-me-fabric-42 >>> Tim F gave Fabric 42 6.9!!

not sure what that means but IMO tim f is fucking king of the game and you can't fuck with his reviews

btw i listened to that disc approx 6.9 times before it got boring.

i only ever drag it out to listen to the marcel dettman remix

the vibe starts off anxious, ends up muscular, and on the way somehow bypasses "sexy" and "soulful" altogether.

true, though perhaps not a negative for the "new techno" LWE / RA crowd

Fabric 42 is just hard-edged enough to seem slightly ill-suited to any context other than the dancefloor itself

actually it's not bad for cleaning the house or a long drive on the freeway (does tim F have a car?)

but the far superior "Raw Structure" by Edward (seething old school house propping up an excoriating slam poetry vocal) shares the explosive furrow-browed intensity of its blueprint, Green Velvet's "Preacher Man".

ha ha i would NOT compare this favorably to "preacher man" (nor would i compare %99.99.99.99 percent of anything favorably to that track) (can you catch the techno reference there)

that the eventual emergence of the dominant organ riff on STL's track seems vaguely disappointing.

okay, one bum sentence in a great review: WHY?

The duo spend much of the second half of the mix alluding to their taste for all things "Wild Pitch"-- a weakness they share with Tiefscwharz, who have plotted a similar stylistic trajectory from lush prettiness to riotous intensity.

ok and that's the basic point of tim's mini-essay. why the greyscale intro and insistence on vaguely jan jelinek-ish dub tools when they could just wild pitch it up all the way through. here's where i basically agree with tim on his review: we want a little art and a little freedom, ame's fabric 42 is too much art and not enough freedom.

i say, fair review and well called. (though i bet if it were a 7.2 instead of a 6.9 they'd push a lot more units w/ the indie fencepost crowd!)

srsly though fuck a 10 point scale

not sure what that means but IMO tim f is fucking king of the game and you can't fuck with his reviews

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I mean it's disappointing to me that he gave it that score because the album is good and more importantly it'd make the indie kids hesitate to listen to it.

the last thing we need is more indie kids getting into dance music imo.

well i was an indie kid.

I'm trying to lower my pitchfork scores if I can - I'm guessing I have one of the worst (as in highest) averages. The Ame disc feels 7-ish to me so I cheated and gave it 6.9.

Vahid a sentence that got taken out of my review was a claim that in fact the album is perfect for housecleaning! It's only been when I listened while cleaning my bathroom that it's really blown me away (I don't drive... Also i tried this at the gym but it was only okay there, but then I think I like rhythmically perkier stuff at the gym like UK funky / MFF or Classic / the more uptempo end of minimal). The edit made my "scrubbing through" reference in the final sentence seem a bit mysterious.

"the vibe starts off anxious, ends up muscular, and on the way somehow bypasses "sexy" and "soulful" altogether."

I sort of think of this as neither a good nor bad thing, just a thing.

"okay, one bum sentence in a great review: WHY?"

Just that I much prefer the transition between the two tracks to the actual track - the way the beats of the STL track rub up against the acid bleeps of the Armando track seem more interesting and erm "funky" than in the context of the STL track itself.

The A side on the new Agnes on Stlhmaudio is good.

Huge, huge disappointment: the Matias Aguayo mix of "Township Funk". Such a perfect match, but all he does is fiddle listlessly with the drums, leaving everything else more or less untouched. I was hoping for some of the sleazy crooning that was all over his mix for allez-allez.

I must say, I am quite enjoying Kreon and Lemos these days. I like the way these Greek house dudes think.

Admittedly this is just as much remixes of them as original stuff. Like the quite ace Lookosphere remixed EP of last year.

Anyone know what’s happened to the Month In columns at Pitchfork? Philip? Martin? Perhaps, Tim?

m.clark said on his blog all the specialist writers were told not to write columns for jan/feb, i guess cos of the redesign

january's a bit of a dead spot for new stuff too, let's be honest.

Carl Craig knows just tracks to remix. Glimpse on Planet E, two fantastic C2 remixes with a fantastic metallic BANG to them.

OH MY GOODNESS. . . What a way to celebrate my end of classes:

Quick Fix // MUTEK_10 featuring
Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts (Oslo, Musique Risquée, Circus Company, Mutek) - Live
The Mole (Wagon Repair, Musique Risquée) – Live
Pier Bucci (Crosstown Rebels, Cadenza) - Live

And for $5!

Also, to those who care, the first names for the 10th edition of Mutek are coming in 5 days. Ooooh, exciting.

that recent-ish 12" from the mole on prins thomas' label is fantastic. i think there's a new one coming out fairly soon too.

really loving Hell's The Angst, Henrik Schwarz remix is stellar..

<p><a href="http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2149&Itemid=101";>New Matias Aguayo joint w/ Mexico's Rebolledo</a></p>

New Matias Aguayo joint w/ Mexico's Rebolledo

that is amazing.

really? can you say why you like it?

having a rapidly played synth note stand in for a bassline always gets me, i dont know if anyones done that since sweatbox.

also its just nice to hear a dance track with no deepsauce or bitcrusher for a change.

i could do without the video though.

i love it too, like the presety sounds. Plus like just about everything Aguayo is anywhere near.

actually talking Aguayo the recent 12" on Soul Jazz is a bit of a misstep after a few great records. A-side is a bit of a snooze. B-sides are aight tho.

especially Rita.

http://rapidshare.com/users/3S2TKY

new raudive on macro is fantastic, bleepy dancefloor sahko style tracks.

I think the Arto Mwambe remix of Osborne's "Wait A Minute Now" is going to steal a few hearts. Ethereal deep house! Think Agnes's dreamiest recent remixes with Phil Lauer & CB's sense of humor.

The whole EP's pretty great, actually.

the Osbourne album is fantastic. i'm excited to hear that remix.

Okay:
Jamie Jones- Summertime

loving the Tony Lionni/Radio Slave split 12" on Ostgut Ton

spektre @ glade 2008 on veryverywrongindeed is darkly addictive.
the production is wonderful, though it does feel that the 70 minutes on the set cuts off at the moment that they ramped up the fun factor.

a2 on the new ra.h 12" sounds like some deutsche neue welle shit.

Really, really enjoying this Stimming album so far.