Techno/house bobbins, 2009

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.

i wanna hear this, though i am disappointed it doesn't have "saibot" (unless it has a new name now)

yeah the stimming album is tops. parts of it sound like what people were expecting from cc and mvo's recomposed, but there are a lot of surprises. the production is really really clean, but it's balanced with a lot of non-digital sounds (like, sounds people w/ instruments actually make (instruments incl tape recorders)).

the other techno album i have been playing a lot of is kenny larkin's keys, strings, and tambourines

one of the best things about both of these is that they have a sense of humor in addition to the serious musicality. it's refreshing.

What is this about Cadenza releasing an EP every three weeks? (so says Resident Advisor) Either wasy I'm interested in this Ernesto Ferreyra release (since I saw him live I've been waiting for him to release this one pad heavy track with vocals going "in the air" that is just heavenly, so I get excited every time I see something new with his name on it. He's a good producer anyways)

I can't believe no one has mentioned that Hard Wax's website has been down for over a month, at least. Any insights?

i'm really enjoying the "josh wink" album, though i must admit it bothers me to no end that pipecock doesn't like it.

I am surprised that no one has mentioned this:
http://www.discogs.com/Basic-Soul-Unit-Dank/release/1685257

hard wax is up for me! top pick this week: mirage ft. chip e, 'jack trax' repress. "a must."

yeah no problems with hard wax from over here either.

my favorite pick from hardwax is that zomby double 12

the b-side of that basic soul unit single sounds great! (the flip is good too, just not my thing)

littlewhitearbuds, i can't believe it's taken you a month to figure out you're the only person it's down for!

be nice, maybe he's been blacklisted.