Techno/house bobbins, 2009

Can't argue with that! (funnily enough I didn't read your first post and thought "almost as bad as motorcity soul")

yeah never liked the name motorcitysoul.

Weird, I can access Hard Wax from IE but not Firefox. What kind of messed up shit is that?

The latest from Contentismissing is pretty great. The St. Plomb track is my favorite by far.

... i thought 'almost as bad as motor city drum ensemble'.

motorcitysoul's name makes me clam up inside and forget how good they are

-Anton Zap on Uzuri

- Monika (effing) Kruse remixes

- Paul Randolph.

JOSH WINK

speaking of Uzuri, my man Jitterbug just dropped a 12" for those guys and it has my favorite of his tracks on it, "Speaker's Corner".

guys, my country indonesia is having an annual dance music festival and the lineup is:

- Joakim (Live Band)
- The Glimmers (Dj Set)
- Alter Ego (Live Set)
- Roman Fluegel (Dj Set)
- VJ Andy Mutton

should i stay or should i go? i've never heard any of their live sets before. thanks.

unless you're broke, go. how many DJs of that caliber come to Indonesia? that said, i've only seen Joakim live (awesome) and heard a couple Roman Fleugel sets (awesome). but i think yes, goo!!!

actually i'm mighty interested in seeing roman fluegel, but it's alter ego and the glimmers that i'm afraid of. i'm afraid i won't be able to stand their ELECTRO-ness :(

dude, just go

what do the glimmers play in their sets?

Someone give me some Pier Bucci S/D info, have had poor luck with him in the past and want to get it right this time as I saw him live last night, preceding Guillaume & tCD's and the Mole, also live, and during The Mole's set Guillaume played along with this amazing drum pad that looks like a hot plate and etc. and I became aware that I never realized how Urgent and Key a Mole/Guillaume collaboration or at least them remixing each other would be (which would make sense since I imagine they know each other/are probably friends).

can't stop listening to the album of the year : JOSH WINK

stfu about josh wink already. its 2009.

2009 THE YEAR OF WINK

JOSH WINK

http://w-ki.com/wp-content/images/2009/02/00-josh_wink-when_a_banana_was_just_a_banana-ovm90072-web-2009.jpg

irresistible

Josh Wink is such a tool.

could be worse, he could still have his old hair.

no, thomas cox, the HATERS are the TOOLS

Downloaded "Minimum 23" after listening to samples, will listen because it sounds interesting.

would recommend listening to the whole album all the way through for the full WINKSPERIENCE

wink's ra podcast is the most fun podcast i've heard this year.

pipecock, you could do better than calling names! it's a shame for such a *cough*talented writer like you.

haha, please point out where i ever claim to be a writer. i may write, but it's because no one else does it, not because i think my writing is any good. funny though, people still read it even though it sucks.

euhm, i meant columnist.

Wink is a perfectly nice guy and back on form going by that newest release. in the rave days he was always friendly, approachable and actually fun to talk to.

i wish i could work myself up to a longform post on how good the new release is but 10 paragraphs is way beyond me these days

when exactly was he "on form" before? maybe i just don't get it because i missed the rave thing, but even when i was just getting into electronic music i realised that he was trash. he may very well be a nice guy, but a lot of people are nice. that means nothing when it comes down to their music. his music is not just bad, it is awful.

his music is great! i can prove it ...

"hearhear" is not so good but "20 to 20" and the new one are great, anyway

come to think of it, that whole east coast rave thing (wink, nigel richards, feelgood, scott henry, etc) was really pretty bad. now that i think of it, the west coast shit (hardkiss, rabbit in the moon, donald glaude, simply jeff, etc) was bad as well. and then of course there was the florida crap like icey. i think rave and me were just not meant to be.

hardkiss are great too

oh yeah i forgot about how bad NYC "techno" was: beltram (outside his few obvious classics that i do like, but not even that much), bones, etc. god, raving in the US was a pit of obnoxiously terrible music.

do you actually dislike this stuff or do you just dislike the fact that you can't contextualize it as part of THE GREAT BLACK TRADITION of techno and house

no i just hated all of this before i knew anything about techno and house music. it was once i started listening to the good stuff that i noticed the correlation, and then upon reading more about it i discovered that it was connected in the way that it was a culture before rave that was quite separate from raving.

i don't think it's quite as separate as you'd like to think, but whatever

i would say there is about 15% overlap, and that represents most of the worst music to come out of NYC, Chicago, and Detroit.

i mean there's a whole scene of dudes like dj sneak and derrick carter and green velvet and whatnot who were playing american rave and playing stuff in the chicago tradition, but then they had the advantage of actually growing up in chicago where they had access to stuff like that.

why can't you just appreciate US rave music on its own merits the way you'd appreciate, i don't know, jungle?

are you really calling armand van helden the worst 15% of music to come out of NYC?

Going to try to resist saying anything about new Wink until I've finished listening to it. It's going to be hard, though.

Now I finished and I find I can't say anything. My ears feel awfully clean, though, and I think I want to fight a truck.

oh god, stimming's "loneliness" off his new album is annoying!

bill withers - who is he (henrik schwarz edit) - love this, rad little string interjections and the trick he does with the stereo channels in a few of the samples is very smooth

tobias freund has been remixing his share recently, s/d? russ gabriel, franco cinelli, alex under, nhar??

Russ Gabriel remix is pretty great. Not feeling the October remix, but I think I'm missing the point of that whole release. Haven't heard the others you mentioned.

how is russ gabriel's new stuff?

Re: Pier Bucci. Loving his remix of Ziggy Kinder - Flipflop Crash. The perfect combination of melancholy and jack.

xpost - whatever, but he isn't a "tool".