Techno / House Bobbins 2015

good news

boom, bip and a rustle of the leaf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=T-LEk6WX6B8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=T-LEk6WX6B8

I still cant get the hang of computers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-LEk6WX6B8

brilliant full on track on erol alkan's phantasy sound label from Kamera, i heard this track on one of daniel avery's mixes earlier in the year

Kamera - Cold Land
https://soundcloud.com/kameramusic/cold-land-edit-ph45

also available on spotify

euphoric aphex alike track from Palmbomen II

Palmbomen II - Cindy Savalas
https://soundcloud.com/timsweeney/palmbomeniicindysavalas

I'm not sure why, since I've at least passively enjoyed everything I've heard of him, but for me Palmbomen seems to almost represent the tipping point of self-consciously lo-fi nu-new-age house. I realize that singling him out is pretty arbitrary, since obviously he's hardly the first to run lo-fi house tropes into the ground, but, I dunno, he seems to be right at my particular line in the sand.

Anyhow, thanks to michael f gill for posting this in the superpitcher thread: the man in classic, 14 minute remix form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7uBYuwtPY

speaking of running tropes into the ground ... 14 mins you say?

:D

In other news, Ten Walls is a massive asshole: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/walking-elephants-star-says-gays-are-another-breed-pedophiles040615

Requiem was such a good track, too :(

Also, if any of y'all are thinking of emailing promoters that have booked him, I'll save you a little work:

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so✧✧✧@so✧✧✧.e✧
i✧✧✧@web-mo✧✧✧.c✧✧
i✧✧✧@urbanartfo✧✧✧.c✧✧
i✧✧✧@pitchfesti✧✧✧.n✧
i✧✧✧@mezzain✧✧✧.c✧✧

and this online contact form: http://www.hideoutfestival.com/contacts

errr...

info at pukkelpop.be
info at pitchfestival.nl
sonar at sonar.es
info at web-mondo.com
info at urbanartforms.com
info at pitchfestival.nl
info at mezzaninesf.com

did anyone actually screenshot the original post? I looked at it earlier today and it looked like a chain of links all back to one article

Ha! http://www.discogs.com/artist/3317864-Ten-Walls

Yeah, I LOLed at that. I'll add to the above, though: !!!!!!!!!! ~ NSFW ~ !!!!!!!!!!

Sonar Festival ‏@SonarFestival · 16m16 minutes ago

Ten Walls will no longer be appearing at Sónar 2015 as his statements are at odds with the nature and ethos of the festival #sonar2015

Dropped from the Creamfields line up as well.

and by his management agency

he's just said he's going to take a break from music - m8 that decision seems to have been made for you

bet he wish he had an eleventh wall... between him and his computer keyboard when he wrote that shit

p good response from the dance music community - the comments were particularly vile.

isn't this basically the culture of the entire eastern bloc except for, like, croatia? obviously it's bad but i don't think it's particularly shocking or anything.

lol a number of people on other sites from lithuania have popped up telling people off for generalizations. they sure don't want to be seen as siding with this dude.

fwiw I saw him at Mutek last week, it was a pretty decent set, not great but not the worst

they definitely wouldn't have gotten near him had he said this shit a week earlier

a couple people I recognized from the festival had commented on his facebook page prior to all this happening thanking him for playing, several of whom are gay

obviously mr. walls here is clueless

given this dude has been touring the clubs of Europe nonstop for the last few years you would think he would have at the absolute least picked up enough social awareness to moderate his internal thoughts

new maruntelu

https://soundcloud.com/ensorecords/enso02sampleb?in=ensorecords/sets/ens02

sometimes i forget to get off the bus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XkjcHVr0KI

detroit techno inspired track from Chile by Visonia

Visonia - The Moon Doesn't Want To Look At You
https://soundcloud.com/visonia/visonia-the-moon-doesnt-want-to-look-at-you

one of my fav tracks of the year, a bone shaking bass rattler with a submerged dense production similar to throwing snow

the fast trigger percussion, sublimely combined with the ethereal slow-downed vocals and synths - so atmospheric

prayer - Pluvia

soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/prayerproduction/pluvia

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FxP1GRCSxD1D1RKRonAyQ

a strange atmospheric addictive track straddling outsider house / techno / future bass

Dexter and Zac - gassed
https://soundcloud.com/dexter-and-zac/gassed

interview with binh

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?2493

As someone much more familiar with the minimal house world than I, would you say there really is that much undiscovered stuff that he can buy like 20 records a week of undiscovered gems. I feel like that article is taking a certain amount of exaggeratory license...

Anyhow, +1 to upthread posting of Delroy Edward's "Can U Get With" EP, especially "Always (edit)"

Discogs just reached 6 million submissions. That's a lot of virtual digging!

He does say that sometimes he's lucky and other times not.

On the one hand i doubt it, on the other hand the number of records i find where its the only release the label ever did that, or sometimes the opposite, some label with hundred of releases of garbage you'd never think about wading through and look there it is, a little cabin tucked away behind a rock

It depends on perception but I listen to a lot of mixed when working and also when helping dredge the canal to keep the flow of water even and there are a lot of great records ive no clue what they are or when they are from

Bicep - Just
https://soundcloud.com/platform/bicep-just-boiler-room-debuts

Production-wise, the palette is strikingly non-specific, shades of tech-house in the rolling beat, a synth that sounds tactile without ever feeling retrofitted or nostalgic, and that swirling, sinister bass that never drops as much as it just broods before disappearing. In the most basic sense, this is a track that sucks the air out of the place, replacing whatever atmosphere was previously there with one of its own. Fascinating, mesmeric, and effortlessly cool.

top track of the year

@ Thump UK
THUMP UK's 20 Tracks of the Year So Far
https://thump.vice.com/en_uk/article/thump-uks-20-tracks-of-the-year-so-far

not feeling that

i think only about 5 of those 20 tracks are good

which ones tho

i like seven of em

including 'just,' also 'celeste' off the same ep is good, mentioned on the balearic thread

allow levon, sound stream, shanti celeste, pender street steppers

50/50 on rob hood and tessela ... decent tracks but not their best

i guess the fatima track is okay too ... there's not that much stuff on the list that's actively bad ("gosh" comes to mind) just a lot of stuff that's fairly unremarkable to my ears

oh wait, even "gosh" is not that bad, i confused it for a second with the other big track off that album, uh, "loud places"?

just lots and lots of MEH on that list

need to clean out my ears

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o-rJfFslZA

a vice chart is not a place to find a genial sound

OTM

a record store is a place to find a genial sound

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

did anyone hear the paranoid london lp?

yeah I just got it and it's great. Probably the least summery collection of house tracks that I've ever heard