i like the new record a lot
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 17 April 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
i still haven't heard it! my record store didn't get in their copies on friday. going to have to wait a few more days ...
― the late great, Monday, 17 April 2017 16:35 (seven years ago) link
I think it is his best album yet.
― calzino, Monday, 17 April 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
mystery solved
https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/20825
― the late great, Monday, 17 April 2017 17:19 (seven years ago) link
This is fantastic, and probably his most accessible album yet. Either this or Splazsh is his best for me
― paolo, Monday, 17 April 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
this guy's music makes me fall asleep and have weird dreams. every. single. time.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 08:36 (seven years ago) link
I like this album a lot but it might be more fair to call it a beat tape
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
His entire footballing career could have been one slow slide down the pyramid from West Brom and it would still have been more exciting than his music.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
or your posting
― the late great, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
fuck excitement
― a but (brimstead), Thursday, 20 April 2017 00:19 (seven years ago) link
liking this a lot more than ghettoville so far
― clouds, Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
I like it a lot and think it does justice to the "r&b concrète" Nakh description in thread title.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:55 (seven years ago) link
I cant even remember what Sweet Exorcist sounded like, but a lot of this is vibing listening to them on a tape walkman in the early 90's.
― calzino, Thursday, 20 April 2017 15:07 (seven years ago) link
One of my favourite Actress collabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1KLmphseFs
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 21 April 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
New album is pretty great I think.
This might be a bit of a shot in the dark, but if any Glasgow posters were thinking of going to see him at the Art School this coming Saturday, I have a ticket but can't make it, so post here or Ilxmail me if you want it.
― off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 30 April 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
You would get the bonus prize of hanging out with ilxor paolo for the evening.
Event details here for anyone interested:https://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?946991
― off-site man days (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 30 April 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link
HIYA! my email is scottjamesramage at googlemail dot com
― boxedjoy, Monday, 1 May 2017 01:32 (seven years ago) link
Just sent you an email :)
― paolo, Monday, 1 May 2017 09:29 (seven years ago) link
Why is "senorita" from his 1st album only 2 minutes, should have been 10 minutes or something, arrgh. Some other tracks too.
― Bregoni, Friday, 23 June 2017 09:20 (seven years ago) link
I was disappointed by his new AZD I must say, too straight forward. But I saw it on the record store yesterday day and almost bought it.
― Bregoni, Friday, 23 June 2017 09:23 (seven years ago) link
His latest album is beautiful and I cant stop listening to it and not enough people are talking about it
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:09 (seven years ago) link
AZD?
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
I agree, I'm a big fan of Actress generally but it took me a long time to listen to this for whatever reason. I think there's something that happens in all popular music but seems amplified in electronic/techno, where the novelty of a new sound or approach wears of very quickly. So AZD is a perfectly elegant and beautiful expression, but it doesn't have that shock of the new. It's definitely been overlooked/underheard.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 21:18 (seven years ago) link
I'm not well versed in Actress but definitely found AZD approachable while still esoteric, so A+ here
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Wednesday, 9 August 2017 00:41 (seven years ago) link
AZD has been growing on me. Hearing it the car has helped me appreciate its innate strangeness a lot more.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:00 (seven years ago) link
there is an early Warp feel to this in places that reminds me of listening to Sweet Exorcist when I was a kid. I can understand it not getting universal love, but I have a lot of time for Actress's thing.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
It's been growing on me as well, since I wrote here earlier. Guess I had to listen to it in one long stretch, not the detailed listen, to appreciate it.
― Bregoni, Friday, 18 August 2017 08:02 (seven years ago) link
Texture has always been one of the primary concerns of Actress (aka Darren Cunningham), his music melding peculiar samples with decayed dancefloor sounds to create abstract, R&B concrète
https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/actress-london-contemporary-orchestra
― ogmor, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
tried this album a few times.didn't really do much for me.but its possible I was not in the right place for it.
― mark e, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
that levantis "romantic psychology" record is flipin spiffy. a cold damp cave / ceremonial robes
― massaman gai, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
ahh .. i should clarify, I meant the actress vs LCO album that's due out soon.
― mark e, Thursday, 7 June 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
it's not so different from the new oneohtrix, but still has that more subdued/poised, soupy actress quality that I find makes it very listenable
― ogmor, Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
ah man i LOVED the vs LCO single, looking forward to the album
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 June 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
wasn't really feeling AZD apart from "blue window", for some reason!
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 June 2018 21:27 (six years ago) link
in the realm of 21st c. electronica even 'texture' doesn't seem adequate enough to describe the vibes actress is involved in.. it's more like "physicality" and "sensation".. really hard, high level lysergic interactions with textures and stuff.. idk ymmv
― brimstead, Thursday, 7 June 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
Someone ordered a London Contemporary Orchestra
― paolo, Friday, 8 June 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
Possibly while high
'Faure in Chrome' from AZD does a better job of incorporating orchestral textures than most of LAGEOS, I'm afraid.
― pomenitul, Friday, 8 June 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link
revisiting splazsh today, jesus christ "hubble"
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 13:14 (five years ago) link
jesus christ the whole record really, i definitely loved it at the time but it's even better than i remembered, broken and perverse but also pretty straightforwardly funky and danceable, fractured techno swaddled in vast atmospheres + disintegrated vocal samples, and then at the end it gets kinda ugly and violent! love it
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:03 (five years ago) link
Actress rules. I'll never not look forward to new material by him.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
def one of the best artists of the decade
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 April 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Absolutely, total hero
― brimstead, Thursday, 11 April 2019 22:50 (five years ago) link
yeah agree
― Dan S, Thursday, 11 April 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
i was disappointed by r.i.p at the time, idk, maybe bc of the absence of vocals and it being less apparently danceable, it felt like a collection of inwardly-turned idm fragments to me. i am discovering, to my regret, that this was an extremely surface-level reading!!! "raven" and "shadow from tartarus" and "caves of paradise" are amazing and i don't even know what "jardin" is
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
I like the description of it as "a twilight interzone between rest and wakefulness"
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:51 (five years ago) link
(from the Wire end of year 2012)
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
feels in retrospect like R.I.P was a peak along with Splazsh
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
although Hazyville, Ghettoville, and AZD were all pretty much equally amazing
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 April 2019 02:09 (five years ago) link
R.I.P. and Ghettoville are both amazing
― brimstead, Saturday, 13 April 2019 03:12 (five years ago) link