WTF even is this? I have no idea what I just listened to but I'm pretty sure it's astonishing.
This went completely under my radar until it appeared at the top of The Wire's EOY list. I suppose Oneohtrix Point Never's Garden of Delete is the most obvious reference point but that doesn't do it justice. Huge slabs of hypercompressed electronic noise smashed together like toy robots, but everything from surf rock to Daft Punk to contemporary afropop to Edgar Allen Poe emerges out of the carnage at points.
Anyway let's give this its own thread because there's a hell of a lot going on here and most of it is exhilarating.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:00 (six years ago) link
amazing album, only found it due to the wire's list tooreminds me a bit more of the stuff from this year like machine girl / fire-toolz more than OPN tho but can see yr link
― nxd, Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:12 (six years ago) link
also it's *paradiso :)
― nxd, Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:17 (six years ago) link
maybe some stuff like (from 2k17) blanck mass, prurient & even ninos du brasil comes a bit close too!
― nxd, Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:19 (six years ago) link
still haven't given this a listen but i did hear his 'airport music for black folk' album last year which was a pretty good serving of frought, paranoid, anti-ambient music
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:24 (six years ago) link
Duly noted.
It definitely reminded me of this year's Blanck Mass album as well, clearly a lot more high-concept and wide-ranging through.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
agreed
― nxd, Thursday, 14 December 2017 10:27 (six years ago) link
It is incredible. Quite easy to lump it in with a lot of this 'nightmare cut-up sound collage' stuff that I'm not so keen on, but this is transcendental. My only qualm is that I've got to be in the mood for it as it demands a fair bit of attention
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 14 December 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
'airport music for black folk'
wow @ this title.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Thursday, 14 December 2017 17:07 (six years ago) link
Check out Dedekind Cut maybe? (It's Lee Bannon, totally effed up.. is there a lee bannon thread?
― brimstead, Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
there are some bits that made me think of Lee Bannon, too
― mh, Thursday, 14 December 2017 19:45 (six years ago) link
Surprised this is the first discussion of this here ... Lee bannon is definitely adjacent to this, as is melanin free, the whole non records thing, also the ptp crew which is less maximalist. Klein record feels related as well ...
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:41 (six years ago) link
this album is some good shit, btw
― mh, Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:43 (six years ago) link
Excellent.
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:46 (six years ago) link
Elisa Crampton too right, unless she's covered in the above?
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:52 (six years ago) link
new Rabit too.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:57 (six years ago) link
Speaking of PTP, I listened through this whole comp yesterday and there is some worthwhile stuff (not to mention the cause):https://purpletapepedigree.bandcamp.com/album/va-shine-compilation-for-puerto-rico
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 14 December 2017 20:58 (six years ago) link
Elysia crampton and rabit otm
Also hella crucial / mystifyingly absent from ilm : Moor mother
Might also say killl alters and jpegmafia
Lotta this stuff seems on a Richmond / Baltimore / philly tip
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Friday, 15 December 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link
But not to detract from the singular awesomeness of chino amobi ... sorry for slight detail. I'll say that he is amazing live - played the record fairly straight but it sounded huge and his vocals were commanding
― pre millennial tension (uptown churl), Friday, 15 December 2017 00:59 (six years ago) link
Yes it's all heavenly
― brimstead, Friday, 15 December 2017 03:52 (six years ago) link
In terms of sheer sound, this is mightily impressive and, yes, original. Alas, the spoken word bits don't do it for me at all, even though I struggle to imagine this album without them. But then again, I tend to conceive of music as an escape from the reign of language…
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 January 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
gotta give props to y'all for getting this up there on ilm top 77 albums, i was looking for something to listen to and going in blind, right from the intro track i was like 'i don't care if this record turns out to be grindcore or weird ambient shit or all spoken word whatever, i'm in', and from there every track got crazier. really intense music!
his 'airport music for black folk' album last year which was a pretty good serving of frought, paranoid, anti-ambient music
― faust apes (NickB), Thursday, December 14, 2017 3:24 AM (two months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
love 'anti-ambient' as a descriptor
― sleepingbag, Thursday, 1 March 2018 00:01 (six years ago) link
bout ready for another release chino
― nxd, Friday, 13 December 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
had the same thought a few weeks ago
he's apparently been finishing a degree and his art/writing project is going to have a music component soon-ish
― mh, Friday, 13 December 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
this album works really well in the current climate
― nxd, Sunday, 31 January 2021 18:38 (three years ago) link
still growing into his newer stuff, but I listened to Paradiso two days ago and it still is an absolute great
― mh, Thursday, 4 February 2021 02:57 (three years ago) link