Just recently heard the limited-edition Radioland. It's nice, though I don't know if it's worth purchasing yet. Plus, it's impossible to find (all copies bought up, I don't know)
Hidden Name w/Janke Schaefer is great. Very exquisite, Philip Jeck-like repetitions and warmth. I want to hear more sublime records like this. What else in Mathieu's oeuvre is worth checkin' out?
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I have the Sad Mac album which has the track Luft Von Anderen Planeten on. It sounds like the woods round the back of where I live in August. Sometimes I walk home that way and get an ice cream. I think you will like this if you like sycamores
― cherry blossom, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i like the sad mac. l really like this reprocessed single track version of various Tape tracks.
http://www.discogs.com/release/328855
although i don't like it as much as i like the actual Tape albums.
― jed_, Friday, 4 July 2008 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Sad Mac Studies is my fave.
Summer 12" also very good, and I really like his track from the Good Night (Music To Sleep To) comp.
Touch EP also pretty good.
He really has this cozy density in his sound that is right up my alley.
― sleeve, Friday, 4 July 2008 21:01 (fifteen years ago) link
SEARCH:
http://www.discogs.com/release/73942 http://www.discogs.com/release/131085
and this: http://www.discogs.com/release/379066 i remember being quite nice but haven't heard in awhile.
― winston, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to have Frequency Lib. I recall it being more crude than the more recent Mathieu tracks I've heard. I do remember one of the tracks used sample of 'soma' by the smashing pumpkins but can't recall much else. It has pleasing, colorful album art. I think that's why I bought it.
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Friday, 4 July 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
review of the new main album:
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7653
apparently mathieu is in / working in main with robert hampson now as well as all his other bidness.
― j., Tuesday, 16 April 2013 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
I've been listening to this guy a lot, late at night on headphones. I found a copy of Die Entdeckung Des Wetters I forgot I had and it's beautiful. The Falling Rocket and Un Cœur Simple are also new favorites, I forgot how much I like this music, reminds me of noises I hear at work but hushed and made beautiful or a distillation of certain Popol Vuh albums or flying saucer attack. 'On Tape' is especially lovely with acoustic instruments more upfront and ambient noises, birds, bells. I wish I still had this collaboration with Ekkehard Ehlers.
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 23 February 2014 22:37 (ten years ago) link
http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11704:stephan-mathieu-qradianceq-boxed-set&catid=72:buzz-bin&Itemid=95
― j., Tuesday, 14 August 2018 08:26 (five years ago) link
holy crap
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
he's trying to build a mastering studio too: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/building-a-home-for-schwebung-mastering-band#/
psyched for the physical radiance set
― adam, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
very cool. i bought on tape about 10 years ago, listened to it all the time, then kind of forgot about him. i just put on transcriptions right now though and it is very good
― marcos, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
only played VII so far, but it's everything you could want. was very into 'remain' several years back, but VII seems duly textured where that tended toward purity or refinement.
― j., Tuesday, 14 August 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link