Wolf and Lamb

Would LOVE an unmixed version of the Apparat DJ kicks. Still, looking forward to hearing this this evening.

i looove the trumpet tone greg paulus gets on his tracks, vaguely reminds me of the horn tones on a lot of arthur russell stuff

http://boomkat.com/downloads/342925-apparat-various-dj-kicks

Apparat unmixed & lossless.

as much as i appreciate the unmixed tracks i think the mixing in the dj kicks is fucking excellent. you know it's a good sign when even the transitions get stuck in your head

but i guess with 27 tracks there is probably a greater chance for the transition to get stuck in your head than the track itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbXvJKlZ2s

Only just discovered this R Kelly house edit but I can't stop listening to it.

I love how the DJ Kicks is so classy and spacious, yet messy and fun. Is there anything coming out from this stable that isn't solid brilliance?

glad to see more love for the dj kicks, the press reaction seems like it was generally positive but i definitely was expecting more of a reaction from the indie world a la nicolas jaar or james blake. which is a bummer because it is so much better than either of those records

It's not an "album" though, which is what the indie crowd tends to respond to.

idk erlend oye dj kicks did pretty well w/ the indie crowd iirc

Yeah but he covered The Smiths

see how it works?

Sad to think that we've made so little progress in the decade-or-so since "Radio Soulwax Part 2".

Is the Wolf & Lamb album (their artist album not this DJ Kicks) any good? It's in my list of "things I'm going to download and listen to when I have a proper chance".

There is no such thing as progress in music

I mean in convincing people to be more open-minded... I also think the last Robag Wruhme mix compilation with the name I can't spell or pronounce would have been easy crossover material though, maybe I don't know anything.

You need a narrative with these things, hence the Villalobos Fabric mix getting some of that kind of press.

Indie peeps get interested in dance music once dancing no longer seems like the central point. Hence the Field being the biggest Kompakt artist for that crowd.

Wolf + Lamb and Soul Clap are both way too connected with actual dance crowds. They've definitely crossed over with the coolsy dance types though, to the point that people complain about them getting the hype that ought to go to steffi or Tom trago or etc.

I mean in convincing people to be more open-minded...

ah ok!

not sure there is ever any progress in that either:D

http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2011/04/14/premiere-wolf-lamb-vs-soul-clap-5-years-at-the-marcy-mix/

must have sweated out my body weight at the wolf+lamb vs. soul clap party in hackney on saturday. had to go home drenched + early because of family thing the next day but completely satisfied.

i def. agree that these guys are about as buzzed as it's possible to get within dance music (without the rare indie crossover). they really hit a personal sweet spot for me though, playing lots of music i really love that you don't normally hear at these kind of nights.

also love that whenever i've seen them play they look like they are truly having the time of their lives behind the decks.

i love this music a lot

thats cuz its dope

That 5 years at the Marcy mix is pretty sweet

haha 'imaginary player' -- one of my fav rap beats

soul clap have a whole podcast series on their website that i intend to check out:

http://www.soulclap.us/podcast.php

u guys should check out the deniz kurtel album - it's on crosstown rebels but she came up with the wolf + lamb guys and is still a close associate. also it's great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ti9lDl0hZ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_Yxs55mmWo

i love the concept of "sade house"!

(though really i love the concept of sade anything so)

Bits of the DJ Kicks mix really remind me of 2006ish Get Physical but filtered through a post-Balearic horizontal afternoon drinking in the sunshine vibe.

wow they play spottieottiedopalicious! i have a beats in space but i am v impressed by that.

deniz kurtel albunm is very nice. only recently realised she's a she!

ok 'the l word' is ridiculous

^^

had The L Word on repeat (from the Social Experiment mix) in the car today, fantastic.

been listening to so much of their dj kicks & nicolas jaar singles from last year was loading up on wolf + lamb releases & noticed matos reviewed most of their stuff for ra does he still hang out here ever

Bits of the DJ Kicks mix really remind me of 2006ish Get Physical but filtered through a post-Balearic horizontal afternoon drinking in the sunshine vibe.

this is a really good point actually...and the way they've created a way for things to be mixed together again.

Seeing w+l/soul clap tomorrow night!

so annoyed i still havent seen these dudes, they seem to play in london all the time

http://soundcloud.com/soulclap/dreams-edit

Great set at U St last night.

Yes they were pretty fantastic - I think we recorded the whole 4+ hours.

ysi?

On BIS this week

what other wolf + lamb related mixes are ppl really into? already know the soul clap resident advisor one (and love it)

http://soundcloud.com/r_co/soul-clap-essential-mix-05-03

Lots of fresh sounding DJ-Kicksy material rubbing up against Glass Candy, Depeche Mode and Madlib, amongst others.

Also just spent a good hour browsing about Soul Clap's website/blog, they seem to have a lot of podcasts and whatnot that can be downloaded.

Not quite on the same path musically, but they've done this amazing mix to promote a night they did a few months ago, based on 90s house sounds and just on the right side of cheesy. There's a Tuff Jam remix of Coolio (!) which sounds absolutely vicious in this context.

i've been getting a lot of good mileage out of the 5 years at the marcy mix since it came out... it's a hell of a lot of fun

Yeah, it's a pre-drinking staple for me now

I was at the U Street show too, they always seem to have such a great time playing! Please let us know when you up that recording

Whe recording came out well from a technical standpoint, now we've got to edit it and get their approval before sending it into the wild. I'll post it here if & when we do!

thanks!

They put out their own podcast (Wolf and Lamb radio) where they sporadically put out mixes or live sets from people on the label. I think my fave is an old one Zev live at the Bunker which was one of my intros to them. Totally worth checking out.

she's on another track too that i like better. the press release about how they met is kind of hilarious. i was mostly disappointed by the album though, kind of dry, punctuated by unfortunate wackiness

i have to hear this, i really like the idea of soul clap making a divisive pop opus

not pop enough for that :(

seems like a far cry from the wolf + lamb album tho, right?

you mean the w+l dj kicks? i haven't listened to that since this time last year and it didn't leave a huge impression on me

i meant the wolf + lamb album, which was a p understated affair

i guess i'd argue that this thing is pretty 'pop' tbf, but it fails regardless. its problem has more to do with pretending like it has this uber-funky weirdness vibe going on, but not being even close to weird enough in actuality to pull it off. if you're going to have crazy spoken word intros that evoke dudes like andre 3000 or prince or george clinton or w/e they shouldn't be forced. and they shouldn't be this boring. i mean, lines like "a circumcised man gains powers of our universe, shaping him into a being of interplanetary dopeness" do not sell themselves

lex was right when he said this album was 'dry', p much the opposite of funk. i thought that the dj kicks thing actually achieved a nice balance of smoothness and weird-ass funkiness but this album is just blah

anyone heard the soul clap fact mix?

http://soundcloud.com/mixfeed/soul-clap-fact-mix-324-04-12

can't tell if i like this or hate it. fucking despise that "get low (incoming bitch)" track though, jesus. sounds like if limp bizkit made house music, not least with them roaring over the mic in any previous set i've heard it in.

some good stuff on here, though it's way closer to jazzy jeff's mixes than any of their previous stuff.

This Soul Clap album isn't exactly unpleasant but kinda dull at the same time? Like it simultaneously feels halfhearted and like it's trying way too hard.

lol

https://www.facebook.com/WolfLamb/posts/428263613868604

Anyone else love the new Deniz Kurtel album?