Vahid you never told me whether you liked AXWELL'S "I FOUND U"??!?
Also has anyone outside of Australia heard THE POTBELLEEZ'S "DON'T HOLD BACK"??!?
I'm half tempted to spend all my time championing stuff like this just to get away from all the dance music pietism that seems to be number one meme of 2008.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 10:18 (sixteen years ago) link
It is fairly popular in NZ Tim (The Potbelleez/Aussie Electro house imports). Please stop sending them over.
I thought Pole's RA was great. Tomorrow, on the bus, I will listen to Ilar.
― Bee En Juan, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 11:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"I loved Derek Plaslaiko's mix. Was I the only one who did?
-- NoTimeBeforeTime"
when derek was in Pittsburgh he played some Rob Hood, Moodymann, G-Man, etc. far better than that podcast.
― pipecock, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 17:00 (sixteen years ago) link
glad someone else said it.
― Ronan, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I like the original, but the Malente remix of that track is amazing - I'm very happy with most of the Malente productions I've heard.
― I DIED, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link
This is why 'funky house' ftw in 2008. Have you heard Apple?
Apple's myspace
― J@cob, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
In fact, Ronan, now you live in London you should be all over this shit.
Well, listening to Anders Ilar now it's great. I love this kind of music, although the mixing isn't all it could be. Heh, and I'll point out that I only did a cursory skim of the saunderson mix, haven't listened to it yet.
― mehlt, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 02:30 (sixteen years ago) link
weird but i'm not that into funky house. i thought "tropical" was awes but dj target etc not so much.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 26 March 2008 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
LOVE the kevin saunderson damn
― tremendoid, Saturday, 29 March 2008 06:54 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.wackyb.co.nz/hello/hello_heart.jpg DINKY http://www.wackyb.co.nz/hello/hello_heart.jpg
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 31 March 2008 16:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Also worthy of commendation are url=http://www.robert-johnson.de.htmlthese/url mentioned url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/feed.aspx?page=4.htmlhere/url
― glen burnie, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
terrible.
but in between all my ineptitude are links!
― glen burnie, Tuesday, 1 April 2008 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
the todd terje one might be my favourite this year. love the segue from sueno latino into bruce springsteen at the end.'i'm on fire' is one creepy song but i can't get enough of it right now, the remix is killer.
― or something, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 09:20 (sixteen years ago) link
can't wait to hear the sascha dive mix, it looks delicious
― r1o natsume, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
fidget house on RA?? podcast 99 is herve & sinden:
01. The Count & Sinden - Dock Leaf - Domino 02. The Count & Sinden - Stinging Nettle - Domino 03. Toddla T - Inna Di Dancehall (The Count & Sinden Remix) - 1965 04. Detboi - Come Rest Up - CDR 05. Se:sa - I Like It Like This (The Count & Sinden Remix) - Positiva 06. T2 - Butterflies (The Count Remix) - All Around The World 07. Bjork - Innocence (Sinden Remix) - One Little Indian 08. Jay Stewart – Don’t Do It (Rico Tubbs VIP Remix) - Menu Music 09. Machines Don’t Care - Drop It To The Floor - Machines Don’t Care 10. Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Switch Remix) - Frenetic 11. Dj Tamiel - Funky Dance - CDR 12. Voodoo Chilli - Streetplayers - Cheap Thrills 13. The Count & Sinden - Beeper - Domino 14. The Count & Sinden - Beeper (A Trak Remix) - Domino 15. Kudu - Lets Finish (Sinden Remix) - Nublu 16. Larry Tee feat. Princess Superstar - Licky (Herve Remix) - iO Records 16. Machines Don’t Care - Soundboy Massive - Machines Don’t Care 17. The Count - Dibby DJ - Cheap Thrills 18. South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Fake Blood Remix) - Mad Decent 19. Fake Blood - Fake Blood Theme - Counterfeet 20. Alan Braxe - Addicted - Kitsune 21. Armand Van Helden - J'Taime (Switch Remix) - Southern Fried 22. Solid Groove - This Is Sick (Herve Reshuffle) - CDR
― lucas pine, Monday, 21 April 2008 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Good to see I'm not the only person who loves the Dinky one.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 April 2008 10:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm really skeptical of mixes featuring 90% of the artist own material.
(unless the artist is daft punk obv.)
any guesses for who's on deck for RA #100?
― The Macallan 18 Year, Monday, 21 April 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
My guess is Luciano (and I wouldn't be surprised it it was a lifted live performance), then Carl Craig. I have a feeling they asked Ricardo first, but he would turn it down.
― mehlt, Monday, 21 April 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I like Luciano's live mixes more than his mix albums so that would suit me just fine.
― Matt DC, Monday, 21 April 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
damn, there are like only two (maybe three?) tracks from that herve & sinden podcast that were on their january essential mix ... dudes are hardworking
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 April 2008 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
so #100 = Ritchie H .. just starting it off now. anyone heard it yet ?
― mark e, Monday, 28 April 2008 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Put a patch on him in that RA pic and he'd look like Momus.
― Raw Patrick, Monday, 28 April 2008 10:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Hah!
The comments thread on RA for this one is likely to be a trial I think.
― Bee En Juan, Monday, 28 April 2008 10:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Starts off a bit slow (hello, Richie Hawtin set) but comes into its own after about fifteen minutes.
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/podcast/ra100-richie-hawtin.jpg
Beard is pretty sweet.
― jim, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
four tet is well worth hearing. very "dance" for him. the mixing's ho-hum, but the selection!
― paulhw, Thursday, 22 May 2008 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll second that. very 'groovy' selection. his mixing has come in for a lot of analysis but i think these people are missing the point.
― sam500, Friday, 23 May 2008 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Great new podcast: it's Laurent Garnier.
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=107
― Tobias Rapp, Tuesday, 17 June 2008 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Dozzy's where it's at.
― Jena, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
fuuuuuck garnier killed it!
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 21 June 2008 07:57 (fifteen years ago) link
absolutely killed it
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 21 June 2008 08:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i thought so. quiet village was very good.
― tremendoid, Saturday, 21 June 2008 08:18 (fifteen years ago) link
What I've heard of the Appleblim mix so far is super great
― sam500, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 00:56 (fifteen years ago) link
these d-bags pulled a negative digweed review after protests from the record label and replaced it with a positive one, prompting the resignation of two editors
― omar little, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 00:59 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, that's a shame. i got an email from that tami fenwick once and she seemed very nice
― sam500, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Appleblim mix is great.
That Digweed shit is pretty :/ but tbh never read resident advisor, just listen to the mixes which are generally all belters.
― jim, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, really sucks. I guess this means I'll never receive the copy of Bionik that I won back in April and still don't knows the whereabouts about. :( And yes, Tami was nice in the email, as well. And from what I could tell, Jeremy Armitage seems like a standup individual nonetheless.
― mehlt, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, that's awful news. Tami was great to deal with back when I (briefly) wrote for RA, and I'm sure they'll miss her.
― jng, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL @ this
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
i wonder how everyone would feel about this if a negative villalobos review got pulled down and replaced by the management
is that for real about them pulling a bad review and replacing it with a good one???? aren't people in uproar about it?
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
just as ambivalent probably
― Ronan, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 23:51 (fifteen years ago) link
There's an uproarious thread about it on the RA site.
Jeremy and Tami both resigned in protest - it was Jeremy's review that was pulled.
RA historically was much more of a prog publication than it is today - I get the impression that a lot of the shift towards minimal etc. was at Jeremy and Tami's behest. But the owners of the site and a lot of the readers are still total Rennaisance/Global Underground fans.
The Digweed review wasn't as negative and "biased" as a lot of the prog heads in the comments page make it sound - I've read much more critical reviews about Villalobos along the lines of "it's just the sound of flies and cicadas innit". But the sense of compulsory support for Villalobos one feels amongst these circles (and I definitely feel this) is more along the lines of a self-policing superego thing amongst critics. Negative Villalobos reviews don't need to be pulled because the critical hegemony in support of the guy does the job nicely.
Still, it's funny that the review very explicitly set up a Digweed vs Wighnomy Bros aesthetic choice - the fact that it was pulled and that Jeremy/Tami subsequently resigned makes the whole situation feel (fairly or otherwise) like a roundabout passing of judgment on the direction the site has gone in over the past three/four years or so.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
how many villalobos reviews are there, anywhere? how many dance reviews?
it's barely even a discourse...
― Ronan, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Well I don't know if there are that many more Digweed reviews than Villalobos reviews - both producers will usually get reviewed in almost all published dance music magazines and any dance music review website that hold themselves out as generalist.
I agree that it's barely a discourse, but within these circles I think there is definitely a tendency to succumb to Boomkat-style reviewing when it comes to Villalobos. By "Boomkat-style", I mean giving the producer the benefit of the doubt for every stylistic decision, with the only distinctions being between "must buy" and "must must buy".
It's a bit of a "voice of history" effect at work - until Villalobos releases something which ultimately is deemed to be not much cop by the critical consensus (e.g. a Be Here Now equivalent) it will be difficult not to second-guess any ambivalent critical reactions ("this track leaves me cold now but what about in six months' time?").
― Tim F, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Todd Burns has taken over on editorial duties right? He should keep things on an even keel I would have thought... I would hate it if it went back to its Rennaisance/Global Underground beginnings (surely unlikely given the current climate).
― sam500, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 00:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I just wish Ricardo would go back to making poppier stuff again. I'd happily be part of a consensus opinion that stuff like 'Easy Lee' is super awesome and to be continuously applauded.
As for RA, this could well be an emotional response (to T&J's departure) rather than a critical one, but I find the site to be kind of joyless these days. The site may not be focused on prog anymore, but the bulk of the reviewers are mostly interested in the chewiest and most overbaked blog techno around so plus ca change really.
― J@cob, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Ronan
maybe i misread the vibe over in the RA comments box -- and i tuned out shortly after tim's post -- but it seemed to be setting it up as the soulless corporate entity vs the sound of underground house. i wonder how much of this elision had to do w/ a sense of minimal as underdog and prog/trance as "overdog". wasn't the tack of the pulled review sort of "minimalism is being co-opted by the mainstream!" boilerplate?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Presumably Resident Advisor is wholly reliant on advertisers to actually keep publishing so I'm kind of surprised this thing doesn't happen more often, on this site and elsewhere. Maybe it does and RA just dealt with this in a cackhanded way (ie spiking it after publication rather than before it).
I'd be a bit more worked up about being unable to trust any future reviews if I thought RA writers in general were very good at being able to crystallise why a record is good and bad, and with a few honourable exceptions they aren't.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I wouldn't agree really with that assessment Vahid, but Jeremy can probably explain his own review here I guess.
I think the most surprising/disappointing thing for me was how many people based their reaction to the idea that a review was pulled on whether they liked John Digweed or not.
I mean, the actual fact one was pulled seemed to be an afterthought as people debated the merits of JD.
Just goes to show how partisan it all is, to some people it's irrelevant what somebody writes, how it's treated, who's controlling a site, apart from 10/10 or 0/10 at the end to spew disagreement at.
That sounds quite pompous I guess but it is pretty sad.
― Ronan, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link