I'm a bit of a dry retread myself, so it works... Jesus, the last track "La Belle" is so gorgeous and not at all dry, though. It just inches forward heartbreakingly, those simple chords see-sawing and gradually getting subsumed. You know what it's like, like a lot? SUCCOUR by Seefeel! No wonder I love it so much.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
hieroglyphic being "got no place to go"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42hUBeEb1hw
― missingNO, Thursday, 4 August 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
bethany skirt "in the meadow under the stars"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JDSFTP97yo
― missingNO, Thursday, 4 August 2011 04:22 (twelve years ago) link
new mika vainio is halfway between guitar drone and industrial and is a+
I was able to sell metal drone friends who are fans of Sunn O))) and Boris on it
― mh, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i found the stooges cover on the mego website, pretty great
there's also a track on soundcloud that kinda sounds like young gods! (w/out the vocals obv)
― missingNO, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/pdis_inpartmaint/mika-vainio-life-it-eats-you
^ill
― missingNO, Thursday, 4 August 2011 06:20 (twelve years ago) link
I'm liking the Mika Vainio; a bit of a headfuck. I found myself laughing during parts of it, which is always a sign that some interesting buttons are being pressed. God, I'm gonna keep beating this Kangding Ray horse, too. This track is just so gorgeous:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B4Qg63ONgo
― Clarke B., Tuesday, 16 August 2011 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
i get what your saying about giggling during the mika vainio record, its so camply dark at times, much like the new prurient. first time i stuck it on i cranked it up on the first track thinking it was just mastered low but when that first sustained bass and cymbal tone hit a couple of minutes in i burst out laughing in shock
― straightola, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 11:51 (twelve years ago) link
It's a pleasant laughter, kind of an acknowledgement that you're surprised how well the music does what it's attempting to do, in my experience.
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
As much as I like their first record, I really cannot get into this new Emptyset album. All those gaps in the rhythms never let the tracks pick up an iota of steam or momentum, despite the programming being so clearly tied to the grid (emphasized more so by the "surprising" placement of some of the accents and hits). Some feel like they're starting to schaffel, some feel like they want to start to live and breathe, but the tracks almost uniformly sound stillborn all the way through. Austerity for its own sake shouldn't be confused with the restraint of successful minimalism, and this record smacks to me of a self-conscious effort to be somehow "brutal" but without the requisite roughness or intensity of the sonics to match. Leaves me cold, and not in a good way.
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Austerity for its own sake shouldn't be confused with the restraint of successful minimalism
This is well put, but I disagree with your premise in this case. I think this is a bold, spooky album, with all the roughness and intensity of a 'brutal' album, albeit a self conscious one. This thing is relentless.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
I like this album, but I admittedly my exposure to their work has been light listening, followed by a live performance, the second album, then the first.
― mh, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
sorry mika, you lost me. and i'm with clarke b on the new emptyset.
regis still fucking killing it, though
http://soundcloud.com/blackest-ever-black/regis-blood-witness-short-clip
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
bit of a muslimgauze vibe to that
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
The Month in Electronic Music: Knackered House... http://thequietus.com/articles/06777-hyperspecific-03-electronic-music-review
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
Andy Stott profile in the new Wire
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
I actually have that open in my other browser tab but I haven't had time to read it all!
― mh, Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
The Haxan Cloak's Observatory EP deserves a mention in here: http://bit.ly/nZwVd7
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
still scratching my head about how this is some kind of new innovation, genre or micro-genre even
though i hope they actually do call this 'knackered house'--i'm 2x more interested with the name
― geeta, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Ekoplekz has a new album on the way for Punch Drunk and it's well nice. Its in a more digestable size then the epic double tape 33 track album on Mordant Music too. Clips: http://punchdrunkmusic.com/products-page/featured-products/ekoplekz-intrusive-incidentalz-vol-1-lp-punch-drunk-pre-order/
― jimitheexploder, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
The new Mika Vainio album reminds me, oddly, of Mammal's "Lonesome Drifter."
― Namu Amida Bootsy (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 21 August 2011 08:35 (twelve years ago) link
That's a weird comparison. I'll have to hear that Mammal record. I only have Fog Walkers and it's sort of gabba-style noise.
Is there really nowhere to buy Raime's 'Retread' 12" or that Chasing Voices 12"? Been on backorder at Boomkat and Forced Exposure for months, and it's not even on eBay (my usual last resort when I'm fiending to own physical product). Bummer.
Just bought the Tropic of Cancer and new Regis 12"s but have yet to listen.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 21 August 2011 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
The Chasing Voices twelves are here: http://bit.ly/f7lgFw
And Raime here: http://bit.ly/o0F0wb
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Sunday, 21 August 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks! Had no idea discogs was a site that actually sold records. That Raime 12" is still a bit steep for me ($40+ not including shipping: not for a 12", not today), but I think I'll buy one of those Chasing Voices 12"s. Thanks again
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 21 August 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
No problem. I love Discogs Marketplace.
It might be worth you emailing this shop: http://www.resident-music.com
They had multiple copies of the Raime EP for £7.99 when I was last in there.
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Sunday, 21 August 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, here you go... http://bit.ly/pEU8V3
Still worth mailing Resident though, as the copies there were the first pressing, with sleeves.
The guy selling it on Discogs is a chancer, I clicked through to the sales history and the stamped repress is worth £13 at most. The first pressing goes for around £25.
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Sunday, 21 August 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
first thing i thought of is the aybee cassette ancient tones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnzASdm7R4Y
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 August 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
okay, thanks thread, i love techno again.
― jizz inside of your nose (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, same. I started reading this yesterday and have already spent about $35 on this stuff.
― rockapads, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
oh i'm being a worthless sponge off the bounty of the internet for now, but when my next paycheck comes in, it's over.
― jizz inside of your nose (the table is the table), Wednesday, 31 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I went looking for that Aybee cassette on the interwebs and in three pages of Google was only able to turn up rapidshare and blogs offering illegal downloads (and a few sites that had links to 'buy cassette' that went to nowhere at all)
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah some of this stuff seems easier to download illegally, sadly. beatport has Old Apparatus, bunch of Ekoplekz, and Raime, which you can download in .wav format.
― rockapads, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
I may resolve pretty soon to just quit downloading techno altogether. This kinda stuff sounds so much better on wax (or, err, cassette)
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 31 August 2011 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
I need a spotify playlist of this genre.
― Jeff, Thursday, 1 September 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
re: the Haxan Cloak's Observatory EP: the title track has been on repeat for the past few days... soooo making my life right now.
― jizz inside of your nose (the table is the table), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
He has an album out now too
― Number None, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i'm getting a check later today. once that clears, it's on.
― jizz inside of your nose (the table is the table), Friday, 2 September 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
Seen quite a few of these guys live, mostly awesome, though I somehow failed to realise that there is Haxan Cloak stuff actually available on physical format. D'oh.
― emil.y, Friday, 2 September 2011 17:44 (twelve years ago) link
it's funny that my friend Bob's stuff has been reworked by Rrose. it seems so...unlikely a pairing when i think about Bob, but then i listen to the original Motormouth recordings and it makes perfect sense....
― jizz inside of your nose (the table is the table), Friday, 2 September 2011 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
a little more dark dubstep or whatever, but it occurred to me that Sleeper fall into this with some tunes, maybe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdqt8ORfgQ
― jizz inside of your nose (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 September 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
I keep picking it up and putting it down again in Resident. Any good? Review I saw a while back was comparing it to Ben Frost.
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Saturday, 3 September 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
'it' = the album
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Saturday, 3 September 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of the new prurient, i really like its campiness— its kind of a new height of noise camp, imo.
― jizz inside of your nose (the table is the table), Saturday, 3 September 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I keep picking it up and putting it down again in Resident. Any good? Review I saw a while back was comparing it to Ben Frost.― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Saturday, September 3, 2011
― Geirge Hongriot (NickB), Saturday, September 3, 2011
The album and 12" are both excellent but quite different from each other. The Ben Frost reference can be heard on the album for sure, but the 12" sort of stands alone.
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Sunday, 4 September 2011 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
Not as good as Ben Frost
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Sunday, 4 September 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
interview + mix of blackest ever black label dude
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1401
digging this guys schtick
― missingNO, Saturday, 10 September 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link
"Schtick" is a fitting term for how he comes across in that interview, although I did enjoy it and get some good chuckles from it. His views are so well-articulated and thought-through that they read as scripted, and for a label that seems to want to offer a level of darkness and intensity they feel most contemporary dance music doesn't deliver, that surprised me.
Also, as much as I'm digging a lot of music discussed on this thread (especially Regis, at the moment), does it feel to anyone else, I don't know, a bit obvious? There's a certain hamfistedness with goth (in all its forms) that tends to prevent me from truly engaging with it, and much of this stuff just oozes hamfistedness. To be fair, though, I'm probably not his ideal fan; as he so charmingly writes: "Already I can see that more and more halfwits and knuckle-draggers are being drawn to Blackest Ever Black, but alas you can't choose who buys your records and hey, it's meat in the room." (We're all just fuckin' MEAT, man.)
(And do you ever feel like people who attack Mr. Conservative Dancefan Strawman with the most vigor are actually afraid deep-down that they might be one themselves?)
― Clarke B., Saturday, 10 September 2011 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
actually happened to be listening to the regis ep right now. it fukken kills.
― original bgm, Saturday, 10 September 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
I'm afraid I might be part of his well-defined target market. I would advice him to stop doing interviews.
― wolves lacan, Saturday, 10 September 2011 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
Clarke B., I'm sort of confused by you saying that ALL GOTH MUSIC IS LACKING DEXTERITY. Actually, not really confused, but more, "What the fuck is this guy on about?"
― jizz inside of your nose (the table is the table), Sunday, 11 September 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link