Nina Kraviz - Nina Kraviz [2012]

that post was indie nonsense.

only a soulless dance fan would say something like that

on the essential mix...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01h5gtt

Loving it so far. Very much making me want to don a pair of shades and sway by a rooftop pool rather than being in the basement shop of a university selling Polo mints.

Ghetto Kraviz is so ghetto.

awful, gay, indie, dfa, live, drum, old, man, brown, turd, fog, house, music

Proverb states soulless dance fan gets glass in feet.

I saw her over the weekend and she only played super-super-super-SUPER-SUUUUUUPEEEEEEEEEERRRR-tracky techno with barely any synth lines or anything and no real obvious breakdowns or buildups and most people (self-included) had no idea what to do with it. Like people would just dance for a little bit and then stop cause there weren't really any cues in the music to ease back here, go nuts here, whatever.

Like it was all pretty banging and stuff but not really in the service of anything.

you probably forgot to do drugs first.

I did have someone ask me if I knew where to get any E. But I didn't know. :(

only track of hers i know is zlobnii mikrob - representative?

this, which despite its surface-level boringness and songs which develop maybe 2mm from where they started still manages to keep me listening

i don't know, but maybe there's less songcraft getting in the way of the good bits? i hear, like, refrains, and fragments of refrains, and of backing vocals, but less of a heavy effort to sculpt them into house's version of a 'song'

even if it is there somehow.

cuz anyway good refrains or groups of refrain-like parts don't need so much in the way of development

DJ Kicks mix is sultry and moody and deep and basically what I expected, not hugely thrilling but not boring and definitely cut from the same cloth as her album.

Fabric mix is tight!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUhQV6QBeck

tracked down a decently priced copy of her album for REKIDS on cd.
cannot wait to hear it.

Is this the record from 2012 that's self titled

yup.
saw it on cd in my local hmv in the week of release and thought i'd get it at some point.
never saw the cd edition again except for £££ via amazon.
however, someone who used to work for the label is on discogs and has a clearly has a couple of copies up for grabs :
https://www.discogs.com/Nina-Kraviz-Nina-Kraviz/master/414521

Absolute classic record. Enjoy!

also from the same bloke,
got the radioslave/rekids/mixmag covermount ordered as i never got the mag.
and ...
shhhhh, but a hopefully few extra edits and stuff that are not allowed to be advertised on discogs
cannot wait.

ok, package arrived yesterday.

the standard NK cd album with skinny promo (perfect for the car !)
along with a copy of mixmag with NK on the cover and a covermount cd of a mixtape of unreleased extras aka 'Mister Jones'.
(alongside a few REKIDS extras, but hey i dont want to brag)
blood and sand, it's a good album.

in other news : just found out today that Radio Slave had a proper artist album out recently !
clearly i am no longer on the ball, as i had no idea.

and weirdly, NK is this months cover of Mixmag, with 2 cover variations available.

ty for reminding me about this album

it's a cool album, i like it

canceled

https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/44688

Yeah that was all garbagey yesterday.

lol I saw the initial instagram post and scrolled right on past

I absolutely don't want to delve into that conversation, hoo boy

mh otm.

having attended a panel talk that included Frankie from Discwoman a couple weeks ago that touched on similar issues... I would absolutely not advise Nina to do the "well, actually.." stuff and slowly back away

(it was a really good panel)

It would appear 99% of Nina Kraviz fans (sadly) can't see that she did or said anything wrong.

things that make you go hm

Trying to imagine getting Russians whites on board w the concept of complicity in global anti blackness is kind of a mindfuck, it’s already an ordeal in actual former slave colonies and original colonizer states

https://undergroundandblack.com/2019/10/29/keeping-it-real/

ash lauryn weighs in

Yeah, her response is embarrassing but it's also clear there's a total disconnect and she just doesn't get it (and also isn't particularly interested in getting it, which is the main thing driving people crazy I think)

i think ash lauryn nails it more than anyone else is ever likely to.