commendation for outstanding service to human race: resident advisor

The Simon Baker one is painfully good, especially the first half to two thirds - the My My remixes are amazing! So slippery and squirmy. The second half is a fair bit dryer but still good - love the vocal on Ambivalent's "R U OK?," a totally sinister robo-sleaze who first helps out someone off their heads on drugs at a party, and then seduces them. It's like Aaron Carl doing a version of "One In Night in NYC",

The whole thing is very shapely and totally devoted to exploring a particular point where minimal and house converge - it's almost more like Jay Haze, My My and Tobi Neumann making a live set together than a DJ mix.

Tracklisting:

1/ Dj Cocoe - Webale feat Mukwanda(Fuckpony Dub)(Immigrant)
2/ Ludwig Coenen – Curtain Gap (Immigrant)
3/ Motor City Soul – Kazan (MyMy Mix) (Aus Music)
4/ Luna City Express – Absent Minded6 (Aerobic Studio)
5/ Simon Baker – The Fly (MyMy Mix) (Connaiseur)
6/ Jamie Jones – Harajuka (Cocoon)
7/ Onur Ozur – Orion (Vacant)
8/ Martin Eyerer/Toni Rios – Liberacion(Kickboxer)
9/ Elon – Tamingo (Infant)
10/ Reagen – Bugbite (Marcin Czubala Mix) (Leftroom)
12/ Ambivalent – R U OK (M_nus)
13/ Brett Johnson/Dj Heather – Everythings Electric(Mike Shannon dub) (2020 Vision)
14/ Simon Baker – Jitters (Playhouse)
15/ Kerri Chandler – The Invaders (The Panic) (Deeply Rooted House)

"Motor City Soul - Kazan (MyMy Mix) (Aus Music)"

This is now officially the best piece of music ever made.

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it's........ALRIGHT. I was a little disappointed by it to be honest, sounds like 20/20 Vision style UK house.

Er, it is the track with all the insane synths in, right?

I dunno, I'm just trying to guess from what sounds like the order of tracks on the podcast.

Or are you talking about the podcast as a whole?

i'm not really sure what ronan likes these days ... it's been a while since 've seen him write anything positive on ILM!

i think the mix is sorta dry too but i felt the same way about ripperton and i think he *liked* that one.

i guess i just can't deal w/o vocals anymore.

I thought it was pretty dry as well and got tired of it fairly quickly. Funny he ends it with that Kerry Chandler track - it's such a partystarter.

I'm surprised! This stuff sounds very wet and fluid to me.

I didn't mean the mix, I meant the My My track specifically, which I don't think is crap or anything (played it last night to see, very early on), just found it weird Tim thought it was so good.

i'm not really sure what ronan likes these days ... it's been a while since 've seen him write anything positive on ILM!

that's not quite true, but I praise lots of stuff on the minimal threads. I do save a bit of praise for my blog so I have stuff to write about but I am pretty sure I have praised lots of stuff recently.

anyway things are pretty bad mostly so maybe my criticism is more jaded than usual!

Things = life or things = music?

If the latter, what developments have annoyed you Ronan?

Ronan does my description match the My My remix, it's sort of this glass cathedral of synth chords around a restless Tuning Spork-ish beat.

Actually what I like about the first forty minutes or so of this mix is that it's like a more melodic version of a Jay Haze mix.

Oh, life! Music is the one escape!

The last month in particular has been really good. I played for 3 hours last night and it was mostly stuff from the last couple of weeks eg the new Misstress Barbara is absolutely brilliant, Kiki's new Bpitch Control is the best thing he's ever done IMO, those Ink and Needle records, Feuervogel, Redshape's "Steam", Audion's "Noiser" obviously, the new Plasmik on Connaisseur.

As for that My My remix, it's very very "disco" to me, really kind of stomping and funky. I thought it was pretty cool but strayed a bit too close to Spirit Catcher or that sort of electronic disco house vibe for me.

Stomping and funky is good of course, it's a good track just not exactly like what my favourite stuff is at the moment.

sebo K ... yessssssssssss

Downloading now. Also: Sebo K is hot.

this has Josh One-Contemplation (King Britt Funk Mix) on it! haha whoa...was thinking that track was due a comeback.

this is good :)

I really like the third track, heard it on another set recently.

Woah... deep...

Esp. this section:

10. Kevin Gorman – Black & White (Alex Under Remix)
11. Dennis Ferrer - Transitions
12. Matthias Tanzmann - Nip Slip
13. Marco Resmann - Gouache

I like how Tanzmann and Resmann (both Moon Harbour/Mobilee folx) have both gone all detroit synth pattern whore, and sebo k plays them together just to make the point. It's like he's calling them out, but in a good way. It was sort of his idea in the beginning anyways.

This mix is pretty the Bible for deep/minimal.

pretty much I mean

lots of "wtf this suxx why he get paid to dj ever" on the RA messageboard about it, but the riton one is fun. yes, the orgasmic woman bit is a bit of a groaner, but the rest is a trip. it passed the walking-around-the-woods-in-the-early-morn-whilst-stoned test while camping recently and passed with flying colors. i'd love to know what some of the krautrocky stuff is on there. only tunes i really recognize are vangelis and telex.

anyone else heard? i'll post a link if anyone cares to have a listen.

http://mnmlbeats.wordpress.com/tag/ra-mixe/

Archive ^^^

The Amé one is yoga flame for all time and is making me wish they were playing off-Sónar rather than at the shitty thing that I'm not going to :'-(

riton RA

jim, it's only Frank that's playing the main sonar. The RA mix is Kristian. He refused to play at Sonar because they were getting paid peanuts, even though they're getting 20,000 people through the door. fair enough too.

The new Stefan Goldmann track, "Aurora", on the Stefan Goldmann mix, is so great - really shimmery. I love his sound, it's like if deep house took all its cues from Isolee and Joakim and James Holden. And it's so distinct and immediately recognisable too! Or is that just because this track is like the perfect midpoint between "Sleepy Hollow" and his remix of "Women In Toilet"?? Could he become the classy housey Bodzin?

The Amé is whoa

can someone up the ame mix plz? it doesn't seem to be on that site anymore

i think there are way too many mindless minimal bobbins mixes in this series, though.

is there anything even worth listening to twice out of the first 20? it didn't really get good until around #40 (except for maurice #21) and even then, it's been around 50/50 so far. not quite as good as fabric, in my estimation.

oh well, it's free.

whats the song 47-48 mins into the Ame

It’s disappointing to see how much this site has become the editorial side-project of what’s now primarily a ticket vendor. Seems like every other feature is some paean to a a supposedly utopian club/festival culture, that’s meant to get people to buy tickets to club nights and festivals, which also happen to be sold on the same site. This is old news at this point, but as I age out of going out (I’m right in the middle of my club-going retirement life-crisis) it hits a raw nerve.

but really, this is what it has always been all along. it's just more glaringly apparent now.

that clicked into place for me when i saw an RA photographer snapping pics at a shitty festival in miami like ten years ago. it was humid, raining, and the bodies packed together under the part of the dancefloor covered by a tarp smelled like a gym locker, no one needed photos of this

outdoor events in the sun are their own thing, but the club experience is typically dark rooms with people in movement and it's not something that lends well to visual representation. festivals in interesting spaces lend well to crowd shots, but again, not a club

the instagram-ready shots of a dj dancing around behind the decks or the boiler room-style cramped videos feel like an attempt to make the experience more social media-aware but they're still not the pov of the audience! I've attended many such events but something always feels off when everyone's in lockstep facing a dj on a stage. the music creates the space, the dj shouldn't be the focal point

but really, this is what it has always been all along. it's just more glaringly apparent now.

― stirmonster, Thursday, May 4, 2023 9:21 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, but I am still living in 2007 :(

where is the thread where the late great talks about how dance music should be people in a dark room banging their body to the beat of the box instead of being smiley happy sunshine festival attendees?

my platonic ideal of a place to listen to dance music involves me in my car driving along an overcast coastline, cityscape in the distance, fog clinging to the nearby green hills, not a club in sight. i've been doing it wrong my whole life tbh.

The Bay Area is waiting for you omar

xp that’s pretty much the origin story of second and third wave detroit techno, at least according to carl craig and others. they weren’t glam enough to get into house parties and not hard enough to go to hip hop shows, so they drove around detroit freeways at night listening to juan atkins and derrick may and electrifying mojo, and eventually made music to fit that vibe.

one of my all time most transcendent experiences was driving through tilden on a clear moonlit night in 96 after a storm, super clear views of everything from santa clara to tamalpais, the city glittering across the bay like computer graphics, while an anonymous radio dj spun through io “claire” and stasis and ken ishii and mark broom and so on

i believe the track titles on model 500’s deep space are an homage to that possibly apocryphal car craig tale

my platonic ideal of a place to listen to dance music involves me in my car driving along an overcast coastline, cityscape in the distance, fog clinging to the nearby green hills, not a club in sight. i've been doing it wrong my whole life tbh.

― omar little

just makes me want to play "outrun"

"outrun" one of the better thomas bangalter tracks, though i prefer "ventura" (another classic driving locale) from the same EP

One of my similarly transcendent experiences was coming home from college driving past the steel mills of Gary, Indiana heading towards Chicago on a foggy winter night listening to my then brand new copy of second toughest in the infants by underworld. Think I may have bought accelerator by FSOL on the same trip back.

I've got a little personal ritual of always listening to a dj mix on the way home from work on Fridays...something about the combination of my brain being too fried from the week to process a podcast + the rush of weekend freedom. And of course late night freeway drives.

Anyway RA have succeeded deemphasizing their editorial content. I wonder how many people even look at reviews or go there to find new music anymore.

Most of the music I love sounds better at night. Or on a cloudy day.

techno does sound great in the car. one of the best was carl craig's landcruising on a langorous drive after the beach as the light shifted from a warm gold sunset to the synthetic light of the city

Highly recommend listening to cfcf's the colours of life while cruising PCH late in the day.

idk which Moodymann thread to post that this week’s RA mix is all Moodymann so I’ll just post it here