hazy, but nice. hadnt really slept, and gone straight to football to see the title win, then straight from there to the lock. slackk smacked it with a heavy grimey house selection, actress went all over town playing grime, windowlicker, classic house, all sorts. d1 only got to play about 40 mins which was a shame as he's brilliant. sound's just not great there (13k rig rbma/fact party aside obviously) so it leaves you craving the same thing at a proper club.

we're doing a warehouse party at stag & dagger on may 21 tho: the bug (w/ flowdan and daddy freddy), mount kimbie and deadboy.

then doing an all-nighter at cable in june, both rooms, gonna have about 10-12 people on the bill. already confirmed folk from berghain, night slugs and all sorts. gonna be great. hopefully gonna be able to announce this week.

HOW R U my man?

You should just listen to whatever you enjoy.

Most of your favorite electronic artists seem to be old and "passe" in 2010, but what does it matter?

I know not everyone in this thread is from america but im really surprised that nobody is talking about Ricardo Villalobos' first performance in this country in almost 10 years! Pretty classy of him to make his first appearance in detroit rather than new york or la. But, I actually wonder what brought him back($$$) after all the shit he's talked about american foreign policy.

i know, i just think it's fun following trends in popular music.


i think i'm stuck in the 90s/early 2000s of electronic music to a certain extent, but lets be honest here: is that a bad place to be stuck in?

no way

I won't be going so I don't have much to say about it. I thought he wasn't going to return to America until we left Iraq? How much cash could a (probably) cash-strapped festival like this offer him? He's not headlining or anything.

Do we know what day he's playing on?

V good. Been a bit stretched with helping my mate do up a property but that should be done and dusted pretty soon. I've got most of the world cup off so June's looking peachy. Spent most of today walking round town photographing those elephants which was pretty cool - back to work tomorrow though.

hey b

what are your thoughts on splazsh?

i am in heated ultralove like jah lucifari

im not b but it's aoty so far for me.

splazsh
jj no 3
pantha

other music can fuck off.

How much is a right arm going for these days? I live 3 hours from Detroit but am broke broke broke.
Fuuuuuuuuuck.

Yeah, the fact that it’s already surpassed Hazyville in my affections says it all really. A succession of glimpses of worlds I sometimes want to inhabit more than my own.

As for AOTY, this, the Fehlmann, Emeralds and OPN albums are all up there for me at this point. Although, I've listed to Virgo, Mandre 4 and Nasty podcasts more than anything from this year, apart from Splazsh, ftr.

art nazis

that pantha du prince is good, but lets be honest here, do you really think it's better than the new flylo. that flylo is a blockbuster megabillion galactic work of jazz funk genius, but pitchfork reviewed it and people like me listen to it so it shant be mentioned huh.

circle jerk

yes i like this too

i would like to bring attention to this mostly ignored and underrated record from last year

splazsh, pantha & scuba for me - i have a ridiculously pretentious review of the former upcoming but it's basically ruined most music for me

EDIT: @tom - a quick skim of the jj album streaming didn't really jump out at me - i assume you'd recommend spending more time with it?

The Emeralds album is pretty new to me, but it's really good too. They go pop! I do like the Fehlmann album but not as much as you I don't think. Trying to figure out what OPN stands for and coming up short.

And you're 100% right about Virgo and Mandre. Rush Hour fucking killing it with the reissues.

hadn't even gotten around to that one yet

thanks brg!

re: pantha vs flylo, ive listened to the former loads and taken it all in, listened to the latter like twice and not even begun to get my head round it. dunno what pfork have to do w/ anything, they love pantha just as much as they love flylo.

jj- i dunno, on the surface it's flawed and it took me a while to get into the record but i became completely obsessed with it. i think they're amazing.

both o.p.n and emeralds are really good too, especially the former.




you know what else is killer? the james pants album from december. way overlooked.

Thats only a 192 but it's doing the job until the real thing comes through my door.

Starts out a bit lairy btw.

I've listened to Ouroboros an unhealthy amount over the past week. I've had tracks 2,3,5,6,7 on a loop for the past 4 hrs and in that time I've read the first 200 pages of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. Good times.

Emeralds, Guido, and OPN are all pretty great, if we're talking aoty (AtLEofDF Edition). Most recent Oni Ayhun and Demdike Stare releases might be my favorite actually, but they just miss album requirements for eoy polls.

Guido and FlyLo are just below my holy trinity of AotYAtLEotDFE (actually, there is no other edition but whatever)

Not quite ready to say fuck all other music yet, but it's close.

That ones at the graveyard end of the dancefloor - great though. & OAR004 obvs.

AotYAtLEotDFELOL

thanks for the opn link

where do you guys find out about music like actress and ayhun? i don't read blogs or anything/don't know where to look and this thread is pretty much my source for this sort of music.


i really and dearly kindly would appreciate a few links


that said this actress album, i really, really like it, so far more than the other album i would compare it to from last year, i must compare things, three EPs.

analogy: it's the scientific atheist space age galaxy universe music as opposed to cosmogrammas more cosmic drama spiritual dmt trip space age galaxy universe music. it's like you're in a space shuttle in the middle of black space and it's groovy as hell but very sharp.

thats my take on this. i love it.

cosmogramma
splazsh

"clinical"

bubble butts and equation does not live up to the greatness of its title.. thats a weeak track. i like the album but im not all over it. pantha, while i wanted to like it, was so unmemorable that i forgot i dl'd it. only browsed through the guido but nothing came out and grabbed me... just not feelin stuff yet this year, think i need to give some of them spins in a different context besides in front of the computer.

i like cosmogramma the most

cosmogramma is fantastic for solo late night cruises. i think i might do that right now actually...

i agree about the pantha du prince.

motherfuckers

edit: <3

http://www.factmag.com - the work of the lovely Tom Lea, lots of good info and good mixes. I assume everyone here must know this site already but if you're asking about stuff like Actress and Oni Ayhun, well...

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/ is good for a very specific brand of techno, the posts there are kind of didactic but they cover a lot of good music and interesting DJs and producers, and their mix series is incredible. Including an oni ayhun mix.

www.littlewhiteearbuds.com is another good source for techno, I've found them to have a bit of a stuffy/purist bent but they've been broadening their horizons in 2010 so far.

I hate to ask this, but what does JJ stand for? Jaga Jazzist? I'm at a loss.

I've spent a good part of this year exploring boomkat's soundtrack/library/early electronic section, and various blogs touting similar stuff. Perhaps an indictment of this year's releases, but far more likely an indictment of this thread's decline. Still, I've come across some absolute gems. Bruno Spoerri, anyone? That the national film board of canada has archived all their documentaries and put them online is surely some cause for excitement as well: http://www.nfb.ca/

you really need to read more music sites if you think this was ignored/underrated...surely one of the biggest releases of last year.

It doesn't stand for anything, their name is jj

Shit that's been doing it for me recently:

Clara Intellecto - Back in the Day

Mmm - Nous Sommes

Horizontal Ground - Snakes Cave

S-X - Woo Riddim

Redlight & Rose Gabor - Stupid

Rihanna - Rudeboy Funkysteppz mix

New Deadboy

Tittsworth - Tear the Club Up Bird Peterson Remix

Anything by Ill Blu

What are some good podcasts/mixes from '10? I have been returning to Petre Inspectrscu's RA podcast, Gavin Russom's Fact Mix, and Dinky's mix for Allez Allez. Oh, and Anthony 'Shake' Shakir's over at Little White Earbuds.

Nice one for this. Mark E rules. If you've not heard his RA podcast--it's incredible.

i think deadboy's fact mix is one of the best 2 or 3 we've had.
the jackmaster mix for the mad decent site is great
ikonika's xlr8r podcast.

fact mix 150 is really good. by someone who's done a few famous mixes now, and this definitely stands up to them.

What's the deal here. It's just can you party minus the cheese, right? I guess I like it, but what's he trying to say?

back in the day... things weren't as fun as people would have you believe

Maybe they weren't, but at least we were good looking.

FACT & We Fear Silence
Cable, London, June 4

Room 1
Mala (DMZ)
Fiedel (MMM / Berghain)
Scuba (UK live debut)
Altered Natives
Deep Teknologi
Spatial

Room 2 (co-hosted by Night Slugs)
DJ Rashad (Chicago)
Seiji
Lil Silva
Bok Bok b2b L-Vis 1990
Subeena
Jam City
Girl Unit

6 pounds advance from wefearsilence.com


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I was a zygote

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After being down for most of April, the festival website was working nicely for about 2 or 3 weeks. Now I check it and after clicking the banner it goes to a page that only Facebook users can read?

http://www.paxahau.com/

I'm really considering taking the train in to Detroit for one day/night and then coming straight home immediately afterwards and hopefully sleeping on the ride home. But I'd like to be able to plan my trip and know who I was going to see (hopefully Villalobos, Anthony Shakir, Plastikman, DJ Hype, Rob Hood, Derrick Carter, Ernestus, et al.). I can't say that I was really expecting the schedule to be updated but I was hoping that the site would at least work for everyone who wanted to read it, at least so I could get the times that the festival is open for. Pretty disappointing.

St. Werner and Andi Toma of Mouse On Mars have spent the past two decades creating some of the most inventive and beguiling electronic compositions to bridge the worlds of electronic and rock music. Drafting influences as far and wide as Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, and Lee “Scratch” Perry, the duo’s early albums revealed a multi-textured fusion of krautrock sensibilities and cool post-techno refinement that was hailed by critics as the future of adventurous home listening. Mouse On Mars’ panoramic feast for the ears earned vocal fans in influential groups such as Stereolab and Tortoise, who began to use similar elements to deconstruct British and American rock. But over the course of ten albums, Mouse On Mars have changed course drastically with each subsequent outing, remaining anarchically indefinable. Lately, they have taken another left turn into more rhythmic territory, and their showcase at MUTEK 2010 should serve as one of the first peaks into the duo’s latest reinvention. Reinvigorated after a long pause, the duo claims to be “writing their most exciting new stuff for years – possibly decades. Playing mostly in clubs over the recent years has got the creative juices flowing like hot lava.”

Yeah, it's fantastic. I still listen to it on a semi-regular basis.

Out of interest, what do you consider the other great mixes you've released?

I'm not Tom and I certainly haven't heard ALL the FACT mixes, but Elijah & Skilliam, Sully, Shed, Guido, Gemmy, Peverelist, Space Dimension Controller, King Midas Sound, Village Orchestra, Autechre out of the last 60 or so. So fucking good.

Oh man, this tune:

amazing stuff, nice one

that and the black dog - music for real airports album and scuba are releases of the year for me so far...

I'm going to get the Deadboy mix right now, and I absolutely second the King Midas Sound and Village Orchestra mixes. Those two have gotten a good amount of replays.