haven't heard Apparat, cos i didn't like what they did with Ellen Allien last year, and i'm certain that i would not like their own work either.

don't wanna praise Tobias Thomas mix too much, cos i don't like it all that much, but for a home listening it's rather nice. that slow build up that you mention gives it a nice loungey feeling. which is not necessary bad for that kind of mix. if you want something more upbeat, there is a live mix by Oliver Hunteman. great electro house. it rocks if you dig that kind of sound. but if you'd rather listen to something minimal, but that also can rock, i'd recommend the new M-Nus mix, called Nothing Much. it's very good. if you dig M-Nus sound you'll definitely like that one.

Matthew Dear album bored the hell out of me. it's worse than The Postal Service, and even the last album by Junior Boys is better than it (and i hated that Junior Boys album). there's nothing on that album that is better than "deserter" which in itself is a pretty forgettable track after you listen to it 10 or so times in a row.

if you want a techno album with a but or human touch to it, i'd recommend Kalabrese. it's got its minimal base, but most of the stuff on it, as i understood, are live instruments, and there's a lot of vocals and stuff like that. blends all kinds of styles and everything.

Lose My Chair


here are two albums that i like the most from this year:


JPLS - Twilight [M-Nus]

Green01 Skoozpots (Twilite Remix)
i dig this one. great minimal sound. keeps a nice vibe to it throughout the whole album.

Digitaline - Anticlickwise [Cadenza]

Supertroll
this will probably sound way too minimal on the first listen. but try listening to it through headphones and it'll definitely grow on you. i don't think there's been an album as cohesive as this one so far. great production on all tracks.


i could post some more stuff like Efdemin, Pantha du Prince, Gabriel Ananda, Robert Babicz, Stephan Bodzin and Dominik Eulberg, but you probably heard most of them. and to me they're not all that great.

Honestly, if this record consisted of an actual fridge attempting to re-interpret the sun, the results still wouldn't be much more abstract than those Kieran Hebden's band have already created. Scattered, tangled hints of rhythm crawl across giant blank canvases, filling the blank space with bells, whistles, drum fills and scratches to build minimal masterpieces: Fridge are practically Mondriancore.

Post-rock is a tired term, and one which can be easily replaced with 'Godspeed clone' half the time, but it's appropriate when describing 'The Sun': its aural environment is vast and open without needing to be over the top epic, and the patterns are abstract to the point of shapelessness. But the real reason this record is such a success is because the individual melodies and instrumental harmonies are so gorgeous. Battles are great (yes, Fridge were around before, but bear with me…), and so was Squarepusher's 'Music is Rotted One Note', but this shoots both of them in soft-focus: improving tenfold the sense of beauty and melody, whilst retaining the unpredictable song structures that made them so interesting in the first place.

hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/3d1hdg

Thanks for that vintage Slimzee SPN.... a not so lackadaisical ride on my backinthedaysicle.

Buzza is growing on me slowly but very surely, so I look forward to getting this listened. And a vinyl release from him, eh? Not too shabby.

Bad poster alert on SPN.

I'm starting to think Ricardo is a hit or miss kinda guy, i mean its all relative anyway, but for me his output has been going steadily downhill.

Have you ever been? They've had some solid lineups recently….I'm quite tempted to put in an appearance some time.

That Air France EP is perfect.

i'm trying to upload Hundred Million Light Years right now. hope it goes through.

that new villalobos track is really cool. i love it.

kait0

pt. 1 - hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?09dj1mov2iy
pt. 2 - hxxp://www.mediafire.com/?0zmu1mhwnqt

I couldn't disagree more, I think he is one of the most consistent artists around at the moment. His blood on my hands remix is easily my favourite track of the year so far and soledad makes me really pissed that I missed sonar this year.....god made the sun so we can all get together on a beach underneath it and listen to shit like this.

Which other recent RV tracks are misses for you BG and what’s you favouritre work of his ie. the point from which he has been going downhill?

Its weird how this happens sometimes. My feelings on his recent stuff are almost a total inversion of yours. The beck rmx did nothing for me and WWMF didn't really blow me away while FZ, the BOMH rmx and soledad are amongst my favourite ever tracks by him.

Like I said at the time, Fizheur Zieheur didn't really click with me at first but then heard it in a club and it just hit the spot. Its hard to put my finger on exactly why I dig his expanded canvas stuff so much.....I think his something to do with the mix getting stretched out. In all these tracks, including soledad, the bass fluctuations and ployrythyms that you mention are there. They are more subtle and toned-down but, for me anyway, they are more effective because the effect is accentuated by the contrast with the sustained, rigid template. Just as you get locked into the robotic uniformity he deploys a more human element of expansion and contraction...the tracks start to breathe.

On a slightly different note, the thing I’ve enjoyed most about music this year is the idea exchange, intentional or not, that seems to be occurring at the confluence of techno and dubstep. The BOMH remix is the obvious high point of the exploration of the interface but after hearing a couple of his sets recently Pinch's full length is now my mostly eagerly anticipated release to come. Can't wait for that shit.

Have you all been listening to the new burial? The whole thing is fire but Shutta in particular is a clattersome wonderment.

Been lovin the new Burial. That man is a damn production genius. The multiple reverbs dont get cancelled by the deep bass, he knows how to fill his audio spectrum in a more inventive way than many of the other dubsteppers of the moment.

Have you all been listening to the new burial? The whole thing is fire but Shutta in particular is a clattersome wonderment.

Well, I finally decided to put another one of these together. I've made so much in the last year but these four as of recently have been my favorite. I actually don't have names for them this time and I did no mixing and alo forgot tempo lock so bear with me. As always this was performed live of my ElectribeSX, a picture of which is at the top of the page.

Q4Mix

i'm sorry, but what is that exactly? mix of your own music or just a mix?

from what ive heard on the internet, the two camps do seem to be sharing eachothers tents.

I decided to post this in here too for all the people who dont check the Plug One thread.

Have any of you in here listened to this mix at all? Any criticisms?

Downloaded. Transferred to portable music device. New Sennheisers arrived today. This is getting the 'walk home from work' treatment tomorrow morning.

New Sennheisers arrived today.

part of my walk home runs alongside a disused railway track and it sounded for all the world like the ghost of a train was haunting your mix...I kept looking around.