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On 9/11/2022 at 11:12 AM, auxien said:
i'm assuming they've had vinyl production and/or money issues since COVID...who knows what a label/people are going through tho. feels a little crass to speculate.
weird that they've been surprisingly active with the AMKS live stuff while not putting out any releases...but they've been on a one-a-year schedule for quite a while before that too. probably just keeping it going as a side/legacy thing at this point. the AMKS stuff has been great tho! they should probably just offer a paypal link when they do those or something.
the worship of vinyl by the consumers is the real problem. but what can ya do
don't think i'd listened to this mix, pretty nice.
I'm not trying to be dismissive here when I say the following: fuck it and release it digitally with a potential goal of a physical if that's the real desire. Sitting on someone's albums for multiple years is shitty.
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31 minutes ago, NewSchoolScience said:
The write up for this one is hilarious.
This is like the prompt to a DND one-shot.
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On 8/29/2022 at 11:12 PM, scumtron said:
It's ok, but I don't appreciate the change of style he did with conference of trees. This is more of the same i dunno... new age tribal IDM? This Bliss and Black Noise are just so much better.
I mostly agree. I'm glad he's doing what he wants to, but This Bliss through The Triad (which I think is pretty overlooked) are what really resonate with me. I've put one sample track that I adore from each album below.
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32 minutes ago, gnarlybog said:
It's pretty nice on first listen. I saw him live a few years ago, I remember a lot of bells on stage. Before that, Black Noise got heavy spins from me when it came out. Nice shimmery vibes.
It seems like in recent years he has transformed from looking like a cool european techno guy to spiritual guru who lives in a tree? Must have smoked something good."Black Noise" is one of my most listened to albums of all time. I got through university with that on the bus, albeit "Welt Am Draht" did put me to sleep quite a few times when I was struggling to wake up.
He's a lot of fun live. I went to his DJ tour some time around The Triad and he spent the show dad-dancing on stage to his own tunes. We were the last show of his before he went back home/wrapped the tour and he played about an extra half hour until the sound people at the venue were nicely begging him to be done lol.
Yeah, he seems to have moved away from being techno, or at least into some spiritual space. I do enjoy his plinky-plonky stuff though, "Conference of Trees" and "Elements of Light" are both really pretty listens.
Playlist of the album since it just released:
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New release from Pantha du Prince with three videos on his official channel. Been a pretty big fan of his output for awhile and this all sounds very pretty and "on brand" thus far. For anyone looking into or considering getting into Pantha du Prince, I'd really recommend starting with "This Bliss", but you can start anywhere since none of his output is terribly challenging or difficult, mostly pretty. His first album "Diamond Daze" is definitely the roughest sound overall though.
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This is a pretty fun video and this guy seems like a pretty level headed music nerd.
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23 hours ago, splesh said:
Couldn't have been a more perfect album for this. Exai is one of their albums that marks a turning point in their career of a higher level of clarity in the sound design. I'm not sure exactly how many there have been, I think certainly more than two, but notice for example the difference in the fidelity of the sound between say EP7 and Confield. Also an excellent choice given all the excellent use of the stereo field by the lads.
EP7 is the one that made it all make "sense" for me back in the day. I think we may have talked about it at some point, that was the first one I went and truly hunted down for purchase from having tried to piece together what I liked about this "new to me, exciting artist oh wow!"
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Exai was their first album that released after I moved into the new place (where I'm still living now), and was thus also the first album I got to listen to on proper speakers and not only headphones or a laptop when it was new. Exai was their second album that I got to experience as a brand new piece, the day that is dropped as I had only started listening to their stuff around when Quaristice came out.
This album is a monster and I loved it the second "Fleure" got going. Maybe it's a bias/bit of fanaticism, but I feel like every album of theirs starts super strong and has a really well curated tracklist, Exai being probably one of the most cohesive in that manner of their recent catalogue. As others have said, L-Event cannot be ignored, I adore tac Lacora and give that a spin on my record player every so often because it's so good incredibly loud.
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Please, MDX, I want to throw money at VHS Head releases. It cannot be that difficult to do a digital release with a forthcoming physical as an "eventually" pre-order if that's the desired release style.
Let me buy the man's damn music.
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The video for Dropp and Pir are what got me into Autechre back in like...2007 I think it was.
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I never would have thought 5 years ago that I needed to go catch up on Mike's output, but here I am. It's been fun coming back to it and remembering why I loved it to begin with, it's pretty, fun, thoughtful, and relatively easy to listen to; it really scratches a particular itch that I forget is down in my mind at times.
Mike has done so much to shape my music tastes with both his output and his label, and with how I consume (the early Planet Mu online store was such a good platform for its time, it was unreal).
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I haven't listened to the second set yet (nor the entirety of the first one), but this is like the exact opposite of "never meet your heroes." I don't know that I ever idolized them, necessarily, but fucking hell have I loved all of their art and respected them for so long now. It's so nice to hear the stories of certain pieces and the small tidbits on how stuff's made, or bits about lost media that never was.
These little outside chats with Sean are so rad.
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I really caught on with him through "Hyper Opal Mantis" and he's been so steadily producing more music that's both clearly his and evolving with each release. What I've sampled of this on Bandcamp is really good, he did excellently.
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7 hours ago, watmmisdead said:
hes quite big on the EDM scene?
honestly i have seen the name here and there but im also not aware of them or wasnt aware how big they were
if skrillex collab with them, I guess they are pretty popular
NOISIA have been around the block for awhile. They were doing the, "what if we didn't just make drops and focused on tight controls on our bass and breaks" when the whole brostep->mainstream dubstep scene was exploding. I really think they're worth at least shuffling through if slightly curious, but if it's not your bag that's fine too. I really dug their debut album "Split the Atom," and have been passively following them since, but I was way into breakcore, breakbeat, and jungle prior to ever hearing them. I always felt they exercised some really good restraint/discipline.
Their first big track, Machine Gun, really put them on the map back in 2010.
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On 3/15/2022 at 7:48 AM, gnarlybog said:
Hot take: This is one of the strongest IDM records I have heard in years. It really grows on you. There are a lot of cool acts in the genre, but you rarely hear such strong melodies and compositions. Often IDM acts feel too derivative of the pioneers or just bland. This album hits a nice sweet spot.
Do you mean only in recent years in terms of release or in general? No disagreement, but interested in the discourse, mostly because I want to throw how much Brothomstates grew on me over the years.
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I would just like to be able to support the artist that is VHS Head.
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On 12/14/2021 at 4:12 PM, sidewinder said:
Wishful Thinking
Sunken FoalLoved Hexose, but I really want something back to how the Friday Syndromes were. Those albums are so...pleasant, fun, well made, and gorgeous.
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This thread is a treasure.
My submission is all of (NSFW warning) Diccolo Picks. https://diccolopicks.bandcamp.com/
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On 11/30/2021 at 12:46 PM, Stickfigger said:
Phoenecia - MD.SLVG
I completely forgot to pick this up, it's a great listen.
I've only bought two albums that came out this year, oops:
Danny L Harle - Harlecore
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Necroing this thread to give all my love to how lush New Chair is.
This album is a treat.
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On 10/23/2021 at 3:15 PM, TubularCorporation said:
Let's be real, the worst covers are usually high budget, major label affairs.
Completely agree. It's really easy to say something low budget or DIY sucks, but there's at least the charm of "this was made by like 3 people and one happened to have a GIMP installed" or something. When it's not ironic and made with a bunch of market research and soulless, then comes out the sphincter of its design firm as a piece of shit. That's when it hits like that Madonna or Metallica cover.
Same with movies.
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Popping back into here to say every single Andy Maddocks set in these mixes is astoundingly good. The 31_10_21 mix is really good throughout, I bumped most of it at work last week and today.
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Some really good bits in there, not that I dislike any of it. Love some of the revisitations of older tracks.
Thanks, Ade.
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I find the text-to-speech fun/charming.
Plaid - Feorm Falorx (out November 11th, 2022)
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Yeah, she used to be super active on all the IDM Facebook groups. Rather pleasant individual that would get unnecessary hate, from what I recall.