Search results

It's gotten a lot better (since I left, actually -- coincidence? I hope so). <a href="http://www.kontrolsf.com/">Kontrol</a> throw great monthlies -- next one (Aug 4) is 3 Channels & Alland Byallo. <a href="http://www.mighty119.com/">Mighty</a> has some good stuff, though seemingly not next...

That's funny, it didn't occur to me at all, but "Put Your Hands Up" is exactly what this reminds me of, at least the vocal delivery.

Sounds about right then! I do find it kind of funny that the Skream mix, which sounds nothing like Skream's normal fare, is titled the "Oi This Doesn't Sound Like Skream Mix." Heh.

So I just got this David E. Sugar single, "Oi New York, This Is London," featuring remixes by Hot Chip vs. Ragga Twins, Skream, and Jesse Rose -- somehow connected to the Grecoroman parties. Is this bassline house? Most of the mixes (no matter who they're by, including Skream) seem to be...

yeah, that 12" is really something -- i prefer the petre track, based on initial listens. petre's upcoming doublepack on cadenza is really effing bonkers....

haha, that's perfect!

sadly, i don't. i'd send it to you as a word doc but it's in desperate need of cleaning up. hopefully one of these days i'll get around to it. busy + lazy = backlog.

Re: Luciano FDO: I LOVE the Sosa side, unconditionally, can't recall ever having problems w/ the backing track. And while I long hated the flipside, I've recently re-discovered it. Not something I want to play all the time but every now and then, it hits the spot. ("Technical supporters" may be...

I definitely wouldn't say there is a Barcelona sound in terms of production (largely because there are so few producers here, if we're talking about house/techno). Factor City is doing some great stuff, at times strikingly original (that Lontano remixes 12" is great) but they're generally...

Re: the bell tones in Efdemin, Pantha, et al -- There's a fantastic softsynth called the Zebra2 (www.u-he.com) that excells at plucked and struck tones, if you're looking for them. (Efdemin doesn't use it, though. Apparently many of the sounds on the opening track come from the MUMOK museum in...

certainly not Resident Advisor, presumably. ;) (just skimming the opening grafs of that DJ piece but it looks... pretty... turgid.)

i don't like any door policy that turns people away (and i've previously written quite negatively about berghain's door policy). but i sort of came around when i realized how arbitrary it was -- they're not keeping out people that aren't cool enough, gay enough, or sober enough (or vice versa...

btw, is there really such a thing as a "farmer fetish"?

the bouncers are indeed choosy. i've had friends fail to get in and it really, truly sucks. there's nothing you can do about it, either. there doesn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason to whom they choose -- appears largely arbitrary. i haven't ever seen bouncer action like that at watergate or...

i hear talk of there being quite a bit of ketamine in berlin but honestly i haven't seen evidence of it. (never tried it and don't want to.) as far as i can tell you'll see most of it at the extreme afters, like bar25, where the music sort of ceases to matter. plenty of E and coke in berlin...

it really depends on when you're there -- i've been to berghain on nights that it really was like that, especially back in the toilets. but i also tried explicitly to scale back that angle as well. agreed that it's a misstep to wait on the luciano "drunken ballet" but i'm sure everyone will be...

Just wanted to confirm that many classical recordings ARE in fact spliced together from various tapes. I was a page-turner once for a recording of some Bartok (IIRC) violin/piano sonatas being performed by a fairly major American violinist (the pianist was my college piano instructor at the...

I'm using the word "minimal" less and less (except when I forget, and say it automatically) simply because it's becoming more and more meaningless -- and the stuff that is remaining pretty firmly tied to minimalistic roots (like the Minus stuff and a lot of the North American clicky clicky stuff...

good places to find sets from luciano & villalobos (and a ton of likeminded types): http://www.traviscastillo.com/ http://cocoonstyled.web-log.nl/

that glade mix expired already - any chance of a re-up? really curious to hear that. just ordered his new doublepack from hardwax, can't wait to hear how it sounds.