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Severian 02.18.2017 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
I was only thinking about them the other day. Crazy that it's nearly ten years since Third came out. Is there even any news of them doing anything new?


This is the last thing I saw:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...bute-to-jo-cox

I know Geoff Barrow has been busy with BEAK>, and doing scores for Alex Garland movies (a new one, for ANNIHILATION, based on a FUCKED UP horror book I love, will be out his year).

But it seems as though Portishead might just be over. Or, possibly, dine with new albums. They'll probably do some legacy touring at some point. But think about it, when Third came out, we'd been waiting for a new studio record for 11 goddamn years. During that time, the album went though a number of phases and gestations, and new about it was leaking as early as 2001/02.

Now it's been another decade of silence, but there's been no mention of a new album. None that I can remember. Nothing. Zip.

Fucking shame, really. Third is the gold standard for "comeback" albums. Nobody's ever done it better. I thought it would be IMPOSSIBLE for Portishead to make a viable, successful and challenging album during a period when "trip-hop" was a fucking insult. But they reduced their sound down to its basest elements and built it back up, creating something that not only met but EXCEEDED expectations.

That's right. Even though I grew up with Dummy (which was, essentially, the proto-Ok Computer, before Radiohead itself was even at Bends-level, in that it was the defining opus of British art-electronic), and had my mind blown by Portishead's wicked, wicked self-titled album, I actually think Third is better than BOTH by far.

Not even A Tribe Called Quest pulled it off so well. Not GY!BE. Not even my beloved Aphex Twin. (Sorry, SYRO, you're awesome but you're no Third.)

Sad... :(

Severian 02.18.2017 11:03 AM

Here, lets dry our eyes and hold hands and bask in the ... err ... "beauty" ... of this absolutely horrifying Eraserhead-esque video for the best track on Third.

Portishead's WTFucking-awesome "Machine Gun" video

_slavo_ 02.19.2017 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I only listen to Casi Cada Minuto


you're the sweetest person ever.

and you know what? I'm just working on a song right now, I'mma drop you a secret soundcloud link on Facebook so that you can listen to it.

Some Tim Hecker shit right there.

h8kurdt 02.19.2017 06:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian
Here, lets dry our eyes and hold hands and bask in the ... err ... "beauty" ... of this absolutely horrifying Eraserhead-esque video for the best track on Third.

Portishead's WTFucking-awesome "Machine Gun" video


Amazing song.

With the video I take it you've not seen Tetsuo?

guest 02.19.2017 07:15 AM

not sure if this falls under the definition of 'electronic' but regardless this one should be a blinder

 

graham lambkin & taku unami - the whistler [coming soon on erstwhile]


the new henning christiansen release on penultimate is also glorious.





feeling like I'm very quickly falling out of the loop in the club-based game, new N1L on uiq is sweet as is the new neana tape, looking forward to the new ilpo vaisanen and second woman records on emego.....can't keep up with the rest

Bytor Peltor 02.19.2017 07:46 AM

Kristian M. Roberts - Two Portraits is more terrifying than the harshess noise record you've heard in a long time, yet its lush enough to fall asleep to.

 

Severian 02.19.2017 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
Amazing song.

With the video I take it you've not seen Tetsuo?


I have not. Nor do I watch many music videos, so I just searched for the thing on YouTube and grabbed the first result.

Tetsuo must be a pretty fucked up Japanese body-horror film, I'm guessing?

h8kurdt 02.19.2017 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian
I have not. Nor do I watch many music videos, so I just searched for the thing on YouTube and grabbed the first result.

Tetsuo must be a pretty fucked up Japanese body-horror film, I'm guessing?


:D pretty much. For the longest time it was a friend of mine's favourite film. It's not that good, but it's pretty out there.

Severian 02.19.2017 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
:D pretty much. For the longest time it was a friend of mine's favourite film. It's not that good, but it's pretty out there.


Works well with "Machine Gun," but I'm not interested in seeing the movie because I've seen Eraserhead and read Metamorphosis and ANNIHILATION and body/vessel horror shit just kind of freaks me the motherfucking fuck out.

Severian 02.19.2017 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi


^^ dope dope dope electro-adjacent cover of "I Would Die 4 U" by Gate.

THANKS SOUP NAZI! Would add rep if I could.

Severian 02.20.2017 10:16 AM

 


Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage

I see that this got a good rating on pitchfork, not that that matters to most, but it really is quite a good album. I've purchased about half of the tracks so far, and I think I'm going to spring for the physical release, as it's one of few 2017 albums that are worth it at this point.

Pitchfork struggles with genres, specifically the need to abide by genre "rules," which is why they describe this as ambient. I would not, as there are definite melodic and harmonic structures to the songs, which are repeated, and there are percussive elements that provide cohesion to isolated ideas within tracks. This is really not ambient music.

It also not wholly electronic, but it's fucking good!

Listen to "Bloodstream" and "Mask". These are my picks at the moment.

Genteel Death 02.20.2017 11:10 AM

https://soundcloud.com/timsweeney/vvminimalwave
Veronica Vasicka on WNYU's BIS Show. Killer.

selkcip 02.20.2017 07:05 PM

https://billygomberg.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-barrier

if y'all have any love for Microstoria, and [fractured, tonal] music in the vein of Oval/Nuno Canavarro/Rafael Toral, i'd recommend this fella... Comme and Transition are fantastic albums, most everything i've sampled here is pleasant and affecting.

The Soup Nazi 02.21.2017 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian
^^ dope dope dope electro-adjacent cover of "I Would Die 4 U" by Gate.

THANKS SOUP NAZI! Would add rep if I could.


AND "Purple Rain"! But do check out http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip/sho...ostcount=49605...

Severian 02.22.2017 06:23 PM

Arca has a new self-titled album coming out in April. Should be fucking good.

 


Listen to new song "Piel"

^ the melody reminds me a bit of one of those songs on Burial's Rival Dealer. Can't remember which one because I only listen to that beautiful thing from start to finish, so it might as well be one track to me.

Arca is becoming a pretty formidable presence in the genre. Taking cues from all sorts of different places.

Severian 02.23.2017 02:12 PM

ATTN: NEW BLANCK MASS ALBUM IS STREAMING FOR FREE NOW, 1 WEEK EARLY

If you dug the shit I posted, check it out:

LISTEN HERE

Bytor Peltor 02.23.2017 02:31 PM

Thanks - I loved the previous album, can't wait to hear this!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Severian
ATTN: NEW BLANCK MASS ALBUM IS STREAMING FOR FREE NOW, 1 WEEK EARLY

If you dug the shit I posted, check it out:

LISTEN HERE


greenlight 02.24.2017 04:02 PM

not sure if this falls under the definition of music, but it's certainly is electronic.

Dick Raaymakers (also Raaijmakers; 1 September 1930 – 4 September 2013) was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He was known as a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music. In addition, he realized numerous music theater pieces, art installations, and has published many theoretical essays.


Canon-5, super ‘dis-moi …’ (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIj_...ature=youtu.be

Severian 02.26.2017 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by greenlight
not sure if this falls under the definition of music, but it's certainly is electronic.

Dick Raaymakers (also Raaijmakers; 1 September 1930 – 4 September 2013) was a Dutch composer, theater maker and theorist. He was known as a pioneer in the field of electronic music and tape music. In addition, he realized numerous music theater pieces, art installations, and has published many theoretical essays.


Canon-5, super ‘dis-moi …’ (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIj_...ature=youtu.be


Absolutely qualifies, man. Absolutely. Thank you!

Severian 02.26.2017 06:58 PM

By the way, Jóhan Jóhansson's "Kangaru" from the ARRIVAL soundtrack is one of THE BEST electronic tracks of 2016. Didn't see the movie until night before last, but goddamn that soundtrack is incredible.

I can't find a clip, but check it out. The whole soundtrack is worth hearing, for sure.

The Soup Nazi 02.26.2017 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian
By the way, Jóhan Jóhansson's "Kangaroo" from the ARRIVAL soundtrack [...]


The following belongs in a different thread (if it does at all, because the Oscars suck it from a bucket anyway), but since you mention Arrival, I just wanna say Amy Adams has been robbed at gunpoint by not being nominated for best actress. (It's like the Paul Giamatti/Sideways travesty from 13 years ago). Except I'm not talking about Arrival!

 


These should be the winners and everything else is horseshit:

Best Picture — Nocturnal Animals
Best Director — Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals
Best Actor — Jake Gyllenhall, Nocturnal Animals
Best Actress — Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals
Best Supporting Actor — Michael Shannon or Aaaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals. Shannon (greatest actor of the motherfuckingmillenium) actually got nominated. If he doesn't win everyone who didn't vote for him should get cancer.
Best Supporting Actress — Laura Linney or Isla Fisher, Nocturnal Animals
Best Adapted Screenplay — Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals (based on the novel Tony and Susan by Austin Wright)
Best Original Score — Abel Korzeniowski, Nocturnal Animals
Best Production Design — Shane Valentino, Nocturnal Animals
Best Cinematography — Seamus McGarvey, Nocturnal Animals
Best Makeup and Hairstyling — Donald Mowat, Malanie J. Romero, Elaine Offers, Yolanda Toussieng, Jules Holdren, Nocturnal Animals
Best Costume Design — Arianne Phillips, Nocturnal Animals
Best Film Editing — Joan Sobel, Nocturnal Animals
Best Visual Effects — Outpost/Flying Colour, Nocturnal Animals

Haven't seen the film? Do it, but do NOT read anything about the plot before watching it. Both your enjoyment (if the word applies here at all) of the movie and your karma are at stake.

Apologies for briefly hijacking the thread. You may resume electronicking now.

Severian 02.26.2017 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
Apologies for briefly hijacking the thread. You may resume electronicking now.


Wow. Well, I've been kinda talking smack about Ford in the movies thread today, so you're probably not going to like that.

Shannon was damn good, but with some qualifiers. See other thread (in short, yeah, he stole the show, but Christian Bale, Daniel Day Lewis, Matthew Mcconaughey, and others could have nailed that part just as hard, and it would have probably gone unnoticed by the academy... a light day's work for those guys. Still, he was good.)

I have issues with other aspects of it, but it certainly wasn't bad in any way.

To say it's better as a film or as an Amy Adams fest than Arrival is... well... I disagree big time. But whatever.

Severian 02.26.2017 10:03 PM

LAURA LINNEY WAS IN ONE FUCKING SCENE, YOU MADMAN! And it was like 5 min long!

The Soup Nazi 02.26.2017 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian
Wow. Well, I've been kinda talking smack about Ford in the movies thread today, so you're probably not going to like that.


I don't read that thread, and I won't start now or I will have to kill you. Tom Ford is a GOD. There are scenes in Nocturnal Animals which hit me like an Anna Calvi song and that's the greatest compliment in the Solar System right there.

Predictably, given the Academy's stupidity, Shannon didn't win. Cancer cells are spreading galore tonight.

Severian 02.27.2017 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi
I don't read that thread, and I won't start now or I will have to kill you. Tom Ford is a GOD. There are scenes in Nocturnal Animals which hit me like an Anna Calvi song and that's the greatest compliment in the Solar System right there.

Predictably, given the Academy's stupidity, Shannon didn't win. Cancer cells are spreading galore tonight.


Well if you don't read the movie thread then can we pm about this? I haven't seen his first movie, and I *did* read about NoctAm before I saw it because the trailer really got me pumped, so I think we would actually agree in a lot, and I'd love to hear more about your take on the movie, but I don't want to give my gastropub indigestion.

Also, I definitely thought Shannon would win, and was rooting for him, but Mahershala Ali is a really powerful actor, and even though I have yet to see Moonlight, I'm guessing he did a damn good job.

PM me and talk to me about why you thought this movie was so good that it should have swept every category of consequence. I'm genuinely interested. I didn't hate it, just had issues with some stuff.

NOW... back to bleeps and bloops!

Two Lone Swordsmen - "The Big Clapper"

gogologogolo 03.01.2017 12:50 AM

Katie Gately's album Colors was one of the best of last year IMO. She's like a mix between Meredith Monk and Bjork. Her music is just bonkers.

Check out the track "Sift".

Severian 03.01.2017 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by gogologogolo
Katie Gately's album Colors was one of the best of last year IMO. She's like a mix between Meredith Monk and Bjork. Her music is just bonkers.

Check out the track "Sift".


Will do ASAP. Thanks!

evollove 03.01.2017 11:45 AM

Has anyone heard Gil Mantera's Party Dream? I saw them live a bunch of times years and years ago. Innovative use of synths and the stage.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKuXRhpHg9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwydqKifDck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtSaXzPGYHI

Severian 03.03.2017 11:42 AM

BLANCK MASS - WORLD EATER is out today!!!

 


In case you didn't see the cover the first three times I posted about it. ;)

Listening to it for the first time now.

It's fucking good. The first track will hook you. Highly recommend. Possibly best album of 2017 so far.

Severian 03.07.2017 07:41 PM

I just got my hands on a shitload of new electronic music, some of which I've never even heard of before.

A cool library in my area was having book, music and movie sale. I found a bunch of things that were EASILY worth the ridiculously low price, and many of them were electronic albums (nobody in the American Midwest apparently digs this shit, despite the proximity of Chicago.. it's weird).

Anyway... found the following. Mostly albums from just last year. Feels like a goddamn steal for me, but the library seemed happy to get rid of all of it.

Africans With Mainframes - K.M.T
 


Delroy Edwards - Hangin' at the Beach
https://images.bigcartel.com/product...&h=1000&w=1000
(terrible album cover, but so far not terrible music -- haven't really listened yet)

Ganjasufi - Callus
 

(I have other albums by this guy, and a little bit can go a long way)

Mica Levi/Oliver Coates - Remain Calm (FUCKIN' SCORE!)
 



(More coming...)

Severian 03.07.2017 07:52 PM

Michael Mayer - & (This one is a hell of a find... dude's got tracks with Roman Flügel, Miss Kitten, and more... is a KOMPAKT signee, so that means he's in with my boy DJ Koze. This is my favorite of the bunch.)

 


Sarathy Korwar - Day to Day
 


Ulrich Schnauss - No Further Ahead Than Today
 


Also got a Swet Shop Boys album because why the fuck not, and some other, older, more traditional shit that has not place in this gastropub.

selkcip 03.08.2017 12:32 AM

 

 

Severian 03.10.2017 08:06 AM

^ Koch is a good album that I tend to forget about when I'm discussing strong electronic releases of the last few years.

Are you posting because you just got it, or because that's what you're listening to at the moment? Just curious.

_slavo_ 03.13.2017 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by selkcip
 

 


what's the first one?

Severian 03.13.2017 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by _slavo_
what's the first one?


Lee Gamble - Koch :)

_slavo_ 03.14.2017 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian
Lee Gamble - Koch :)


ah ok, so both pictures are Lee Gamble, got it.

Severian 03.14.2017 05:00 PM

Hot damn, there's a new fuckin' Jlin album!!

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Originally Posted by From Boomkat
Jlin's long awaited second album “Black Origami” has just been announced and features a collaboration with William Basinski, as well as a new collab with Holly Herndon on “1%”, and contributions from Halcyon Veil producer Fawkes' and Cape Town rapper Dope Saint Jude.

The album seals Jlin's reputation as a unique producer with an exceptional ability to make riveting rhythmic music. It's driven by a deep creative thirst, as sh explains:

“This driving feeling that I wanted to do something different, something that challenged me to my core. Black Origami for me, comes from letting go creatively, creating with no boundaries. The simple definition of origami is the art of folding and constructing paper into a beautiful, yet complex design. Composing music for me is like origami, only I'm replacing paper with sound. I chose to title the album "Black Origami" because like "Dark Energy" I still create from the beauty of darkness and blackness. The willingness to go into the hardest places within myself to create for me means that I can touch the Infinity.” Spirituality and movement are both at the core of “Black Origami”, inspired largely by her ongoing collaborations with Indian dancer/movement artist Avril Stormy Unger whom she met and collaborated with at her debut performance for the Unsound festival – ”There is a fine line between me entertaining a person and my spirituality.

Avril, who collaborates with me by means of dance, feels the exact same way. Movement played a great role in Black Origami. The track "Carbon 7" is very inspired by the way Avril moves and dances. Our rhythms are so in sync at times it kind of scares us. When there is something I can't quite figure out when it comes to my production, it’s like she senses it. Her response to me is always "You'll figure it out". Once I figure it out it's like time and space no longer exist.”

Similar time shifting/folding/disrupting effects can be heard throughout the record – especially on “Holy Child” an unlikely collaboration with minimalist legend William Basinski. She also collaborates again with Holly Herndon on “1%”, while Halcyon Veil producer Fawkes' voice is on “Calcination“ and Cape Town rapper Dope Saint Jude provides vocals for “Never Created, Never Destroyed“."


Terrible punctuation in that pull quote, but whatever. I am very, very down for this.

Jlin - Black Origami

 

Severian 03.15.2017 09:54 AM

New Actress - AZD out April 14

 

Severian 03.16.2017 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
Received the new Gregg Skloff:

República de la Concha January 2017



Care to share any thoughts? I don't think I'm familiar.

_tunic_ 03.17.2017 05:51 PM

a while ago there was a great documentary about the history of electronic music on Dutch TV called Planet Electro. It can be watched fully on Vimeo. And if you want just a snippet here's a nice 6 minute fragment of the 808 and the LinnDrum. And there's also the trailer
The main language is unfortunately Dutch and no English subtitles but most of the interviews are in English. It features artists like Carl Cox, Human League, Ultravox, Rick Wakeman , Yello, OMD, Spandau Ballet, etc etc, and also some Dutch recent house DJs
And it also features interviews with the inventors of those instruments

Turns out that stuff like the 808 was considered as a complete failure by their designers :)


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