Akufen [Archive] - erutufon|nofuture

Peezee

24th June 2002, 05:33

I think Akufen has been succesfully filling the gap between glitchy techno and quirky house. Some similar stuff on the glitchy techno side can be found with kid606 and the tigerbeat 6 label, some of the Cologne labels, Safety Scissors.. And on the house tip, stuff like Pantytec on Perlon, Herbert, and a lot of the newer stuff on Herbert's Soundslike label- especially the 12" by Soft Pink Truth. There is also a great new 12" on the Palette label by "The Rip Off Artist" very much in the style of Akufen, but a little more structured around nice bassy synth melodies. I think this glitchy-funk style is growing pretty fast in the realm of tech-house- plenty of stuff to look out for.

Hope that helps.
PS- I'm new to the board, my name's Pete, from Michigan, currently in Chicago, dj'ng techno for about 6 years, slowly getting into production when I have the time. Hi to all :)

Tomoki

24th June 2002, 09:27

Hi Peezee, shouts to the Windy City

Send me some wind to me, it´s too hot herelol

FORMAT

24th June 2002, 09:43

Great tips, peezee - and cheers from Berlin

FORMAT

24th June 2002, 14:56

yeah - i heard Jason Subhead playing this amazing sound in barcelona one time and i asked him to show me the record and it was some double pack by akufen ... i don't know where to find it , but it sure blew me away that one time i heard it...

Peezee

24th June 2002, 17:41

Originally posted by cristian
yeah - i heard Jason Subhead playing this amazing sound in barcelona one time and i asked him to show me the record and it was some double pack by akufen ... i don't know where to find it , but it sure blew me away that one time i heard it...

Thats probably the album "My Way" that came out on Force about a month ago- I went to my local shop a week after it came out and they were already sold out :( There's also a 12" single from the album released on Force called "Deck the House"- one of the better album tracks along with a nice Herbert remix. Akufen has also been releasing on Trapez, Perlon, Touch of Class. Here's a decent Akufen discography:
http://www.homebass.ca/artist/a2185.cfm

FORMAT

24th June 2002, 22:05

My Way has got to be the most amazing record to come out in the past few weeks. I would love to know how he plays this stuff live, I know he uses Ableton for that.

pejot

25th June 2002, 08:55

I'm not sure why, but I don't like My Way. Too schematic, too similar to his previouse releases? I find his Perlon and Trapez records much more interesting, but maybe it's just me.

pejot

25th June 2002, 09:11

Originally posted by Peezee
There is also a great new 12" on the Palette label by "The Rip Off Artist"

I must check the record. His Pump album on Mille Plateaux is one of the best click-style electronic ever.

FORMAT

25th June 2002, 10:21

I don't know those so I can't really compare it to anything. Anybody ever heard of SND? They seem to do nice stuff (same label too)

jamyna

25th June 2002, 10:45

Coincidentally, I got the My Way album this weekend & Deck the House is getting a lot of play at the moment. strong track methinks.

bitch one

25th June 2002, 11:06

this is thee style that us tokyo bitches have been attempting to bring to the masses in the basement of test for the last 18 months or so

mostly all those tunes that peezee mentions are favourites of ours. doublepack that cv mentions is the quebec nightclub ep on perlon, which we have played to death and continue to flog. you can probably still get it online somewhere like boomkat.

pantytec especially made the best 12" i have heard for years (to my ears) - perlon number 14.

arar

25th June 2002, 18:00

Hmmm I seem to remember doing after parties a couple of years ago back at my then flat and the end results being a wee bit like the stuff in the Wheel Chair lounge....I suppose its an example of the "Invisible College"..Im afraid that I was playing to a backed audience of a dozen people at most!

..Im always surprised that the stuff on round records, snafu etc never really gets a play in Glasgow from anyone (apart from me in the past above)...I kind of like the eclectic and humourous appraoch of people like Sir Real from HOG...

I still havent heard Akufen, but a friend who saw him at Optimo said he was good, and he likes the stuff played in the lounge as well..er I dont quite know why Im posting this!

mini

26th June 2002, 15:50

hallo format.
go to your record dealer and ask for the perlon compilation-sorry havent the number now-i will look for it.
its a red-yellow compilation, 2x12", out in 1998 or 1999...
sorry for bad info, im goin to look for number;)
quite good

Tomoki

26th June 2002, 17:55

The red one is Perlon number 10 called Superlongevity

pejot

27th June 2002, 08:35

Perlon 10 is black and yellow.
Perlon 23 Superlongevity 2 is red and yellow.

Tomoki

27th June 2002, 08:45

Oh damn, I have confound the one with the other:!

bitch one

27th June 2002, 09:40

doesn't matter - it's all good! who says house music is boring?

FORMAT

27th June 2002, 11:00

No one says house music is boring - just depends on how well it's made, which is true for all music isn't it.

Are Perlon releases available on CD? I hope so, though I've dusted off my record player for a release that won't be available on CD:)

Cheers
r

Mercedez Ben

27th June 2002, 14:44

they wouldn't dream of calling perlon 'house' in chicago. maybe markus nikolai but the other stuff would be considered to abstract. it's an old fundamentalist movement.

mini

27th June 2002, 15:51

yeah ive looked at my records:
its perlon 23, the red/yellow one!!!
buy it or leave it, its really good.

mini

27th June 2002, 15:52

and ehm, yes i think ist available on cd!

pejot

27th June 2002, 16:15

Same in Poland Mercedez: people that go to house parties would call it techno. Maybe thats why minimal-house or micro-house names are used.

I think only Perlon 18 Marcus Nikolai "Back" was released on CD.

FORMAT

27th June 2002, 17:00

Thanx mini & all of you, will seek out Perlon 23

Mercedez Ben

27th June 2002, 17:41

Originally posted by pejot
Same in Poland Mercedez: people that go to house parties would call it techno. Maybe thats why minimal-house or micro-house names are used.

I think only Perlon 18 Marcus Nikolai "Back" was released on CD.

although, the funny thing is, in detroit, they don't seem to stick to any one designation. the people in the scene there are much more educated and thoughtful on the matter generally speaking.
i picked up a gflame and mr.g record on moods and grooves at gramaphone in chicago and i refered to it as "house". a local dj laughed and said knowingly "that's not house." very purist sense of the music which has its advantages ie a strong love for the music and a great force pushing it in new directions. on the other hand, people line up behind these terms making the scene very clique-ish and divided.

hgcr

28th June 2002, 07:48

Akufen has an other project called "risqué" with an other canadian friend.... And they will be in europa until september...

FORMAT

28th June 2002, 08:30

does that mean he will be producing here or touring till september??

bitch one

28th June 2002, 10:04

i know, it's true, i doubt most househeads would recoginse this stuff as house, because it's too weird and interesting. i am one of the people who thinks a lot of house is boring. many house dj's play very dull records over and over again. no imagination or guts, just mixing the records that are easiest to mix with.

anyway i think that techno is a kind of house music.

but i definitely wouldn't call perlon stuff techno. would you? maybe call it freak house, crack house (as in house music on crack), whore house.

music is music really isn't it? categories are for journalists and record shop owners.

lucid rinehead

28th June 2002, 11:49

if i had a record shop everything would be in alphabetical order. theres nothing more frustrating than record shops that are split up into 50 sub-genres so if you want something you have to search through several sections. smallfish is guilty of this to some extent, especially now that they don't seem to have a key up for their cryptic coloured dots system.

not that i really mind searching through music, but its nippy if you have to look through 6 'S' sections for a specific thing when you're in a hurry.

FORMAT

28th June 2002, 12:42

By label isn't bad either

as in Optimal, munich

Mercedez Ben

28th June 2002, 14:28

gramaphone-chicago is divided into house, techno, hip-hop, classics, drum and bass, downtempo and disco (and trance and progressive and all that other bullshit) and the perlon stuff is in the techno section. frequently though, house heads will hear something from the "techno" wall and freak out/clamor for it. i see it happen all the time. nevertheless, most of them don't spend any time listening to "techno" stuff. interesting phenomenon.

i mostly agree with:

"music is music really isn't it? categories are for journalists and record shop owners."

there are some categories that are useful to use when talking about music but it's usually between heads that know eachother and have established a sort of working vocabulary.

and i have to comment here: the term micro house gets on my nerves. what fuk is that? is it small or something? perfect example of a term developed in a journalistic vacuum.

pejot

28th June 2002, 14:42

MicroHouse thread from not so long ago (http://www.no-future.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=262&highlight=micro)

Here you'll find the explanation of the term.

As for Perlon, at the mad-net (http://www.mad-net.de) page says it's "leading minimal techno outlet" and mad-net is kind of official page. Doesn't really matter of course what it is called. I like it although lately have been disappointed a little with the newest Pantytec LP.

Mercedez Ben

28th June 2002, 15:16

i see. i guess i didn't think about it in terms of micro-edits. that's because i'm not a programmer/composer. I only DJ. i've done a little work with some friends but it's always with their equipment so i don't consider myself an experienced producer AT ALL.

but i do identify with this statement:
"I think it's just a new word for a kind of music that exists much longer, than most people think. But when Akufen appeared it became extremely popular, so it got a new name."

because i've been hearing music like this for so long and so the new term/terms have very little meaning for me. i think that when i hear a new term like "micro-house" it just hits a raw nerve. the nerve connected to my extreme dislike for 99.9% of commercialism and the cannibalistic nature of capitalism. blah!

also this is some funny shit. mad props to this "drunken piece of shit" new-age linguist, mr. chombee:

errr...MICROHOUSE he??? I like industrialtechhousefunk, advanced detroitnoizechill and especially minimal gabbaambient, but only with reversed cracklesynthbleeps on the 1 and 6, because anything else is boring elektrobootybass.

bitch one

28th June 2002, 15:40

me i like the new pantytec ep a lot. it isn't as obvious as some of their other releases - but when you hear it through a sound system it makes you go 'what the fuck is that?'

eclairfi

28th June 2002, 18:14

i also rate the new pantytec Lp highly...

ferris

2nd July 2002, 10:40

Quebec Night Club is the first Akufen I own; it's a double pack with a red and yellow cover. I love it, but i love it less each time i play it. The music is fun to listen to for sure. I was in Montreal last month where they were refering to Akufen as part of the "Micro House" genre... hmm ok.

ferris

wheezer

2nd July 2002, 13:48

dunno, it seems like akufen is a bit overrated by now. I dig the way he cuts up samples and stuff, but it's not like he really invented it or anything, that kind of practice has been arround for some time. nontheless his records are good fun, good tools for a dj in any case.

actionjetzon

2nd July 2002, 13:49

thats exactly my opinion wheezer

Mercedez Ben

2nd July 2002, 14:54

just want to play devil's advocate here for a second:

how is akufen overrated? who rated him? i know he gets plenty of press attention and all but I'm curious how much play his records get vs. the rest of the mini...er...micro-house genre. a prolific artist indeed which automatically puts you in the public eye and opens up a whole big can of negative and positive criticism. i'm sure he's just doing his thing and is grateful for the success. so shouldn't we address the critics explicitly? saying he's overrated can be interpreted as a put-down of the aritist which i think is unwarranted. personally i don't LOVE everything he does but on the whole, it's a very interesting output that i've heard.

BTW-is Akufen male or female? I've been assuming the former.

bitch one

2nd July 2002, 15:44

male - marc leclair

overrated - or maybe overkill rather - i think he has one big idea, and has released too many similar records, thus flogged the idea to death, to the point where i am becoming sick of it and not wanting any more.

the pantytec boys, on the other hand, i think have lots of ideas. but they are underrated - ie you don't hear lots of people calling them geniuses. probably because unlike akufen they don't package their music in a journo-friendly way with a high minded concept - makes akufen easy to write about.

Peezee

2nd July 2002, 18:14

First of all,
Pantytec has been on the scene a couple years longer than Akufen, and has had more time to develop- who is to say that in a couple more years Akufen won't be offering interesting new ideas.

Also, nice point about the overrated vs. overkill. It sort of seems like a big part of the issue is the marketability of Akufen. He has the whole concept-music thing going like you mentioned, which makes for easy press write-ups. And another big thing is the link with Ableton Live which has been blowing up at the same time, and I'm sure has ended up giving him a lot of exposure.

So while the underground headz may be grumbling about "been there, done that, move on already," this is really just the start of his career, and his marketability is probably going to help him in the long run. Perhaps others should be taking some hints from it.

euterke

2nd July 2002, 18:23

Hi everyone...

I've played with him here in Montreal on a major live event and I can tell u his music rocks!

U must, and I said MUST GET the double vinyl named Quebec Nightclub on Perlon record.

Best Regards

arar

2nd July 2002, 19:03

Is the Aukfen track on the Mille Plateau compilation representative of his work? Its the first Ive knowingly heard...Im underwhelmed....anyone heard of midinovela (track on ware records called "dont mund" warekorb #3 cd) very good....

Mercedez Ben

2nd July 2002, 19:14

Originally posted by bitch one
i think he has one big idea, and has released too many similar records, thus flogged the idea to death, to the point where i am becoming sick of it and not wanting any more.

probably because unlike akufen they don't package their music in a journo-friendly way with a high minded concept - makes akufen easy to write about. [/B]

this much above i'll reply to: to say that he has one big idea is vastly oversimplifying what he's put out. if that's just one big idea then there are a shitload of great artists who have one big idea. yes, he may be redundant in that he's putting out tracks that sound similar but this is what many view as "development" or coining a sound. and his material does vary. from trapez to perlon to force inc and so on there is plenty of diversity there for me to respect and enjoy his art AND his progress.

and who's to fault someone for figuring out a way to market their product. do you think he's comprimised something in doing this? i'm not sure if that's what you mean. perhaps you don't like the package but i say, props to him for figuring out how to do it. so many fail at this. i'm content to wait and see what he brings next time. but ultimately, all i can really say is, you're bored, i'm not. so i guess we disagree.

7875

3rd July 2002, 04:42

just picked up his full length lp 'My Way' and a 12" on Trapez. really good stuff. has that nice shuffle step to it that reminds me of Cristian Vogel (Absolute Time era). i like his philosophy on sampling (as i found on the liner notes).

bitch one

3rd July 2002, 09:58

i've just got too many of his chop chop records now. but perhaps that isn't his fault. there are a couple of nice tunes on the lp.

i also like the recycling idea.

Basic

3rd July 2002, 11:23

I thought "My Way" was just severe overkill. Nice idea, but kicking the arse out it on an album isn't to my liking. He outglitched himself!!!

I'm sorry, I cannot see the resembelance with "Absolute Time" at all.

wheezer

3rd July 2002, 14:06

well let him develop his talents and bring out a record that moves me to the point that I won't call his tracks dancefloor tools, and I'd stop calling him overrated. I see your point mercedes but I think you are missing mine. I own some 10 records of akufen by now and when I listen to a new one by him I see no reason to buy it coz it sounds like the 10 I have sitting at home already. Musical development and whatnot is great but I don't see why I as a consumer of music should buy every microstep (heehaw) of this ongoing process and place it in my record shelf, or why I should consider his work to have a lot of artistic merit, because in the end, it doesn't seem like it to me right now. I actually know some other canadian guys from this microhouse scene as well personally and it seems to me like it's just the soup de jour over there right now, and akufen is riding the wave all through europe as well. good for him if he is able to market himself, and if he's developing his music onwards, I'll be there to buy his releases when they interest me again, and precisely at that point I will stop calling him overrated. basically it all boils down to personal taste, doesn't it..?

Mercedez Ben

3rd July 2002, 15:14

Originally posted by wheezer
well let him develop his talents and bring out a record that moves ....... basically it all boils down to personal taste, doesn't it..?

yes, i agree. it is all about personal taste and to be honest, My Way did not completely blow me away. I did buy it and there are definitely tracks there that I enjoy and play so basically i just want to say this:

There are many many artists that I enjoy but do not purchase all of their releases. I would guess that that's the way it is for most people. You jump on a few, you let a few go by. I've rushed to judgement on artists in the past and have come around to wish I had kept my mouth shut (not saying you will or should) but until I meet mr leclair and understand where he's coming from personally, i'm not going to call the guy's music stagnant or overrated. I personally don't think it's fair. There are definitely aspects of his music that I don't care for. I personally don't like unadulterated harmonica sounds in techno for one. I think it sounds fucking goofy. I'm not WILD about the way he packaged My Way either. It IS obviously made for easier consumption. And sometimes I get utterly glitched out by the whole damn musical movement. But for me, it is just too soon to say that this fellow is stagnating. IMO, what he's doing is a very aggressive mixture of commercialism and musical experimentation that will undoubtedly pave the way for and assist others within the genre as well as the rest of the techno world. If he's still doing roughly the sane stuff in 8 months or a year, then I think I might feel as you do.

and I want to say that i appreciate the lively (and respectful) debate. sorry if i get a little worked up. it's in the genes. my dad's a civil rights attorney. :)

jahminj

3rd July 2002, 21:16

yeah man..buy all the perlons(well nearly all of em`)-=perlon rokz

jahminj

3rd July 2002, 21:18

sorry ...should have said that a week ago..bit behind the times me....

KaOz

3rd July 2002, 21:53

i remeber that jason played the psychemtry 1 & 2 from akufen on trapez, maybe u knoe these ones cristian

i know akufen since 2 years and i must say, iam tired of his music, i heard the first akufen and it blows me away, like cris said, but now...

always the same stuff....... my way isnt the best release from him, i like the track on the perlon V/A compliation and the track on MP clickhop complilation....

quebec nightclub is good too, psychemtry 2 rulez.......

i hope i hear this kind of stuff from him in the near future again....

pejot

4th July 2002, 07:53

I agree with every word of KaOz. If you listen to Akufen for some 2 years you can get bored, although at first you thought he's awesome. Now, it's like every new realise is worse than his previouse one. The same goes for many electronic music artists. Maybe it's hard for independent artists to make money whith the relatively small quantities they sell and they have to produce way too much? Or maybe it's just my fucking urge to listen to something different?

jahminj

4th July 2002, 10:08

hey man...just got the new release on PALLETTE records by the rip off artists,very cool bit of future micro..one to chek if you like it small....

bitch one

4th July 2002, 11:32

pejot, you may be onto something there. artists try to perfect their own sound - and when they do, us fuckin consumers start going "heard it before". they can't win i suppose.

OCCU PINNE'

5th July 2002, 18:43

SOME STUFF BEFORE HE WAS AKUFEN

arar

6th July 2002, 04:10

This whole thread reminds me of the quip about any artists career having four stages the poor sod seems to have been thru them all of this board..talk about 15 minutes of fame...anyways it would go e go something like this:

"Whos Akufen?,

get me Akufen!

get me an Akufen sound a-like,

Who's Akufen"

euterke

8th July 2002, 03:22

Originally posted by OCCU PINNE'
SOME STUFF BEFORE HE WAS AKUFEN

-David Scott - label Haute Couture
-Disco René
-Noize slack

http://www.hautecouturerecords.com/

FORMAT

8th July 2002, 07:42

How easy to you guys think it is to come up with a unique musical language??? And that's what Akufen has achieved, so let't give him credit for that rather than not changing his style to much in the past few years (....I only just found out about hiim)

F.

Mercedez Ben

8th July 2002, 08:08

Mercedez Ben

9th July 2002, 14:43

i know this thread is tired but after speaking with a friend last night I gather there was an insert in the My Way album, Leclair talking about his ethos and what not. apparently this was left out of my copy or stolen or whatever. anyhow, i was making comments without full information and understand now why some people were so annoyed with the packaging. i was thinking "what's the big deal? it's just another damn album cover". i am also by no means an akufen expert. i've only own 4 or so releases by the guy. so now i better understand what people meant by "high-minded concept". i have yet to read the essay verbatim but i must say that it does sound a little excessive. i'll read it myself soon. this reminds me a little of comments i've made about rich hawtin with his "the future of DJing is finalscratch" campaign, saying "the days of DJing with just vinyl are over" and other absurdities like that. but maybe the light will shine down the road and we'll all understand and call these guys pioneers. not that the human race will last much longer (he he he) but who knows?

ok, peace.

j samuel

9th July 2002, 17:08

Originally posted by FORMAT
How easy to you guys think it is to come up with a unique musical language??? And that's what Akufen has achieved, so let't give him credit for that rather than not changing his style to much in the past few years (....I only just found out about hiim)

F.

Just how 'unique' is it? Here's what Todd Edwards was doing over 2 years ago. Kinda funny it was called the 'New Trends' ep. :)

http://planetxusa.com/pub/audio/djram/2000/63243.ram

Listen about 30 sec into the stream.

--jeff s

FORMAT

9th July 2002, 22:42

interesting.... will check it out when ive got time

wheezer

9th July 2002, 23:16

hell brian eno did it in "music for airports" like 20+ years ago, that's what I was saying over in page 1 this thread. his musical language is everything but unique, nonetheless it's functional. people tend to mistake those two in technoland regularly...

j samuel

10th July 2002, 00:32

good point. not trying to take anything away from mr. leclair at all... i've got a few of his recs, but mostly the ones that aren't so radio-cut-uppy (i refuse to use his self-coined term 'microsampling.' woops). the one he did under 'anna kaufen' on A Touch of Class is funkin great.

on another note, i must side with the people who think these manifestos are a load of crap. what sort of point was herbert trying to make by noting that he didn't use any software plugins while making that last radioboy cd? shut up and make some music.

--jeff s
(though i'm down with the politics of that same cd)

FORMAT

10th July 2002, 07:41

j samuel,

Where can I find akufen's manifesto or could you please paste it into this thread?

Thankx

j samuel

11th July 2002, 02:05

i don't have his album so i can't say what his manifesto reads. i just got the gist from this forum. my reference to his 'microsampling' deal is from his interview on the Ableton website. you can see herbert's manifesto on his website as well.

honestly though, who cares if someone got a cool sound from mangling the sh*t out of a snare drum sample or recording your aunt's terds dropping into the toilet!

--jeff s

bitch one

11th July 2002, 09:58

Originally posted by j samuel

honestly though, who cares if someone got a cool sound from mangling the sh*t out of a snare drum sample or recording your aunt's terds dropping into the toilet!

--jeff s

eggzackly

i heard herbert doin his radioboy 'appetite for destruction' or whatever he calls it. it was a load of total wank if you ask me. i dig loads of herebert stuff, but...nah. self-indulgent. nice idea, but the reality of it was pretty boring live. no wonder he was givin the cd away for free.

lucid rinehead

11th July 2002, 11:19

oooh...i thought it was good. it was an all-round performance type thing, not just audio but very visual too, the mad professor in his lab.

marcel

11th July 2002, 16:51

overrated or not
i prefer listen to the same akufentrack for 10times than listen to a disgusting schranztrack one more time.

Articulate

11th July 2002, 18:40

after consuming the whole subject i see that his music is very
interesting for you'all, i like that ! My Way is a great adventure.
my favourite - Even White Horizons...mhhh.
a little bit different - just nice.

Tomoki

15th July 2002, 08:07

Is anyone interested in an Akufen live set alongside with Vincent lemieux (mutek, risqée) and Steve Beaupre (aka crackhaus, force inc) this Wednesday in Frankfurt? If yes I can give you the location address.

p.s. Strictly undergroundlol

old skool

15th July 2002, 08:39

I've just bought the Akufen album and agree that it is a cracking album. Definitely the freshest housey grooves I've heard for a while although by the end of the album I think I've had my fill of the click-samply type thing that's going on. And it can sound very Todd Edwards in places (albeit I've only got a mix cd by Todd from a few years back to compare it with - I ain't no Todd Edwards expert !!)

Still a great album though.

Airy

18th July 2002, 09:08

perlon23 was out on a mixed double cd.
perlon 27 was out and its crazy tribalish glitch i just love it.
also check some akufen on trapez (label from koln) with remixes from thomas brinkman.
http://www.traumschallplatten.de
akufens 12" - deck of house is just great music, with some crazy remixs from matthew herbert.
also worth check is revolver from canada its more glitchy and heavy.

V Knid esq

19th September 2002, 01:05

Listening to Akufen for the first time now, and I can't help thinking he owes a MASSIVE debt to Todd Edwards.

old skool

19th September 2002, 08:17

Agreed.... very Edwardsesque.

To be quite honest, I played that Akufen album quite a lot when I bought it. Liked a lot of the tracks but got quite bored when getting to the end. Now I play a few tracks and start getting bored (normally a couple of tracks after Deck The House, which is a good tune nevertheless).

Fickle bastard that I am ....

zombie ritual

19th September 2002, 11:05

I think some of his 12" are really good (the one on background and the deck the house 12"), but the album itself is a bit too nice and harmless for my taste. I think he will leave the pure cut-up style anyway sooner or later.

As to bitch one: that Herbert show was fantastic! It was actually the best thing I saw at this years´ Sonar-festival (that's not to say because the other acts were so bad), and it was definitely far from being boring.

Lady E

19th September 2002, 13:28

in this office we really like the Akufen Karaoke slam mix of Cabaret voltaire 'nagnagnag' out on novamute.

i only just listened to his album (with my way on...not sure what its called) once and the jury is out. need to listen to it agan for sure, and maybe it will make more impact out raving...

old skool

19th September 2002, 13:34

That's what I think. Sitting at home listening to it may be completely different when you're in a club. Problem is finding a bloody club that plays this sort of thing. When you're either at home listening it straight its ok but gets a bit much after a bit, if you've indulged in summat its a bit too skippy and all over the place and ends up doing your head in.

But in a club situation it could be rather good. Who DJ's in a club situation playing this sort of stuff ?

emef

19th September 2002, 14:20

some of the tracks seem quite normal but are actually really trippy
they kinda creep up on ya.
and a couple of the trax are out and out monsters especially "deck the house"
and there are a coupkle of boring ones on there too.
but its a good album...more housey than i normally like but the edits are very attractive.

Sheridan

19th September 2002, 17:09

I am not familiar with akufen. what style of music is it, sounds like, etc.
also who is todd edwards? name sorta sounds familiar, but then again
maybe I am writing that because I really don't know.

pille'ocheoni

19th September 2002, 17:38

IAN, HES ON PERLON AND TRAPEZ,BOUNCY TECH-HOUSE MINIMAL TECHNO WITH RADIO SPLICES,CUTS OFF OF THE RADIO JUST OLDLY PLACED SNIP ITS.GOOD STUFF,I LIKE HIS DOWN TEMPO SHIT BETTER,ITS LIKE R&B WITH THE MINALMIST ABSTRCT GLITCH SHIT.GREAT,BUT LIKE OTHERS YOU HAVE TO GET YOUR IDEAS FROM SOMEWHERE. SO SOME CREDIT HAS TO GO TO TODD,BUT HE HAS PUT HIS OWN UNUIQE SPIN ON THINGS.I THINK IF HES DOSENT WORK HARDER HELL BE IN A BOX HE'LL BE REMEBERED FOR , FOR EVER.SPEAKING OF PERLON ,RICARDO VILLALOBOS IS SPOSE TO COME OUT WITH A NEW ALBUM ,HE'S RAD....:)