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I get the impression this LJ hasn't been very fannish lately. It evens out, of course, since it's exclusively fannish sometimes. XD; Just that I've had my brain and time eaten by SSBB and trip planning, and right after I get back there is MUTEK. At this point I'm almost looking forward to the summer proper, which I expect to spend doing absolutely nothing.**
Depeche Mode - Martyr (Booka Shade Dub Mix)
Juergens - Love It
Oliver Koletzki - Yes I Can Fly
These are the first three tracks off a German music festival(?) compilation called Winterworld 2007 (suggestive of outdoor raves in January, inDominic Eulberg's the forest), which I got because I wanted to hear the DM remix of course. XD This - i.e. these three tracks - is arguably the best beginning to a dance music compilation I've ever heard. "Love It" is huge unabashed neu!trance with synth splashing all over the place, and "Yes I Can Fly" is... I'm not sure what to call it, even; it's as if Oliver Koletzki made a conscious decision to join the trancey, tracky side of the Great Post-2005 Electrohouse Schism (as opposed to the Digitalism/Ed Banger side) but could not successfully repress the electro, so he just made it be both. XD
The rest of the compilation is ace as well (even when it goes all Nitzer Ebb and Ferry Corsten at the end), but the beginning is WOW.
Ulrich Schnauss - Shine
Ulrich Schnauss - Einfeld
Off the most recent album, Goodbye, which I don't think is released yet. To make up for it I bought Far Away Trains Passing By (which is a double EP) and ripped it to my mp3 player... to listen to on the train. Ahaha.
The main complaint about Ulrich Schnauss, I guess, is that he makes it too easy - the music is so pretty it's saccharine, whereas IDM is supposed to make the listener work for it, at least a little. I promise that when you hear "Shine" for the first time you will not care. XD It's not really IDM anyway; it's a U2 ballad. If U2 were backed up by a thousand angels dancing with handbells. It's my tragic TRC music!
I saw Ulrich Schnauss on his first North American tour with M83. I have to say - based on the live treatment of the music versus what it sounded like on the album, and what this album sounds like now - when he tours Goodbye, drop everything and go.
** Needless to say, this statement is false. There's SSBB July (which I'm writing for), and Fantasia, and the Jazz Fest, and Piknic Electronik, and laptop shopping, and we-the-loosely-defined-gang are supposed to do foodie weekender stuff.
I get the impression this LJ hasn't been very fannish lately. It evens out, of course, since it's exclusively fannish sometimes. XD; Just that I've had my brain and time eaten by SSBB and trip planning, and right after I get back there is MUTEK. At this point I'm almost looking forward to the summer proper, which I expect to spend doing absolutely nothing.**
Depeche Mode - Martyr (Booka Shade Dub Mix)
Juergens - Love It
Oliver Koletzki - Yes I Can Fly
These are the first three tracks off a German music festival(?) compilation called Winterworld 2007 (suggestive of outdoor raves in January, in
The rest of the compilation is ace as well (even when it goes all Nitzer Ebb and Ferry Corsten at the end), but the beginning is WOW.
Ulrich Schnauss - Shine
Ulrich Schnauss - Einfeld
Off the most recent album, Goodbye, which I don't think is released yet. To make up for it I bought Far Away Trains Passing By (which is a double EP) and ripped it to my mp3 player... to listen to on the train. Ahaha.
The main complaint about Ulrich Schnauss, I guess, is that he makes it too easy - the music is so pretty it's saccharine, whereas IDM is supposed to make the listener work for it, at least a little. I promise that when you hear "Shine" for the first time you will not care. XD It's not really IDM anyway; it's a U2 ballad. If U2 were backed up by a thousand angels dancing with handbells. It's my tragic TRC music!
I saw Ulrich Schnauss on his first North American tour with M83. I have to say - based on the live treatment of the music versus what it sounded like on the album, and what this album sounds like now - when he tours Goodbye, drop everything and go.
** Needless to say, this statement is false. There's SSBB July (which I'm writing for), and Fantasia, and the Jazz Fest, and Piknic Electronik, and laptop shopping, and we-the-loosely-defined-gang are supposed to do foodie weekender stuff.
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Date: 2007-05-09 12:03 am (UTC)Glorious SS*BB this month, BUT YOU MUST REALIZE. ♥
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Date: 2007-05-09 04:04 am (UTC)I do think the current issue is better than usual. I feel like I worked extra hard to make it so, too. XD Didn't write for it, but a lot more thought than usual went into steering the boat.
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Date: 2007-05-09 12:27 am (UTC)I have this one mix Ulrich Schnauss did of "Bluebird of Happiness" by Mojave 3, which obviously I downloaded for the title hurrrr, and it's kind of gross. This from someone with a notably high tolerance for refined sugar, so yeah. In conclusion, IAWTC.
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Date: 2007-05-09 04:00 am (UTC)I've never heard that mix! Basically I find he hits or misses, depending on whether he wanders over the syrup line. The new album is good though.
FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S RIDICULOUSLY HILARIOUS
Date: 2007-05-09 10:17 am (UTC)ps how can you call use 'schnauss' and 'idm' in the same sentence? ambient ambient ambiennnn. Though dude you are so right about the u2 factor in 'shine'.
Re: FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S RIDICULOUSLY HILARIOUS
Date: 2007-05-10 05:08 am (UTC)I thought that was going to be a real news item!
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Date: 2007-05-10 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-09 01:25 am (UTC)