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Re: swedish style
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oh hell yes On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 10:38 PM Ransom Schafer <ransom.schafer@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 105 lines As someone who has the Andreas Berthling Mitek release and El Fog's> As someone who has the Andreas Berthling Mitek release and El Fog's > Reverberate Slowly, I'm just going to start shooting from the hip on some > stuff to check out. I find Tilman Ehrhorn a little too clinical.. I'm going > for similar sound here. > > Michaux - %20, Audio.nl 2003 (Jimmy Edgar) > https://www.discogs.com/release/191746-Michaux-20 > > Rechord- Skokoll, Audio.nl 2002 (Andreas Tilliander) > https://www.discogs.com/master/433696-Rechord-Skokoll > > Tennis- Furlines, BiP_HOp 2003 > https://www.discogs.com/release/111528-Tennis-Furlines > > Danieto-Cirugia Casual, U-Cover 2005 (Definitely check this) > https://www.discogs.com/release/406168-Danieto-Cirug%C3%ADa-Casual > > Offthesky And Darren McClure- Suspended, Symbolic Interaction 2009 > https://noise.offthesky.com/album/suspended > > Hanno Leichtmann- Minimal Studies, Mikroton 2013 > > https://hannoleichtmannmusic.bandcamp.com/album/hanno-leichtmann-minimal-studies > > Morgan Packard- Moment Again Elsewhere, Anticipate Recordings 2010 > https://www.discogs.com/master/358603-Morgan-Packard-Moment-Again-Elsewhere > > Ran Slavin- Product 02, Cronica 2004 (Awesome album!) > https://www.discogs.com/release/296023-Ran-Slavin-Product-02 > > Octex- Mindrift, Self released bandcamp 2022 (Awaiting the sixth and final > track still, abstract experimental dubtech) > https://octex.bandcamp.com/album/mindrifft > > <https://www.discogs.com/label/568-BiP_HOp> > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 2:17 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I will def have to check out Motion ward West mineral, this is my first >> time hearing about them.. >> >> Gramm is a great record. Lately somehow I think my most favorite Jelinek >> albums have been the ones made by Tilman Ehrhorn. (Maybe it's a symptom of >> long covid? Similarly finding that my favorite Vladislav records are the >> ones made by Joel Tammik...) >> >> Absolutely seek Stavostrand's albums "Lite" & "Reduce". Up there with >> Makesnd Cassette & Pole 2 imo for instances of truly sublime restraint. >> >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, 2:14 PM Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Dunno about new stuff tbh >>> But what about Gramm - Personal Rock >>> The Alva Noto / Sakamoto records >>> probably too house-y but Rhythm Maker and the Background records catalog >>> might have some outliers that don't pin everything down with a big kick >>> this has Real Instruments but sort of fits the sparse, laid back and >>> pointillistic thing: >>> https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/superconnection-la-mer-cd/MINIMAL.023CD.html >>> >>> but yeah I know what you mean - like Dry Warm Soft Glitch >>> >>> will have to look into Mitek. Stavostrand I've never connected with >>> despite making the exact sort of music I like playing (dubby tech house >>> w/digital palette) >>> >>> alot of the Motion Ward/West Mineral producers seem to like the ambient >>> side of clicky idm but from i've heard are really cranking the verb and >>> delay >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 9:57 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> dear idm-l brain trust, is anybody currently carrying the torch for the >>>> Mitek records style?? >>>> >>>> This might just be a distinction I've developed in my own head, but >>>> I've long had a separate little zone roped off for a "Mitek style" that is >>>> particularly exemplified by Mikael Stavostrand's Lite and the first Claudia >>>> Bonarelli album (neither of which are on Bandcamp!! soulseek em rn if >>>> you're not familiar). >>>> Looser than early SND, less austere/robotic than classic Raster-Noton, >>>> less housey/funky than early Jelinek, but more rhythmically-oriented than >>>> classic 12k/Line. Less aggressive than Mika Vainio and less melodic than >>>> Dan Abrams. The defining features would maybe be a conspicuous sparseness >>>> and itsy bitsy microscopic percussion sounds that somehow feel a tick more >>>> "organic" than most of the Glitch/Clicks n Cuts/Whathaveyou that came from >>>> more southerly parts of Europe. >>>> >>>> Other than Mitek's catalogue, the only other thing I've really found >>>> that orbit this same vibe are the two El Fog >>>> <https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/reverberate-slowly> records by >>>> Masayoshi Fujita. Stavostrand seemed to move into less delicate tech-house >>>> territory after his (very excellent and quite Miteky) record for Force Inc. >>>> Bonarelli has a new record that is very good but stylistically quite far >>>> from "Everything Happens." >>>> >>>> All this is to say: point me towards more tunes that have "beats," but >>>> beats made of audaciously tiny components. >>>> >>>> yf, >>>> rk >>>> >>>