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:
quoted 52 lines Dunno about new stuff tbh
> 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
>>
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