Ahhh Blacklight Incense is stellar.
My other top most played Deepkeezy is 20 Electrostatic Soundfields. I
highly recommend that and Incense for anyone who doesnt adore Modell yet
due to a low tolerance for extended exposure to 4 on the floor kicks.
On Sun, Mar 9, 2025, 8:42 PM Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 51 lines Totally forgot about his Tresor stuff although I really liked what I> Totally forgot about his Tresor stuff although I really liked what I
> heard.
>
> I was thinking more of the Blacklight and Incense and Echospace stuff
>
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>
>> To me the Modellian part would be softly hitting drums. I’m sure it’s
>>> out there I haven’t been following contempo dnb much lately.
>>>
>>
>> I read a great interview with Modell somewhere where he opined on the
>> cumulative physiological effects of repeatedly listening to aggressive
>> techno on Berghain-y sized PAs. I think this was when his Captagon record
>> came out-- which (to my ears) totally sounds like a stab at a set that
>> makes sense at a Tresor party but doesn't trigger a fight-or-flight response
>> .
>>
>>
>>> Paradox is not what you’re looking for. ASC might have some stuff like
>>> that - he, like Modell, is aggressively prolific
>>>
>>
>> That was what I was thinking, too! ASC is the closest, but the
>> prolificness is the common element.
>> Some of ASC's earlier beatless records (Truth Be Told, Time Heals All, No
>> Stars etc) has a Modellian dream-static quality, not super far from
>> Modell's "Autonomous Music" cd or the more recent "Dusk, Darkness, (3rd
>> word that starts with D)".
>> Yet I think of Clements primarily as a dude who covers a wiiide territory
>> in his catalog-- while Modell is laser-focused on a pretty narrow lane
>> (which he somehow manages to take deeper and deeper as time goes on,
>> despite the superficial similarities between his records.) The dnb ASC I've
>> heard (eg Reflections) isn't fuzzy/hazy/gentle at all.
>>
>> I checked out those other names.. very loud + shiny, except maybe the
>> Silent Dust and Resound? But in those cases, I wouldn't have thought of
>> them as dnb producers based on what popped up on a bandcamp search.
>>
>> ChatGPT's answer is more interesting than I would have guessed, though. I
>> never expected scientists in my lifetime would produce such a realistic
>> simulation of asking a person who has never listened to music but has no
>> qualms about quickly looking up everything other people have said and
>> bluffing with their first guess at a "median opinion".
>>
>>
>>
>> -rk
>>
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