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
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https://www.discogs.com/label/568-BiP_HOp>
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 2:17 PM Rjyan Kidwell <cexwell@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted 66 lines I will def have to check out Motion ward West mineral, this is my first
> 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
>>>
>>