What are people excited for this year club-wise? Jan - March has a stupid amount of good nights in LDN, went to the Hessle Audio NYD party and so far got tickets to:
Joe & Yak - 12 Jan
Phoung Dan - 13 Jan
Shackleton live - 26 Jan
Ryan Elliott - 26 Jan (new venue called Hangar, intrigued)
Lena Willikens, Ivan Smagghe, Vladimir Ivkovic - 2nd Feb
Ben Sims, James Ruskin, Regis - 9 Feb
Perc, Matrixxman - 16 Feb
Mall Grab - 23 Feb
DJ Stingray - 24 Feb
Objekt - 25 Feb
Alva Noto - 4 March
Release-wise, would love to have new records from Avalon Emerson, UMFANG, Machine Woman, Shackleton, Helena Hauff, heard rumours of a new Daniel Avery album too; and intrigued to see what labels like Whities, Pan, Lobster Theremin and Ectotherm do next.
Young Marco at XOYO on the 27th is the only thing I’m definitely going to so far. Tempted by Theo Parrish in Bristol the next week but going to Motion is such an immense chore. Villalobos’ next Fabric night might actually be happening at a reasonable time for once so will probably try and go to that as well. Need to branch out a bit with labels, think Comeme, Hessle and Bunker NYC are the only ones where I listen to pretty much everything they put out.
New album from Aleksi Perälä, Paradox, on trip is really good spacey, almost dream-like techno. Think it actually came out just before Christmas though so technically 2017.
Just been re-reading this interview with him too, the whole Colundi frequency cult thing is so bizarre:
4-track EP out today and new album in April. Just given the EP a listen - definitely taken a darker more pensive turn. Elements of IDM, industrial, ambient (track 2 is a murky swirling beatlesss churn)… Nothing approaching boom tick 4/4 until the last track and even that sounds submerged and fractured a la Burial. Excited for the album.
Tend to stick with Truants, Beatrice Dillon’s NTS show, RA mixes, and the groove.de podcasts. The RA Exchange features are sometimes really interesting too. New favourite NTS show is Castles in the Sky, for futuristic, experimental and often brutal techno: Castles In The Sky w/ Hesska | Listen on NTS
Really enjoying the Norm Talley album from last year. Dug a little deeper and I recognise loads of his stuff from other people’s sets. Can anyone recommend some other lesser known Detroit producers with a similar (Three Chairs/FXHE) type sound? Can’t get enough of this stuff at the moment.
New Berghain series mix came out on Friday, from Fiedel. Not one of the residents I’ve really come across before, except I now realise as half of MMM with Errorsmith, but this is really impressive.
Listened to it in two chunks over the weekend, the variety in track selection really stands out across the whole mix. Think the second hour just shades the first for me.
Yessss, just had a quick flick through the whole thing. Can’t wait to get home and stick this on properly.
Yeah I saw he’d called it a day with giegling last year. I guess that means they won’t be repressing any more of his stuff either.
Tempted for the giegling night in March in London. RA has it listed as 15:00 - 02:00, last entry 18:00! The night at VU last year was brilliant so hoping for something similar.
Still can’t get past the Konstantin factor personally. Thought his apology was a non-starter and female artists are still refusing to play on the same bill as him. A lot of venues seem to be steering clear too.
