And I forgot both of Jan Jelinek's releases for 2005, both of which I've listened to a lot.
The Exposures - Lost Recordings 2000-2004 (Eastern Development)
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch (~scape)
Exposures has a funny fake band bio where they diss this young upstart Jelinek and his stupid electronic music (Jelinek did an earlier release as "Jan Jelinek avec The Exposures").
Anyway, I reckon Jelinek's Farben stuff was about the best thing on offer in the world of "microhouse", but these albums both go in different directions.
The Exposures sounds like it should, being on Prefuse 73's label, but it also sounds like Jelinek's returned directly to his influences in funk and rare groove rather than just doing hip-hop instrumentals. His usual techniques of stumbling loops of shifting sizes and so on are all in effect, so it's not all soporific and smooth. It puts me most in mind of his excellent contributions to ~scape's 'Staedtizism' comp and his great great great remix of Phil Ranelin.
'Kosmischer Pitch' is going back as well, but to Kraut rock. Basically. The press release says stuff about "wild pitch" house, but I don't hear that nearly so much. I hear Kluster, maybe some Ash Ra Temple and a bit of the quieter side of Neu! (well, maybe just Harmonia) in there. Unlike the short beat-based instrumentals of The Exposures, this is a set of long droney tracks, with a good bit of forward motion to them.
In fact both are at least a little pertinent to that 'one step forward, two steps back' thread, to my mind. They sound to me like imagined alternative futures for older types of music?
The Exposures - Lost Recordings 2000-2004 (Eastern Development)
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch (~scape)
Exposures has a funny fake band bio where they diss this young upstart Jelinek and his stupid electronic music (Jelinek did an earlier release as "Jan Jelinek avec The Exposures").
Anyway, I reckon Jelinek's Farben stuff was about the best thing on offer in the world of "microhouse", but these albums both go in different directions.
The Exposures sounds like it should, being on Prefuse 73's label, but it also sounds like Jelinek's returned directly to his influences in funk and rare groove rather than just doing hip-hop instrumentals. His usual techniques of stumbling loops of shifting sizes and so on are all in effect, so it's not all soporific and smooth. It puts me most in mind of his excellent contributions to ~scape's 'Staedtizism' comp and his great great great remix of Phil Ranelin.
'Kosmischer Pitch' is going back as well, but to Kraut rock. Basically. The press release says stuff about "wild pitch" house, but I don't hear that nearly so much. I hear Kluster, maybe some Ash Ra Temple and a bit of the quieter side of Neu! (well, maybe just Harmonia) in there. Unlike the short beat-based instrumentals of The Exposures, this is a set of long droney tracks, with a good bit of forward motion to them.
In fact both are at least a little pertinent to that 'one step forward, two steps back' thread, to my mind. They sound to me like imagined alternative futures for older types of music?