Need this in my life!

Such a sick release!

These boys know what's going on. Super tough, sick production, proper dancefloor killers.

Love it.

serious bizness.

big up guys. really nice!
also check out John Osborn's new release on JackOff Records...

big things

These days all you need to do is make your house music on analogue hardware - or make it sound that way - and people are all over it. I don't get it, sorry. Even though the drums, synth sounds and FX are about as cookie cutter as you can get, there's no production details and intricacies that reveal themselves with time, and the arrangements are predictable and lacking any form of drama or narrative development - as long as it sounds like a 'live jam' it's all good.

Both sound like they were thrown together in an hour. Where's the craft?

i think u r on to something there dusk1983.......i thought i was the only one who felt that way

Nicely done!!

@Dusk1983: woah bit harsh there dude!

Fair enough if you don't dig the record but no need to disparage analogue entirely. Yes there's a lot of love out there at the mo for analogue/ analogue-esque sounds but these lads aren't jumping on no bandwagon. October for one has been CRAFTING music on analogue hardware for years....

ah that RA hype machine in full effect. lads got him a podcast and a 4.5 review.

@dirtytalkdisco

Organic is good but I think it's gone a little too far. I don't want to hear a live jam on a record. I want to hear someone who's really worked his sounds, really gone close in on the details and created something you couldn't make live. That's the point of studio production.

people saying that this sounds too "analogue" obviously haven't heard the last kyle hall releases...

Mr. Dusk 1983, very rich oppinion, i hope you had at least heard these track's in full.

For me this sounds really great and i'm definitely buying this when it's out, even if i don't think it's worth that 4,5 score. Narrative development or opposite, it's very subjective thing to say. Paradoxically, many owners of untrained ears will call all of the electronic music monotonous. Don't really see a difference if it's a "live jam" or a result of "studio production with lots of crafting" either, until it's well made of course. And this is.

Samples of this anywhere?

It's all subjective, sure. And I get people are backlashing against over-production. I do. But to me this is so basic it's like Fisher Price house music. Rhythmically, melodically, harmonically and timbrally, it's unbelievably primitive stuff.

http://soundcloud.com/october/october-john-osborn

Eh...nothing about those samples excited me in any way...and I have a several October records in my collection. Definitely not his best. It's too basic - there is no hook. Look at Kris Wadsworth by comparison, the guy makes analog-heavy house and techno but he has fucking amazing bassline hooks in his tracks. Transcending Biology reminds me of Kris' recent stuff but a lot less inspired.

You can hear "Transcending Biology" in October's mix from 16:00.




I think the key to the music on this release is pretty much summed up in the tail-end of the review -



- Well produced, effective tools.
Mind you, If this release hadn't received a 4.5, then I don't think it would have got the comments that it is getting.


Maybe it has been vastly over used already - but reading this thread brings to mind the Omar-S quote:

when will they finally get rid of that stupid point system? if they cant say it in a review than dont review it.
using a superficial and unfair pointsystem is the only reason here for all this comments.

aahaha

I would say refined rather than basic. That acidic bass line packs a punch.

This label rocks

Btw, I'm glad the RA hype machine is working

http://soundcloud.com/october/october-john-osborn-1

yep, reviewing anything on a numerical scale is pretty fucking duplicitous at this point, for any publication

SCHWEEEEEEET!!