esfandyar wrote:i blame warp for making flying lotus suck.
Don't talk shit, m8. Every FlyLo release on Warp is a piece of art.
wrong.
i mean theres some brightness in some of the albums but its all just a bunch of elements that dont gel together. and the thundercat stuff is also terrible.
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i guess i enjoyed his sounds at an earlier stage of his career. loved 1983, loved his demos he put together which had songs from that release. had a more straight hiphop vibe. im all for experimental and changing your sounds, but it was not until he came to warp that his music imo got into a bunch of wanking to see how "innovative" he could make it and it came off like he tried and missed the mark.
esfandyar wrote:i guess i enjoyed his sounds at an earlier stage of his career. loved 1983, loved his demos he put together which had songs from that release. had a more straight hiphop vibe. im all for experimental and changing your sounds, but it was not until he came to warp that his music imo got into a bunch of wanking to see how "innovative" he could make it and it came off like he tried and missed the mark.
i love this sound from him:
I'm also liking that sound, but that doesn't mean his music now sucks. It's different, yeah, but it still has the quality of some of his older tunes. Plus, we're already having Madlib for that sound.
Genevieve wrote:I don't think Warp's or Rephlex's '90s output really aged that well.
wrong.
LFO's early stuff, all the old Nightmares on Wax, old Aphex, Autechre, Speedy J, Seefeel, The Blackdog... Bochum Welt, old AFX, old Bogdan..
boards of canada's 90's shit hasn't aged a day IMO
no, gene's right. sounds outdated as fuck
i wish techno still sounded like that period. it was completely innovative, new, refreshing. there are still artists making new music and doing it well, but that was a time where it was abundant. now the newest shit on the block is what.. the soulection stuff? the directions of witch house? where house is now? i dont even know.. its been a while since i have heard artists making music as unique as that period. rephlex, warp, skam, mu amongst others were it for me. just the melodies alone..
DiegoSapiens wrote:rustie album was horrible dunno how warp released that lol (sorry john Lehmann)
Hahaha, I think I should clarify my stance on him.
At the time his album came out (which I liked) I joined here and needed an avatar. Ive just not ever changed it cos it annoys me when people do it cos I forget who they are.
I dont even actually own Glass swords on vinyl and I took it off my phone awhile back cos I never ever want to listen to it.
Still has some tunes on it that if i heard in the dance I would enjoy tho
I quite liked Darkstar's News from Nowhere tbh.
I think the thing with them and Mount Kimbie is that warp essentially gave them a platform on which they could do whatever they wanted, and so they did, which isn't bad imo. At least that's the vibe I've gotten from interviews.
I think it's good stuff tbh. Wasn't mad on it at first because it was so different to the older releases, but after a while of hearing it from mates/siblings it grew on me.
Also started listening to less bass music in general around the same time and got into more Ambienty stuff as well as bands like Animal Collective etc. So there was some relevance.
That being said, James Blake never released on Warp.
