The Fabric/Fabriclive thread

[Jafs]

Let's talk about the marvellous fabric compilations !

The next are due for the following months:

Fabric 36: Ricardo Villalobos (september)
Fabric 37: Steve Bug (november)

Fabriclive.36: James Murphy (october)
Fabriclive.37: Justice (december)

Which are your favourites, why, and so on...

[GreenPea]

I used to be subcribed to them, then I received a few really shitty ones and then they cancelled my subscription for I don't know what reason, never bothered to subscribe again. I would like to hear the Villalobos one though =/

[b.miller]

I can't believe how many times I've listened to the Spank Rock mix... can't believe it.

[BrotherLovesDub]

re: Villalobos. it's a completely new album done as a mix.

"It is all my productions and it’s a form of introducing an album as a mix. Every time you do an album and then you do the next one, people start to compare how the music is different, why you did it on this label and not that label, they try to define it, “the other album was better,” “there’s no hit like ‘Easy Lee’ on it” and so forth…it’s exhausting, really. So I think you always have to find a new way to introduce your music and present yourself. I chose fabric because Judy has been asking me for 3 or 4 years now, but I’ve been so busy. And it’s really stressful to do a DJ mix. So I figured it would be much easier to do a mix with my own music, and of course fabric is the perfect label for me to do this on. The nicest thing is no one will really be talking about how it’s an album, it’s all moving along very naturally – no big promotion or releasing tracks for radio two months before. I really prefer for it to be treated like a normal mix CD, with no hype. Sound-wise, the mix is going to be more housey than head-y. I’m more known for head-y, trippy music, so of course it is still very trippy and monotone, in the monotone way of delivering always the same tone and doing something to your brain. But it will be more dancey and housey and summery. I always think of the dancefloor when I create music, but not a vision of the actual dancefloor – it’s always a vision of what’s going to happen. Of course at a club like fabric or a couple clubs in Berlin, you have this already. But many other clubs, not so much – so it’s a projection, a vision. And it’s not one track after another after another, it develops very subtly.

http://www.fabriclondon.com/press/be....html#extended

[Jafs]

how, juste before I paste it

I particularly like this:

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

I’m more known for head-y, trippy music, so of course it is still very trippy and monotone, in the monotone way of delivering always the same tone and doing something to your brain. But it will be more dancey and housey and summery. I always think of the dancefloor when I create music, but not a vision of the actual dancefloor – it’s always a vision of what’s going to happen.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Oooh... sounds like the Villalobos one is gonna be the shit, then.

So many good Fabric albums to choose from. I particularly like the Death In Vegas one - lots of glitchy yumminess going on in that. It's got a beautiful "middle section" with Acid in My Fridge - Dinky going into Marionette - Mathew Jonson, then Neds - Alex Smoke, culminating in Pele Bloss - Wighnomy Bros. That whole section is minimal heaven imo, and I dunno how many dozens of times I've played it.

The Ralph Lawson one was brilliant, too. And, on a more housey note, the Wiggle one was ace.

I am still a member, largely cos I get a queue-jumping membership card as well as the CDs every month, and on a wet Friday night that can be a godsend, believe me. And all for £7 a month. And yes, I am happy to plug FabricFirst any time cos it is a really good deal, imo.

[Winston]

http://www.clubbersguide.com.mk/bann...s_packshot.jpg

01 Groove 1880 – Ricardo Villalobos
02 Perc and Drums – Ricardo Villalobos
03 Moongomery – Ricardo Villalobos
04 Farenzer House § - Ricardo Villalobos
05 M.Bassy – Ricardo Villalobos & Patrick Ense
06 Mecker – Ricardo Villalobos
07 4 Wheel Drive – Ricardo Villalobos & Jorge Gonzales
08 Fizpatrick - Ricardo Villalobos & Patrick Ense
09 Andruic & Japan – Ricardo Villalobos & Andrew Gillings
10 Organic Tranceplant – Ricardo Villalobos
11 Prevorent – Ricardo Villalobos
12 Fumiyandric 2 – Ricardo Villalobos & Fumiya Tanaka
13 Won’t You Tell Me – Ricardo Villalobos
14 Primer Encuentro Latino-Americano – Ricardo Villalobos
15 Chropuspel Zündung – Ricardo Villalobos

[Jafs]

oh great !

where did you get the tracklisting ?

[Ally]

Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

I particularly like the Death In Vegas one - lots of glitchy yumminess going on in that. It's got a beautiful "middle section" with Acid in My Fridge - Dinky going into Marionette - Mathew Jonson, then Neds - Alex Smoke, culminating in Pele Bloss - Wighnomy Bros. That whole section is minimal heaven imo, and I dunno how many dozens of times I've played it.

Me too, love it That Alex Smoke track is superb, the feeling of restraint generated is delicious. Also had an epiphany once to that Blue Ketchuppp track (no 16 I think) when I had a house full of people and it came on and I was like "that sound is exactly where my head's at right now..."

[Jafs]

Fabriclive 34 by Krafty Kuts is highly recommended.