Trentemoller - The Last Resort

[dubman]

Originally Posted by kid cue

that's a pretty nice analogy (the chair, not the magazines, because i've never opened either one). i do like minimal techno though, and i'm down with its form + function, but i feel like it functions at different levels too. i like techno when its functionality is sort of awesome and you can't poke any holes in it because it's so machine-relentless. or when it starts to reach outside that functionality without losing it, like that Booka Shade thing. or Red Planet or whatever. but i've been listening to this Trentemoller record and i get the sense that it's very self-referential tech-house, like it uses the standard form and just does a very good job with it, the kind of job that only techno heads are going to care about (meanwhile, any dumbass can appreciate a perfect chair). the lushness, for example, sounds like a very narrowly-defined kind of lushness. and in a way i almost feel like it's just there for its function in the structure of the track, rather than for actually being lush. i guess balance for the sake of balance isn't really enough for me, i want other ideas too. i dunno, maybe i should dl the singles.

i'm not going to say it any better than that so i agree there 100%

[Jafs]

my hopes of a very good electronic album are softly killed by your right words

[m.g.]

Just received my cd (actually my cds... as it's the "limited" edition with the singles bonus cd) and I have to say I absolutely love this album.

Special mention to "Moan" (vocal version). Magic!


ps : I'll keep playing it in few hours on a train going to Frankfurt... mmm...

[patrick]

can't get into it yet... gotta give it a solid try though... i'm sure it'll pick up

just have been into the 'nucelear free city' stuff and aim and k-os

[GforGroove]

Beautiful album no? So dark and funky too.
I could listen to Evil Dub all day.

Originally Posted by Jason Roth

Trentemoller is playing October 26th at Cielo in NYC, in case anyone was wondering.

AHHH Why in Meatpacking why????!!!!! I'll pass. Im prohibited my self to go to that neighborhood, specially when good music is playing.. the better music the worse it gets around there.

[Jason Roth]

Then I guess you won't be at APT for Adam Beyer next Tuesday, either.

[//\/\/]

"always something better" is my stand-out track so far; i'm a sucker for ringing sounds!

[djeddy]

Take me into your skin on disc 1 and polar shift on disc 2 are by far the best things i've heard in a long time.

i've been boasting trentemoller since way back when that le champagne/work in progress EP came out on naked in 2003. and for a while i was saddened he suddenly went quiet. but after listening to this album..his silence was with good reason.

i think its probably the best electronic record of the year.

[Stephen]

Mine turned up over the weekend and I've not had a proper listen yet but the brief airing it got last night didn't yield anything as woofta-doofta as his remix of Royksopp's What Else Is There? which is surely one of the best things to come out of the last 12 months.

I'm hoping this is a 'grower'.

[stimpee]

I'm enjoying his Essential Mix that he did just over a week ago. Marvellous.