Vector Lovers

A couple of years ago I downloaded a Soma Records sampler - Soma Coma - from Bleep ... its really good by the way, and only £5 for 15 tracks.

And thats how I came to hear Vector Lovers - he had two awesome tracks on that comp.

If you read his biography, he ticks a lot of the IDM artist boxes:

- background tinkering with the ZX Spectrum in the 80s - check.

- developing and selling own VST instruments - check

- has a track called Girl + Robot - check

- now living in Berlin - check

His first album, Vector Lovers, from back in 2004 is awesome

You can hear it/download it from Bleep, here

The standout tracks, for me are:

- Metrolux Forever

- Toyko Glitterati

- Girl + Robot

- Yamanote Sundown

Here's Metrolux Forever:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G_-yed-7S0

and here's Tokyo Glitterati

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljWsDXpRiW0

and here's Yamanote Sundown:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRKr5wcAhL8

He has two or three more recent albums too - I have 'Afterglow' and it is also very high quality. Has anyone checked out the other ones?

YES! I'm totally in love with Vector Lovers, and have listened to him for years (although I don't love the name/anime concept, but whatever). This is one of my favourite songs by him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnOGbpXBfOo

just love that break at 1:53 sooooo much, so many good memories with this song

I am definitely not a fan of his latest stuff though. In fact he seems to be regressing...going in a direction more of minimal techno. Like, really minimal/dance/club music. Like this:

I really do hope he goes back to his original early style, although I doubt it seeing how club music is what pays the bills...

There's a few free tracks for download on his website, and I see that he is also on Twitter, actually some of his tweets are quite good.

I'm not sure there's a consistent album, but he's done a handful of really great tracks. Of his (fairly) recent stuff I like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-i4Z9oZqwU

Very nice stuff, thanks for the introduction

Afterglow is his best album.

I just bought this album thanks!

thank you for the introduction!!

first caught Vector Lovers in the Slam Tent at 'T in the Park' a few years back.

Cool stuff with impeccable production and if anyone can tell me what he's done to the sound on the track Endless Summer to make it sound so crisp I'd be very appreciative.

Metrolux Forever is really really really good, hope hes got more tracks as epic as that one

I have several livesets in mp3 if someone is interessed !!!

  On 12/30/2009 at 5:52 PM, schizophonic said:

I have several livesets in mp3 if someone is interessed !!!

Some lives and DJ mixes are still available in free download on www.somarecords.com:

01 - Electrobotik Disco (New Version)

02 - Raumklang

03 - Graviton (New Track To Be Released On Limited on The Black Dog’s 93 Records Micro Label)

04 - Little Plastic Figures

05 - Babette (Out on Beatport 17th Jan on Simple Records)

06 - Lateshift (Out on Beatport 17th Jan on Simple Records)

07 - Ping-Pong (Soma Quality Recordings)

08 - Escape Velocity New Track To Be Released On Limited on The Black Dog’s 93 Records Micro Label)

01 - Rechenzentrum - Vlotho Exter

02 - Susumu Yokota - Kodomotachi

03 - Gimmik - Sister Moon

04 - Vector Lovers - Hush Now

05 - Sol Seppy - Bells of 12

06 - Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning

07 - Solvent - My Radio

08 - Sian - Apple Tree

09 - Aoki Takamasa - Dancing Queen

10 - Bitstream - Bionic Hand of DJ Daddy Longlegs

11 - Abfahrt Hinwil - Tech 7

12 - The Congos - Fisherman

13 - Maps - Lost My Soul

14 - Greetings from Tuskan - 4th of Never

15 - Vector Lovers - Genevieve

Enjoy listening

One of the best tracks they've done imo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVfJUuilNUo

The latest Vector Lovers release has now leaked.

http://somarecords.com/music/soma_cd89/

This dude remixed one of my tunes! Nice to see him getting some watmms love.

i got some albums 'cos of this thread. good shit

  On 3/2/2011 at 7:38 PM, flurobox said:

The latest Vector Lovers release has now leaked.

 

http://somarecords.com/music/soma_cd89/

Looks like its a kinda remastered best-of. Should be good.

That Metrolux Forever track is too good, I remember I replayed it like 7 times when I first heard it from this thread many many months back. I had to post it, good job bumping this thread. I need to listen to more of this dudes stuff.

(by post it I mean I had to post that tube on facebook so that a few people would listen to it)((because barely anyone gives a shit about posted music on facebook.. o well))

seriously though this stuff gives me a seriously complex emotional boner downer upper stimulant sedative

  On 5/4/2012 at 11:21 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

seriously though this stuff gives me a seriously complex emotional boner downer upper stimulant sedative

I WAS BEING CEREALZ!