Modeselektor Modeselektor - Monkeytown

  On 8/15/2011 at 6:00 PM, troon said:

'this' is beautiful

The kick is insane!

The snippet of the melody you can hear at the end of the sample sounds kinda weak though...

incy-wincy tinsy tiny teases

At last I can hear the samples with my monitors !

Sounds quality but what can one actually think with a 45 seconds excerpt for each track ?... It's frustrating and will certainly waste the pleasure of the whole album. But I can't resist.

Damn, some tracks really sounds wicked

edit : bump, by the way. How can this topic be buried 4 pages deep ?!

im going crazy waiting for this record... MonkeyMONkeYSsssssss.... gotta have them MONKEysssssssssssss

My review of the album for barcode is up online

http://www.barcodezine.com/revmodeselektormonkeytown.htm

Basically if you're on this forum, in this thread, and reading this post, you're going to like it :sup:

that looks amazing

this album is SOOOO good!

wow

when is it coming out in the us?

  On 9/30/2011 at 4:04 AM, jules said:

when is it coming out in the us?

You can buy it from Boomkat now

I was first quite disappointed while listening to it but wasn't very attentive then + those voices over and bleeps of that pre-release promo edition wasted the listening but now I think I enjoy it a lot.

My first disappointment was about the fact there are a majority of tracks with guest singers and that the tracks without voices weren't the best at all IMO and what I was expecting from Modeselektor was headfucking (voiceless) tracks like Godspeed or Edgar or older ones.

Anyway I now appreciate the diversity of genres and vocalists in the album ; it has some crazy moments (This, the track with Otto Von Schirach, Berlin, etc..). I just wonder if one day they'll come back to a more braindancy stuff as they made at the beginning. I don't know if you guys listened to the firsts EPs but some tracks are almost Autechre.

  On 10/2/2011 at 10:26 AM, Antape said:

I just wonder if one day they'll come back to a more braindancy stuff as they made at the beginning.

They won't. They've found their goldmine so why go back to something that doesn't sell?

Anyway, I kinda like this album. There are definitely a couple of hits on it and I hope they'll release some singles in the near future with instrumental versions. I like the vocal on Pretentious Friends but the song that pops in nearing the end makes me shiver. I could have done without the Thom Yorke tunes - mostly because I'm getting really tried of Thom Yorke.

Blue Clouds, Berlin, and Grillwalker are by far my favorites.

Yay. Another Busdriver collaboration.

BeatsWaySick was.. well.. sick.

I didn't like it on the first listen. Maybe i'm going to try some more listens because i respect their older work and sometimes a few more listens changes it all.

  On 10/2/2011 at 1:45 PM, Squee said:

They won't. They've found their goldmine so why go back to something that doesn't sell?

Yeah after all I think the same but would like to believe a little bit that one day they'll do. You know, when they'll be 60 years old or something and will realise that making money begins to bore them.

nevermind

  On 10/3/2011 at 1:43 AM, Kanakori said:

I didn't like it on the first listen. Maybe i'm going to try some more listens because i respect their older work and sometimes a few more listens changes it all.

you should try at least once more, that second time made it for me. But maybe I'm just over-reacting about my first disappointment and WANT to like it but eventually I'll realise I actually don't. ha

Yeah, it didn't do it for me at first listen either, but I'll make sure to give it a few more go's before I write it off. Some good parts, so worth a try.

it's hard to compare this with the happy birthday and the hello mom! which i love, but this is some quite decent monkeying around

yea im not too keen on this new one. feels very scattershot.

  On 10/6/2011 at 6:14 PM, jules said:

feels very scattershot.

Much agreed.

With a few more listens I eventually feel quite disappointed. I don't think I'll listen to it very much in the future. Which is a shame because some of its moments are awesome IMO (the moment of This when the bass line + the hatched rhythmic come in, and then the bass get doubled by that high voice-sounding synth gave me the thrills several times already) but I don't know, it could have been more focused.

Also, I think a lot of its tracks are OK but way too repetitive. Like the first track ; when I heard the excerpt for the album preview, I thought that this opening track would be the Godspeed! of Monkeytown, and when I heard the full track for the first time, I realised that the excerpt contained basically all that the track has to show. And that track is what, 5 minutes long ?

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