#John Talabot

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168: John Talabot // ƒIN

ƒIN John Talabot 2012, Permanent Vacation

My knowledge of contemporary electronic music was basically flash frozen in carbonite somewhere between the years 2010 and 2013, so when I try to talk about what’s going on now I know my face ends up stuck in a stupid expression and that the tortoise shell glasses and white-trimmed American apparel zip hoodie that suddenly cover my rigid body are cosmically stylistically invalid. Fortunately, John Talabot’s ƒIN dropped right in the middle of my flirtation with the genre(s), so I feel okay riffing on it. I was instantly pretty smitten with ƒIN—which is to say it’s in the small canon of electronic releases I’ve spent enough time with to love, and that therefore I continue to slip tracks from it into my wacker-by-the-year playlists on the rare occasions I get the aux at a dance party, and to say further that my doing so probably does Talabot few favours. His smooth, Balearic sound isn’t a world away from the gormless trance music that dominated Ibiza at the time, and the vocal tracks have some indie dance inflections that aren’t super fashionable these days. Still, ƒIN floats out there to me in the World of Forms as a timeless example of dancefloor bliss, and still feels like cool black water running in the gullies of my brain.

From the drop, ƒIN invites you into a nocturnal world strobed by green light, ‘80s-esque house synths grooving over samples of frogs and crickets and bird calls. Even when an anachronistic touch is introduced, like the cracking 808 kicks that power “Oro y sangre,” the fundamentally organic quality of Talabot’s sound gradually consumes it, like a marsh reclaiming an abandoned structure. Still, no matter how deep into the mangroves he goes, Talabot has the instincts of a big room dance musician. “When the Past Was Present” sounds like Swamp Thing dropping M and cruising Miami Beach, while Tal’s two collaborations with producer/vocalist Pional are definitely intended for feeling someone’s face while gently peaking. What’s kept him from becoming like, Tiësto or something, is that while he wants to move your body on the floor he also wants to take your mind somewhere more spiritual. That’s an ambition that doesn’t lend itself to big emotional swings—but it does make for an album nearly as good in the chair as in the club.

168/365

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Sunday 1 October Mixtape 379 “Analogic Surfing EXCLUSIVE”

Retro Space Electronic Idm Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip so future shows can bloom.

Jumble Hole Clough-Surfing the Sargasso Sea 00:31

Oberu-Analogic 03:35

London Clay-Presence Unknown 05:56

Lars Leonhard-Raytracing 09:49

Higher Intelligence Agency-Delta 16:31

Carbon Based Lifeforms, Karin My-Bloom, Pt. 1 22:34

John Scott Shepherd-Trans Space 27:32

Cate Brooks-Flowstate 30:40

Datasal-Besök 34:39

Sordid Sound System-Sharawadji 41:03

The Irresistible Force-Blue My Mind 46:50

The British Stereo Collective-Mystery Fields 54:00

Cartas de Japón-Nueva Atlantis 55:41

Dohnavùr-The Kindness Of Others - Concretism Remix 1:04:06

Violet Mist-Celestial Drift 1:07:20

S U R V I V E-Hourglass 1:10:22

Runningonair-Passage Of Days 1:17:26

Metamatics-Jakemond 1:26:52

Sick Robot-1980 1:32:12

Curved Light-VIII (Lapis) 1:38:14

James Bernard-End of an Era (Comit Remix) 1:45:55

Michael Brückner-A Secret (Part 3) 1:51:12

Mioclono, John Talabot, Velmondo-Myoclonic Sequences 1:57:20

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 06-08.07.23 BBK FESTIVAL Bilbao Spagna

FEVER RAY FLORENCE + THE MACHINE THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS RY X ARCA M83 THE BLAZE JAMIE XX ROISIN MURPHY DANIEL AVERY BEN UFO IDLES ROYKSOPP PERFUME GENIUS LEFTFIELD JOHN TALABOT

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Should’ve been there..

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MOONTALK, 3/9/2020 - moon in Libra (waning gibbous)

Philip Glass - “How Does My Royal Lord” Caribou - “New Jade” Dorothy Ashby - “Come Live with Me” Angel Bat Dawid - “We Are Starzz” Donato Dozzy - “12H.3” Laurel Halo - “Hyphae” Sonic Youth - “Snare, Girl” Caterina Barbieri - “Bow of Perception” Kali Malone - “Sacrificial Code I” Terry Riley - “Music for the Gift: Part 5” Hype Williams - “Untitled 1” John Talabot - “So Will Be Now…” (feat. Pional) Cocteau Twins - “Pandora (For Cindy)” Christine and the Queens - “Nada” Empress Of - “Give Me Another Chance” Annette Peacock - “I’m the One” Yoko Ono - “Why” The Seshen - “Dive” Sister Sledge - “Thinking of You”

Link to the live recording: https://www.mixcloud.com/jackchelgren/moontalk-8/

[mitjalovse]

I may have classified the musicians that chart the alternative paths for their idioms quite wrong. They're not really the mainstream players that dare to experiment nor they are the underground ones with a penchant for pop. I mean, someone like John Talabot could be potentially called a cult musician, but this has some other connotations that don't fit the category I try to discuss here. Mind you, some of these I talk about could be in the paradigm as well, yet I don't think John Talabot, since I mentioned him, could be one of those. He has a strong support from a label and he doesn't seem to be a secret among afficionados. However, he's not really either an alternative musician not a mainstream one, he's somehow both and neither, if that makes much sense.

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Le morceau du jour #40 : Anton Klint - Lyckliga Människor

Le producteur suédois Anton Klint qui s’était fait connaitre en 2014 avec son EP Spritzer, revient en 2019 sur le label de John Talabot : Hivern Discs. On n’aurait pu s’attendre à la formule habituelle d’Anton Klint : une house, teintée de disco, mélodique, parfois accompagnée d’instruments. En lieu et place de tous ces éléments, Klint a choisi une configuration purement électronique avec une ligne de basse très présente, groovy, sur un texte déclamé en suédois. L’ensemble devient une bizarrerie house, atypique, loin des travaux précédents, bien plus conventionnels d’Anton Klint.

Track of the day #40 : Anton Klint - Lyckliga Människor

The Swedish producer Anton Klint reknown in 2014 with his EP Spritzer, returns in 2019 on the John Talabot’s label: Hivern Discs. We could expected the usual formula of Anton Klint: house, tinged with disco, melodic, sometimes accompanied by instruments. Instead of all these elements, Klint has chosen a purely electronic configuration with a very groovy bass line, on a text declaimed in Swedish. The ensemble becomes an odd house, atypical, far from the previous works, much more conventional of Anton Klint.

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Dins El Llit (Superpitcher Remix) by Talaboman.

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Artista: John Talabot Álbum: Fin Ano: 2012 Faixas/Tempo:  11/51min Estilo: Balearic Beat/Deep House Data de Execução: Nota: 7,5 Melhor Música:  Missing You

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NctrnmFM(nctrnm.com): "The Change" by John Talabot.

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31.05.23 PRIMAVERA SOUND Barcellona

 CONFIDENCE MAN PET SHOP BOYS DARKSIDE CLOUD NOTHINGS GILLA BAND DAVE P RHYW NEW ORDER AKISON GOLDFRAPP ASCENDANT VIERGE BRUTALISMUS DEPECHE MODE FRED AGAIN SKRILLEX JOHN TALABOT DAPHNI LEBANON HANOVER SEVDALISA ST.VINCENT PIONAL DJ COCO PURPLE DISCO MACHINE DIPLO SUDAN ARCHIVES NATION OF LANGUAGE CHARLOTTE DE WITTE