Trilogy Tapes Appreciation Thread

#1

I mean…Bankhead is a legend, the artwork for every release is amazing

post your favorites, yeah!

btw massive feature and mix on RA too

my favorite release is the Drizzling Glass by Max D

#2

must resist urge to spam thread…

…fuck it

Tuff Sherm - Burglar Loops

Rezzett - Zik Zak

Anthony Naples - Lekker

Low Jack - Imaginary Boogie

Chemotex - Payphone Player

Bullion - Blue Pedro aka the pinnacle of human creative achievement

#3

lol yeah that Bullion track was definitely unique last year.

I was a big fan of the Parris release “2 Vultures”

#4

Bullion a real 1 for that track. A genuine gift to all the peoples of the world

#5

Was excited to hear of another edition of Max D’s lunatic Dolo Percussion drum tracks series.

Technically this is a Hinge Finger release, I’m gonna post regardless. Edit of a porny disco cover of the Sex Pistols is preposterous and very fun.

#6

just copped the dolo release, missed out on the Lil Mofo cassette though

#7

badboi label. So much time for Will Bankhead since going back to the Mo’ Wax days!

#8

the Rezzett LP will be my AOTY without a doubt, it’s so good

and dat Parris 2 Vultures

one of the most exciting labels around atm

vvvv

#9

I slept on that Rezzett LP when it first came out and then later learned it was Tapes + Lukid and it got me right back into it.

#10

The J. Albert twelve from April is just next level in my book…they’ve been on a goddamn roll with the last crop of releases…Buttechno (review below from my site), MTv (DJ Nobu and NHK’yk’Koyexen), Parris, the Rezzett LP…

J. Albert - Money Between Friends (Should have a review of this record up on my site tomorrow.)

This was the first record I got from the label way back in early 2013…Kassem Mosse and Mix Mupp minialbum:

The Levantis (Actress) record is a personal fave but it ain’t for everybody…machinic techno at its best.

Absolute corker from Ilian Tapes co-founder Dario Zenker:

Eomac doing the type of drum machine meltdown that makes Reconnect such a fucking gem:

MTv doing that slow mindmelter techno thang:

And the climax of Buttechno’s world-destroying EP from late last year:

Review
For those already following the Butt with great intent, last November’s Super Siziy King packed a wallop unlike anything else in his catalog to that point. Despite the album’s gray-scale cover of some monstrous(ly misunderstood) figure shining its wisdom down upon the masses, from the opening seconds of opener “mr Heroin,” it’s clear we’re hearing Pavel either release the record he had hesitated to or simply continue the natural outgrowth of the Buttechno project. A brisk samba-setting rhythm ticks away untouched as the spoken word poetry (or something of that ilk) the producer is so fond of interlocks with the snaking, romantic, and Francophile guitar. Speaking of which, what sounds like guitar chords delayed into nothingness soon give way to a percussive dub workout on “s dub,” an indecisive slice of Buttechno weirdness. Concluding Side A on a more rhythmic but no less experimental note is “k4,” a track that echoes some of the more mangled beat experiments he’s done to create a sparse beat punctuated ever-so effectively by a single vocal utterance.

Not unlike Sports, this quasi-minialbum pursues a similar dichotomous trajectory as the album moves from the abstract to the more functionally abstract. A side of music containing three of my favorite pieces in the Butt catalog, the 80s dream boogie waterfalls that greet the listener before plunging them into a seedy beachside shack replete with used needles and great records. A loving bass line moves things along ever-so gently, snatches of vocals and assorted other sounds peppered heavily across the dish. It’s the record’s final third that reconnects the listener with the moody rhythm mania Pavel has his own over the brief “metalo,” metallic percussion prattling on and on until it’s not. But it’s the closing musique concréte techno of the title track that surely spurred one Discogs commentator to quip, “Dear Sirs, we have the ‘low-fi Villalobos’ here.” Well, the fact it starts off with ‘dear sirs’ tells you all need to know about the rest of the comment. But the deep baritone and spontaneous chatter and harmonizing that serve as the track’s hook feels directly cribbed from the Villalobos playbook…and so what? Mentioning that the ‘low-fi Villalobos’ is not his cup of tea, that same digital pundit concluded his comment with “Too much psichedelia and intellectual understatement in it.” Exaaaaactly. But where Villalobos and his lesser imitators would spend a minimum of ten minutes sucking their elements for everything their worth, Milyakov astutely crafts what could be dancefloor charter in another world, streamlined and sleek as it is. It’s a confounding ending to a dizzying EP and one that arguably served as the producer’s warning shot that he has too much more heat just sitting on hard drives (or something like that).

#11

one of my favs :slight_smile:
huge inspiration, so many amazing records. will has been doing a tremendous job curating this.
i do feel like some of the newer feel less exciting than the inaugural ones, but perhaps that has more to do with the infrastructure of the scene around it, and the state of music criticism/hype that’s being discussed in a few other threads - still, one of my favourite labels for sure!




#12

This is a really cool, imo underappreciated, zoner by Beatrice Dillon and Kassem Mosse:

Fav releases on the label for me are the Joe Seaton ones though, both as Ondo Fudd and Elmo Crumb. The latter’s ‘I’m Still Dizzy’ was released digitally on the amazing Physically Sick X Discwoman comp recently btw, go cop that and support the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund!

#13

low key recent-ish fave on trilogy

#14

Rezzett Doyce “12” is a true gem

#15

So fucking good, both versions are true delights.

Also, realized this jam hasn’t been mentioned…6 years later, still fucks me up.

Weirdly stoked for the Metasplice double lp that’s forthcoming…have their Morphine 12 from 2012 but hadn’t been keeping up with them. That cover might be my favorite of Will’s yet (and I mean of his whole goddamn fantastic career in graphic design).

#16

the last parris tune was a belter.

#17

define “belter”…

I thought that track was a total snooze :frowning:

#18

it thought lionels dub was a lovely stepper and i’ve played it out on a big rig and it belted out, solid bass and the crowd moved like they felt it.

a belter.

#19

lol fair enough. probably just not my cup of tea. some nice flourishes but I always thought Parris was a touch overrated and marginally musical. dude can mix some records, though.

#20

well, imho, parris is overrated by those who don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about (not you! I mean the press hype that surrounded his hemlock release last summer). I think he’s still very much growing as a producer but his interest in moving beyond genre is something I’m very on board with. And this tune, oof.