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Posted by vinnie97 on Dec-23-2009 15:00:

Slacker - Start A New Life (LP)

Sample/buy it HERE (digital) or HERE (CD) (only ~$13.00!)

Slacker is dropping a bomb on us this February, his first LP...and it won't be proghouse (barring the rare exception perhaps) but everything downtempo.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=11450

quote:
Slacker will issue his first full-length release in February.

The Slacker project was originally a collaboration between Shem McCauley and Simon Rogers, with the pair releasing progressive house tracks on labels such as XL, Loaded and their own Jukebox In The Sky imprint. Now the moniker represents McCauley alone, and after a two year break in Thailand, he's back to the UK and ready to get back into the music scene.

Instead of concentrating on the progressive house of his past, McCauley has instead decided to concentrate on crafting a full album in the vein of classic '90s works like The KLF's Chill Out and Future Sound Of London's Tales Of Ephidrina. "Stylistically, it might sound like a big change," explains McCauley, "but for me, it�s like expressing the stuff I was never previously able to." The resulting work is entitled Start w New Life, and is quite a diverse effort, encompassing beatless piano tracks ("I Have No Memory"), slo-mo funk ("Just As I Am"), skittering Arthur Russell-sampling breakbeat ("Come With Me") and lush choral electronica ("Help Me Here").

Tracklist
01. Start A New Life
02. I Have No Memory
03. When I Was A Child
04. Come Back Home
05. Just As I Am
06. Come With Me
07. Hymn To Her
08. See The World
09. A Million Dreams
10. Help Me Here
11. What A Dream I Had

I'm excited...another one of the proghouse heavyweights from the 90s.

Some previews available to be heard here: http://www.myspace.com/slackershem

Posted by Redd on Dec-23-2009 15:27:

Holy cwap, looking forward to this!

Posted by SPANIARD on Dec-23-2009 16:04:

I'll give it a listen. He was great with the prog sound of the 90's so hopefully he's just as gifted with the electronica sound.

Posted by stripped99 on Dec-23-2009 16:12:

Tasty!

Posted by UWM on Dec-23-2009 16:22:

Awesome.

Posted by vinnie97 on Dec-23-2009 16:32:

quote:
Originally posted by SPANIARD
I'll give it a listen. He was great with the prog sound of the 90's so hopefully he's just as gifted with the electronica sound.

He is

Posted by SuspicionVandit on Dec-23-2009 17:54:

slackerrr!

yeah!

Posted by vinnie97 on Dec-23-2009 18:25:

I nearly forgot, his Myspace has 5 samples: http://www.myspace.com/slackershem (and apparently Ipoons has them available exclusively for now).

Posted by Redd on Dec-23-2009 19:14:

judging by the samples this is a definite buy

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Dec-23-2009 20:51:

Very interesting.

Posted by enydo on Dec-23-2009 22:03:

Big Slacker fan so I'll definitely be looking into this.

Posted by Dj_Es-Dva on Dec-24-2009 01:36:

Hmmm I wonder if McCauley can do it alone...

Posted by Guest on Dec-24-2009 01:52:

I have a few slacker titles that are complete fail. Being that this is downtempo I'm gonna at invest some sample time

Posted by Dj_Es-Dva on Dec-24-2009 04:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Guest
I have a few slacker titles that are complete fail. Being that this is downtempo I'm gonna at invest some sample time
Which ones? I only have a few of their older vinyls, and they are mind blowingly good imo. Scared, Slack Man Sound, Fusion, and in particular their remix of Roaches

Posted by vinnie97 on Dec-24-2009 08:44:

Most of that is from the 90s. To be fair, he put out a few lackluster numbers earlier in the decade. They were disappointing compared to much of what you listed. I apologize in advance for not being able to reference one at the moment but discogs.com holds the answer(s).

Posted by Dj_Es-Dva on Dec-24-2009 10:38:

Yeh I figured as much, I never checked any out because I wouldnt have expected them to be that great Still be interesting to see how this LP goes.

Posted by evo8 on Dec-24-2009 12:14:

always loved this one - be interesting to see how the new stuff sounds

Posted by Guest on Dec-24-2009 13:40:

quote:
Originally posted by Dj_Es-Dva
Which ones? I only have a few of their older vinyls, and they are mind blowingly good imo. Scared, Slack Man Sound, Fusion, and in particular their remix of Roaches

When I first started buying records I ended up buying a lot stuff I wont touch now. For example, from slacker:

http://www.discogs.com/Slacker-Answer/release/420712

http://www.discogs.com/Moby-In-This-World/release/65510

and there's this other one that's blue with black cursive writing that just says "Slacker". I can't find it at the moment

Meanwhile,

http://www.discogs.com/Slacker-Turn.../release/303526

this is one is just OK for me...I thought it was great at the time but it hasnt aged well

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Dec-24-2009 14:47:

Did Slacker ever release "Goddamn Noise"? I can't find it on Discogs.

Posted by Guest on Dec-24-2009 15:19:

noize w/ a z

http://www.discogs.com/Slacker-Godd.../release/516437

Posted by SYSTEM-J on Dec-24-2009 15:59:

It took them nine years, then.

Posted by Armitage on Dec-24-2009 21:02:

I wasn't expecting much but the samples sound pretty good - I'll probably grab this off of beatport or something.

Posted by Nostalgic on Dec-26-2009 01:36:

quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Did Slacker ever release "Goddamn Noise"? I can't find it on Discogs.

Yes but the Goddamn Noize version that was released is shit compared to the actual original version of the track from 9 years ago. It's more like some crappy remix.

Posted by _IDS_ on Dec-26-2009 10:43:

Great news, this guy roxx!

Posted by Lews on Dec-27-2009 23:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Nostalgic
Yes but the Goddamn Noize version that was released is shit compared to the actual original version of the track from 9 years ago. It's more like some crappy remix.

Yeah, as far as I remember, it wasn't the original version. Was two remixes. Only place to find the original would be some acetate somewhere.

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