January saw the pair release a fantastic new compilation that showcases the kind of house you can expect at one of their nights.
He's a purveyor, and producer, of some of the weepiest sadlad house and techno ever press to tear-stained vinyl, and "Falling Hands", taken from the still-fantastic Total 4 compilation, is the platonic ideal of soft, sad techno.
Stream "Brines" from Dear's fantastic and forthcoming DJ-Kicks compilation.
There were dalliances with minimal techno when it minced into vogue around 2005 and Richie Hawtin's Minus label put together the fantastic Minimize to Maximize compilation that still sounds wild and raw today.
Compilation... compilers?
A gorgeous compilation of interior designer Barbara Ostrom's fantastic showrooms in New York, New Jersey and the Hamptons.
Phil then answered them, and let us stream a track from the compilation, and that track is the fantastic "Gambarra" by Phil himself, under his much loved Cantoma guise.
Michael Gluck, better known as Piano Squall, has also voiced approval of the compilation, stating "…this is without a doubt the most fantastic project to ever hit the videogame music scene".
Their oeuvre ranges from the sublime to the catastrophic and all points in between; a compilation of their best moments would be both baffling and fantastic.
Compilation after compilation is adorned with image after image of imagined femininity, the kind of fantastic — in the remote from reality sense — female that codes as a subservient cipher for projected male-focused heteronormative fantasy — in the grubbily real sense.
"Stepfather Factory" can be found on the Definitive Jux Presents II compilation (Def Jux) and also on El P's genius full-length record, Fantastic Damage, which drops 5.14.02.
