sandbox nu-disco and beardo thread

perhaps it's just more people mining the vein than '05 when it was 'I feel space' and 'signal failure' and not much else, and they're not doing it as well. lindstrom and padded cell's best work have still been pretty top-shelf this year.

i'm not sure if i buy your reasoning here, though: there's a new goat dance 12" out too and I listened to it and even though the last one was one of my fave things for the whole year, the new one seemed a bit samey, or lacking in personality or something

samey? lacking in personality? CHICKEN LIPS? nooooo ... i mean, i love me some chicken lips but let's just say they're remarkably ... consistent producers.

anyway, who knows. the current hipster craze is "cosmic" disco a la beppe loda. the current non-hipster craze is ame, henrik schwarz, innervisions, compost black label, fourtet, etc

maybe w/ the interest in low and slow instrumentals, the unearthing of arthur russell's more instrumental jams, and the timeless cachet of proggy jazz fusion jams and larry heard type keyboard tinkling everything will swing in an "on the corner" / pharoah sanders referencing cosmic deep jazz house direction.

i dunno, i'm just daydreaming now. but a whole subgenre of stuff referencing patrick pulsinger's "claire" and the rest of the mo'wax excursions movement would be pretty hip (isn't that what stuff like trickski and cobblestone jazz are anyway? is that beardo? or just really wigged out??)

map of africa = crap of africa, i've decided.

sorry, but WEWW is only 50% good and usually only when they're doing downtempo instead of rock.

other than that, haven't heard much new in this vein lately ...

-- vahid

Record fair at Sónar this year. Taken by a friend, unfortunately I didn't see it personally.

Does Escort have an album out or coming out? Starlight was my favorite single of the past year.

fila deserves some cred

The Bumrocks single isn't original music, just 2 cuts on a 7".

Unfortunately a very low-priority, self-appointed non-task done with roughly a second's thought. Better that than nothing at all.

what about the "new" black devil disco club? its growing on me.

PLUG: I had one of my tracks posted on Bumrocks this past week. I think it's still up there (AJG4). Such illustrious company.

And, yeah, I can't wait for new Lee Douglas and Escort stuff myself!

the kathy diamond record didn't blow me away, but MF's Alice Smith is currently destroying my ipod on a daily basis. the vocal crescendo in the middle is orgasmic. love it!

dovetailing with that for top spot lately is the dfa remix of timberlake's 'my love'. it strikes me as fitting in perfectly with the kind of singer JT styles himself as in a live setting

i dunno if i agree with vahid about the l&pt album being better than 'feedelity affair', because i have a serious boner for both of those records. 'l&pt' doesn't have any of those absolutely killer jams from 'affair' -- 'original whities', 'i feel space', 'music in my mind'...actually there is not a dud track on the whole thing. plus i managed to collect all the singles bit by bit and so while i do think they hang together well as a collection, it hasn't hit me with the same immediate impact as the l&pt album did, listening from start to finish as an album.

still, has anyone actually bought 'affair' and read the liner notes? i kinda want to see that film RIGHT NOW...

i've been meaning to talk about those liner notes on ILM because they are indeed fantastic! they really enhance the album for me because i thought the movie was unforgettable and has a very similar palette/tone/theme yet i never would have thought to assoicate the two.

xp

xpost, both the new Escort single and the FILM OF MYSTERY

does not compute.

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ILXer Lauren P took me to the Center for the Dull looking for Freezie Freekie (look it up) and they were playing this crazy music, everything was at the wrong speed but I can tell it was some weird disco and some crazy german new wave. This was also around 99. They had tapes for sale but I didn't get any. Only years later during press for more recent In Flagranti releases did it all come together. Dude was on the Cosmic tip WAY before most of NY.

also, on the DC tip, a new Padded Cell single is on its way -- 'Moon Menace'. It's definitely stands up alongside the others quality-wise.

maybe w/ the interest in low and slow instrumentals, the unearthing of arthur russell's more instrumental jams, and the timeless cachet of proggy jazz fusion jams and larry heard type keyboard tinkling everything will swing in an "on the corner" / pharoah sanders referencing cosmic deep jazz house direction.

Arthur Russell instrumental jams? Is this really an unearthing? I mean, Russell is great, but it's not like it's all been hidden from our view for ages or something.

My favourite sentence on ILM ever!

And the first mix is great.

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haha i thought the wong kar wai fan fic was way corny

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A Night of Dogs and Dog Information with Jay Howell.

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Saurday February 17th 7-10pm.

pretty fun. i met lovefingers. swell guy. he played good records. i really enjoyed tako and loud-e, but the wife thought they were too house-y, but it was just fast/electro disco.

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