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I was standing near stage, didn't even know they were showing a movie -- but if it was holy mountain, have to say that recent screening at the castro was great!

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:07 (seventeen years ago) link

that is real funny vahid. you should watch holy mountain. santa sangre is also good.

also, the stuff w/ 'slave to the rhythm' happened in new york too, and it was fucking SICK and INTENSE. i think that was the only point when i screamed for longer that a 'wooo'.

― the table is the table (trees), Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

yay holy mountain! i went to a screening of el topo at the nyff and everyone was dressed in suits. the first thing jodorowsky said in the post-screen interview was that he was baffled why there wasn't a cloud of marijuana smoke billowing throughout the room.

lindstrom was nice in ny, but he just tempts every song for so long that you just wanna grab him and tell him to get on with it. i've had to face the fact that lindstrom's my doppelganger - that's bizarre enough in itself to see the faces he makes when tweakin' his ableton.

― JoeMeekly (deyoungn), Thursday, 15 February 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

There was some thread on propah-ILX where vahid was saying the remix of Beck's "Cell Phone's Dead" is better than most other more celebrated villalobos stuff, yeah?

I think he is correct. I hope villalobos goes pop like that more often in the future.

― Tim F (Tim F), Thursday, 15 February 2007 06:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of think Ricardo Villalobos looks like a tool.

― Shadowcat (A-Ron Hubbard), Thursday, 15 February 2007 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

the beck remix is great

girls like minimal

― Subtractive Synthesis (Subtractive Synthesis), Thursday, 15 February 2007 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i've had to face the fact that lindstrom's my doppelganger

haha N@TE THAT IS EXACTLY what i thought when i saw dude

― deej (deej), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

not unimpeachable, but a question: anyone digging the new chateau flight RA podcast? i am only a few minutes into it, but do say that i likee.

― the table is the table (trees), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

808 State stole "Pacific" from Rhythm is Rhythm's "It Is What It Is".
umm, never noticed a significnt similarity there.
-- resumo impetus
it's in the chord changes...

-- henry s

same number of chords (four) which is not uncommon but not all the same notes and slightly different sequence ('Pacific's highest chord is the second of the four whereas IIWII's highest is the fourth and final one)

― resumo impetus (blueski), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

IMPEACH'D

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Bush

(geddit?)

― resumo impetus (blueski), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I dunno....a lot of techno sounds like It Is What It Is and Pacific! And thank god for that.

― dan selzer (dan selzer), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Bush LP 01 is probably my favorite techno "album" ever.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLY SHIT @ that rv pic

― ^@^ (map), Thursday, 15 February 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i know, he looks like one of the nazis at the end of raiders of the lost ark

― a mediocre black-and-white cookie in a cellophane wrapper (hanks1ockli), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

his t-shirt says 'gurner' but his eyes say 'hospital'

― ^@^ (map), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

he looks like his eyeballs are about to fall out his ass

― friday on the porch (lfam), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i bet if you licked him you'd stay awake for two weeks

― ^@^ (map), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Holy Mountain is correct.

I thought the sound was great. it was loud enough to get lost in but my ears didn't ring at all the next day. maybe that's because i'm in advanced stages of tinnitus, i dunno.

i thought lindstrom was great, but the comment about taking to long to get to the point is spot on, i think.

and carl craig did actually blow the doors off the club. i saw it.

xxxxpost

― mikebee (bizzle), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link

he was only supposed to blow their bloody heads off (groan)

― resumo impetus (blueski), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link

lindstrom was wack. nice neck motions, but the same stuff that make his music so great on a nice hifi made it almost unbearably boring in person.

He totally looked like a boblehead doll (i would buy one).
I liked the show but it was more like some sort of a prog rock show and nobody really danced until he played i feel space and contemporary fix. even though they were dancing before.

― mizzell (mizzell), Thursday, 15 February 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

but what was the 3rd song? the really minimal one with the girls going "can't stop ... can't stop ... don't stop"?? people were dancing during that, it was hot!!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

the best thing about that night was that i hadn't known that i hadn't heard about the faze action remixes yet ... when gamall played the tiger stripes version i didn't actually recognize the strings but then when carl craig played his version my jaw hit the floor.

also carl craig is a ridiculously good showman, he didn't look at the crowd or even move for the first 30 minutes or so, but then when the string break came in on his exclusive version of "in the trees" he finally looked up at us, and then he brought the drums and synths back in super loud and started bopping to it ... incredible!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

and stopping the music 15 minutes before closing to point at his heart and then to us and to applaud for the crowd, that was classy

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

most of the set was recently created specifically for his live sets. he retired a bunch of old material, and the majority of the material he's written recently is around the 100-110bpm range, and not entirely fitting for the club at peak hour, so he (maybe hastily?) wrote new tunes just for his most recent appearances.

― mikebee (bizzle), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:21 (seventeen years ago) link

and yeah, that 'trees' remix is going to be the tune of the next few months!

― mikebee (bizzle), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

carl craig didnt play in chicago tho i have no doubt that he would blow away lindstrom. I don't know why ppl are saying no one was dancing to lindstrom tho, at least here it seemed like lots of people were into it, pretty much throughout the set.

― deej (deej), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Lindstrom said that the Chicago gig was kind of dull -- that the sound was not nearly loud enough and there wasn't much of a vibe...

― mikebee (bizzle), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

LOL then i wonder what he thought of SF

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

mikebee - really? i didn't recognize a lot of the earlier tracks but it seemed like a lot of the 2nd half was pretty straightforward: "angola", "poor people must work", "strings of life" ... what else did he play? was that an e-dancer remix i heard towards the end? my memory is so bad!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

he played his remix of "the theme" by hot lizard, right? that was that piano-plonky track that came right after or right before "angola"?

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 15 February 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

eh i had a good time, but i was drunk
i suppose it might have been difficult for him considering the DJ leading up to his shit was playing deee lite and naughty by nature

― deej (deej), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:04 (seventeen years ago) link

It's kind of amazing how good Carl Craig is live. It's really hard for me to put a finger on exactly why, but for some reason he always jams. He is the man.

― sous les paves (sous les paves), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

sorry vahid, i was talking about Lindstrom. i think i was too asleep to be posting there.
xpost

and yes, carl is a master. he's on some macro-dj'ing shit. big-picture shit.

― mikebee (bizzle), Thursday, 15 February 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

yes yes to the cc.

― the table is the table (trees), Friday, 16 February 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

stereo exists in clubs?
many xpost

― le hague (le hague), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:54 (seventeen years ago) link

is anyone seeing claude vonstroke tonight?

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 16 February 2007 23:59 (seventeen years ago) link

where at? he blew Switch off the stage last night, imo.

― mikebee (bizzle), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link

sad that i missed switch. switch is crazy good.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:39 (seventeen years ago) link

4) techno seems to appeal most to people who live in places which would make any sane person want to commit suicide (detroit, post-industrial europe, shibuya, berlin, windsor, chile) ... isn't this a strike AGAINST techno? is the best we can say about techno that it is only marginally better than suicide?

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i take it you havent been to berlin? (or barcelona, for that matter?)

― Schal Atznavour (fxzxffx), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

chile looks nice

your point would apply to punk, hip-hop and most other actual genres tho surely

― resumo impetus (blueski), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

there still aren't enough high-profile/successful women making it

― resumo impetus (blueski), Saturday, 17 February 2007 00:58 (seventeen years ago) link

yes those genres suck too

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

places which would make any sane person want to commit suicide (detroit, ~~post-industrial~~ europe, shibuya, windsor, chile)

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Chile is really nice.

― jim (jim), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

vahid = troll

― Schal Atznavour (fxzxffx), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

they drink coke mixed w/ piscola = thinly disguised cry for help

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

see that man upthread in the green t-shirt?!? he is the VERY BEST his nation has to offer (excepting pinochet)

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Piscola is a cry for help in itself.

― jim (jim), Saturday, 17 February 2007 01:05 (seventeen years ago) link

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it's all shit. i only learned about it yesterday.

http://gawker.com/5863804/the-old-persons-guide-to-skrillex

― remy bean in exile, Thursday, 1 December 2011 12:23 (twelve years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I miss the bobbins thread :(

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link

Worst ever techno name: Norman Nodge

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 27 December 2011 12:59 (twelve years ago) link

Cornish Techno Facts: the kick on an 808 ain't got nothing on the BOOM! when a really big wave hits the back of a deep zawn.

― Polemicist Who Slashed All, Freely (Fotherington Thomas), Tuesday, 27 December 2011 13:24 (twelve years ago) link

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