Well, there's a bunch of Moonshake stuff that sounds nothing like Laika or Stereolab, so if you were expecting that I can see you being disappointed. There is also stuff where you can see the lineage, though, so... Hm.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
will totally dig it back out! If I can find it. I had already felt that I might have been a little too unkind to it, probably because of misleading expectations, as you say.
― brony island baby (case spudette), Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
emil.y otm; Eva Luna has some songs on it that I imagine sound like what Laika will become, but there's also some awesome brain-splitting noise rock and some PiL dread punk-dub filtered through a more prog/sound-collage sensibility
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJn-H6Ay8Ks
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
Why is there no Aphex on this list?
― dog latin, but cool (dog latin), Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
dammit if I had actually voted and if Lex had voted, Portishead would have won
― OH NOES, Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
they'll just have to be content with winning the actual original list!
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
This was the first Moonshake track I heard:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxlH4WNSdF0
Though discogs doesn't seem to list it as part of Eva Luna, when I thought it was.
But then you have something like Two Trains, which is totally different.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
Secondhand Clothes is totally on the version of Eva Luna that I have; which is I think the Matador Records reissue. It has that whole EP
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 15 December 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
um OK that Two Trains song is amazing; is that what Laika sounds like? I figured it was more in the "Bleach & Salt Water"/"Little Thing" vein
― he said "grody" (henrietta lacks), Thursday, 15 December 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z54gCe1iOF0&feature=related
I remember Laika as being a bit more mellow than 'Two Trains' and its frenetic (almost d'n'b?) rhythms, but yeah, that's definitely the side of Moonshake that pointed towards Laika's output.
― Illia Rump (emil.y), Thursday, 15 December 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link