the old beardo thread was my favourite, this is long overdue. some neu things:
‘all woman’ by kathy diamond, produced by maurice fulton, on that permanent vacation label who did the mix of the same name and the antena reissue. SO GOOD. vahid u will love this. I wonder if MF will do her whole album.
reverso 68’s pete herbert covers cratedigger fave flash and the pan, gets idjuts to remix. this would appear to push all the right buttons in theory but I gave it a whirl and it didn’t really do much for me.
faze action have gone disco again.
also that glimmers fabric mix was really good, I thought. OK have at it.
actually I’ll throw in a question as well on the space-disco side of things: where does this sound go from here? 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. does it try to switch the percussion tricks around and go off, say, on a latin tip a la maurice fulton maybe? does that take the ‘disco’ part too much out of the equation?
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.
heh
please tell me that photo is from your collection and not a record shop
it looks like halcyon
figuring out “where does the sound go from here” = perennial fools errand, right?
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??)
beardo in the sense of denim vests, corduroy pants and beaded headbands seems more played out than anything, though. no more bumrocks-style bum rock. no more todd terje edits. we “get” it, thanks.
you get the Bumrocks 7“ yet?
cosmic deep jazz house sounds good, except if they try to copy those ‘black satin’ handclaps. have you ever tried to listen to that track on headphones? I fell over at the train station once while trying to listen to it. shit throws you off balance.
thank youse but no thank youse
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.
not so much nu-disco as just straight up disco but I really love Escort’s “Starlight”
other than that, haven’t heard much new in this vein lately ...
I wanna know if there is any new stuff by Lee Douglas in the works. One of my favorites over the past year has been Same Changes and hearing “Our Song (Exclusive Extended Mix 1999)” off of Lovefingers back a bit makes me even more interested. Someone tell me there is something new going on with this fella.
not so much nu-nu-disco as old-nu-disco but i took a real nap on the lindstrom and prins thomas album. so LUSH. on headphones those pianos are practically orgasmic. and whoever (jaxon?) said it was really probably a post-rock record was right on. it sounds very (weirdly) tortoise-y to me in places.
please tell me that photo is from your collection and not a record shop
— vahid
Record fair at Sónar this year. Taken by a friend, unfortunately I didn’t see it personally.
I like most of what bumrocks has posted, though I haven’t thought of the selection as forming a genre or fad. He’s had S.O.S Band, Les Love and The Love Kids, and Love Unlimited Orchestra.....
Does Escort have an album out or coming out? Starlight was my favorite single of the past year.
I love how Escort is listed on AMG with only two “Influenced By” references: Skyy and Shalamar.
And the Lindstrom/Prins record is great — right now I’m listening to “Boney M Down” and I love how it sounds kind of like King Sunny Ade playing on a Hall & Oates instrumental.
yeah i majorly came around to the L&PT this year, too. when i first got it i was like “oh yeah, this just sounds like fila brazillia” but then i recently listened to it and thought it was waaaaay better than “a feedelity affair”.
yeah i’ve heard hall and oates, joe jackson, steely dan, and more in the l&pt record. it’s like a metro area lp that replaces italo and new order with late 70s/early 80s soft rock/funk.
well l&pt DO sound just like fila
fila deserves some cred
Escort have a second single out.
The Bumrocks single isn’t original music, just 2 cuts on a 7“.
I love how Escort is listed on AMG with only two “Influenced By” references: Skyy and Shalamar.
Unfortunately a very low-priority, self-appointed non-task done with roughly a second’s thought. Better that than nothing at all.
“Boney M Down” sounds a bit too much like 90’s Pink Floyd for me.
and we return the the very premise of the original thread
that second escort single is good too.
liking the kathy diamond record. better than the first one.
what about the “new” black devil disco club? its growing on me.
Saying the Lindstrom and Prins Thomas album is post rock oversimplifies the music. The album doesn’t take itself as serious as most post rock group do. I definitely hear what jess said afterward about soft rock in thier music, though I think there is still italo as well. It is just a different italo than Metro Area’s.
The Lindstrom and Prins Thomas song called ‘Run’ reminds me of ‘Hold On To Your Dreams’ from “Snake Charmer” by Jah Wobble, the Edge, and Holger Czukay.
I like most of what bumrocks has posted, though I haven’t thought of the selection as forming a genre or fad. He’s had S.O.S Band, Les Love and The Love Kids, and Love Unlimited Orchestra.....
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!
jacob otm, both times...
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 recently come around to the L&PT album in a big way, too. it’s kinda been my holiday music this year. “music in my mind” from the solo album has also been on repeat.
my last post was a really weird double xpost.
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.
both album and movie are period pieces that self-consciously use the past to get to the future.
Movie? Hmmmm?
movie?
xp
buy the album and see what we are talking about!
Also, third Escort single should be out in January/February.
Intruiging!
xpost, both the new Escort single and the FILM OF MYSTERY
I had one of my tracks posted on Bumrocks this past week. I think it’s still up there (AJG4).
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“A Jean Giraud 4” on 12/13
“One of my tracks” meaning something I recorded myself.
anyone looking for a few good mixes should check out these two sites:
i completely take back what i said about that Kathy Diamond record — it’s freaking awesome. i rejected this back in december and have had to wait until now to get my hands on one. i blame the crappy speakers at work where i listen to new records.
vertical tones + horizontal noise volumes 5 and 6 are out and about. psyched!
my smylonnylon story...
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.
isn’t that second link confounded’s site?
5 and 6 of Vertical Tones are awesome. Vincent Markowski’s remix is a sick latin/broken take on the Machine template, and Rimramramrim (iirc) from the album is one of my favorite tracks, can’t wait to play this out. i noticed both of these tracks appeared in Chateau Flight’s Resident Advisor mix for this month...
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.
yes, that second link is ILXer Confounded. EXPOSED!
please send me guess papers
also that rinder and lewis record that padded cell got the ‘signal failure’ sample from has just been reissued, or booted or whatever.
Plz to go to 20 Jazz Funk Greats and dl the Quiet Village rmix of Toby Tobias track. February 11th posting.
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.
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.
My favourite sentence on ILM ever!
And the first mix is great.
the drums on that quiet village mix of ‘dave’s sex bits’ sound like ‘africa’ by toto, for real.
still, has anyone actually bought ‘affair’ and read the liner notes? i kinda want to see that film RIGHT NOW...
haha i thought the wong kar wai fan fic was way corny
Tako, Loud-E and Lovefingers are hitting NYC as well, Dazzle Ships next wed though I won’t be there, and Passerby sometime that week as well, maybe with Kevin Carney?
are you going to that jaxon?
vahid, i will be there. before that i’ll be hitting this
sorry, that’s this http://www.fecalface.com/calendar/calendar.php?mode=view&id=2088
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Receiver Gallery
1415 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA
Saurday February 17th 7–10pm.
can someone tell me who has used the Emperor Machine’s Labocatocs (Markowski’s Polski Re-Dub) in a mix recently? i feel like it might be a quiet village session i got somewhere, but can’t seem to find it. and i know i’ve heard it in a mix context.
jaxon, how was the RX thing saturday?
I am playing a friend’s bday party at duke edinburgh in cupertino on 3/2 and this is an open invitation to all sandbox beardos.
xpost
Chateau Flight’s most recent RA mix has the Markowski mix, four or five songs in...
FUCKIN YES i knew it was from something quite recent.
jaxon, how was the RX thing saturday?
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.
all those dudes will be at Dazzle Ships tonight.
chateau flight + joakim mixes on resident advisor this week are very nice.
other than the Bay Area and greater NYC area ... where are all you beardos?
OKAY JOAKIM DJ MIX ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
HOLY SHIT!
well, i guess if everyone else is doing it ... i’m hosting the toronto one ...
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(uhm, ack ... what’d i do wrong in that post?)
you need to use real html.
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oh thanks, shouldn’t have followed photobucket’s advice on what to use for msg boards :\