my friend JS emailed me these fun facts—feel free to add your own

lindstrom is techno??

The new Mike Jones single is pretty good

but mike jones is called mike jones and looks like a tool, and people care about him

i would not go as far as deej. “ok-ish” maybe.

richard d. james doesn’t disprove it because he’s more commonly known as aphex twin, which is a respectable moniker.

3) 808 State stole “Pacific” from Rhythm is Rhythm’s “It Is What It Is”.

Most techno artists look like tools and have crappy names. It hasn’t hurt Moby or Luke Vibert or Tom Jenkinson much as far as I can tell.

nobody cares about mike jones!!

jenkinson and vibert are AWESOME names compared to “jones”

in high school, when me and my friends wanted to call someone a loser, we called them a “jones”.

jenkinson + vibert = total b-movie mad professor names

lindstrom’s solo output is certainly techno.

that and you are wrong about villalobos. he’s pretty good. not as mindfucking as people make him out to be, but pretty fucking good.

there are worse names though, like pratt. joneses at least have the whole “jonesing for x” thing, plus following in lineage of grace jones.

i don’t get vahid threads like this. They turn into debates over the nature of his unneccessarily confusing method of shit-talking.

i mean not that i don’t agree that villalobos is overrated or whatever, just saying

Ricardo Villalobos is a pretty normal name in Latin America.

i honestly didn’t come up with this stuff! my friend emailed it to me! i thought it was funny, but i also find unnecessary confusion rather funny.

if nobody else has any shit-talking of their own to contribute, we can list minimal artists who look like tools and have boring names

1) matt john

2) joel mull

3) ...

can’t think of any others!!!

I like in the new Mike Jones single that he has a sing-along Saturday-morning cartoon chorus, but it’s not a retread of a Broadway showtune or something off Wee Sing Silly Songs.

i was gonna say baby ford until i remembered his real name’s adshead

Martin Lindstrom—Franchise Development Manager at Inter IKEA Systems

o_O

Ricardo Villalobos is a pretty normal name in Latin America.

Only it’s not his real name. While we’re having mindless fun:

http://www.myspace.com/retardo_villalobos

3. minimal house is good...but not that awful clicky boring stuff

“jenkinson and vibert are AWESOME names compared to ”jones“”

Perhaps but they still look like tools.

laptop DJ Lindstrom does the snake.

808 State stole “Pacific” from Rhythm is Rhythm’s “It Is What It Is”.

umm, never noticed a significnt similarity there.

it’s in the chord changes...

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:8yevpGAL9V0J:ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php%3Fmsgid%3D5498580+coldplay+sum+41+pieces+scientist&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=firefox-a

I like in the new Mike Jones single that he has a sing-along Saturday-morning cartoon chorus, but it’s not a retread of a Broadway showtune or something off Wee Sing Silly Songs.

Bingo. And it has “I’m a spend dollar in my million just to shut you boys down!”

anyone else catch the Lindstrom set at Mezzanine last week? thoughts?

i can’t say anything nice about it

but i was more annoyed at the fact that i couldnt’ hear ANYTHING that nite. what is/was goign on with the sound there?

He was fun in Chicago, and there are some funny pictures of the show on pfork.

stewart walker has kind of the perfect techno name. i saw him at some weird place like brownie’s in new york one time and he was great.

You thought that the dude with Ricardo in his infamous monged picture was Roman Flugel? Wrong. It’s ILM’s beloved Louis Jagger just about to drop “Stripper vicar”!

I hate the Mezzanine.

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. there was that track he played with the girls going “can’t stop, won’t stop” that was nice.

carl craig fucking blew the doors off everything.

susan were you over by the coat check or what??

for a place called mezzanine, there’s not a lotta sound up there.

vahid

i’ll position myself au centre au centre next time, i suppose. i was upstairs actually, but in the middle atleast. it really was terrible up there

yeah, i work at mezzanine, and the sound could be better. however, we’re looking into some options and they all cost around $20K. that means that nothing is changing for the time being. trust me, i wish the sound were better, too.

i still have to say that we’ve been bringing lots of shows that other venues have been passing up in the past, and the events have been selling out in advance or selling out at the door. so, i know the venue’s not perfect, but i think it’s better than most other venues in town. the only place with good sound is the End Up, and of course various low capacity art venues. also, i think sound at the End Up is really only good in the middle of the dancefloor.

what do you think would make Mezzanine better?

i was standing right in front of the right-hand speaker (facing the stage) for gamall and most of lindstrom. but it filled up with lots of lame people who were just gawking and not dancing so i got up and moved to the left-hand speaker for most of carl craig. then around the halfway point when he was playing “angola” i got really sick of the sweaty nasty unshirted elderly ravers around me and moved back to in front of the VJ booth where i stayed till the end.

i actually thought the sound was fine but i tend to spend most club nights about 2 feet in front of the speakers with my earplugs in. not much stereo effect (which sucked because it sounded like what he was doing w/ “slave to the rhythm” must have been amazing) and not much freaky high-end but other than that it’s cool.

also what was that fucked up movie they were showing during lindstrom w/ all the jesus imagery and phallic mutant pistols and the armless dwarf dancing on the corpse??

oh duh, i just googled “armless dwarf” and i guess it’s jodorowsky’s “holy mountain”. funny because i’ve never seen “holy mountain”, but during lindstrom i kept thinking “this must be that ‘holy mountain’ movie i always hear about ... naw can’t be looks too new, must be some gavin russom / matthew barney side project ...”

lol

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!

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’.

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.

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.

I kind of think Ricardo Villalobos looks like a tool.

the beck remix is great

girls like minimal

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

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.

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)

IMPEACH’D

Bush

(geddit?)

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

Bush LP 01 is probably my favorite techno “album” ever.

HOLY SHIT @ that rv pic

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

his t-shirt says ‘gurner’ but his eyes say ‘hospital’

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!!

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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...

LOL then i wonder what he thought of SF

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!

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”?

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

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.

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

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

yes yes to the cc.

stereo exists in clubs?

many xpost

is anyone seeing claude vonstroke tonight?

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

sad that i missed switch. switch is crazy good.

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?

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

chile looks nice

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

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

yes those genres suck too

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

Chile is really nice.

vahid = troll

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

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

Piscola is a cry for help in itself.

WARM coke + piscola, at that

Best Chile has to offer:

chile’s finest

i’m super-enamored with Switch but the show last night was terrible. problems with the sound and his laptop at the beginning resulting in 5 minutes of silence (right after Claude VonStroke had built the crowd up into a frenzy ready for anything) then proceeded to play way too banging, lost the crowd (literally — half the room left) and never got his vibe back. he also kept doing this cd-skipping effect that wasn’t complimentary to the groove — it would start and build and then go on way too long and then just stop. there would be a break, and then the next track would start. either he was doing it to cover for a laptop problem or he’s just a terrible DJ.

well, nutty breakdowns are his thing, right? hard to say from your description what was going on though.

same shit happened to gamall too!! what’s going on with that system?!?

i will say that as much as i like the dubsided sound, even a half-hour of that style is really a bit too much to take ... i haven’t been able to get into rose’s “get physical” mix at all, what sounds amazing tearing out a straight 4/4 mix sounds pointless in big chunks.

Chile isn’t all bad...

Ah, Dinky. Be still my minimal heart.

internet disease is pretty unsexy

it’s like on ebay when people take photos of obviously beat-to-fuck jeans from crazily foreshortened angles with a cameraphone ... WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO HIDE

see also: dressing in karl lagerfeld drag on your album covers

They’re called “myspace angles” round my way.

Berlin is a fine city. And Chile is beautiful.

And you live in California, v. I’d certainly rather live in Santiago or Berlin before Cali-fucking-fornia.

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yeah, i’m not describing it well enough. nutty breakdowns are one thing but this was fucking obnoxious. can anyone further elaborate on that? he just kept doing it over and over and over again. my decision to leave was based on hearing him transition this way for the 3rd or 4th time.

and i don’t know what’s going on with the mezzanine soundsystem, but i think that Switch’s problems had more to do with this laptop (and arriving late for the gig—he went on at 12.45 for a 12.00 set) than with the system. Gamall’s problem was not a laptop issue, it was a power issue (blown fuse).

this thread has been completely derailed. what was it about again?

5. actually, martin schopf is the best that chile has to offer

wow people think that chile, berlin and barcelona suck??? these are some beautiful places. perhaps almost as good as norwalk, san diego and ranco cucamonga!

Though if you’re schtick is anti-hipsterism i could see that foreign cities that young people gravitate to then i suppose you would probably prefer San Jose

Might help if i typed that right. What i mean is if you don’t like foreign cities that hipsters might want to live in, then San Jose is obviously going to be more your bag

And there’s nothing wrong with that! To each their own!

YOU ARE NOT VERY SMART, HUH?!?

YOU SEEM TO LACK “NEGATIVE CAPABILITY”

or perhaps you are responding to my ironical statements with meta-irony by interpreting them as earnest?

also, you seem to know little about california, i would gladly take norwalk, san jose or rancho cucamonga over paris, rome, london ... yes, even stockholm, i would take norwalk over stockholm.

also i will wager that paris hilton was molded more by the experience of high school in rural california than she was by anything that happened to her in manhattan, which is no doubt why you find her so compelling, lex.

you mock the provinces, yet you covet our wide-eyed naivete.

HOW DELICIOUS

My apologies. You are right, i don’t know a huge amount about California. I had thought that San Jose was a large city, I did not know it was in the provinces. Maybe i shouldn’t have compared cities I know with ones i don’t. That is correct

I would like to know more about it tough all the same. Tell me more about how you found Stockholm, London and Santiago though Vahid. I would find it interesting to hear your take on these cities and what you liked about them and what you didn’t. It will be interesting to hear from someone that compare these wonderful places properly:)

they don’t reall drink in stockholm but there’s clearly some magical pixiedust in the water

Lex, I wouldn’t take things Vahid says on this thread seriously (a slap on the wrist to anyone who quotes this and strikesthru the this thread!).

i’m not exactly pro-‘hipster’ myself. if you were to ask me where in the US i’d rather be, california would be up there.

NORTH AMERICAN SCUH-UM

HOW DELICIOUS

Vahid must have spent a lot of time in those cities if he is still writing down his thoughts on them

W i l l = Einar

Michael F Gill = Björk

??

i don’t actually really care about cities, and i think the city-centric impulse in music criticism (“this is the sound of ...”) pretty lame n general, and even worse in dance music. that’s all i was getting at.

agree in theory, but it’s hard to not use geographical terms at times.

so carl craig ended up being good? i left 30 mins into his set. mezzanine is terrible.

The secret of this thread must not remain secret.

You can tell Lex has been spending time with Charlton Lido

if you’d seen him this weekend you’d know that it was more like the reverse!

Haha do tell

SOMEONE has been biting my style! we ended up in MATCHING OUTFITS!

Of all the

http://www.urb.com/2011/11/16/waterpark-rave-kills-dolphin/

An eight-year-old dolphin named Shadow mysteriously died after being exposed to two days of techno music at a waterpark in Switzerland. The park was the venue for a weekend-long dance event, which exposed the highly sensitive marine mammals to nearly 48 hours of repetitive beats. Several days later, Shadow became agitated and died. While there is no way to prove a direct correlation between the two events, animal activists had warned park management that the noise from the event could cause undo stress on the dolphins who call the park home.

“We have reasonable evidence to suggest that the extreme noise levels from the two day techno party severely affected the immune system of the dolphins,” said Jürgen Ortmüller from the Whale and Dolphin Protection Society. “Dolphins are very sensitive creatures. We warned against a techno party taking place in this location for these very reasons.”

Park officials deny any wrong-doing. Shadow was the seventh dolphin in three years to die at the park.

TECHNO KILLS DOLPHINS

The Christopher Rau album from last year is really good!

And you live in California, v. I’d certainly rather live in Santiago or Berlin before Cali-fucking-fornia.

― the table is the table (trees), Saturday, February 17, 2007 2:59 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Permalink

haha

I wonder it the DJ played this techno song?

YouTube Video

Open

Park officials deny any wrong-doing. Shadow was the seventh dolphin in three years to die at the park.

So nothing to do with the massively shortened life expectancy of dolphins in captivity then?

misread this as

minimal activists had warned park management

or perhaps you are responding to my ironical statements with meta-irony by interpreting them as earnest?

also, you seem to know little about california, i would gladly take norwalk, san jose or rancho cucamonga over paris, rome, london ... yes, even stockholm, i would take norwalk over stockholm.

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:07 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Permalink

smh

THIS IS SUPER GOOD!

http://www.discogs.com/Gene-Hunt-Ron-Hardy-Throwback-87/release/2428469

Not a “Life on Mars” / “Ashes to Ashes” TV prog tie in then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jTpaJMhq4zM

Fatstep is not techno!

Dubstep, I mean.

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

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

I miss the bobbins thread :(

Worst ever techno name: Norman Nodge

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.