no fucking mercury nomination who the fuck's responsible?
― pisces, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
all the evidence points to this being a must-buy DESPITE my knights of cydonia-inspired reservations so graphically delineated above.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
you can listen to extracts on bleep.com
― blueski, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
louis maybe you could tell us again about your reaction to the knights of cydonia remix
― max, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"what a British MC should be burbling over on their own album."
not the sound of their blood running from their freshly guillotined head?
― Ronan, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
r.i.p. lex.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 23 September 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
its funny how snobbery transcends all genres
― bnw, Sunday, 23 September 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
i like this record but people dance really aggro to this shit in the club and i stopped going to hardcore shows when i graduated high school
― max, Sunday, 23 September 2007 08:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Hardcore is the new indie-dance. I played Sonz of a Loop da Loop Era - "Far Out" and the kids went NUTS.
― Spencer Chow, Sunday, 23 September 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
This is a good thing.
the very harsh Stylus review really brings this album's score right down on Metacritic
― blueski, Sunday, 23 September 2007 12:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I love how disingenuously wrong the Lex is up there, considering when we went to see Mayer and Ananda at Fabric we walked straight in, whereas Friday nights playing this sort of stuff have them queuing round the block.
(And to be honest what other way is there of judging the popularity of a scene other than gig/club attendance? I thought that was what a scene WAS.)
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 September 2007 13:03 (sixteen years ago) link
'Wooden' sounds like a condensed version of something Mayer or Ananda would play - y/n?
― blueski, Sunday, 23 September 2007 13:16 (sixteen years ago) link
that's one of the tracks that most needs to be double the length really
― blueski, Sunday, 23 September 2007 13:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Not really, no. It borrows some of the same melodic flourishes but sonically - texturally and dynamically - it's totally different. I mean, it IS totally compressed in a way that doesn't really appreciate the sense of space you get on a big soundsystem.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 September 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
It's sort of the sonic equivalent of brightly-coloured cheap bits of plastic - and I'm not necessarily meaning that as a criticism because I'm pretty sure that was the effect they were going for. Cheap bits of plastic can be fun too and they're rarely intimidating.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 September 2007 13:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I dunno if I just have poor attention span but I liked all the first half of this album and none of the 2nd half!
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 23 September 2007 13:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i agree in that 'Wooden' probably sounds worst in terms of compression and the intentional noise/hiss is a bit puzzling because it would sound a lot better if everything was a bit cleaner and purer. but it sounds to me a bit busier or i guess maximal than what i've heard of Ananda, not just because of it's shortness. i have the 'uncut' version on the bonus disc of remixes that came with the album at least.
― blueski, Sunday, 23 September 2007 14:00 (sixteen years ago) link
spencer did you go see them @ the echo last night? i was there and a fight broke out next to me and there was no room to like dance and i had to spend the whole time basically throwing elbows to prevent dudes from crushing my 5'4" friend. i actually thought their set was terrific--better than the record--but the vibe totally threw me off. maybe i just wasnt in the mood for insane aggressive dancing tho.
― max, Sunday, 23 September 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
"far out" is all kinds of classic tho, its hard NOT to go crazy when that gets thrown on
― max, Sunday, 23 September 2007 16:17 (sixteen years ago) link
probably the bad vibe is partly my fault, i should have stayed to the back where there was room to do dances that werent just jumping up and down rather than getting up to the front with the really drunk violent types
the light show was great too
― max, Sunday, 23 September 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
and your selectors for fabriclive 41 are...
01 Tomita - The Firebird – Infernal Dance Of King Kastechi [Clean Version] – SonyBMG 02 Sisters Of Transistors – The Don – This Is Music 03 Simian Mobile Disco – Simple - Wichita 04 Hercules And Love Affair – Blind [Serge Santiago Version] – EMI 05 Smith N Hack – Space Warrior – Errorsmith and Soundhack 06 Discodeine – Joystick – Dirty 07 Shit Robot – Chasm – DFA 08 Perc & Fractal – Up Tool – Kompakt 09 Metro Area – Miura – Environ 10 Worthy – Crack EI – Leftroom 11 Moon Dog – Suite Equestria – Roof 12 Fine Cut Bodies – Huncut Hacuka – Chi Recordings 13 Bentobox vs Chordian – Aemono - Imprimé 14 Jelo & DeadMau5 – The Reward Is Cheese – Rising Trax 15 Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep Deprivation [Simon Baker Remix] – Wichita 16 Popof – The Chomper [LSD Version]– Turbo Recordings 17 Raymond Scott – Cindy Electronium – Basta 18 Paul Woolford Presents Bobby Peru – Erotic Discourse – 2020 Vision 19 Moebius Plank Neumeier – Pitch Control – Sky Records 20 Plastikman – Spastik – Mute 21 Green Velvet – Flash – Relief Records 22 The Walker Brothers – Nite Flights [Album Version] – SonyBMG
― haitch, Thursday, 12 June 2008 09:11 (sixteen years ago) link
they played spastik and flash in their set at primavera which i thought was gonna be all live but was 70% DJing bah
― blueski, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
yup. dull as can be. i drifted over to Surkin which was sooooo much better but with a fraction of the crowd.
― Upt0eleven, Thursday, 12 June 2008 10:54 (sixteen years ago) link
does surkin even have an album out? i mean its not like he wont get the same full court press-press when he does, b/w when i saw kevin saunderson he dropped 'white knights two'
anyway this SMD album is so great
― deej, Thursday, 12 June 2008 11:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Max is OTM about them being so much better live than on record.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 12 June 2008 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
smd still sucks, but there's great remixes of their tracks up on the shit robot and invisible conga people myspaces.
― etc, Friday, 13 June 2008 03:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I like that 'System' track from the 'Live In Japan' release. is the Clock EP any good?
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
ADSR is alright, but the Sample And Hold ADSR remix album is better. The Joakim remix of Hustler and the Chrome Hoof remix of Clock are the best things they've released.
― Sbarrohawk (Mackro Mackro), Monday, 27 October 2008 15:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I was a bit surprised by just how hostile the Pitchfork review of S&H was... judged as a compilation album entirely on its own merits, it's not great, but it's hardly terrible, and well above the standards of most of these remix comps. And the Chrome Hoof mix really is great.
― Telephone thing, Monday, 27 October 2008 16:42 (fifteen years ago) link
hangover/apology for the good review they gave the album?
― skygreenleopard, Tuesday, 28 October 2008 06:28 (fifteen years ago) link
SMD - The Audacity of Huge...
Audaciously godawful.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 23 July 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes. There's one or two alright ones on the new album (track 5 I think?), but overall very disappointing.
― plazzTT, Thursday, 23 July 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
am expecting album to suck even tho i really liked the first one
― Aqua Teen Cunga Force (blueski), Thursday, 23 July 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
The live show last night surprised me by actually being, like, completely awesome. Either they are just a million times better live than on record (admittedly a very strong possibility) or the album will actually be really good. Single still weak though.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 30 July 2009 08:40 (fourteen years ago) link
2nd track they did was new and seemed like the best thing they've ever done
― unban dictionary (blueski), Thursday, 30 July 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad they've stepped up the live show. I think the first time I saw them was either their first or second time playing live and it lacked... pretty much everything. Seemed like they were very much still trying to figure out how to translate the record to a performable version. Hence why I didn't go last night.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Thursday, 30 July 2009 09:41 (fourteen years ago) link
not sure if a new thread for Temporary Pleasure is really worthwhile because it's a bit of a let down (or, if you hated the first LP, more of the same but a bit worse)
i don't know if it's just that there seem to be fewer hooks or neat ideas (despite there being more songs and guest vocals on this one - the Beth Ditto one is OK but no stretch for her), or the drums are just so compressed that it doesn't sound v good unless really really loud...probably both. 'Synthesize' blew me away in the live show but that power doesn't come thru on the record quite as much (well not on standard headphones via spotify at least). i still like their 'celestial organ' type sounds but they haven't really varied or broadened the palette for this so ehh...
― unban dictionary (blueski), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:59 (fourteen years ago) link
SMD have got an album of acid bangers (mixed into a short DJ set, style mix) coming out called Delicacies and it is fucking awesome.
Loads of tweaking acid, trance and techno done on all their vintage equipment.
You can keep lame hook ups with Kele Bloc Party and all that shit (although Hustler will always have place in my heart). This is what they're ace at.
― Duran (Doran), Thursday, 21 October 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
no thread about the new stuff? hm seems not.
here's the new album stream on The Graun. check Your Love Aint Fair and Seraphim if you like techno-pop stuff. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/may/04/simian-mobile-disco-unpatterns-stream
― piscesx, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
"Hustler" still kicks ass - pleasant surprise whenever it comes up on shuffle.
― skip, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
yah i feel like ADSR got retroactively disowned or something. it's got a handful of great songs.
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
"cruel intentions" off their 2nd album is prob a top-10 song of the last 5 yrs for me
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link