Third Eye Foundation is some of my favorite electronic music. I don’t know where or when the samples he twists and uses come from but they sound so otherworldly and ancient. I think Elliott/TEF has a unique sound.
A few questions:
Has anyone heard the two Hood records that he produced?
I’ve never been able to find CD’s of “Semtex” or “In Version” by TEF, are they worth seeking out?
If you have heard “The Mess We Made”, what do you think?
― earlnash, Monday, 21 April 2003 15:53 (10 years ago) Permalink
― gareth (gareth), Monday, 21 April 2003 15:59 (10 years ago) Permalink
If they're the ones I'm thinking of, yes, but then again I've heard pretty much all their albums. I know he did Rustic Houses, which is phenomenal, but what's the other?
Semtex is an absolute do-not-pass-go must-have. "Sleep" is a mindblowing opener, for a while there it was what I was hoping the MBV jungle material would resemble (guessing away madly as to what that WOULD sound like, of course).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 16:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
I've been curious about Hood for awhile, but the only one I have ever seen is their last album.
Another group in this general area I have been curious about, but never heard is Movietone. The only album I have seen by them is the one that is on Drag City.
― earlnash, Monday, 21 April 2003 16:06 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Nick A. (Nick A.), Monday, 21 April 2003 16:09 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 16:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
as for third eye foundation releases,little lost soul is one of the most incredible albums i have ever heard,really really eeirly beautiful...kind of a similar feel to the dirty three and murcof...i also have the remix album,which has some great stuff,(the first track,the amelie thing,is brilliant)
i'm really glad to hear he's releasing more stuff...i also don't know why i haven't got all his stuff already...
― robin (robin), Monday, 21 April 2003 16:53 (10 years ago) Permalink
earlnash,there's some compilations that just came out with a lot of older hood material on there... http://www.hoodmusic.net/ has some info on that. that might be a good starter...
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― msp, Monday, 21 April 2003 16:59 (10 years ago) Permalink
― j.a.e., Monday, 21 April 2003 20:48 (10 years ago) Permalink
He gets mad props from me for producing Hood's excellent "Useless" single, which I think is one of the greatest indie records of all time.
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 21 April 2003 23:54 (10 years ago) Permalink
― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 01:36 (10 years ago) Permalink
ned = rightest. _in version_ isn't really essential, but has some nice stuff on it. a little too beholden to the bristol sound of the time or something.
the _semtex remixes_ 12" on domino was pretty great, but it was kind the beginning of elliott forsaking the guitar. which made me sad. but everything up to and including _ghost_ is pretty great.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 02:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 2 May 2003 16:24 (10 years ago) Permalink
i think i like it.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:21 (10 years ago) Permalink
― j.a.e., Sunday, 11 May 2003 04:25 (10 years ago) Permalink
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 16 May 2003 21:20 (10 years ago) Permalink
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 17 May 2003 17:56 (10 years ago) Permalink
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 18 May 2003 01:31 (10 years ago) Permalink
― bob snoom, Sunday, 18 May 2003 09:23 (10 years ago) Permalink
― robin (robin), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:43 (10 years ago) Permalink
And one more thing:
"CORPSES AS BEDMATES", MF'ERS!!!!!!!!!
("Ghost" is my favourite TEF album, but have changed my mind about this a lot. Only "You Guys Kill Me" has NOT been my favourite at some point)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 October 2004 16:30 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 October 2004 16:47 (8 years ago) Permalink
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 16 October 2004 16:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 October 2004 17:08 (8 years ago) Permalink
new third eye foundation album has appeared. on first listen, pretty excellent. had no idea that a new third eye foundation record was even a possibility.
― keythhtyek, Monday, 11 October 2010 01:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
really fantastic actually.
― keythhtyek, Monday, 11 October 2010 03:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
Whoa, did not expect this!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 October 2010 04:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
I definitely didn't expect this ... and this might be the best TEF album too.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
Has this leaked, or are you guys getting advance copies? Can't find it anywhere.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Mine is a leaked copy.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Got it. This is some deep and eerie music.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
Bit much with a mild hangover in fact.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:36 (2 years ago) Permalink
Just hearing this for the first time... this is awesome.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
Must get this
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
on spotify!
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
omg this is intense
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:49 (2 years ago) Permalink
what's on spotify? the first lp?
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 10:34 (2 years ago) Permalink
The new one, "The Dark". Tempted to say album of the year, after one listen. Seriously heavy and melancholic.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 11:09 (2 years ago) Permalink
Can't listen to it through in one go, I get bored.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
this is GORGEOUS
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:35 (2 years ago) Permalink
<3 u ILX
<3 u 2 Spotify haha
holy god. this is...wonderful
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
d/ling now, have always liked his stuff. he used to work in an excellent record shop called Revolver on the Triangle in Bristol. When it shut in the late 90s, rumour was that they chucked all there excess stock in a skip.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 13:07 (2 years ago) Permalink
I thought this couldn't get better than the first two tracks, then I heard Closure. Holy mother of god.
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 14:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
Dälek should ask to sample the whole of that track and rap over it, btw
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 14:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
love the way it builds over the whole first two tracks, from 'bog standard' TEF to 'omg i am being crushed under an ocean of sadness'.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah srsly, at first I was all 'this is some neat dark electro' and then halfway thru part 2 I was basically reduced to 'my god this is the end of days'
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
only clicked on this thread coz I dimly remembered the dude having produced Hood's two best (by fucking MILES) albums
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
The new one, "The Dark". Tempted to say album of the year, after one listen.
It's my album of the year, and my reaction was the same as yours the first time I heard it. It had been years since I was so floored by an album on the first listen.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
more ppl plz listen to this
when it winds up at like #20 in the ILX year-end ballot a lotta folks are gonna be 'whu'?
but it's shot to my top 3, just like fucken that
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink
Hmmm, I should listen to this I guess.
― O Permaban (NickB), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:47 (2 years ago) Permalink
It's good, more dubby than his earlier stuff IIRC
― Neil S, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh shit how did i miss this
i have no time to get to a record store until after retail death march december but maybe i will poke around on line a bit
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
this
this is great
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 21:05 (2 years ago) Permalink
cmon ILX a record hasn't had a first-listen reaction like this since idk A VERY GOOD ALBUM
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 22:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
Listened to this at full blast while reading about the inhumane incarceration of Bradley Manning. Unsurprisingly, seriously bummed myself out. Incredible bass though.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
this soundtracks absolutely everything really well
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
Okay, I'm liking this whole dub-rovnik thing.
― O Permaban (NickB), Friday, 17 December 2010 10:15 (2 years ago) Permalink
really good album indeed
― sisilafami, Saturday, 18 December 2010 15:11 (2 years ago) Permalink
Quite wonderful to hear this, and as an immediate followup to the These New Puritans album at that. Sonically dissimilar but crucially allied in terms of uneasy mood...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 December 2010 04:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
hey this is still album of the year you guys
― acoleuthic, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
alright guys, can we do a quick Third Eye Foundation C/D, S/D for a new listener & potential fan? for some reason i just found out abt this guy's origins w/ flying saucer attack (obv. awesome & untouchable) so must explore TEF now
- what do i seek out first?
- what's essential?
- is there anything i should avoid/save for later?
- etc.
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Ghost" and "The Dark" would make for a good bookendish overview, I think. Much of the other stuff is either too wishy washy shoegaze for me or goes too far in the other direction with the masturbatory breakbeat stuff. Hes's at his best when he finds the middle.
― the only tastemaker (noz), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:38 (2 years ago) Permalink
Ghost is great and all but good lord you have to start with Semtex.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 February 2011 22:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
Still one hell of a way to start a career, this:
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 February 2011 22:40 (2 years ago) Permalink
I think the Semtex 12", which is different from the Semtex album, is better.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 12 February 2011 00:57 (2 years ago) Permalink
Oh and I agree that to get a quick and dirty introduction, Ghost and The Dark would be the best way to go. You can tell from there how much deeper you want to get -- it's all good.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 12 February 2011 00:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
ned: yesss that is awesome
incidentally, i ended up getting Little Lost Souls, which i found for $2 in one of the local used bins on my way home. played 3 or 4 tracks, digging it so far -- vaguely shoegazy textures, dubby basslines,, breakbeats that sound a bit like autechre stoned/on downers, and disembodied female vocal wails looped over the top at various points. not mindblowing, but pleasantly right up my alley.
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:41 (2 years ago) Permalink
Little Lost Souls is my favourite of the TEF albums I've heard I think. For all the praise The Dark has been getting, I find it quite a slog to listen to.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Saturday, 12 February 2011 02:21 (2 years ago) Permalink
Same for the track Ned just posted. Interesting, but not actually enjoyable for me. Obviously I'm a lightweight when it comes to such things.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Saturday, 12 February 2011 02:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
good lord you have to start with Semtex.
YES. Then Ghost. And the Semtex Remix 12" in between, like Marmite.
― cette villes est en enfer and shit. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
I've briefly investigated this dude's other stuff but as things stand it's stone-cold clear to me that The Dark is his masterpiece. As an album experience it's...nigh-on perfect, the use of sound and narrative here is exquisite. Haven't heard Semtex yet, however - am fully prepared to believe that one's on a similar level, and of course the others may grow on me...
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:06 (2 years ago) Permalink
fsa were far better
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
why don't you go and namecheck them in a song about an ILM poll
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:20 (2 years ago) Permalink
the dark is alright, nice sound design etc but v much in a l8 90s premillenial angst art-junglist vein that seems kinda played
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
Although one cannot oppose to Ghost and Semtex, I do really like the territory Elliott veered into with Little Lost Soul and I Poo Poo On Your Juju, both fantasticly subtle dark albums.
But then I love all of 3EF's albums equally as much, except for The Dark maybe, which is great but not as sublime as the previous albums. Maybe it's different if you've heard that one first, like LJ has. I wouldn't call it his masterpiece though ~ the man's whole discography is one big masterpiece.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
fyi nakh and anyone else, yr presence and neoclassical avant-awesomeness is v much desired here: Rolling dilettante convocation 2011
clearly I need to give the other albums a closer listen! even the one with the worst album-name ever. like, worse-than-chocolate-starfish bad.
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:27 (2 years ago) Permalink
The new album is incredible.
― djh, Monday, 2 January 2012 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
does he sing?
― Quoth the raven "Nevermind" (ledge), Monday, 2 January 2012 23:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
A new new album, like not-The Dark?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's a matt elliott record, no?
― keythhtyek, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
Track here: http://mattelliott.bandcamp.com/album/the-broken-man/
Yes, singing.
― djh, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 07:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't, or I shouldn't at least, have anything in principle against electronic intrumentalists suddenly getting all singer-songwritery, but "one mans analysis of his own descent reflecting the frustrations and sadness that touch us all at some point" doesn't really sound like an enticing prospect and when it ends up just being "this is how it feels to be alone" intoned repeatedly in a funereal bass, then - and speaking as a miserablist who would happily listen to "Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me" on repeat - this one man's analysis really adds nothing new to the picture, and the touches of TEF ethereal electronics and the trusty bowed saw beneath aren't enough to tempt me to listen further, I'm afraid.
― Quoth the raven "Nevermind" (ledge), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I must admit I've barely played this since January 3 but it is sounding magnificent right now.
― djh, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:08 (6 months ago) Permalink
Still love The Dark - listen to it all the time, especially if I need to get into a writing zone. (And yet I am left totally cold by the stuff he does under his own name.)
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 03:54 (6 months ago) Permalink