Glass Candy - "Iko Iko"

Yeah, anyway, I really like this song. The last thing I heard from them was that Love Love Love thing which I thought was a little weak. But this 12" has definitely commanded my attention

Does Ida No take her clothes off at shows?

Iko Iko by Glass Candy

http://www.myspace.com/danava
http://www.piecemeal.net/artists/danava/

Danava were pretty crazy, the singer had weird hair and make-up and constume and processed vocals, there were arpeggiating synths, falsetto screaming etc, but it was incredibly crowded and hot so I was standing in front of a fan in the back. But it was fun.

whoa.

Their 'Yes Music' CD (apparently a CDR sold on tour) is the most awesome thing I've heard in years.

slsk come through pls

'life after sundown' is really fantastic and that new-ish one 'i always say yes' is pretty good too, sorta skewed italo. (still waiting for my copy to show up in the mail, though.) apparently tim sweeney might be remixing the new one at some point?

What's the deal though, is an album coming out at some point? Judging by the CDR this is gonna be amazing. New track on the 'After Dark' compilation is also pretty damn amazing ("Rolling down the hills")

i think they're slightly less than the sum of their parts

the "computer love" version was incredible, the rest of the stuff just a notch below but the live stuff seems like its not quite there yet

i don't mean to sound so harsh, i guess i just feel like if they stepped it up a *little* bit they would be the most awesome thing i've heard in years

Not that they're really very different, but I always prefer the Chromatics since their Italo conversion.

They also do the best Scream-era Siouxsie impersonation.

yeah, i suppose the new stuff is just so unbelievably PROMISING that when they do put out another official record it'll be totally over the edge.

the ultra softness of their sound is just really refreshing to me, especially since so many "rock bands gone dance" can't do anything other than turn everything up to 11 and whip the piss out of the drums.

similarly, i was hoping that joakim remix of clashing egos a couple years back would bring forte a deluge of warm soft not so brash electrohouse..

i gotta cut out the BestThingEver posting on ILM after 5 G+Ts but what would ILM be without obnoxious drunken posting?

I have to mention again Ida No's complete Jacy Farrow-esque foxiness.

Is there a thread for the "After Dark" / Italians Do It Better comp.? It's really great.

No there isn't. Tell us!

it is awesome. especially farah "law of life". such a great label

"law of life" sounds like tangerine dream fronted by lydia lunch

or something

The Farah tracks are definitely the biggest discovery on the disc for me. Really otherworldly. It sounds like she's singing in Farsi over one of the tracks, in this eerie, reverb-drowning pattern over arpeggiated synths.

The Mirage song, Lake of Dreams, has some cool vocal effects and swirls along for almost 10 glissy minutes.

The whole thing conjures not just Goblin but every soundtrack to the canon of sick, dark 1970s Italian horror and Giallo films.

It's my favorite thing I've listened to all year I think.

I love the Chromatics tracks, "In the City" especially. Glass Candy's "Computer Love" is quite fun as well. Also worth tracking down is the first release on the label, Jacques Renault's "Italians Do It Better #1" mix. Tracklisting:

- B.W.H. - Livin Up
- One Two Three - Runaway (Instrumental)
- Gino Soccio - Remember
- Trilogy - Not Love (Instrumental)
- The Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit of Jazz
- Lindstrom - er bestemor paa moten
- Tony Cook and The Party People - On The Floor (Rock-It)
- Detroit Grand Pubahs - Big Onion (Joakim "Slap On It" Remix)
- Electric Mind - Zwei (Dub Version)
- Mya & The Mirror - Hesitation
- My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (Instrumental)
- Photocall - Silver Clouds (Hot Version)
- Liz Torres feat Edward Crosby - Can't Get Enough (Dub)
- MU - Paris Hilton
- Matzo & Pauli - Matzo & Pauli Viewlexx EP
- Skatt Bros. - Walk the Night
- Prins Thomas - Diskomiks Rong EP
- Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Rise (DFA Remix)
- Shirley Lites - Heat You Up (Melt You Down) Melt Down Mix
- Shelley - Give It To Me

You can get it from Troubleman Unlimited's store, along with the After Dark comp.

Yeah that comp is by far the best thing I've discovered all year. Farah's got some other songs on her myspace page as well.

on the Italians blog it mentions that they're finally getting some vinyl test pressings

oh YEAH! the first batch of Itaians Do It Better 12" releases
are ready to "drop" in a few weeks!:
Chromatics "Shining Violence"
Glass Candy "Miss Broadway"
Professor Genius "La Grotta"
Farah "Law Of Life"

there's also a pretty good Mike S. DJ mix on there

http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/

whatever happened to the Chromatics full-length??

heard a Farah track on Lindstrom's Late Night Tales tracks and wasn't sure if it was new or old or what. excited to hear the After Dark comp.

yeah that's "law of life". i think farah's songs might also be produced by johnny jewel. it is such a tune.

i think it's all produced by Johnny Jewel except for Professor Genius, who's tracks I think Mike found in the back of some weird record store in Jersey City.

Yeah that comp definitely plays like it came from the same source.

xpost

I own that record store! And, no, I'm not Johnny Jewel.

I heard they closed and are only doing street fairs now.

whatever happened to the Chromatics full-length??

It's around on Souls3ek - I think it was one of those weird (but very cool) "Tour" cds that that crew is fond of. It's called "In Shining Violence." And there's an amazing Suede cover, of all things, on there as well - "Animal Nitrate."

In honor of today, I am now playing the "Theme to Friday the 13th Part III," by Hot Ice (which I've heard was another name used by the Michael Zager Band). It would almost fit perfectly on the "After Dark" comp!

Next, it's "Struck By Boogie Lightning" by L'Ectrique, used to great effect in "Don't Go In the House"!

I probably have heard a bunch of that stuff off their myspace or whatever (not Suede cover, tho) ... I guess I thought Shining Violence was supposed to be a "real" full-length release ... ? they do love to put all their various demo versions out there, don't they.

Struck By Boogie Lightning is the best. I first heard it when DJ Loda played at PS1. I need a copy bad.

i think i have that chromatics cd lying around somewhere, i bought at their last show here.

totally forgot i had it tho!

back to glass candy tho: miss broadway cover = pretty epic

otm

meh. i was so unimpressed last night. hard to imagine how disco (disco!) could feel so lifeless. the whole routine was so rehearsed, so devoid of spirit, it gave me the creeps. the unenthusiastic arm waving. the halfhearted whoo!s. and exactly what do they hope to achieve with the karaoke-style cover of 'computer love'?

i know the frostiness is part-and-parcel of their aesthetic (this rockist delusion that dance music has to be studiously cold and distant), but i'm not sure what it adds (if anything) to the enjoyment - it's actually quite an easy and pointless trick. and musically i think it would be very easy for someone/anyone to improve on their formula -GC are hardly italopop geniuses.

the chromatics gig a few weeks back was a real disappointment too...

actually really enjoyed grovesnor tho

I hate myself for replying to a post that actually uses "meh" unironically, but what the hell...

Legitimately, what could you have possibly expected from these acts? Knowing the music, the aesthetic (it's not like they're all that subtle with the "cold & distant" thing - which, incidentally, neither of these acts were AT ALL! (In the Chromatics thread, people who were at the show said they weren't frosty enough!), the fact that this is obviously being embraced by a generally arms-folded/head-nidding indie audience... I can't wrap my head around how you would know these bands and expect anything other than what they do!

Well, whatever, diff'rent strokes and all that. These 2 shows have been my most fun of the year!

(x-post)

I liked some of those Grovesnor tunes, too. I was fearful of some kind of Har Mar Superstar thing when he came onstage (wacky tuxedo t-shirt, white blazer, big sunglasses, white fedora, beard), but he's got a pretty fun thing going with that sound, I think.

i know it's what you'd expect, i was just massively off-put by the whole execution, maybe it's a personal thing. like i said, something about it just gave me the creeps and felt totally lifeless.

(problem with the chromatics for me was different, it just sounded really thin, like a bad indie band)

sorry if my 'meh' offended you. it was an earnest 'meh'

( that was xpost obviously)

I like bad indie bands, I suppose, so it was up my alley... I just love those songs (I should say Chromatics is actually more up my alley for the most part, but I got hooked on them less from the perspective of someone who knows much about disco (though I like what I've been turned onto by people here), and more from the angle of an obsession with 80s horror movies!)

I was wrong to jump on the "meh." You earned it by actually explaining why (I just have a kneejerk thing after too many people in threads who don't like bands for whatever reason just posting jaded and lazy "meh"s... but yours was legit).

The italo thing is really overstated with both Glass Candy and Chromatics - what I'm starting to find wearing is the seemingly all-pervasive sense of ennui, hopefully any Farah album will sidestep that.

"i know the frostiness is part-and-parcel of their aesthetic (this rockist delusion that dance music has to be studiously cold and distant)"

How does the first part of this necessarily lead into the second? Why would rockism endorse studiously cold and distant dance music?

One could as easily argue for the existence of a rockist delusion that dance music be angry and macho (The Prodigy's third album, Justice etc.) or warm and steeped in "summer of love" links with psychedelia (The Chemical Bros, The Avalanches).

Surely the success of Italians Do It Better among indie audiences has more to do with the contingent historical fact that these audiences have effectively been "primed" for this music by electroclash? But before electroclash happened - and even early on in its existence - the notion that this music would be appealing to rockists would have been pretty odd. Practically the first thing you'd hear about electroclash (before you heard anything about it) was that it was a passing fad for fashion-obsessed art phags (a historical enemy of rockism). The perseverance of electroclash both as a scene and a general influence throughout this decade - and, more, the way it has been embraced by indie audiences - strikes me as a good example of how there are less set-in-stone relationships between musical characteristics and audiences than we like to think. Certainly there is no general dynamic that says "studiously cold and distant" dance music is more appealing to arms-folded indie kids than other dance music.

I know what you're driving at: these kids - had they been alive - probably would not have been into first wave italo, any more than they'd be into, er, bassline or reggaeton or trance-pop or (especially) Eurovision-pop now. But this is a more complicated issue that touches on issues of revivalism and fanbase communities and identity and all sorts of stuff.

PS. I actually don't really hear the ennui in Glass Candy - certainly for Chromatics. But B/E/A/T/B/O/X is actually very fun and uptempo and light-hearted.

PS. I actually don't really hear the ennui in Glass Candy - certainly for Chromatics. But B/E/A/T/B/O/X is actually very fun and uptempo and light-hearted.

Yes to this - B/E/A/T/B/O/X opens with a SKIT for crying out loud! And live last night, Ida No pulling dudes up on stage to dance and play off of was just goofy!

But, yes, Chromatics for sure. And hopefully any Farah album will sidestep that seems like a long shot on that front - her first few songs are ennui arpeggiated!

i don't mind too much as long as the ennui is sexeh

good points tim. i guess this 'frosty' idea is not so much the default rockist stance, but it's still one stereotyped view, a fetishised idea of disco, which ultimately leads to a dead-eyed dead-end.

i wonder if the IDIB approach isn't in a strange way a hangover from the 'disco sucks' brigade's view of disco as emotionally stunted, redefining disco as a kind of ice-maidenly kitsch, rather than embracing its true broadness and depth.

on second thoughts that's probably nonsense

Surely the success of Italians Do It Better among indie audiences has more to do with the contingent historical fact that these audiences have effectively been "primed" for this music by electroclash? But before electroclash happened - and even early on in its existence - the notion that this music would be appealing to rockists would have been pretty odd.

LOL

braveclub- I dont' think its nonsense, 'cept in putting rock and disco in opposition to each other. So many indie bands this decade have moved their guitars behind octave basslines that there's something to it. They tend to focus on the circa 1980 sound of disco when it "ended". I think "late disco" has joined the repertoire of historical moments that arty rock types have always mined as a way of representing personal neuroses. Like how Bowie or Slapp Happy used Weinmar Berlin to suggest dislocation and doom.

Also, it seems that disco, as a style that was perceived to end under the weight of Reaganism and AIDS, holds up better now as a symbol of defiance than the guitar punk which served as the underpinnings for indie rock for so long.

If there are any North-Westerners (Uk division) who like this band, myself and Affectian/NI of ILM parish are putting GLASS CANDY + Mike Simonetti on next Thursday if any of you are about. We won't spam here but the Clique sites have the details.

AAARRRRGGHH

i hate u all

)cept rbin(

"Also, it seems that disco, as a style that was perceived to end under the weight of Reaganism and AIDS, holds up better now as a symbol of defiance than the guitar punk which served as the underpinnings for indie rock for so long."

like wtf does this even mean retards

wtf do you mean?

Lex, don't post when you're drunk.

i ain't drunk i'm goimg out now

aagh stupid automatic login after all these months.stupid computer! i weasn't here right you didn't see me i got away w/murder

Lex, don't post when you're drunk.

Anyway, I think 'ennui' might have been the wrong word WRT Glass Candy but there still seems to be a sort of... listlessness and inertia even when they're trying to be fun. Like there's a void somewhere in the middle where the kinetic bit should be. Maybe this is deliberate, I like BEATBOX quite a bit on record when I just let it wash over me but I'd never go and see them live for the above reason.

Seen them live twice. They were a great amount of fun. It was nice seeing an electronic act that was happy and able to interact with the crowd. They took requests the first time, the second time they stayed around for chats with everyone.

They're indie. They care more about themselves then what they're doing.

They're indie. They care more about themselves then what they're doing.
-- Niles Caulder, Saturday, 10 May 2008 10:04 (3 hours ago)

Fucking christ, is this for real?

i wish there was more Glass Candy on vinyl

seeing farah tonight

guh

her beats are amazing (obvs) but her stage presence and screechy voice kinda bugged.

Please report back... so curious! Does she have something new out?

Glass Candy "cover" Geto Boys' 'Mind playin' tricks on me' on myspace

There's more news there

Bunch of 12", B/E/A/T/B/O/X on vinyl, new album in the fall (with a Shocking Blue cover..?), Farah double LP... o my

i liked what i saw of Farah live. Jaxon's hating for some illogical reasons.

you only saw like the last half of one or 2 songs

"deep gems" is a collection of rare tracks recorded
between march 2006 and october 2008. featuring 10
unreleased songs plus the remix of "miss broadway"
they've been playing live, and the 12" version of
"geto boys". here's the tracklisting of DEEP GEMS:

1 > INTRODUCTION
2 > FEELING WITHOUT TOUCHING
3 > ANIMAL IMAGINATION
4 > THE BEAT'S ALIVE
5 > SOMETHING STIRRING IN SPACE
6 > THEME FROM DEEP GEMS
7 > MORNING MIST
8 > GETO BOYS
9 > MS. BROADWAY REMIX
10 > SOFT BOUNDARIES
11 > STARS & HOUSES
12 > SILVER FOUNTAIN

beat box is dope imo

i'm loving DEEP GEMS btw

is this only available thru online mail order or can you find it in shops?

Just mail order.

they closed with "iko iko" last night. amazing show, with nite jewel. really charismatic... really dancey... sounded so good. picked up deep gems & the nite jewel album

what was nite jewel like live? just wondering how her lo-fi sort of sound went down

sounded amazing actually... better than the record.

which i like, but it really came alive... live.

going tomorrow night in new york ... im psyched

never seen glass candy and I've been a fan for a while now

they're super live imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Myo0QjwE0

sometimes i hit "o;x" by accident instead of "ilx" and hit enter in the search bar and a google search for "o;x" comes up and the second result is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B/E/A/T/B/O/X