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this is a TREAT.

― etc, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm looking forward to falling asleep to this again! also: GOBLIN.

― etc, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

finally, a really really replayable DFA album!

― etc, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

Love 'em!!!

I think I may have a song by them on this really great compilation called "They Keep Me Smiling," on obscure microlabel Uunited Acoustic Recordings. $34.00, but worth it. Seek it out - NICE!

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

if you're going to tell us about it then do so. if you're not you may as well just post "i've got this records and you've not bitches!". whatever, i'm looking forward to this being released. i like these guys.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

I would, but it's at home (where there's no internet access), & I only got hold of it at 2:40am last night. I was just sort've surprised there wasn't a thread already!

― etc, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

four tracks in fifty minutes. kraftwerk: beyond the beats; they truly are the font of all that's good & holy, &c&c&c.

― etc, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm pretty excited about this. Are the tracks all new?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

there's "rise", which the dfa mix has been available but not the original (I think); & a diff version of "relevee" is on the comp maria talks about.
(other tracks = "13 moons" & "black spring")

― etc, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

20 Jazz Funk Greats have "Black Spring." This and "El Monte" have me absolutely salivating for the album. Pavlov-style. The LCDSS and Juan MacLean albums are hit and miss (though I still like them), but Days of Mars and Broken Ear Record seem like they could be absolutely unfuckwithable.

And has that goddamn Luomo remix surfaced yet? Sigh...

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Imagine if Klaus Schulze were actually good. That's Delia & Gavin.

― original plagiarist, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

really looking fwd to this. I'm more interested in Gavin & Delia, just based on "Rise" and "El Monte", than I am in anyone else at DFA.

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

initiatic journey through the vibrational system of the planetary mind

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

Janet Jackson's "Everytime" video directed by Michael Gira.

― maria b (maria b), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

i wonder if this will get dfa-into people into kosmischeykrazykrautstuff.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

holy crap, that photo!

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

they have crazier ones.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's fantastic.

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

show me crazier ones.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

i also unabashedly like most anything them dfa dudes release.

xpost, i'm with jed.

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

ive just started listening to this today. I havent listend to any Tangerine dream before but this sounds kind of like what I imagined TD would sound like. I may be way off. It definitely has a heavy krautrock vibe though.

― jmeister (jmeister), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

i wonder if this will get dfa-into people into kosmischeykrazykrautstuff.

i really think they should drop the electro-dance angle (i was sympathetic but unimpressed w/ the juan mclean, J.O.Y., leotard front, etc)

then they could put all their energy into doing things like d&g, more black dice / EYE remixes, more ten-minute drummy kraut pixeltan remixes, etc ... they should produce a kevin drumm album or something ...

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

less tangerine dream, more tubular bells ... TD is more all-over-the-place and improv-sounding.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

leotard front is delia and gavin, i think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

i never got past the first few minutes of tubular bells but now im going to go for it. if only i wasnt hundreds of miles away from my records *sigh*

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

hstencil that is sad, sad news.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

i guess sometimes even a golden goose lays a turd.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

why? i've never heard it and couldn't really care less since most dfa stuff blows donkey ballz but if gavin + delia wanna put out whatever, hey it's their perogative.

here's a fereaky performance shot:

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

I love that Black Leotard Front song from the DFA Comp 2!

― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

it is delia and gavin with Tim Goldsworthy and someone else. god i love that tune.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

i dunno what the musique is like but blf = performance groop with delia, gavin and ssome other dude whose name i'm blanking on, i think. seen some freaky fotos of that too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

god bless 'em.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

other dude = christain holstad.

Matos called "Casual Friday" the best 15 minute disco tune ever recorded. he may well be right.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

Vahid I'd be interested to know what it is you dislike about "Casual Friday" - I think it's ace, and it's the sort of area where I'd expect you and Jed to have solidarity.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

Don't forget their...inflatable limousine...thing:

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost: its un-sexiness and monotony, i think.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

― maria b (maria b), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

Tim, i'm also surprised Vahid doesn't love it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's like all tension + no release. it's basically an endless tease ... (sort of appropriate for a song about being naked under a trenchcoat?)

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

But she does flash the guy I thought???

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's great to see when it's played at optimo half the dancefloor is taking on one role or another

dancer one: "to surprise... you in.... the flesh"
dancer two: "you love me... you must.... confess!"

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

Are they separate roles?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

hmm maybe those two are the same.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

I thought it was all from the viewpoint of the flasher:

I was leaving the office
I took off my dress
I put on my overcoat
To surprise you in the flesh
It's written all over my chest
You love me you must confess
You passed the test

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

yes

thanks for ruining my dance routine!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

to contrast w/ DFA-disco tracks i really really really like

"yeah (pretentious mix)" - the payoff is the final, spasmodic timbale/drum solo at the end, where after eleven or so minutes of restrained, tasteful percussion-tapping the dude just breaks out into this endless drumroll that ends in what sounds like a whole wall of pots and pans clattering to the floor.

"get up say what (dfa remix)" - the payoff is those endless change-offs between hissy hi-hat action and thugged-out bassline sections ... it's almost like a call-and-response between the parts where the bass is high in the mix and the parts where the hats are real high - it's basically live filter disco, right?

i feel like "casual friday" has the endless noodling of classic instrument-led disco (believe me, i'm a big fan of the joey negro / dj harvey / dimitri sound) but without the freakouts that leaven it. or, put another way, it's like filter disco, without the filters - sort of an endless circular groove (and not really all that functional, compared to the monstergrooves of "yeah" or "beat connection") that goes nowhere.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

its un-sexiness and monotony, i think.

on which planet again?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

i feel like "casual friday" has the endless noodling of classic instrument-led disco (believe me, i'm a big fan of the joey negro / dj harvey / dimitri sound) but without the freakouts that leaven it.

you mean like the "I've Lost Control" screaming part, or the weird keyboard wig-outs that occur every few minutes? those aren't freakouts?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

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i just heard this in its entirety.wow!

― stirmonster, Saturday, 16 January 2010 18:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

is it leaked or is it out yet or did you get a promo copy or what

― Karen Tregaskin, Monday, 18 January 2010 11:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

Just spotted this sweet bit on news on his website:

"In September I went into the studio with Delia Gonzalez and Eric Broucek to mix “Track 5” which Delia and I originally recorded during the “Days of Mars” sessions. The track didn’t fit with the rest of the album and was left unreleased. After doing a second studio session on it in 2007 at Choose Audio in Berlin we were ready to release it but further complications stalled the process. Finally mixed and ready to go this track will appear as a 12” single on DFA in 2010."

― Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, 18 January 2010 13:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

it's a promo copy, karen.

― stirmonster, Monday, 18 January 2010 21:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

this is out

― just sayin, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

oh sweet, im there.

― 69, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

oooo off to itunes

― willem, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:25 (3 years ago) Permalink

just the one 12" at this point, right?

those few seconds on the midheaven site are awful promising

― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

five and a half minutes in, and it's really starting to build.

― mizzell, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

anyone know anything abt the thing hes done with Carlos Giffoni?

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:46 (3 years ago) Permalink

lol @ "clap at 4:11 concept by gunnar bjerk, performed by gavin russom"

― willem, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

Wow, hello! I hadn't heard of this before but I think I need to?

Oh yes, it is on iTunes. Cheap, as well.

― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

xp- haha, credit where credit is due?

there's been talk of a giffoni collab? where where?

― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

I completely missed THE HANDCLAP the first time I heard it. Nice effect, though.

― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

This is acid: the primordial years

xpost, the effect is nice but what about the concept?! ;-)

― willem, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

Ha ha, it was conceptually elegant. Yes.

― There's Always Been A Dance Element To (Masonic Boom), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 21:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

ok wow this no fun acid thing could be excellent. makes a lot of sense imo

― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

kindof a lot of similarities between the Adult life album and the black meteoric star one as it is, pretty excited at idea of violent, fractured acid house collab in my head

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 22:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

No Fun Acid supporting Oneohtrix Point Never in London tomorrow night. tempted to check it out.

― gnarly sceptre, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 14:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

this crystal ark thing is so a+

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

It's my workout music in the morning! ha ha.

― Delia & Daphne & Celeste (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

haha i am just exercising to it right now, and black meteoric star album was my default workout music last year

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

crystal ark is fantastic, hammering it at the minute

anyone heard the no fun remix? there wasnt any copies at the live show. saw it last week with oneohtrix and was a bit underwhelmed, i suppose i was expecting something a bit noisy and off the grid. sounded more like ceefax but then again the sequencers hem you into that.

― straightola, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

this crystal ark thing is so a+

the best thing they've done

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:59 (3 years ago) Permalink

sorry, that would still be "Casual Friday"

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 15:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

omg i dont know how you could work out to black meteoric star, too thumping and heavy

― plax (ico), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

i would like to go out this weekend and hear this, and then be peeled off the roof

i hope people are playing the vocal version!

― like david lee roth (haitch), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 10:00 (3 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

crystal ark tour? yes please

― ashra williams (san frandisco), Friday, 7 May 2010 21:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

wow wow wow this is HEAVY

― bug holocaust (sleeve), Tuesday, 11 May 2010 03:57 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

at PS1
August 7th
Gavin Russom / DFA Records, New York (DJ set)
Alden Tyrell / Clone Records, NL (live)
The Crystal Ark / DFA Records, New York (live)
Special Disco Version feat. James Murphy & Pat Mahoney / DFA Records, New York (DJ set)

― mizzell, Tuesday, 6 July 2010 18:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

new crystal ark on itunes

― just sayin, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

on emusic too...

― Neil S, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:14 (2 years ago) Permalink

^sooooo good. maybe not better than "city never sleeps" but still

― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 21:58 (2 years ago) Permalink

good. maybe not better than "city never sleeps"

this, really. though i am starting to wonder if it's actually not all that good and i'm just predisposed to like it because it's russom

― governor-general allin (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 05:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

nah it is good

is is better than the previous one? not sure it matters

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 13:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

crystal ark put on a p great show at p.s.1 the other weekend btw

― max, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 16:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

having only listened to the main mix once, I like it better than the last single, at least as far as "dance music". Not sure about the vocalist yet. a good diva is hard to find

― Dominique, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 16:32 (2 years ago) Permalink

i love days of mars to pieces. it's like my ideal vast space synth laser drone music. pretty much had it on repeat lately with oneohtrix albums

― pun gent (another al3x), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 17:50 (2 years ago) Permalink

i've only heard the 2nd and 3rd ep, but i really like russom's no fun acid project too. it's kinda too noisy for the dancefloor, and too dancey for the noise kids- but i'd imagine that most people into stuff like black dice or eye's solo outings or the more cracked-out side of early acid house would have no difficulties appreciating this stuff

― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 19:08 (2 years ago) Permalink

i believe no fun acid is carlos giffoni. russom has a remix on the b side of #2 and yes it's great!

― pun gent (another al3x), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:31 (2 years ago) Permalink

ah, shit you're right. i though it was russom and giffoni, but i guess it's just giffoni making acid stuff with one russom remix. bah. anyways, it's all good stuff from what i've heard

― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:41 (2 years ago) Permalink

no fun acid sadly apt imo, including the russom remix

is there going to a crystal ark album?

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

*to be*

― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 25 August 2010 21:43 (2 years ago) Permalink

4 weeks pass...

http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/14883-track-five/
It's been a long time-- like, five years long-- since we've heard from Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom, whose last recorded output was 2005's The Days of Mars. Now, Delia and Gavin are set to return with what looks to be their final release, the Track Five 12", which will drop October 12 on vinyl and digitally via DFA. You can stream the epic-sounding title track, which was originally an outtake from the four-song The Days of Mars (hence the title). The official release will include a remix from German producer Âme.

― mizzell, Friday, 24 September 2010 22:33 (2 years ago) Permalink

been waiting for this since the '05 DFA holiday mix!

― Ride decided to give birth to a giant poop log & disguise it as a CD (jamescobo), Friday, 24 September 2010 23:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

hey coach (i read your diary)!

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 25 September 2010 01:25 (2 years ago) Permalink

― just sayin, Saturday, 25 September 2010 09:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

ffwd to 2:50 for some excellence:

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 22 October 2010 05:38 (2 years ago) Permalink

gif that and loop it jhosea

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 22 October 2010 05:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

i love this remix

http://soundcloud.com/selftitledmag/alice-cohen-mauve-mood-gavin

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 14 August 2012 12:08 (9 months ago) Permalink

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delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars