― M Matos, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
anyway, tood ist super genius. although i've always been vaguely unsettled (in a good way) that his vocal tracking techniques were influenced by enya. (which means, tangentially, dem 2 and the artful dodger were influenced by enya. take that, sinker.)
SEARCH: i dunno, it's all good. the remixes (vocal and dub) of st. germain's "alabama blues" remain a 90s highwater mark.
― jess, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Paul, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
seeing him spin at Centro-Fly (in the basement) w/SciFi and Andy B (and the Pope and others) was definitely one of my musical highlights this year. he played I think ONE song by another person and the rest were his his his. the sound mix was fucked up--too much midrange, when the trick w/an Edwards track is that you need to hear it eq'ed as all top and bottom--but that got fixed eventually. a lot of folks just stood there looking at him, trying to figure out what the fuck was going on, and Todd didn't care--he's really into what he does, there's a kind of peace about him. granted, he's also obviously a complete geek and from the brief introduction I had to him I gathered that he's a little out there. (he's very religious, for instance, which may help explain the sort of benighted innocence he has about him--which I hope doesn't sound like either a condemnation or romanticization of folks who care deeply about god.)
I'd personally pay money to watch him create a track.
― M Matos, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Tim, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Don't kow much about him though. Does he ever DJ in England, and I hear he's a very devote Christian (although half of the states seem to be).
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Accept Jesus into your life and you will understand where "influence" begins and ends, with regards, your friend
― ma$e s, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― jess, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
http://djqwest.tripod.com/tlctodd.ra tlc - no scrubs (todd remix) - less than 5 copies of this exist anywhere!
http://www.johnclew.fsnet.co.uk/roll_with_it.ram todd edwards + karl tuff enuff brown + kele le roc - Roll with it .. coming out soon!! (i hope!)
this is the future of UK garage - 4 to the floor bizness
pretty lol watching blogger tards who've been wanking on about the 2step pop shite suddenly realise what the REAL shit is in the UK underground.
there is very very little merit to almost all UK garage right now. only producers i can be bothered with are zed bias, mj cole and todd edwards..
― big dapper, Saturday, 4 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
― Spencer Chow, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
I've always wanted haterz.
― Tim, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
Anyway, I'm with Tim on the Hakan Lidbo remix, probably T.E.'s best voice-chopping ever.
Search also:
Sound Of One “As I Am” (Todd Edwards Mix) – for its ridiculously concise push-push bassline
James Lavonz's mix of T.E.’s “Saved My Life” – for good thwacky ruff-up of Todd’s lily-whiteness
new Akufen album -- pretty clearly some T.E. fetish by way of Cologne
Whew, I loved him...his tendency to all but command nervous- making words like ‘glorious’ while mixing in an optional dose of sick sinisterism. Float away or freak out, as you wish.
― Andy, Sunday, 5 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
ME TOP 10 TODDY: ---------------- 1) ST GERMAIN - ALABAMA BLUES (TODD EDWARDS DUB) 2) KRISTINE BLOND - LOVESHY (TODD EDWARDS RMX) 3) TODD EDWARDS - SHUT THE DOOR (VOCAL MIX) 4) TODD EDWARDS - SAVIOUR TONIGHT 5) TODD EDWARDS - FLY AWAY 6) THE HEIST - BABY I THOUGHT WE WERE COOL (TODD REMIX) 7) ULTYMATE + JACQUEE BENNETT - VYBE (TODD EDWARDS 98 RMX) 8) KARL BROWN + TODD EDWARDS - ROLL WITH IT 9) TODD EDWARDS - BECKON CALL 10) BENJAMIN DIAMOND - LITTLE SCARE (TODD VOCAL MIX)
― HUNTA-D, Monday, 6 May 2002 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink
1) ST GERMAIN - ALABAMA BLUES (TODD EDWARDS DUB)
2) KRISTINE BLOND - LOVESHY (TODD EDWARDS RMX)
3) TODD EDWARDS - SHUT THE DOOR (VOCAL MIX)
4) TODD EDWARDS - SAVIOUR TONIGHT
5) TODD EDWARDS - FLY AWAY
6) THE HEIST - BABY I THOUGHT WE WERE COOL (TODD REMIX)
7) ULTYMATE + JACQUEE BENNETT - VYBE (TODD EDWARDS 98 RMX)
8) KARL BROWN + TODD EDWARDS - ROLL WITH IT
9) TODD EDWARDS - BECKON CALL
10) BENJAMIN DIAMOND - LITTLE SCARE (TODD VOCAL MIX)
If anyone's after any mix cd's, (Todd wise) theres a possibility I may be able to get some ... although this is not certain! Feel free to mail me though anyway if you have any news about Todd or want to contribute to the website (www.Todd-Edwards.net)
― DJ Sarki, Thursday, 27 June 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 13 October 2002 02:16 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Stefan Costain/JLC, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 23:27 (10 years ago) Permalink
― STEFAN COSTAIN, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 23:35 (10 years ago) Permalink
Anyway, bar a few duff tracks, Full On 2 is set to be amazing. I'm soooo psyched (not to mention pretty damn impatient by now). He's made a few radio appearances in UK radio last week, and sound clips have been put up on www.todd-edwards.net. I recommend heading straight for the part 2 of the set he did on Richie Vibe Vee's show - the sequence from "You're The One" to the Space Cowboy remix is my new favourite thing ever.
Also - anyone seen recent pics of the man? He certainly got helluva lot chubbier since those two old I! Records promo shots that have been the only existing available images of him for, ooh, an eternity. Also, he now wears a T-shirt with the legend "Jesus loves garage"! Godlike genius indeed.
― Mind Taker, Monday, 24 March 2003 14:41 (10 years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 21 April 2003 18:58 (10 years ago) Permalink
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:02 (10 years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:08 (10 years ago) Permalink
bravo, esp the first graf.
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:09 (10 years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:11 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:22 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 05:00 (10 years ago) Permalink
A stone-cold travesty of opinion Matos! Still, passionate subjectivism rules as far as I'm concerned so I'm down with the premise...
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:18 (10 years ago) Permalink
Unless you're talking about a microhouse producer who has just started in the last year or two, I think it's terribly difficult to pinpoint who took what from where. In Akufen's case, his '00/'01 releases wouldn't have been out of place on Kompakt; if anything, he was developing nuances in his style at the same time. You have to consider that some of his earlier releases were on Trapez and Perlon, two labels that have made the style what it is just as much as Kompakt.
Besides, someone who picks up a Kompakt 12" at random these days has about a 1/4 chance of hearing a track that resembles anything on My Way. Several other labels are more confined to that type of sound -- again, some have released Akufen tracks. With the way Kompakt has branched out in the last few years, I find myself using them as an adjective a lot less these days -- almost never, actually.
(None of this has anything to do with Edwards, so I apologize. I really enjoyed reading the article, if that helps.)
(Why couldn't the Akufen pictured in Matos' article be placed in that Pixies video to hack up Frank Black?)
― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 16:58 (10 years ago) Permalink
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 17:01 (10 years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:01 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Andy K (Andy K), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 18:07 (10 years ago) Permalink
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:08 (10 years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:12 (10 years ago) Permalink
my life is a shambles
― jess (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:14 (10 years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:19 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 19:20 (10 years ago) Permalink
what then? :)
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Tuesday, 22 April 2003 22:35 (10 years ago) Permalink
With Akufen, I couldn't really get past the first few tracks on the album, which (admittedly on a superficial listen) sounded like bad IDM circa 1995.
― Ben Williams, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 23:13 (10 years ago) Permalink
That is the single best thing to happen in a long time. If Todd Edwards can get out of his speed garage-beat rut, then we have a lot of wonderful music to look forward to. Maybe I should start going to church.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 00:33 (10 years ago) Permalink
― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 04:46 (10 years ago) Permalink
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 23 April 2003 04:49 (10 years ago) Permalink
Dunno, just seems like a very bland and conservative kind of music to be getting all hot and bothered about.
I like Benoit and Sergio as much as the next guy but am so far a little underwhelmed by this "trend".
― Josiah Alan, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
with you, brah, except I absolutely hate that shit
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
Even Nick Hannam's "Love You Girl"?
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
it's tough, stuff gets popular. It's not always the best stuff, it's not always the stuff you like. And it sucks that you have to hear this fake shit night after night after night
― blank, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
I don't think you can front on Infinity Ink's "Games":
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
Or indeed "House of Infinity".
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
which is like mid 90s Carl Craig (somewhere between the Jonny L and Aquarhythms remixes) meets garage.
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
or indeed
― the late great, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
leectric feel is even better
(lee foss)
these actually have a passing resemblance (in struxture) to some todd stuff
― the late great, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
kinda lowest common denominator but it still gets MASSIVE SUPPORT
― the late great, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
I still maintain that Rev thinks that all of these tunes are the same as Art Department's "Without You" and Benoit & Sergio's "Walk & Talk" without actually hearing them.
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 04:56 (8 months ago) Permalink
seriously tho the build from the three minute mark of "House of Infinity" is just (((((((((( d[-_-]b ))))))))))
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 05:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Tim F, Friday, September 7, 2012 9:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
True, well you know BAD FIRST IMPRESSIONS and all of that, but yes Art Depo and B&S most certainly have biased me against whoever else people want to associate with them. These tracks are all fine (or at least that last one was until MGMT came in) but they don't get me excited. I loved the Robin Thicke one when I heard it in a DJ Q mix, so maybe playing this stuff with the pitch way up and surrounded by garridge is the key.
I was saying on twitter tho that even tho I got into dance music through house, I'm kind of super-bummed by almost anything 4x4 at the moment. Seems to kind of have become the provenance of dance music's stodgiest elements (or most garish, but I'm less frustrated with that kru).
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 September 2012 07:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
Now to catch up on that other thread.
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 September 2012 07:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
I do appreciate this particular piece of sage wisdom I received on twitter tho:
"House is like your mother. She raised you and you'll always love her, but sometimes you gotta move out of the house."
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 September 2012 07:42 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, and start making techno.
I think what rubs me the wrong way the most about Infinity Ink is the way the vocals have this faint whiff of MGMT/ pseudo Beegees kinda thing.
It doesn't much matter that there's a bumpy little garage loop under the rest of the beat, still yeucch.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:30 (8 months ago) Permalink
Maybe its more Cut Copy than MGMT, I've spent too much time playing this crap for college students.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
Are you talking about "Infinity" Josiah or "House of Infinity"?
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
House of Infinity, that'd be the one with the garage loop.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
I did like Games better than the other two.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
Out of everything I've heard on Crosstown Rebels I liked the Francesca Lombardo release the most. Old School Anna is pretty good.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
Yeah sorry I assumed so I just wasn't sure cos you were talking about "Infinity" above and "House of Infinity" sounds nothing like MGMT or The Bee Gees to me.
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
Well obviously they're not singing in an Andy Gibb falsetto, but I hear a really strong pop disco thing going on in there.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 17:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
?
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
I am talking just about the vocals, not the rest of the track. Which sure Carl Craig and a little garage influence.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:02 (8 months ago) Permalink
Isn't that just a male house diva thing?
― Tim F, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
A very very Anglo house diva, I'm not really a huge fan of male singers who mostly resonate through their nose.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
Which is probably why I hate indie rock with a passion.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:08 (8 months ago) Permalink
Now I'm reminded of all the RnB singers who have essentially the same register, I guess I'd rather listen to Jeremih than this. Or NeYo.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
In the spirit of not completely being a grouch, this is great.
― Josiah Alan, Saturday, 8 September 2012 18:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
not sure if that's directly aimed at tweaking me or
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pure-Garage-4-Floor-EZ/dp/B00013MXRY
^^ bought in 01, still haven't listened to
― the late great, Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
er 03
send it to me imo
― The Reverend, Saturday, 8 September 2012 22:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
X-post
Just a joke Rev.
― Josiah Alan, Sunday, 9 September 2012 06:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
Leo Leo
― the late great, Sunday, 9 September 2012 07:18 (8 months ago) Permalink
YO REV
check leo thread at 3:45 pm
― the late great, Monday, 10 September 2012 22:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
got your wish rev
― the late great, Monday, 10 September 2012 23:13 (8 months ago) Permalink
where am I looking for this?
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 03:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
noize board LEO LEO
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 03:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
Leonardo Music Journal -- Awesome!!
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 03:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
ok got it. was not aware of that thread. v useful 2 know.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 04:05 (8 months ago) Permalink
now we will never speak of it again
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 04:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
word
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 04:21 (8 months ago) Permalink
still lol at those London/Liverpool fanservice songs
― The Reverend, Monday, 24 September 2012 01:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
todd's selling all of the records he's used for samples: http://www.ebay.com/sch/toddedwardsrecords/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p3686
― Shane Richie Junior (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 29 November 2012 23:22 (5 months ago) Permalink
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 29 November 2012 23:24 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://soundcloud.com/djq85/todd-edwards-selection
what more could u want
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 November 2012 23:31 (5 months ago) Permalink