take all this with a grain of salt because im a certified unrepentant lindstrom stan.
a dozen listens in and i genuinely think this is as strong, if not stronger, than WYGIGT or II--in totally different ways, though. those of you (jergins) turned off by masturbatory jams will dig on this, i think--much tighter and more formal than his last couple (the magnificent not included), but not without classic lindstrom wooze. lot of moroder/summer in this (duh) and i think also post-chic edwards & rogers.
high points for me: this badass sort of drunken gina x stomper called "lovesick" (actually sort of reminds me of that NERD song 'lapdance,' lol) and the album closer "high and low" which is totally reminiscent of thousands of songs that ive heard but couldnt name right now (almost like a funkier sally shapiro? but less italo? includes guitar solo btw)
― Bobby Wo (max), Sunday, 18 October 2009 16:03 (1 month ago) Permalink
OK, OK, OK... I will check it out. Because Lindstrom totally blows my horn and the idea of his schtick combined with female vocals would be just about my idea of heaven - but it all comes down to how much of the noodling has been cut down on because I'm an unrepentant spaceprog-noodle fan.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 16:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah i kate id guess that youll be way less into this than WYGIGT or II based on what i know about your taste and the reasons you like lindstrom--this is way more disco; like i said the reference points here are more donna summers shit w/ moroder and 80s edwards and rogers than vangelis and gottsching (notwithstanding the fact that one of the songs is a vangelis cover)
still id be interested to hear what you think about. just b/c its not as noodly as the other stuff doesnt mean that its totally free of noodle--and its still sort of sloppy in that purposeful lindstrom way.
― Bobby Wo (max), Sunday, 18 October 2009 16:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
Hey! I know that I'm originally a spacerock/kraut/drone head, and I came to Lindstrom from that angle, but I'm certainly not adverse to a little disco, especially of the more cosmic Italo end. The only thing I've got is that Music In My Mind track that was on the Smalltown Supersound On Fire comp from Plan B. Which I like, but I'd really like a lot more if it was about 3 times longer and went off into phased-out-heaven.
I mean, I hugely love girlypop, so the idea of Lindstrom doing a take on 3 minute girlypop disco songs is really kind of intriguing. I will chase down more of it tomorrow at work with a good connection.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 16:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
Has this leaked? I read it's not coming out until jan. 2010.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
promo copies went out last week so its probably only a matter of time
― Bobby Wo (max), Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
To be honest, I've been wanting Lindstrom to drop a straight dancefloor-orientated cosmic disco album for some time now and I'm therefore really looking forward to this.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
Does this sounds anything like Run, the last song off the first L&PT album? That has always been my favorite song my them. I am excited to hear this.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
Oh, I thought he tweeted that he'd put the whole album up on their MySpace, but maybe that's clips or something.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
But, to be perfectly honest, I'd be happy if he just made a straight-up cover of Steve Hillage's Green album but, erm, that's just me.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
(I would say something about offering to be his Miquette Giraudy in this project, but, erm, I've learned to keep my lustful outbursts to myself on this board)
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:43 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah jacob run is a definite antecedent to what hes doing here--the song wouldnt sound out of place on the album, even if it is a little less 'disco' than the rest of it
― Bobby Wo (max), Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
Now I'm really excited about this!!
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 17:57 (1 month ago) Permalink
I'm really glad she's changed her name, mostly because I wasn't sure how to pronounce 'Solale' and I'm relieved I no longer have to try.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
fyi you pronounce it "christabelle"
― Bobby Wo (max), Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
I like the name "Solale" better. Way more mysterious.
― threesome dude (The Reverend), Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
Really cannot wait to hear this, I think it's got the potential to be the best album Lindstrom's been involved with.
― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:46 (1 month ago) Permalink
how's it compare to "let it happen"?
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 19 October 2009 00:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
yeah count me in the camp that prefers Run and Let's Practise to WYGIGT-style noodle, i'm stoked to hear this
― jabba hands, Monday, 19 October 2009 00:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
xp the vangelis original or the version they already did?
theres a version of their cover on the album--not the same as the one thats already been released as lindstrom & solale. i prefer the earlier, solale version, but maybe just cuz it hews closer to the vangelis original, which id take over both versions of the lindstrom cover
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 19 October 2009 00:29 (1 month ago) Permalink
the cover
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 19 October 2009 00:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
the version on 'real life is no cool' is a) shorter and b) sort of more aggressive; the synths are foregrounded on a way theyre not on the OG (at least the one ive heard) and it doesnt have that great sort of bubbling/boiling over quality that the 9-minute "solale" version has
at least thats what i think--havent listened to the long version in a minute
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 19 October 2009 00:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
I'm also in the camp that wants to hear more of a straight-up disco album. Something like a bunch of tracks similar to "Let's Practice" would be amazing!
― t (tricky), Monday, 19 October 2009 01:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
WELL YOURE IN LUCK MY FRIEND
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 19 October 2009 01:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
Excited about this, I thought (the original version of the cover of) "Let It Happen" was fabulous and like it more than anything on WYGIGT/II.
― Tim F, Monday, 19 October 2009 01:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
yall i hope im not blowing this up for u guys too much but i think this is FIRE as they say, it is the REAL DEAL so u are right to be excited!!
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 19 October 2009 01:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
this sounds good:
There will also be a second 12" with Baby Can`t Stop remixes from The Idjut Boys and Prins Thomas.
― mizzell, Monday, 19 October 2009 02:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
baby can't stop is another fave of mine, those synth-brass stabs are so rad, just the most perfect split btw obviously synthy and sort of brassy
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 19 October 2009 02:25 (1 month ago) Permalink
lookin forward to this one, bigtime.
― racist of the falling leaves (haitch), Monday, 19 October 2009 02:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
i wonder if 'baby can't stop' is the untitled demo i heard in a mix about two years ago... really sparse apreggiated synth line going up and down?
― racist of the falling leaves (haitch), Monday, 19 October 2009 02:58 (1 month ago) Permalink
no, no way
― Bobby Wo (max), Monday, 19 October 2009 03:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
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― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 19 October 2009 03:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
ws
― RAPTOBER (sic), Monday, 19 October 2009 04:25 (1 month ago) Permalink
OK, I have just found that L&PT track "Run" on Spotify - and wow, OK, I'm going to start anticipating the hell out of this album if it is in the vein of this. The big heavy stomping bassline plus the wibbly wubbly arpeggiated synths plus drifty female vocals - if it goes in this direction then this could be my new favourite thing ever.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Monday, 19 October 2009 09:39 (1 month ago) Permalink
OK, and to make this even sweeter, there's an Aeroplane remix on the MySpace...
::falls off chair with happiness::
http://www.myspace.com/lindstromandchristabelle
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Monday, 19 October 2009 09:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
the Aeroplane dub remix is even better!
― Kaiser Size, Monday, 19 October 2009 12:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
"keep it up" is such my jam. reminds me of the donna summer version of "state of independence"
― psychgawsple, Monday, 19 October 2009 21:09 (1 month ago) Permalink
This is amazing. So sharp and chunky and R&B! Final track is perfect.
― Tim F, Monday, 26 October 2009 09:06 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Single out today. With Aeroplane remix. (rolls over and waggles arms and legs in air)
However, I haven't listened to it yet as, erm, I'm listening to the Fever Ray RA podcast first.
― Strawberry Letter 22 (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 October 2009 11:30 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Oh god.... Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Dub Remix) - WHY OH WHY COULDN'T THEY HAVE LEFT THE VOCALS IN?!?!?
if they had, this would be, like, remix of the year...
― Strawberry Letter 22 (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 October 2009 12:10 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure the version I have, which has been knocking round since the start of the year, has vocals on it. I'll need to check though.
― Matt DC, Monday, 26 October 2009 12:16 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
yeah it does have vox
― lex pretend, Monday, 26 October 2009 12:17 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
If you have that Aeroplane (ha ha, I just totally subconsciously typoed Aerolplane oops) remix with vocals, I'm a-coming round your house to pry it from your cold dead hands. ;-)
― Strawberry Letter 22 (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 October 2009 12:17 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
i want to know whether solale or christabelle is her real name (or maybe one is her middle name?). when she went under solale i always used to type lindstrøm & solange by mistake
― lex pretend, Monday, 26 October 2009 12:18 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Funnily enough, I don't actually think either is her real name, but I can't remember where I read that.
― Strawberry Letter 22 (Masonic Boom), Monday, 26 October 2009 12:19 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
yeh 1st time i read it i thought it was an unlikely collab
― plax (I know, right?), Monday, 26 October 2009 12:20 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
haha, is this really the cover of the single?
― mizzell, Monday, 26 October 2009 15:39 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Only heard the non-aeroplane version today, anyone else think this might actually do OK, sales-wise? Probably not, but it is a lot more catchy and poppy than some of the stuff that's done well that I've heard recently
― Roger Sánchez Broto (vain_bowers), Monday, 26 October 2009 17:42 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
the Aeroplane vocal mix kind of annoys me because when it does that little flourish at the end it feels like it's going to leap up to a higher level of awesomeness again (as it has already done four or five times), but then it just stops. A very minor complaint, I guess it's tough to know where to stop when you can just keep making it better and better forever.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Monday, 26 October 2009 18:00 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
wow, the American release date for this (according to amazon) is January 2010! Both the single and the Aeroplane remix are ace!!
― t (tricky), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:43 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Come on. That mental Tears For Fears track -> Led Zeppelin is inspired psychedelic nonsense.
Oh wait. Never mind.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 November 2009 12:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
Eagle is a great song.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Friday, 13 November 2009 12:52 (1 week ago) Permalink
I just have a pathological hatred of Abba. Cannot get past it.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 November 2009 12:53 (1 week ago) Permalink
Oh jesus, I take it all back. I actually thought that Black Sabbath track was some long lost Hawkwind bootleg the first time through. Was gonna comment on how awesome it was if I could chase down what it was. Have just realised that it might be Ozzy that I don't like, not Sabbath.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 November 2009 13:00 (1 week ago) Permalink
Yeah but Eagle is a total predecessor of Studio + Lindstrom + Sally Shapiro stylings (imho)
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Friday, 13 November 2009 13:05 (1 week ago) Permalink
But that's the element of that aesthetic that I *don't* like!
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 November 2009 13:07 (1 week ago) Permalink
I had a cheap Roland sampler in the late 80s as well, but the capabilities of such a fantastic machine combined with teenage imagination made me use it mainly for recording loud farts and other exciting bodily sounds. Played it in a different pitch, or as chords. Very funny (laughs).
― mizzell, Friday, 13 November 2009 15:44 (1 week ago) Permalink
Steve Morris from New Order once said the exact same thing.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:01 (1 week ago) Permalink
I really liked that mix - the only thing I didn't get along with was Hall and Oates! (that's the element of that aesthetic that I *don't* like!)
― Jamie T Smith, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:20 (1 week ago) Permalink
So, did anyone else go to the Koko show with Glass Candy earlier this year?
No, because I was too tired or too lame or something like that.
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:22 (1 week ago) Permalink
It was really really good. Really.
― Jamie T Smith, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:23 (1 week ago) Permalink
I know. Sigh.
now pictures or GTFO ;-)
― Persian Pickle (Masonic Boom), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:24 (1 week ago) Permalink
Sorry! No pics ...
He played loads of older stuff as well as Where You Go ..., all done as a continous mix. Fab, but it was a weeknight and people didn't go very crazee over it, and in fact some of them left half-way through.
My evening is complicated on the 28th and I think I'm going to be left begging people to come with me at pub chucking out time. Sigh.
― Jamie T Smith, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:28 (1 week ago) Permalink
where you go... has become my bus journey home track for the last while - it's just the perfect length
― haido, Saturday, 14 November 2009 22:17 (1 week ago) Permalink
man i gotta say i was really not feeling that fact mix EXCEPT for the hall & oates!
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 15 November 2009 00:52 (6 days ago) Permalink
Ha ha, I was thinking it would rather put off the disco kids. It's way more beard than it is disco. Makes me feel quite happy knowing that in fact, Lindstrom really *is* a DDB under all that techno/house bobbinage.
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 10:21 (6 days ago) Permalink
jesus
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Sunday, 15 November 2009 10:49 (6 days ago) Permalink
i mean i love me some beardiness but there's nothing special going on in that respect with this mix. are we really supposed to be wowed by black sabbath and led zeppelin at this point?
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:17 (6 days ago) Permalink
Considering there were eight songs in that mix that were NOT Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin - yeah, I think that sticking Jobriath or Uli Jon Roth in a mix is definitely something that I have not heard before.
I mean, I'm teasing about the "ha ha, Hans-Peter is a DDB not a dance kid" because I know that's the sort of thing that sends Tim F into the vapours.
Anyway, is a mix supposed to be "mind-blowing" or just a representation of where that particular artist is at, at this point in time?
(and as an aside, isn't it a mark of creativity that an artist can take unpromising "influences" and turn them into something as wonderful as what Lindstrom does?)
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:24 (6 days ago) Permalink
ugh i just don't get it, i guess. it has nothing to do with notions of obscurity, just a poor track selection imo? there are more interesting led zeppelin and black sabbath songs.
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:30 (6 days ago) Permalink
Well, he succeeded in one effect - in that, I, too, have always shied away from Black Sabbath. But hearing an instrumental track like Breakout actually made me go and investigate further. I think he picked those tracks (if I understood the interview correctly, when we've already established that my reading comprehension has gone to shit) specifically *because* they were ones that showed a different side - ones that haterz might even be intrigued by?
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:35 (6 days ago) Permalink
not to be all waynes world or something but fu if u dont like black sabbath, imhfo
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:42 (6 days ago) Permalink
ehh, it just boils down to me not liking whatever 'psych freakout' vibe he's pursuing here. sabbath is great, wyatt is great, fuck even led zeppelin is great (maybe wouldn't admit to this sober). and i see the common thread in all of those tracks, i just don't like it. it's not something i care to listen to again (and i used to be a giant 'psych'-head, fwiw)
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 15 November 2009 11:56 (6 days ago) Permalink
That track made me realise, I don't mind Black Sabbath - I just can't fucking stand Ozzy Osbourne's voice - or indeed, entire personna perhaps.
And heh, I think "heavy psych freakout" vibe is exactly what I like about it. I don't think I'll ever really grow out of that. (Though, spending my teenage years in a little nowhere town in upstate NY, it took a long, long time for me to admit that there was anything good to Zeppelin.)
(and yes, I have such the horn for Hans-Peter that I do find it kinda gratifying to see him exercising the DDB side of him.)
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:03 (6 days ago) Permalink
Lindstrom doing a mix like that makes perfect sense - I don't get the controversy here.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:04 (6 days ago) Permalink
walked into the club on friday night, aeroplane mix of 'baby can't stop' playing, perfect mood-setter for the evening. good times.
― BARRY ROUBAIX (haitch), Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:08 (6 days ago) Permalink
no no no i have NOT 'grown out' of psych-freakouts!
these ones just seem lame, and i'm sure this is something my former self and i would agree upon! all the marijuana in the world could never dupe me into diggin this uli jon roth track
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:11 (6 days ago) Permalink
Yeah, I played Lovesick at Crafty Beats yesterday afternoon. I just looped it coz it was the last song in my set and I was waiting for Anna to come back from a smoke and start her set. It was just so laid-back perfect I was almost disappointed when Anna came back and I didn't get to set it on its third spin.
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:20 (6 days ago) Permalink
Also, psychgaw, consider the venue. He's doing a mix for Fact, not a "blow yr mind" mix for the rolling psych freakout stoner metal smells bad and doesn't take itself too seriously thread.
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:21 (6 days ago) Permalink
well we live in a world with optimo and multiple volumes of 'fragments of fear'
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:36 (6 days ago) Permalink
Really, when it comes to Lindstrom, I'd rather have all 29 minutes of "Where You Go, I Go Too" than, like, the best and most mynd-blowing DJ mix in the world, you know?
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 12:41 (6 days ago) Permalink
lol erik i guess you missed the memo where ur not allowed to be dissatisfied wit anything he does
― max, Sunday, 15 November 2009 16:13 (6 days ago) Permalink
I will *personally* eat the soul of anyone who expresses dissatisfaction with ANYTHING that Hans-Peter does, on this thread. :-P
j/k j/k
(maybe)
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 21:25 (6 days ago) Permalink
How does one eat a soul?
― bamcquern, Sunday, 15 November 2009 21:28 (6 days ago) Permalink
ask the Aphex Twin.
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 21:30 (6 days ago) Permalink
It's like Wimple Winch in reverse, maybe?
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 21:31 (6 days ago) Permalink
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS328US328&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=wimple+winch
What?
― bamcquern, Sunday, 15 November 2009 21:33 (6 days ago) Permalink
A psych band, best known for their garage rock hit, "save my soul"
Eating someone's soul would surely be the ultimate opposite of soul-saving?
― LOL my penny (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 15 November 2009 21:39 (6 days ago) Permalink
Hi guys I know I'm late to this party (aside from the album not being out for two months) and I actually like this a bunch but has anyone mentioned how much the keyboard part in 'High And Low' sounds like the end of the Eastenders theme tune yet?
― The Execution Of Garu G (DJ Mencap), Monday, 16 November 2009 19:29 (5 days ago) Permalink
okay, it leaked and I heard it and it's amazing and then the baby looked at me. I'd only heard the Aeroplane "Baby I Can't Stop" until now so I wasn't expecting it to be Lindstrom Does "Thriller", and yet here we are. also the opening bit (before all the kickass schaeffle stuff kicks in) is AWESOME.
― The Enemy (jamescobo), Thursday, 19 November 2009 21:52 (2 days ago) Permalink
cannot find this ANYWHERE. argh.
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 19 November 2009 23:57 (2 days ago) Permalink
Me neither. But I'm also of the opinion that my google skills aren't up to the task.
― Jibe, Friday, 20 November 2009 00:18 (Yesterday) Permalink
umm my google skills are up to par and i could not find this either. a little nudge in the right direction from this board ??? i will buy this on lp when it comes out anyways...
― oscar, Friday, 20 November 2009 00:27 (Yesterday) Permalink
oh, I'm glad it's not googleable then. Because that would be far, far, far too tempting.
::sticks fingers in ears and sings la la la while waiting patiently::
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Friday, 20 November 2009 10:11 (Yesterday) Permalink
this aint out there yet, time 2 chill
― chillwave dudes get washed out, totally (J0rdan S.), Friday, 20 November 2009 10:17 (Yesterday) Permalink
Thing is, I know that this music would help immensely with my chillage.
― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Friday, 20 November 2009 10:19 (Yesterday) Permalink
Amazed no one's put out a fake leak yet.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Friday, 20 November 2009 10:34 (Yesterday) Permalink
"High and low" is always in loop on my iTunes.Great album!
― Kaiser Size, Friday, 20 November 2009 11:31 (Yesterday) Permalink
Still haven't found this although I did stumble across the new Beach House album whilst searching for it which was a little unexpected bonus
― groovypanda, Friday, 20 November 2009 12:05 (Yesterday) Permalink