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Wait, so you actually have the vinyl or do you have an .mp3 of any of these?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:46 (8 years ago) Permalink

If you do find this, Spencer, please share. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

R.I.M.A is indeed being mysterious.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

I've got the Modular 12" (wish I'd bought extra copies at the time, if only I'd known how they were going to blow up. sold my Gimix tape way too cheap too.), and the track is indeed splendid. "Iiiiiinnnnnnn-formation!"

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 3 September 2004 02:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

I have the Rex 7", which I found in 2nd hand condition in Manc Piccadilly's HMV back when 'Since I Left You' went top 20. At some point, I had the other 2 tracks on mp3, but I ain't got a clue where they are now. I'm only mysterious about my length and girth. Wait, that's not what I meant.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

The Concretes - "Chico: Avalanches' The Wernham Hogg Remix"

anyone heard it yet??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 02:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

Wernham Hogg!

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

Looking for it...

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

I've got it queued up on da sk.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:30 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm not on da sk, sadly. I don't think I can use Nicotine and acqlite on the same comp either.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:17 (8 years ago) Permalink

i've got it, sounds a bit like a venetian gondola song, all harpsichord and eerie-like.
it's great.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

that sounds amazing!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

it's not something that is totally blinding on first listen, just really sweet and wistful, in a similar kinda vein as the remix they did of badly drawn boy.

and it's called the wernham hogg mix i think cause it sounds like that's what she is singing in the beginning.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

Not a somewhat bizarre reference to "The Office"?

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

Actually, both of course. She does sort of sound like she's saying "Wernham Hogg".

It's really really beautiful. Exactly what I wanted.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

I've got the Avalanches/Concretes thing on Fluxblog today. I'm really into it - I'm really interested in how their future non-remix output will sound. Should be pretty great, I think.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

i listened to The Go Team's 'Huddle Information' earlier and i can imagine a new Avalanches track sounding much like it (but i did say that about Junior Senior's 'Rhythm Bandits' too)

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

I bought the Wernham Hogg 7" this morning and it's really lovely - 'Two Hearts' meets 'Information'.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

That remix should be subtitled, "Calgon, Take Me Away."

I mean that in the best way possible.

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 21:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

gor' juss.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 21:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

there's something of early mercury rev to it, isn't there? (or is that just the singing saw talking?)(which would remind me of *later* mercury rev, which this doesn't, but i might be confused.)(*is* that a singing saw?)

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 21:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

theis song is really pretty. i love it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 23:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

Got a mailout from Modular records today...

October sees your chance to check out some of the finest on our Modular team, when they pay you a visit and play some shows in New York and LA.
Treating you to a show of grandiose proportions will be Bumblebeez81, Cut Copy, Wolfmother and 2 drunk Avalanches playing bad records. Expect spasmodic dancing, big tunes, mad tour cameraderie, empty bottles and love struck ladies. Dates are:

Thursday Oct 14 - Space Lands LA
Saturday Oct 16 - Knitting Factory NYC
Sunday Oct 17 - North Six Brooklyn

If you're in the area, you know where to be.
modular x.

www.modularpeople.com

― Conor (Conor), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

Hahaha, I dunno how the very RAWK Wolfmother will go down amongst the other acts on that bill.

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA! also, the L.A. venue is actually called Spaceland.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 16:34 (8 years ago) Permalink

that would be a great show.
the avalanches have been doing a monthly club night in melbourne which is apparently an african/soca inspired thing, with a bunch of percussionists and them spinning soca/calypso type stuff......might make those shows pretty weird/crazy if thats what they're playing..........

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

To be honest, I can't f*cking wait. I haven't been excited about a live show in a long time!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

i went to one of those club nights in melbourne and it was the most fun night ever. it was outside in this alleyway and there were these percussionists and a lady dancing getting people to sing along and one of the avalanches guys was behind the decks with a huge grin on his face doing a mad dance and it felt like some block party in the islands or something. go see them.

― tim g, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 21:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

Why oh why did they try to put on a rock show when i saw them?!?

OTOH the dj set prior to Basement Jaxx on the Rooty tour was mostly fantastic.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

tim you can still check them out. their night is on the first weekend of every month. such as this weekend for instance. go!

― tim g, Wednesday, 29 September 2004 22:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

NEW MUSIC

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh shucks. Do I HAFTA?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:09 (8 years ago) Permalink

grr, looks like you have to sign up for their newsletter.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

This:

is a very good sign.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:14 (8 years ago) Permalink

I'm trying to get a handle on those wings. Are those quail profiles?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

Swank.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:28 (8 years ago) Permalink

Are any of you going to that Modular night at the Knitting Factory? I'm probably going to see that, though I'm not totally certain.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:36 (8 years ago) Permalink

OMG!!!! sign-up. it's totally worth it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

When I get back from my desk hour, I shall.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thank you, Spencer.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Thursday, 7 October 2004 19:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

bump for Tim.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 7 October 2004 22:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

I put in my password but nothing happens

― Magic City (ano ano), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

Thanks Spencer, I will follow this up!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 7 October 2004 23:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oddly, Dexter and James De La Cruz are DJ'ing at a 3-on-3 basketball comp tonight.

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Friday, 8 October 2004 00:01 (8 years ago) Permalink

There's some Avalanches connection with the cats who DJ on the first Saturday of each month at St. Jerome's (in Melbourne). Pretty sure it's not Dexter or De La Cruz, must be some of the other guys. The night is absolutely packed, and there's lots of highlife and juju and other African music (incl. the track they use on that Belle & Sebastien remix), and everything else from soca to Bon Jovi. Only $5 on the door.

― cnwb (cnwb), Friday, 8 October 2004 04:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oops, sorry - that was already mentioned here and here.

― cnwb (cnwb), Friday, 8 October 2004 04:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

Oh for fuck's sake, just remembered I lent Since I Left You to that megababe I scared off and now it's somewhere in her dorm (which I'll never see again). YAY AWESOME THREAD

― LC, Friday, 8 October 2004 05:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

Let me tell you this, minna mi mamacita, when I was in high school, there was this short lived local craze with the beads.......the necklaces and braclets you make with the tiny craft-shop beads and fishing line.......how fucking corny was this, guys giving BEADS to girls while trying to act all hard and street.......this Patrick kid was making them and selling them for five bucks each......i bought one off him and then decided i would cut his grass a little bit, get my own money......so i began taking orders, about 20 people.......that weekend I go to the craft shop and pick up the shit, sit down and get to making.......it was IMPOSSIBLE......the beads were so tiny, the fishing line would bend and wobble, and making a single one took an hour......fuck it, right?......but by then I had already spent all the money on pot and porn so I had to bullshit at school until people forgot about it.....mortifying.

Since then, whenever I think of entrepreneuring, I get scared......I'm just the type of guy to let everyone down with anything involving logistics.....like when I drive by a sign that says BRIDGE RESTORATION IN PROGRESS or a big modern building being made, I imagine myself somehow being contracted to do something like that BY MYSELF and leaving it till the last minute.......i don't even own a screwdriver.....I'd call up my mom, sobbing...."MAAMAAAAAA......I FUCKED UP...."........still, she'd show up in her sneakers that night with a tupperware box of pasta and some neon construction paper and say, "we can still do it, don't give up!".....just like all those other times......but I'd say, "Mom, not this time.......supplies for this, we can't buy at 7-11 at midnight"

I get the same feeling when I watch that surgery footage.....because I can also imagine myself somehow bullshitting my way into a position where I am performing surgery, actually beginning the procedure rather than admitting I'm a fraud and losing face, blood pouring everywhere, me having absolutely no clue how to close the guy back up......"ummmm.....scotch tape!"

I still love the avalanches, because how are they to know my esoteric phobias?

-- Ramosi (olafsonski...), May 9th, 2002.

Fuck the Avalanches, let's talk blood, failure and death. :-)

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), May 9th, 2002.

It's funny, this confluence - I did call my Mom last week.

― LC, Friday, 8 October 2004 05:08 (8 years ago) Permalink

I put in my password but nothing happens

Try putting it in all lower case.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

hey SPencer now you've signed up you can send us all the new tunes heh heh

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 08:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

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