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The only SMD I've heard was a quite abominable remix of Muse's Knights Of Cydonia. I know you'd probably all blame this on the source material, but actually it sounded NOTHING LIKE the original, occasionally reminding us what it was meant to be remixing by stopping entirely and then playing wholesale a complete sample from the Muse version (whinnying horses, voices in harmony chanting "No-one's gonna take me away" etc). The rest of the time we had this boring, tuneless, sonically bereft pulse, which didn't even see fit to change its modulation/volume/pitch/anything which is generally the preserve of good dance music. The result, and I repeat, my sole experience of SMD, was truly some of the most wretched 5 minutes of music I've ever heard.

Oh wait a mo, I've already posted this exact same spiel about a month ago. To hell with it. It bears repeating.

There's nothing wrong with remixing something and making it sound nothing like the source material, dude. In fact, if it sounds too much like the source I tedn to feel short-changed.

I know there's nothing wrong with a remix being entirely different (in fact, I generally prefer remixes to bear a hefty original stamp), but I was emphasising how this car-wreck wasn't Muse's fault.

Good dance music being that which not only MAKES you want to dance, but that also provides a pleasurable experience, a musical journey through the evening's carousel.

"Knights of Cydonia" is about the worst-produced song ever. Bar the last track on the Bloc Party record.

^^^ ban these two

:(

Knights of Cydonia was Zane Lowe's single of the year, 2006.

I never liked KOC much anyway. It was an ill-advised choice.

You ever considered applying for Pitchfork, Louis?

i think ol' lou's more a stylus kinda guy

he still thinks online music reviews have the power to change the world

Nah, he's pretty much what Amy Phillips is screaming out for in her calls for the new journalism.

So do I! Hmmm.

i too hold a torch for the early days of music crit but it's more from the "dead by your early 30s from alcohol consumption" angle

lol at the idea that music journalists earn enough money to buy a fatal amount of alcohol

This is why I treat it strictly as a hobby.

christ how much does cheap booze cost in that socialist nightmare you call a country?

Arranging hi-fis on trolleys and managing circulation systems and creatig content for library plasma screens is buying me a house. Writing about music bought me some headphones.

damn u people i wanted to snigger at LJ's post re 'not liking KOC'

re fatal booze, bottle of Windowlene is only about £1.89

i never pegged dom for a booze snob

Wow. Non snobbier.

i'm surprised you got the whole KOC thing, stevem. it's mentioned once as an in-joke on a facebook group description, truly this is stalking internet knowledge retention at its most acute.

online music writing DOES occasionally change something, viz. NS' 65DOS revelation. plus, i wouldn't have half the music i do if it weren't for reviews!

he still thinks online music reviews have the power to change the world

-- strongohulkington, Friday, June 22, 2007 3:12 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

online music writing DOES occasionally change something, viz. NS' 65DOS revelation. plus, i wouldn't have half the music i do if it weren't for reviews!

-- Just got offed, Friday, June 22, 2007 3:24 AM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

awesome

Hahahaha

i never pegged dom for a booze snob

-- strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:22 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Wow. Non snobbier.

-- Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:23 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Nicholas knows what's up. You can't go around wearing a scarf and then drink any old shit, kills the image.

Tomorrow night I'll have a ten-year-old rioja.

I'm gonna go to that poncey as shit cocktail bar on Kings Road where they serve "ethically sourced" spirits next week.

It's Mayweek and I can't drink booze because I'm on penicillin for severe tonsilitis, now how crap is that?

I'm calling Dom as a cognac drinker. It's good stuff.

you are funny little men, you lot

we learned it by watching you, dad

OK that last little exchange is all kinds of weird.

nick srsly stop with this bourgeois "ten year-old rioja/hand-sewn headphones" bullshit, bro.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Photo562.jpg

Admittedly that's a cheap bottle and my less-expensive headphones...

haha. excellent work w. the orbital poster.

i have sony phones, sipping on lean.

I bet Nick secretly fills his wine glass up to the top. And pours as soon as he's opened the bottle.

http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/biografias/images/asprilla2.jpg

Hahahahaha; my girlfriend hates how little I pour into a glass at a time.

this thread is more ILE than ILM

i.e. it's vaguely disturbing and fully incomprehensible?

surely we're splitting hairs about the boards at this point in that case

too chummy. come on, this is supposed to mean something, you're fighting for your generation's soul here.

baja thinks that online music forums have the power to change the world

he is the small cat

umm.
no talk of the extra disc that comes with the initial release of this album. the cover gives no tracklisting of the remixes.
are they crap, or should i be getting the limited version for more goodness ?

i bought the album because of this thread.

it's OK. it's not given me the immediate OMGZ steamrollering that i got from 'cross', but a good few tracks i can see becoming favourites.

wow, that stylus review is on some next level of idiocy. NS be kicking against the Machine, maaan. i mean, i'm certain (i'd like to see some hard proof already, fuck this kaffeklatsch shit) more people listen (and dance) to SMD/Justice/... than minimal or whatever irrelevant coccoon-like form dance gatekeepers like to retreat to.

also, fuck an audiophile. nick, are you absolutely sure you don't hear any depth or detail or whatever compared to other dance stuff? or are you just hallucinating due to some OMG THEY CAME UP IN INDIE POO POO UNWASHED UNDISCERNING MASSES HACK HACK kneejerk reaction? plz let me know.