― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, anyway, I really like this song. The last thing I heard from them was that Love Love Love thing which I thought was a little weak. But this 12" has definitely commanded my attention
― black number two, Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Does Ida No take her clothes off at shows?
― Jamey Lewis (Jameys Burning), Sunday, 21 August 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 21 August 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Sunday, 21 August 2005 20:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Black Arkestra (Black Arkestra), Sunday, 21 August 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Iko Iko by Glass Candy
― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Sunday, 21 August 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Sunday, 21 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/danavahttp://www.piecemeal.net/artists/danava/
― monia.l (monia.l), Monday, 22 August 2005 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 22 August 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
Danava were pretty crazy, the singer had weird hair and make-up and constume and processed vocals, there were arpeggiating synths, falsetto screaming etc, but it was incredibly crowded and hot so I was standing in front of a fan in the back. But it was fun.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 August 2005 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link
whoa.
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 22 August 2005 02:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― roger, Monday, 22 August 2005 02:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Their 'Yes Music' CD (apparently a CDR sold on tour) is the most awesome thing I've heard in years.
― baaderonixx, Sunday, 24 June 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
slsk come through pls
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 25 June 2007 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
'life after sundown' is really fantastic and that new-ish one 'i always say yes' is pretty good too, sorta skewed italo. (still waiting for my copy to show up in the mail, though.) apparently tim sweeney might be remixing the new one at some point?
― haitch, Monday, 25 June 2007 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
What's the deal though, is an album coming out at some point? Judging by the CDR this is gonna be amazing. New track on the 'After Dark' compilation is also pretty damn amazing ("Rolling down the hills")
― baaderonixx, Monday, 25 June 2007 07:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i think they're slightly less than the sum of their parts
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 25 June 2007 08:06 (sixteen years ago) link
the "computer love" version was incredible, the rest of the stuff just a notch below but the live stuff seems like its not quite there yet
i don't mean to sound so harsh, i guess i just feel like if they stepped it up a *little* bit they would be the most awesome thing i've heard in years
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 25 June 2007 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Not that they're really very different, but I always prefer the Chromatics since their Italo conversion.
― matt2, Monday, 25 June 2007 14:23 (sixteen years ago) link
They also do the best Scream-era Siouxsie impersonation.
― baaderonixx, Monday, 25 June 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, i suppose the new stuff is just so unbelievably PROMISING that when they do put out another official record it'll be totally over the edge.
the ultra softness of their sound is just really refreshing to me, especially since so many "rock bands gone dance" can't do anything other than turn everything up to 11 and whip the piss out of the drums.
similarly, i was hoping that joakim remix of clashing egos a couple years back would bring forte a deluge of warm soft not so brash electrohouse..
― babedad, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i gotta cut out the BestThingEver posting on ILM after 5 G+Ts but what would ILM be without obnoxious drunken posting?
― babedad, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 23:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to mention again Ida No's complete Jacy Farrow-esque foxiness.
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Is there a thread for the "After Dark" / Italians Do It Better comp.? It's really great.
― Ben Boyerrr, Friday, 13 July 2007 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
No there isn't. Tell us!
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:44 (sixteen years ago) link
it is awesome. especially farah "law of life". such a great label
― creme1, Friday, 13 July 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link
"law of life" sounds like tangerine dream fronted by lydia lunch
― creme1, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
or something
― creme1, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
The Farah tracks are definitely the biggest discovery on the disc for me. Really otherworldly. It sounds like she's singing in Farsi over one of the tracks, in this eerie, reverb-drowning pattern over arpeggiated synths.
The Mirage song, Lake of Dreams, has some cool vocal effects and swirls along for almost 10 glissy minutes.
The whole thing conjures not just Goblin but every soundtrack to the canon of sick, dark 1970s Italian horror and Giallo films.
It's my favorite thing I've listened to all year I think.
― Ben Boyerrr, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the Chromatics tracks, "In the City" especially. Glass Candy's "Computer Love" is quite fun as well. Also worth tracking down is the first release on the label, Jacques Renault's "Italians Do It Better #1" mix. Tracklisting:
- B.W.H. - Livin Up - One Two Three - Runaway (Instrumental) - Gino Soccio - Remember - Trilogy - Not Love (Instrumental) - The Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit of Jazz - Lindstrom - er bestemor paa moten - Tony Cook and The Party People - On The Floor (Rock-It) - Detroit Grand Pubahs - Big Onion (Joakim "Slap On It" Remix) - Electric Mind - Zwei (Dub Version) - Mya & The Mirror - Hesitation - My Mine - Hypnotic Tango (Instrumental) - Photocall - Silver Clouds (Hot Version) - Liz Torres feat Edward Crosby - Can't Get Enough (Dub) - MU - Paris Hilton - Matzo & Pauli - Matzo & Pauli Viewlexx EP - Skatt Bros. - Walk the Night - Prins Thomas - Diskomiks Rong EP - Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Rise (DFA Remix) - Shirley Lites - Heat You Up (Melt You Down) Melt Down Mix - Shelley - Give It To Me
You can get it from Troubleman Unlimited's store, along with the After Dark comp.
― Telephone thing, Friday, 13 July 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah that comp is by far the best thing I've discovered all year. Farah's got some other songs on her myspace page as well.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 13 July 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
on the Italians blog it mentions that they're finally getting some vinyl test pressings
oh YEAH! the first batch of Itaians Do It Better 12" releases are ready to "drop" in a few weeks!: Chromatics "Shining Violence" Glass Candy "Miss Broadway" Professor Genius "La Grotta" Farah "Law Of Life"
there's also a pretty good Mike S. DJ mix on there
http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/
whatever happened to the Chromatics full-length??
― dmr, Friday, 13 July 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
heard a Farah track on Lindstrom's Late Night Tales tracks and wasn't sure if it was new or old or what. excited to hear the After Dark comp.
― jaxon, Friday, 13 July 2007 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that's "law of life". i think farah's songs might also be produced by johnny jewel. it is such a tune.
― creme1, Friday, 13 July 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it's all produced by Johnny Jewel except for Professor Genius, who's tracks I think Mike found in the back of some weird record store in Jersey City.
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 July 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah that comp definitely plays like it came from the same source.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 13 July 2007 18:09 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
I own that record store! And, no, I'm not Johnny Jewel.
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Friday, 13 July 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard they closed and are only doing street fairs now.
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 July 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It's around on Souls3ek - I think it was one of those weird (but very cool) "Tour" cds that that crew is fond of. It's called "In Shining Violence." And there's an amazing Suede cover, of all things, on there as well - "Animal Nitrate."
In honor of today, I am now playing the "Theme to Friday the 13th Part III," by Hot Ice (which I've heard was another name used by the Michael Zager Band). It would almost fit perfectly on the "After Dark" comp!
Next, it's "Struck By Boogie Lightning" by L'Ectrique, used to great effect in "Don't Go In the House"!
― Ben Boyerrr, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I probably have heard a bunch of that stuff off their myspace or whatever (not Suede cover, tho) ... I guess I thought Shining Violence was supposed to be a "real" full-length release ... ? they do love to put all their various demo versions out there, don't they.
― dmr, Friday, 13 July 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Struck By Boogie Lightning is the best. I first heard it when DJ Loda played at PS1. I need a copy bad.
― dan selzer, Friday, 13 July 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i have that chromatics cd lying around somewhere, i bought at their last show here.
― s1ocki, Friday, 13 July 2007 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
totally forgot i had it tho!
― s1ocki, Friday, 13 July 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
back to glass candy tho: miss broadway cover = pretty epic
otm
― dmr, Friday, 13 July 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i think shining violence is still in the making.
also ...
glass candy live @ the social in toronto thursday july 26th
and
@ ps1 in nyc aug 11th maybe?
― jaime, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
actually really enjoyed grovesnor tho
― braveclub, Friday, 9 May 2008 09:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I hate myself for replying to a post that actually uses "meh" unironically, but what the hell...
Legitimately, what could you have possibly expected from these acts? Knowing the music, the aesthetic (it's not like they're all that subtle with the "cold & distant" thing - which, incidentally, neither of these acts were AT ALL! (In the Chromatics thread, people who were at the show said they weren't frosty enough!), the fact that this is obviously being embraced by a generally arms-folded/head-nidding indie audience... I can't wrap my head around how you would know these bands and expect anything other than what they do!
Well, whatever, diff'rent strokes and all that. These 2 shows have been my most fun of the year!
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 9 May 2008 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
(x-post)
I liked some of those Grovesnor tunes, too. I was fearful of some kind of Har Mar Superstar thing when he came onstage (wacky tuxedo t-shirt, white blazer, big sunglasses, white fedora, beard), but he's got a pretty fun thing going with that sound, I think.
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 9 May 2008 09:38 (fifteen years ago) link
i know it's what you'd expect, i was just massively off-put by the whole execution, maybe it's a personal thing. like i said, something about it just gave me the creeps and felt totally lifeless.
(problem with the chromatics for me was different, it just sounded really thin, like a bad indie band)
sorry if my 'meh' offended you. it was an earnest 'meh'
― braveclub, Friday, 9 May 2008 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
( that was xpost obviously)
I like bad indie bands, I suppose, so it was up my alley... I just love those songs (I should say Chromatics is actually more up my alley for the most part, but I got hooked on them less from the perspective of someone who knows much about disco (though I like what I've been turned onto by people here), and more from the angle of an obsession with 80s horror movies!)
I was wrong to jump on the "meh." You earned it by actually explaining why (I just have a kneejerk thing after too many people in threads who don't like bands for whatever reason just posting jaded and lazy "meh"s... but yours was legit).
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 9 May 2008 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
The italo thing is really overstated with both Glass Candy and Chromatics - what I'm starting to find wearing is the seemingly all-pervasive sense of ennui, hopefully any Farah album will sidestep that.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 May 2008 10:52 (fifteen years ago) link
"i know the frostiness is part-and-parcel of their aesthetic (this rockist delusion that dance music has to be studiously cold and distant)"
How does the first part of this necessarily lead into the second? Why would rockism endorse studiously cold and distant dance music?
One could as easily argue for the existence of a rockist delusion that dance music be angry and macho (The Prodigy's third album, Justice etc.) or warm and steeped in "summer of love" links with psychedelia (The Chemical Bros, The Avalanches).
Surely the success of Italians Do It Better among indie audiences has more to do with the contingent historical fact that these audiences have effectively been "primed" for this music by electroclash? But before electroclash happened - and even early on in its existence - the notion that this music would be appealing to rockists would have been pretty odd. Practically the first thing you'd hear about electroclash (before you heard anything about it) was that it was a passing fad for fashion-obsessed art phags (a historical enemy of rockism). The perseverance of electroclash both as a scene and a general influence throughout this decade - and, more, the way it has been embraced by indie audiences - strikes me as a good example of how there are less set-in-stone relationships between musical characteristics and audiences than we like to think. Certainly there is no general dynamic that says "studiously cold and distant" dance music is more appealing to arms-folded indie kids than other dance music.
I know what you're driving at: these kids - had they been alive - probably would not have been into first wave italo, any more than they'd be into, er, bassline or reggaeton or trance-pop or (especially) Eurovision-pop now. But this is a more complicated issue that touches on issues of revivalism and fanbase communities and identity and all sorts of stuff.
PS. I actually don't really hear the ennui in Glass Candy - certainly for Chromatics. But B/E/A/T/B/O/X is actually very fun and uptempo and light-hearted.
― Tim F, Friday, 9 May 2008 11:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes to this - B/E/A/T/B/O/X opens with a SKIT for crying out loud! And live last night, Ida No pulling dudes up on stage to dance and play off of was just goofy!
But, yes, Chromatics for sure. And hopefully any Farah album will sidestep that seems like a long shot on that front - her first few songs are ennui arpeggiated!
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 9 May 2008 12:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't mind too much as long as the ennui is sexeh
― blueski, Friday, 9 May 2008 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
good points tim. i guess this 'frosty' idea is not so much the default rockist stance, but it's still one stereotyped view, a fetishised idea of disco, which ultimately leads to a dead-eyed dead-end.
i wonder if the IDIB approach isn't in a strange way a hangover from the 'disco sucks' brigade's view of disco as emotionally stunted, redefining disco as a kind of ice-maidenly kitsch, rather than embracing its true broadness and depth.
― braveclub, Friday, 9 May 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
on second thoughts that's probably nonsense
― braveclub, Friday, 9 May 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Surely the success of Italians Do It Better among indie audiences has more to do with the contingent historical fact that these audiences have effectively been "primed" for this music by electroclash? But before electroclash happened - and even early on in its existence - the notion that this music would be appealing to rockists would have been pretty odd.
LOL
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 9 May 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
braveclub- I dont' think its nonsense, 'cept in putting rock and disco in opposition to each other. So many indie bands this decade have moved their guitars behind octave basslines that there's something to it. They tend to focus on the circa 1980 sound of disco when it "ended". I think "late disco" has joined the repertoire of historical moments that arty rock types have always mined as a way of representing personal neuroses. Like how Bowie or Slapp Happy used Weinmar Berlin to suggest dislocation and doom.
Also, it seems that disco, as a style that was perceived to end under the weight of Reaganism and AIDS, holds up better now as a symbol of defiance than the guitar punk which served as the underpinnings for indie rock for so long.
― bendy, Friday, 9 May 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
If there are any North-Westerners (Uk division) who like this band, myself and Affectian/NI of ILM parish are putting GLASS CANDY + Mike Simonetti on next Thursday if any of you are about. We won't spam here but the Clique sites have the details.
― pisces, Friday, 9 May 2008 17:32 (fifteen years ago) link
AAARRRRGGHH
i hate u all
)cept rbin(
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
"Also, it seems that disco, as a style that was perceived to end under the weight of Reaganism and AIDS, holds up better now as a symbol of defiance than the guitar punk which served as the underpinnings for indie rock for so long."
like wtf does this even mean retards
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf do you mean?
― I know, right?, Friday, 9 May 2008 19:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Lex, don't post when you're drunk.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 May 2008 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
i ain't drunk i'm goimg out now
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 May 2008 21:15 (fifteen years ago) link
aagh stupid automatic login after all these months.stupid computer! i weasn't here right you didn't see me i got away w/murder
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 May 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 9 May 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, I think 'ennui' might have been the wrong word WRT Glass Candy but there still seems to be a sort of... listlessness and inertia even when they're trying to be fun. Like there's a void somewhere in the middle where the kinetic bit should be. Maybe this is deliberate, I like BEATBOX quite a bit on record when I just let it wash over me but I'd never go and see them live for the above reason.
― Matt DC, Friday, 9 May 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Seen them live twice. They were a great amount of fun. It was nice seeing an electronic act that was happy and able to interact with the crowd. They took requests the first time, the second time they stayed around for chats with everyone.
― Popture, Saturday, 10 May 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
They're indie. They care more about themselves then what they're doing.
― Niles Caulder, Saturday, 10 May 2008 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link
They're indie. They care more about themselves then what they're doing. -- Niles Caulder, Saturday, 10 May 2008 10:04 (3 hours ago)
Fucking christ, is this for real?
― Savannah Smiles, Saturday, 10 May 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
i wish there was more Glass Candy on vinyl
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Saturday, 10 May 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
seeing farah tonight
― max, Saturday, 31 May 2008 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link
guh
― jaxon, Saturday, 31 May 2008 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
her beats are amazing (obvs) but her stage presence and screechy voice kinda bugged.
― jaxon, Saturday, 31 May 2008 06:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Please report back... so curious! Does she have something new out?
― Savannah Smiles, Saturday, 31 May 2008 10:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Glass Candy "cover" Geto Boys' 'Mind playin' tricks on me' on myspace
― baaderonixx, Friday, 13 June 2008 07:54 (fifteen years ago) link
There's more news there
Bunch of 12", B/E/A/T/B/O/X on vinyl, new album in the fall (with a Shocking Blue cover..?), Farah double LP... o my
― willem, Friday, 13 June 2008 08:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i liked what i saw of Farah live. Jaxon's hating for some illogical reasons.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 13 June 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
you only saw like the last half of one or 2 songs
― jaxon, Friday, 13 June 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"deep gems" is a collection of rare tracks recorded between march 2006 and october 2008. featuring 10 unreleased songs plus the remix of "miss broadway" they've been playing live, and the 12" version of "geto boys". here's the tracklisting of DEEP GEMS:
1 > INTRODUCTION2 > FEELING WITHOUT TOUCHING3 > ANIMAL IMAGINATION4 > THE BEAT'S ALIVE5 > SOMETHING STIRRING IN SPACE6 > THEME FROM DEEP GEMS7 > MORNING MIST8 > GETO BOYS 9 > MS. BROADWAY REMIX10 > SOFT BOUNDARIES 11 > STARS & HOUSES12 > SILVER FOUNTAIN
― ▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒▓▓████▓▓▒▒ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 27 October 2008 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
beat box is dope imo
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm loving DEEP GEMS btw
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
is this only available thru online mail order or can you find it in shops?
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 27 November 2008 08:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Just mail order.
― Enrique (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 27 November 2008 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
they closed with "iko iko" last night. amazing show, with nite jewel. really charismatic... really dancey... sounded so good. picked up deep gems & the nite jewel album
― s1ocki, Friday, 6 March 2009 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
what was nite jewel like live? just wondering how her lo-fi sort of sound went down
― just sayin, Friday, 6 March 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
sounded amazing actually... better than the record.
― s1ocki, Friday, 6 March 2009 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
which i like, but it really came alive... live.
going tomorrow night in new york ... im psyched
never seen glass candy and I've been a fan for a while now
― dmr, Friday, 6 March 2009 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
they're super live imo
― s1ocki, Saturday, 7 March 2009 17:30 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Myo0QjwE0
― jaxon, Thursday, 25 March 2010 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link
sometimes i hit "o;x" by accident instead of "ilx" and hit enter in the search bar and a google search for "o;x" comes up and the second result is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B/E/A/T/B/O/X
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 26 October 2013 23:23 (ten years ago) link