Lindstrom & Prins Thomas are the shit

but in this topic...I hadn't heard emperor machine untill the recent simian mobile disco mix. I like that a lot.

Also check out Padded Cell on Suicide Recordings, they've done a few remixes here and there too. Very good stuff.

lindstrom tends to have two sides to his sound - the tripped out space disco and the noodly muso side. the 'i feel space' 12' demonstrates this to a t (which incidentally he recorded four years ago).

he has a forthcoming 12' coming called 'serious syntoms' which is the rawest thing he's ever done. endlessly repeating, slighty modulating moog bassline, live snare and hi hat and a bit of arp synth. sounds like it was recorded live in one take. mega.

i spent a very drunken night out with prins thomas recently and i get the impressiont that what we have heard so far is only the tip of the iceberg. mad, as they both have families and other jobs to keep them busy too.

out this week: "i feel space" m.a.n.d.y. remix on playhouse
and lindstrom & prins thomas remixes (vocal and instrumental) of silver city on 20/20 vision...

anyway, "Call Me Mr. Telephone"-- is awesome if folks haven't heard. They seems to be heavily influenced by 70's rock but not in a gimmicky way??? he goes kinda fleetwood mac in the middle of that song but its totally nice.

Does Eskimo have a website? Isn't that the label this will be released on?

http://s44.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0JXCSWSAUTFPL3T405IIA8HIFQ

3-6 times through = "damn, this is actually very good"

6+ = "FUCK! Must have everything! Fire up SLSK, call friends, FORCED EXPOSURE ain't got SHIT..AAGH!"

to download on city16 or not to download on city16, that is the..uh

Any individual track recommendations? I was blown away by "I Feel Space," and anything even half as good would be fantastic...

check out feedelity.com and download the newest L&PT Shibuya FM mix, it's fucking WICKED and i need a tracklist post-haste. i know some of you folks can ID this stuff for me. one of their recent shows, i think the august one, was okay but not amazing. THIS is the one. check it.
http://www.ir3.sakura.ne.jp/050925-01.mp3

clickgroove.com also has a chunk of the feedelity catalog (320K MP3).

yknow, my experience of lindstrom & prins thomas has had pretty much the opposite trajectory to biz's. fell head over heels to "i feel space" on first listen, got their lp, dug out old radiophonic workshop comp, put on lava lamp and space goggles. came over all warm as the cosmic vibes reach my very core. before i know what's hit me, the warmth has DRAINED as i realise that OH SHIT IT'S NOT 1974, IT'S THE LATE NINETIES AND I'M BACK IN LOVE WITH BLUE STATES AND K&D AND FILA FUCKING BRAZILIA.

the album gets an occasional listen, and the juan atkins remix sure is pretty. the goggles are now buried in a landfill site somewhere in south manchester.

My money on them being the next group to get the "oh my god it's the future" hype - although they need to do a few more tracks first.

thanks.

lindstrom & prins thomas - shibuya FM september 2005

double fantasy - food for fantasy
stars n bars - stars n bars
prins thomas - göettsching
serious syntoms - common syntoms
electro harmonix band - i am not a synthesizer(edit)
electronic boogie band - ital disco
kango - lettbeint lita sak(bjorn torske remix)
an2 - tiempo solar
crue-l grand orchestra - psycho piano(prins thomas diskomiks)

-- dan jonze (da...), September 27th, 2005 10:25 AM.

that's funny i was totally going to post the same thing today - i had a similar epiphany yesterday while i was listening to an akwaaba album in my car. i think fila brazillia is a closer match than k&d or blue states. but there really wasn't anything wrong with fila brazillia for the first few albums, was there? it wasn't until they really started to stray into aimless jazz and folk-rock that it got tiring, right? as long as they stuck w/ the 4/4 i could (and still can) really get into FB ... so i'm hoping lindstrom reasserts the danciness, soon. maybe on an upcoming solo album?

or maybe i need to shell out for the major swellings album ...

This is from her LinkedIn. Not sure that album was ever released

After touring ‘Real Life is No Cool’, which included shows at Øya, Roskilde, Benicassim (Spain), BLOC (UK), Bestival (UK) + + +, Christabelle has been working on new material for her debut solo album due for release in February 2013, together with some of Europe’s most exciting young producers. She’s also been developing her talents as a video artist, the results of which will be premiered at Numusic 2012 .

what a talent. i hope she's doing well.

new album is just comfort food, he's done this thing countless times before and it's not as good as any of those (especially not ii or where i go you go too), but it's still pretty pleasant to have on in the background

his last high watermark for me was 'closing shot'

yeah i would agree there

There's a dank mystery in "Under Trees," the closer from It's Alright Between Us as It Is, that I've always found rather special.

Disappointed that there seems to be no CD version of the new album -- I suppose if there are hardcore Lindstrøm collectors out there, they're used to buying 12"s anyway.

if we're talking favorite late-period Lindstrom tracks, mine is probably Algorytme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P3o3wVPheg

the segment from the breakdown through where it all clicks together is one of my favorite bits in his entire catalogue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFO2_g8XQqk

This is a jam

I like this album a lot more than I expected reading the previous comments. "Syreen" and "Nightswim" are the kinds of synth-driven dance tracks he has made a career out of (still excellent). But the latter two tracks are where my ears perked up: "The Rind" has a killer breakdown and build up led by ascending jazz chords and a relentless beat punctuated by disco strings; the title track is blissful and evolves into an extended electric guitar meditation.

'Everyone else is a stranger' probably my fav