i heard crosswinds for the first time yesterday and i gotta be honest the phrase 'new age shit' did flow through my head briefly
― electricsound, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:19 (fifteen years ago) link
"The Last Day" reduced me to slow, silent tears earlier this afternoon.
Sure. Crosswinds is "new age shit" but I defy anyone to call anything ELSE this band did that!
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:36 (fifteen years ago) link
A one-off song of new age shit...not much to forgive a band who had so many other songs.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
well yes indeed
― electricsound, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:39 (fifteen years ago) link
whatev, i like crosswinds.
― f. hazel, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
i have Who Says So? ripped. i'll try to post it.
― Mr. Hal Jam, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:44 (fifteen years ago) link
FETISH FOR THE VINYL of WHO SAYS SO?
Don't push me or I might play my vinyl copy.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Electricsound is right, it's all about the surfacenoise.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean, how can you possibly play extractions and skip crosswinds? it just doesn't make any sense.
― f. hazel, Monday, 2 June 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
The saxophone solo on Felt's "Final resting of the ark" is from the bloke from Dif Juz.
― flowersdie, Monday, 2 June 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Dude!! Your kidding!!!http://cgi.ebay.com/DIF-JUZ-huremics-four-pieces-SEALED-EP-4AD_W0QQitemZ350097463324QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116
― brg30, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw that record for far, far cheaper a few years ago in a record shop. It probably wasn't unplayed, but I steered myself away from buying it because I just felt I didn't need it. I didn't realize it was going for the likes of $500 though! Oh well.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 23 September 2008 16:29 (fifteen years ago) link
This is GOD right here, and I'm an atheist, but you know what I mean. Jesus would be jealous of this band, I think. I'm sorry but it doesn't get any better than this, does it?
Dif Juz - No Motion
― It's hrd bein a man, livn' in a garbage pai (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 27 October 2008 06:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Listening to this^^^ now is so sad. But thanks Bimble, wherever you are, for posting it.
― Ned Trifle II, Thursday, 6 August 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
found this just now:
http://siysmam.blogspot.com/2009/04/lonely-is-eyesore-1987.html
i've seen this just once before - rented it at the tower video store my freshman year in college.
i've always loved this comp and think 'no motion', as already stated upthread, is def one of my favorite dif juz tracks...
"i gotta be honest the phrase 'new age shit' did flow through my head briefly"
this is a good thing - i dig on some new-age shit my damn self.
see here
― sknybrg, Friday, 7 August 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
this thread should have like 900 more posts than it already has
Extractions is killing me tonight. it's part of that imaginary genre that includes Roxy ca Avalon, solo David Sylvian, Dolphin Brothers, late period Talk Talk, the Blue Nile (there was a thread on this last year I think but I can't remember what it was called). i love the production, lots of early digital pitch shift fx and modulated reverb embellishing the minimal arrangements. seems like people back thread were slightly lukewarm on it -- have opinions changed over time?
― missingNO, Sunday, 9 January 2011 11:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Liked them a lot but haven't listened in a long while, I imagine because the music is kinda low-key people's reactions to it, however positive are similar.
There was a band from the late 90's called The Workhouse iirc, who took that baton and ran with it, dunno if they are still going or whats available.
― philippe is standing on it (MaresNest), Sunday, 9 January 2011 11:58 (thirteen years ago) link
An hour interview with Gary Bromley and a link to an interview with Richie Thomas!http://radiobombast.podbean.com/2013/07/02/gary-bromley-of-dif-juz-full-interview/
― I'll take the jangle-jangle over the throb-throb (brg30), Monday, 8 July 2013 01:32 (ten years ago) link
Correct pronunciation is Diff-Juzz!
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 6 May 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
This is GOD right here, and I'm an atheist, but you know what I mean. Jesus would be jealous of this band, I think. I'm sorry but it doesn't get any better than this, does it?Dif Juz - No Motion― It's hrd bein a man, livn' in a garbage pai (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 27 October 2008 06:39 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― It's hrd bein a man, livn' in a garbage pai (Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You), Monday, 27 October 2008 06:39 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bimble otm x 1000. some moments in that song are so beautiful it just crushes all the breath out of me
― yeovil knievel (NickB), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
there's nothing else quite like it certainly. not even in their catalogue.
― charva favela (clouds), Wednesday, 6 May 2015 22:53 (eight years ago) link
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, May 6, 2015 6:32 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I have been saying 'dif-yooz' for years! It isn't "diff-yooz??!"
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
of course it's Dif-yooz.
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Not according to that interview with Bromley. Wonder if the other members have a different idea. I didn't listen to the Thomas interview.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Did you respond to some kind of indie batsignal?
― What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers (jed_), Wednesday, 16 October 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
I guess it's possible it's pronounced 'dif-juz' given the reputed origins of the name being a (likely stoned) variation on 'different jazz,' but 'dif-yooz' is such a cool name and 'dif juz' is so clumsy
anyway this band is long overdue for a lavish deluxe box set
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
.gifjuz - Is it pronounced "Gif Juz" or "Jif Juz"?
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 17 October 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
Could get a nice 4-CD box set... Extractions + No Motion on disc 1, Who Says So? + Vibrating Air + Huremics on disc 2, Time Clock Turn Back + whatever other demos and odd tracks are available for disc 3, and then the fabled album recorded with Lee Scratch Perry for disc 4.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link