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Did anyone else notice Chelonis on the pics for "Body Language", wearing a t-shirt that says "I FUCKED CHELONIS R JONES"?

haha! NO!

Deer In The Headlights is THE track for me, right now. Listened to this on my commute this morning, so happy.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

The question is: Will he sell it as merchandise? If only for the imagery of everybody at one of his shows also wearing one of his shirts.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

I'm really excited about this album, and the DJ T one.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

The DJ T one is a little underwhelming. Great song titles, though. "Rimini", "Galaga".

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

the DJ T is ok I think but it's not really a good flow to it for listening to, I like some of it well enough and play it out, Funk On You, Rimini, Glitter. Not listened to the non vinyl version yet.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

One of my friends was doing some bar DJing last week, and halfway through this v enthusiastic German bloke comes up to us in the DJ booth and demands that we play track 1 of the record he's waving around - it turns out that's the DJ T album and he is DJ T's cousin! So we played it and it was fantastic.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 July 2005 17:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

By vaguely hinted at/popular request:

Deer In The Headlights (myth III)

http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OGK3TQRLOS9L1SFREX44YR7HI

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

I interviewed DJ T and asked him questions pretty much all inspired by ILX discussions.

He complained at the end that the questions I asked were really hard to understand :-(

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

did you ask him, "how do you feel about the tangential crossover of yet another electro-disco revival into the politics of post-rave post-superclub dance music and how this revival reflects a broader cultural trend towards the infusion of rock and pop based song structures into techno and other dance music styles?"

i hope the artwork for the chelonis album is as good as the dj t artwork.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Tim :)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

i love the dj album, but yeah, it is a bit much to take in in one sitting.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

Tricky no but I would have had if I'd thought of it!

He gave pretty good answers actually - talked a lot about what he saw as the difference between a house and techno sensibility, where he differs from the other Get Physical artists, why Germany dominates dance music etc. I was actually thinking it was one of the best interviews I'd had until he said that at the end.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

Isn't he a little older than the rest of the Get Physical crew? I remember reading that he was something of a veteran...

(Where can we read this interview?)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Isn't he a little older than the rest of the Get Physical crew?"

He looks like he's in his late 30s but I'm not sure if that distinguishes him totally - Booka Shade were making tracks in the mid-nineties, and were apparently involved in Culture Beat?!? I forgot to ask him to confirm that unfortunately.

(the article isn't published online (it's for a local paper) but I'll put up a transcript somewhere when I've written it up)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

Culture Beat!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah i would love to read the interview too. i wonder if he would find it insulting if i called his music "fake house". (meant in an entirely complimentary way) xpost..

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

He is quite old, he's very serious I thought, but is a very nice guy really. You should have played him some records Tim, when we were taking him to the hotel he would turn up the radio really loud at some points and open the windows, it was a Tim Sweeney mix playing and "Paris Hilton", "Radiator" and of course "No Way Back" all got turned up.

Oh and "Oldschool Baby", when that came on he said "this record is hard for you to understand, it is a particular Berlin feeling".!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 10:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

So yes, the Chelonis album is very special. When is it released? After one listen I've deciced I need the real thing.

Have you heard it Tim?

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

A particular Berlin feeling!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Have you heard it Tim? "

Sadly I'm stuck in no-downloading land. If it gets released here though I'll try to bag an early promo copy.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 22 July 2005 21:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

someone do a mashup of "i don't know" and hell interface's "the midas touch" STAT

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 25 July 2005 00:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

Your wish is my command Mark:

http://s16.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UN3ZVY0KWFIJ32CU6XJ5W2BSD

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 06:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

hey michael, i just got from that YSI a minute of the intro to "i dont know (just us dub" without any midas touch sorta thing?

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

The link works fine for me, Ambrose? I dunno.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

you mean you DON'T KNOW

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

RIGHT

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

I never thought I would get to this point in my life.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

Which reminds me - what is the next line anyway? Is it really "emotions run like a towel"????

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

I always thought it was "emotions run like a trial", but then I always thought I was wrong.

Notice how I carefully avoided the obvious answer.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

michael! i was grinning from ear to ear on the streetcar into work this morning thanks to you. that was fantastic.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

I owe half the inspiration to you Mark! You've reunited two songs that were separated at birth.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

Incidentally, Culturebeat's 'Adalante' would probably fit in quite well among some of this stuff!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

Perhaps there is some truth to the rumor that Booka Shade used to produce Culture Beat!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

is it not "emotions run like a tap"?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

i don't know

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

emotions run like a child?

emotions run like.......carl lewis???

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

sometimes I think it's "emotions run like a trial".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

it definitely isn't tap actually, maybe I just made that up to try and make sense. it does sound like "towel".

VOWELS MANGLED AT NIGHT??!!?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:39 (7 years ago) Permalink

"I roley luuve yooeeeaaha"

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

VIALS MINGLED ALL NIGHT?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

All this makes it quite ironic that the consensus on "I Don't Know" is that it has great lyrics!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

I do think his lyrics are great, but mainly for the way he wraps them around the beat, and this is especially true on "One and One". I mean like, "One and One" is seriously electrohouse's "Your Love"!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Does that make "Blackout" electrohouse's "Baby Wants to Ride"? I'll definetely agree with the "One and One" statement at least.

I really should start a great House-style lyricist (that can't be right) thread.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

Can anyone tell me about DJ Remo ft. Chelonis R Jones - "Black Sabrina"?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah it's quite dry and techy, I'm not mad keen on it but it is quite good, the vocal is sort of crazy. I bought it on sight practically, but have never played it.

He did a thing with Oliver Huntemann that's just out, "Terminate The Fire", and it's not amazing I didn't think.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

the lyrics to Black Sabrina are great as well!

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Black Sabrina aint just a female, she's a movement
Shapes and defines a whole new territory thunder, duh, with an "a"
She ain't about actions, she's the ultimate action, mmm hmm
By the time you gave her directions she was already there
Black sabrina will dabble into the wells of the he-she-she-he islands
Dig pyscho sexual
She won't make any promises she can not keep, no
She laughs at your stupid titles of names,
She talks of sexuality, mentality, mortality

Black as a definition of death
Black as Langston Hughes, a space odyssey
Black as a stigma, as a lecture, as a volume, nah

She's phallic pictoral, a vaginal cave with teeth
There are rumor of her non being, inhumanity, unself
There are legends of an inner whiteness, brightness, uptightness
Black Sabrina never pushes nor shooves
She's a foot up your ass
She then questions why you walk so funny,
And utters "punk bitch" under her rum tinted breath
Black Sabrina is a poem, she don't give a damn about your disco dancing, designer prancing, showoffish bullshit.
She already knows what she's about, worth and what she will always add up to.
She might not even be a she
He might not even be a he
Black Sabrina is a fucking riddle, myth, legend, voodoo sorcery
Black Sabrina ain't even urban royal, ain't even intellectual, nor religious
Black Sabrina probably ain't even black
She's periwinkle psychedelic
She was there when the ultimate blackout arrived
Do you like her better in jeans?
Do you like her better in jeans?
Do you like her?
Yeah you do
Yeah you do
Yeah you like her
She was there when the ultimate blackout arrived
She's a movement
A movement.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 28 July 2005 08:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

almost as good as Lenny Kravitz 'Black Velveteen'!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 28 July 2005 09:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

OMG.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Fucking hell this album is great, and I'm only halfway through it!

(so so many thanks to Toby for hooking me up)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

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