― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Probably. That and BURRITOS.
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
please tell me where i can find the remix...i'll owe you seven donkeys.
― youngn, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
"and he ran over to his record bag, gave me the 12", and signed it "to geeta - yeah! superpitcher'! i swooned!"
I'm not sure which of these stories is better.
"when i saw him dj last week (which was STELLAR, btw) he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it -- and it slowly faded out into the barest of handclaps and hints of low-end murmur"
Is that the Westbam Mix?
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link
The WBs With Our Superpitcher – "Baby's on Fire" (Road Rage, 2004) The vocals from Superpitcher's Eno cover, originally heard on Total 4, gets grafted on top of a Westbam [OR WAS IT WIGHNOMY BROS? DID ANYONE EVER FIGURE THIS OUT?] production that's made to sound like a thumping overhaul of an imaginary first-album-era Roxy Music tune. The bassline is so boomy that it sounds like it's coming from a floor beneath you. This is far more exciting than the original cover version, and it also hammers home the fact that Superpitcher's voice resembles a young Luke Haines. (Why I didn't pick up on this as early as "Tomorrow" is beyond me.) This track comes from a white-label 12" with two other cuts: one is a piew-piew-lazer remix of Liquid Liquid's "Optimo," while the other is a microhouse take on the Doors' "Riders on the Storm" that could've been done by Justus Köhncke (seek "Shelter," his thinly-veiled Rolling Stones homage).
― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Superpitcher to do "Chinese Bakery" with one eyebrow firmly arched!
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
My favorite thing about this thread is that three or four other Superpitcher threads were started after it.
― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.kompakt-net.de/happiness/
― :| (....), Thursday, 18 November 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
can someone explain to me how they could make happiness so campy? so many cliches thrown at you in such a short amount of time, it boggles my mind.
― youngn, Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
what other videos are available on the kompakt site?
― jonas lefrel (jonas lefrel), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link
jonas you should look for two remixes of happiness - the mayer monster of a remix (which KILLS on the dancefloor...esp. that middle part where everything speeds up and down!! the last two times i saw mayer spin he played it, and superpitcher played it too when i saw him last.) then there's the ultra-ultra-moody, sob-in-your-bedroom lawrence remix. i prefer the mayer one, but they're both great.
― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link
i eye up the andy k. mix at top of this thread and must assemble - like music legos.
― youngn (ndeyoung), Thursday, 18 November 2004 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 November 2004 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― youngn (ndeyoung), Thursday, 18 November 2004 17:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 18:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 19 November 2004 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link