Chelonis R Jones

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

arno from booka shade sez the lyric is "emotions rung like a towel / vowels dangled and knived"

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 11:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Ooooooh!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

i assume he means "wrung".

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 12 August 2005 16:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

I like those lyrics

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 12 August 2005 17:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

still loving this.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 14 August 2005 13:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

me too. so far get physical are 3 for 3 on the albums front. i think booka shade is my favorite, but this album has been a huge grower.

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 22 August 2005 18:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

i dunno, there are moments, but it seems hugely uneven to me. i always want to like get physical more than i actually do.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:09 (7 years ago) Permalink

I can't get into Booka Shade or Dj T. all that much. I like the mixes and I like Chelonis, though.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

i agree about the uneven quality, but that's part of it's charm. i think i would call it idiosyncratic before uneven actually. the first few times through i didn't like it at all. the lyrics are really good. to each their own of course. i think it's the spliffed out production that i like the most (same goes for booka shade, but i guess that goes without saying).

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

the singles do feel a bit out of place in the context of the rest of the album. synthpop-tastic vs. art damaged funk.

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think MANDY is the best, certainly the most radically good anyhow, DJ T has a string of really good sort of "floorworker" type records with that trademark GPM disco beat but I'm not sure he's the equal of the best MANDY tracks, I dunno. Am I wrong in saying "Body Language" is in the top 5 best GPM tracks? Maybe even top 2 or 3?

I still think Vince-Superworld (DJ T Dub), on Art of Disco is DJ T's best track. Check that out if you've not heard it Adam.

Booka Shade often sell themselves a little short with their own work, touching on overly retro sort of deep techno/tech-house, like say the Juan Maclean remix. It's very good but not amazing maybe. Though "Vertigo" and "Mandarine Girl" are both about as good as it gets. I never fully got into the album. Though I wouldn't say I'm fully into the Chelonis album either, I still think the best ones are the ones he had released already. Maybe I'll get into it.

The "Body Language" mix I like more and more with each listen, I don't know if I can overstate how good I think it is. It's up there with the best mix CDs I've ever heard I think. It changes direction so seamlessly, sometimes without even mixing. My only gripe is perhaps it's a tiny bit dry in the opening 7 or 8 tracks and I WISH they didn't use that Slam Wighnomys track, cos of the awful vocal. The Triola Polar Zipper thing would be so much better.

Everytime I sell a copy to someone who has no idea about Get Physical and buys it from hearing it on the shop system (and that's alot of times, to all sorts of people) my faith in humanity is restored.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

best thing for me is still the get physical 2nd anniversary mix

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

yes!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah I mean I think I rate that as highly as "Body Language" but it's not a mix in the same way really, it being all their stuff.

Maybe it is actually!

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

i love how the body language mix changes directions, too. it reminds me of what tiefschwarz did for their misch masch mix, but bl really succeeds where mm feels continuous, but dry/over-engineered and almost aimless.

"mandarine girl" is one my favorite gp tracks ever for sure.

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

"but dry/over-engineered and almost aimless."

Yes! "Aimless" is precisely the word to describe what bugs me a bit about that Tiefschwarz mix.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

just goes to show that track selection is only one component of a good mix...

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 02:10 (7 years ago) Permalink