― 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
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 19 November 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 19 November 2004 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link
I heard this (for probably the first time) at WMF in Berlin and have since been wondering exactly which version it was!
it was being played by WestBam, not sure if that helps answer the WB question or not... He also played 'Marooned' by Wire :O
― latetotheparty (latetotheparty), Friday, 19 November 2004 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.doxa.de/sound/FredVsSuperpitcher.mp3
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 21 November 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link
This must be the prototype for the speicher eagle, by the way
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 November 2004 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― :| (....), Monday, 22 November 2004 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
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― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 22 November 2004 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 22 November 2004 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 22 November 2004 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 22 November 2004 07:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 22 November 2004 13:15 (nineteen years ago) link