idjut boys: s/d

let me know if you want a copy of "the u-star daze", gaz.

idjut boys are like the progenitors of the revival style that chicken lips is currently getting props for. (i know, it's weird to say that someone's a progenitor of a revival style)

i think i'm going through some weird phase. i just listened to akwaaba and really liked it.

hello vahid!

'Dave's not here!'

hahaha ... like food and shelter or music??

"beatin' on dave" isn't just funny, it's one of the fucking heaviest deep house tracks ever.

everyone who is feeling the idjuts go to slsk and get dj harvey's "sarcastic disco" mix. he did it as a promo for an LA fashion label. it's great. while you're there pick up the "maddog chronicles" mix he did for freshjive to promote their tony alva documentary. it's more rock than disco but it hits that 70s stoner boogie vibe perfectly.

i wish maurice fulton was still rocking this style instead of noo-vaw no-wave nonsense. mutsumi = yoko.

(ok just kidding i love late lennon and i'm sympathetic but MU sort of blows compared to boof! or ladyvipb or even stress...)

hey! you owe me an idjut boys disc vahid.

Also, this mix is just so up her street.

mullygrubber, did i give you Plantlife cd? their cd has really been growing on me. my wife was listening to and loving it, but she thought it was from the 70s until the monie love sample came in mid album.

i'm not feeling the new mix at all, i must say.

xpost: wait, what?

what's up with PHANTOM SLASHER and MAJOR SWELLINGS?

i just picked up phantom slasher's "PUDDLE & SPOUT" lp for $5 and i really like it! is this an idjut boys side project? is it dj harvey? somebody else entirely?

how about major swellings? is that any good? is major swellings related to lindstrom / prins thomas?

side note: i had a hell of a weekend! i picked up

phantom slasher - puddle & spout
faze action - plans & designs
akwaaba - too shiny
jhelisa - galactica rush
chateau flight - puzzle
i:cube - 3
all of the kelley polar EPs
dj food - jazz brakes 5

it is all bongos and jazz beards over here.

a few weeks ago i got their "MORE OR LESS" mix from the year 2000, on u-star, from tower's clearance bin, and i'm just now listening to it!

it's missing the first CD but who fuckin cares, my lord!

it sounds like ... it sounds like ... uh ... a cross between faze action and motorbass??

fuck, this makes me want to down a bottle of cough syrup.

http://s35.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H08HFIX1WRLU2RBVSZR2572AD

anybody who wants to DL this and play it on ipod / laptop speakers / other system without knock can go E a D.

"since u-star records formed in 1984, its releases have been characterised by the use of studio techniques that draw their inspiration from the type of heavily effected sounds that original djs/mixers such as francois kevorkian and larry levan used during their more creative dub-based disco phase. after owners dan tyler and conrad mcdonnell (aka idjut boys) forged a useful partnership with like-minded studio producer laj (raj gupta), early releases such as 'oh la la teaparty' and 'funkyland' by bam bam proved that impressive and humorous talent was already developing. unfortunately, these extremely limited releases ensured that the idjut boys were kept a well-hidden secret.

the first u-star record to achieve any recognition was the not reggae ep (1995), which stood out from the vast majority of new releases because of its originality and the quality of the production. mixing live instrumentation with deep, dubby, heavy four-to-the-floor grooves, it was the sketch for the london 'nu-house' sound prevalent in recent years. included on the b-side were extended beat-based instrumentals which used heavily effected studio tricks to create a sound that shocked, then rocked dancefloors. tracks such as these are a staple element of their djing, tying vocal-led cuts between percussive grooves of original disco tracks between modern house, using techniques similar to dj harvey.

ben davies' the quakerman ep followed suit with the piano-led 'cream cheese' and the electro/house fusion of 'schlam me.' the beating on dave ep and the beard law ep (both 1996) continued in a similar vein, but also marked a progression in the intricacies of their pot-fuelled music which would later become evident on their debut album.

although still an enigma to most, the idjut boys received sufficient attention in london and from abroad to work on dub-reimxes, as opposed to complete reconstructions, for a variety of like-minded artists. one of their earlier efforts, a remix of century falls' 'it's music' (1996), produced live instrumentation above and beyond the normal artificial house sounds, managing to mix live salsoul-styled disco with dubbed-out house. their remix work has involved a man called adam, 16b, dimitri from paris and dj gilb'r, as well as re-editing jazz-funk records such as kabbala's 'ashewo ara' (1997) and atmosphear's 'deep space nine.'

alongside london's faze action, dj harvey, crispin j glover and ashley beedle, idjut boys were placed at the centre of the media vaunted 'nu-house' scene. while live instrumentation had become the fresh sound of house, the idjuts marked themselves out by veering clear of aimless 'jazz-noodling' and making records people could dance to.

alongside their u-star and noid imprints, the idjuts have launced the fiasco label (featuring a tabasco bottle on the front cover), with laj and quakerman providing the music, and the difunctional label, offering a diverse range of tracks from artists around the world. in 1997 they picked up more club play with the fela kuti-influenced drum sounds of the whoktish ep and perhaps their most complete production to date, the roll over and snore ep (1997), with a title track which uncharacteristically kicked into life with killer piano hook similar to those used on early chicago house cuts by the likes of marshall jefferson and sterling void.

1998 witnessed their debut album, noid long player. although it featured none of their singles to date, it had the idjuts' mark clearly stamped over every track. using a wealth of jazz-funk/disco samples as a common thread, cuts like highway 167 and steinworld are nothing but ludicrous drum breaks, extreme sound effects, and crazy marx brothers samples all the way."

-- vahid (vfoz...), April 5th, 2006.

Are you still doing this?

I'm impressed!

"NOID LONG PLAYER" JUST REISSUED ON CD.

BETTER THAN BURIAL

STOP

BETTER THAN GET PHYSICAL COMPS

STOP

BUY ON SIGHT

four hour set from manchester's electric chair

http://mixes.electriks.co.uk/IdjutPart1.mp3
http://mixes.electriks.co.uk/IdjutPart2.mp3
http://mixes.electriks.co.uk/IdjutPart3.mp3

yo awesome!
thanks vahid

again, make sure you burn this to a disc and play it on a real stereo ... their use of phasing + delay is just out of this world as usual

some funkiness going on with the track titles.

the track labeled "IdjutPart3" is not contiguous with "IdjutPart2", it's contiguous with "IdjutPart1".

so it goes like this IdjutPart1 -> IdjutPart3

IdjutPart2 is not contiguous with either 1 or 3, so i'm not sure if it's a different night or what ...

accordingly, i performed the following surgical re-section to fit them onto 4 CDs...

Disc 1
IdjutPart1 edited at 69:26 (just at the end of "boogie oogie oogie")

Disc 2
remainder of IdjutPart1 (20:56)
IdjutPart3 edited at 47:32 (added a 5-second fade)

Disc 3
remainder of IdjutPart3, edited the fadeout at the 82:03 mark (34:51 total)
IdjutPart2, beginning at 00:09 (only the tribal drums, skipping the horns) and cut at 27:06 (just before the cymbals come in)

Disc 4
remainder of IdjutPart2 (62:33)

sad, right?

more like "generous". i'll be the one who buys several chunky 4CD jewel cases and creates artwork for it and then hands it out to friends (if that's cool)

have they/will they come to sf?

i just moved back here and missed harvet

HARVEY

haha it turned out that my dissection of the tracks was totally WRONG.

the problem is simpler than i guessed! what's really going on is that for some reason 54 seconds from part 2 somehow snuck onto the beginning of part 3.

so i recut it like this

disc 1 - first 69:27 of idjutspart1.mp3

disc 2 - last 20:56 of part1, first 00:54 from idjutspart3.mp3, first 41:02 from idjutspart2.mp3

disc 3 - last 48:39 from idjutspart2.mp3, 00:55-22:38 from idjutspart3.mp3

disc 4 - remaining 62:05 from idjutspart3.mp3

What is that crazy violin tune at the end of part 1, is it a loop they're layering on top or does anyone know of it? I'm talkng about the hysteric bit at the start, not the smooth strings that come in later -unless it really is all from the same track.

china crisis - african and white (39 minutes into part 2)

SO FRESH

oh man i just got a copy of 'beatin' on dave', it is the greatest. so heavy!!

i'd just like to give props to "smokin balls" and "laisn". the kalabrese rmx of laisn is totally fucking sick, as well.

this thread was cute. proto beardo

'Jaz Fook' - Idjut Boys & Laj (from the Noname ep). I LOVED that tune when it came out (in 1994?)!

Phil Collins remix posted on 20jazzfunkgreats is great! A bit of echo turns that piano into an epic rhodes.

i played that out on friday! so good

how was that?

i mentioned it on the techno bobbins thread already but there's a new idjuts 12" proper (not re-edits or remixing someone else) called 'droid'. it's tracky, like 'dj tool' tracky - drums-n-echo and not much else, really minimal.

i heard a suggestion that "droid" was a new sub-label (of noid) for tech-ier stuff. like hairy claw vs bear funk, maybe?

that'd be good! i am... getting a bit burned-out on disco edits.

i am ... also ... a bit ... burned-out ... on ... edits

this looks alright!

so does this actually, hot damn.

anyone got 'droid 2' yet? samples sound like a couple of dubby acid blowouts.

that looks SO good.

looking for "droid 2", "droid 1" was fucking heavy.

i wish i understood how the idjut boys mixed records, they are so good at it and yet it seems like they don't even bother to beatmatch really, they just do some weird-ass mixing board magic and everything just flows together. it is bizarre. i wonder if they use kaoss pads?

like, what is that thing on their discogs.com photo and why does it have a billion wires plugged into it? are they mixing with a 4-track or something?

i believe thats KRANG the alien brain

http://www.3delavnica.com/@upload/Sigmund/krang.jpg

http://www.acampos.eu/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/krang.jpg

he's totally going "wicky-wicky" here!

they won't be reissuing their old stuff any time soon, it would seem

"night dubbin" is decent, maybe not quite as crazy as i'd hoped

it's like this: the tracks on the unmixed disc are *fantastic* but for some reason on the mixed disc the energy level seems lower than on the unmixed discs. not sure why that is ... a similar thing seemed to happen on "fistful of ferrets". somehow the idjuts managed to make DC sound tamer and milder than the earlier "death before distemper" volumes. and on "press play" also. are they mellowing with age?

Nobody heard it yet?

Should be on my doorstep today... honestly though I don't know that on any of these 3-disc BBE things that I've ever preferred the mix disc to the unmixed ones, they always seem staged like a relatively perfunctory "bonus" rather than the focus of the package. I suspect that the "mixed by Idjut boys" thing might have been more of an afterthought marketing ploy than the original concept for the release (could be wrong)

a highly subjective "best of" mix just for the hell of it ... pardon the trainwreck or two and the excessive use of reverb and delay towards the end. my excuse is that it's only fitting for the subject matter.

phantom slasher - endup
idjut boys - gentle approach
phantom slasher - poxymoron
idjut boys & quakerman - dum dum de dum
phantom slasher - lasagna for 10
phantom slasher - i got my love
major swellings - assquake
thick as thieves - tiny bubbles
major swellings - spit and dip
phantom slasher - oochie coochie
idjut boys & quakerman - corrective surgery
idjut boys - sweet gerry dynamite

moonship's idjut boys best of

dan & conrad never apologize for reverb & delay

tru dat

good lookin out moonship journey to baja

feedbacks appreciated

the last mix is just embarrassing ... i got distracted and suddenly realized the record had run out ... so i threw on the next one but forgot that i still had the reverb turned all the way up and the pitch turned down from "oochie coochie"

i should go back with audacity or something and throw in a sound effect or something to cover up the silence

also got completely carried away with the delay on "sweet gerry dynamite", hope nobody gets a headache

what is original for this: phantom slasher - i got my love

i know it, but since they cut most of vocals i'm lost

have people already trainspotted most of these? somewhere on ILM? should we if not?

so using my fantastic detective skills (been watching the wire a lot lately) and my impressive knowledge of music, i've come up w/this

GRUBBLE

Lasagne For 10 - Chilly "For Your Love"
Size Doesn't Matter - "Whole Lotta Love" (sounds like tina turner)
Eat Them Jeans
Staying Noid - Richard Ace "Stayin' Alive" (??)
Backwards Is The Best Way Forward. Baby
Satchell On My Door Step - Roxy Music "The Main Thing"
Your Wistful Sigh
Love Ranger

KEY TO THE TRIPOD

Oxymoron - some weird mashup of "genius of love" and "fly like an eagle"
Poxymoron - Boys Town Gang "You're The One"
Tripod - Warp 9 "Nunk"
Le Cock Noir
Blow Me Slow - Hot RS "Slow Blow"
Noid Life - Spandau Ballet "Lifeline"
Nicoteen Five Sinners "Magic"
Una Bella Donna - Junior Byron "Woman"
Tent Pole
Bethlehem
I Got My Love (i NEED to know what this one is. it's killing me)
Sax & Violence - Leroy Hutson "Love The Feeling"
Going Greek - Demis Roussos "I Dig You"

Tent Pole - Class Action "Weekend"

wait damn these shifty titles i think it's Tripod that's "Weekend" actually

Tripod AKA Skull Volley

Size Doesn't Matter - definitely Tina Turner

Eat Them Jeans - Peter Tosh "Buk-In-Hamm Palace"

I Got My Love - Front Page "You Got My Love" (also edited as "You Got Love Song" on c.o.m.b.i.)

did anybody like my miiiiiiiiix???????

i thought major swellings was just prins thomas?

d/ling mix now.

Staying Noid - Richard Ace "Stayin' Alive" (??)

is this the same track sampled for jess & crabbe's "in your eer"? bassline sounds identical..

anybody know the original for "sheen" off the phantom slasher "puddle & spout" CD? sounds like something off CTI maybe??

dan & conrad never apologize for reverb & delay

seriously, criticizing idjut boys for their use of echo is in a way like criticizing hendrix's use of fuzz or zapp's use of talkbox

thanks to the recent horse meat disco comp, we now know "furry whiplash" is a re-edit of "disco jam" by eddie drennon

http://www.factmag.com/2012/03/15/after-20-years-in-the-game-the-idjut-boys-release-their-debut-album

yay!

WTF?

they must mean "first LP of original exclusive productions"

because by my count they've released

noid long player
life: the shoeing you deserve
puddle & spout
gruble
key to the tripod
desire lines

and

more or less / the u-star daze

which admittedly is an early "greatest hits" comp and mix

so which would be the best place to start?

U-Star Daze.

i've got that one, it is..... jam after jam

“What we’ve tried to do is make an LP, four tracks a side on vinyl. You stick it on your stereo, have a cup of coffee and read the paper. When it’s finished you stick the other side on. So we’ve made an LP in the traditional way.”

<3

wasn't too impressed with "One For Kenny" til that piano break came in, then it was pretty great. very much looking forward to drinking coffee and reading the paper to this.

meanderthals was my soundtrack for that on a lot of sunny weekend mornings last year

my favorites is actually "life: the shoeing you deserve"

"more or less" is a 2cd comp w/ a mixed 2nd disc, that mixed 2nd disc was re-released in the US as "the u-star daze"

i would go with any of those, and then move on to puddle & spout, gruble, etc etc which tbf are basically i guess just elaborate re-edit comps

second Meanderthals, sublime balearic dub bliss.

Since those early albums seem impossible to find at a reasonable price, I've got stuck into Press Play and Night Dubbin. Really enjoying the track selection on Press Play, but I feel like as a mix it kinda crashes with the cover of Word Up and doesn't really get itself back on track, like the section from there to the end should have been at the start to warm up instead. Night Dubbin is great though, I love the sense of dark queasiness hanging over it, and both mixes are so impressive with the way they eschew traditional beat-matching yet putting together transitions that seem to flow naturally.

not sure if this URL is going to work:

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/538683_10150736883898250_677198249_9861324_1476430412_n.jpg

Idjuts mix disc on the first Claremont 56 compilation!

oh awwwesome.

i am not really loving cellar door :-/

is that a good label? i didn't get into the first smith & mudd album, it had that same-y mush-y vibe that a lot of rong releases seem to have.

but maybe i'm just not listening close enough

wish they continued w/ their droid series

compile already

body so jelly-ish

http://www.catapult.co.uk/resources/cache/resize_box_it_-resources-product-images-28077-DroidThreejpg.350x350.jpg

dancefloors gone all wobbly

c56 is pretty much my favorite label, but I'm horribly biased.

i am feeling cellar door!

im not :-/

i have just listened to it twice and enjoyed it both times

think i've abandoned using non-basic words to describe instrumental music though, oh well

just to say again, probably, but Smokin' Balls is a fantastic track.

oochie coochie / ten minutes of lasagna are my enduring faves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LviO5RupGn4

japanese mix cd of salsoul tracks: http://ahbproduction.shop-pro.jp/?pid=141722617

http://ahbproduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/idjut-boys_2019.jpg

tlg I still listen to these downloads on the regular, thanks again

?

oh maybe it was in the Leonardo thread?

anyway you put up a bunch of links to DL these OOP albums many years ago and they have given me great joy

😎