― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 04:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Andy K., I absolutely adore your new e-mail addy.
― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 26 August 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I also deeply love Casual Friday. And the NIN remix too. I would probably feel worse about being such a shameless DFA fanboy if they'd stop being such an awesome label.
― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 27 August 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. DFA have surprised my by lasting this long without fizzling out, and even if LCDSS and Juan Maclean have disappointed with their full-lengths (at least by the ridiculously high standard they set with the early singles), they've more than made up for it with the less-hyped stuff (the Pixeltan and JOY singles, Dela & Gavin/BLF, the new Black Dice which has come out of nowhere and utterly gobsmacked me, etc). And trendiness aside, they're one of the few labels I follow that has an output that's consistent enough that I can justify picking up every CD release the day it comes out...
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Saturday, 27 August 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 27 August 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― revelude, Sunday, 28 August 2005 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000AMUUKI.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
It's very...pink.
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 28 August 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 29 August 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.astralwerks.com/black_dice/images/smilingoff.jpg
and the Juan Maclean's "Give Me Every Little Thing":
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000APR5D0.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Have I ever mentioned I really like DFA's sleeve designs? Because I really really do; especially Black Dice releases.
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 29 August 2005 03:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I like this quite a lot! Which is especially surprising given the running time (13 mins) but, wonder... what else is this like?
my lack of Krautrock knowledge (past the corny canon classixx - Tago Mago, Faust, "Phaedra" etc) and of other stuff that is sometimes little more than modulating synths in excecution (M83, Ulrich Schnauss, Slowdive??) leaves me feeling a bit stranded & unsure what to make of this, there's not much of a 'pop' song about it, neither does it feel like anything remotely new. Despite all that, it's engaging (at least whilst playing) and I've yet to feel the impulse to turn it off in the middle.
I'm curious, because most of the above acts (the non-Kraut, more recent stuff) I haven't really taken to, for similar reasons to my antipathy to a lot of the mainstay Morr stuff (Lali Puna & the likes probably excepted). But this little track... there's something *gutsy* about it. Closer to "Loveless", than Stereolab or vague 'electronica'. Maybe it's just the heavy analogue feel. Are they good live?
(kinda obvious I wrote this offline upon reading the thread now, but I'll post. I think I still have a point to ask of some kind here, I'll work out what it was by morning).
― fandango (fandango), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:42 (eighteen years ago) link
But I'll see how it goes :) Thanks for the tip.
― fandango (fandango), Friday, 2 September 2005 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
it's not just the sounds but also (maybe even more so) the imagery the music evokes that made me draw the comparison
― willem (willem), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link
????????
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link
what????????
anyway this album is awesome
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 2 September 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
they are called BLACK LEOTARD FRONT - clearly a parody of overserious politcal postpunk tendencies blending into ambisexual "sprockets" aesthetics.
i guess it is a matter of whether the joke works for you or not.
also i will freely admit i am unfairly biased towards pretentious overseriousness as opposed to comedy / the light touch.
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 21:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
also, check out this pic from their nascent site!http://www.deliaandgavin.com/images/d_g-pic.gif
― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
^^^an observation from the universe of so totally wrong you should be forced to live in a discarded shoe.
Beardy there not only built the synthesizer from scratch, he drew and etched the circuit boards in the kitchen. I watched him do it, using library books from the 1950s that more people should be reading instead of Fader or Wigmix.
― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― b8a, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 22:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 15 September 2005 02:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 15 September 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link