I LOVE YOU "THE CHROMATICS"

no it is. dunno what happened to your thing jaxon!

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I haven't listened to it, but apparently when Mike Simonetti was on Beats in Space, he spoke about it, but without any details.

Anyone know anything more? (Er, including Mike, if you are reading!)

Glass Candy are doing the Pitchfork ATP in May, no idea about Chromatics (they're not on the ATP bill)

he mentions it on his site
http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/

that's a crosspost, it is

oh man, i am gonna have to read simonetti's blog religiously now. i see that guy like once or twice per week buying emo and indie 7"s for the tertiary market.

Glass Candy went through a really dire phase early on. Were they trying to sound like the YYY's?

Glass Candy's noisy phase pre-dates or was concurrent with the YYYs, and they were on different coasts. By the time anybody outside of The Cooler knew who the YYYs were, Glass Candy were already hipster darlings, if I remember correctly.

I thought Love Love Love was pretty good but it seems like that's a pretty lonely opinion

their disco stuff is way better though, Beatbox is amazing

I guess you're right Dan, but man that stuff was bad.

love love love was late, there were a bunch of singles that came out a few years before that I remember nyc hipsters freaking out about. One had a cover of dream jenie I think? Or John I'm Only Dancing?

College radio scene.

Any idea where tikets will be available for their London show in April?

tickets

nevermind.found

where?

these dudes charged me for that italians do it better comp last year and never sent it even after I inquired twice and they promised to resend >:(

ticketweb.co.uk

wait they're playing w/ studio & ame???? doooooppppe

creedence does it better

Saturday, April 19 at 9:00 PM
Warm Music presents Warm / Lasermagnetic featuring Chromatics / Mike Simonetti / Ame / Studio / Skull Juice

Chromatics – LIVE (Italians Do It Better) // Onstage at Midnight
Mike Simonetti (Italians Do It Better)
Ame (Innervisions)
Studio (Information)
Skull Juice (Walk The Night)
Warm DJ’s & Lasermagnetic DJ’s
£12.00

It's at Cafe 1001 on Brick Lane.

Today's a good day for buying tickets for stuff. That should be v cool.

these dudes charged me for that italians do it better comp last year and never sent it even after I inquired twice and they promised to resend >:(

He has one heck of a reputation for doing this

Love "Baby Girl" streaming on Farah's myspace page. Oh so slowly shuffling tabla, trilling guitar, gorgeous italo bass burbles, space invader noises and flushed synth pads, overlaid with a morbid gothic vibe that reminds me of Siouxsie and the Banshees' A Kiss in the Dreamhouse a bit (think something like "Obsession"). Farah is even more spaced out than usual, sending single solemnly intoned words into a dub-echo abyss.

Stuff like this and the Invisible Conga People 12" are just confounding - I feel like this label is increasingly making connections no-one else is making.

tim have you heard the amazing glass candy remix of ssion 'clown' yet? it's an unusually sleazy bit of slo-mo 80s rnb with succulent mini-diva vocals and understated, woeful house piano. what's confounding to me is how there is a seemingly endless supply of great vocalists to lace johnny jewel's sullen disco epics!

when is the invisible conga people 12" in shops?

The Italians blog says 3 new 12"s in stores in 2 weeks... I'm guessing those will be the Inivisible Conga People, the Tiedye, and maybe a new Farah?

i hope a mirage record comes out. the songs on his myspace are sublime.

I feel like this label is increasingly making connections no-one else is making.

probably because none of the artists are coming out of a techno/electro/house background, but a hardcore/punk/no-wave/etc history, so there's bound to be a skewed take on it. They're not the only ones coming from that direction, but they've had a better ear for it, so far.

They played on my Dj night at Tube (Portland) last night because it was the owners birthday. They played "running up that hill". Tube fits about 50 people comfortably. There must have been at least 100 though...

There were even more when Get Hustle played an hour before them.

Fucking hell, that Brick Lane lineup is !!!!

"probably because none of the artists are coming out of a techno/electro/house background, but a hardcore/punk/no-wave/etc history, so there's bound to be a skewed take on it. They're not the only ones coming from that direction, but they've had a better ear for it, so far."

Yeah this is right, though Invisible Conga People also bring a dazed out krautrock (Can and Tangerine Dream) vibe to the table.

that line up is totally !!!! - i'm guessing it's just a studio dj set??

Tim F have you heard this? one of the Invisible Conga People was in this band

http://progressive.homestead.com/files/we_acediasts.jpg

good record, dazed out krautrock meets underground japan vibes

I saw Studio DJ in Brighton last year and they were v good.

Their mixing's rubbish but they play good tunes.

Does Studio not play live ever?

they do play live, just not very often. there are a bunch of youtubes of some live shows.

so given all the love here i checked out the myspace pages.
are the album versions different to whats streaming there ?

I have to say i'm really not feeling Farah, esp not that "Baby Girl" tune.

where is that?

i love love love law of life life life.

Anyone going to the Lasermagnetic night? Heard good things about Studio but haven't heard them

Just got back from the show. I know all the discussion about this was happening on the Studio thread, but I only really saw Chromatics. Also, technically the night is supposed to be going for another 8 hours (!), but I have to work tomorrow/today, so that was it for me.

They were awesome, though. Just exactly what I hoped for. The songs were generally faster, but it all worked. She is perfect, and seemed genuinely humbled by the response. They were all very warm for working this icy aesthetic.

Mike Simonetti played some really cool stuff that I had never heard before. The DJ who started right after Chromatics kicked off with Bob Marley's "Could This Be Love?," which seemed to confuse a lot of people.

That space was nicely sized and never felt overwhelming. The "compulsory coat check" seemed weird, but maybe that's normal for clubs.

I think Studio was DJing in the next room partially at the same time as Chromatics.

Did anybody else go to this? They're playing again at the same place on Tuesday night.

hi i like them now

I thought they were kind of boring to be honest, wandered into the other room and listened to Studio playing to a virtually empty bar for a bit. Ame was tremendous though, Simonetti pretty good as well (that was him after the Chromatics as well).

Also it felt less like a club and more like a converted multi-storey car park.

yeah i was there, i dont know that i thought they were boring but i defintely thought her voice sounded pretty bad.

and i was too tired + old to see ame! this makes me sad. mike simonetti was cool tho

I saw Simonetti play at Did We Tell You About Our Disco last year and he was good--played Doobie Bros and stuff. And The Lex blanked me there!

Might go tomorrow. I saw Joakim instead on Saturday which was v boring.

Haha having seen the state the Lex was in before that Our Disco (ie he had to be carried out of the pub pretty much) I doubt he even knew who you were.

He was barely standing but then he unFacebook friended me the following week so who knows.

I definitely wasn't bored by them at all (I guess I don't really see how they could have been boring if you've heard them before - I don't mean this sarcastically at all, but what did you expect?). I was pretty captivated.

I saw a different guy on the decks after Chromatics, but maybe Simonetti was just taking a break for a sec after putting that Marley tune on. My favorite thing (of the songs I knew) that he played was "Hollywood Seven" by Alides Hidding, which the band were all singing along to when they were setting up.

I was hoping they would be selling those new Italians 12"s, but they said they were almost all sold out of all of them already, and they only have copies of them in the label store. I really want to hear that Tiedye/Metallica cover thing, and the Invisible Conga People stuff.

I'm tempted to try to see them again tomorrow, even though I'm sure it'd be the same show.