i think i like it.
― your null fame (yournullfame), Friday, 2 May 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.a.e., Sunday, 11 May 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 16 May 2003 21:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 17 May 2003 17:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 18 May 2003 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― bob snoom, Sunday, 18 May 2003 09:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robin (robin), Monday, 19 May 2003 18:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
And one more thing:
"CORPSES AS BEDMATES", MF'ERS!!!!!!!!!
("Ghost" is my favourite TEF album, but have changed my mind about this a lot. Only "You Guys Kill Me" has NOT been my favourite at some point)
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 October 2004 16:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 October 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Saturday, 16 October 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 October 2004 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
new third eye foundation album has appeared. on first listen, pretty excellent. had no idea that a new third eye foundation record was even a possibility.
― keythhtyek, Monday, 11 October 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
really fantastic actually.
― keythhtyek, Monday, 11 October 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Whoa, did not expect this!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 October 2010 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I definitely didn't expect this ... and this might be the best TEF album too.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Has this leaked, or are you guys getting advance copies? Can't find it anywhere.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Mine is a leaked copy.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 13:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Got it. This is some deep and eerie music.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Bit much with a mild hangover in fact.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Friday, 15 October 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Just hearing this for the first time... this is awesome.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Must get this
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
on spotify!
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:28 (thirteen years ago) link
omg this is intense
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:49 (thirteen years ago) link
what's on spotify? the first lp?
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 10:34 (thirteen years ago) link
The new one, "The Dark". Tempted to say album of the year, after one listen. Seriously heavy and melancholic.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't listen to it through in one go, I get bored.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this is GORGEOUS
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 u ILX
<3 u 2 Spotify haha
holy god. this is...wonderful
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
d/ling now, have always liked his stuff. he used to work in an excellent record shop called Revolver on the Triangle in Bristol. When it shut in the late 90s, rumour was that they chucked all there excess stock in a skip.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought this couldn't get better than the first two tracks, then I heard Closure. Holy mother of god.
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Dälek should ask to sample the whole of that track and rap over it, btw
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
love the way it builds over the whole first two tracks, from 'bog standard' TEF to 'omg i am being crushed under an ocean of sadness'.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah srsly, at first I was all 'this is some neat dark electro' and then halfway thru part 2 I was basically reduced to 'my god this is the end of days'
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
only clicked on this thread coz I dimly remembered the dude having produced Hood's two best (by fucking MILES) albums
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
The new one, "The Dark". Tempted to say album of the year, after one listen.
It's my album of the year, and my reaction was the same as yours the first time I heard it. It had been years since I was so floored by an album on the first listen.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
more ppl plz listen to this
when it winds up at like #20 in the ILX year-end ballot a lotta folks are gonna be 'whu'?
but it's shot to my top 3, just like fucken that
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm, I should listen to this I guess.
― O Permaban (NickB), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It's good, more dubby than his earlier stuff IIRC
― Neil S, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit how did i miss this
i have no time to get to a record store until after retail death march december but maybe i will poke around on line a bit
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
this
this is great
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
cmon ILX a record hasn't had a first-listen reaction like this since idk A VERY GOOD ALBUM
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Listened to this at full blast while reading about the inhumane incarceration of Bradley Manning. Unsurprisingly, seriously bummed myself out. Incredible bass though.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
this soundtracks absolutely everything really well
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, I'm liking this whole dub-rovnik thing.
― O Permaban (NickB), Friday, 17 December 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
really good album indeed
― sisilafami, Saturday, 18 December 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Quite wonderful to hear this, and as an immediate followup to the These New Puritans album at that. Sonically dissimilar but crucially allied in terms of uneasy mood...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 December 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hey this is still album of the year you guys
― acoleuthic, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
alright guys, can we do a quick Third Eye Foundation C/D, S/D for a new listener & potential fan? for some reason i just found out abt this guy's origins w/ flying saucer attack (obv. awesome & untouchable) so must explore TEF now
- what do i seek out first?
- what's essential?
- is there anything i should avoid/save for later?
- etc.
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a matt elliott record, no?
― keythhtyek, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
Track here: http://mattelliott.bandcamp.com/album/the-broken-man/
Yes, singing.
― djh, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
I don't, or I shouldn't at least, have anything in principle against electronic intrumentalists suddenly getting all singer-songwritery, but "one mans analysis of his own descent reflecting the frustrations and sadness that touch us all at some point" doesn't really sound like an enticing prospect and when it ends up just being "this is how it feels to be alone" intoned repeatedly in a funereal bass, then - and speaking as a miserablist who would happily listen to "Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me" on repeat - this one man's analysis really adds nothing new to the picture, and the touches of TEF ethereal electronics and the trusty bowed saw beneath aren't enough to tempt me to listen further, I'm afraid.
― Quoth the raven "Nevermind" (ledge), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
I must admit I've barely played this since January 3 but it is sounding magnificent right now.
― djh, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
Still love The Dark - listen to it all the time, especially if I need to get into a writing zone. (And yet I am left totally cold by the stuff he does under his own name.)
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
just occurred to me that Closure taps into the same part of my brain as Cap.IV - and while the latter is better, the former is still wonderful
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 4 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
not much info yet but new Matt Elliott album is due next month
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12439209_10154003732751055_5888604936290127722_n.jpg?oh=6961c0532159b75b64ea96894319ddd0&oe=5748852A
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Hadn't clocked that.
There's an expanded version of Semtex due soon (most of the extra tracks seemingly as downloads).
― djh, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
woo. underlooked classic imo. and seemingly out of print for a while (tried to find one after my copy got trapped in a closing cd player tray and scratched)
http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/prod/ThirdEyeFoundation-Semtex20thAnniversaryEdition-IciDAilleurs-107039.html
― koogs, Thursday, 7 January 2016 10:50 (eight years ago) link
20th anniversary edition of Semtex--adds 23 (!) bonus tracks to the original 6.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3BXH5WgvImeQTxnD2uPxhn
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 22 January 2016 12:59 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7GvAThPm5g
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 12:54 (eight years ago) link
Via his Facebook:
Damn! Once again I forgot to spam for the release of my new album! So, yeah, I've got a new album out available from my wonderful independent label ici d'ailleurs http://www.icidailleurs.com/index.php… If you like what we do please help us to continue making music (Third Eye Foundation is the next project in the pipeline)
― tangenttangent, Tuesday, 15 March 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
Christ, this gets intense
― Laertiades (imago), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 13:28 (eight years ago) link
Pleasantly surprised to find a new TEF album released today, Wake the Dead: https://open.spotify.com/album/6yIG5cMp3wolz2W6REn5uR?si=Y_EqoCY8SdOvm7NtOJ81Ag
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 9 February 2018 15:00 (six years ago) link
whaaaaatt!!!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 February 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
That is... unexpected, after so many Elliott records. Going to save this one for tonight.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 February 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
woah!
― Simon H., Friday, 9 February 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
holy shit the way this has begun
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 15:18 (six years ago) link
he seems to have synthesised his various interests into one terrifying whole
― imago, Friday, 9 February 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
I find myself wondering how to buy an *un-signed* version in the UK unless anyone can vouch that Matt has lovely handwriting.
― djh, Saturday, 10 February 2018 14:34 (six years ago) link
Wouldn't count on it.
This is one hell of an album though. That bass!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
Weird, the album disappeared from Spotify,ad so did The Dark
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
Was just coming to say that: very odd
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 05:57 (six years ago) link
I can't find anywhere to hear it, but ordered the LP from Norman Records. They have the CD too, and presumably Matt isn't writing on all of them?
― mor frog bs (S-), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 09:20 (six years ago) link
can be peeped here - https://thethirdeyefoundation.bandcamp.com/
― (I Just) Died In Your Asshat Tonight, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
Ha, yes. Also bought from Norman in a "not scribbled on" version.
Even played quietly, the bass on the opening track prompts grumbles from the next room.
― djh, Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
I realized I haven't listened to Semtex in forever so I just put it on and "Sleep" is still incredible
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
Pretty much every 3EF release is amazing, I still regularly play them. I'm a huge stan for Elliott's work under his own name, too, though that's very different.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
By coincidence or otherwise, I've been playing various TEF tracks recently.
Yes, Sleep is incredible. I'm enjoying Wake The Dead tonight.
― djh, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
Do you have the extended version of Semtex? It was expanded to a double cd and came with a download code for another two hours, 29 tracks total.
― koogs, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
I... do not
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
They was a solid couple of months when I'd hear something unfamiliar but that I liked on my MP3 player and when I'd take it out and look it'd be one of those extra tracks.
― koogs, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
I must have this extended version.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 December 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
me too!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 7 December 2019 08:35 (four years ago) link
I only got around to listening to Wake The Dead a couple of weeks ago, it's very dark.
― S-, Sunday, 15 December 2019 09:56 (four years ago) link
Did anyone ever watch the film?
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatafuck
― djh, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
First I'm hearing about it but it looks great. Will try to make some time to watch this weekend
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link