BEARDO DISCO (finally fixed for vahid) - not idjuts / lindstrom - harvey, rub'n'tug, map of africa

I'll be there.

but you already know that.

my name is on the flyer.

he has a beard and sandals

that is a really nice flyer

rip flyer

I usually post flyers on my server and keep them up forever. Was too lazy this time.

that guy who did the Miura bootleg has a new edit here

also, i started a thread on the new Trusme 2LP

Also,

Beard Science is on Vinyl Now

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T Tauri?!?!?!?!

This month’s Electric Independence is dedicated to all the stubborn romantics who spend hours and hours in tiny rooms, slaving over arcane hardware and crunching numbers in a tireless bid to create the music that comes to them in their wildest dreams. For those among you who find total happiness losing yourself in psychedelic electronic disco, it’s time to introduce you to your new favourite artist. His name is Nicolas Courtin. He’s 31 and lives in Lille, northern France, where he works as a doctor. If you’ve listened to the CBS online radio (cbs.nu) this year, you may have heard Courtin’s exquisite tracks. Mostly, they unfurl in a manner that evokes Burt Bacharach rearranging Kraftwerk’s The Man Machine as a cosmic ballet, the whole thing directed by Black Devil’s Bernard Fevre while Richard James watches from the wings. Trippy, tuneful and intoxicating, Courtin’s music has a timeless quality to it and manages to convey feelings of innocence and wonder. This wasn’t so much in evidence on his first EP, “Asteroides”, released in 2003 on Munich’s mighty Erkrankung Durch Musique.

Four years later and he’s produced the six-song mini-LP, Les Yeux Fermés, which can be bought through the cielsonore.com site. Ciel Sonore is an organisation set up by Courtin and his friends to nurture and promote this kind of music. Les Yeux Fermés is their first release, and they’ll have to work hard to top it. When we spoke to Courtin, he was filling in a for a GP in the villages around Lille.

Vice: The musical progression from “Asteroides” to Les Yeux Fermés is remarkable. Why the dramatic shift?

Nicolas Courtin: I continued making music for a while after “Asteroides”, but I stopped. I had a very difficult love story that finished in a catastrophic way. When I actually could get up from that, I switched synths and I made Les Yeux Fermés.

What was the idea behind that record?

Originally I wanted to merge the progressive rock and Krautrock I listened to in my teens with the electro style I listen to today. At first sight there is no relation between both styles, so the idea was to create a link. Regarding my influences, I would say there is a golden triangle of Kraftwerk, Ennio Morricone and François de Roubaix. But the concept behind Les Yeux Fermés is basically inspired from a book, The Art Of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda. I was looking for a poorly explored theme in the actual electronic music world, and I thought the ideas expressed in this book did the job.

That book explains the practical application of lucid dreaming. How did you translate this into sound?

I tried to recreate the magical ambiance related in this book. When I started making the tracks, I originally intended to do something like a style exercise. How do I proceed exactly? That’s a secret, but I can reveal some funny things. For instance, in the first track, “Les Yeux Fermés”, the bass drum was made by beating the arm of an armchair, and the hi-hat came from two coffee spoons.

What parallels have you drawn between medicine and music?

Oh, no. For me, it’s two different lives.

If there’s anything that gets us more aroused than melting into that new Smith N Hack single, “Falling Stars”/“Space Warrior”, it has to be encountering older men in Soho basements who promise us lots of freaky shit. No, no, not that kind of thing. That’s sick. What happened? We meet a guy called Andy Blake in Sounds of the Universe. He runs a small company called Dissident Distribution (dissid✧✧✧.distribit✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧) and was selling a batch of his latest singles. These aren’t just any singles, it transpires, once we get them home. These are mind-boggling avant-disco jams by three acts whose names you’ll struggle to forget. First there’s “False Energy” by Binary Chaffinch. Let’s write that again: Binary Chaffinch. This is a stunning 11-minute synth-funk oddity by Milo Smee, Chrome Hoof’s drummer. “What’s so cool about it is there’s an effortlessness about that tune,” says Blake, who we called a few days later. “Milo worked his nuts off to make it sound really good but even though there’s all these disparate elements, once you’ve heard it once, it works in that order. There are some big leaps but they’re handled with real class.”

Then there’s Gatto Fritto with “Clem’s Bounce” and “Invisible College”. “Gatto Fritto is my mate, Ben,” says Blake. “It means “fried cat” in Italian. If you type it into the internet you get what you think is a recipe for cooking a cat, but it’s actually for cooking catfish. It’s also the name of a nightclub in a book I can’t remember.” He means Aleister Crowley’s Diary of a Drug Fiend. Another of these one-sided singles is “Giorgio Carpenter” by Cage And Aviary. As the title implies, it’s a noirish prowler a la Moroder. Blake himself is a total vinyl collector nut who says things like, “I’m just on a ridiculous digging mission at the moment”. He’ll be releasing more incredible records in the run up to Christmas, and 2008 is his for the taking.

Blake’s cosmic cartel are also working with another London producer, Ali Renault, whose music we’ve admired for a while now. As Cestrian (myspace.com/cestrianmusic), Renault has recently released glacial electro on Bunker (the new “Artists Anonymous #3”) and MNX (“The Walled City EP”), but we like him best when he teams up with singer Sebastian Muravchik for their fantastic Italo-inspired outfit, Heartbreak. No mere pastiche, Heartbreak write cybernetic tear-jerkers and zooming power-disco hits, sung with a lot of emotion by Muravchik, a captivating frontman. Not only have Heartbreak put out two faultless 12-inches on their Lycra label, including a split-single with Belgium’s Revolving Eyes, they’re also a killer live act. Muravchik dances like he’s possessed by the spirits of Den Harrow and Freddie Mercury. Renault wears a Mexican wrestling mask. It’s a strange dynamic but it produces terrific energy.

Thanks to Gaya Donadio from Hinouema who got us into see Sutcliffe Jugend support Sonic Youth at the Roundhouse. Kevin Tomkins and Paul Taylor’s power electronics cabaret was fun. In November, Gaya’s throwing a 10-year birthday party for Hinouema at the Slimelight in Angel on November 23/24. SJ will play, as will Peter Sotos. Rumours are he's doing a music/spoken word thing. If you know Sotos, you should have a good idea of what to expect.

PIERS MARTIN

PIERS ANTHONY

i love those gatto fritto & cage & aviary records, but the latest round of super-limited dissident jams left me cold. the binary chaffinch alternately makes me smile or turns me off depending on the mood, i still can't decide if i actually like it or not, despite spending about $20US on it.

what's it REALLY sound like?

is it actually disco or is it disco the way chromatics or glass candy is disco?

i think the latest gatto fritto is the best of the bunch. can these really be as limited as the label claims?

"bermuda" off the new lovefingers 12" on rvng is pretty sweet

yeah, the Lovefingers 12" is totally awesome.

mine is in the mail. <3 u RVNG.

oddly i did an edit of the track that lovefingers call "kentucky" (it's by demolition man) for a friend a couple of months ago. he's computer illiterate so i did it as a favour for him to use in his dj sets as he's always giving me great records. his words - "i don't think anyone will ever think to edit this". wrong!

The Vangelis edit on the Lovefingers is SWEET.

yeah the whole thing is good .... but those space-synth stabs over bubble-slap-bass kill me the most

xxpost - at least a year ago, lovefingers told me he'd just edited a vangelis track. it's astroturf. glad it finally ended up somewhere.

there's an aeroplane mix up here. looks good
http://www.2-4-hours.blogspot.com/

01. Kaoru Inoue : The Secret Field – Todd Terje rmx (Mule Musiq)
02. Martha 407 - Daniele Baldelli Re-edit (Cdr)
03. Lovefingers : Zoysia (NRDS)
04. Sugardaddy : Stripped To The Bone (Tirk)
05. Aeroplane Feat Kathy Diamond : Whispers – Hercules and Love Affair rmx (Cdr)
06. Still Going : Still Going Theme (DFA)
07. El Dukes : Tittle Tattle – Borat Edit (Cdr)
08. Babytalk : Keep .. (Sticky Disc)
09. Torch Song – Daniele Baldelli Re-edit (Cdr)
10. Camaro’s Gang : Fuerza Major - Tensnake rmx (Radius)
11. Das Pop : Fool For Love Love – Aeroplane rmx (Prestel)
12. Peter Visti : Fighting James (Eskimo)
13. Nemesi : Jurassico – Prins Thomas miks (Cdr)

this will be VERY beardo friendly...

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mindless boogie edits for chrsitmas!

dan, i had a friend think the entire show was cancelled because of that flyer. it just meant to unconfuse people about the identity of the djs, right?

no comment.

Throwdown (Pilooski Edit) - Danny Gold
Gemini (Pilooski Edit) - Del Shannon
Send Him Back (Pilooski Edit) - The Pointer Sisters

soooo good. more northern stompers tripped out w/weirdo spatial effects and loopy rhythms.

yes. loving these as well.

has this been going on for a bit ? i mean, the re edits of northern soul. would love more stuff in this vein.

Where can one find this new pilooski mayhem?

the gemini track is on his myspace. the rest are on hype machine

man the gemini one is especially ace. a full on stomper. would love to hear some one drop this in the club

I heard the pointer sisters one a while back, it's excellent

also finally heard one of the Dissident Distro tracks mentioned above ... engh. it was okay. (think it was Binary Chaffinch "False Energy")
anyone heard enough of that stuff to do an s / d?

*thanks oscar

anyone heard fragments of fear ii yet? the samples i've heard sound pretty great, lots of fuzzed out psych and classic rock

Does anyone actually buy all these overpriced, one-sided, limited-to-200 Dissident things? Most of the soundclips I've heard haven't been too impressive.

If we ever start a second beardo thread, I vote for it to be called "Sheena is a Bumrocker."

it's all about Cage & Aviary and Gatto Fritto when talking about Dissident. Especially C&A's "Television Train".

pilooski edit discography, please

- dl09 - danny gold - throwdown (pilooski edit)
_ - dl09 - del shannon - gemini (pilooski edit)
_ - dl09 - the pointer sisters - send him back (pilooski edit)
_ dirty sound system live at the white lodge 0108
_ dirty sound system mixtape colette 02 2006
_ dl02 - can - mothersky (pski edit)
_ dl02 - edwin starr - get up (pski edit)
_ dl03 - alan parsons project - i robot (pilooski edit)
_ dl03 - the human beinz - nobody but me (pilooski edit)
_ dl04 - cat stevens - was dog a doughnut (pilooski edit)
_ dl04 - frankie valli - beggin' (pilooski edit)
_ dl04 - octet - euro vs dollar (pilooski edit)
_ dl05 - amon duul II - kismet (pilooski edit)
_ dl05 - jackson jones - i feel good put your pants on (pilooski edit)
_ dl05 - people - glastonbury (dirty reissue)
_ dl06 - q lazzarus - goodbye horses (krikor edit)
_ dl06 - the the - giant (pilooski edit)
_ dl07 - john miles - stranger in the city (pilooski edit)
_ dl08 - discodeine - ring mutilation
_ dl08 - discodeine - tema di gamma
_ dsd1 - jj cale - ride me high (joakim edit)
_ dsd1 - yellow power - hai samurai (pilooski edit)

i heard some cage & aviary that i liked, recently

:-D

thx

my favorites are probably pointer sisters, frankie valli and jj cale. the john miles is based on a great track but it doesn't seem like they did much to it. cat stevens, I'd rather just hear the original ...

my next mission is BtWS

dave, do you have "access" to the "back room"?

where/how did he do the steely dan edit?

re. 'gemini' i think that at some point in future it will be scientifically proven that it's impossible for any human being to dislike that song. it has me bouncing around my room with a big grin on my face, can't get enough of it.

the jackson jones pilooski edit is worth hearing

dave, do you have "access" to the "back room"?

yup

I don't have any of it on vinyl altho I've seen a couple of em around

jackson jones' edit is only 1:45?