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Spot of trivia: James Murphy and DFA studios are mentioned on the closing credits of Requiem For A Dream - seems he (they?) did some production work on some of the score. That must be, what, 2000?

― Jason J, Monday, 5 January 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, James Murphy and Clint fucking Boon. This man's resume' just gets dirtier the more you dig...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

anyone else remember the okay indie-rock band james was in back in the early to mid '90s, PONY?

they were pretty good live, not so great on record -- they played a lot with friends' bands like sleepyhead, dungbeetle, 6fs (john / juan mclean) so i saw them maybe ten times...

just curious.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago) link

I saw Pony too, god they were horrible.

― hstencil, Monday, 5 January 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

dfa's first work was with brainiac, if i'm not mistaken. next was the turing machine record. correct me if i'm wrong, lauren.

i think the turing machine record is the first dfa production. i'm completely unaware of any work with brainiac... interesting, though.

(hi, jg. you following all of this?)

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

early ilm ref. to dfa/turing machine over on this thread

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:54 (twenty years ago) link

even though the new turing machine material has kinda blown live, i can't wait to hear their new record. justin was sposed to gimme some of the recordings/demos, but i haven't seen him in ages.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:16 (twenty years ago) link

DFA SchmeeEffAy, tell me something about the Boomtang Boys!

Hey Yancey, you've moved up in the world like your name was greenhouse gas, eh? How are you?

― The Thinking Man's Paris Hilton (DarrenK), Monday, 5 January 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link

h cracks me up.

search: six finger satellite law of ruins, produced by james murphy

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 5 January 2004 07:19 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

From the DFA website: "DFA Records will be releasing two brand new vinyl 12" singles on Tuesday September 28, 2004, from the groups J.O.Y. and Pixeltan." The J.O.Y. track is that really Slits-y "Sunplus" thing that everyone downloaded a few months back. Pixeltan are Hisham from Black Dice's new thing, apparently, so I'm looking forward to that.

A look at the discography page also turns up:
LCD Soundsystem "Movement" 7", with the album now scheduled for 2005
The Juan Maclean "I Robot / Less Than Human" 10"
DFA Compilation #2, 3xCD (!)

― Shady Loch Lenin (haitch), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

"The J.O.Y. track is that really Slits-y "Sunplus" thing that everyone downloaded a few months back."

I thought this was part of the press release and enjoyed the weary candour.

LCD Soundsystem are now taking the piss.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i downloaded 'movement' a lil while ago, didn't know if it was new or not. nonetheless, it's not very good i don't think.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

with the album now scheduled for 2005

It'd better be fucking January 2005.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Pixeltan's ep on Troubleman was pretty frenzied and fun—quite different from Black Dice. It'll be interesting to hear 'em DFA-ized.

If "Movement" is the next LCD single, where the heck did "Kick Out the Chairs" come from?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Both the new 12"s are quite good, if not as thrilling as some of their other singles. I like the DFA remix of "Sunplus" a lot more than the a-side version.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Hisham was in Pixeltan a few years ago but left and they eventually became Plate Tectonics, I think. Maybe he's gone back?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm not sure about this, but i don't think the pixeltan tracks are brand new.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe this means Adam will go back to rockin in OSS.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i suppose "kick out the chairs" is a collaboration and therefore not really the new LCD single.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

the pixeltan 12-inch is really, really great

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I downloaded at least one LCD album track, so yes, they are fucking about. I really love the Junior Senior remix however. Very anthemic in its way.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

kick out the chairs is Munk feat. james and nancy.
it's ok, not amazing, the remix on the flip is a gorgeous new wave thing. i dont know who it's by, sounds like a thin white duke thing maybe.

anyone got links to download any of the above?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Massively agree re: DFA remix of Junior Senior. I find their music to be kinda wanky, actually, but the remix is totally ass-shaking.

― +, Monday, 9 August 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Liquid Liquid?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 30 August 2004 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link

what about them?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

WHERE IS THE NEW PIXELTAN DFA RICHKIDS

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Monday, 30 August 2004 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Ref. upthread to (I thought) DFA being in the studio w/them, oh exciting

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

oh.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Them were in the studio with the DFA earlier this year... I guess Andrew's (like I am) wondering whether it's materialised yet (release date?).

(x-post)

― willem (willem), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

sal from Liquid Liquid is DJing the next Pop Your Funk party at APT, perhaps we can ask him then...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

The new 3CD comp is terrific, got it today. The Black Leotard Front track that opens the set is 15 minutes of fun, No surprises sonically but so so so HOTT! The new DFA produced version of Liquid Liquid's "Bellhead" will make you weep tears of joy. Its made me look forward to the Juan Maclean lonplayer very much too - his track "give me every little thing" is the highlight of the 3rd (mixed) CD - i thought he would never better "By the time i get to Venus" but he has with this.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Is this out in stores?

― Clusterfuck at the Baja Fresh Salsa Bar (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Amazon says it's released today. Looks like I have to go to Amoeba.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

in the uk, yes. not sure about the U.S.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

DFA Fall 2k4! -- New Pixeltan!, New J.O.Y. (Yoshimi P-We and others)

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Nine Inch Nails remix coming up, hopefully sounding more interesting than that Blues Explosion remix from last month...

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 6 May 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

you've got it wrong - that BX remix is the jam!

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah that JSBX remix was fucking beautiful.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link

http://pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-05-09-jukebox-james-murphy.shtml

James Murphy picks his favourite tunes for Pitchfork, including M.I.A., Daft Punk, Lethal B and fucking Jet(?).

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think he picked them - I thought it was more of an Invisible Jukebox type of thing, where the interviewer picks the songs to play, and the interviewee is supposed to comment on them.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think we've done a Jukebox Jury/Invisible Jukebox style feature at Pitchfork, so I'll explain what's going on here: I recently stopped by James' apartment and played him some records (they're the bold headers, obviously) and then recorded what he said about them.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Oops.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, it's weird that pfork is now cannibalizing other excellent publications for ideas. and they're generally the most recognizable features from those pubs. fair play, i guess.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a great idea, though. i wish more pubs would do jukebox juries. they're always really entertaining to read, even when i know little about the artists. matos has done (and commissioned) some really good ones for seattle weekly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Murphy seems like a total jackass in that pfork piece.

― adam (adam), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

whatever it is he's saying about the mayer tune doesn't make a bit of sense to me. it just about reads like gibberish.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I was confused by that part too, but then I realized he was saying "Take it back" to the interviewer, meaning "Rewind the song" - because he wanted to hear a certain part again. Then it made more sense.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link

ah. i'll have to reread with that knowledge.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

'reverse key follow filter'???

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently I think about some stuff a lot like James Murphy? Well, not really his generalized theories, but a couple bits in there. . . . I'm glad, among all the Arcade Fire polarization, to see that I'm not the only one who thought the first couple tracks were cool and then couldn't be bothered with the rest.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:38 (nineteen years ago) link

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