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hey yeah, how can i hear this lovely album too?

― adam west (adamwest), Thursday, 14 August 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link

It's harder, Princier, and unhousier than Rooty. Heard it at a bar w/ really cruddy sound and lots of people talking (!) so it's hard to say precisely how great it is. But it's great. Dizzee sounds more and less weird w/ a thick background behind him. Can't wait to get a proper copy to play around in.

― Andy, Thursday, 14 August 2003 05:19 (twenty years ago) link

ben if youy ever feel like dumping this on slsk, i'd be more than happy to kill anyone you wished.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 August 2003 06:23 (twenty years ago) link

twice, even.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 August 2003 06:23 (twenty years ago) link

I got it jess if you want it

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 14 August 2003 06:30 (twenty years ago) link

whats yr username jb? or just message me, i'm on right now.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 August 2003 06:36 (twenty years ago) link

haha - SIKE!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 14 August 2003 06:42 (twenty years ago) link

:-O

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 August 2003 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

:-( Can you not have this exchange in my presence plz?!?!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 14 August 2003 06:44 (twenty years ago) link

it's okay tim, he was just TOYING WITH MY EMOTIONS like the CALLOW BASTARD he is.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 August 2003 06:45 (twenty years ago) link

I join the strongo killing cult too, the killing begins at midnight, each song uploaded may save a life.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:19 (twenty years ago) link

strongo when I get it I will bring it to Olympia and we will drink and bang heads to it, 'k?

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:37 (twenty years ago) link

and you will put it on the slsk stat

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:39 (twenty years ago) link

haha not if I ever wanna receive another promo again (they're copy protected with THE RECIPIENT'S NAME ON THEM)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

(also I do not have slsk available to me at work)

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:40 (twenty years ago) link

fucking astralwerks

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link

fucking Virgin, you mean

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 14 August 2003 07:45 (twenty years ago) link

fucking Virgin

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Thursday, 14 August 2003 08:12 (twenty years ago) link

the bellrays chick gave me a copy. it realy does rock. it warrants the attention of this thread. no copy minna as it's copy-protected and fucks up my computer when i play it.

― st cool kids of death, Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:22 (twenty years ago) link

thanks for trying anyway

― minna (minna), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:24 (twenty years ago) link

how do you take copy-protection off? all the cds i've been getting are copy protected and i listen to 80 percent of cds from my computer.

― st cool kid of death, Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:26 (twenty years ago) link

there was supposed to be some trick you can do w/ a black marker...
there must be info out there on the web

― minna (minna), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:32 (twenty years ago) link

My computer won't play ANY CDs any more :( It's particularly painful since a highlight of my day was going to be listening to the new Broadcast and I've forgotten my walkman.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:33 (twenty years ago) link

"Controversial copy-protection mechanisms on CDs could be negated with something as simple as a marker pen.
According to one German geek who sent the tip to technical magazine Chip.de, a variety of copy-protection systems, including Cactus Data Shield and KeyAudio, which also stop music CDs being played in CDRom drives, can be circumvented with a felt-tip pen.

Copy-protection systems work by adding a corrupt data track to the outside edge of a CD. This track is ignored by common audio CD players but prevents copying, and sometimes playing, in the more sensitive PC CD drives.

By covering up a portion of the dividing line and outside track on the CD, without touching the last audio track, it is possible to fool the CD player into thinking that the extra corrupt data track does not exist. The marker pen line can easily be wiped away afterwards with a soft cloth.

A similar result was also obtained by sticking bits of a Post-It note along the edge of the CD, but this is not advised as the paper may come loose and damage the drive. "

― minna (minna), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:34 (twenty years ago) link

I'll give it a go, Minna. But I did the market trick with the Alfie cd and it still read corrupt. I hope Lisa goes ballastic with the Bellrays after the Basement Jaxx is released. Her track along with Dizzee's are hot. The Bellrays are releasing their new album around the same time as Basement Jaxx. I think the world needs a big, beautiful and black soul singer ... her track ... is, well, probably the best electro northern soul stomper I've ever heard.

― st cool kid of death, Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:48 (twenty years ago) link

copy protected CDs can at least be recorded via phono out and line in to pc

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE DO THIS! :)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

Ack. I'm not that technical. When I dj I need someone to operate the machinery.

― st cool kid of death, Thursday, 14 August 2003 09:59 (twenty years ago) link

then the only option left is to post me the CD ;)

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 14 August 2003 10:05 (twenty years ago) link

I need this album, seriously. I'm dying here, somebody better figure out a way to put it on slsk soon or I may just fade away...

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:05 (twenty years ago) link

I thought the best tracks were the JC Chavez and the Siouxie. JC Chavez is like tweaked disco interrupted by massive synth crashes, really pounding. (Actually I could imagine it as being what Justin Timberlake would sound like if he worked with them.) And the Siouxie track is the hardest and most aggressive on the album, really punk and stomping.

The Dizzee track is good, but I wasn't 100% sure about it--it's pretty dense and layered and his voice seemed to get a little lost. But that could have just been the mediocre sound system. It has a Middle Eastern vibe going on, lots of muezzin wails in the background. And a female chorus that reminded me a bit of Madonna (maybe that's just the title).

Other brilliant tracks: the first one by Lisa whats her name, lots of twists and turns and breakdowns. The first Me'Shell one, very funky, lots of Prince in there with the voiceovers. But really, it all sounded great to me.

The whole thing definitely takes off from Where's Your Head At, there's only about one remotely mellow track on there, it's all pretty hard and aggressive, sounds almost rock a lot of the time, rhythm-wise. The production seemed like their most dense, lots of off-stage squeals and feedback and bleeps going on. And it must be their longest album too easily, lots of tracks, no filler.

And it doesn't sound like anyone else. They just about restored my faith in dance music. Maybe that was the free beer.

Unfortunately I don't have a copy!

― Ben Williams, Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

Say, Ben, how do you feel knowing people around the world now want to strangle you in jealousy even MORE?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:26 (twenty years ago) link

haha!

I did consider adding to that post.

― Ben Williams, Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:29 (twenty years ago) link

oops, i mean "adding /wanker>"...

― Ben Williams, Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:30 (twenty years ago) link

What are the essential Siouxsie / Me'Shell records people need to hear in order get with the program in time?

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

in order to

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

Roxio ez-cd couldn't read thru the copy-protection on the tok tok vs soffy o alb (only one I've had w/ protection), but roxio ez-data-cd (also bundled with my cd-burner) could. I pulled the .wavs off to my hard drive and then used cd-ex to convert them.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:52 (twenty years ago) link

so try that, PLZ ANYONE IF YOU CAN.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

Fortunately I've cocooned myself in a protective barrier of contemporary R&B courtesy of Mya, so I'm not feeling as desperate as other posters. This means I only want to sell one kidney in exchange for a copy of this album.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:08 (twenty years ago) link

cant yall just wait til it comes out and buy it like normal ppl, basement jaxx always have ill album art anyway

― trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:13 (twenty years ago) link

if i don't get the print review of this I want I will go mad

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

cant yall just wait til it comes out and buy it like normal ppl

I WANT IT NOW and this will not stop me from buying it when it comes out.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:19 (twenty years ago) link

so, best year for music ever or what!!! like, is there going to be a bad year after this continual incline?? 2000 was sort of crap as i recall after the awesome best-year-in-history 1999

― trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

I have to agree that the Chavez track is strong Ben but not as strong as the Lisa track.

― st cool kid of death, Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:29 (twenty years ago) link

What are the essential Siouxsie / Me'Shell records people need to hear in order get with the program in time?

Assuming Siouxsie hasn't gone back to her punk rock days per se ('electropunk' though, hm)...well, easiest thing to do would be to get the Once Upon a Time/Twice Upon a Time singles comps, as the Banshees were absolute geniuses on that front, at least during the early eighties in particular.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 August 2003 13:47 (twenty years ago) link

Me'Shell ------> "Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape".

+ the only way to listen to this is on headphones.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 14 August 2003 14:08 (twenty years ago) link

I WANT IT NOW and this will not stop me from buying it when it comes out.

Me too. I have no patience or self control whatsoever and I can't stand the fact that it exists somewhere in the world without me hearing it. I am immature like that.

― Larcole (Nicole), Thursday, 14 August 2003 14:14 (twenty years ago) link

Maybe I will put my copy up on ebay? ; - )

Nah.

Yes, it's *that* good.

― st cool kid of death, Thursday, 14 August 2003 14:18 (twenty years ago) link

trife is truthin' y'all

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 14 August 2003 14:36 (twenty years ago) link

Hey, I'm glad you're enjoying it (not being snarky, it's just become a non-issue for me now).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 14 August 2003 14:39 (twenty years ago) link

hee hee...i have a promo coming.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 14 August 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link

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