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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 (twenty-one years ago)

the pixeltan 12-inch is really, really great

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Liquid Liquid?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 30 August 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

what about them?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

oh.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this out in stores?

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

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

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― rajeev (rajeev), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah that JSBX remix was fucking beautiful.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 6 May 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Murphy seems like a total jackass in that pfork piece.

― adam (adam), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

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

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

'reverse key follow filter'???

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't you just love stopping by people's apartments?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The bit at the end where the interviewer plays him his own music and then asks if JM will remix it scored a 9.2 on the cringe factor for me.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to know more of the context behind James asking Nick, "this is just you and your friends, right?" Like, had Nick warned him that he'd be playing one of his own songs, and so James was like, "oh, I don't recognize this, this must be the one of yours"? Or was James like, "wtf is this, just some shit you threw together with your friends?"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Or it could be a third, more frightening possibility, as in, "Dude I was listening to you guys when you put out the Fart Frog EP back in '97."

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, this is a great piece. James seems perfectly reasonable to me. In fact I like him a lot. I expected snark and taking potshots, I guess. Whereas he's talking about how music that doesn't get to him can work for other people.. being diplomatic, I think. Talking about why this or that record, hip hop, NIN, is really male and hating all this macho rock posing. I feel like I should hate it more than I do, honestly.

Gestures of rock in the vocals, the rock gesture in the production, the manipulation of sound, sound being the manipulator in terms of cool versus sound being a manipulator in terms of your body.

What does this mean? It's very interesting. I'd like to talk to him myself, it's not as if I make music right now and could do anything with it, but I'm just curious. Like his way of thinking about music makes sense to me and then there's a side of my brain that says if I had a band, it should sound like Big Black. There's some weird tension between hating a lot of things about rock and thinking there needs to be a canon. I guess that's often the space where the most interesting work gets done.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wire ostensibly makes a big pissing contest out of this, trying to stump artists with records, test their knowledge of their own genre, stuff like that.

that's so wrong and, even if it wasn't, what's wrong with that? The writer seems a bit of a dick, at least give them some respect if you're going to rip off their idea.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

also judging by the Mayer comments the interviewer hasn't heard "French Kiss".

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the mayer thing still bugs me. so he hears the first measures and spouts off some generalization about, what? techno? house? it doesn't "go anywhere" or "do anything"? wtf? it just sounds like the talk of a guy who supposedly makes dance music but doesn't dance. and it sorta goes a ways towards explaining the strange feeling of not-quite-rightness i get when i listen to dfa product. like, i'm glad it exists in a way and i've enjoyed several things, but it doesn't excite. or not as often as whatever it is he's dissing there (if he is indeed doing dissing--again, it's sort of gibberish). i mean, before _touch_ came out i heard the first 30 secs of "neue..." and felt so elated, like it could just do that for 7 minutes and i'd be happy. blah blah blah, diff'rent strokes. all that.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

also judging by the Mayer comments the interviewer hasn't heard "French Kiss".

so . . . is this a hanging offense now or something?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

damn right!

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't you just love stopping by people's apartments?
-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), May 9th, 2005."

Jeez, Spencer... is that sarcasm I detect?
This is Nick Sylvester we're talking about. It's not like he's one of those shallow, superficial L.A. people.

― On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

the mayer thing still bugs me. ... it doesn't "go anywhere" or "do anything"? wtf? it just sounds like the talk of a guy who supposedly makes dance music but doesn't dance.

it made me think almost the opposite, like the problems i have with some ompakt(ish) tunes...well, sometimes they do sound like just the beginning. there's no there there innit. DFA tunes tend to go through stages as if there's this dance telos moment they wish to achieve. like, Hasn't anyone learned anything from what we learned about making disco tracks, making disco edits that just get better and better and better? made me really excited. do that! i'll do it as long as i can dance to it!

― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Great read, Daria's otm. I think the 'confusion' about Murphy's comments on the Mayer-track is largely caused by the way they're written down (and because of fanboy kneejerk responses, probably ;-)). I like his view on the 'importance' of a canon, without making it too big of an issue.

― willem (willem), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I know what he means on the Mayer track...a reverse key follow filter meaning (I'm assuming) that the hook is a loop programmed to gradually change in some way...and he's complaining that all the producer does is increase and decrease levels on the track and doesn't need to do much else..he's arguing that this is what killed disco, that the producers made it so easy to follow a pattern and reach a climax that the genre imploded....I'm not sure I agree (with this specific track)

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 9 May 2005 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

He doesn't like lewdness cuz he's 35.

― Lethal Dizzle (djdee2005), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

er, i understood the "disco edits" comment differently. isn't he saying disco's great because the songs are densely and inventively arranged? so you have lots of possibilities for lifting bits, for chopping it up, for sampling. and beyond that, the interesting arrangements mean that 20 years later carl craig can still be dropping "disco circus" or something into a house set and it sounds good.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"Don't you just love stopping by people's apartments?
-- Spencer Chow (spencercho...), May 9th, 2005."

Jeez, Spencer... is that sarcasm I detect?
This is Nick Sylvester we're talking about. It's not like he's one of those shallow, superficial L.A. people.

-- On a Strict El Cholo Diet (fiestasandsiestas(nospam)@yahoo.com), May 9th, 2005.

omg roffle

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

continuing on my rant, i was thrilled by the mayer comment. yes, there's a place for minimally-arranged or structured music. that place is 1985, in the case of acid house. similarly, watching the video for joey beltram's "forklift" (i posted a link earlier today) this morning made me realize why i am so turned off by most of the speicher series - with a few exceptions, it's the same old shit, with a design-friendly new european face.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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