delia gonzalez & gavin russom

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (420 of them)

View Previous Page...

they have crazier ones.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

it's fantastic.

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

show me crazier ones.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

i also unabashedly like most anything them dfa dudes release.

xpost, i'm with jed.

― tricky (disco stu), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

ive just started listening to this today. I havent listend to any Tangerine dream before but this sounds kind of like what I imagined TD would sound like. I may be way off. It definitely has a heavy krautrock vibe though.

― jmeister (jmeister), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

i wonder if this will get dfa-into people into kosmischeykrazykrautstuff.

i really think they should drop the electro-dance angle (i was sympathetic but unimpressed w/ the juan mclean, J.O.Y., leotard front, etc)

then they could put all their energy into doing things like d&g, more black dice / EYE remixes, more ten-minute drummy kraut pixeltan remixes, etc ... they should produce a kevin drumm album or something ...

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

less tangerine dream, more tubular bells ... TD is more all-over-the-place and improv-sounding.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

leotard front is delia and gavin, i think.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i never got past the first few minutes of tubular bells but now im going to go for it. if only i wasnt hundreds of miles away from my records *sigh*

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

hstencil that is sad, sad news.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i guess sometimes even a golden goose lays a turd.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

why? i've never heard it and couldn't really care less since most dfa stuff blows donkey ballz but if gavin + delia wanna put out whatever, hey it's their perogative.

here's a fereaky performance shot:

http://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/b_projred/imgsjolund/russom.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

I love that Black Leotard Front song from the DFA Comp 2!

― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

it is delia and gavin with Tim Goldsworthy and someone else. god i love that tune.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

i dunno what the musique is like but blf = performance groop with delia, gavin and ssome other dude whose name i'm blanking on, i think. seen some freaky fotos of that too.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

god bless 'em.

http://www.socledumonde.dk/billeder/black_leotard_front_performance_1_web.jpg

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

other dude = christain holstad.

Matos called "Casual Friday" the best 15 minute disco tune ever recorded. he may well be right.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Vahid I'd be interested to know what it is you dislike about "Casual Friday" - I think it's ace, and it's the sort of area where I'd expect you and Jed to have solidarity.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget their...inflatable limousine...thing:

http://www.socledumonde.dk/billeder/black_leotard_front__sdm_2004__install_web.jpg

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

xpost: its un-sexiness and monotony, i think.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/walrobinson/Images/robinson4-29-11.jpg

― maria b (maria b), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Tim, i'm also surprised Vahid doesn't love it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

it's like all tension + no release. it's basically an endless tease ... (sort of appropriate for a song about being naked under a trenchcoat?)

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:20 (twenty years ago)

But she does flash the guy I thought???

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

it's great to see when it's played at optimo half the dancefloor is taking on one role or another

dancer one: "to surprise... you in.... the flesh"
dancer two: "you love me... you must.... confess!"

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

Are they separate roles?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

hmm maybe those two are the same.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

I thought it was all from the viewpoint of the flasher:

I was leaving the office
I took off my dress
I put on my overcoat
To surprise you in the flesh
It's written all over my chest
You love me you must confess
You passed the test

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

yes

thanks for ruining my dance routine!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

to contrast w/ DFA-disco tracks i really really really like

"yeah (pretentious mix)" - the payoff is the final, spasmodic timbale/drum solo at the end, where after eleven or so minutes of restrained, tasteful percussion-tapping the dude just breaks out into this endless drumroll that ends in what sounds like a whole wall of pots and pans clattering to the floor.

"get up say what (dfa remix)" - the payoff is those endless change-offs between hissy hi-hat action and thugged-out bassline sections ... it's almost like a call-and-response between the parts where the bass is high in the mix and the parts where the hats are real high - it's basically live filter disco, right?

i feel like "casual friday" has the endless noodling of classic instrument-led disco (believe me, i'm a big fan of the joey negro / dj harvey / dimitri sound) but without the freakouts that leaven it. or, put another way, it's like filter disco, without the filters - sort of an endless circular groove (and not really all that functional, compared to the monstergrooves of "yeah" or "beat connection") that goes nowhere.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

its un-sexiness and monotony, i think.

on which planet again?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:31 (twenty years ago)

i feel like "casual friday" has the endless noodling of classic instrument-led disco (believe me, i'm a big fan of the joey negro / dj harvey / dimitri sound) but without the freakouts that leaven it.

you mean like the "I've Lost Control" screaming part, or the weird keyboard wig-outs that occur every few minutes? those aren't freakouts?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:32 (twenty years ago)

not freaky enough for me, apparently. anyway, it's neither here nor there whether or not i give a shit about "casual friday" - we can all agree it's cool that the DFA are doing things other than dance-punk?

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

they always did other things than that, though.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i know that.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

is the fact that dfa release dance-punk why some people don't like them? dance-punk reads like pastiche to me and while i can see why that accusation may be leveled at them, i think there is more to it than that. (proven in the execution, usually, but if it's not your cup of tea then fair enough - i mean i really like the juan maclean album and that's a different sort of execution altogether, not some studio-muso thing)

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:49 (twenty years ago)

duh. of course you do. sorry. (xpost)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

is the fact that dfa release dance-punk why some people don't like them?

no, i doubt it. if anything, prob the opposite (it's why some people DO like them) ... but i think at this point they've sort of been (unfairly) tagged as "the dance punk label" and it's very cool to see that they're not letting themselves fall into a cul-de-sac with that.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

they talked about that very thing in the Simon Reynolds Voice feature last year--turning down work after the initial burst of attention in '02 so they could do pretty much what they wanted w/o pressure to be one thing.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

they've certainly been knocking out those remixes lately though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

delia and gavin's full length sounds exciting. I'm with vahid on DFA. Also, I'm trying to not only see James Murphy as being DFA.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

they seem to be remixes of artists on the label though i am probably forgetting some.

"dance punk" seems very shallow, but i guess all genre labels are.

anyway, i bet the days of mars is good. i downloaded it, but haven't listened yet. i liked the "el monte" single. initiatic journey through the vibrational system of the planetary mind sums it up pretty well. heh.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

I really like the second half of "Casual Friday".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

they've remixed NiN, Blues Explosion, Chemical bros, Gorrilaz, Soulwax as well as Black Dice fairly recently. I'm not complaining though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, i saw that limited nine inch nine inch nails single with the dfa remix and almost bought it for sheer novelty. what's the remix like?

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.80s.de/SINGLES/alexanderoneal_fake.JPG

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

FUCK. WRONG THREAD. SORRY.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

another crazy performance pic I see

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

Matos called "Casual Friday" the best 15 minute disco tune ever recorded

It's great that this comment often turns up in blurbs/press releases accompanying the 12".

Vahid, you might dig the instrumental version of "Casual Friday" which sounds more like a DFA remix amd focuses on the disco strut guitar line.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 320 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Good for her!

― one way street, Friday, 7 July 2017 23:19 (eight years ago)

four months pass...

Love this: https://deliagonzalez.bandcamp.com/track/vesuvius

― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 13:39 (eight years ago)

nice

― sleeve, Thursday, 16 November 2017 18:56 (eight years ago)

"horse follows darkness" is really excellent

― the late great, Thursday, 16 November 2017 19:45 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

A new triple-LP by Black Meteoric Star, and a free 2hr 37min DJ mix by Gavilán Rayna Russom to promote it. Plus more new & archival Russom releases at the Bandcamp link!

― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 23 July 2020 20:00 (five years ago)

whoa thanks

― sleeve, Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:41 (five years ago)

casual friday was the best thing released on dfa in its heyday

― plax (ico), Friday, 31 July 2020 20:13 (five years ago)

this is my opinion

― plax (ico), Friday, 31 July 2020 20:14 (five years ago)

Carl Craig mix of Relevee came close

― I am using your worlds, Friday, 31 July 2020 20:39 (five years ago)

the correct opinion xp

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 31 July 2020 21:15 (five years ago)

I prefer "Hey Coach! (I Read Your Diary)"

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 31 July 2020 23:14 (five years ago)

lol rude

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 21:09 (five years ago)

I love Casual Friday to death. One I managed to play it during a set, blended into something else around the halfway point, played other stuff for an hour or so, then blended back into the second half of it to end the set; it went over REALLY well.

I would also call Days of Mars the best LP ever released on DFA.

― The Troops™ (jamescobo), Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:50 (five years ago)

Yeah probably right. Feel like I'm ready to hear some DFA stuff again, most best of stuff focuses on the first golden age (circa 04?) But would really enjoy a recap of the good stuff coming out around 09 that felt like a great second wind

― plax (ico), Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:19 (five years ago)

the two Still Going singles (07 and 09) on DFA are great!

― mizzell, Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:40 (five years ago)

always loved “too much love” rub n tug remix fwiw

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:01 (five years ago)

relevee carl craig mix fuiud

― ||||||||, Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:23 (five years ago)

yah to both of these

― plax (ico), Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:31 (five years ago)

probably my track of late 2018, early 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_IWcNfJOk

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:00 (five years ago)

2007-2010ish stuff includes (the physical release of) 45:33, You Are The Space Invader, Hercules & Love Affair, Happy House, Brooklyn Club Jam, Goblin City, I'll Keep On Loving You, Fire Eyes, I Will Come Back, Still Going, Oh Missy, Shit Robot, and Synchronize, as well as Black Meteoric Star, The Crystal Ark and the release of Track 5. What a label!

― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:03 (five years ago)

I love this late-era Prinzhorn track too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-d9ou2QXsU

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:05 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/VXDFE60.jpg

― ||||||||, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:28 (five years ago)

I liked that black meteor star “dawn” single that sounded like a distorted 20 minute John carpenter jam

― brimstead, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:31 (five years ago)

omg that amy douglas track is fire

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:34 (five years ago)

I like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1xp6h_D1s

― brimstead, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:34 (five years ago)

map, check out the crooked man dub of it too.

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:43 (five years ago)

haha i was just searching for "crooked man" on discogs to see if there are any other good tunes they remixed besides roisin but all i found was this not-great blondie track from 2017

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:46 (five years ago)

Amy Douglas wrote the new Roisin song, Something More.

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:51 (five years ago)

It was someone called Bryce Hackford that did that Delia remix brimstead posted (thanks, I had never heard it). I'd never heard of him either but I'm listening to a new album of his, called Safe (Exits) rn, and liking it quite a bit.

― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:08 (five years ago)

first two shit robot singles are gloriously strange and deserve more love

re: 2009, this is evergreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce5VDZvjWSc

― the late great, Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:37 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Why does no one ever talk about the "Track 5" 12"? Both sides (including the Âme remix) are to me the duo's peak. Just listened again on a whim and my opinion has not changed.

― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 20 September 2020 15:00 (five years ago)

one year passes...

Gavilán interview:
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/gavilan-rayna-russom-on-why-she-left-lcd-soundsystem/

Not long after unveiling Voluminous Arts, Russom contracted a severe case of COVID-19. “Largely why I didn’t go to the hospital is because my local hospital is Elmhurst [in Queens, New York], and, at the time there were refrigerator trucks of dead bodies outside,” she said. “There were no beds…. At that point going to the hospital seemed worse than dying on my couch.” Russom says that she still experiences persistent post-COVID symptoms, such as migraines and disorientation, which factored into her hesitance to perform live.

― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 27 November 2021 17:16 (four years ago)

― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Saturday, 27 November 2021 17:22 (four years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.

delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars