delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

This is exactly why I like it! Early analogue sequencer TD and terry Riley are awesome.

I think they did a one off for Kosmiche radio show in london last year but it went under my radar.

might solve the presets and left the room debate.

Danny.

I know there's a DFA night in mid-november sometime

hosted by otimo at the at school

NOV 12 2005: Metz France w/CocoRosie @ Salle Ochs
NOV 15 2005 Paris France w/Kid 606 @ Point Ephemere
NOV 18 London England w/ DJ Tim Goldsworthy & Tim Sweeney @ Plastic People
NOV 19 Glasgow Scotland w/ DJ Tim Goldsworthy & Tim Sweeney @ Glasgow School of Art

I totally cant wait.

If i had my druthers..Id go to the art school.

but them and optimo at the artschool might be too orangey for this crow.

it's like that but not as interesting or good. which isn't to say it's bad, it just doesn't do anything for me that early kraftwerk/td/oldfield/Jean Michel Jarre don't do.

Also they have a live show worth listening to here:feed://feeds.feedburner.com/ourdisco

Ha ha that's great. This is a track that always makes me think "wait, am I hearing a remix?" It's so current sounding.

Christ I hope it does. The "ABA"/"#5" part is hands-down my favorite part of the Holiday Mix.

What's the Baby Ford mix sound like? I've never even heard of them before,

This DFA mix at Fact has a track from Gavin Russom's new project, Black Meteoric Star, apparently to be released on DFA later this year.

and there's an interview with him too.

Whatever happened to Black Leotard Front?

"Wouldn’t we all like to know."

Are Delia and Gavin not making another album together???

I can't really fathom that...

REVIVE

so Gavin Russom's remix of Petar Dundov's "Oasis" is kind of amazing - the beat's a lot more propulsive than anything on Days of Mars, but it's got the same epic synth-noodling feel. I actually think it'd work really well in a set with Lindstrom or Aeroplane's more chilled-out numbers or whatnot.

also I really like that Black Meteoric Star song on his MySpace too!

There's not a single beat on Days of Mars, is there? Yeah his Dundov remix is fab, bought it after I read about it on thisisnotanexitblog. He (Simon Carr, does he post here btw?) wrote this great anecdote about Gonzalez & Russom dissolving after finally, finally giving in during a live show by dropping a kick drum during another one of their amazing ever growing but never climaxing tracks. Tim Sweeney has been playing two Black Meteoric Star songs during the last couple of months on BeatsInSpace.

oh, Days of Mars is beatless; I was just trying to describe how the Oasis mix builds in the same incremental, gestural way (but with an actual beat). clearly I was never meant to post on ILX with a head full of cold medicine.

I miss them

i never see this in shops and I always look out for it.

So, can we talk about the Black Meteoric Star album here, then?

I can't get over how much I love this. It is full of wub. The whole thing is just made of wub. There's more wub on this record than on a Spacemen 3 b-side, that's how much wub there is. It kind of purrs and hums like a giant kitten. A giant space kitten. Flicking in and out of intergalactic phase.

This is just dronerock, 100% and it makes me full of wub.

ok so there are droney guitars but i think '100% dronerock' is misleading. sounds like burbly acid-house to me, above all else.

i really didn't want to engage w/you again but seriously waht other 'dronerock' out there sounds even remotely like this? maybe some of the bands on DC?

^^^and the droney guitars aren't even really on the album, just that petar dundov remix iirc

1) why do you think that the term "dronerock" is somehow bad?

2) who said anything about guitars (much of Sonic Boom's solo work, as E.A.R. and others is purely synth based)

3) oh wait, you're not engaging with me. Forget I said any of this.

by these standards, thousands of nu-disco, acid house, space disco etc records are all 100% dronerock, no? They have similarities (repetition, spaciness, droniness). Don't even mention all the neo-krautrock going on in the cosmic/beardo disco scenes, that's the real dronerock these days!

he said as Emperor Machine's Roller Daddy came on the iPod.

i love drone rock! i said 'misleading' not 'bad'

we must be listening to different EAR records. the ones i have are pretty much beatless (and filled with guitar drone). sonic boom i could understand, but i always think of that stuff as sprawling and experimental, whereas black meteoric star seems to reign in that experimentation and structure it as something far more house-y.

the reason i didn't want to engage again was because i've noticed we pretty much always have differing opinions (even when we like the same stuff) and didn't want more pointless arguing. but i wanted to know where u were coming from, and now i'm starting to, so yeh

and dan selzer as usual otm

also when i say sonic boom solo stuff is 'sprawling and experimental' i think i just mean that it feels improvised

it's droney, but it's not really rock, is it?

i'm listening to old spectrum albums again for the first time in ages tho so no harm, no foul

Hey, it's OK. Different people can engage with the same music for different reasons.

The synths reminded me a lot of Forever Alien, the sort of pulsing, throbbing drones with slithering phase all over them. It also reminded me a bit of the Koner Experiment, but I haven't listened to that in years, so maybe it's my mind playing tricks on me.

I'm not familiar with vast swathes of dance music - to my ears, it sounds closest to early Orbital and maybe Sabres of Paradise (but that could just be because that's the dance music I like.) That remix you sent sounded just like Sabres of Paradise to me, especially the tone of the guitar. But then again, the synths also remind me of the synths on the first Duran Duran album, specifically the wub + phase aspect of them.

I mean the texture and the feel of the music, rather than "it sounds exactly like X" - it's obviously hugely influenced by krautrock, but specifically the end of krautrock that disappears into drone rather than the funky Can-like end.

And yeah, a *lot* of the dance music I've heard recently (Lindstrom, The Field, etc.) does sound like 100% dronerock to me. But then again, yeah, emphasis on the drone, rather than the rock. A lot of this stuff would seriously not go amiss with the Terrastock crowd.

But I could be focusing on different things, because I don't tend to listen to beats at all, I mainly listen to textures.

(I can't get my head around the current genres of dance music - this record was in the house section at Phonica, which was the last place I'd put it. But then again, I don't know what any of these things mean. To my ears, "Balearic" just means "we put some bongos on it" while "cosmic" means "we whacked a lot of phase on it and ran it through the sweep coloursound on our DJM-800" and god knows what "nu-disco" means at all.)

to me black meteoric star sounds like reggae but that might be b/c i listen to textures, not beats