Lindstrom & Prins Thomas are the shit

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it had some other name on it but it was in their section and someone had written on it "AKA LINDSTROM = DOPE!"
Ummm...aren't you in SF? And did you buy this CD at Amoeba?

I smell the handiwork of Heywood Jablomi!!!!!

yes yes, that's me alright (although i've changed my handle...)
the record in question would have been the supremely fantastic Six Cups of Rebel 12" on Feedelity. Susan - did you like it?
I tried turning a good friend on to this recently but he returned it with the complaint that it was "too balearic". ;) I can't get enough of it. enjoyed best with herbalisms after dark.

also susan, if you bought the album i would DEFINITELY recommend the single (with the wood-carved owl on the cover), which is a more uptempo, extended version of 'turkish delight'. it's exactly what l&pt do so perfectly.

i also just got email from eskimo that they've done a US distro deal with forced exposure so expect CDs of the L&PT album to be in the shop shortly. great news, i think.

dominique, i hear what you're saying, but i think there's less of a direct comparison to LCDS than trends in rock/indie/live music to be influenced by disco and krautrock. i think there's more techno in LCDS, more balearic in L&PT, more italo in Putsch 79. definite overlap though...

― something less threatening (heywood), Monday, 9 January 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

l&pt remixes of roxy music? wtf!

Try this: play the L&PT remix of Juan Maclean's "Tito's Way" and proceed with Roxy Music's "India" (from Avalon). It has the same feel/atmosphere, imo. Knowing Avalon by heart (my parents used to play it a lot), a lot of L&PT's music/remixes hit the same spots as Avalon did/still does.

― willem -- (willem), Monday, 9 January 2006 20:43 (twenty years ago)

With LCD Soundsystem, I've always heard an inherent gimcrackery, this strange sense that I'm dancing and laughing along with this inside joke, that is only funny once. This has always been an obstacle with my enjoyment of the music. Maybe it helps that most of lindstrom and prins thomas's music is instrumental. But I hear a lot more punk rock in LCDS than L&PT.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Monday, 9 January 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

"india" has the most killer sample ever.

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

I like to pretend that India was Ferry's way of saying "see, I can do weird, cool, groovy, instrumental soundscapes too..." to Eno.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

That 6 Cups.. is really good. His most Krautrockish stuff.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:58 (twenty years ago)

jacobs otm. i forgot the punk!

― something less threatening (heywood), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

What interests me about the L&PT/LCD connection is how ultimately the "Tribulations" remix sounds so... organic? Not in the sense of sounding naturalistic, but as if it's the habitual state of this particular song. It doesn't strike me as sounding like a remix, whereas the Tiga mix definitely does (though I like it about as much).

I find Justus Kohncke in disco mode to be closer to these guys than Metro Area, perhaps because both Kohncke and L&PT are more obviously disco-as-in-house (live-sounding but still heavy four-to-the-floor beats - hence the DFA resemblance), whereas Metro Area are like disco-as-in-not-house. And Kohncke gets that slightly swirly smudgy quality as well (see esp. "Krieg") which is the one point where the Faze Action comparison falls short for me.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

parts of "turkish delight" remind me of the instrumentals on bowie's low which is no bad thing at all. i love that the bass line is a double bass + a bass guitar + a squelchy analog synth all intertwined, it's a hot bass three-way. heh.

i believe i have a few records that are labelled "dope!"

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

so how much of this record is samples vs actual playing? i remember chatting with someone from norway about these guys and he was saying that a lot of it was samples or edits which is definitely true of the major swellings release and some of the tracks on the comp, but this album, with the exception of the percussion loops, sounds like they actually played the stuff. it's great either way, but if it's all samples, wow...

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:14 (twenty years ago)

i think isolée is a good reference point for these guys too.

― breakfast pants (disco stu), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 05:17 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i think i said upthread when I first heard the album that I'll probably always associate it with Wearemonster.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)

yesterday I emailed a friend that I Feel Space and My Hi-Matic are sisters in song. Both beautiful italo-influenced space disco tracks which stand-out against the more electro/italo type retro-italo.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:11 (twenty years ago)

i've temporarily come out of lurkdom and deep penetrating petulant anger to say ...6 Cups of Rebel - YES! YES! YES!! (thx Heywood!) and maybe even more yes (I only listened to it once and them immediately had to listen to Roxy Music and then.... Neil Young..?.) The Lindstrom and Prins Thomas self-titled record - not so much, so far. seemed too jointed, like 2 people who don't work very well together trying to get ideas out but I only listened to a few tracks (Turkish Delight was one and not very into it at all).

jacobs OTM on LCD vs. Lindstrom.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I think Prins Thomas is the good one.

Goettsching!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

I had that feeling before too. And also had the feeling that they are like 8 different people instead of 2. What I like about them i think is that thing - that you can hear/sense that extreme artistic looseness and un-presumptiveness even with regard to old styles/sounds, which is another way they are not like LCD. They don't follow some formula b/c they want some sound to come out in a slightly different path but following some fashion trajectory that started ages ago. And they're still stylin.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I do wish Lindstrom would learn a new bass riff (dum - d-dum).

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

quite a lot of it is live as opposed to samples. for the less electronic space disco tracks i know they have a really basic drum kit they play and then sample.

like ronan, i sometimes think prins thomas is the good one as he doesn't noodle quite as much, but then i'll listen to something like 'arp she said' and change my mind again.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

you've spent time with them, haven't you jd? i would suspect you'd know better than any of us.

it seems they're in japan doing live sets this weekend, let's hope some audio makes its way onto the intarwebb for our listening pleasure. and because i'm spending way too much money for my first ipod tomorrow. :)

― something less threatening (heywood), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:24 (twenty years ago)

oh btw, been listening to 'another side of lindstrom' again last night and it's really growing on me. sometimes it sounds dodgy and way too noodly and at others it sounds brilliant. last night's listen veered toward brilliant immediately and stayed there. must have been the weed. it's definitely a melding of the lindstrom's slowsupreme side and his i feel space side, and it does clash a bit. has anyone else heard the 'violent group' 10" that has preceded this? apparently the label outergaze is pressing in the US so if you're in the states you'll be able to get the doublepack at a domestic price.

― something less threatening (heywood), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:28 (twenty years ago)

i like him most when he noodles.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I know I've heard the violent group single, but can't remember a thing about it. Lindstrom & co. are in dire need of a compilation.

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:09 (twenty years ago)

there's live audio on www.ourdisco.com

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

We're heading out to this tonight. Is it going to be any good? Anyone seen 'em?

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Friday, 13 January 2006 04:46 (twenty years ago)

did you go, how was it?

also, just got word from my distributor that the lindstrom "another station" 12" is out next week, white labels only with no artist credited (just like arp she said). fingers crossed, we'll be getting some here in SF...

― something less threatening (heywood), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

and...?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 14 January 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

i'll know by wednesday...(if your xpost was for me)

― something less threatening (heywood), Sunday, 15 January 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

i should have xposted, but yeah let us know about that too.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 15 January 2006 08:03 (twenty years ago)

one side of the violent group 12" is a pretty decent instrumental disco track. could use some vocals to anchor it though. the other side is a bit fusion-jazzy in a pretty good/interestigng way and sounds great slowed to 33 rpm. also, possibly the most rock thing they've done and one of my favorites is their remix of call me mr. telephone that just came out. they basically rewrote and played the music. it's 11 mins long and the vocals don't come in until 5 mins in.

― Graham Gouldman (Graham Gouldman), Monday, 16 January 2006 02:02 (twenty years ago)

i love the track but the vocals grate for me. their inclusion in that recent 'our disco' live set had me kind of cringing, especially when i played it for other people...

― something less threatening (heywood), Monday, 16 January 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

So does anyone else feel like the M.A.N.D.Y. remix of "I Feel Space" sound like a 4:45 intro/M.A.N.D.Y. throw-away followed by 2:45 of a pretty solid remix?

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:33 (twenty years ago)

new lindstrom/riton "monsteer"/"young girl" split isn't bad. the lindstrom track is a good, mid-tempo disco-funk thing (which isn't really saying much, I know, but I've only heard it a couple of times!)

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 16:50 (twenty years ago)

is that a philip glass sample on Monsteer? The female vocal bit...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm loving Monsteer.

― matt2 (matt2), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

matt2: i'm inclined to agree with you, it doesn't blow me away.

btw SF folks: "Another Station" is in stock NOW. come'n'git it.

― something less threatening (heywood), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

I can't get a hold of I Feel Space anywhere. It's annoying.

― Gukbe (lokar), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:27 (twenty years ago)

ooh also, hanspeter tells me that this 'mighty girl' 12" is the next single off the album (strangely enough) and is a cover of an obscure Can tune off a 1973 Peel Session. i'm drooling...

and gukbe, if you live anywhere near san francisco, i've got one copy left here at the shop...

― something less threatening (heywood), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

cheers SLE, but i live in glasgow. i also don't have a record player...

― Gukbe (lokar), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

can't you get it in RubADub?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

hmm...i've never been there, actually. i'll give it a go this weekend.

― Gukbe (lokar), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

they may well have it. the guys in the shop are mostly nice and friendly too (although u may expect otherwise).

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:44 (twenty years ago)

was it released on cd?
i know that feedelity will be selling through itunes soon...

― something less threatening (heywood), Friday, 20 January 2006 00:10 (twenty years ago)

no. fuckin. way.
http://beatresearch.blogspot.com/2006/01/elijahs-year-in-dance.html

― something less threatening (heywood), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:35 (twenty years ago)

hobbitt's a connoisseur

― manuel (manuel), Friday, 27 January 2006 05:40 (twenty years ago)

I need to raid jeff goldblums' collection for the original (even tho I stand to be disappointed if his claim is true). damn you hobbit, it would have been easy to name the record

― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 27 January 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

the end of 'hergest ridge' has a similar arpeggio but it certainly doesn't sound like they have ripped it off.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 27 January 2006 14:49 (twenty years ago)

oh you guys

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

"Nick Cannon came in while scratching his nuts and said, 'What the fuck is this -- crazy cracker computer shit?' Then he ran out." Amazing.

― C.D., Friday, 27 January 2006 16:08 (twenty years ago)

The s/t album has been pleasant listening so far but not much more. I think I like their DJ mixes much more.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm liking the new single "Mighty Girl"

― van igloo (van smack), Sunday, 5 February 2006 03:53 (twenty years ago)

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