I'm gonna go to that poncey as shit cocktail bar on Kings Road where they serve "ethically sourced" spirits next week.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
It's Mayweek and I can't drink booze because I'm on penicillin for severe tonsilitis, now how crap is that?
I'm calling Dom as a cognac drinker. It's good stuff.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
you are funny little men, you lot
― lex pretend, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
we learned it by watching you, dad
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
OK that last little exchange is all kinds of weird.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
nick srsly stop with this bourgeois "ten year-old rioja/hand-sewn headphones" bullshit, bro.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Photo562.jpg
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Admittedly that's a cheap bottle and my less-expensive headphones...
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
haha. excellent work w. the orbital poster.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i have sony phones, sipping on lean.
― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet Nick secretly fills his wine glass up to the top. And pours as soon as he's opened the bottle.
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/biografias/images/asprilla2.jpg
― Just got offed, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahahahaha; my girlfriend hates how little I pour into a glass at a time.
― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 21 June 2007 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is more ILE than ILM
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i.e. it's vaguely disturbing and fully incomprehensible?
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:12 (sixteen years ago) link
surely we're splitting hairs about the boards at this point in that case
― strongohulkington, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
too chummy. come on, this is supposed to mean something, you're fighting for your generation's soul here.
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
baja thinks that online music forums have the power to change the world
― Dom Passantino, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
he is the small cat
― blueski, Thursday, 21 June 2007 22:58 (sixteen years ago) link
umm. no talk of the extra disc that comes with the initial release of this album. the cover gives no tracklisting of the remixes. are they crap, or should i be getting the limited version for more goodness ?
― mark e, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i bought the album because of this thread.
it's OK. it's not given me the immediate OMGZ steamrollering that i got from 'cross', but a good few tracks i can see becoming favourites.
― Alan, Friday, 22 June 2007 09:49 (sixteen years ago) link
wow, that stylus review is on some next level of idiocy. NS be kicking against the Machine, maaan. i mean, i'm certain (i'd like to see some hard proof already, fuck this kaffeklatsch shit) more people listen (and dance) to SMD/Justice/... than minimal or whatever irrelevant coccoon-like form dance gatekeepers like to retreat to.
― John Splith, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:22 (sixteen years ago) link
also, fuck an audiophile. nick, are you absolutely sure you don't hear any depth or detail or whatever compared to other dance stuff? or are you just hallucinating due to some OMG THEY CAME UP IN INDIE POO POO UNWASHED UNDISCERNING MASSES HACK HACK kneejerk reaction? plz let me know.
― John Splith, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:25 (sixteen years ago) link
see ILM passim
― Alan, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:27 (sixteen years ago) link
that's what i'm seeing. its like groundhog day. and anyway, sorry about these outbursts. i just thought nick was a bright lad and was above this kind of lame strawman-burning. my world is falling down here.
― John Splith, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:33 (sixteen years ago) link
seeing=saying
― John Splith, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i can sympathise with Nick's review quite a bit myself, even tho I like the odd SMD thing (but prefer Justice)
― blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:35 (sixteen years ago) link
omg wait i just saw this:
It didn’t just get me into music outside of guitars and gripes; it completely changed my worldview. The saving grace of a seventeen-year-old shithead.
indie guilt-tripping much? 17 is laaate teens, btw.
― John Splith, Friday, 22 June 2007 12:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, i'm certain (i'd like to see some hard proof already, fuck this kaffeklatsch shit) more people listen (and dance) to SMD/Justice/... than minimal or whatever irrelevant coccoon-like form dance gatekeepers like to retreat to.
Maybe where you live.
― jim, Friday, 22 June 2007 14:14 (sixteen years ago) link
well i dunno jim, where do you live?
― John Splith, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i can see how you might think no one cared about minimal if you only went to indie nights in crappy dives or some shit
― lex pretend, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Well minimal isn't hugely popular where I live but even so the biggest minimal night is still far bigger than the biggest indie-dance night (Villalobos plays bigger venues than Ed Banger).
― jim, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
But you know, some things are more popular in some places than they are in others and you'd have to be a fool to state "no-one dances to this shit anyway" about any kind of music without some in-depth knowledge of global nightlife.
― jim, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i know right? even in london, which is where smd and a lot of people in this scene are based...they play fabric and so on occasionally, but villalobos, allien, ananda, mayer et al are the bigger nights. and a sjim says, this isn't even taking into account global minimal popularity!
― lex pretend, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
don't see the connection...
― Ronan, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
tsk, i thought we'd established that measuring a scene's popularity by club attendance/queue length was as silly as measuring it by record sales.
― blueski, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I hoped we'd established that a scene's popularity is moot in discussing the merits of said scene but maybe I'm too much of an optimist.
― jim, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i wuz gonna say, like
― Alan, Friday, 22 June 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
bonus disc tracklisting:
1. I Got This Down (Instrumental Version) 4:10 2. It's The Beat (Dub for Annie Mac) 6:36 3. Hustler (Club Version) 6:36 4. I Believe (SMD Space Dub) 6:10 5. Hot Dub 6:46 6. Wooden (Uncut)
i've not heard it. i've not heard the album, either, though due to this thread i'm considering it.
― Gukbe, Friday, 22 June 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
finally listened: this is really rather good, esp. 'Scott' which is what Orbital should've sounded more like on their last album or even better what a British MC should be burbling over on their own album.
― blueski, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
and it really didn't sound particularly over-compressed on my earphones - no more than, say, 'Machine Says Yes' which it reminds me of a fair bit.
― blueski, Monday, 16 July 2007 19:51 (sixteen years ago) link
whoa 'i believe' is a great song
― deej, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 07:45 (sixteen years ago) link
"it's the beat" on through "hotdog" is especially murderous.
― Jordan Sargent, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 07:51 (sixteen years ago) link
no fucking mercury nomination who the fuck's responsible?
― pisces, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 09:37 (sixteen years ago) link
all the evidence points to this being a must-buy DESPITE my knights of cydonia-inspired reservations so graphically delineated above.
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:37 (sixteen years ago) link
you can listen to extracts on bleep.com
― blueski, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
louis maybe you could tell us again about your reaction to the knights of cydonia remix
― max, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
"what a British MC should be burbling over on their own album."
not the sound of their blood running from their freshly guillotined head?
― Ronan, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
r.i.p. lex.
― Jordan Sargent, Sunday, 23 September 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
its funny how snobbery transcends all genres
― bnw, Sunday, 23 September 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link