ye olde VITALIC myths and rumours thread

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i heard this myth two weeks ago that they were playing at don hill's, but that musta just been some shit somebody made up@!! dammit.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:07 (twenty years ago)

vitalic was scheduled to play don hill's but he canceled!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:33 (twenty years ago)

i think he might've canceled all his US dates.

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:33 (twenty years ago)

he's playing the big day out, this sunday!!!

...at 1:45 pm in the afternoon, in a tent?!

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:38 (twenty years ago)

i think he might've canceled all his US dates.

SAD FACE x A MILLION

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

that was PUNISHING. it was so hot in the tent, his laptop crashed after two minutes! I thought he looked very non-plussed about it at first, but it turned out that is just his regular facial expression. once the problem was sorted (solution: a big fan placed on the stage) he dropped straight back in where it had left off. best bit #1: cutting "la rock 01" off really suddenly, then fading up this weird pingy alternate version, it was like a 2-step remix! then CRUNCH back into the original. best bit #2: end of set = "dario" > "no fun" > "fanfares". oof.

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:12 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. He was supposed to be playing around here in March, and it was enough for me to think about going to an overpriced dance club for, like, the first time in ages... I wonder if that's still on...

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Vitalic really needs to lose the laptop and find some other way of playing live.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Please to try and identify song from Vitalic set based on stupidly vague description:

He opened with it when I saw him at Warwick Uni. Built up to this 4 chord progression over yer 4/4 kick beat, with big epic synth strings and wailing, incomprehensible vocals. Felt almost uncomfortably overwhelming at the time. Didn't recognise at as being a Vitalic original, it wasn't as detuned and bleepy as most of his stuff, but I dunno.

The chord progression may have been a bit like the breakdown in "Take You On A Cruise" by Interpol. If you made that into a house record and got Enya to sing on it then made it all fucked up, it might sound like what I'm thinking of. It's uh, been a few months though.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:30 (twenty years ago)

I think his US dates might still be on in March, at least it looks like he's playing in Detroit...

http://www.dethlab.net/

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

xpost...

That sounds like the Discomix of Repair Machines from the b-side of the No Fun 12. There's a sample here.

― jng (jng), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Actually, it could be 'Juliet India' too. Both sound pretty similar.

― jng (jng), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Thanks Aaron! (Detroit is where I'd be seeing him).

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Pretty sure it is Juliet India actually, thanks.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Vitalic really needs to lose the laptop

he did that once :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

haha, at cargo? it was supposedly nicked wasn't it...I really didn't believe him.

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Vitalic hasn't always played with a laptop - At Sonar a few years back it were pure analogue and totally rocked. I haven't caughty this new laptop vibe, can anyone comment on the difference between the styles now and then?

― meep, Monday, 30 January 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

Bells EP: any good?
http://www.emusic.com/album/10949/10949479.html

― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 7 September 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am no longer sure that thing four posts up is Juliet India, it sounds like it but has a less distorted vocal line and a slightly different progression. He usually plays it near the start of a set. Help?

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's Bells. Arf.

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

'You Are My Sun' I really like a lot.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 8 September 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic LIVE @ Rock Werchter Festival, Belgien (30.06.2006)

Vitalic test-driving some new material - the track six minutes in sounds promising!!

― Python... No Bite :B (flezaffe), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Here he is at that show if you need a cover picture:

http://www.proximusgoformusic.be/images/Werchter2006/Pyramid/Vitalic/Vitalic_01.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Good god. I know I'll be hated for saying this but he really does look like Moby's evil twin. Fresh off a week-long bender of red meat and coke.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

a lot of people hate you now

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

come now. no one has an appetite on a coke bender.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

How did Chris Farley get that big then?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

new myth and rumour:

vitalic based "suicide commando" on the urinals' "last days of man on earth"

... having just heard it again for first time in a while.

― andrew m., Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

my knee has never been the same after that set in the tent.

― haitch, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/vitalicvlive

new (great) live album, out on Sept 24th, recorded in the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Oct 2006!

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Were you there?

Logo seems inspired by Weezer's.

― willem, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

No, I wasn't - I had seen that live set only a short time before that show. Wish I'd gone though, this wasn't a festival appearance and he had a video screen with him and there was a stage invasion that night.

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

I was there! It was ok. There were lots of teenagers there.

― barnaby, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Logo seems inspired by Weezer's.

http://www.vanhalenstore.com/shop/graphics/00000001/CD02B.jpg

― dmr, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

ok this is great

― ☪, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Vitalic makes the nastiest, dark/saddest, most clumsy and tedious music I know of- it sure works like a charm on crusty drunken french teen crowds.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

He also rocks the neo-fascist fashion & style rather well.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

yeah hes known to wear keffiyehs and bomber jackets but i wouldnt hold that against him

― ☪, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

I don't quite know how or why, but my male intuition (or something) tells me that you're not a big fan, blunt. Is that correct?

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

He's more of a sleek grey minimalist suits & motorcyle boots kinda mensch.
Yeah I was astounded at a live set of his about 4 months ago over here. It was metal techno for caners. Kids gobbled it up (and god knows what else).

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Just about the most manipulative and least subtle music I've had the opportunity to hear out, bar trance & related.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

what the hell is 'manipulative' supposed to mean, in the context of banging dance music? that it manipulates kids into jumping up and down? ok then, job done!

― jabba hands, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

predictably and heavy-handedly

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

le hamfist dans le clunkyglove

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

new album 4.5 / 5 on RA.

can it really be all that?

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 26 September 2009 02:08 (sixteen years ago)

That's what I thought too. I read the review until the words Crystal Castles-style appeared, and I closed the browser and forgot about it instantly.

Listening to him now (as opposed to 2005, or whenever) a lot of it seems to sound really flat and macho in its aggressiveness, although the latter quality is also what gives it its charm.

― EDB, Saturday, 26 September 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

that review is horrible

― jabba hands, Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

If it's even half as good as OK Cowboy I think we've pretty much got the album of the year locked up.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:04 (sixteen years ago)

it's not a horrible album, it's just...diminishing returns on the same old. "inessential" rather than awful.

― lex pretend, Saturday, 26 September 2009 09:22 (sixteen years ago)

naw it's good

― cutty, Saturday, 26 September 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

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