are disco edits the new electroclash?

are you saying its hard to enjoy disco music on coke?

No, it's hard to enjoy disco when everyone else is on coke and your quad-dipped tabs are starting to come on and the guy next to you with the lava lamp for a face just won't shut up...

i'm still not understanding the point of edits like this edit of the turtles 'happy together' by Todd Terje. sounds like he looped the intro once, pumped up the bass and added a bit of effects towards the end. what'd that take him, 10 minutes?

http://americanathlete.blogspot.com/2007/06/introducing-wade-nichols.html

But that's often the point of an "edit" as opposed to a "remix". And they often take 10 minutes.

it's for people who would do mashups but don't have the talent, basically ;)

naaah edits generally don't fuck with the originals too much, just make them more "deejay-able" - ie a bit more intro, bass and effects

Exactly, nowadays it can be as simple as just running a live drum based song through ableton to set the tempo perfectly.

boring

like putting stabilisers on your bike

Eh, works for me.

no one here is taking a purist "all edits are bad" stance, right?

we can all agree that there are good ones and bad ones, however different that may be defined.

anyone who says all edits are bad has obv never heard anything by beatconductor or tangoterje

well i think the thing that should be questioned is whether or not they should be pressed and offered for sale. altho of course it'd be impossible to make that kind of judgement, the impression i've always gotten is that dj's would make em for personal use, personalized for their own sets. i mean, if you're a budding producer or whatever it's probably a nice way to learn stuff but i don't know about building a whole reputation on edits.

Oh yeah, I'm speaking purely in terms of edits as a DJ tool. Occasionally, an edit is worth releasing, but it's rare.

nothing wrong with stars on 45 is there?

Love the Tangoterje edit of Paul Simon's "Diamonds on the Souls of her Shoes". It ends up halfway between Studio and Arthur Russell's "In The Light of the Miracle".

If they are using Ableton/Audacity/Whatever to tighten up the beats on these edits they need to do a lot better job cause I still have to warp the shit outta them!

Rune Lindbaek's Afrika I'm looking at you here.

Geraldo Pine - Heavy Heavy Heavy (Catch & Release Heavy Lifting Edit)

I am obsessed with Peter Visti's remix of Dolly Parton's "Jolene". Amazing.

how do you all feel about bands doing covers a la mountain of one "can't be serious"

Who/ what is this a cover of? It's cool.

it's by Ginny.
http://www.flexx.be/distro/items.php?id=flexx004

got big on the DJ Harvey Sarcastic Disco mix.

surely the irony is that AMO's cover version is totally serious and straight faced.

holy crap -

http://discoedits.com/

ahha
this one is one of the best out there...

http://sci-fi-pogo.blogspot.com/

this just in: disco edits are still 99% retarded. that said, hearing Mike Dunn play disco records in Chicago sort of changed how i look at edits.

thank god ILX is ok until end of june

http://www.grahamphillips.net/Ark/Ark_2_files/moses_with_tablets.jpg

best edit i have heard lately is the dr. dunks' 'keep it cheap', nice echoey looping business as heard on rub n tug's beats in space mix.

yellow cards? are we playing soccer here?

the yellowcard is ILXs own way of calling you retarded, bro

Soccer? What's that then? I

^^ RIP us / europe zinger

Is pipecock banned again already or something? If not, I'm interested in hearing more about the Mike Dunn set and in what way it changed your view.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4662/img00036v.jpg

no wai

wai

that wasn't even at a nerdy record store. was just at your run of the mill hipster haberdashery

This has been a fun thread to reread.

Was this a joke TOM PETTY - You Got Lucky (Cosmic Instrumental) b/w Don't Come Around Here No More (Synth-drum Dub)?

never heard a version of You Got Lucky but there is definitely a track out there called Don't Dub Around Here No More (Italians-related ... I think it's done by Tiedye under a different name)

it's by västkustska ryggdunkarsällskapet, which is tiedye + sankt goran. if you're actually curious

I made a 'combination' mix with Let Me In by El Perro Del Mar and Don't Dub Around Here. I enjoy listening to it this way. Maybe you will to.

^ this is awesome! good work

Okay, the Cleo & Patra On the Nile EP is really wonderful.

haven't heard an edit i've liked for weeks and weeks now

"african disco power" sort of a nadir in my mind

tornado wallace does stuff that sound like disco edits but aren't

cool, i'm hoping people can prove me wrong on this one

and why is it the nadir?

how funny is it that the only edits i've heard of being released in the past few months is by the starter of this thread

more like a personal nadir - the track title / credentials had me totally excited, and then when i heard it, just total pffffft