Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

i mean its a bad analogy from the start because its like 'x reminds me of y but really an imaginary only in my head version of y' so

yeah, and by the same token, it's lame of me to be all, "i don't hear it the way you do, so you must be wrong." ears are funny things, like little cabbage leafs on your head, and they tell you things. but they are not always to be trusted, again like cabbages. petit chou.

i like ilxor because i can read it during college and it's so text heavy that it looks like i am doing research.

I read all of you saying there is other stuff that sounds similar but better or whatever, but I think "Does It Look Like I'm Here?" is my favorite record of this year anyway. I really like this band!

Holy fucking shit @ Brothers (For Matt)

(kinda sounds like the Bevis Frond though)

just put on Does It Look Like I'm Here? in the living room -- before i knew it my wife was passed out asleep on the couch an hour earlier than usual bedtime within 20 min (track 6 or so). coincidence?

awesome record btw

Incredible album, that ^. I never would've thought for a 1000yrs that acoustic strumming and entirely irrelevant 1950's computer terminal beep-boops could work so utterly well together, especially considering separated they could be 2 entirely different melodies/songs.

thankyou to all emeralds voters in the ilm poll. am just concluding my first listen to this album and it's beautiful. the pastoral guitar-led closers were a surprise, in a good way!

hurrah!!

assume this'll be old news to you guys, but check out delia gonzalez & gavin russom if you haven't already - "track five" from this year (which emeralds just reminded me about), their days of mars album esp "relevee" and esp the carl craig remix of that.

(are there any similar house/techno remixes of emeralds?)

Love that D & G record, and other stuff Gavin Russom has done. Emeralds are lovely!

(are there any similar house/techno remixes of emeralds?)

lol really?

haha

Track Five was kinda disappointing IMO, swear it rehashes something off Days of Mars. (Which is a great great record, even tho I do kinda wish Carl Craig had remixed the whole thing. or someone at least had done a bootleg with a thumping 4/4 kick underneath every tack)

Emeralds "Candy Shoppe (I'll Let You Lick The Lollipop Tiesto Rave Remix)"

lols aside, i think it would be cool to hear some emeralds remixes

I guess the people lolling never heard Âme or the like

the humour for me comes from the fact that the musicians seem VERy american and VERY far removed from anything in the dance music world:

hay guyze ne1 up for some k00l beats? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Lp9U8SGzb-g/TPNQikuBZ3I/AAAAAAAAAIw/O-LZmxOuiKM/s1600/fall%2Btour%2B2k10%2Bpt%2B2%2B150.jpg

just curious, does anyone know if there's been any music in the extended emeralds universe that even uses a drum machine?

gavin russom + delia gonzalez are also v american + yet they still manage to have carl craig (another american) remix them

gavin russoms remix of trans forest alignment by luke abbott is kinda emeraldsy

no idea why that photo is supposed to indicate an obvious disinterest in dance music - afaik there aren't any Emeralds remixes, dance-y or otherwise, but the material is totally there in their jams

when I saw them a couple of months ago I was right next to a speaker and it was fucking intense and pulsing

Some of the Outer Space stuff could really work well with beats & bass imo.

John Elliott's Colored Mushroom And The Medicine Rocks project uses drum machines.

Etienne Jaumet's album was produced by carl craig and has its fair mix of dancey/komische moments

I can't find any examples streaming or on Youtube, but there's a CMATMR LP on Wagon and three out of print tapes that are readily available on blogs.

http://www.theliminal.co.uk/2011/02/the-liminal-mix-02-schizo-snow-mix-by-john-elliott/

the CMATMR lp is excellent

gavin russom + delia gonzalez are also v american + yet they still manage to have carl craig (another american) remix them

ok let me be more specific: they seem VERy ohioan. more specifically, they self-identify with cleveland. and if youve ever been to cleveland then youll know that theres a pretty perceptible difference between that and nyc/detroit

no idea why that photo is supposed to indicate an obvious disinterest in dance music

it's not, it's just a joek. SORRY YALL FOR HAVIN A LAFF

yeah but think like e2e4 man c'mon dance remixes are not a stretch by any means

need to hear this colored mushroom and the medicine rocks business. i saw that lp lying around my old house when i visited over xmas and was intrigued by the cover alone

ok let me be more specific: they seem VERy ohioan. more specifically, they self-identify with cleveland. and if youve ever been to cleveland then youll know that theres a pretty perceptible difference between that and nyc/detroit

Cleveland has one of the best record stores for techno in the country, Bent Crayon.

I'm not entirely sure why but these guys aren't clicking with me at all. I appreciate what they're doing but I'm not particularly enjoying it aside from the song "Genetic".

Okay, this is neat:

Editions Mego compiles A Young Person’s Guide to… Emeralds’ Mark McGuire

i will buy that

I preordered both of the Spectrum Spools releases, really looking forward to them

Still trying to figure out what Ddave meant by the band being "VERY american"... you can't play it at the discoteque?

he means tag their MP3s with the genre FREEDOM SYNTH

http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/3/7/electric-independence-emeralds--2

Okay, this is neat:

Editions Mego compiles A Young Person’s Guide to… Emeralds’ Mark McGuire

― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, March 7, 2011 4:27 AM (2 weeks ago)

about halfway thru disc 1 and OMG if the whole thing is this good, it gets my vote for compilation of the year, easy

awesome! I'm pretty excited about that one. nearly impossible to hear everything he's put out but I had a feeling that a distilled set of cuts from his huge mass of material would be really excellent.

i've been looking forward to hearing that
glad it's good
feeling ohio pride

btw, I'm gonna stump for my fave mcguire release again - the invisible world tho. really excellent krauty guitar loop action w/a thick and immerersive sound.

whoops, scratch that stray "tho" up there.

and of course, the invisible world was only put out on tape w/a stupidly low print run. so, it's only available on the blogspots of the world now.

but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the cuts made that comp.

yup, "the invisible world" is on the comp - not "backdrafts" tho

here's the full tracklist courtest of RA

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=13808

CD 1
01. Dream Team
02. The Marfa Lights
03. Clague Woods
04. Slipstreams
05. Stranger Than Paradise
06. Flight
07. Ghosts Around a Tree
08. The Path Lined With Colorful Stones
09. The Wind On The Winding Road, Pt Ii

CD 2
01. Radio Flyer
02. Icy Windows
03. The Lonesome Foghorn Blows
04. Time Is Flying
05. Sun Shining Through the Open Barn Door
06. Explosion Alarm
07. Sick Chemistry
08. Skies
09. Over the Water
10. The Invisible World
11. Inside Where It's Warm

courtesy* ugh

one of few bands whom song titles accurately describe what the song'll prolly soudn liek

New Mist (John Elliott and Sam Goldberg) LP forthcoming on Elliott's own Editions Mego imprint Spectrum Spools...

http://www.editionsmego.com/spectrum-spools-release/SP+004

Recorded January and February 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio.

John Elliott: Moog Voyager OS, Roland RS-101, Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, Roland SH-101, Phasers, Vocals

Sam Goldberg: Korg Polysix, Univox Minikorg, Multivox MX 202, Dave Smith Instruments Mopho

Mixed by Mist and Andrew Veres
Mastered by James Plotkin
Cut at D + M Berlin by CGB, March 14th 2011.

"House" is the 2nd official full-length offering by Cleveland, Ohio duo MIST featuring Sam Goldberg (of Radio People) and John Elliott (Emeralds, Outer Space, Imaginary Softwoods etc) after 2009's self-titled debut effort on Amethyst Sunset.
A suite consisting of 7 complex, layered compositions shows new progression in composition and melody from the duo. From the lightning fast, bittersweet crescendo of "Twin Lanes" to the dramatic chord progressions of "I Can Still Hear Your Voice", "House" is a certain expansion in execution and construction. Tracks like "P.M." put a new take on the long-form Mist style with cryptic alien vocoder and humid pad sounds, while "Mist House" and "Dead Occasion" reveal new, complex territories that will most certainly please fans of the previous Mist recordings.

First copies available on pink vinyl. Subsequent copies available on black vinyl.

ooh I totally loved Glowing Net, I'm'a jump on that