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so... is it common knowledge that dexta left ages ago?
or is this a wind-up?

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Common knowledge, long ago.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

James De La Cruz and Gordon also left years ago (and that middle-aged guy in the safari suit, if you count him).

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

so when is the album coming out? seriously...

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

no idea

― mentalist (mentalist), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://www.theavalanches.com/

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

AVALANCHES BIG TENT SET (2006)Coming Soon

Bobby, tone and daz crank out a blistering big tent festival set, its stupid heavy metal good fun.

not sure what to think of all this.

brains (teazer) is...interesting

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

the second 'song' is exciting

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

:\ I always get so excited when this thred is revived... I want something new/awesome so badly

― If you fuck with Jimmy Mod, you call down the thunder (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sign In above for DJ sets and mixes from Bobby, Daz and Tone while you're waitin for ~~the new album~~ your grandson's balls to drop in fifty years time.

Fixed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

well, gosh.

― slackety yax (H2-H4), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

also this bro of mine at work got asked to be part of the formative avalanches lineup but he was losing interest in playing with turntables around that stage and politely declined the offer. for real!

― slackety yax (H2-H4), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

this mix 'teazer' is basically a fun party mix

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

WHEN I MET YOU
'When I Met You' is a butchered version of the Avalanches GIMIX mixtape. Some people invented a cover for it and are selling it through HMV, posing as the new Avalanches album. Its not!
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what the...? through HMV ??? huh? a butchered GIMIX??

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen that in stores in the U.S.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, I bought a copy at the great Tower Records sell-off.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

i never understood how HMV et al were allowing 'When I Met You' on their sheleves.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

and i think by butchered they mean it was taken from radio broadcast where it ends early instead of going into Fern Kinney or whatever it was.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

It's actually the longest version I could find and even includes the Fleetwood Mac. It's rather high quality, but not the best I've found - but then again the best ends before the Fleetwood Mac. I wouldn't say it's "butchered" at all.

Needless to say the mixes on that page are AWESOME.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

from site forum:

abracadabra!

happy new year yall. we've made a heap of mixes and stuff available while we finish the record. they wont give you a hint of the new albums magical sound unfortunately, but they will keep you pilgrims well nourished until the next harvest.

its a really thrilling time for us right now as this record comes together, its so fuckin party you will die, much more hip hop than you might expect, and while there is still no accurate estimated time of arrival, were sure you're gonna love it when it arrives.

much of last year was spent cutting up the spoken word/instructional records we need to tell the albums musical story, and we have some 40 odd songs we're narrowing down and finishing. so its real, it exists, and you know we wouldn't be serving anything up unless it was gonna give you that same special feeling that since has. funnily enough its ended up sounding like the next logical step to since, we just had to go around in a big circle to get back to where we belong.

and one day when you least expect it you'll wake up and the sample fairy will have left it under your pillow.

so big up to clint for all his work in making the downloads available for everyone to enjoy, and have a great oh seven.

― bangelo (bangelo), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

no dexta though that's the kicker. i mean what's the point?

― pisces (piscesx), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

As I understand it, Dexta was never the main creative force in the Avalanches.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

dexta was just the DJ right?

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Well, he's an amazing DJ and I'm sure he influenced what was possible, but I'm no less excited about them on account of his exit.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Spencer!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, hi!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think Lee Mavers and Kevin Shields should work on an album together (Skifflegaze?), with the boys in the Avalanches promising to remix a few tracks. They all huddle together in a small studio, located on an island near Australia, but while taking a boat back to mainland they are all lost at sea...along with all the music they spent months creating. Nobody knows whatever happened to them, but rumor has it that if you're ever flying near Australian waters some late summer nights you can still hear their unreleased music weakly playing over pirate radio stations.

At the very least that story should be worked on by Gear and Ned as ILM's first (last?) foray into writing pop music fanfic.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

ILM's first foray into writing pop music fanfic

has ILX Screenwriters Presents 'It was all Yello: The Coldwerk Sessions' been so quickly forgotten

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

I was about to say!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 04:41 (nineteen years ago)

So there is a precedent! I should have known better.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

Frontier Psychiatrist is supposedly the only Avalanches track into which Dexter ever had creative input.

― dex-mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

That thread is a wonderous thing, even if I don't get half the references.

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene in a DIE BLIPSTER SCUM! tee (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

OK Ray of Zdarlight is one of the best songs i've heard this year

― deej, Monday, 5 March 2007 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

hasn't been out of the rotation since this thread was revived

― deej, Monday, 5 March 2007 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

i totally agree and was just listening to it this very moment!

― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 March 2007 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

OK Ray of Zdarlight is one of the best songs i've heard this year

Agreed.

― braveclub, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

big tent teaser is streaming on the site now, the same bowie > mbv > together segue cropped up when i saw them last night. was awesome, though if you have a low bon jovi tolerance you may prefer to stay away.

― haitch, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

If they play Glastonbury I will be so happy (provided I get a ticket)

― braveclub, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:31 (nineteen years ago)

the same bowie > mbv > together segue cropped up when i saw them last night.

so who's DJing ? a dexta replacer?

― pisces, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

presumably Robbie, Darren and Tony, same as the last three or four years

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Another mp3 link on the website is active, btw: the "Brains" edit/teaser/whatever. 21 megs, downloading now.

― Telephone thing, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

New "yoga mind meld relaxation tape" is up on their page, it's very MBV.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, from the first freakin' second! (No complaints, of course.)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

I've always said they're on similar wavelengths.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

No, it makes perfect sense. Beach Boys/Disco Inferno line of descent. Kinda.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

I still don't get Disco Inferno, and I've listened to their entire recorded output at this point.

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

It's not for everyone. I'm trying to think if the thing with DI is that you intentionally can't dance to what they do, but that's not true. Not entirely.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

On theavalanches.com there are new goodies to download (some on the news page, but some you have to register to get to) including what I consider to be the best mix EVER: GIMIX.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

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