BEARDO DISCO (finally fixed for vahid) - not idjuts / lindstrom - harvey, rub'n'tug, map of africa

i picked that idjut boys up this past weekend along w/ the rong "promo only" comp. i was gonna post about it here but suddenly got busy. the skinny is that it's the best thing on noid since the first phantom slasher album "puddle & spout". my only substantive observations are that 1) looks like they're trying to assert their status by aggressively out-dubbing everybody else ... this set has some of the most aggressive echo manipulation i've heard in the whole edit scene and that 2) the track choices are a little less obscure than usual, i think i could name 10 out of 12.

i did not buy "cosmic balearic beats" at amoeba, still trying to figure out whether it's worth it.

not at all. it's so boring. makes me start to hate "nu-balearica". it's all sounding like shitty software made ambient house. only good track is that lovelock track

yeah it introduced me to a few good track i didn't know about both otherwise boring and worthless

well the only track i *really* liked on preview (actually i dl'd and burned a disc) was the first one ... "stratus"?

everything else sounded like the warmed-over crap that ends up on the "leftfield" review page in dance mags. stuff like fila brazilia (good, but c'mon, it's 2008), groove armada (bad) and plantlife (execrable).

the track that drove it home was the one that had the dude saying "everyone gonna grow dreads, SMOKE WEED and not go to work" right before the break. i was like ... fucking nerds.

yeah that's coyote for you... i actually dig that track, but i can definitely see why someone wouldn't.

the homerun, maelstrom, and lovelock track are nice, and i like the brendan moeller vinyl-only track, but on the whole computer incarnations for world peace vol 2 is better

hmmm how good would you say CIfWP 2 is, on the whole?

shaddap

the answer= hella good

vol 1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> vol 2

CIfWP 2 >>>>>> CBB for sure

but at the same time, CIfWP 1 >> CIfWP 2

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yea but then you're talking about older tracks vs. newer ones, obviously volume one would be better. vol. 2 represents some pretty good contemporary balearic cuts, or at least contemporary re-workings of balearic cuts.

q was not sarcastic

oh, well i apologize! i am quite the bitter one, apparently.

anyway, i'm getting quite a bit of mileage out of that computer incarnations volume 2 comp. the project sandro track is one of my favorites of the year, and the maurice fulton remix of rollmottle is no slouch, either. it's one of my favorite comps this year, along with the claremont originals cd and rong's promo only mix. worthy of money, indeeeed

and maybe throw that phantom slasher disc in there too

is this the claremont originals set you're talking about?

i wasn't completely crazy about rong's promo only set ... i found it to be a little muddy sounding?

the fred deakin MoS "nu balearica" thing must be mentioned here because it murders both the eskimo and sonar comps

cosmic balearic beats did nothing for me with the way it wafted from one track to the next; surely the appeal of this stuff - at least, seeing it in a good DJ set - is that it strays all over the map, like that 'cosmo galactic prism' prins thomas mix from last year. or the fred deakin thing, there's so much more variety in the sounds on that (though they're much more drawn from the 'scene').

yeah, that's the one (the claremont 56 originals set). there's absolutely nothing 'muddy' on there, even though i definitely don't mind/hear it on the rong disc. i've only had it for a week or so but it keeps growing on me, some pretty blissed-out picks to be found for those who enjoy other stuff on the claremont label

personally, i think the original tracks themselves on nu balearica are better, but not the way they're mixed in that set. it completely killed the fun of mugwump's "boutade," and the 'paul and mike get stoned and go to the beach' mix used that quiet village remix of mudd to much better effect

are any of the tracks on the fred deakin mix even exclusive? it should kinda be considered a different type of mix when it's working with well-established favorites

it seemed like a bit of a primer for those not in the know, which is ok i think.

'boutade' is EASILY one of the best records of 2008.

The Original Disco Beardo

http://www.discomusic.com/images/photos/mancuso-david/mancuso-david-loft.jpg

David Mancuso started the whole disco movement in America when he threw communal dance parties in his loft (The Loft) in the New York City of the late '60s. Mancuso was a total hippie and a lot of the stuff he played came out of the late '60s hippie/psychedelic scene. The connection between hippies and disco was ignored for years, however Tim Lawrence and Peter Shapiro draw some nice parallels in their respective books Love Saves the Day and Turn the Beat Around.

Check out the following tracks:
Titanic – “Rain 2000” and “Sultana”
Everyday People – “I Like What I Like”
Barrabas – “Wild Safari” and “Woman”
Cat Mother and the All-Night Newsboys – “Track in ‘A’ (Nebraska Nights)” (produced by Jimi Hendrix)
Brian Auger & the Trinity – “Listen Here”

You’ll find most of these at www.dsco.libsyn.com in the first two podcasts

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My personal favorite OG King of Beardo Disco...

http://accel6.mettre-put-idata.over-blog.com/0/57/37/09/Musiciens/Terry-Riley-The-Cusp-of-magic.jpg

http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/60

i understand all the disappointment in cosmic balearic beats. it was quite a letdown to me, especially cuz I hyped it upthread back in august or whatever and the lineup looked so promising. i still like a few of the tracks though. the computer incarnations for world peace comps were 100x better and the first was obviously better being a comp of old stuff, but i agree with psychgawsple here. i dig quite a few of the tracks on there.

i think i mentioned this on the pilooski/betty botox thread but the bonar bradberry mindless boogie is really workin for me right now.

figured i'd put this here since the thread is being ignored.

Fan Death

erol alkan remix. sweet video. kinda chromatics/glass candyish

sorta surprised to see no mention of golf channel records on this thread. only three limited-edition 12"s have been released, so i guess that could have something to do with it. and they're sorta mysterious and have no official myspace site or anything. but ya. this stuff is awesome, especially the holy jungle 12" by ghost note. mark e seems to be the only artist i recognize associated with the whole thing...

http://www.discogs.com/label/Golf+Channel+Recordings

some of these seem to still be available for purchase- i picked up 'try to find me vol. 1' at amoeba last week (could've been the last copy though)

san frandisco posted a mix recently with 'try to find me' in it. great track.

http://discohorror.blogspot.com/2008/11/gobble-gobble.html

ooh there's a lot of good stuff in that mix. i dig that golem edit; the "eden rock" track they released this year is all kinds of catchy/awesome.

also- it's odd that noid released multiple edits of "slow blow" by different artists. i'm not sure the version on the phantom slasher disc i mentioned above is better than that major swellings one

i have a copy of the original slow blow 12" coming in the mail :D

re: golf channel

i think we did talk about r&b drunkie a bit. but then nobody really heard the ghost note release ... i think it was noted somewhere because i'd made a joke about making a whole album using the same titles as don cherry's "holy mountain" soundtrack, and then these dudes went and made "pissed and passed out"! and the new one just came out, right, so maybe nobody's heard it? but "sir mr dr to you" is pretty great.

yeah i guess it depends on your tolerance for cheesy vocal samples, but i am seriously smitten with that "pissed and passed out" track. and it gets bonus points for involving actual musicians and not being a remix or edit or anything. and RA is right when they call it pretty much the most "beardo" thing ever- those guitar lines!

http://www.discogs.com/release/1435141

this has been getting much play in my apt. highly recommended esp if you like the Pilooski psych edits, or any psych edits really.

anyone have the quiet village ra podcast? archive.org page for it does not load
thanks

that BtWS disc is missing some of the best tracks? where's "space"? where's "let it shine"?

(obviously they didn't want to fuck around w/ the legal repercussions of a shatner sample)

BTWS cd includes 'light years' which is a stones edit so sampling mustnt have been an issue to them, arent mick n keef usually pretty tight about this sort of thing?

perhaps they have relaxed on that score since in the last couple of years they have handed over tracks to people like fat boy slim and dj shadow for those official remixes ?

hadnt thought of that, the dr dre & neptunes ones were both official remixes as well. i wonder if things like the in flagranti edit of emotional rescue was officially Ok'd by the glimmer twins

that BtWS disc is easily in my top 10 this year. still stand by my earlier comment, though, that "let it shine" and "space" are the best things they've done.

i agree, it's a superb compilation. there's a couple of live sets by them on erol alkan's website as well that are almost as great

There's no way the BtWS disc is licensed; it's out only in a few indie shops and is based entirely around re-edits of recognizable, mostly major label material, which screams "unlicensed." I'm forced to conclude they left off "Let it Shine" and "Space" because they felt other tracks were a better use of space on the disc, which is clearly insane, but their prerogative.

As for the In Flagranti edit, it's on Mindless Boogie, and I don't think they bother licensing their stuff either (not that I blame them, licensing costs for one track would probably wipe out most of the money from the entire runs of most of their 12"s).

By the way, according to Alkan's mailing list, there's a compilation of BtWS remixes coming out in early 2009. Here's Discogs' list; there's some great stuff, especially the Late of the Pier and Midlake mixes.

Late of the Pier - The Bears Are Coming (BtWS Reanimation or whatever) is awesome, easily one of my favorite remixes this year

yeah i dont even like LOTP & i love that remix

mikebee, if you're reading this, are there copies of "fistful of ferrets" at amoeba sf?

indeed, does anybody know where to get a copy in the US?

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=44204646&blogID=459834100

Prins Thomas posted a 6 hour set he did in Thessaloniki on December 22nd...

i ordered copies of both Vol.2 and Vol.3 from Amoeba 3 or 4 weeks ago. still prefer vol.1 to both of those but DC Recordings has quietly put together a great set of releases over the last few years.

how does one mail order from amoeba?