Demdike Stare

Hmm...probably going to pick this up. I just have the Osmosis mix CD which is pretty cool.

Wow, thanks for the tip Emily! Why am I so good at missing these things?

Also just spotted theyre in london 18th feb with raime and john roberts

http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?216126

Goddamn. Loved the Raime I've heard, loved the John Roberts too but his aesthetic seems to be a whole different thing.

ok lol @ ilm

Triptych seems to have hit the shops today - just ordered it from Honest Jon's.

http://www.self-titledmag.com/home/2011/01/28/needle-exchange-053-an-exclusive-mix-by-demdike-stare/

The non-EP tracks on this are bloody great, I can't believe this band.

Have this on order, but keeps getting delayed :(

It's worth the having, for sure.

Been digging one of these guys' tune - some dark middle-eastern percussive thing (lol - prob 80% of their stuff, right?) so wondering whether I should go straight for the 3 CD set or start with their first one - any major difference between releases?

Something about the three disk set's overwhelming length makes it more effective than picking and choosing. Symbiosis has lot of good stuff, but the whole of Tryptic feels like it might end up considered a classic.

I dunno. I loved everything I heard, feverishly anticipated the 3xCD thing - and still have not listened to it all the way through. It is overwhelming, but not n a good way, IMO. Maybe I just have ADD or something, but I much prefer the (relatively) short bursts of the Forest Of Evil 12" etc

Isolate "Liberation Through Hearing", it stands heads and shoulders above.

Has anyone heard Applehead de Applehead yet? Is it any good?

Yeah, Liberation Through Hearing is their peak thusfar, but for me in gains something swamped with the other stuff.

I dunno. I loved everything I heard, feverishly anticipated the 3xCD thing - and still have not listened to it all the way through. It is overwhelming, but not n a good way, IMO. Maybe I just have ADD or something, but I much prefer the (relatively) short bursts of the Forest Of Evil 12" etc

kinda my experience, i love these guys but find it best taken in shorter bursts. i have the first album on order... still working my way thru Tryptych. btw Ned's reviews of the three Tryptych fragments are up on AMG, all worth a read. yes, there are NIN comparisons- it wouldn't be a Ned Raggett review without a NIN reference, would it? ;)

New mix for xlr8r is up to the usual standards: http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2011/05/demdike-stare

01 Demdike Stare "Intro Loop"
02 Layale Bourg El Hamam "Belly Dance Nights" (EMI Lebanon)
03 Malcolm Clarke "The Unseeing Eye" (BBC)
04 Ray Tracing "Hold (Monster Music)" (Irdial)
05 Desmond Briscoe "Voices sequence taken from Listen, Move, and Dance Vol. 3" (Columbia)
06 Jackson Heights "Since I Last Saw You" (Charisma)
07 Anthony Manning "Islets in Pink Propylene" (Irdial)
08 Drug Free America "Candy Revisited" (Blind Eye)
09 Charlie Mariano "Traditional South Indian" (Freedom)
10 Move D "Tribute To Mr Fingers" (Source)
11 Autechre "P.I.O.B. Mix 2" (What's That Noise?)
12 Iron Office "S/T" (Metronome)
13 Jurriaan Andriessen "Hardware Software" (Park)
14 Bobby Beausoleil "The Lucifer Rising Suite" (The Ajna Offensive)
15 Demdike Stare "Outro Loop"

Oh, it should be noted that Boomkat did a re-press re-package of the Triptych EPs, on vinyl, 400 copies.

yup, looks gorgeous. did you get one?

out o f stock already wth

I missed the boat. Already have my favourite (Liberation Through Hearing) though

I have two of those on vinyl and the three CD set, so... I somehow held back on buying the pack

i got the last two lps but the ocd record collector in me is dying for forest of evil

Demdike Invisible Jukebox in this month's Wire.

The Triptych vinyl didn't have the CD bonus material iirc? Big artwork must look great though.

just got an email from a distro about the 3LP ( :

What distro? Please! I'll order after you! :-)

weird forest

i got my other demdike stare lps from experimedia so i'd bet that they'll get a few copies in too

Thanking you!

That Anthony Manning 12" is the jammmmm, stoked to see them drop that into the mix

yeah, was unfamiliar with manning but immediately started poking around for info after listening to the mix

Aquarius has the Demdike 3x LP if anyone still needs it

hey guys I'm a dumbass and order things direct from boomkat sometimes despite being in the US

what US mailorder distro should I order from? their stuff takes a while to show up on the few I know of.

I'm the same kinda dumbass. Those email updates are so tempting though. Ditto Volcanic Tongue

forced exposure mh

I swear FE doesn't get half the limited edition crap, though :/

This recent XLR8R mix is my favorite. That Anthony Manning track is amazing!

all of the released anthony manning works except the liquid quartz EP and the concision remixes can be DL'ed here:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=irdial%20manning

thanks!

people upthread mentioned the samples on tryptych. anyone know what songs were sampled, and on what demdike stare tracks they appear?

really loving this album now.

4.0 out of 5 stars Perplexed album data, February 22, 2011
By Beverly E. Coleman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tryptych (Audio CD)
I heard this innovative and exciting Sound masterpiece on NPR and did something that I rarely do...bought it. I am using it as a sound treatment for my patients and meditation because it takes people where they have never been before and also shocks or transposes people into a new consciousness. However, when they ask me who it is and the writer's name...I have forgotten and it is not anywhere on the jacket. In fact, NOTHING is on the jacket except the sames of the various sound presentations. This is an irritating and bizarre omission because it precludes their purchasing the album and/or following this artist.

My new writing hero.

people upthread mentioned the samples on tryptych. anyone know what songs were sampled, and on what demdike stare tracks they appear?

the only one I know is that Caged in Stammheim samples part of Stockhausen's "Kontakte"

this part --

The most famous moment, at the very center of the work, is a potent illustration of these connections: a high, bright, slowly wavering pitch descends in several waves, becoming louder as it gradually acquires a snarling timbre, and finally passes below the point where it can be heard any longer as a pitch. As it crosses this threshold, it becomes evident that the sound consists of a succession of pulses, which continue to slow until they become a steady beat. With increasing reverberation, the individual pulses become transformed into tones once again (Clarke 1998, 225).

(from wikipedia)

Has anyone picked up the new stuff yet? I'm still trying to get my head around forking over for the vinyl, but I'm pretty close to caving.

Oh, and dmr, upthread Vahid spotted two old Chain Reaction samples, which are pretty clearly presented if you're familiar with the original tracks:

off the new one it sounds like "eurydice" samples the first track off porter ricks' "biokinetics" album and "mathilda's dream" samples the last track off monolake's "hongkong" album

I caved. It's ok, although I have only listened through the first two pieces of vinyl, and only a couple times. I guess there are some lock grooves or hidden sections I need to check out, though. The packaging is really, really nice though.

OK, I stretched my chances and missed pt. 4 of the Elemental vinyl at most online stores. Anyone know of one that might possibly have it in, still?

same here. bought #1 and #2 in the gatefold and when i checked again #3 and #4 had been released a couple of days before and they were gone already. two empty pockets in the gatefold :((((

http://www.weirdforest.com/store/distro/index.html#demdike-4

also big ups to experimedia.net for offering first dibs on #3 & #4 on those who ordered the gatefold