The XX

This might be my fave Jamie XX bit yet

http://soundcloud.com/ramprecordings/faltydl-hip-love-jamie-xx-remix

The original is even better mind but its all cool

http://soundcloud.com/ramprecordings/faltydl-hip-love

Looking forward to hearing what else The xx have in store too, wasn't really feeling that Romy Creep track unfortunatly.

that faltydl remix is gorgeous, actually prefer to original

that faltydl remix

too long on ILx - I read that as shorthand for "fat do you look like"

lol :')

I asked him how he got his name once and he just said he couldn't spell and it stuck or something...

the syncopation/style of the steel drums or w/e on the adele remix are really similar to the closing chords of caribou - odessa

so that jamie xx single is nearing release

http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2011/02/lost-sleevenotes-gil-scott-heron-v.html

the sleevenotes meant for we're new here. far too po faced/earnest for me, esp for what is just a not bad/semi interesting but ultimately undeservingly overhyped remix album, but im sure plenty of people like that sort of thing. jamie xx needs to spend a bit more time honing his producing skills i think. cos right now he just sounds like a tinkerer, or a dabbler.

So when they came to combine, on “We’re New Here”, perhaps Jamie XX and Gil Scott Heron were not truly strangers, instead linked by musical heritagerecord label

i probably agree w/titchy - i don't think jamie xx is making particularly bad music but it's not particularly good either - even that adele remix gets by on the strength of her song more than what he does (and it never feels totally satisfactory to me, it doesn't have that DROP moment that would push it over the top)

they should have just done an 'XL artists remix Gil Scott Heron!' album. you could have had adele doing power duets with gsh's vocals, jack white doing a blues version, vampire weekend making gsh sound preppy, dizzee rascal making gil grimey....

haha, actually a "jamie xx remixes the xl roster" compilation would have been preferable to making him take on the entire GSH album and pretending it's some sort of huge ~artistic enterprise~ rather than yr common-or-garden record label cash-in (or cred-in, here, but similar reasoning) - i think he's def up to doing interesting things to individual tracks atm

thats fair. gil just deserves better i think.

they should have just done an 'XL artists remix Gil Scott Heron!' album. you could have had adele doing power duets with gsh's vocals, jack white doing a blues version, vampire weekend making gsh sound preppy, dizzee rascal making gil grimey....

Except albums like this are never as good as the sum of their parts.

I quite like the one-remixer-one-artist approach actually, I'm enjoying this album quite a lot as well. Jamie XX has a very Duplo building-block approach to production (beats especially) but it works for him.

I like what he did to the Adele song but after a couple of months I'm not sure I actually like the original song itself enough to keep going back to the remix.

Gil Scott-Heron vs Vampire Weekend - Whitey on the Campus

whitey on the campus is something i would genuinely like to hear.

or cred-in, here, but similar reasoning

Not sure either act needs more cred than they already have but if it does both artists a favour commercially then who cares? Not like they don't deserve it.

So when they came to combine, on “We’re New Here”, perhaps Jamie XX and Gil Scott Heron were not truly strangers, instead linked by musical heritagerecord label

i lolled twice

i do still think the florence and the machine remix is genuinely good and smart

for truth though this is a pretty clever match-up from a marketing perspective, I feel like the fans of each are the kind of people who would feel favourably disposed to the idea of the other artist (or even just the idea of liking the other artist) once they're forced to form an opinion.

Six Degrees of Jamie XX (xpost)

for truth though this is a pretty clever match-up from a marketing perspective, I feel like the fans of each are the kind of people who would feel favourably disposed to the idea of the other artist (or even just the idea of liking the other artist) once they're forced to form an opinion.

yes considering i previously didnt mind the xx and found their quiveringly delicate indie schmindie quite nicely melancholy if also irritatingly tentative, i now quite dislike mr xx.

Oh yeah totally, it works as a way of selling the same (or similar) album to a different-but-complementary audience. Given the trend for bet-hedging across the industry right now (Guetta rnb I'm looking at you) I'd be interested to see if anyone else cottons onto this approach. Basically what I'm getting at is I want to see Ill Blu remix an entire Roll Deep album.

nice idea but it would never happen (though it should - id be happy just with more ill blu remixes of grime mcs)

Basically what I'm getting at is I want to see Ill Blu remix an entire Roll Deep album.

Man can you imagine, it would be like the second coming of The Real McCoy in the best possible way.

i like this album a lot. thoughts here. anyway, i don't get the impression jamie is "pretending it's some sort of huge ~artistic enterprise~" -- nor does this sound like a "common-or-garden record label cash-in" -- basically just sounds like jamie remixing a record he really likes while bored on the xx tour bus (not a bad thing at all). also iirc he's come across as v humble about the whole thing in the couple interviews i've seen

actually, i quite like the remix of home. he keeps it quite simple. though its warmer than anything hes done, it sort of makes me wonder what tricky (back in the late 90s) would have done with remixing this album. richard xl's production on the original gsh album strikes me as a very 90s sounding thing anyway.

http://www.jetsetrecords.net/en/XX-SHELTER-NIGHT-TIME/product/213004042722

i hope this becomes more available than just in Japan.

huh

this GSH/Jamie XX album is almost good, but I can't pin down what it is that is keeping me from embracing it

I agree. Even I'll Take Care of You, which is my favourite track, doesn't quite achieve greatness.

a small portion of it is a lingering sentiment of "I expect to hear this only over the PA in The Gap", which is semi-surprising to me because I usually don't care about that type of thing

"Running" has started to work for me now.

the quietus review of this is way too emo.

of were new here i mean.

damn, 2009 -- this is what i'm listening to @ 2:25 am est in september 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REAuQt3HctQ

this album is still the shit

it is!

this album will never not remind me of 2009

2009 is the best year for music since at least 2009

i listen to this album just two days ago, loved it immensely.

listened

btw, i'm not really getting those highs from music anymore = sad. especially after all these years...

yeah i have mixed feelings abt music atm i guess

idk

maybe

lots of great stuff this year

like every year imo

i doubt it's the music

lol i don't even know what that means

btw, i'm not really getting those highs from music anymore = sad. especially after all these years...

― Bee OK, Friday, September 2, 2011 3:26 AM

yeah i have mixed feelings abt music atm i guess

― markers, Friday, September 2, 2011 3:32 AM

there probably is "lots of great stuff this year," and if i'm not super into any of it "i doubt it's the music," it's probably me

oh

It's time for a new album, you xx people.