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― mizzell, Saturday, 6 December 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
buchla, the old analog vintage synthesizers branche
http://www.buchla.com/images/historical/don_and_machines.jpg
marimba lumina
http://www.buchla.com/mlumina/images/image6.gif
― spacialeinteragerendesubdominantie, Saturday, 6 December 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
What the fuck...
― ilxor, Sunday, 7 December 2008 01:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I listened to samples back when they were topping the Wire Magazine's year end lists. I've got the albums now, and they're all fine, but underwhelming in the context of the rep they received. Many of the tracks slot in just fine with more active recent instrumental rock groups I occasionally use for ambience (An Album Leaf, Explosions in the Sky, Six Parts Seven, Tarentel, Tristeza).
The Tortoise edge over the latecomers (at least to my unpaid, unsullyed by context, and unimpressively educated ears) isn't really in the compositions, but in their wider instrumental palette.
― derelict, Sunday, 7 December 2008 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i just picked up the ex/tortoise in the fishtank session on CD today...good stuff....i think both bands meet each other halfway pretty nicely
― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 7 December 2008 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
'Millions....' and 'TNT' are fine albums, but to me they lost it after.
Are they still around?
― Fer Ark, Sunday, 7 December 2008 20:17 (fifteen years ago) link
yep. i think they do pretty well in europe still.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 7 December 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
buchla: http://www.vimeo.com/902069
in europe I know a few people who like them enough to put on millions occasionally, but no one who would turn out for a show.
― caek, Sunday, 7 December 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah a friend of mine is sorta friends one tortoise member and i guess they get paid some pretty big dough to go play like a jazz fests overseas sometimes. like basically dude doesn't have a day job.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 7 December 2008 20:27 (fifteen years ago) link
ive been playing Standards several times in the last couple days, and honestly I don't think it's dog poo. there are some great drum sounds on there and it's nice and accessible enough to play in the background but still worth the attention.
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 26 January 2009 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I love Standards.
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Monday, 26 January 2009 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
standards is brilliant
― cutty, Monday, 26 January 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Standards is my favorite Tortoise record, and the only one I've ever really loved. It has enough structure to keep it grounded, unlike "Djed" or something, which is interesting for about five minutes until my attention wanders.
― ilxor, Monday, 26 January 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm about ready for a new tortoise record. i ended up really like "it's all around you".
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Monday, 26 January 2009 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Their weakest album, but the material improved a hell of a lot played live.
― WmC, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
it's prettier and more memorable than standards, i think. the best tracks from standards and iaay would make a pretty sick record.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:12 (fifteen years ago) link
unlike "Djed" or something, which is interesting for about five minutes until my attention wanders.
b-b-but "Djed" totally changes every few minutes! you should be the ideal audience!
― nabisco, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
be happy, rejoice: NEW TORTOISE IN APRIL.
gotta say i hate hate HATED "it's all around you." it's the only one of their albums i sold back to a store. it's like their version of that one Sonic Youth album, the one with "small flowers crack concrete" - just indefensibly weak.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
P.S. It's funny how I'm all surprised upthread that people would hate on Tortoise during the circa-2000 push back against post-rocky stuff -- now that that stuff doesn't feel at issue anymore, it's genuinely hard to imagine many people caring to hate them.
― nabisco, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/new-tortoise-album-coming-in-april-1003932126.story
― Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
the title track from "it's all around you" is great.
is the will oldham covers album worth hearing?
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
YES!
― Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.staticmultimedia.com/music/reviews/review_1141521087
― Beatrix Kiddo, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
during the circa-2000 push back against post-rocky stuff
i blame the strokes
― cutty, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
If you take Wicker Park to be post-rock central, it was actually De Stijl that seemed to do something -- there was a season where that seemed to be playing constantly in every cafe and bar, and I definitely assumed it was as a reaction to what had been going on in the area, stuff that made the idea of the Stripes strike people as refreshing.
― nabisco, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw somewhere that one of the guys from Tortoise said the new album is close, sonically, to Standards.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 26 January 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
well if they claim it is synth heavy then that makes sense
― cutty, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
My favorite thing by either of them. I don't have much use for Oldham, but he is incredible on almost all of these tracks.
― ilxor, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
xp i'm looking much forward to that one. may I add the final track on "It's all around you" is also an excellent, swedish prog noodle closer.
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 26 January 2009 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Any of you guys heard the old synthpunk band The Units?? Check out this track 'Tight Fit' from their 1980 LP and tell me it doesn't sound like a Tortoise jam.
― '92 ron fan (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 26 January 2009 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
coincidence? I've been playing Standards as of late also.also, It's All Around You is pretty good.. it just has more of an disciplined loungey atmosphere which is why I think some people don't like it as much. They don't want disciplined... They don't want loungey...
― CaptainLorax, Monday, 26 January 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Do I remember right that Standards was the first one they recorded fully digitally? I do feel like it has a "colder" sound than the other ones, but I think the coldness serves it well.
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Monday, 26 January 2009 23:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Stretch (You Are Alright) is a great track off It's All Around You.
HORSE HAM:
Looking forward to the new one.
― Wax Cat, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Salt The Skies
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
one of the best live bands in the world
― cutty, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Total drummer's band too, ha.
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
There career arc mirrors stereolab quite a bit imo (though not as prolific)...
fresh, creative singlesa couple solid albumssome insane remixeslineup tweakagewidely unpopular shift of direction
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
also wildly derivative as well...
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
ie, their mutual ability to wear then-obscure influences on their sleeves.
1996 NEVER FORGET
― cutty, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Pretty sure TNT was recorded on a computer.
― Mark, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"widely unpopular shift of direction" with original fans since Stereolab's widely unpopular shift resulted in them selling a lot more albums.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
what period of stereolab do you consider the john mcentire produced records?
― cutty, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link
@shasta
i'm sure it's a mix of analog and digital...soma has a ton of analog gear, no reason not to use it.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Thread inspired me to start a Tortoise Pandora station. It's amazing how many competent post-rock bands I have never heard of!
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:11 (fifteen years ago) link
... such as:Tommy GuerreroMaseratiBenevenuto & Russo DuoThe Six Parts Seven
― Joe Bob 1 Tooth (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
El Ten Eleven
I never posted on this Tortoise thread, but I did gush on how much I liked them on some of the others and the big 'post rock' thread that is around here somewhere. That being said, I STILL have not gotten around to hearing their last couple of releases. Really odd considering I probably listened to their first three albums constantly for years even to now.
I can kind of understand why people don't like Tortoise, but to me they were a group that kind of changed my musical outlook. They were just the right kind of band heading in a different direction at the right time that really appealed to me, so I say classic.
I've seen them live three times and thought they were always really good band to go and check out.
That being said, it probably time to check in.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
dots&loops = shift... but yeah i can see where they shifted with mars, then the groop played, then emporer... but dots was the biggest departure... thematically, popularity, critically.
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 02:45 (fifteen years ago) link