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stevem that 'ow you say adam and eve it' line made me laff!

― jimblountski, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

english mag asks american artist if english artists were a "touchstone" and american artist responds 'not really' /= the trash talk it's been made out to be.

this is why I hate LCD Soundsystem, can we have a moratorium on this sort of country wars crap. the word english just fucking leaps out of that sentence. I mean so what if an English magazine asks him were English artists a touchstone, IT'S AN ENGLISH MAGAZINE.

You bad toothed British fuckers weren't influencing our indie when we saved your limey asses in the war huh! NO SIR!

I mean "I was in an American world at that time", yes at THAT time! There comes a point when this sort of insular crap just grates beyond being able to ignore it, perhaps that point is to do with further political happenings.

I mean you very seldom hear English people being so casually but staunchly patriotic, and actually so obliviously too. It's just sickening, there's a whole world out there and I can't be arsed listening to artists who are part of just one great glob in it, and revel in that, consciously or otherwise.

Or to quote Jess "I'd be perfectly happy for dance music to be made by gay guys in basketball shirts forever".

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

not that half the LCD album isn't just alt-rock by any other name anyway, I'd rather listen to Screamadelica any fucking day of the week.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

And the stupendous laugh your ass off part about all this is that Tim Goldsworthy was in Unkle!! If they weren't the food laden drain off in the gigantic washing up basket of early 90s British baggy indie then I don't know what was!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 23 December 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I was not in an American world at that time.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

not exclusively...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

We have baseball and Van Halen, we don't need you

― STOP WITH YOUR PTANS (natepatrin), Friday, 24 December 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Aw, Daft Punk aren't *really* "human after all", surely they're just going through a Data-like period of emotion chipitude or something!

TEH EXCITEMENT

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 24 December 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

surely they're just going through a Data-like period of emotion chipitude

im a bit afraid theyll come out of it playing covers of beach boys songs.

― :| (....), Saturday, 25 December 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I shed a tear of joy when I heard the news, seriously. Finally, I can say there's an album coming out in 2005 that I'm actually looking forward to hearing.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Saturday, 25 December 2004 07:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"And the stupendous laugh your ass off part about all this is that Tim Goldsworthy was in Unkle!! If they weren't the food laden drain off in the gigantic washing up basket of early 90s British baggy indie then I don't know what was!"

Goldworthy left Unkle even before they produced their first album and was almost singlehandedly responsible for their best stuff.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

anyway Tim Goldworthy isn't in LCD Soundsytem.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

... and i cant find ANY reference to Primal Scream in that LCD Interview.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 26 December 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone's on the ball!

homework = 1997
discovery = 2001
new one = 2005?
-- jess

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

omg he must have a palantir or something

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Why are you people worried about the sound of this record? Of course there's gonna be vocoders and robotic beats and shit! One of the songs is called "Robot Rock"!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a modified cover of Sade's "Lover's Rock", though.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 December 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

no, superpitcher's!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 26 December 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i really love vocoders.

― Crapstone (Crapstone), Sunday, 26 December 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

how long be4 the download? what, days or weeks do we think?

god i've missed them, and a real pining is kicking in about now.

― piscesboy, Sunday, 26 December 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

gahhhhhh!!! i can't wait any longer!!!

i keep typing HUMAN AFTER ALL into slsk and up comes an old Level 42 album.

salt, wounds etc.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

that's actually it. they're using the slap bass more. half fo Alan Braxe's productions sound like 'Running In The Family' anyway so the guys just went the whole hog.

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, that sounds exactly like Sebastien Tellier's last album (which is awesome).

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Specifically "Wonderafrica" which is wild.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The promo single has been leaked. It's also called "Human After All." It's pretty great. Cowbells and very thick + buzzy analogue synths.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard that and I suspect it's fake. There's no tune at all. I sort of like it, but I can't imagine it being a single - more like bonus beats.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh yeh. it's fake. i have pie all over my face... and i thought the scarlet fever rash was enough.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Matt, I do suspect that it is actually Daft Punk who made it!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Hang on - I thought the file Matt mistook for it was actually Alter Ego's 'Rocker'?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

it is! I just downloaded Alter Ego's "Transphormer" and Rocker it is. Quite good.

― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i think spencer means that daft punk enjoy "rocker" and are trying to popularize it?? i'm sort of wary of conclusions like that but it's nice to pretend that your favorite artists enjoy the same things you do.

OTOH their franz ferdinand remix strongly suggests they've been keeping up with tracks like "rocker"

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no, I thought it was they who made the spoof track. I stand corrected too!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

So anyway, last week I bought "Skitzo Dancer", the latest single from Parisian band Scenario Rock. Best track is the remix by Justice which, wait for it, is credited with sound polishing by Thomas Bangalter for B.A.S.S.. So that's something, whatever it is.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i think b.a.s.s. is the name of hubert "boom bass" blanc-francard's mastering studio? he's the guy who's in cassius with phillipe zdar.

i say this because there's a sticker that reads "b.a.s.s." on the back of the motorbass album and i once tracked down the meanings of all those stickers and some were from different clubnights in paris and some were from studios/crews involved in the album.

sorry this is a bit trainspottery but this sort of thing fascinates me, can anybody corroborate my spotty (haha) data?

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?page=title&r=CD&title=912404&p=34&g=48&pa=sr

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

That has to be one of the most pointless "best of" collections ever. Even beating Leftfield's recent effort.

If you're gonna get two discs, er... Homework & Discovery at mid-price maybe?

― file under cozy techno (fandango), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

Customers who bought Musique Vol. 1: 1993-2005 (With Bonus DVD) also bought

Daft Punk - Alive 1997
Various - Ultimate Chillout Classics Album (6CD)
Daft Punk - Daft Club
Sepultura - Roots
Headman - On

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

What's that Parliament remix?

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 14:35 (twenty years ago)

its the one with the video that has a cgi Bootsy Collins flying around in disco hyperspace and stuff. at least five years old

― Yawn (Wintermute), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

The "point", probably, is to leave Virgin EMI...

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

Is the bonus DVD all of the videos? That might make it worth it....

― Joseph B. Cowart (flamingrev), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 16:31 (twenty years ago)

It isn't, and their two DVDs put together cost less than a new CD already (no jabbering baby robot heads, though)

― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

You know, lots of people have complained about the last Daft Punk album ... from James Murphy on Pitchfork down to the many, many ILMers and bloggers ... but in retrospect, short as it may be at this point, hasn't a lot of the other shit people are psyched on been derived from that output OR nearly the same?

Alter Ego - Rocker (remember when this leaked as "Human After All"?)
Justice
Digitalism
a ton of other guitar driven electro shit.

p.s. "Stream Machine" was like the sickest fucking Suicide rip-off ever. Not that all of "Human After All" was solid, but it wasn't bad! There were some really solid tracks ...

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

ugh i hate all that farty justice stuff, really does not do it for me, just like this album

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget Busta!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Leaving Virgin or not, no "Digital Love" on a DP greatest hits collection ain't a DP greatest hits collection.

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Thursday, 23 March 2006 06:49 (twenty years ago)

Too right.

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 23 March 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

The show at Coachella was easily the best concert I have *ever* seen. The lights, my god, the lights. It was like a constantly shifting star gate sequence from 2001 crossed with Tron, all perfectly choreographed to the most amazing mash up of all their hits with really intense edits and pacing. They appear as robots on the screens, and they seem to be talking to each other, but can they really hear each other? Did they just push one button? Are they using Ableton? Who knows. Who cares? Just amazing.

― i'm from hollywood, Monday, 1 May 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

HI GUY ;)

― city of gyros (chaki), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:30 (twenty years ago)

^I'm so jealous.

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

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