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Original of Falling Up is so much better than the inexplicably loved Carl Craig remix

So I guess the ugly edits comp is out, too. The only copies I saw in person were 30 pounds... I think I'll shop around first.

A couple weeks back Theo responded to a nine-month-old post on ISM about the Sketches vinyl and Ugly Edits stuff (original post: http://infinitestatemachine.com/2010/12/02/how-much-is-too-much-to-pay-for-a-newrecord/):

On 09.12.11 at 2:00 pm theodore parrish said dis shit:

wow. lotta hate out there. lotta love too. two sides. first royalties are in a process of being paid to the artists music used on the ugly edits hence the 2 cd. since the vinyl is no longer available, some of the bands and their management thought this would be a good solution as I would, since i could offer most or all of them to djs that dont want to search, or buy those bootlegs(its funny some think im booting them myself as if i have that much time, or if thats a disposition in my character. cmon yall are that cynical?
the sketches songs will reappear again , more finished and not all of them check ss041
thumpasaurus is next via runningback records.
but besides those ive lost interest in reapproaching the sketches stuff because well they were sketches tests unfinished drawings. I was experimentingwith that when life started to kick ass in areas that effected everything else including my releases.
besides that,
I simply do not control what dists and stores mark up, when I saw what sketches was going for i was pissed, but those who know me know how serious things have been since then and fools marking up my decidedly overpriced records(10$ ea) was the least of my problems.Im just deciding what to do now. sketches was created for the demf of that year for sale on site only….that was the plan until life had plans of its own, so w If i rerelease sketches vinyl again im a bastard. if I dont release it again im a bastard. regardless im a contradiction, like everyone on this planet …and dont get it twisted…the underground music industry is a dirty game, no doubt. but bootlegg my own shit? fuck you. beyond that, my records are for playing out. they are not comic books. if you dont like them thats fine.If you do thats great. getting a website redone so I can serve anyone interested and maybe make good on some of these mistakes n misjudgements. To all those who have supported me THANK YOU. I will try my best not to disappoint. it has been a terribly difficult last two years, and it has not been easy. I have made somebad callss, true. These are shifting sands. Its very hard to keep your ideals when theres soo much being done to undo what we care about. How do you make records and live off of it? Do other things in addition…oh and by the way- you can call me out on the sketches. horrible set of events that swirled around that so r revisting them with fuller production(original Plan) or moving on altogether.
you can call me out on the edits but your about a decade late and already paying for that nothing said here trumps what Im oblidged to do

but questioning whether Ive paid dues is something I take to heart, but not here in cyberspace. do your homework., and if you still got something to say hit me up at 313 544 STFU

On 09.13.11 at 2:00 pm theodore parrish said dis shit:

maaaaaaad late!

On 09.13.11 at 2:00 pm theodore parrish said dis shit:

thanks everybody for giving a shit enough to speak on their contentions, call me names, and doubt my character, offer their neutrality, explain the industry. without critical exchange how else anybody get better at this?
even if my response is a year late
thank yall
now im gonna STFU

how does one even get their hands on that comp

i think the carl craig mix sounds really amazing on a really really loud system, there are bass dynamics in the song that you don't really hear on a home stereo.

I thought you disliked the carl craig remix moonship.

That post is pretty great. I thought the edits comp isn't out yet?

I saw physical copies at Rough Trade in London, and saw it on Juno.

i agree that it was over-rated and i also prefer the original mix ... that said, the appeal of the remix only clicked for me when i finally heard CC play it out at mezzanine in SF, i had heard it in mixes on stereos and through headphones for weeks (months?) before that but heard it never out.

Man, I'm just getting into Theo Parrish these past few weeks, and I haven't been this exhilaratingly disoriented by anything in a long time.

search:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4UPfTLCaIk

Good lord, the remix of Mancingelani on the Shangaan Shake album is just fantastic.

it's like a sonic speedball, as insanely fast as the Shangaan stuff yet as slow and wobbly as Theo's finest productions. i don't know how he pulled it off.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnGrbdtgEdM

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

"Lots of gay clubbing is about cruising for sex, or taking drugs, or getting shitfaced with friends, or being able to sing and dance along to camp pop hits, or just to lose yourself in a crowd of likeminded people.

-- Tim F"

good for it, i care as much about that as i do straight clubs based on the same principles: not at all. there are an innumerable number of clubs of all types that play terrible music to people who don't give a shit, they are are equally worthless.

― pipecock, Sunday, 20 July 2008 05:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

Took me all the way back, way back.

gawd pipecock was great

he's so ... right

that jazz mix is a bit of alright, ain't it?

yep!

also was really happy that Overyohead / Dance Of The Drunken Drums + some other old Theo P 12s getting repressed recently

you mean the black jazz comp? i'm curious to hear it, though i think i've been overexposed to black jazz.

Yeah. That one. Right up my strasse

you mean the black jazz comp? i'm curious to hear it, though i think i've been overexposed to black jazz.

― the late great, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this goes right next to wherever the ilm post is that says 'i think black thought is boring'

yeah yeah

I know the Alicia Myers song isn't exactly obscure, but man this sounds so similar to what Theo did on "Pop Off" that I think he's needs a production credit: https://soundcloud.com/digi-tat/busta-rhymes-ft-q-tip-thank

Very jazzy new 12" on Trilogy Tapes. Playing with Gifted&Blessed remixes.. almost making me reach for those early Jazzanova 12s..

Theo's new album 'American Intelligence' is available on pre-order at Boomkat for £29.49.... and that's just for the double cd. You've got to cough up 40 quid for the vinyl (x3 12")!!! Another Sound Signature bargain.

probably not well pressed either

Lol I swear the biggest obstacle to fame for these guys is how expensive their shit is. Moodymann CDs regularly retail for $50 here (about $45 USD)??? I literally cannot think of any other music that tries to do this.

He's a real card. Re: sound sculptures vol 1 cd:

"How is the CD different? When you went in to make it, how were you approaching it?

I ended up completing about forty songs over the course of two-and-a-half years and so, in mixing those songs, making different versions and figuring out which ones can form a cohesive piece, I eventually figured out which ones I wanted to do for the vinyl and I figured out which ones I wanted to do for the CD. The goal, in the end, was that I wanted the whole album to play as one piece. So the track IDs are intuitive. That means that if you try to download this album, it's going to be hell to try to get all of the songs starting from the beginning. I wanted to make it a little difficult for these CD Jockeys I hear too. So if you pick up the CD, there's a little surprise. It's been kind of fun to see who picks up on that surprise. Not many have yet. One distributor did so far and a few of my buddies have picked up on it. But most people haven't…or they know that's part of how I get down. [laughs] I'll probably release some CD numbers sans surprise in the future, but in much lower numbers."

The "surprise", afaict, is that you have to turn the bass way up and the treble down to make it sound "normal". So he's actually encouraging those CD jockey's to interact with the CDs, i guess?

the surprise is that the CDs are mislabeled

That track IDs thing sounds really annoying even in a home listening context.

cd1 is disc 2 on the liner notes and vice versa

at least that's the case for the pressing i have

Yeah that too, i thought that was just a mistake though.
The mixing is fucked up compared to the vinyl version though (and all other theo i've heard)

Random note: I took a tour of the Mies van der Rohe glass house Farnsworth House last month, and the tour guide (and the house's executive director) was Theo's dad.

he also did something f'd up to the mastering on sound signature vol 2

Theo being Theo. I do love the Footwork / Tympanic Warfare single though.

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/24/365994454/theo-parrish-be-in-yo-self

fuuuuck

new album's a masterpiece.

Yes!

ayo holy fucking shit this album

so much good shit coming out right in december as its ever been

"be in yo self" is incredible, need to go in on this album

here for december as another exciting new releases month

this is great. "Footwork" such a lovely closer.

how do i buy this in the states?

'ah' kind of drags on waaaay too long

i feel like i'll never get the reasoning behind including slow-slow-slow music on house and techno albums, it never seems like the downtempo-ish tracks work, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone from trying

man i love "ah" but every time i've heard "ah" it's 3 am

i don't particularly care about any of these tracks "dragging" though bc i kinda never want them to stop

i dunno i'm probably not hearing it, it's more that it doesn't click so it reminds me of a block i've got with any 'time out' dance album breather