Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

not headbanging just feelin the vibe

I headbanged at least as much as yr man up there the one time I saw them

this

So this Container LP, what is it like?

Beat-based technoid repetition, prickly and odd, murky and visceral at times, too.

poor man's Black Meteoric Star imo

the McGuire box is one of my favorite things this year, played that thing a TON. not terribly sold on the new solo LP, it's good, a bit more low-key than i like my mcguire. Does It Look Like I'm Here was and is still one of the best things i've heard in recent years.

and sure it's easy to burn out if you go overboard on anything, emeralds or otherwise. but shame on you if you're collecting dozens of cassette-only releases like a 16 yr old fanboy, then blaming YOUR burnout on the artist. kinda like going to a buffet, then complaining you ate too much afterward. why not pick & choose yr favorite items, and leave satisfied but wanting just slightly more?

Root Strata's Spectrum Spools release is up for order on Experimedia if anyone's been looking to get it. also Boomkat claims to have the new Mark McGuire on white vinyl available now. think I'm going to take a pass on that one though.

Enjoying Container, that whole synthy rave/noise/drone thing reminds me a bit of Neil Campbell's Astral Social Club stuff, but without the slightly Dada edge.

hey london ppl, mark mcguires playing @ the shacklewell arms next friday

Thanks for that.

Now just need to decide whether to go and see him or Bill Orcutt at Oto.

I'd see Bill Orcutt

set will probably be much shorter than McGuire's, so maybe you can catch the end of that as well

bought Marks Lost album yesterday, bought the Shacklewell tickets today... good timing.

ugh, I meant Driphouse's Spectrum Spools release, not Root Strata

them's fightin' words, m83:

When I go out to see a show now, I want to be blown away, even if I don't like the music. If you watch a band like Depeche Mode, their connection with the audience is just magical. You're not going to see that if you go see Emeralds; I wish Emeralds could be as big as them, but it's a different league. And I don't like people spitting on bigger bands just because they have success or because it's not trendy to listen to the Killers. They have 15,000 people at their shows every night, and they're living the dream.

I clicked through for context but he doesn't really explain why he's comparing Emeralds and Depeche Mode.

well, they're both bands

working on an 11 minute piece for the ILM Louticalla comp has put me in the correct frame of mind to finally appreciate Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Whatever it takes Dan :)

It's been more than a week now, but that McGuire show at the Shacklewell Arms was pretty great! He only did three pieces, but he was on for an hour. The second one had this great trick where it built a huge wall of fuzz that got louder and louder until it finally cut out suddenly and this little spidery fingerpicked stuff was the only thing left. I'm not sure if it's on one of his albums, but it was really awesome.

http://static.boomkat.com/images/501817/333.jpg

Steve Hauschildt album on Kranky is out. It's pretty!

Spotify link

That Hauschildt record is great, one of my faves of the year (and possibly of the Emeralds camp).

ok, I'm sold

Was just listening to this at work and I fell asleep at my desk! Not sure whether to implicate the album or not, and if so whether it's a good or bad thing...

yeah the Hauschildt record is super fabulous

yep. really like this one. blue marlin i find especially stunning. also lol: http://i.imgur.com/ZiZLJ.png

oops http://i.imgur.com/ZiZLJ.png

had eased up on emeralds-related stuff lately but this is reeeeal nice and I'm playing it a lot already.

"music for a moire pattern" into "blue marlin" <3

https://twitter.com/#!/infinitelimits1/status/159574035108339712

NEW RELEASE: Inner Tube (Charles Berlitz aka Spencer Clark & Mark McGuire) s/t vinyl LP on Pacific City Sound Visions. Arriving v soon!

http://www.pacificcitysoundvisions.com/

(are there any similar house/techno remixes of emeralds?)

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Thursday, 3 February 2011 22:00 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey Lex, Daphni mixes right here:

http://soundcloud.com/caribouband/sets/emeralds-jiaolong002-does-it

I'm not really a Caribou fan btw (I did like the Daphni record last year though), but those are both pretty great.

(I did like the Daphni record last year though

(talking about 'Ye Ye' there, wasn't aware of his other stuff under that alias)(I'll shut up now)

Those mixes are soooo good. I'm a Caribou skeptic, Emeralds devotee but those two are just joyous.

My impression is that these guys basically made a genre out of Pink Floyd's "On The Run".

Ma, that Inner Tube record slayed didn't it? Even the bits that sounded like the Eye on Springfield theme tune

woah, i'm listening to that for the first time right now

New LP 'Just To Feel Anything' appears in November...

http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+150

Although I haven't quite caught up with the two new Outer Space LPs yet.

Those Daphni remixes are astonishingly good, I caned the hell out of them earlier this year. Real 'Relevee' vibe to them.

My impression is that these guys basically made a genre out of Pink Floyd's "On The Run".

― OK CLARABELLE PART 3: The Return of the MOO! (how's life), Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:25 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't tell if you're trolling or not but Pink Floyd were not the first people to use synthesizers and sequencers and stuff

Not to mention noise and stuff

i don't even listen to emeralds but that's some ignorant shit

how's life's post, I mean.

I thought it was pretty otm + I love "On the run" and it deserves its own genre

It's my favorite part of DSOTM! "Why couldn't they just have made the whole thing like that" I often thought. And then lo! there was Emeralds.

It was supposed to be sort of a joke though, along the lines of "someone tell Justin Timberlake that Michael Jackson was an artist, not a genre". Obviously not all Emeralds songs sound like PF, but there are a couple that really do, and those are the ones I like the best.

Sorry if that was ignorant shit.

Uh, I don't think it's ignorant shit. Yeah duh PF were not the first to turn on an arpeggiator and solo over it but "On the run" is by far the most visible instance of that trope and "Double Helix" is kind of a dead ringer

arpeggiator 8-step sequencer

emeralds are boooooooooooooooring

so are sleep and bread and long bike rides and my mom but all those things are classic

emeralds rule. this one makes me bawl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHHryw-11D4

I heard some of the new album cuz j0hn ell1ott Dj-ed some tracks at the VOV noise festival in west virginia and this new album is going to surprise people bigtime, sounds like a big, extroverted, ambitious record

Ma, that Inner Tube record slayed didn't it? Even the bits that sounded like the Eye on Springfield theme tune

ha, i'm listening to it now and i was thinking 'late 80s saturday morning cartoon' (prime chillwave material, obv), but it is slaying indeed. not so sure about the song that turned into sweet child o mine, though.

This might be a really stupid question, but if I dig the Mark McGuire solo stuff, am I going to vibe on the Durutti Column? Alternatively, tell me who else I should be listening to.