Lindstrom & Prins Thomas are the shit

this makes no sense. richard x produced a lot of the sugababes' stuff, incl. their biggest pop hits!

as far as neptunes/sugababes go, maybe you do "get" pop. i'm not sure anybody (even ivan smagghe) would argue that what they're doing is as "new" or "exciting" as the human league - if you had lived through it. don't get caught in the trap a historicism. it'd have been just as easy for frank zappa to lampoon the ramones or new york dolls or whatever in the 1970s by recording "ruben + the jets" ("redundant piano triplets"!!!) (he lived through it, too, after all, cruising el cajon in a bread truck blasting bubblegum) and it would be just as wrong.

as far as stripping back / minimalism / tradition go ... not sure how you are going to defend relief here ... whatever cajmere wants to say about it (mr "i've heard a million acid tracks and frankly it's boring now") i'm not sure how you could characterize relief outside of sticking to tradition, functionalised

As far as L&PT go: how many people on dancefloors have actually heard (heard of, even) the "space disco" it rips off? I don't think I have! And as I said upthread I think it's pretty different to Faze Action or Nuphonic, a lot of which I also like.

Also... I love Villalobos but I'm now getting really really sick of him being namechecked as the "token" innovator in current electronic music, he is quickly becoming the German Kanye West or even Outkast in this regard.

-- Tim Finney (tfinne...), Today.

i half agree with you, tim. villalobos may be on his way to token innovator status like kanye & outkast but i don't think that they have ever really taken solid ground and tilted it at a 45 degree angle with their music the way that he has.

also, vahid, i can't find the hey ya! thread. google searches are fruitless and ilm searches don't work on queries with all words under 4 characters.

I do think the new hyper-maximal minimal stuff is the most interesting stuff around now, but ok I'm being too purist and theoretical about cosmic disco.

Ha ha yes this is totally OTM. I don't know if this has ever happened before in quite the same way, maybe not since erm "techno"! Or "hardocre" maybe?

Live at Mago pt. 2
Live at Mago pt. 3

part one hasn't been posted yet...

http://www.myspace.com/feedelity

i'm guessing this is new as the only place i've heard about it was pitchfork a few days ago.

also Forced Exposure says Eskimo is having a problem stocking the album and that it now should arrive in May.

did this ever come out? it sounds amazing!

Does anyone know if this is any good : http://www.discogs.com/release/478681

Really, I am longing to hear this out.

Anyway that's my favorite so far.

Anyway, turns out they're some sort of "future jazz" group - which seems to mean bizarro sampladelic percussive jazzy meanderings which sound great but not what I was expecting.

What i was expecting though was matched and exceeded in the "Lsb Ohd Mungolian Mix" - not sure what this track is, I think it might be a remix of LSB's "Original Highway Delight", the original of which I haven't heard, but was out recently on 12" on Eskimo.

But just play it, it's this astonishingly huge psychedelic italo-disco track, with bona fide ridiculous high-pitched vocals lurking somewhere towards the end. I can't stop listening to it! Who the fuck are these guys?

But yes! I dunno. Depends. Do they do more mind-expanding disco than these 2 remixes?

I nearly bumped this thread meself as there's a lindstrom comp called it's a feedelity affair coming out, comprising most of the 12" releases.

*snaps fingers*

No no, that was meant to be positive! I hope.

"On the other side, Mungolian Jet Set’s “Exit To The Ja-Ja” mix is quite a curious piece of schaffel which morphs into psychedelic disco halfway through its eight minute journey, then goes a little Happy Mondays at the end; interesting."

So yes, they have done more than two remixes of mind-expanding disco.