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ok i said it on another thread: big beat = beardo house / dance punk

― Captain TeenTalk (vahid), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

and it still doesn't make any sense ;)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 01:02 (twenty years ago)

but, 'too much love' (rub n tug mix)!!

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

that's because you haven't heard enough big beat, jed.

― FLOWING STRAIGHT FROM THE SURVIVAL SCROLL (vahid), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

you need to check out stuff like cut la roc ("post punk progression") and sir drew (of punk funk faves chicken lips) ... the last wave of big beat before everybody gave up the ghost (or started producing, uh, dirty house or electro or punk funk dance) was real 70s rock heavy oriented with a heavy disco (as opposed to hip hop breaks) flavor.

― FLOWING STRAIGHT FROM THE SURVIVAL SCROLL (vahid), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

which is pretty much the beardo house MO, so there.

― FLOWING STRAIGHT FROM THE SURVIVAL SCROLL (vahid), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Ronan I dont understand your post? what is "spinal tap" about the (real) list of remixers we have used? and what does it have to do with the others you listed? and how do you know what the budgets are? Confused.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 01:25 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to think that lcd soundsystem could soon be entering a jazz odyssey phase, that could be pretty good.

― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Why, Ronan? Why use capital letters? Why invoke Jesus?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Galkin I was just joking around, apologies if it caused offence. I've bought all the Juan 12s so far and I like Caro too.

I just meant the acts remixing were getting smaller and smaller, I don't know if this is a strategy or whatever, as I say just making a joke.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 09:04 (twenty years ago)

too late OFF THE PROMO LIST

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 09:39 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't on it!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

I did get a Christmas card last year though.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 09:46 (twenty years ago)

this is not dfa news per se, but looks promising all the same:

Trip 1 (Side A / 45 RPM): 8:44
Get on the Funky Train Re-Edit

Trip 2 (Side B / 45 RPM): 5:48
Night Flight To Venus Re-Edit

All aboard, brothers and sisters. Two of your favorite Italo tracks re-imagined by Tim Sweeney as The Flying Squad. You know Tim, don't you? The voice behind the long long standing Beats In Space on WNYU, the DFA protege, the next DJ Kicks contributor, the man behind RvngMx3, the long haired, deep digging DJ that makes rooms across the globe GET INTO IT?! This is the first 12" release of a whole lotta production work you'll hear from Tim over the next year. Enjoy, enjoy.

Pressing details:
2 dub plates
28 test pressings
1,075 copies, 4c labels
Pressed at Brooklyn Phono

1,100 chipboard jackets, black "Flying Squad" print both sides
Addt'l cover color screen printed by Polluted Eyeball, Brooklyn, NY
250 Magenta / 275 Orange / 275 Yellow / 300 Red

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 11:32 (twenty years ago)

This does sound like it could be good. Boney M and who did the first track?

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

DATES PLZ

― lf (lfam), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:45 (twenty years ago)

'Get on the funky train' I believe is a re-edit of Munich Machines 15 minute disco opus "Get on the funk train" produced by Giorgio Moroder as Tim always plays it out. Proper tune!

― simon.thisisnotanexit, Tuesday, 9 May 2006 14:52 (twenty years ago)

Shit Robot! ! !

― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Prinzhorn Dance School!!!

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:25 (twenty years ago)

"the next DJ Kicks contributor"
"a whole lotta production work you'll hear from Tim over the next year"

ROCK

― Renard (Renard), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 18:36 (twenty years ago)

I thought the next DJ-Kicks was from Four Tet? I'd love it if Sweeney's came first, though, Four Tet's mix for Late Night Tales was pretty disappointing.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 19:08 (twenty years ago)

I just don't get the joke. actually the strategy, if there was one, was to move away from the same tired remixers many have been using and try and give some newer people an opportunity that many have not heard of, and those were 3 that I really like and decided on. I think Tiny Sticks from the UK have released some great twelves and so has Community Library. and Caro's album should have been more known, but somehow so few have ever heard of him. I think they all did really great jobs. The Mock & Toof has been getting played out by some really main room dj's which made me pretty psyched for them!

Regarding DJ Kicks, the mix is actually Tim & Tim (i.e. Goldsworthy and Sweeney), and would come after 4 Tet. But we are not 100% locked down quite yet. Close.

Prinzhorn Dance School 4eva!

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:44 (twenty years ago)

I did get a Christmas card last year though.

-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald6NOSPA...) (webmail), Today 6:46 AM. (Ronan) (later) (link)

it was a Holiday card you insensitive bigot

― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 01:46 (twenty years ago)

fair enough galkin, like I say didn't intend to offend, looking forward to hearing the mixes.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 09:49 (twenty years ago)

i am not offended, honest! I just did not understand the spinal tap reference. it seems like a jab at someone becoming sad, desperate, at the end of their career, irrelevant and short on any ideas and money. why on earth would that offend the label, artist or remixers? We are now revising label copy to read "Caro's Lick My Love Pump Remix in D Minor".

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 11:35 (twenty years ago)

To actually answer little berzbow wow's original question, "how are the new remixes for juan maclean's 'love is in the air'," I'll say that I've heard both the Caro and Strategy remixes and love them. Strategy's very much reminds me of New Order circa Republic.

― matt2 (matt2), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

all are listenable in the dfa records radio on the website.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 20:07 (twenty years ago)

New mixes by James Murphy, Tim Sweeney and Shit Robot are up at http://www.dfarecords.com/radiomixes/

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 12 May 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

I would LOVE IT if Truesteppers remixed DFA stuff. I would like to hear jams murphy's views on buggin', Audi coupés, moet and Victoria Beckham.

― i'm from hollywood, Friday, 12 May 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

where the hell is the avaf video? I MUST SEE IT!

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

hey galkin, if you're reading: is the six finger satellite remix still gonna happen?

― lift up fong and see (haitch), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I heard Galkin is djing the Dazzle Ships party tomorrow in NYC:

http://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

where the hell is the avaf video? I MUST SEE IT!

It's kind of disappointing- the cover of the single is a still from the video. Mostly consists of some vaguely silly dancing in front of the light-up neon backdrop.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

well... i love the cover : (

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

bump... just in case galkin might be able to provide an answer.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 13 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

an answer to what? the video is on the enhanced CD, not the best format for it for sure and hopefully we will be able to get it onto a dvd one day. It is really gorgeous, strobey, hypnotic and quite sexy, i think. i love it. and all dancing is silly, but can be very personal too. slowing it down and speeding it up only emphasizes this, i think. and the lighting job is fantastic.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

hey galkin, if you're reading: is the six finger satellite remix still gonna happen?

-- lift up fong and see (birthday.part...), July 12th, 2006 9:34 AM. (haitch) (later) (admin) (userip)

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might be coming around to the video, but it's too bad avaf didn't use animation for this one. Are the dancers in the video Delia and Gavin?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 14 July 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

the dude looks a lot like gavin

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Friday, 14 July 2006 02:05 (nineteen years ago)

yeah Gavin shaved his beard. Delia kept hers. the thing is, the lighting essentially is animated, we shot it all, but spent 4 weeks editing it all (we shot on green screen). It was a long process.
and regarding the 6FS remix.....someday, but it has gotten pushed aside. Juan and LCD are both into making album #2 now, so it became less of a priority.
we should just repress the original on 12" and give it away. People need to DJ that out as it is.

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

new remixes for juan maclean's 'love is in the air'," I'll say that I've heard both the Caro and Strategy remixes and love them. Strategy's very much reminds me of New Order circa Republic.

I agree about the New Order similarity on the Strategy rmx, but I dunno-- I couldn't get as into it as I thought I was going to.

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

i thought maybe the cd single hadn't been released yet... haven't seen it anywhere and a quick google search doesn't take me anywhere i can buy it... i already own the record and was hoping to see the video online somewhere, actually.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://dfa.insound.com/store/store2.py

DFA WEB SHOP HAS IT ALL FOR SALE. PLEASE BUY A COPY!

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

what did you put on during your set at dazzle ships? i mean roughly whatever you remember.

― fongoloid sangfroid (sanskrit), Friday, 14 July 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

not much, my brother hogged the decks to try and impress dan selzer. they went home together, so i think it worked. i know i played family fodder, au pairs, slovenly, slits, tv personalities, mark beer, david bowie, donna summer, Le Pamplemousse and definitely more but that is all i can remember (i also spun 5 stellas and one shot of blueberry vodka)

― GALKIN (GALKIN), Saturday, 15 July 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

I left before your brother. You don't remember because you were too drunk. Andy thought it was a dance party and brought all hi-nrg new wave club bangers. That really brought down everyone who was there to hear Jeremy play 45s at 33 pitched down -8. I, for the record, played nothing that was written and sung by Syd Barrett.

I definitely remember the Family Fodder, I remember thinking, is the song Debbie Harry really 20 minutes long?

Thanks for coming down, hope you had a good time. A lot of really nice and cool people were there, and it was a totally down to earth time, just like we like.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 15 July 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

that new remix of 'colours' by hot chip is not what I expected at all! anyone else heard it?

― HPSTRKRFT (haitch), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

yeah... not a hot chip fan but i liked it

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Has the Fred Falke mix surfaced yet? Really curious about that one...

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

the DFA remix of Colours is beautiful and magic.

― theghostrobot (theghostrobot), Monday, 7 August 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

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