agree jed. they should take some tips from the pros. ;-)
― stirmonster, Sunday, 18 November 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
haha!
― jed_, Sunday, 18 November 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty keen to hear the Crystal Ark LP, and I think that video's pretty great.
Not on DFA but as we're talking about Crystal Ark - what's the Midnight Magic album like?
― etc, Monday, 19 November 2012 10:11 (eleven years ago) link
it's pretty great but the best tracks have already been out as singles (Beam Me Up, Drop Me a Line, Same Way I Feel)
best of the new ones is probably Paranoid Jungle
I do like them solidly better than Escort for what that's worth
― dmr, Tuesday, 20 November 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
"Rhodes" off the Crystal Ark album is such a languid jam:http://soundcloud.com/coolhunting/06-rhodes
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/factory-floor/fall-back-1
holy shit this is great
― nicki mINOJ (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 7 January 2013 06:27 (eleven years ago) link
certainly the most tuneful thing they've done
― pointillist not pointless (electricsound), Monday, 7 January 2013 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
i am pretty into this, thanks stevie!
― Clay, Monday, 7 January 2013 07:22 (eleven years ago) link
Enjoying this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfM4bc9553I
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 27 February 2013 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
i like that. the surahn ep has grown on me quite a lot too
― prissy relay switches (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 February 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
really dig the b-side on the marcus marr
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
that marcus marr intro had me thinking it was going to sound like delia & gavin but then it turned into phoenix :-(
― the late great, Thursday, 28 February 2013 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
watching the world got the prins thomas treatment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdS6xEwZDMM
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 28 February 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
much better than 'the music' imo:
https://soundcloud.com/marcus-marr/marcus-marr_pleasure_moon
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 28 February 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
ok that's dope, i just bought that on itunes
― the late great, Thursday, 28 February 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like mungolian jetset in a good way
― the late great, Thursday, 28 February 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
really feeling the Prins Thomas remixes of Surahn
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 28 February 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
i was listening to the marcus marr single wondering where i'd picked up the recommendation and thinking "wtf is this annoying shit" about the a-side but the b-side was much better, yes!
― lex pretend, Friday, 1 March 2013 09:36 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2013/03/04/james-murphy-files-90000-lawsuit-against-former-dfa-partner-tim-goldsworthy/
― Number None, Monday, 4 March 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
death from attorneys
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Monday, 4 March 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
ack that's not good. a real shame, in fact.
― jed_, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
a very sad denouement.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/40/1139064-dr_evil_one_million_dollars_super.jpeg
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
little bit late but love the noodling in the second half of 'the music'
― le hague, Saturday, 27 April 2013 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
I copped a Delia & Gavin from 2005 or whatever from a DFA representative at this big outdoor record fair. for some reason i've listened to it ~90 times or so but never actually owned it.
― bishop desmond youtube (sanskrit), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
12 years of DFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJ6KdhEaa0&feature=youtu.be
― tarping, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
xpost
Days of Mars is easily my favorite full-length to come out on DFA, but I'm probably the only one who'd say that
― a duiving caTCH, a stuolllen bayeeeess (jamescobo), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
thought it was pretty well regarded?
think "yeah (crass vn)" is my fave single song
― cozen, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
Days of Mars is amazing but I often get sidetracked by the Relevee single/remixes and just listen to that
― mh, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
^both are great, as is Track 5, which might be my favorite thing by them, or on DFA
― mizzell, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Track 5 is amazing. Out-carpenters carpenter.
― So: The Answers (or something), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
Love Holy Ghost's "Dumb Disco Ideas".
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
the first half underwhelmed me but the second half is tremendous
― failures on the moon (electricsound), Thursday, 16 May 2013 22:43 (eleven years ago) link
it all passed without incident is the best i can say.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Friday, 17 May 2013 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
first few minutes feel like HG! by numbers, would be much lesser song if they'd done an edit. this is partly bcz, as with everything bar I Will Come Back and Jam For Jerry, the lyrics are completely blank, so it works great that the vocals become more explicitly sheer decoration once the synths take off.
enjoying not being able to work out if the drums are pads or carefully produced acoustic kit; looking forward to the CD to see who's credited with cwbll
― why does Kanye say he was based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire? (sic), Friday, 17 May 2013 00:29 (eleven years ago) link
love the "dumb disco ideas" instrumental. could have been made circa "yeah" -- i like that.
― wombspace (abanana), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 20:16 (ten years ago) link
Has it been said all over the place that the Blurred Lines instrumental sounds a lot like a 2004/2005-ish DFA track?
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 06:13 (ten years ago) link
new, non-album, James Murphy / HG! track on latter's Soundcloud today
― how is "abebe" formed? (sic), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 07:17 (ten years ago) link
^i like the music a LOT, though the vocals are oddly weak
― electricsound, Thursday, 11 July 2013 00:57 (ten years ago) link
that's not odd although they are significantly worse than usual.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Thursday, 11 July 2013 22:36 (ten years ago) link
i don't normally have a problem with the singing but this has the feel of a rough guide vocal that never got replaced
― electricsound, Thursday, 11 July 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link
Unmentioned above, but the The Juan Maclean returned with a single in April:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwf31pKvGc4
Nancy Whang's vocal aside, its not as endearingly idiosyncratic as past outings. And I like Whang more on Classix's "All You're Waiting For".
― Me So Hormetic (Sanpaku), Friday, 12 July 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
10 years later, that cabaret voltaire song in the top post mix is still the jamb:
http://www.rdio.com/people/jamesmurphy/playlists/5224085/not_particularly_summery_summer_jam_mix_tape/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 15 August 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
great video and song this larry gushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfmA6tNGUqI
― du mein bestie (micarl), Friday, 16 August 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
I was wondering what people thought of that Larry Gus album. The couple tracks I heard are pretty cool.
― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Thursday, 12 September 2013 22:47 (ten years ago) link
not really into it. it's great that he had this complicated algorithm for deciding which background samples to use or whatever, but it's not really borne out in the music, idk.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 12 September 2013 23:24 (ten years ago) link
I'm a few years behind but the Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra album is so so good. Got the sensuous smoothness of 'Still You' and the ridiculous and lovely mess that is 'That Hat' on a loop here.
― Waluigi Nono (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 02:44 (ten years ago) link
that's defo one of my DFA faves
― going (to) hell for pleather (seandalai), Wednesday, 18 September 2013 21:53 (ten years ago) link
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Museum of Love single:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2E6oK7tN5w
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Thursday, 19 September 2013 03:22 (ten years ago) link
Pat & Nancy & Nick & Alex & Juan on Letterman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrHHcGlGzks&feature=youtu.be
― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 1 November 2013 11:26 (ten years ago) link