I guess that must be Migu on drums on the HGG clip, that's very cool, her solo record is great.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 27 January 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah i saw that tour too! Blew my freakin' mind. I had never heard of a theremin before and I eagerly bought one that week.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 27 January 2013 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
So what is this album called, is it "Design"? Or is it a soundtrack to the show?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 27 January 2013 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, OK, "Design Ah". LOL. Not as good a pun as "Fun9" (Fun Ku) but ok!
I'm finally going over his page in English. Man, "CM4" was just released. I haven't heard one of his remix albums since "CM2".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 27 January 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
I wasn't a big fan of CM4 but CM3 has astounding remixes of Sketch Show (Hosono/Takahashi's group), Denki Groove (Twilight) and James Brown (Call Me Super Bad)
― frogbs, Monday, 28 January 2013 00:27 (eleven years ago) link
man, "Tone Twilight Zone" still gives me chills. part of it is because it has a deep connection to my life but also because of those harmonics. such a simple trick to put them in a song like this but it seems like nobody else really thought of it.
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
No, show I saw was called Music Against Brain Degeneration. Also featured Sebadoh and Robyn Hitchcock.
that was a good tour. saw it at Cat's Cradle in NC. I remember Cornelius' drummer had big giant headphones on giving them the metronome timing to sync with a really fast movie projected behind them.
― dmr, Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone watch Cornelius on HBO's Reverb? That's how I discovered him. Was a pretty important step in my taste maturing at 14.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:10 (eleven years ago) link
That was my first exposure to Cornelius, the Reverb show. Unbelievably, I can't so much as find a clip from it online.
― warsaw303, Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Aw crap, i had that Reverb show taped years ago, and now it's lost for good.
Those videos were AMAZING. There was a Fantasma remaster that came out a year or two ago and one of the videos i found posted online in connection to the release was the video they projected during "Count 5 or 6", which had this amazing shot of Keith Moon which cut to an accidents from a demolition derby.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 31 January 2013 18:11 (eleven years ago) link
he's definitely a phenominal live performer. I think that gets missed considering how tightly controlled the albums are. there was (still is?) a video of him playing "Monkey" note for note on the guitar at about the same tempo. When I saw him they did stuff like "I Hate Hate" flawlessly and were able to play perfectly in time with the videos, even "Fit Song" which isn't that complex of a tune, but still requires a ridiculous level of precision to get it to match the video.
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 January 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
now that i'm listening to this again and again I think it really is a lot like the Cornelius version of Hosono's "The Endless Talking", but a little brighter and not as frightening. I'd be surprised if that wasn't a huge influence on this album. It's really quite good - very brainy and just the right amount of fun, with the pieces acting more like ideas than songs, with a really refined sound palette (some of the old sounds crop up though). Probably better than Sensuous, really.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
This is really great! A little spotty at times but the good stuff is goooooooood. Like it much more than anything I've heard since "Point."
― Deverly (Bangelo), Saturday, 16 February 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago) link
What's exactly is everyone's problem with Sensuous?
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 February 2013 02:14 (eleven years ago) link
This is incredible! I watched the show and holy crap is it amazing. This record is probably my favorite since "Fantasma".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_xLFOg2gTQ
This is an episode with some really amazing video sequences.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 16 February 2013 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
Sensuous is fine but IMO it's a little too stripped back at times, it doesn't have any of the real enjoyable moments that Point did. Like it doesn't let loose, even Gum sounds way too tightly controlled and structured to be a lot of fun. Its still a good album I'd say and probably one that's going to look better with time. This new one though puts a lot of the fun back even in it's sterile little world of sound, maybe because the melodies are a lot more all over the place and the pieces are short enough that you don't get bored of them. I'm on my 8th listen in the last seven days and it's still sounding very good.
― frogbs, Monday, 18 February 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Sensuous is okay - the charitable case could be made that it threads the needle between Fantasma and Point, but I feel it doesn't have either the hooks of Fantasma or the pristine atmosphere of Point. Really excited about the new one but need to track it down first.
― skip, Monday, 18 February 2013 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
still loving nhk design ah. frogbs' comparison to the endless talking strikes me as a good one, but yeah, this is much more upbeat. still, both albums are very crisp and clear and move through a wide range of musical ideas quite quickly. and there are chopped up vox all over both of these albums.
but the modern production and slight techno edge on some nhk tracks is pleasantly bringing the hosono worship of the atom/masaki sakamoto collabo lp alien symphony to mind - particularly the parts miharu koshi guests on. I'm strictly talking about production here because alien symphony is DENSE music, but if you haven't heard that one, it is very much worth hearing and available in full on soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/sublimerecords/atomtm-masaki-sakamoto-alien-symphony
― original bgm, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
I hear what you guys are saying about Sensuous. I might be a little too in love with the overall sound/production; really think it's one of the best sounding albums of its time. Excited to hear the new stuff from everyone's descriptions!
― brimstead, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
btw apparently he's doing the new ghost in the shell soundtrack!
― brimstead, Monday, 18 February 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
thanks for that one Alan - listening now and its defintely a good modern take on Hosono's S-F-X sound
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
and yeah it is a lot like this NHK album
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2013 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
awesome, glad you're digging it
― original bgm, Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
i'll give it another listen tonight. I've always been curious about Atom Heart but he's that odd combination of A) prolific, B) obscure, and C) releases material under a zillion different names that makes it difficult for me to really get into him
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 February 2013 21:03 (eleven years ago) link
My cat loves this. I bet he likes the bird song.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 February 2013 07:33 (eleven years ago) link
xpost yeah, I'd be curious of you find more "hosono-ey" atom material. much of what I've heard has had a 90s ambient techno vibe (which I also like)
― original bgm, Friday, 22 February 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
new compilation out - Constellations of Music, partly a remix comp like the others but there is a decent amount of new stuff there, some with salyu x salyu. The Bird and Bee remix is of a song I haven't heard before. Flows a lot better than the CM albums. Check it out!
― frogbs, Wednesday, 28 October 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
oooh, new salyu x salyu! thanks for the heads up, will be checking that out.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 29 October 2015 04:06 (eight years ago) link
also, haven't checked out the new ghost in the shell ost but I do like the opener (which he produced):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DuRYkthjU
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Thursday, 29 October 2015 04:07 (eight years ago) link
I have the ost, it's very good!
― thono, Thursday, 29 October 2015 09:13 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZNSOUkI7w
original backdrop vid for "Free Fall" from "Fantasma"! they have the one from "Mic Check" up as well. so cool....
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 8 January 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/puE3RO6CeBKfK/giphy.gifi see some John Whitney at the beginning. a lot of amazing 80s vector CGI stuff. anyone know what ^this is from?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 8 January 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/sNxf2AA.jpg
last night the Cornelius instagram posted a weird black and white animation with minimal sounds (alternating drum machine kick and snare) then the following info:
0426 FIRST SINGLE0524 SECOND SINGLE0628 NEW ALBUM
!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 31 March 2017 13:23 (seven years ago) link
CLASSIC
And why's it taken him so long to release another proper album? But I'm glad.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 31 March 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efJp-0GHKp0
I missed the Penguin Cafe/Cornelius EP.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 31 March 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
oh wow I missed that too. "Bird Watching at Inner Forest" is my favorite Cornelius track, for real
why'd it take him so long? hard to say but maybe he felt his solo style hit a dead end? for the record there's two, maybe three things I think you could count as Cornelius albums since Sensuous was released 11 (!!!) years ago - the NHK Ah Um soundtrack, the salyu x salyu album, and the Constellations of Music disc which is half a remix album and half new material. he's also been in the band Metafive which were fairly active the last couple years. so he's been busy, at least!
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2017 13:43 (seven years ago) link
Sensuous feels like the ultimate refinement of his style for sure, perhaps too refined in places? Very interested to hear where he's going with this one.
― chap, Friday, 31 March 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
yea I'm pretty excited for the first single - his style hasn't seemed to evolve much in the past 10 years but I wouldn't be surprised if he had something up his sleeve for this
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
wow i haven't listened to anything after Sensuous. i'm going to need to check that stuff out!
why'd it take him so long - he produces a lot (didn't he get his start producing Pizzicato Five in 1993) so yeah in all the gaps between albums he is doing art shows, soundtrack music, playing in different bands, producing other people, etc.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 31 March 2017 13:59 (seven years ago) link
I was always a fan of Beastie Boys remix from a few years back:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2inCuVYieY
― MarkoP, Friday, 31 March 2017 14:39 (seven years ago) link
the NHK Ah Um soundtrack
oh yeah, the Design-Ah show, i forgot about this. it was fucking awesome!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 31 March 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
This is fab, love me some Salyu x Salyu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzu5ST8CnM
― MaresNest, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:40 (seven years ago) link
didn't he promise a new album back in 2010 or something that never materialised (until now)? i'm excited for this anyway
i quite enjoyed the salyu x salyu album, really wish i'd been able to see her/them live when they were here a few years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brec06BA6JU
― ufo, Friday, 31 March 2017 16:54 (seven years ago) link
Have always LOVED this Kings Of Convenience "Tusen Takk Rework" of "Drop"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EEWPZJrPP0
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 31 March 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmO7KLDE8ss
I've always enjoyed this meta-meta remix.
― afriendlypioneer, Friday, 31 March 2017 19:06 (seven years ago) link
his James Brown remix is awesome. video's kind of a headache though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnsxXh22-2g
― frogbs, Friday, 31 March 2017 19:19 (seven years ago) link
salyu record is so good
― schlump, Friday, 31 March 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgHQj3li4gY
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link
listening to Sensuous again. i really love this album. i think he keeps getting better. "Scum" is so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfL63RbD0Jg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link