theo parrish s/d

He's a real card. Re: sound sculptures vol 1 cd:

"How is the CD different? When you went in to make it, how were you approaching it?

I ended up completing about forty songs over the course of two-and-a-half years and so, in mixing those songs, making different versions and figuring out which ones can form a cohesive piece, I eventually figured out which ones I wanted to do for the vinyl and I figured out which ones I wanted to do for the CD. The goal, in the end, was that I wanted the whole album to play as one piece. So the track IDs are intuitive. That means that if you try to download this album, it's going to be hell to try to get all of the songs starting from the beginning. I wanted to make it a little difficult for these CD Jockeys I hear too. So if you pick up the CD, there's a little surprise. It's been kind of fun to see who picks up on that surprise. Not many have yet. One distributor did so far and a few of my buddies have picked up on it. But most people haven't…or they know that's part of how I get down. [laughs] I'll probably release some CD numbers sans surprise in the future, but in much lower numbers."

The "surprise", afaict, is that you have to turn the bass way up and the treble down to make it sound "normal". So he's actually encouraging those CD jockey's to interact with the CDs, i guess?

the surprise is that the CDs are mislabeled

That track IDs thing sounds really annoying even in a home listening context.

cd1 is disc 2 on the liner notes and vice versa

at least that's the case for the pressing i have

Yeah that too, i thought that was just a mistake though.
The mixing is fucked up compared to the vinyl version though (and all other theo i've heard)

Random note: I took a tour of the Mies van der Rohe glass house Farnsworth House last month, and the tour guide (and the house's executive director) was Theo's dad.

he also did something f'd up to the mastering on sound signature vol 2

Theo being Theo. I do love the Footwork / Tympanic Warfare single though.

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/24/365994454/theo-parrish-be-in-yo-self

fuuuuck

new album's a masterpiece.

Yes!

ayo holy fucking shit this album

so much good shit coming out right in december as its ever been

"be in yo self" is incredible, need to go in on this album

here for december as another exciting new releases month

this is great. "Footwork" such a lovely closer.

how do i buy this in the states?

'ah' kind of drags on waaaay too long

i feel like i'll never get the reasoning behind including slow-slow-slow music on house and techno albums, it never seems like the downtempo-ish tracks work, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone from trying

man i love "ah" but every time i've heard "ah" it's 3 am

i don't particularly care about any of these tracks "dragging" though bc i kinda never want them to stop

i dunno i'm probably not hearing it, it's more that it doesn't click so it reminds me of a block i've got with any 'time out' dance album breather

seriously tho this album

"Make No War"

damn

thanks for the heads up, i'm digging this too - something about the homemade sound is really appealing, you can imagine him in his garage banging these out while taking breaks to make his kids lunch.

revisiting this record this week and man

agree

I haven't played this for ages, it is so good.

instant classic

The man is a sorcerer

"helmut lampshade" is unexpectedly aphex-ian

"Warrior Code" is so fn good

i played my long time gay club dj boyfriend parallel dimensions and he said it's the best thing he's heard in a long time. oh yeah!

classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWnA4Lfmqtc

only $105 on discogs

Gullah Geechee

pipecock remains wrong but ronan's post was also bad & i regret cosigning lol

don’t feel bad - i regret everything i post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIyJ3Ec7Pjc

theo parrish commented on ronan's post tho which is pretty wild

so now that this thread's been brought up I should probably get around to asking this - where's the best place to start with this guy?

depends what kind of music you like

early theo = house music ——> late theo = broken beat

i recommend starting at the beginning and working forward if you like house music, or starting with the new stuff and working backward if you like broken beat music

ugly edits is where i started, it's pretty good imo

I'm not great with record titles and artist names but the blue/orange record that sounds a bit like Ron Trent, thats my favourite!

This one! Night of the Sagittarius / African Roots

Also this one! That Day / How I Feel

I need to start painting my record sleeves and then order them by feeling, that way they might stop getting lost

Feel like all of the big three albums (First Floor, Parallel Dimensions, American Intelligence) would be fine starting points, though I listen to the latter two more regularly.

oh yes of course, Reaction to Plastic, I forgot about that one, ,always forget thats a Theo track

caning the ugly edits tonight

kind of the definitive version of "the love i lost" for me at this point

god I love the bside on that one

fav prob is the freddie hubbard

yeah.. just gorgeous!!

we just had a dance to "get on down"

are these still impossible to get on vinyl? i've only ever had the cd

not impossible i guess if you want to drop $30 and gamble on international shipping right now...