Kelley Polar - Love Songs of The Hanging Gardens (Environ CD05)

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it says more about ILM and dorks who like to riff on dance music then it does about dance music. i think of this thread as a continuation of conversations that have been scattered across dance music threads on ILM for the past few months. aside from that, classification is very important because it can lead to discrimination (both positive and negative).

― tricky (disco stu), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

Guardian review from John Burgess:

"In a year when electronic dance artists such as Jamie Lidell and Roisin Murphy have made a good fist at innovative pop, along comes Croatian-born Kelley Polar to steal their thunder."!

+ omg "nefarious rave rumble"!!

(um, & anyone have any suggestions on what I could stick on a mixtape between "Here In The Night" & Pulp's "Seductive Barry"?)

― etc, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Croatian-born, huh?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

got the album sampler 12" in the mail, but don't have turntable access at the moment, blah. KP website sez a 2nd 12" will be released in early 2006 . . .

― etc, Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

This album is so minty fresh.

Have any videos been released?

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

didn't really like it first and got sucked up into the hype vagina

but now I love it

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 25 December 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

i really like it but still can't listen to all of it in one go.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:35 (twenty years ago)

"matter into energy" is still probably my favorite track of the year. i still REALLY like the album as a whole, too, especially the 2nd, less disco-influenced, half. which is weird, cause i'm not really into IDM at all anymore.

;-)

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 26 December 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

listened to the album going to sleep last night (have been listening to it mainly at the bookstore) & "vocalise (from here to polarity)" sounded waaay IDM, all robotic dolphins &c. so er yes vahid. though I still can't quite reconcile "songs"/vocals with something being IDM.
it's one of the few single-artist albums from this year I'm able to sit through in one go.
the unabashed geeky romanticism of this is really comforting at the moment.

― etc, Monday, 26 December 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't get the IDM reference much. To me, this album is like the Gaucho of 00s dance music.

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Monday, 26 December 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

I just can't get over how refreshing it is. It's like taking a shower.. or being gently consumed by friendly blue and green tic tacs. So fresh so clean

― fizzcaraldo (Justin M), Monday, 26 December 2005 03:00 (twenty years ago)

Ha. I really like the new title for this thread!

― Mika, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

it's f***ing rude to retitle the thread when KP is actually posting, joining in the conversation. Can a mod change it back?

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d148/jonwilliamspwn/JonWilliams.jpg

― ha, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

naw

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

hey! i put more work into this thread than KP did!

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

She works hard for the money
So hard for it honey
She works hard for the money
So you better treat her right

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

it's f***ing rude to retitle the thread when KP is actually posting, joining in the conversation. Can a mod change it back?

-- ha (idon...), December 27th, 2005.

i disagree

― Designer of Vahid's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

When did KP post here? Am I blind?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

i am kelley polar

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.unicef.org/why/images/about_020206.jpg
"I am Kelley Polar."

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/sos-children-charity/sponsored-child-china.jpg
"I am Kelley Polar."

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/neanderthal%20child.JPG
"I am Kelley Polar."

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

yay! bought this just before christmas. Matter Into Energy, vahid is right - it's beautiful!

― Carl Handwriting (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Kelley Polar would post again if he thought the thread wasn't about a coat now. I still think the title should be switched back.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

So that's Saul Williams, Gold Chains, the guy from Jurrasic 5, Fred Falke, Marrisa Marchant, and Kelley Polar.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

don't forget Richard X. And Chamillionaire.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/29/Spartacus.jpg/180px-Spartacus.jpg

I AM KELLEY POLAR

― telephone thing, Tuesday, 27 December 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

not a coat. an Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

― blunt (blunt), Tuesday, 27 December 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

I AM KELLEY POLAR

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

Just heard this album of severely underproduced pop drama.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

if you think it's underproduced i can only guess that you heard a different album.

no offense intended to vahid but will someone please change this thread back to it's orig title? who the hell changed it anyway?

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

It's way too underproduced and camp for it's own good. I'll stick with (few) Metro Area 12" material, which is colder but more effective.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

more effective but not as affecting?

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

"Turangulia" (or however you spell it) is the one I keep going back to - so quietly sexy and seductive!

I have a music crit friend Darren here in Melbourne who subscribes to the "deep house forever/death to the false electro/german-house idols" pov; I'm quite keen to get his opinion on this album.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 29 December 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

So it's really becoming a shared POV ? 06 = year of the mucho-awaited backlash then..

xpost - yeah, just as Scritti's C&P'85 was way too OVERproduced and camp for it's own good. The music/production remained its saving grace however, whereas here I'm left imagining a version of this with less lyrical abandon and lush chamber orchestra arrangements instead.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

No he's always been a deep house forever death to the false [x] idols kinda guy, though I don't mean to imply that he's closeminded or static or something 'cos he's not.

If there is an electro-house backlash I don't think it will result in a return to deep house (too recently the hipster music of choice, at least in Australia), I suspect it'll all go detroit techno or something. But we'll see. Anyway I'm wandering off-topic now so please ignore...

Kelley Polar! I will say of this album that nothing grabs me quite as much as "The Rhythm Touch" did.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Forgot to say something nice, I like Matter Into Energy (but the grating vaguely panned hihat sUx0rZ)

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

the scritti analogy is a good one. blunt, why do you say underproduced?

my pick on this album is "in time", but it only really works if you've heard the preceding songs...and it's the last song. "ashamed of myself" is also awesome like a disco matias aguayo with a breathy chic vocal section. and cowbells!

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

no offense intended to vahid but will someone please change this thread back to it's orig title?

-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), December 29th, 2005 6:04 AM. (jed)

if this happens I AM QUITTING ILX FOREVER

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

(change it, quick!!)

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 29 December 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Sorry I'm not listening to this twice in a day (plus MIE a few times). It sounded approximative to me, like well-done sketches and a bit tinny. The mixing I also find awkward, with elements jutting out for no reason or to somewhat weak effect.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

I thought so too on my first listen, but the second was a lot different. I tend to pay too much attention on my first listen to pretty much anything.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 29 December 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

i am listening to the global communications fabric mix. it's good!

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

seriously vahid, you'd like this, i think. it's got delsin shit and weird proto-broken beat from kirk dg.

― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure it wasn't "underproduced". Perhaps it was overproduced to a point that it has a sound that sounds to you to be underproduced, but by the sheer accumulation of hours, they produced the hell out of this record.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 29 December 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry to hear that :/

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Actually Jess, Vahid already created a thread about it:

fabric 26: global communication

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

i guess i just didn't understand the underproduced comment because to me it sounds like a metro area record which means lush production, but yeah i guess it's also production that sounds natural...(and i barely listen to this album. what i have been caning to death is the prima norsk 3 comp)

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 29 December 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

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