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i cant really get a grip on the original of "i dont know". it just seems really weak, compared to the just us dub. the melodies are reflected so strongly in the music, or the basslines, and it has none of the deepness that amplifies the feelings in the vocals. i should have heard it first before the remix i guess

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

as diverse as Adam and Jed.

pundits

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

WHAT a record!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

1. Do we like his paintings?

2. Does he in fact "deserve all the credit"?

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Can't wait to hear this. What's it like apart from being brilliant?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

I said to Jess it was like "techno had never died", I meant cos, of course, it's got bird noises and the songs are extremely long and quite experimental, it is not all necessarily electrohouse, though there are a few potential singles.

Does anyone else feel the bassline in "Mythologies (Myths 1 & 2)" sounds like "The Chain" by umm I don't know your archaic rock bands, Fleetwood Mac was it? The song that was on Formula One coverage on BBC for years.

"Deer In The Headlights" is amazing. Chelonis rapping!

Did anyone else notice Chelonis on the pics for "Body Language", wearing a t-shirt that says "I FUCKED CHELONIS R JONES"?

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 July 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

also I think I still like the original "I Don't Know" the best, the Justus remix is really good but for sheer bleakness I think the original really works the best, something about the way the bassline interlocks with the really sad strings in the background gets me everytime. (it's not a dissimilar structure to the rex the dog remix of the knife)

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 July 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone else notice Chelonis on the pics for "Body Language", wearing a t-shirt that says "I FUCKED CHELONIS R JONES"?

haha! NO!

Deer In The Headlights is THE track for me, right now. Listened to this on my commute this morning, so happy.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

The question is: Will he sell it as merchandise? If only for the imagery of everybody at one of his shows also wearing one of his shirts.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 18 July 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm really excited about this album, and the DJ T one.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

The DJ T one is a little underwhelming. Great song titles, though. "Rimini", "Galaga".

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

the DJ T is ok I think but it's not really a good flow to it for listening to, I like some of it well enough and play it out, Funk On You, Rimini, Glitter. Not listened to the non vinyl version yet.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 18 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

One of my friends was doing some bar DJing last week, and halfway through this v enthusiastic German bloke comes up to us in the DJ booth and demands that we play track 1 of the record he's waving around - it turns out that's the DJ T album and he is DJ T's cousin! So we played it and it was fantastic.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 18 July 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

By vaguely hinted at/popular request:

Deer In The Headlights (myth III)

http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OGK3TQRLOS9L1SFREX44YR7HI

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 09:37 (twenty years ago)

I interviewed DJ T and asked him questions pretty much all inspired by ILX discussions.

He complained at the end that the questions I asked were really hard to understand :-(

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

did you ask him, "how do you feel about the tangential crossover of yet another electro-disco revival into the politics of post-rave post-superclub dance music and how this revival reflects a broader cultural trend towards the infusion of rock and pop based song structures into techno and other dance music styles?"

i hope the artwork for the chelonis album is as good as the dj t artwork.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 01:58 (twenty years ago)

Tim :)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

i love the dj album, but yeah, it is a bit much to take in in one sitting.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Tricky no but I would have had if I'd thought of it!

He gave pretty good answers actually - talked a lot about what he saw as the difference between a house and techno sensibility, where he differs from the other Get Physical artists, why Germany dominates dance music etc. I was actually thinking it was one of the best interviews I'd had until he said that at the end.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Isn't he a little older than the rest of the Get Physical crew? I remember reading that he was something of a veteran...

(Where can we read this interview?)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

"Isn't he a little older than the rest of the Get Physical crew?"

He looks like he's in his late 30s but I'm not sure if that distinguishes him totally - Booka Shade were making tracks in the mid-nineties, and were apparently involved in Culture Beat?!? I forgot to ask him to confirm that unfortunately.

(the article isn't published online (it's for a local paper) but I'll put up a transcript somewhere when I've written it up)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

Culture Beat!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

yeah i would love to read the interview too. i wonder if he would find it insulting if i called his music "fake house". (meant in an entirely complimentary way) xpost..

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

He is quite old, he's very serious I thought, but is a very nice guy really. You should have played him some records Tim, when we were taking him to the hotel he would turn up the radio really loud at some points and open the windows, it was a Tim Sweeney mix playing and "Paris Hilton", "Radiator" and of course "No Way Back" all got turned up.

Oh and "Oldschool Baby", when that came on he said "this record is hard for you to understand, it is a particular Berlin feeling".!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 10:03 (twenty years ago)

So yes, the Chelonis album is very special. When is it released? After one listen I've deciced I need the real thing.

Have you heard it Tim?

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

A particular Berlin feeling!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)

"Have you heard it Tim? "

Sadly I'm stuck in no-downloading land. If it gets released here though I'll try to bag an early promo copy.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 22 July 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

someone do a mashup of "i don't know" and hell interface's "the midas touch" STAT

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 25 July 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

Your wish is my command Mark:

http://s16.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2UN3ZVY0KWFIJ32CU6XJ5W2BSD

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 06:17 (twenty years ago)

hey michael, i just got from that YSI a minute of the intro to "i dont know (just us dub" without any midas touch sorta thing?

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:07 (twenty years ago)

The link works fine for me, Ambrose? I dunno.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:31 (twenty years ago)

you mean you DON'T KNOW

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

RIGHT

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

I never thought I would get to this point in my life.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

Which reminds me - what is the next line anyway? Is it really "emotions run like a towel"????

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

I always thought it was "emotions run like a trial", but then I always thought I was wrong.

Notice how I carefully avoided the obvious answer.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

michael! i was grinning from ear to ear on the streetcar into work this morning thanks to you. that was fantastic.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 25 July 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I owe half the inspiration to you Mark! You've reunited two songs that were separated at birth.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, Culturebeat's 'Adalante' would probably fit in quite well among some of this stuff!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps there is some truth to the rumor that Booka Shade used to produce Culture Beat!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

is it not "emotions run like a tap"?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:02 (twenty years ago)

i don't know

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)

emotions run like a child?

emotions run like.......carl lewis???

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)

sometimes I think it's "emotions run like a trial".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

it definitely isn't tap actually, maybe I just made that up to try and make sense. it does sound like "towel".

VOWELS MANGLED AT NIGHT??!!?

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)

"I roley luuve yooeeeaaha"

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

VIALS MINGLED ALL NIGHT?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

All this makes it quite ironic that the consensus on "I Don't Know" is that it has great lyrics!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I do think his lyrics are great, but mainly for the way he wraps them around the beat, and this is especially true on "One and One". I mean like, "One and One" is seriously electrohouse's "Your Love"!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Does that make "Blackout" electrohouse's "Baby Wants to Ride"? I'll definetely agree with the "One and One" statement at least.

I really should start a great House-style lyricist (that can't be right) thread.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

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