Electrik Red- How to be a Lady Vol.1 Terius 'n' Tricky make girl-pop magic

which did you play in the end, k8?

YOU DON'T FUCK US, N*GG*, WE FUCK YOU!!! YOU!!!!! YOU!!!!! WE FUCK YOU!!!!

Even the barman started shaking his ass behind the bar. It was great.

(Isn't it weird that I feel the need to bleep out a racial epithet, even when directly quoting lyrics, but don't feel the need to bleep out the blatant swearing?)

Ha ha, no, that's not what I meant at all. I meant that it's a sheer technical skill which is appropriate in some settings, but by no means necessary to good musicianship, either as a guitar player or a DJ.

I really don't want to rehash this whole argument all over again!

(^_^)

Definitely, I know what you mean! Tune selection, setting the tone, or its flipside, “reading the crowd” (for better or worse) and are all equally as valid skills as beatmatching in DJing, but which some (most?) DJs seem to be less aware of.

Exactly.

And I do think that's something that you can only really learn from experience - which is why the kind of bedroom DJs on that forum will always big up technical skills like beatmatching - while people like me (who never intended to be DJs at all, but just kept being asked to come down and play some tunes) tend to stress tune selection and tone/crowd mood.

If you're DJing house music in a club, beatmatching is more like the equivalent of being able to keep basic time. I mean, it's pretty fundamental. DJing in a bar, it doesn't matter at all.

technical skill which is appropriate in some settings,

My own personal bugbear are the vinyl DJs who go on about how lifeless mixes made using software are, which seems likes an exact analog of “real” musicians moaning about DJs or drum machines/samplers/synths etc.

It’s just a tool, you tools.

I find it amusing (ironic, even?) that CDJs now sneer at MP3-Js the same way that vinyl DJs used to sneer at CDJs.

Anyway, sorry, this is NOT a thread about DJing, I'm not even a DJ, honest!

This is about ELECTRIK RED and how awesome they are.

TRUE DAT!

YOU DON'T FUCK US, N*GG*, WE FUCK YOU!!! YOU!!!!! YOU!!!!! WE FUCK YOU!!!!

Even the barman started shaking his ass behind the bar. It was great.

― If My Body's A Club You're My Disco Ball (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 10:17 (3 hours ago) Permalink

hot!

the Y is for YESSSS! ooh - VANILLAHHHHH!

if u wanna try, boy u betta buy

CD has pretty cool packaging

if it exists

bought it today!

yeha I found a copy in Best Buy buried behind a bunch of ELO albums.

after going to 2 Targets and a bunch of other stories and not having any luck

btw this is the biggest flop ever, it sold under 5,000 copies 1st week

haha yeah the employee at the store i got it from was kinda like "???" and then proceeded to recommend the new eminem upon finding me checking out the rnb/rap section and adding "relapse 2 comes out in october!!"

but all of those 5,000 started a band, etc.

I'd probably attempt to break his fingers at that point. xp

ilm r&b crew makes up like 1/500th of their fanbase

ouch

lol :(

tbh given how many other projects were shelved or never emerged i'm amazed this album exists at all. i can easily see it being a slow burn though...the quality is that high.

album artwork is great too, booklet peppered w/electrik red quotes like "always remember where you came from, and never forget those red pumps on the way to where you're going" and "it's hard being an authentic girl in a botox world".

oh today's quotemachine

the Y is for YESSSS! ooh - VANILLAHHHH!

like a kid with the cake u can really eat it
like a stray dog, happy every time i feed him

"but you gotta get your mind together...and them jeans is a lil' too tight - what! i fux with it, it's cool, it's cool, i get it, it's in fashion, haha..." you can HEAR her rolling her eyes!

http://i39.tinypic.com/1zqarlt.jpg

is that them?

"but you gotta get your mind together...and them jeans is a lil' too tight - what! i fux with it, it's cool, it's cool, i get it, it's in fashion, haha..." you can HEAR her rolling her eyes!

― lex pretend, Thursday, 4 June 2009 12:26 (35 minutes ago) Permalink

i love this attitude

"like a kid with the cake u can really eat it"

I though it was "you can barely eat it", if I'm wrong I like my version more.

I love "I fux with it"!

pretty sure it's 'really eat it' which also ties in w/ 'happy like a dog every time you feed him'

yeah but "barely" hooks up with her having to finish herself off after he's done. His eyes are bigger than his stomach.

and them jeans is a lil' too tight

His eyes are bigger than his stomach.

stomach??

he wants to eat her

I was thinking of another body part.

"bed rest" damn.

on good headfones

I like this better than Love vs Money (esp. "Bed Rest" and "W.F.Y."), but so much that I want to praise this to the heavens.

what?

I'm late to this party. If I think "p is for power" is the best song, does that make me a santigold neon altbro or something

Seriously hoping electrik red and janelle monad conquer the earth

yah

there's some truth

Seriously hoping electrik red and janelle monad conquer the earth

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, June 5, 2009 10:39 AM (2 hours ago)

^word dude, also "p is for power" is tied for the best with "devotion"

so good and bed rest (omg) are amazing but the rest of this has not quite clicked for me yet, i think i'm comparing it unfavorably with the-dream's the-dream albums. the svengali gender ventriloquism business is kind of skeeving me out too tbh

i like this record more than (or it is more interesting than) the new the-dream, but the first dream is still some kind of pinnacle imo.

goole i think u could come around to '9 to 5' or 'friend lover' for sure??

yeah i'm sure i will be listening to little else thru the summer no matter what my initial impressions are! the "i gotta BE at work by 9!!" line is already deeply implanted.

sad this is tanking

this is going to be our annie from norway isn't it