Which ones? The last ones I got were the 'lost' Blue Orchids album 'The Sleeper' and Section XXV 'Fron The Hip - Live in America', I think.
These are out now and are essential I reckon :
http://home.wxs.nl/~frankbri/ltm2398.html
http://home.wxs.nl/~frankbri/ltm2396.html
― Dr .C, Monday, 2 August 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Cripes, about ten of them (I had a lot of store credit and was looking to fill in some gaps). I'll post 'em on the LTM thread here. The two you link are probably already en route, as Mr. Nice was kind enough to add me to his promo list a while back.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
I've been waiting years for that.
I've said it before...Animal In My Head from the Fruit of the Original Sin comp is THE GREATEST POST-PUNK FUNKY/ANGULAR SONG EVER. Better then Fire Engines, Josef K., Boots for Dancing, insert whomever...
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 2 August 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 2 August 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 August 2004 23:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 2 August 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 3 August 2004 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
I also get the feeling that the Smiths must have had a huge influence as well on the songwriting. Compare "All the Way" to "Girlfriend in a Coma". The genius of Technique is to conflate the giddy bounce of "Girlfriend" (on the very edge of ska, if you squint your eyes), with the swinging feel of house. its why this album stands out: there are not many indie-house-pop hybrids that work quite this synthetically and well (though one can see superpitcher pushing towards this now from the other side. can't say i see him getting the balance right, though.)
About one description above--"the reflection of CD lasers bouncing off glittering cocaine"--I've never seen cocaine glitter, it's powdery dull; bathroom mirrors?
― juliandanger, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 04:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 05:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link
does anyone remember this being called their balearic album? some of cocteau twins "heaven" done under the same influences (its the only cocteau album I like)... "fifty-fifty clown" and "run" played next to "sueno latino" et al. in ibiza. maybe thats the better geneology of the album's light, pop, crypto-latin style
dan i do understand where your coming from, and its the opposite of where i am in some ways--I found Saunderson through NO and synthpop, not the other way around...obv. these things matter to one's impressions.
― juliandanger, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
I play Perfect Kiss a lot as well. It kind of mixes itself when it goes through the instrumental parts, I used to mix it into a remix of Patrick Cowley's Mindwarp. New Order are the best band for transitioning from pop/new wave to electronic disco/house.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 20:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― david acid (gareth), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link
MTO/MTO2 is too tracky for the album; a great song, though if I remember that's the one that bites a contemporaneous Derrick May riff; Chris Orr left his record bag in my apartment after an extended afterparty, and playing through his records the next day I found the song, and was like, Damn! They straight stole that shit. I remember hearing that Detroit was up in arms over "Run" copping the style they invented; Sumner in discos taking notes and stuff. Pretty ironic in retrospect considering something like Kreem's "Triangle of Love" from roughly the same moment. Biting went both ways (though "TOL" is so lame it could be a parody...)
Here's the tracklisting from "Balearic Mastercuts", which was a precis of the evanescent genre in the moment of 'Technique'. All of this--save 'Wax the Van', since the Arthur Russell reissue--is pretty obscure/uncool now, but is a neat counterpoint to the thriving American house stuff, which is generally more rhythmically tense, moodier and more synthetic. Sublimely cheesy stuff but I'm feeling it, esp. Electribe, BBG, and the Grid (early Weatherall). A few songs sound like "Blue Lines" instrumentals (Sheer Taft!). They were playing some shambolic indie mixed with this stuff in the discos, and that stuff mostly curdles my blood: James (eeurgh), House of Love, Beloved, Sundays and that.
1. Barefoot in the head - Man Called Adam2. Snappiness - BBG & Dina Taylor3. La passionara - Blow Monkeys4. Josephine - Rea, Chris5. Talking with myself - Electribe 1016. Flotation - Grid7. Wax the van - Lola8. Spiritual high - Moodswings9. Cascades - Sheer Taft10. Sueno Latino - Sueno Latino11. Primavera - Tullio De Piscopo12. Hoomba hoomba - Voice Of Africa
More than you ever wanted to know...
― julian danger, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― julian danger, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link
but Triangle of Love is the most blatant, for sure.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Fine TimeRunAll the WayRound and RoundLove LessDream Attack Vanishing PointMr. DiscoGuilty Partner
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― jae young kim (jazzler), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
I love how I'm in love with this album again. It's always been in 'my top 10 albums' for as long as I've thought about such things, but I haven't been so immersed in how wonderful it is for ages.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
there isn't a single weak moment on technique. it is sonically perfect, and very probably my favourite album ever made.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
You may be right about that. It's one of those albums I've never gotten tired of.
― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I love it as much today as I did as a 14 yr old in 89.
But the hiss behind Fine Time's intro pisses me off !
― Shooz (shooz), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 20:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― thread (Dr. C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
This one. To which you said "Splendid stuff Ned. I will say more later." And I've been waiting! Not impatiently, though, that would be wrong.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago) link