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If we start disqualifying bands from being goth based on them being appropriated by goth but existing outside of it, we end up with Cleopatra bands making up the whole of the genre.

― anode (anode), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard weirder.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 6 March 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"I have to disagree, these bands have been appropriated by Goth and fit into the goth framework or project, but they exist on their own outside of it. The Cure are straight-up GOTH."

Spencer, I met JAMC as compared to, like Richard Davis or something. Obv The Cure are more goth than JAMC.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 March 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

carsten jost - make pigs pay
paul kalkbrenner - castanets
martini brothers - love the machine (wruhme remix)
throbbing gristle - united (two lone swordsmen remix) ... just kidding. maybe.

once micro-____ hits a paradoxical micro-industrial phase itll all just implode on itself probably. "my cock's on fire" (reinhard voigt remix) etc.

― scissors (Honda), Sunday, 7 March 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got a hold of Carsten Jost's "Pink" - it sounds like Source Direct doing an Armand Van Helden homage! Or vice versa!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim you really need to find ways to share this music like you did once before -- if your connection is more stable. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha Ned I'm actually planning to though I still don't have a computer at home. Unfortunately I only have "Pink" on vinyl!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Alas!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 March 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim won't just have it on vinyl w/in a couple wks.

― Kanyeah West Shepherd (Andy K), Monday, 8 March 2004 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

omg this sounds like the best thing ever

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 8 March 2004 02:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually no it's not the best thing ever, it's just pretty good/great. (to elaborate: a "Spin Spin Sugar" kinda bassline and all these melancholy dark ambient drones)

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 8 March 2004 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything on Sender records.

― Philippe (Philippe), Tuesday, 9 March 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Just wanted to add to this list the incredible "Diamond Daze" album by Pantha Du Prince (out a couple months ago on Dial). It's a bit more gritty then the recent Lawrence album....

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

funnily enough, i am about to put a 12" out on my label and one of the tracks is called 'micro goth'.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 11 May 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

> Haujobb feat. Vanessa Briggs - "less" and "overflow"

Did anybody else initially read that as "Handjob feat Vanessa Briggs"?

― Palomino (Palomino), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

OK so far two citings of the term micro goth! One on philip sherburne's blog and the other in geeta's.

Pretty soon it will have its own section in XLR8R.

By the way Jesus and Mary Chain are so so so Goth, read the lyrics to Darkland.

"Happy when it rains" I mean come on..

doesn't mean its bad, just means its goth

― hector (hector), Thursday, 27 May 2004 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I may have used it in The Wire. If I haven't yet, I will make sure to correct that post-haste. I'll do my best to include it in my Kompakt piece in XLR8R. We can consider it some kind of secret code. When ILMers see the word "micro-goth" in a print publication, that means the revolution has begun. (Ha, watch me turn up on some FBI watch list now.)

Have I mentioned that Jost remix of Turner's "After Work"? That's micro-goth, no doubt about it.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

'Disco Hospital' off Coil's 'Love's Secret Domain' surely must come under the micro-goth banner.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

No! The Mary Chain and Joy Division were not goth bands. That's like saying the Shangri-Las were a goth band because they wrote about a song about young death. The Cure most definitely are goth.

Bands like the Mary Chain have a pure rock'n'roll heritage, whereas Goths seem to be some weird hybrid of rock and cabaret. I think it's the stageyness that is the difference. The Darkness are much more goth than Joy Divsion.

― holojames (holojames), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

Pantha Du Prince "Glycerin" from his fucking amazing Diamond Daze record on Dial. I suppose that most of that album can be filed under Goth-House, but that track is a GOTH-HOUSE MASTERPIECE!!!!! (MIchael F Gill already noted PDP's record on 5/11/04, but i just wanted to add to his sentiments...and also gush about my favorite house track of the year)

― Daniel De Rogatis, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:38 (twenty-one years ago)

so, are The Birthday Party "goth" ? i would assume so..but i really have no clue as to what their live shows were like. they seem to fit the definition of rock meets cabaret, though

― 6335, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the pantha du prince album is holy stuff, indeed.
surprise entry into the canon, tho' via R&B: cee-lo and tori alamaze's "don' cha," upon which i expound briefly here.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Pantha Du Prince possibly one-ups the Lawrence album from last year. "Eisregen" is my fave cut.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 05:17 (twenty-one years ago)

that tori alamaze song is AMAZING... heard it on the radio a few weeks ago and couldn't figure out what it was until your most helpful blogging, m. sherburne.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 06:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I burned myself a sped-up mix of 'don't ya' so I can drop it in my current techno set. #1 single of 2005 so far no doubt. It was played by the hip-hop dj at the bar I was at on NYE (midnight song: Drop it like it's Hot) and I was surprised at how well the crowd knew it and how most everybody sang along.

― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

hey philip...yes the pantha du prince is a holy one indeedy...i gotta check that cee-lo cut.by the way, i'm the dan that you met at rx gallery a coupla months back...sup man? Michael F. Gill...i agree with you about it one-upping Lawrence's Absence of Blight. actually, i feel that the "possibly" is a "definitely". not to take anything away from lawrence though. the guy rules. no one bliss-drones out quite the way he does y'know?

― Daniel De Rogatis, Jr., Monday, 10 January 2005 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s. pantha du prince fans...(if ya haven't heard yet...)check out his "Das Schweigen der Sirenen" album (also on Dial) under his other alias Glühen 4. it sure as heckfire ain't house, but it's some really fantastic ambient music. beats are there on occasion, but they are arrythmic for the most part...i would hardly classify them as "beats" though. it's nice n' eerie, filled with an unexplainable otherworldly beauty, and it's quite addictive. Dark-Pop Ambient? check it.

― Daniel De Rogatis, Jr., Monday, 10 January 2005 05:22 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah how AMAZING is that track on pantha du prince that samples a huge chunk from the chills' "pink frost"? it's the best thing ever. micro-goth meets frozen-air nz-pop!

― jon dale, Monday, 10 January 2005 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, somebody did used "pink frost" in a microhouse setting before I got around to it? fuck fuck fuck.
(um, what's the track called?)

― etc, Monday, 10 January 2005 06:41 (twenty-one years ago)

can't remember track title, i'll find out for you. great idea though isn't it? i'm sure you can guess which part of "pink frost" it uses too.

― jon dale, Monday, 10 January 2005 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"circle glider"

― jon dale, Monday, 10 January 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"pink frost"...cool, i've been windering where that is from. thanks for that.

― dd, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Walking around the snow-covered Tiergarten w/ Anders Illar's 'Everdom' in my earphones: aw yeah.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 18 February 2005 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

i love you tim finney

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 25 June 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

who can tell me anything about youthanasia? their track "mondo cane" pops up about thirty minutes into the middle of triple r's mix of the my best friend label & it's incredible - a spot-on joy division/new order pastiche. discogs says they've only released one record, and it's the only one on the label (rendezvous) - is this some newish kompakt-related? everything else on that mix is from my best fried, a split from traum . . .

― locus solus, Monday, 27 June 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

I think Rendezvous is a new French label. I have no idea who runs it/what the deal is with it, but according to the Flashback notes Youthanasia = Triple R and Emanuel Geller (from Salz.)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 27 June 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

i love you pantha du prince

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Sunday, 24 July 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Konrad Black: Jefferson and Braeside is in every set lately :')

― don't be jerk, this is china (FE7), Sunday, 18 September 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

and konrad black - medusa smile, of course. and i´d recommend matias aguayos album, and anything by argy.

― jelica, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Mayer- "Love Is Stronger Than Pride" and "Lovefood" : not exactly the micro in micro-goth, but both fit in a goth-tinted house set

Isolee- "I Owe You" : I don't know, I hear some Cure in this song. Maybe those strings conjure Disintegration or something. Other Isolee songs fit as well, but this came to mind first.

Psychic TV- "Jigsaw" and "Horror House" : listen to "Jigsaw" and then listen to "Love Is Stronger Than Pride"

Superpitcher- "Tell Me About It" : lots of his stuff, per mentions above

Skinny Puppy- "Deep Down Trauma Hounds" : I'm kind of wondering if this is maybe THE original micro-goth track: the bubbly opening synths, then the kick drum, then the washes, then the deconstruction...I used to drop this in dance sets, but always had to quickly abandon ship because Ogre's vocals go off the deep end a few minutes in and it tends to clear the floor

Per posts above, also ref:
(complete works)
Dettinger
Lawrence
Pantha Du Prince
Closer Musik

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

xpost re Tim's early mention of Marc Almond: what about "Tainted Love" or is Soft Cell's version too white for the race-association tension Tim cites as mandatory? I'm not familiarenough with the Motown original to say(but while asking, I'm thinking of the early club mixes of Soft Cell's, more than the Top 20 radio version). Also, how many goths can dance on the head of a pin?

― don, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Goths tend to be pretty thin, so I'd say about twenty at least.

Them early club mixes of Soft Cell you mention are incredibly great/evil/filthy-sounding (in more ways than one).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

Don Soft Cell are right on point, although w. micro-goth I was thinking more of a current movement than its historical precedents.

Where Marc Almond does sort of sneak in is with the Hacker remix of "Soul on Soul".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone else seeing (hearing) the Psychic TV and Skinny Puppy connections I mentioned above? Hello? Ground Control to Major Tom?

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:00 (twenty years ago)

Also, Tim- I don't really see how you're labeling Dettinger's "Tottentanz" as micro-goth over "Tranquilizer", "Blond", or even "Puma"....

Maybe I don't quite understand the criteria, silly as it is....

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:09 (twenty years ago)

All Dettinger is goth really, but "Tottentanz" is so dark and deathly. What's yr objection?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

I guess with my original list I was making a goth = melodrama connection which the melancholy quietude of most Dettinger, Lawrence and Pantha Du Prince (say) doesn't really truck with. Not that i'm opposed to the latter definition of micro-goth...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm......

I guess I'm hung up a bit on the muscularity of "Tottentanz". Definitely dark, with some very goth Middle Eastern compositional structure going on (at least that's what I'm hearing in the track), but I was thinking more melancholy than melodrama or muscularity. But then again all three is pretty much Creatures in a nutshell, or Blue Sunshine, so ok- I'm with you.

― jsoulja (jsoulja), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Mathew Jonson and the Mole "Dirt Road And A Boat From Soundwave" definitely deserves to be mentioned here.

― nocure, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

i'm OMGing Pantha du Prince and i need more. all night record store where ARE you??? who needs records in teh daytime?

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 06:19 (twenty years ago)

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