delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

i think it's too early to tell if i'll like this one more. i've always liked 'days of mars' but it continues to grow on each time i pull it out, and i could see the same thing happening with black meteoric star

I don't know how BMS can be as good as Days of Mars, but I kinda lump in the Carl Craig mix in with Days...

Which makes it an unstoppable monster frying all who cower before it.

personally I find the beats on BMS kind of distracting. part of the charm of Days of Mars for me was how passively you could listen to it - I used to listen to it first thing at work when I was still half asleep.

carl craig relevee is pretty holy shit the first time you play it for anyone

this is pretty good too i suppose

Elsewhere Russom channels rock dynamics - the differences and repetitions on the fist-bumper Anthem recall trance-rock pioneers like Spacemen 3, Velvet Underground and Suicide, where churning rhythms get wound up into overwhelming, epileptic grooves.

a weirdy mix by gavin. (at bottom)

http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2009/06/22/sister-electras-ballad/

So, erm, basically, Gavin Russom is channelling 4AD circa about 1989?

Whoa, he even has a HNIA track on his mix?

I might actually be in love. (question is, does he *look* like the DDB he's so clarly chanelling?)

He looks like a disgusting dirty hippy is what he looks like.

Ah! He looks like a missing member of Faust. Awesome. I want his shirt.

Anyway, this is not appropriate. I'm annoyed because one of my sodding colleagues called when I was halfway through that mix... oh, it did pause and save my place. Good. I keep waiting for Danielle Dax to burst in with some mad 4-track chanting.

I want to hear him remix Bishi. That's what I'd really like to hear. Yes.

have you heard his petar dundov/britney remixes, kate?

i really want to hear days of mars now - never bothered at the time b/c someone said something about it which was really offputting to me (can't even remember what that was).

Psygawpl linked the Petar Dundov thing on the other thread, yes, I liked it.

so yeah the black meteoric star is pretty rocky

Days of Mars is pretty damn awesome.

yeah one of my favourites of the decade. would love to have heard a remixed version of the whole thing, the carl craig version of 'relevee' doesnt get old at all

Bought this the other day, anticipating it's firs listen

I might like this better than Black Meteoric Star. But I can't really decide. They're two different moods.

challops time: why was this hidden away on a hipster dance label? ach well. I'm just sad all the years I could have been listening to this that I lost.

because it is secret hipster music.

what sort of label should it have been hidden away on?

still thinking "casual friday" is the best thing gav's been involved with.

yeah, i always come back to that one, tis grebt

not that i agree that its the best thing he's been involved with, just different

that's #2 for me, after el monte

http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2009/12/accusations-gavin-russom-remix

^^^ v. impt

http://madelikeatree.com/Pages/bms.html
Right now I've produced two 12"s singles as The Crystal Ark. Those will be released on DFA in 2010. The first one is called "The City Never Sleeps" and we're shooting for February 2010. I was very much inspired by the 12" series that Praga Khan and Niki Van Lierop did in the early 90's under their Phantasia alias. I have been playing those tracks in my DJ sets for a while and like I said, things I'm interested in just filter in. I also cut the original instrumentals of the tracks after coming back from working and traveling in Brazil where I got exposed to a lot of great music; Carioca Funk, Atabaque, Berimbau... That fed in there too. It's very psychedelic, very heavy, very intense, and very beautiful music all at the same time. Percussion plays a major role, which was a natural development for me from the way I used pulses of electronic sound on "The Days of Mars" (which was heavily influenced by Afro Latin percussion, so the whole thing kind of comes full circle). I worked really closely with Viva Ruiz who is a New York based singer, dancer and film maker. She did a lot of the vocal work and lyric writing for The Crystal Ark which adds a whole other level to the sound. Intense femininity. Some other good friends and former collaborators were also involved; Alberto Lopez of Belu Music and Lizzy Yoder who I worked with in Sweet Thunder and who went on from there to be the driving vocal force on the first Fischerspooner album. She absolutely kills it on the 2nd Crystal Ark 12". We're going to play a pretty extensive live show schedule in 2010/11, but that's all I'll say for now.

sounds great. that first fantasia single completely blew me away when it came out. still great (despite somewhat dubious lyrical content).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHRUPhPNKGA

O wow, really looking forward to this! That Phantasia track sounds tailormade for Russom ;)
Phantastic song, never heard it.

dubious lyrical content?

cosmic sci fi angel acid dreams, those are some of the best lyrics i've heard in my life

....NAKED

ha! they just seem a tad TOO evocative of that era to my ears. a touch naive in these cold cynical times perhaps? saying that, they took me too ecstatic highs at one time (on a natural high of course)

they're actually pretty tame by say hawkwind standards

http://www.midheaven.com/item/city-never-sleeps-by-crystal-ark-12

wish the clips were a bit longer, couldn't really get a feel for what the songs were like

then again i kinda feel cheated if a gavin russom song is less then eight minutes long

i want him to wire his synthesisers directly into my brain ,really. number one on my list of people i want to get round my studio with a soldering iron

i just heard this in its entirety.wow!

is it leaked or is it out yet or did you get a promo copy or what

Just spotted this sweet bit on news on his website:

"In September I went into the studio with Delia Gonzalez and Eric Broucek to mix “Track 5” which Delia and I originally recorded during the “Days of Mars” sessions. The track didn’t fit with the rest of the album and was left unreleased. After doing a second studio session on it in 2007 at Choose Audio in Berlin we were ready to release it but further complications stalled the process. Finally mixed and ready to go this track will appear as a 12” single on DFA in 2010."

it's a promo copy, karen.

this is out

oh sweet, im there.

oooo off to itunes

just the one 12" at this point, right?

those few seconds on the midheaven site are awful promising

five and a half minutes in, and it's really starting to build.

anyone know anything abt the thing hes done with Carlos Giffoni?

lol @ "clap at 4:11 concept by gunnar bjerk, performed by gavin russom"

Wow, hello! I hadn't heard of this before but I think I need to?

Oh yes, it is on iTunes. Cheap, as well.

xp- haha, credit where credit is due?

there's been talk of a giffoni collab? where where?

I completely missed THE HANDCLAP the first time I heard it. Nice effect, though.

This is acid: the primordial years

xpost, the effect is nice but what about the concept?! ;-)

Ha ha, it was conceptually elegant. Yes.

ok wow this no fun acid thing could be excellent. makes a lot of sense imo