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sweeet! thanks dom!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i think that would be the unfinished version.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

In new news, Dexter has left the group. Confirmed at www.theavalanches.com . Now more intrigued about a new record because of this.

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only one who wasn't impressed at all by the album?

But I do like all their remixes that I've heared.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Frontier Psychiatrist is the only record they ever made with Dexter - everything beforehand was prior to him joining (maybe except the Electricity 12"), and the rest of the album was basically done by Chater and Seltmann on their own. His leaving should make no difference to the sound at all.

Me, I'd rather hear them go back to the live-instruments style of El Producto and the first demo tape than do another Since I Left You anyway...

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

there's actually a little clip of new music on the site too.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Does anybody have the first demo tape? Can I get it on SLSK?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i know someone who has it but it might not be easy to get hold of them

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I only just heard the album this week. I avoided it because I always hated Frontier Psychiatrist due to some bad associations - all of the "creatives" at the ad agency where I used to work would play the video for it incessantly and banter wankily about it's merits. I am as yet undecided.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:41 (twenty-two years ago)

the rest of the album is nothing like Frontier Psychiatrist which I found to be an amuzing diversion. The rest of the album is pure bliss.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

adam have you heard any of the dj sets? they are ridiculously good.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:47 (twenty-two years ago)

No. Kindly point me in their direction with your words.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, look for gimix on slsk.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

and search for "avalanches breezeblock" and "avalanches live ibiza"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:49 (twenty-two years ago)

triple j set from june (?) 2002 also

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ultimately I love the album most of all though.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

is that the solo dexter one blount? goes for like 3 hours?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it's robbie chater

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

did I really write "amuzing" up there. I'm getting dumber.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: The "Since I Left You" Sample Companion, which is also on slsk, is a completely entertaining (if unBELIEVEably cheesy) mix. The Blowfly track gets me every time. Horrible. Brilliant!

― Ryan Pitchfork, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

if you search on slsk for someone named spencer500, this nut may have collected almost 6 hours worth of Avalanches samples and mix songs and put it in a folder called "Avalanches Party".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

what a weirdo!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only one who wasn't impressed at all by the album?
But I do like all their remixes that I've heared.

-- mark grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), February 24th, 2004. (mark grout)

No, your not alone Mr Grout. It all reminded me of Steinski & Mass Media but what, 10-15 years later?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

crazy.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

very different than Steinski to me. The emotional focus is so much clearer with the Avalanches.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

if you search on slsk for someone named spencer500, this nut may have collected almost 6 hours worth of Avalanches samples and mix songs and put it in a folder called "Avalanches Party".

I DL stuff from that crazie all the time! Fast connection, too...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the difference b/w him and spencer500000? this has always confused me!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I would venture to guess that the higher numbered one is a work computer.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

You don't think 'Frontier Psychiatrist' sounds exactly like Steinski? You're nuts. Or hang on, maybe I'm nuts.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I said above, "Frontier Psychiatrist" is an anomaly on that album. It *does* sound like your typical collagist turntablist stuff which is why it's my least favorite bit of the album. The rest of it sounds like a fuzzy recollection of being a kid at a resort in the 80s.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that's true. My memories of the rest of the album are sort of fuzzy too. I think I may have fallen asleep to it on a long car ride. Er, why are people so excited?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Because it's sort of an amazing feat to create the sound of falling asleep on a long car ride!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I hasten to add that I was not the driver.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

haha, I'm thinking that would sound a bit different.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Spencer OTM - there's a lot of ways that you could criticise the album (I'm kinda afraid to listen to it these days!) but not for being a turntablist rehash. The key point is the group's luv of unexpected emotional ambushes.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, it's like I'm in a parallel universe where 'Since I left You' isn't a turntablist rehash.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

And all this emotional stuff? I really missed that. I must give the record another listen then.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I always hear that album in the frame of the beautiful prose of Tim F. See also: Coloma.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

what a weirdo!

A true oddball, that Spencer. Can't imagine who'd care!

I always hear that album in the frame of the beautiful prose of Tim F.

Now truly this is one of the finest statements ever posted on ILX. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

This one's finer, Ned:

Pseudo Echo was a HUGE influence on my musical style. Check out our band, Raya. We pretty much fucking rule.
-- chieftain (hewstin...) (webmail), February 26th, 2004.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that is not fine. That is unfine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Once again, I am wrong about something on this thread. That's it, I'm leaving.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i got the original 'frontier psychiatrist' the other week - the one with a different arrangement, i guess it's from before Dexter joined up as the references to him(cartoon Dexter) are not there - also got 'Ski Surfing' :) still love 'Under Inspection' and 'Rap Fever'

did anyone check the bootlegs on their site a while back - stuff like Royksopp's 'In Space' vs Kings Of Tomorrow 'Tracey In My Room'?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 27 February 2004 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

they do good tshirt as well

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 27 February 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

please let them release another album soon, I couldn't be loving "since I left you" any more right now.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 February 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

What the Nipper said. I can't imagine what it would sound like if I hadn't read Tim's stunning piece about it first.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 27 February 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard them before Tim's raving, but yeah, I still often think of him when I listen to them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

It is a great album, I didn't like it at first but I was stupid. Live at dominoes is so sweet.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ronan, you'd probably enjoy the sampled song from that too, Boney M - "Ma Baker".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey! I say again, does anybody have this demo tape thingy? I WANT!! I WANT!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

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