Chelonis R Jones

I never thought I would get to this point in my life.

Which reminds me - what is the next line anyway? Is it really "emotions run like a towel"????

I always thought it was "emotions run like a trial", but then I always thought I was wrong.

Notice how I carefully avoided the obvious answer.

michael! i was grinning from ear to ear on the streetcar into work this morning thanks to you. that was fantastic.

I owe half the inspiration to you Mark! You've reunited two songs that were separated at birth.

Incidentally, Culturebeat's 'Adalante' would probably fit in quite well among some of this stuff!

Perhaps there is some truth to the rumor that Booka Shade used to produce Culture Beat!

is it not "emotions run like a tap"?

i don't know

emotions run like a child?

emotions run like.......carl lewis???

sometimes I think it's "emotions run like a trial".

it definitely isn't tap actually, maybe I just made that up to try and make sense. it does sound like "towel".

VOWELS MANGLED AT NIGHT??!!?

"I roley luuve yooeeeaaha"

VIALS MINGLED ALL NIGHT?

All this makes it quite ironic that the consensus on "I Don't Know" is that it has great lyrics!

I do think his lyrics are great, but mainly for the way he wraps them around the beat, and this is especially true on "One and One". I mean like, "One and One" is seriously electrohouse's "Your Love"!

Does that make "Blackout" electrohouse's "Baby Wants to Ride"? I'll definetely agree with the "One and One" statement at least.

I really should start a great House-style lyricist (that can't be right) thread.

Can anyone tell me about DJ Remo ft. Chelonis R Jones - "Black Sabrina"?

Yeah it's quite dry and techy, I'm not mad keen on it but it is quite good, the vocal is sort of crazy. I bought it on sight practically, but have never played it.

He did a thing with Oliver Huntemann that's just out, "Terminate The Fire", and it's not amazing I didn't think.

the lyrics to Black Sabrina are great as well!

Black Sabrina aint just a female, she's a movement
Shapes and defines a whole new territory thunder, duh, with an "a"
She ain't about actions, she's the ultimate action, mmm hmm
By the time you gave her directions she was already there
Black sabrina will dabble into the wells of the he-she-she-he islands
Dig pyscho sexual
She won't make any promises she can not keep, no
She laughs at your stupid titles of names,
She talks of sexuality, mentality, mortality

Black as a definition of death
Black as Langston Hughes, a space odyssey
Black as a stigma, as a lecture, as a volume, nah

She's phallic pictoral, a vaginal cave with teeth
There are rumor of her non being, inhumanity, unself
There are legends of an inner whiteness, brightness, uptightness
Black Sabrina never pushes nor shooves
She's a foot up your ass
She then questions why you walk so funny,
And utters "punk bitch" under her rum tinted breath
Black Sabrina is a poem, she don't give a damn about your disco dancing, designer prancing, showoffish bullshit.
She already knows what she's about, worth and what she will always add up to.
She might not even be a she
He might not even be a he
Black Sabrina is a fucking riddle, myth, legend, voodoo sorcery
Black Sabrina ain't even urban royal, ain't even intellectual, nor religious
Black Sabrina probably ain't even black
She's periwinkle psychedelic
She was there when the ultimate blackout arrived
Do you like her better in jeans?
Do you like her better in jeans?
Do you like her?
Yeah you do
Yeah you do
Yeah you like her
She was there when the ultimate blackout arrived
She's a movement
A movement.

almost as good as Lenny Kravitz 'Black Velveteen'!

OMG.

Fucking hell this album is great, and I'm only halfway through it!

(so so many thanks to Toby for hooking me up)

arno from booka shade sez the lyric is "emotions rung like a towel / vowels dangled and knived"

Ooooooh!

i assume he means "wrung".

I like those lyrics

still loving this.

me too. so far get physical are 3 for 3 on the albums front. i think booka shade is my favorite, but this album has been a huge grower.

i dunno, there are moments, but it seems hugely uneven to me. i always want to like get physical more than i actually do.

I can't get into Booka Shade or Dj T. all that much. I like the mixes and I like Chelonis, though.

i agree about the uneven quality, but that's part of it's charm. i think i would call it idiosyncratic before uneven actually. the first few times through i didn't like it at all. the lyrics are really good. to each their own of course. i think it's the spliffed out production that i like the most (same goes for booka shade, but i guess that goes without saying).

the singles do feel a bit out of place in the context of the rest of the album. synthpop-tastic vs. art damaged funk.

I think MANDY is the best, certainly the most radically good anyhow, DJ T has a string of really good sort of "floorworker" type records with that trademark GPM disco beat but I'm not sure he's the equal of the best MANDY tracks, I dunno. Am I wrong in saying "Body Language" is in the top 5 best GPM tracks? Maybe even top 2 or 3?

I still think Vince-Superworld (DJ T Dub), on Art of Disco is DJ T's best track. Check that out if you've not heard it Adam.

Booka Shade often sell themselves a little short with their own work, touching on overly retro sort of deep techno/tech-house, like say the Juan Maclean remix. It's very good but not amazing maybe. Though "Vertigo" and "Mandarine Girl" are both about as good as it gets. I never fully got into the album. Though I wouldn't say I'm fully into the Chelonis album either, I still think the best ones are the ones he had released already. Maybe I'll get into it.

The "Body Language" mix I like more and more with each listen, I don't know if I can overstate how good I think it is. It's up there with the best mix CDs I've ever heard I think. It changes direction so seamlessly, sometimes without even mixing. My only gripe is perhaps it's a tiny bit dry in the opening 7 or 8 tracks and I WISH they didn't use that Slam Wighnomys track, cos of the awful vocal. The Triola Polar Zipper thing would be so much better.

Everytime I sell a copy to someone who has no idea about Get Physical and buys it from hearing it on the shop system (and that's alot of times, to all sorts of people) my faith in humanity is restored.

best thing for me is still the get physical 2nd anniversary mix

yes!

Yeah I mean I think I rate that as highly as "Body Language" but it's not a mix in the same way really, it being all their stuff.

Maybe it is actually!

i love how the body language mix changes directions, too. it reminds me of what tiefschwarz did for their misch masch mix, but bl really succeeds where mm feels continuous, but dry/over-engineered and almost aimless.

"mandarine girl" is one my favorite gp tracks ever for sure.

"but dry/over-engineered and almost aimless."

Yes! "Aimless" is precisely the word to describe what bugs me a bit about that Tiefschwarz mix.

just goes to show that track selection is only one component of a good mix...

holy shit. I missed out on this Chelonis bizness by obsessing over Luciano/Villalobos/Two Lone Swordsmen type minimalism but i downloaded a lowfidelity mp3 of Justus' vocal remix of I Don't Know and i can't stop listening to it. It's like the first time i heard the 12" of Your Life by Charles Webster. Must find Chelonis LP and Get Physical Mix NOW!

anyone know of any Seattle shops carrying these?

This just in: Chelonis is k-razy! I'm really going to enjoy writing up my interview with him.

I still think he reminds me of Terence Trent D'arby

http://www.sanandamaitreya.com/interviews/ttd_sans_ego.html

http://www.askmen.com/toys/interview_100/111_terence_trent_darby_interview.html

Hopefully it makes up for your Superpitcher interview.

Is it true that he is originally from California? And if so - what part of California?

I dont love the Chelonis album but I like it.
Body Language is good but almost too diverse for me.
How much do you guys recommend the Booka Shade album? I'm deciding whether 20.99$ is too much to pay for a CD I could potentially acquire when I get broadband again.

Definitely glad I paid for 2nd Anniversary Mix aka the CD I cannot stop listening to. By far my favorite thing in this whole vein; I like it more than the Mei Lwun mix, even, if just because the aesthetic is so consistent throughout. (Mei Lwun got a liiiiittle tacky at the end of the mix I thought, although the beginning is perfect.)

i rate the booka shade album, but i think the other usual suspects here weren't so hot on it. i would say that it sits right in the middle between chelonis's album and dj t's album. not every cut is 4/4 and parts of it sound kind of blunted and paranoid (in a good way!), but some parts are also the opposite of that. really nicely produced...

Deej I definitely think you would like the Music For Freaks See You @ the Party mix.

Stick with Body Language, I think it's an album that really grows with relistens, and the stuff that initially seems quite abstract (like the Guido Schneider "On & On" remix) eventually seems really catchy and populist! Sorta.

Actually one odd thing is that each time I've heard one of the tracks on the mix in another context, I've gone back and loved that part of the mix a lot more.

The Booka Shade album is v. good, worth it for the astonishing opening track "Vertigo" alone, though I also really like "Double Identity", "Memento", "Something Physical" and a few others heaps. It could do with a few more anthem tracks though (one of the most anthemic tracks on the vinyl, "Ain't Got Much To Lose", was left of the CD version).

I sometimes start "Body Language" at track 9 or 10, to avoid that Slam vocal! And cos it's about a 40 minute journey to work and I don't want the entire build up intro and no pay off!

tim so right about "vertigo"