delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

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

kindof a lot of similarities between the Adult life album and the black meteoric star one as it is, pretty excited at idea of violent, fractured acid house collab in my head

No Fun Acid supporting Oneohtrix Point Never in London tomorrow night. tempted to check it out.

this crystal ark thing is so a+

It's my workout music in the morning! ha ha.

haha i am just exercising to it right now, and black meteoric star album was my default workout music last year

crystal ark is fantastic, hammering it at the minute

anyone heard the no fun remix? there wasnt any copies at the live show. saw it last week with oneohtrix and was a bit underwhelmed, i suppose i was expecting something a bit noisy and off the grid. sounded more like ceefax but then again the sequencers hem you into that.

this crystal ark thing is so a+

the best thing they've done

sorry, that would still be "Casual Friday"

omg i dont know how you could work out to black meteoric star, too thumping and heavy

i would like to go out this weekend and hear this, and then be peeled off the roof

i hope people are playing the vocal version!

crystal ark tour? yes please

wow wow wow this is HEAVY

at PS1
August 7th
Gavin Russom / DFA Records, New York (DJ set)
Alden Tyrell / Clone Records, NL (live)
The Crystal Ark / DFA Records, New York (live)
Special Disco Version feat. James Murphy & Pat Mahoney / DFA Records, New York (DJ set)

new crystal ark on itunes

on emusic too...

^sooooo good. maybe not better than "city never sleeps" but still

good. maybe not better than "city never sleeps"

this, really. though i am starting to wonder if it's actually not all that good and i'm just predisposed to like it because it's russom

nah it is good

is is better than the previous one? not sure it matters