theo parrish s/d

Good lord, the remix of Mancingelani on the Shangaan Shake album is just fantastic.

it's like a sonic speedball, as insanely fast as the Shangaan stuff yet as slow and wobbly as Theo's finest productions. i don't know how he pulled it off.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnGrbdtgEdM

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

"Lots of gay clubbing is about cruising for sex, or taking drugs, or getting shitfaced with friends, or being able to sing and dance along to camp pop hits, or just to lose yourself in a crowd of likeminded people.

-- Tim F"

good for it, i care as much about that as i do straight clubs based on the same principles: not at all. there are an innumerable number of clubs of all types that play terrible music to people who don't give a shit, they are are equally worthless.

― pipecock, Sunday, 20 July 2008 05:30 (4 years ago) Permalink

Took me all the way back, way back.

gawd pipecock was great

he's so ... right

that jazz mix is a bit of alright, ain't it?

yep!

also was really happy that Overyohead / Dance Of The Drunken Drums + some other old Theo P 12s getting repressed recently

you mean the black jazz comp? i'm curious to hear it, though i think i've been overexposed to black jazz.

Yeah. That one. Right up my strasse

you mean the black jazz comp? i'm curious to hear it, though i think i've been overexposed to black jazz.

― the late great, Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:58 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this goes right next to wherever the ilm post is that says 'i think black thought is boring'

yeah yeah

I know the Alicia Myers song isn't exactly obscure, but man this sounds so similar to what Theo did on "Pop Off" that I think he's needs a production credit: https://soundcloud.com/digi-tat/busta-rhymes-ft-q-tip-thank

Very jazzy new 12" on Trilogy Tapes. Playing with Gifted&Blessed remixes.. almost making me reach for those early Jazzanova 12s..

Theo's new album 'American Intelligence' is available on pre-order at Boomkat for £29.49.... and that's just for the double cd. You've got to cough up 40 quid for the vinyl (x3 12")!!! Another Sound Signature bargain.

probably not well pressed either

Lol I swear the biggest obstacle to fame for these guys is how expensive their shit is. Moodymann CDs regularly retail for $50 here (about $45 USD)??? I literally cannot think of any other music that tries to do this.

He's a real card. Re: sound sculptures vol 1 cd:

"How is the CD different? When you went in to make it, how were you approaching it?

I ended up completing about forty songs over the course of two-and-a-half years and so, in mixing those songs, making different versions and figuring out which ones can form a cohesive piece, I eventually figured out which ones I wanted to do for the vinyl and I figured out which ones I wanted to do for the CD. The goal, in the end, was that I wanted the whole album to play as one piece. So the track IDs are intuitive. That means that if you try to download this album, it's going to be hell to try to get all of the songs starting from the beginning. I wanted to make it a little difficult for these CD Jockeys I hear too. So if you pick up the CD, there's a little surprise. It's been kind of fun to see who picks up on that surprise. Not many have yet. One distributor did so far and a few of my buddies have picked up on it. But most people haven't…or they know that's part of how I get down. [laughs] I'll probably release some CD numbers sans surprise in the future, but in much lower numbers."

The "surprise", afaict, is that you have to turn the bass way up and the treble down to make it sound "normal". So he's actually encouraging those CD jockey's to interact with the CDs, i guess?

the surprise is that the CDs are mislabeled

That track IDs thing sounds really annoying even in a home listening context.

cd1 is disc 2 on the liner notes and vice versa

at least that's the case for the pressing i have

Yeah that too, i thought that was just a mistake though.
The mixing is fucked up compared to the vinyl version though (and all other theo i've heard)

Random note: I took a tour of the Mies van der Rohe glass house Farnsworth House last month, and the tour guide (and the house's executive director) was Theo's dad.

he also did something f'd up to the mastering on sound signature vol 2

Theo being Theo. I do love the Footwork / Tympanic Warfare single though.

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/24/365994454/theo-parrish-be-in-yo-self

fuuuuck

new album's a masterpiece.

Yes!

ayo holy fucking shit this album

so much good shit coming out right in december as its ever been

"be in yo self" is incredible, need to go in on this album

here for december as another exciting new releases month

this is great. "Footwork" such a lovely closer.

how do i buy this in the states?

'ah' kind of drags on waaaay too long

i feel like i'll never get the reasoning behind including slow-slow-slow music on house and techno albums, it never seems like the downtempo-ish tracks work, but that doesn't seem to stop anyone from trying

man i love "ah" but every time i've heard "ah" it's 3 am

i don't particularly care about any of these tracks "dragging" though bc i kinda never want them to stop

i dunno i'm probably not hearing it, it's more that it doesn't click so it reminds me of a block i've got with any 'time out' dance album breather

seriously tho this album

"Make No War"

damn

thanks for the heads up, i'm digging this too - something about the homemade sound is really appealing, you can imagine him in his garage banging these out while taking breaks to make his kids lunch.

revisiting this record this week and man

agree

I haven't played this for ages, it is so good.

instant classic

The man is a sorcerer

"helmut lampshade" is unexpectedly aphex-ian

"Warrior Code" is so fn good

i played my long time gay club dj boyfriend parallel dimensions and he said it's the best thing he's heard in a long time. oh yeah!