― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link
― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 10 January 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
i havent listened to a couple of them and another couple only once.
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
Their studio albums tend to be different from the live albums too in the use of overdubs and crossfades, but do you really need ten of their albums jed?!
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:27 (twenty years ago) link
Hmm. The name isn't familiar, must have passed me by. So Jess, what would you recommend from 'em?
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:33 (twenty years ago) link
probably not - i was searching for drive-by and found a guy (girl?) who had about 5 of their records i hadnt heard - ive yet to listen to some of them.
Ned try out this -part 2 is incredible.
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 00:41 (twenty years ago) link
― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Sunday, 11 January 2004 01:08 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 02:02 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, who would have thought? Stupid inbred, convict, philistine colonials, etc.
― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 11 January 2004 09:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 10:13 (twenty years ago) link
Well, I'm not sure that's entirely true! See: Oren Ambarchi, Pimmon, Alan Lamb (and the rest of the Dorobo stuff), The Dirty Three... probably many more I can't think of right now (and I don't know shit about jazz, but I do know that Aussie jazz is quite sought after by hip-hop producers.)
also: Snawklor are not terribly well known, but have an incredible record of processed field recordings meet high pitched bleepy bits... like Francisco Lopez meets Parmegiani and Autechre meets er, field recordings of the Merri Creek. But better. Check http://www.mdos.at/recorddetail.php?id=5003
― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 11 January 2004 10:56 (twenty years ago) link
― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 11 January 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 11:11 (twenty years ago) link
This is the most depressing thing I've read here all week.
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Sunday, 11 January 2004 11:44 (twenty years ago) link
hahahaha
Of those bands I've heard of Dirty Three alone.
Well, that suggests that you're not really into "jazz/ambient/post-postrock" as they're all quite well known.
my original post was a bit of a joke, but I'm inclined to stand by the argument that your reference to the band's nationality has more to do with lingering colonial stigma than it does 'context.'
Fact remains that if you say "Australian music" to people who are not in Australia or very much acquinated with the scenes prevelent over there
I think we've drifted away from the issue at hand here!
― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 11 January 2004 11:46 (twenty years ago) link
Aquatic and Sex are classic. Silent Night was less intoxicating and I rarely listen to Hanging Gardens or Aether. Passed on the 4CD box so I'll need more convincing to check out Drive By.
― doug watson (solid air), Sunday, 11 January 2004 11:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 11:56 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago) link
Whodathort
― mentalist (mentalist), Sunday, 11 January 2004 13:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 13:34 (twenty years ago) link
:)
― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 11 January 2004 14:23 (twenty years ago) link
Yes, and it just occurred to me that there was such a disc this morning! I listened to it the other day but had forgotten the name of the band, and it was indeed a very enjoyable and entrancing listen. Thanks!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:36 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
I'm gonna be on a strict diet of Busted for a while, I think.
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 11 January 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link
― mentalist (mentalist), Sunday, 11 January 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link
― ---- (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 April 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 11 April 2005 19:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Saw this getting love on the DJ Sprinkles and Friendly Fires threads. Listening now.
Piano and drums interplay is lovely.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i too was introduced to this by that thread and have to agree, fantastic piece of music.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:54 (fourteen years ago) link
same here... loving this.
― mr. me too (rockapads), Thursday, 23 July 2009 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Have listened to barely anything else but Hanging Gardens & Chemist over the last few days. Fucking awesome, awesome, awesome music. If anything Chemist is a little unsatisfying because, as three 20 minute pieces, I almost feel like I want a full hour from each track!
― I can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd love to see these guys live
on record i keep finding myself finding functional uses for them: videogames, running, etc - anything where i have to perform a series of repetitive actions and that's the point
i mean i don't really listen to it in itself so much
― thomp, Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess that's true; however, that functional aspect to the way I consume their music means I end up listening to it an awful lot - like today, I'm working from home editing some web copy and arranging meetings & projects via email, and I've had them on pretty solidly since this morning. Every so often I airdrum along for a moment, but yeah, they're not gonna make me dance or sing along.
― I can't make my face turn into a heart (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah
i mean, that's precisely why i want to see them live: to get forced into a kind of zone of attention that doesn't work like that
-
anyone heard any other stuff with these three playing on it, but not as the necks? they're meant to have played on 43,000 albums between them or whatever after all
― thomp, Thursday, 30 July 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
One of their shows at the Big Ears festival was the three of them plus Ned Rothenberg, but specifically billed as Rothenberg/Buck/Abrahams/Swanton, I guess to emphasize equal footing between the four of them, rather than "Rothenberg + backing band" or "Necks + guest". Not sure if that was what you're thinking of.
― Beanbag the Gardener (WmC), Thursday, 30 July 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
are they involved w/ pivot?
― just sayin, Thursday, 30 July 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
A heads-up that the Necks are performing in collaboration with Brian Eno, Karl Hyde and a couple of other dudes at the Brighton Festival in May. It's something called 'Pure Scenius' that they premiered in Sydney last year - anyone here go and see that or know much about it?
― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Thursday, 25 February 2010 11:04 (fourteen years ago) link
read this as: 'are they involved with pot'
― thomp, Thursday, 25 February 2010 11:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Classic. All time.
http://sickmouthy.com/2013/02/20/the-necks-drive-by-2004/
― they all are afflicted with a sickness of existence (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Finally picked up Drive By after seeing you gush over that record for a while - Quite like it after two listens but did not expect it to be so, err, "tasteful". Seemed like would well as sort of bland trendy background music
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 18 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Necks fans, do check out the live album Athenaeum, Homebush, Quay & Raab (2002). As someone who discovered and listened to the Necks obsessively in September and October, I think the Quay and Raab sets may be the best things they ever recorded.
― dancing cortical homunculus (Sanpaku), Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:21 (nine years ago) link
xpYou should also try Sex, Piano Bass Drums and Hanging Gardens, heck just all of their shit. I could understand someone expecting them to sound like Big Fun era Miles and coming away disappointed but fuck "bland trendy background music"!
I loved their last album Open as well, Sanpaku. They are one of them evergreen bands for me, Sex is from '89 and still it sounds oddly timeless, it could have been released 20 years later and would still sound like a singularly amazing band doing what they do.
― xelab, Sunday, 18 January 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
Classic classic classic
― Call the Cops, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:24 (nine years ago) link
but fuck "bland trendy background music"
Yeah don't get me wrong - I meant more that it could pass for "bland trendy background music" if not paying attentionAnyway, this has grown on me dramatically once i started playing it on a real hi-fi instead of my car's shitty stereo
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 10:27 (nine years ago) link
Been on a big Aether tip lately.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
Listening to this band on anything but a good hi-fi is a complete waste.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, the live box, Aether, Silverwater, and Mindset are the masterpieces and most essential IMO. The latter three studio albums are the least typical, most colorful and successfully experimental works. The live box sees the band in peak form, doing their thing at the highest level. Great, great band.
― liam fennell, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
Is anyone else doing anything like The Necks? I sorta felt like the last Bohren & der Club of Gore album had a similar 'glacially unfolding' thing going on, albeit with a much different end result, and someone recently told me that if I liked The Necks, I'd like Dawn of Midi, who I haven't heard.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Someone told me the same thing about dawn of midi. Need to dig in to them more but it might not be too far off.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:27 (nine years ago) link
I found Dawn of Midi to sound a lot more clinical/dry and less exciting (though that is certainly not the right word ....), but I only dug in for a couple of songs. The approach did seem similar in intent though. I should probably spend more time with it.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
i remember my parents comparing this record to water torture once
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
I get that, it's very "nice" music but you gotta listen to it. otherwise (much like other "bold italic OUT music I think my parents would like") it can be irritating
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 01:15 (nine years ago) link
I love that Dawn Of Midi album; it is similar but only similar; they're trying to sound like machines much more than The Necks do.
The Nisennenmondai album from last year, N, is also kidn of similar, but perhaps more drone-based; 3 tracks, 45-minutes, essentially the same thing repeatrepeatrepeating.
Mindset is the one I've enjoyed least. Chemist is a favourite of mine, but Drive By, Open, and Aether are my favourites. Not heard Sex or Piano Bass Drums in years; not heard the live box.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 14:04 (nine years ago) link
Did not dig that Nisennenmondai album at all, so if Dawn of Midi is anything like that, I probably won't enjoy it. I'll report back.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 22:54 (nine years ago) link
The Dawn Of Midi is nowt like the Nisennenmondai.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 22 January 2015 11:17 (nine years ago) link
DoM is dots and N is lines.
Thought I'd share a Polish group whose new album reminds me of the mantric appeal of the Necks. Guitar/bass/drums, but its like a Necks soundtrack to a post apocalyptic Western.
Lotto - Elite Feline (bandcamp):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErG7vJ-L5-M
― Abandon hype all ye who enter here (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 14:55 (seven years ago) link