― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Love love LOVE his album from 2002 as well (less chopped-up, almost as perverse, no connection to DI whatsoever). I'm pretty sure it was one of my lone wolf Pazz & Jop picks (ditto the "Dripping in Gold" single).
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
It has a permanent spot reserved in my year-end list (probably #2).
I'm actually thinking it might get in my own ballot! It really won me over very quickly.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I love the vocals on Red Tape because they creep me the fuck out (in other words, what Drew said... "Tell Somebody About Us" is my favorite, part of it sounds like a playground singalong taunt sung by a loner). Each track on the album gets better as it goes on.
I really wish he had wider distribution/press.
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 29 November 2004 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 29 November 2004 18:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― it's tricky (disco stu), Monday, 29 November 2004 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― james porter (james porter), Monday, 29 November 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Monday, 29 November 2004 22:01 (nineteen years ago) link
edit: shit, just realised it's Rhythm Plate that i love on Manits. Pink Cigarettes is classic though.
― biznotic, Monday, 29 November 2004 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
but the label have yet to deliver the cd to the bbc.
could be indicative as to why no-one has this album yet.
― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
insanity. I need to check this.
― fandango (fandango), Monday, 3 October 2005 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcus Barr (Marcus Barr), Thursday, 1 June 2006 00:25 (seventeen years ago) link
and,
oh yeah,
I love this album.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 1 June 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
and voila - a revived thread reminding me to do just that !
tis indeed rather special stuff.
― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― natedey (ndeyoung), Thursday, 1 June 2006 15:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Any idea what's happening with Republic of Desire - a great start, with fantastic artwork, and then nothing, and it's not like they don't have the music to release as promos have been floating around for a while.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 1 June 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 2 June 2006 00:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 2 June 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:03 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 2 June 2006 02:12 (seventeen years ago) link
And bump again cause why not. Had the mp3s all this time as mentioned but when I saw Red Tape on CD for a buck at Amoeba in SF I had to spring for it.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 13 January 2008 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Since I believe in always assisting with a bump.
One of the saddest music fan things I've ever done was buy 30 copies of "You, Me & Us" for a buck each. After having already paid full price for the album. Ended up giving most them away at a house-warming party I held a week or so later.
The question is: What royalties does an artist get of albums sold at that price?
― Jedmond, Monday, 14 January 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Sad, perhaps, but noble. (I still need to get that album!) As for royalties, surely you jest.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 14 January 2008 01:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey, I'm not expecting the artist to get much from an album sold at a dollar. But I am curious how sale/mark down prices affect royalties?
― Jedmond, Monday, 14 January 2008 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Meantime, as was brought to my attention elsewhere, he's on Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/andrewjamesbrooks
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 January 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
He never did much of anything after that - a single here and there, but his stuff is my favorite music of the first decade of this century. But going through my itunes and seeing his albums made me seek out if he has done anything, and he has a bandcamp page with two songs on it from 2017. Shame he hasn't done much, he is just brilliant.
But check it out, totally danceable with the usual soulful and bitchin' dark grooves as usual.
https://brooks23.bandcamp.com/releases
― Twee.TV (I M Losted), Friday, 15 February 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
Hey, thanks for the update!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 15 February 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
I couldn't resist writing to him and telling him how much his albums meant to me, and I read he's doing some projects related to sound and its use in architecture, and I said I wished him luck in his endeavors. But I wish he'd come back, or at least that all his stuff would be on Spotify.
― Twee.TV (I M Losted), Friday, 15 February 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link