chiding people for not dancing is pretty much the most indie thing you can do these days.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i hope he still looks like that photo
the rapping always sounded kinda...y'know..."the pyramids are oh so shiny" wtf are you talking about egyptian lover)
just a shot in the dark but i think he's talking about egypt
― am0n, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
captain save-a-lame
xp
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
deej do you approve of sampling or do you think music should be kept in its original context?
xpost Alex in Baltimore has a point xxpost are the pyramids really shiny? what are they made of? nb I haven't been, for all I know they're chrome
― J0hn D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
he used to have more videos on youtube but http://youtube.com/watch?v=EfTg3ymB4lg
^^^this is pretty recent isn't it?? solid tho
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
and deej I am not a non-dancer! I'll bounce my fat ass all over the floor whether people like it or not, I could give a shit, I like to get sweaty. I'm just sympathetic to those who don't want to, i don't think they're necessarily thinking as you think they are. In fact, I'd wager you don't really have any insight at all into why people don't dance, other than shit you're projecting ("if I weren't dancing, this would be why").
― J0hn D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:43 (sixteen years ago) link
xxpost are the pyramids really shiny? what are they made of? nb I haven't been, for all I know they're chrome
-- J0hn D., Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:41 AM (23 seconds ago)
oh noes someone took artistic license with penning lyrics! was a girl name lucy really flying in the sky holding some diamonds?!?#!@?
― am0n, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
dude you are reading way too much into my description here. I don't care how boringly you want to listen to egyptian lover in your tour bus, i'm just saying when i go out to listen to a dude play 80s party-electro about fucking women in his waterbed on the nile, i probably want to party & not stand around analyzing it.
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah I hear you
am0n quit being lame, "shiny" is a non-starter as a descriptor for pyramids and you know it
― J0hn D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
may if it was followed by "the women here, they have six legs" you'd have something, but no
― J0hn D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
-- J0hn D., Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:43 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
are you that sensitive? you can't even say 'this party was kind of lame, people were just sort of standing around' w/out defending them. "Well, you don't know, maybe they were coming from a funeral." ok, a lame party is still a lame party
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
this isn't some "dancing is BACK, idm is for nerds!" thing. We're talking about going to a club to listen to dance/party music. Everything has its place but i'm sorry, if i go to see egyptian lover i want to do it in an atmosphere that reflects the music
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
oh sorry didn't see 'yeah i hear you'
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Criticizing the rapping is missing the point almost as much as Deej's beardos.
-- The Reverend, Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:37 AM (12 minutes ago)
― am0n, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://msfcontent.mqube.us/preview/thumbs/images/100x100/45041.jpg
deej I thought it was a matter of record that I am The Most Sensitive Man Alive
xpost yeah as I said I hear you, you're right & I agree actually, I'm just kinda different-strokes-different-folks about shit, also I'm having a hard time seeing the screen in the glare of these shiny, shiny pyramids xpost word deej!
― J0hn D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
-- am0n, Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:40 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
+ 60lbs or so, yeah
http://oldschool.terramail.pl/fotosy/egyptian_lover04.jpg
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.iloveyes.se/bilder/2006-06%20Egyptian%20Lover.JPG
that looks pretty recent
http://flickr.com/photos/16866536@N00/1021751680
― J0hn D., Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
saw him at Studio B, he put on a great show, played classics and his own songs, sang the lyrics, did choreographed dances with his hype man. Pretty awesome.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Song deej posted: muy hot.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I like how this thread has, in spite of itself, managed to pick up at least two points of contention.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
www.egyptianempirerecords.com
his site isn't working ... :( you used to be able to buy tshirts from it
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.chocosho.com/admin/images/285x380/79625_vertical_1_egyptian_lover__mens_vertic.jpg
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ Just stroked chin at concert.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j244/egyptianlover661/Tshirtstatoo.jpg
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^has been shaking booty to egyptian lover since 1983
Oh wow.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
'house on the nile' has some fantastic lyrics, something about his waterbed and solid gold speakers.
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^i bet his neighbors complained a lot too
^^^dont know why ^^^ were necessary in that post
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
remember when Hashim posted on ILM? he kept spamming us with links to his new breaks stuff lol
― blueski, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i found an egyptian lover cassette in the budget bin when i got my first car and was looking for shit to bump in the tape player. i believe him when he says the pyramids are shiny.
― max, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
its entirely possible that the pyramids are shiny. shit gets awful bright in the desert, sand reflects the sun etc
― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
my sister had this album, the beats were good & the synths chilly, the rapping always sounded kinda...y'know..."the pyramids are oh so shiny" wtf are you talking about egyptian lover
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
loool
― am0n, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
WHAT IS A DJ IF HE CAN'T SCRATCH WHAT IS A MC IF HE CAN'T RAP WHAT IS A BEAT WITHOUT A LIVE CLAP WELL I CAN DO IT ALL BABY JUST LIKE THAT
― dmr, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
oh and let's not forget FREAK-A-HOLIC
http://www.parisdjs.com/images/covers/parisdjs_vintagerobot/The_Egyptian_Lover-Freak-A-Holic_b.jpg
― dmr, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm searching desperately to find egyptian lover lyrics page :(
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
― The Reverend, Thursday, 20 September 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
see my waterbed, fifty feet long with solid gold speakers, to play this song
it is mostly about the original 4 track ep -- http://www.discogs.com/release/43329 -- 'On The Nile' had remade versions of some of the tracks. see also 12" for 'Computer Love (Sweet Dreams)'
& I remember his track for Bobby Jimmy and the Critters was, well, I bought everything he did in 1984
'We Like Ugly Women' - http://www.discogs.com/release/97719
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 20 September 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
And My Beat Goes Boom (Long Version)
Drums - (Ultimate) Egyptian Lover, The* Producer - (Genius) Egyptian Lover, The* Remix - (Awesome) Egyptian Lover, The* Vocals - (Creative) Egyptian Lover, The*
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=48819
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 20 September 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
THE FREAK-A-HOLIC VIDEO (must see):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pjyu6BpJF0
FUKK ALL DA HATTERZ !!!!
Egyptian Lover is THE MAN. A few of my favorites 12"s are "Girls/Voices" and "She's So Fine." The "one track mind" is non-stop genius. Bambaataa ain't got shit on The Lover's early material as far as I'm concerned. And, in fact, Electro may have got it's start on the East Coast, but it really came of age on the west coast. Dudes like LA Dream Team, Arabian Prince/Professor X, Unknown DJ, and Ice-T (in his early days collaborating with Chris "The Glove" Taylor) really kept the electro flames burnin' and dropped some serious next level shit.
And here's a fun fact: The Egyptian Lover taught Luke Skywalker how to program beats ... so dude is like the godfather of Miami Bass and shit.
― Romeo Jones, Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I must say though that The Lover's 1990 LP, "Get Into It" is kinda weak despite a few good jamz.
― Romeo Jones, Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.westcoastpioneers.com/uploads/pics/picture_egyptian_lover_turntable_afro_hair_old.jpg
― carne asada, Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Home of the Egyptian Empire http://www.westcoastpioneers.com/uploads/pics/picture_egyptian_empire_los_angeles.jpg
and this: http://www.westcoastpioneers.com/typo3temp/pics/cover_rodney_o_everlasting_bass_egyptian_empire_dmsr_00772_1986_front_02_a6230022e6.jpg
― carne asada, Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
freak-a-holic is dope but way different than his other stuff
― deej, Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
"if i go to see egyptian lover i want to do it in an atmosphere that reflects the music"
Please put this on a t-shirt.
(Then the beardos can wear it and stroke).
I first heard I Need A Freak through Egyptian Lover. I remember working at the record store when the owner found an Egyptian Lover album and just flipped his shit—apparently he had loved him as a kid, because as a kid he was totally into pyramids and mummies and shit, and hadn't ever put together that Egyptian Lover wasn't actually, you know, archeological until he heard the stuff again as an adult.
― I eat cannibals, Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
You must purify yourself in the waters of the Egyptian Lover's pyramid-shaped pool.
― Andy K, Thursday, 20 September 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
d^_^b
― The Saving Grace of Gospel House (The Reverend), Monday, 1 December 2008 12:10 (fifteen years ago) link
BREAKDOWN
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 1 December 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
DJ Pooh did killer shit for all of Ice Cube's prime era projects - Del, Da Lench Mob, Yo-Yo, etc
RIP Rodger Clayton of Uncle Jamm's Army.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://s1.directupload.net/images/110202/scw2lwx3.jpg
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 23:09 (thirteen years ago) link
― ex-heroin addict tricycle (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 23:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I played "Egypt, Egypt" out DJing last Thursday. I wish I'd done it all current-events-ironic-y, but no.
― bagelche, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― The Reverend, Thursday, 3 February 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, i am a party rockist, i prefer to go to a place where people are, you know, having fun to fun music
― deej, Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:34 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark
party rockist in the houuuuse tonight
― some dude, Sunday, 18 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
hahahaha
― skrillex pretend (The Reverend), Monday, 19 September 2011 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/egyptian-lover-rftf
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
ooh! look forward to reading this
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
awesome
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
great story: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/kraftwerk-changed-my-life-20-artists-pick-their-favourite-kraftwerk-records-of-all-time/2/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
haha sweet
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 16 October 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
http://boingboing.net/2015/05/12/egyptian-lover-egypt-egypt.html
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 May 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
classic exchange with j0hn d itt
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
the rapping always sounded kinda...y'know..."the pyramids are oh so shiny" wtf are you talking about egyptian lover)just a shot in the dark but i think he's talking about egypt
When the pyramids were built they were coated in polished limestone and often capped w a golden piece at the top, and supposedly actually _were_ shiny especially in contrast to the surrounding desert. They look rocky and Earthy to us now only because they have been sitting in the desert, periodically raided and dismantled, for thousands and thousands of years.
The old temples and stuff were similarly super colorful; a lot of the original paint remains even to this day.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
lol I didn't see that beforexp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 13 May 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
SS: Then the guy from Cybotron, Rick Davis, thought you were dead?
EL: He saw the headline: “Lady Diana Dies With Egyptian Lover.”
-- haitch, Monday, September 24, 2007 11:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link
lmfaoooo
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 14 May 2015 01:04 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiW7NbkhbJ0
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 22 November 2015 05:36 (eight years ago) link
did y'all know that Egyptian Lover released an album this year and every single track has the Numbers/Tour De France beat and it sounds fucking amazing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8x8oFp_-E8
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 14 December 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
!
http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/egyptianlover/1983-1988
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
And building on that new collection: I talked with the man himself.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/30/the-egyptian-lover-interview-electro-stones-throw-anthology
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
http://www.hexapolis.com/2014/10/31/historians-concur-great-pyramid-glass-like-shiny-4000-years-ago/
― am0n, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
nice piece, ned!
― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 31 May 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
Thanks!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 May 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BNUV9SiEVg
really cool new video feat. (among many) Lady Tigra of "Cars That Go Boom!"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 6 June 2016 22:13 (seven years ago) link
https://67.media.tumblr.com/afc168482221c8836b3a0dfd7200399d/tumblr_n9oa3z4DJ81twulego6_500.gif(via Night Flight on Facebook
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 26 August 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
I'm pretty lukewarm on most of his stuff but man I love "I Cry". Any recommendations on similarly moody 80s electroish stuff?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:56 (three years ago) link
I don't know but here's Jeff Mills in 1983 scratching side two track two of the first release on Freak Beat Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uapn-mknXVU
― Milton Parker, Friday, 30 April 2021 18:02 (three years ago) link
Wow I didn't know Mills was active quite that early in the 80s
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 April 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link