I think you misunderstood my question. I was asking if his music is sample based or not. I have both releases.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
haha I think you misunderstood the answer, watch the youtube upthread of Gary Low - I Want You. sounds like for Feel It All Around he looped the beginning of that and slowed it down
― dmr, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
and the post right below the gary low is the sample to "Get Up"
― jaxon, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, I stand corrected. Sorry.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:46 (fourteen years ago) link
pwned
― cutty, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
It's been happening to me often around these parts.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I just lost a whole lotta respect for him. I mean, it's one thing to lift a sample and recontextualise it, but to take everything - backing, lead and all - and just whack a space echo on it? Not feeling it.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
mannn i got nothing against rad samples and some bongos. it's not like i could really stomach the vocals on the original gary low track anyways
― psychgawsple, Sunday, 18 October 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
these samples are recontextualized
― dmr, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
countdown to discussion of "culture jamming" and plunderphonics in five, four, three, two . .
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
damn cant believe this was sampled... this is worse than balloon boy
― Bobby Wo (max), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
rip my innocence
I wasn't really liking the song that much to start with, so it was a bit of a letdown to find that the only bits of it I liked were lifted wholesale from somewhere else. I think I dislike the Chapterhouse vocals even more than the 80s crooner. Your mileage may vary.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont think you are ever satisfied with anything really
― cutty, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Are you kidding?
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Does Washed Out take hits from the 80's? Yeah, yeah. But do it sound so crazy? Yeah, yeah
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I just think that other acts are mining this kind of dreamwave seam a lot more effectively - I'd rather get excited about Memory Tapes or Phantogram or A Sunny Day In Glasgow or the like. Dancey electronic shoegaze? This is so aimed at me with a target on my back, but I think other people do it better.
― satsuma laroux (Masonic Boom), Sunday, 18 October 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
He's made it to the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/arts/music/21santos.html
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
more like washed up, amirite?
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
friend went to the concert last night in NY. said it wasn't so hot :(
― jaxon, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
dude's career is OVER
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
this probably will have been his only chance to play the Brooklyn Vegan showcase at CMJ, and instead he'll be off getting married.
RIP
― kshighway1, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link
dude doesn't give a fuck about CMJ, i love it.
― cutty, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 09:53 (fourteen years ago) link
next step: beating up a dude from black lips
― Bobby Wo (max), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link
dude dude dude dude!
― Evan, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
My friend described him as Shoegazing dance music, and I was thinking it would be another Postal Service. But the song Feel It All Around won me over.
― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 5:23 AM (1 week ago)
alright how the hell does shoegaze + dance = postal service
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
said it wasn't so hot :(
NYT review seems to agree. kinda glad I didn't make the effort
― dmr, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
loving the LOL EP lots, v promising
― modescalator (blueski), Monday, 26 October 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Feel It All Around vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuCkZ1ALkI
― modescalator (blueski), Sunday, 8 November 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost to k3vin k. Most of the music my friend likes sounds like the postal service to me. Morr Records and such.
― Jacob Sanders, Sunday, 8 November 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
just heard this - great stuff. Discovered it right after hearing Orange Cake Mix - Waves in Space. Like, the general style grew up to be what this is from the late 90s to now. Or whatever, I'm stoned man. good music anyway.
― Spectrum, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 06:17 (fourteen years ago) link
god that song is good
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like really evocative of just suffocating heat - the song is like molasses which is pretty much what you feel like during an oppressively hot summer day & it's totally languishing & lethargic which also fits i think
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:22 (fourteen years ago) link
chopped & screwed synth pop
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
The limited EP "Life of Leisure" just shipped out from Insound.
― Evan, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
wanna know what the sound quality is like. i know it's meant to all sound compressed and trebly but heard a few different-sounding rips. i'll buy it anyway it's pretty much the best thing i've heard in 09. i guess a proper album next year ft. best tracks from this, the tape thing (i like 'Belong' more than 'Feel It All Around') plus new songs would be ideal.
― mdskltr (blueski), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 12:15 (fourteen years ago) link
some tracks on High Times remind me of Rae & Christian more than anything else
a little late to the table but I like it...definitely music to drive to. Not seeing what makes it worth rebranding as 'hypnogogic pop' or whatever--falls in the same space as those Studio records, and those didn't get crazy hyped like this dude. Balearic pop perhaps? but maybe thats exactly what hypnogogic pop is.
― Malcolm Money, Friday, 20 November 2009 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda reminds of thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72i6dTUKjwQ
― oh (skeletor), Saturday, 21 November 2009 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/7519429
― jaxon, Tuesday, 24 November 2009 02:47 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.readplatform.com/mixtape-vi-the-fantastic-symphony/earnest greene mix. pretty fucked. sounds like a buncha samples (i recognize some boogie song and maybe a wes montgomery sample) just tweaked to all shit.
― jaxon, Wednesday, 9 December 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.schmooze-blog.com/?p=1336uh.... not feeling it. too campy. too tim & eric
― jaxon, Friday, 18 December 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Have heard this amazing track in the Aeroplane mix but rediscovered via the poll. The bassline reminds me (to the point of wondering if it was sampled) of "Thieves Like Us".
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
most of the backing track (including bass) is a sample from "i want you" by gary low
― guammls (QE II), Wednesday, 3 February 2010 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Perhaps it inspired New Order...
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 01:05 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/niteside/NiteVid__Washed_Out_Chills_Out_at_Mercury_Lounge_All__National_.html
― van smack, Friday, 12 March 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/how_washed_out_became_the_poster_boy_of_electro_s_chillwave_movement/Content?oid=1452339
― franco, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
does anyone what he sampled for the track "belong" ?
― oscar, Friday, 2 April 2010 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Does he only use samples? Belong sounds a lot like "Englishman in New York" to me, even the melody. But I'm not sure if he sampled it. If it's just samples, there are probably a lot of things in there.
― the subject of many men’s thoughts (daavid), Saturday, 3 April 2010 01:03 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8-kd-PSfGQ
― jaxon, Friday, 9 April 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
that must be why their show here last week was sold out.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 21 September 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
this song is so hilarious and wonderful
― Sith Dog (El Tomboto), Saturday, 27 February 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
tombot get ready to have your fucking mind blown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEVpQKGjn-c
― gr8080, Monday, 29 February 2016 23:23 (eight years ago) link
woah so did he just slow this song down wtf?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
yep
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:01 (eight years ago) link
i had no idea
― nomar, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link
hey he also added some woozy effects
― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link
i always heard that song and thought "this bass line is sick, how'd he come up w that?" "these drum fills are incredible, is he playing those?" etc. i guess he still is playing those. but it's by playing a record someone else made.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
proto-vaporwave
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:14 (eight years ago) link
i wonder how much of that Portlandia money goes to Gary Low (a lot, i hope)
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:51 (eight years ago) link
same, i originally thought that it was at least a blend of samples from different sources & playing.
i think for his second album he made a point of playing everything, idk if anyone cared by then.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Tuesday, 1 March 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
So they released a new album in August and I didn't even know!
https://washedout.bandcamp.com/album/purple-noon
It's a late-night low-key affair and I'm really liking it so far... leaning into the Sade vocals
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Friday, 16 October 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
sounds so good walking across a municipal golf course at dusk
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Friday, 30 October 2020 06:46 (three years ago) link