i liked the male and female voices together on the old version of healer though ....
― jaime, Monday, 22 October 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Tiedye sounds very interesting, although another cover is kinda disappointing: http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/2007/10/please-welcome-tiedye-to-italians.html
Anyone know anything about these guys?
― caek, Monday, 29 October 2007 13:56 (sixteen years ago) link
they're swedish. the song sounds like studio covering metallica.
― jaime, Monday, 29 October 2007 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i finally heard some of their earlier stuff last night. how did they (and glass candy) get into the whole disco thing from no wavey stuff? was there a maurice starr in the background? -- jaxon, Thursday, September 13, 2007 8:34 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Link
mike pretty much answers this here. http://andybetablog.blogspot.com/2008/01/mike-simonetti-interview.html
the more i think about it the more it's just completely obvious, though. i mean, even jon williams is getting into italo
― jaxon, Thursday, 28 February 2008 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
is it just me or is it kind of weird to say 'italo is kind of shitty. most italo sucks' and then name yr label 'italians do it better'??
― t_g, Thursday, 28 February 2008 09:15 (sixteen years ago) link
That interview backs up a lot of my reservations about Italians Do It Better, expressed on the Hercules & Love Affair thread. Like, doing italo-disco or even straight disco and taking out all the bits that might be seen as embarassing so as not to scare off the indie hipsters? What's the point? What is this, undie-disco?
And I actually *like* a lot of Italians Do It Better.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 February 2008 09:22 (sixteen years ago) link
What'ts wrong with that though? I would find it weirder if they kept the "cheezy" bits.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 28 February 2008 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link
btw, I don't get anything of what he's saying in that interview.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 28 February 2008 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Being one of the people who've put out music on the label I can testify that I love pretty much all aspects of Italo and also I have no fear of losing any sort of audience. I make the music for myself first of all and if it gets released... fine. I'm happy people have been digging what I do - so far - and it's a pretty varied audience. Also, if I wanted to do a straight up Pineapples homage, for instance - and it turned out OK - I think Mike would consider releasing it. And I *would* go the Pineapples route if I felt like it. But you can't touch that record so why even try .
― Capitaine Jay Vee, Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:05 (sixteen years ago) link
why would it be weirder if they kept the cheezy bits?
― t_g, Thursday, 28 February 2008 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Whatever became of that Tie Dye 12" thing he was going to put out? I was super excited about the "it sounds like Studio covering Metallica"!
I also want a Farah album.
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 28 February 2008 11:15 (sixteen years ago) link
It might come off as a bit "ironic" or just a bit reactionnary. What I love this stuff is how modern it sounds despite all the winks to the early 80s.
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 28 February 2008 11:25 (sixteen years ago) link
(To clarify I wasn't really attacking the attitude of any of the bands themselves, it'd be kind of dickish to project anything Simonetti said in that interview on the artists)
― Matt DC, Thursday, 28 February 2008 12:07 (sixteen years ago) link
thanks for the link on those interviews, they're great. hope there's more coming.
i'm interested in this sort of ... "disowning" of italo in the face of "the return of disco". if anything, THAT strikes me as a bit reactionary. to be fair, mike's italian and i think the label name is a bit tongue in cheek. and the times i've heard him play he has actually played very little to no italo. and i wouldn't call glass candy or chromatics 'italo' anyway.
but i am kind of annoyed by people saying that most italo is crap (not specifically him). most of everything is crap. people seem to leave out the part where crap can also be highly enjoyable. i think geist articulated this really well in his rbma lecture.
as for tiedye. i think one of the dudes is going to be on bis soon. they also did a fantastic edit (i guess it's more like a dub)of tom petty's "don't come around here no more", which i tend to view as highlighting the really great parts of the song, rather than removing the bad parts.
― jaime, Thursday, 28 February 2008 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
shit, now people like disco, what do i have to get into
― max, Thursday, 28 February 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
a lot of spacey synth disco is being called italo for ease when it's not really
― jaxon, Thursday, 28 February 2008 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm only mad at simonetti because i went to see him DJ last night in SF, but he was actually DJing in montreal. glad there was a sign on the door about the mixup and i didn't have to pay or go in (it was COMPLETELY empty)
― jaxon, Thursday, 28 February 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
oh look. there's a johnny jewel interview up now.
― jaime, Thursday, 28 February 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago) link
they also did a fantastic edit (i guess it's more like a dub)of tom petty's "don't come around here no more"
ysi?
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 28 February 2008 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
it's on this mix by one of the guys from tiedye ... link still works I think
http://alainfinkielkrautrock.blogspot.com/2007/12/northern-light.html
― dmr, Thursday, 28 February 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Chromatics and Glass Candy are coming to play the UK, apparently.
Where? When?
― Jamie T Smith, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^
― caek, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Together? I'd be up for that.
I was just listening to Plaster Hounds this morning - agree their new stuff is better.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd be all over that.
― baaderonixx, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
-- jaxon, Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
that's tonight!
wait i THINK it's tonight!
uh oh!!!
― s1ocki, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
no it is. dunno what happened to your thing jaxon!
― s1ocki, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
I haven't listened to it, but apparently when Mike Simonetti was on Beats in Space, he spoke about it, but without any details.
Anyone know anything more? (Er, including Mike, if you are reading!)
― Jamie T Smith, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Glass Candy are doing the Pitchfork ATP in May, no idea about Chromatics (they're not on the ATP bill)
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 29 February 2008 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
he mentions it on his site http://vivaitalians.blogspot.com/
― jaxon, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
that's a crosspost, it is
― jaxon, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
oh man, i am gonna have to read simonetti's blog religiously now. i see that guy like once or twice per week buying emo and indie 7"s for the tertiary market.
― ian, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Glass Candy went through a really dire phase early on. Were they trying to sound like the YYY's?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Glass Candy's noisy phase pre-dates or was concurrent with the YYYs, and they were on different coasts. By the time anybody outside of The Cooler knew who the YYYs were, Glass Candy were already hipster darlings, if I remember correctly.
― dan selzer, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought Love Love Love was pretty good but it seems like that's a pretty lonely opinion
their disco stuff is way better though, Beatbox is amazing
― dmr, Friday, 29 February 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess you're right Dan, but man that stuff was bad.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 29 February 2008 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
love love love was late, there were a bunch of singles that came out a few years before that I remember nyc hipsters freaking out about. One had a cover of dream jenie I think? Or John I'm Only Dancing?
― dan selzer, Friday, 29 February 2008 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
College radio scene.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Friday, 29 February 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Any idea where tikets will be available for their London show in April?
― micarl, Monday, 3 March 2008 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
tickets
― micarl, Monday, 3 March 2008 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
nevermind.found
― micarl, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:39 (sixteen years ago) link
where?
― caek, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:43 (sixteen years ago) link
these dudes charged me for that italians do it better comp last year and never sent it even after I inquired twice and they promised to resend >:(
― deej, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:47 (sixteen years ago) link
ticketweb.co.uk
― micarl, Monday, 3 March 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
wait they're playing w/ studio & ame???? doooooppppe
― t_g, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 09:59 (sixteen years ago) link
creedence does it better
― strgn, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Saturday, April 19 at 9:00 PM Warm Music presents Warm / Lasermagnetic featuring Chromatics / Mike Simonetti / Ame / Studio / Skull Juice
Chromatics – LIVE (Italians Do It Better) // Onstage at Midnight Mike Simonetti (Italians Do It Better) Ame (Innervisions) Studio (Information) Skull Juice (Walk The Night) Warm DJ’s & Lasermagnetic DJ’s £12.00
It's at Cafe 1001 on Brick Lane.
Today's a good day for buying tickets for stuff. That should be v cool.
― Jamie T Smith, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 10:44 (sixteen years ago) link
He has one heck of a reputation for doing this
― DJ Mencap, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Love "Baby Girl" streaming on Farah's myspace page. Oh so slowly shuffling tabla, trilling guitar, gorgeous italo bass burbles, space invader noises and flushed synth pads, overlaid with a morbid gothic vibe that reminds me of Siouxsie and the Banshees' A Kiss in the Dreamhouse a bit (think something like "Obsession"). Farah is even more spaced out than usual, sending single solemnly intoned words into a dub-echo abyss.
Stuff like this and the Invisible Conga People 12" are just confounding - I feel like this label is increasingly making connections no-one else is making.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 12:41 (sixteen years ago) link
tim have you heard the amazing glass candy remix of ssion 'clown' yet? it's an unusually sleazy bit of slo-mo 80s rnb with succulent mini-diva vocals and understated, woeful house piano. what's confounding to me is how there is a seemingly endless supply of great vocalists to lace johnny jewel's sullen disco epics!
when is the invisible conga people 12" in shops?
― r1o natsume, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 15:36 (sixteen years ago) link
The Italians blog says 3 new 12"s in stores in 2 weeks... I'm guessing those will be the Inivisible Conga People, the Tiedye, and maybe a new Farah?
― Savannah Smiles, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link