― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick Sylvester, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
(xpost OH well, at least I've discovered Alter Ego!)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick Sylvester, Friday, 7 January 2005 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link
It was in an rar that I got off slsk. Never been duped there before. It's taken down all ready so no more damage can be done.
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
also:
-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), January 7th, 2005.
agreed.
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― logged out, Friday, 7 January 2005 21:12 (nineteen years ago) link
it gives me yet another opportunity to say, maybe i should just wait...
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Personally I've always wanted to make a fake album and release it, claiming it is a famous upcoming release, ever since Nick Sylvester was initially convinced that They Were Wrong So We Drowned was fake.
But, yeh, who mislabels songs on purpose?
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
wait, you mean it ISN'T fake?
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick Sylvester, Friday, 7 January 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
also, i have scarlet fever and am somewhat delusional. I blame it all on that.
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:28 (nineteen years ago) link
I was Daft Punk'd!
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm reading the record/song title as bittersweet.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link
i am asusming the fred falke / alan braxe influence will reach fatal proportions on this recording. stevem's suggestion re: slap bass (on the other thread) sent chills up my spine.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Alter Ego - RFI, C/D, S/D etc.
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― major jingleberries (jingleberries), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― --bruno, Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 8 January 2005 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Saturday, 8 January 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matt Boch (Matt Boch), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Saturday, 8 January 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 9 January 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
(Does anyone have the fear from seeing 'Make Love' among the song titles?)
― Barms, Monday, 10 January 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
x-p
― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:16 (nineteen years ago) link
01. Human After Allalmost orchestral intro with strings and fantastic attenuated major piano chords building up into a thunderous crescendo after a minute or two, chaotic 'noise' and fx threaten in the background briefly but the next four minutes are built around a kickdrum only every OTHER beat and only three per bar with a two-chord balearic pad in tandem, tinkling bells, different loops of crowd cheers, children laughing and Bangalter crooning 'we can start again, we're human after all' overdubbed enough so that it sounds like a choir of twenty but curiously unrobotic - HOW DID THEY DO IT? it sounds predictably sunny and almost harks back to 'Fresh' from the first album. an organ outro seals the deal and creates a bridge into...
02. The Prime Time Of Your LifePrince's 'Dance Music Sex Romance' turbo-charged for c21, making for one great wah-wah funk dance track around the same tempo as 'Da Funk' but not as heavy - and no 303s...hopefully no-one will notice it's similiarity to lenny Kravitz's 'Super Soul Fighter' in addition at points either. halfway through a cheery vocoder starts bleating "P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E!" while jumbo jets swoosh overhead. possibly the pinnacle of people fun.
― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Monday, 10 January 2005 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 10 January 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I have the suspicion this album was a piss-take.
I do like “Make Love” a lot... it might be the only song in here which doesn’t drive me mad with the absurd repetition and lack of progression, it might also be the only track which doesn’t use that bitcrusher, distorted “yeah” effect sound that is used in every fucking song. Is that a bass ot a guitar thru a pedal? I’ve seen people replicating it with pedals... anyhoo it gets annoying. According to this post on reddit is used 1154 times on the album!
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
It sounds like a guitar when the effect is longer like on”television rules the nation” but even there I can’t stop not hearing it as a “yeah”.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:01 (three years ago) link
But it kind of confirms that those “yeah” sounds are a distorted guitar effect cutted up to trigger on a synth or whatever.
It sounds cool alright but not cool enough to be the party trick you keep using all night.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:05 (three years ago) link
oh for the love of god
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:23 (three years ago) link
you don't get it: it's supposed to sound annoying as shit
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:25 (three years ago) link
I get it, that’s why I think it’s a piss take.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:27 (three years ago) link
you guys are babies. 'steam machine' doesn't sound annoying it sounds cool as hell
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:28 (three years ago) link
I like Daft Punk, but I don't get why we are supposed to accept them as utterly beyond reproach.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:30 (three years ago) link
because discovery is fucking awesome
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 04:55 (three years ago) link
D40 otm
Discovery is the boring album
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
The poppier they became, the worse they were
RAM is their poppiest album. I have the absolute opposite problem with it in that it's had a lot of the rough edges smoothed off completely, and the glances at experimentalism (Giorgio By Moroder) don't really land well enough to stand up to future listens. It's a strangely forlorn little album for one that spawned Get Lucky. I can't get my head around the idea that Discovery is boring though.
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:13 (three years ago) link
RAM is abjectly terrible
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:15 (three years ago) link
they tricked EDM fans into buying a record that sounds like early '80s Deodato which is hilarious to me
― eisimpleir (crüt), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:29 (three years ago) link
they really have an all-time weird career arc
― ufo, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
i appreciate ram as an exercise still, making explicit connections between your music and not just the records but the very context of the records that inspired it ('70s/'80s disco/boogie/r&b played by crack studio musicians and sounding like it was produced by quincy jones)? pretty dope
also makes way more sense as a final record probably
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
whoever said "fragments of time" -> "doin it right" was a peak for them was correct
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:42 (three years ago) link
the release of ram coincided with me getting really into post-disco and electro-r&b and for that i will cherish it as like a talisman or a prism forever
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
RAM is definitely one of those albums where every track individually sounds pretty great but I cannot get into it at all as an album. by the time "Game of Love" comes on I want to put on literally anything else
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:49 (three years ago) link
it is an enormous unwieldy album experience for sure
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 15:55 (three years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, February 24, 2021 10:42 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Sup
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:10 (three years ago) link
I agree with this take at the same time as I think Discovery is their best (really only) album.
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
― J. Sam
X3
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
well at least a couple of people came to praise DP not to bury them
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
Agree that RAM is a bit much to digest in one go despite being made up of some strong elements.
It veers wildly around in mood,so that even the more ebullient moments harbour a twinge of defeated melancholy. One minute we're being invited to Give Life Back To Music, but immediately having the wind taken out our sails with the sad robot music of Game Of Love. This happens throughout, and I'm never quite sure if I'm really meant to be losing myself to dance, or if this is a reverse bathos going on.
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:15 (three years ago) link
i think there are several reasons why it doesn't matter whether you think an album released in 2013 works as a consistent piece beginning to end
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
or an album released in 2005 even if we're just going to randomly access threads
― The Scampo Fell to Earth (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
Does the year it came out matter? One of the things I like about Discovery is how well sequenced it is, which is further cemented by how it was used on Interstella 5555
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
RAM has the best sequencing of all their albums!
― eisimpleir (crüt), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 19:08 (three years ago) link
yuman after yall
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 19:14 (three years ago) link
Xp maybe the second half, but I find the sequencing of the first three tracks really odd and jarring
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 February 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
So, I spent an evening editing this down from 45 to 30 minutes, which was surprisingly easy given its loopy, minimal nature. No song is longer than 4 minutes, and some songs like Emotion, The Brainwasher and the title track sound a bit less wanting as they express their core ideas more concisely. I took maybe one creative liberty on a transition, but other than that the edits almost feel completely natural.
Here's a link if anyone's interested:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AeBYVJiThQafBqqtp28CKmShiOsqcqfD?usp=sharing
― octobeard, Friday, 26 February 2021 07:14 (three years ago) link
Downloading now. Sounds interesting
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 26 February 2021 08:24 (three years ago) link
Well that was enjoyable. Definitely felt like an easier listen and less like I was being pummelled into submission in certain places. That said, in others I missed the pummelling, particularly on the first two tracks which I always liked just fine. I did enjoy the artistic liberty you took with Prime Time (I think) though, that was fun
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Friday, 26 February 2021 09:26 (three years ago) link
🤮
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 26 February 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
Thanks! The creative liberty I think I was referring to was the edit to only a single "Technologic" before the first drop instead of four. The fact that didn't actually stick out as noticeable is a victory I think hah.
Re: PTOYL, it was the hardest song to edit, because it's the only one on the album I actually enjoy its full length for the most part. However, I forced myself to get it below 4 mins just to see, and was able to slice out the 2nd half of the intro successfully. Flows better now I think, but I did cut out the part with the most personality. I still think most people casually listening wouldn't even notice. It's basically an album of radio edits.
― octobeard, Friday, 26 February 2021 17:37 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the work - this is kind of reminiscent of the Rex the Dog compilation.
― skip, Friday, 26 February 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
god this album is so dope
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 25 July 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
The perfect anxiety album. I've written about it as such n' all
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 25 July 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link