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Spencer OTM - there's a lot of ways that you could criticise the album (I'm kinda afraid to listen to it these days!) but not for being a turntablist rehash. The key point is the group's luv of unexpected emotional ambushes.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

Wow, it's like I'm in a parallel universe where 'Since I left You' isn't a turntablist rehash.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

And all this emotional stuff? I really missed that. I must give the record another listen then.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

I always hear that album in the frame of the beautiful prose of Tim F. See also: Coloma.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

what a weirdo!

A true oddball, that Spencer. Can't imagine who'd care!

I always hear that album in the frame of the beautiful prose of Tim F.

Now truly this is one of the finest statements ever posted on ILX. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

This one's finer, Ned:

Pseudo Echo was a HUGE influence on my musical style. Check out our band, Raya. We pretty much fucking rule.
-- chieftain (hewstin...) (webmail), February 26th, 2004.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

No, that is not fine. That is unfine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

Once again, I am wrong about something on this thread. That's it, I'm leaving.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

i got the original 'frontier psychiatrist' the other week - the one with a different arrangement, i guess it's from before Dexter joined up as the references to him(cartoon Dexter) are not there - also got 'Ski Surfing' :) still love 'Under Inspection' and 'Rap Fever'

did anyone check the bootlegs on their site a while back - stuff like Royksopp's 'In Space' vs Kings Of Tomorrow 'Tracey In My Room'?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 27 February 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

they do good tshirt as well

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 27 February 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

please let them release another album soon, I couldn't be loving "since I left you" any more right now.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 February 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago) link

What the Nipper said. I can't imagine what it would sound like if I hadn't read Tim's stunning piece about it first.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 27 February 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

I heard them before Tim's raving, but yeah, I still often think of him when I listen to them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

It is a great album, I didn't like it at first but I was stupid. Live at dominoes is so sweet.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

Ronan, you'd probably enjoy the sampled song from that too, Boney M - "Ma Baker".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Hey! I say again, does anybody have this demo tape thingy? I WANT!! I WANT!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

demo for what?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

Everything from the demo tape got released in various places - first Rock City and Thank You Caroline on the Rock City 7" (Trifekta), then Undersea Community and Yamaha Superstar (the two tracks recorded with their original Japanese MC) on the Wonder From A Quarter Acre compilation (Au-go-go), and finally most of these plus Slow Walking on the Rex Records 10".

The OG version of Rock City also got released in digital form on the Redball soundtrack. Trifekta tried to license a CD release of all five tracks early this century, but the band denied 'em.

PS to Blount: the JJJ Mix-Up was Dexter. Sadly the last twenty minutes never got broadcast because of the previous show running late and the Rage cross-feed being pre-programmed in...

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 28 February 2004 05:12 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

from theavalanches.com website:

"The Avalanches have completed a remix of 'Chico' by Sweden's The Concretes, taken from their recent self-titled album. It will be released on the CD single 'Seems Fine' on Sep 20, as well as a limited-edition, one-sided 7" single on Sep 27."

(I've been really enjoying the Concretes album already!)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

but when the album, when.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

In 3 years of ILX Avalanches love, no one has ever mentioned 'Information' (including me, funnily enough), which Rex used as the b-side to the 'Electricity'-better-thanthe-album-single version. Have none of you heard it? It's a glitchy, cut-up string-swept, helium-chorused beauty!

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I have not heard this!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

me neith!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't see this track on their discography. What is it on?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

oooh, looks like it's vinyl only:

ELECTRICITY - UK, 7 " Vinyl Single - Release: Sep 13 1999 - Rex Records - Cat. No: REKD 5S
Side A
1. Electricity
Side B
1. Information

ELECTRICITY - Australia, 12 " Vinyl EP - Release: Sep 13 1999 - Modular Recordings - Cat. No: MODVL002 Production Run: 500 copies
Side A
1. Electricity
2. Information
Side B
1. Let's Cheer
2. I'm Taken

Does anyone have this on CD/mp3?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Never seen it. Funny too, since I have heard 'let's Cheer' and 'I'm Taken'. It's probably attained mythic mp3 status like the 'Work It' sample in Bubba Sparxxx's 'Comin' Round'.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Thursday, 2 September 2004 10:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Wait, so you actually have the vinyl or do you have an .mp3 of any of these?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

If you do find this, Spencer, please share. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link

R.I.M.A is indeed being mysterious.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 2 September 2004 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got the Modular 12" (wish I'd bought extra copies at the time, if only I'd known how they were going to blow up. sold my Gimix tape way too cheap too.), and the track is indeed splendid. "Iiiiiinnnnnnn-formation!"

― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 3 September 2004 02:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I have the Rex 7", which I found in 2nd hand condition in Manc Piccadilly's HMV back when 'Since I Left You' went top 20. At some point, I had the other 2 tracks on mp3, but I ain't got a clue where they are now. I'm only mysterious about my length and girth. Wait, that's not what I meant.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 3 September 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

The Concretes - "Chico: Avalanches' The Wernham Hogg Remix"

anyone heard it yet??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Wernham Hogg!

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 27 September 2004 07:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Looking for it...

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got it queued up on da sk.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm not on da sk, sadly. I don't think I can use Nicotine and acqlite on the same comp either.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link

i've got it, sounds a bit like a venetian gondola song, all harpsichord and eerie-like.
it's great.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

that sounds amazing!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

it's not something that is totally blinding on first listen, just really sweet and wistful, in a similar kinda vein as the remix they did of badly drawn boy.

and it's called the wernham hogg mix i think cause it sounds like that's what she is singing in the beginning.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Not a somewhat bizarre reference to "The Office"?

― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, both of course. She does sort of sound like she's saying "Wernham Hogg".

It's really really beautiful. Exactly what I wanted.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 02:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got the Avalanches/Concretes thing on Fluxblog today. I'm really into it - I'm really interested in how their future non-remix output will sound. Should be pretty great, I think.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i listened to The Go Team's 'Huddle Information' earlier and i can imagine a new Avalanches track sounding much like it (but i did say that about Junior Senior's 'Rhythm Bandits' too)

― Brigadier Rainham Steele, Mrs (blueski), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I bought the Wernham Hogg 7" this morning and it's really lovely - 'Two Hearts' meets 'Information'.

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link

That remix should be subtitled, "Calgon, Take Me Away."

I mean that in the best way possible.

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

gor' juss.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

there's something of early mercury rev to it, isn't there? (or is that just the singing saw talking?)(which would remind me of *later* mercury rev, which this doesn't, but i might be confused.)(*is* that a singing saw?)

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

theis song is really pretty. i love it.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 September 2004 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Got a mailout from Modular records today...

October sees your chance to check out some of the finest on our Modular team, when they pay you a visit and play some shows in New York and LA.
Treating you to a show of grandiose proportions will be Bumblebeez81, Cut Copy, Wolfmother and 2 drunk Avalanches playing bad records. Expect spasmodic dancing, big tunes, mad tour cameraderie, empty bottles and love struck ladies. Dates are:

Thursday Oct 14 - Space Lands LA
Saturday Oct 16 - Knitting Factory NYC
Sunday Oct 17 - North Six Brooklyn

If you're in the area, you know where to be.
modular x.

www.modularpeople.com

― Conor (Conor), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Hahaha, I dunno how the very RAWK Wolfmother will go down amongst the other acts on that bill.

― Hayden (Pow, Pow, Pow) (haitch), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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