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i didn't hear a party of one remix.
every DFA remix of late has stripped off everything but vocals (j.o.y. has some of the bass).
LCD's "yeah" is SO ridiculous.

― Beta (abeta), Sunday, 23 November 2003 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

Ridiculously great?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

yeah what's the deal?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 23 November 2003 17:39 (twenty years ago) link

i looooove "yeah." but ridiculous is totally the right word. no wave by way of mo wax or something.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

the junior senior remix sucks.

noooo! i was really looking forward to hearing that one :(

― geeta (geeta), Sunday, 23 November 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link

It says on their site they're in the studio with Liquid Liquid OMG!!!

I think my head just exploded.

Seriously, I saw them earlier this year at the DEMF and they were 100x better live than they were on their records. I cannot wait for this at all.

― Nihilist Pop Star (mjt), Sunday, 23 November 2003 21:46 (twenty years ago) link

they completely cut the chorus, geeta, which is the best part!

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link

okay, i want dfa productions (aside from "echoes") to convince a non-believer

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 23 November 2003 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

I was doing a bit of research and apparently I was on the DFA's collective dick before I realized it -- "Blood Money", my favorite song from Primal Scream's XTRMNTR (what with it being an instrumental), had heavy input from Goldsworthy and Murphy. So my path to neo-disco-punk sycophant fanboyism quite possibly began with Bobby fucking Gillespie.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:56 (twenty years ago) link

Where the hell did you find out about that? That would have to be the DFA's first recording, like, ever!!

Where can I find a DFA complete discography?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 4 January 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

You are secretly Britpop, Nate. Hm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

allmusic.com, here. Apparently they met while working on a David Holmes album.

Don't go looking at me like that, Ned. (tho if it makes you feel any better my second-favorite track on XTRMNTR was that MBV Arkestra thing.)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link

dfa's first work was with brainiac, if i'm not mistaken. next was the turing machine record. correct me if i'm wrong, lauren.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link

Brainiac!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 4 January 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

there's that evergreen record from 1996 that jmurphs produced (post-slint band with drummer britt walford) -- i am doubtful about the brainiac stuff, eli janney/steve albini had it on lockdown, save i think the one ep they did with kim deal. honestly, my head would explode if james murphy had anything to do with brainiac, that would be too much for me.

― Nick Sylvester, Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:04 (twenty years ago) link

I wouldn't consider James Murphy's production work in the 1990s to be DFA, really.

― hstencil, Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

I have yet to hear a DFA record that DOESN'T remind me of Primal Scream. Or at least Death In Vegas. Yeah = laboured 90s indie dance par extraordinare.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:20 (twenty years ago) link

Matt you are a mentalist!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

There's an interview with the DFA folks in the newest Tape Op magazine that covers some of their history.

― NA (Nick A.), Sunday, 4 January 2004 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

Spot of trivia: James Murphy and DFA studios are mentioned on the closing credits of Requiem For A Dream - seems he (they?) did some production work on some of the score. That must be, what, 2000?

― Jason J, Monday, 5 January 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, James Murphy and Clint fucking Boon. This man's resume' just gets dirtier the more you dig...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:42 (twenty years ago) link

anyone else remember the okay indie-rock band james was in back in the early to mid '90s, PONY?

they were pretty good live, not so great on record -- they played a lot with friends' bands like sleepyhead, dungbeetle, 6fs (john / juan mclean) so i saw them maybe ten times...

just curious.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Monday, 5 January 2004 01:52 (twenty years ago) link

I saw Pony too, god they were horrible.

― hstencil, Monday, 5 January 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

dfa's first work was with brainiac, if i'm not mistaken. next was the turing machine record. correct me if i'm wrong, lauren.

i think the turing machine record is the first dfa production. i'm completely unaware of any work with brainiac... interesting, though.

(hi, jg. you following all of this?)

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 5 January 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

early ilm ref. to dfa/turing machine over on this thread

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 5 January 2004 04:54 (twenty years ago) link

even though the new turing machine material has kinda blown live, i can't wait to hear their new record. justin was sposed to gimme some of the recordings/demos, but i haven't seen him in ages.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 5 January 2004 05:16 (twenty years ago) link

DFA SchmeeEffAy, tell me something about the Boomtang Boys!

Hey Yancey, you've moved up in the world like your name was greenhouse gas, eh? How are you?

― The Thinking Man's Paris Hilton (DarrenK), Monday, 5 January 2004 07:12 (twenty years ago) link

h cracks me up.

search: six finger satellite law of ruins, produced by james murphy

― jack cole (jackcole), Monday, 5 January 2004 07:19 (twenty years ago) link

seven months pass...

From the DFA website: "DFA Records will be releasing two brand new vinyl 12" singles on Tuesday September 28, 2004, from the groups J.O.Y. and Pixeltan." The J.O.Y. track is that really Slits-y "Sunplus" thing that everyone downloaded a few months back. Pixeltan are Hisham from Black Dice's new thing, apparently, so I'm looking forward to that.

A look at the discography page also turns up:
LCD Soundsystem "Movement" 7", with the album now scheduled for 2005
The Juan Maclean "I Robot / Less Than Human" 10"
DFA Compilation #2, 3xCD (!)

― Shady Loch Lenin (haitch), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link

"The J.O.Y. track is that really Slits-y "Sunplus" thing that everyone downloaded a few months back."

I thought this was part of the press release and enjoyed the weary candour.

LCD Soundsystem are now taking the piss.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 8 August 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

i downloaded 'movement' a lil while ago, didn't know if it was new or not. nonetheless, it's not very good i don't think.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 8 August 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link

with the album now scheduled for 2005

It'd better be fucking January 2005.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Pixeltan's ep on Troubleman was pretty frenzied and fun—quite different from Black Dice. It'll be interesting to hear 'em DFA-ized.

If "Movement" is the next LCD single, where the heck did "Kick Out the Chairs" come from?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 8 August 2004 13:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Both the new 12"s are quite good, if not as thrilling as some of their other singles. I like the DFA remix of "Sunplus" a lot more than the a-side version.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 8 August 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Hisham was in Pixeltan a few years ago but left and they eventually became Plate Tectonics, I think. Maybe he's gone back?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm not sure about this, but i don't think the pixeltan tracks are brand new.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link

maybe this means Adam will go back to rockin in OSS.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:13 (nineteen years ago) link

i suppose "kick out the chairs" is a collaboration and therefore not really the new LCD single.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 8 August 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

the pixeltan 12-inch is really, really great

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I downloaded at least one LCD album track, so yes, they are fucking about. I really love the Junior Senior remix however. Very anthemic in its way.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Sunday, 8 August 2004 17:52 (nineteen years ago) link

kick out the chairs is Munk feat. james and nancy.
it's ok, not amazing, the remix on the flip is a gorgeous new wave thing. i dont know who it's by, sounds like a thin white duke thing maybe.

anyone got links to download any of the above?

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Monday, 9 August 2004 00:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Massively agree re: DFA remix of Junior Senior. I find their music to be kinda wanky, actually, but the remix is totally ass-shaking.

― +, Monday, 9 August 2004 02:11 (nineteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Liquid Liquid?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 30 August 2004 09:46 (nineteen years ago) link

what about them?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link

WHERE IS THE NEW PIXELTAN DFA RICHKIDS

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Monday, 30 August 2004 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Ref. upthread to (I thought) DFA being in the studio w/them, oh exciting

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

oh.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Them were in the studio with the DFA earlier this year... I guess Andrew's (like I am) wondering whether it's materialised yet (release date?).

(x-post)

― willem (willem), Monday, 30 August 2004 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

sal from Liquid Liquid is DJing the next Pop Your Funk party at APT, perhaps we can ask him then...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 30 August 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

The new 3CD comp is terrific, got it today. The Black Leotard Front track that opens the set is 15 minutes of fun, No surprises sonically but so so so HOTT! The new DFA produced version of Liquid Liquid's "Bellhead" will make you weep tears of joy. Its made me look forward to the Juan Maclean lonplayer very much too - his track "give me every little thing" is the highlight of the 3rd (mixed) CD - i thought he would never better "By the time i get to Venus" but he has with this.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link

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