Lindstrom & Prins Thomas are the shit

"Prins Thomas to release debut album"

"The album was recorded live by Thomas at his studio in Olso, with brief guest appearances by Lindstrom (on keyboards) and Todd Terje (on trumpet)."

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=11653

Yeah, just got some press guff about it:

This is the first solo full-length release by Norwegian disco superstar, Prins Thomas. This album showcases Thomas's myriad musical gifts over seven sprawling, ever-evolving, head-nodding, navel-gazing, body-moving, mind-mushing tracks, perfectly assembled for an hour-long trip, almost all of it played by the man himself. Guests such as Lindstrøm lends keyboards to "Wendy Not Walter" and in conjunction with Todd Terje (on trumpet), a funky bit of clavinet on "Sauerkraut." From the shimmering, Neu!-like guitar lines of opener "Ørkenvandring," you're in for a kosmiche treat. Hand-claps and a battery of percussion propel "Uggebugg" right into the groovy synth-slithers of "Slangemusikk," which fittingly translates as "snake music." More double-digit delights lie just beyond the opening tracks (including a shout-out to the mighty Wendy Carlos), but why ruin the funky and sumptuous space party that awaits your head with so many words...

sooooo stoked on this!

it's a good 'un.

u got a copy?!

who do you think wrote the press guff?

Hahaha

Taking sides Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas Vs. Lindstrøm without Prins Thomas.

blasphemy!!!

... vs. Prins Thomas without Lindstrøm?

Well, no matter what, I'd pick Lindstrøm alone. I like his layered prog techno a lot better than the 70s disco flirtations he does with Prins Thomas. :)

the PT solo album is pretty freaking great! definitely closer to L&PT II than anything else...

so live drums?

yes lots!

psyched!!

I'm downloading this right now, SO Psyched!!!!!!!!!

it's a little too similar to II. I like the guitar playing on uggebugg, though.

Played this on a sunny car ride to Portland this week and didn't love it. It's good but it's not great. Have only heard it twice all the way so maybe it's going to take longer to sink in.

These aren't the reviews I was wanting to hear. If it's more of L&PT ll, I will be disappointed.

I like a lot of the basslines so far. Is this really the cover, Him in a plaid shirt?

i love it, the basslines are heavier than II, its more hypnotic, minimal, chuggin; in summary: grebt

i didn't really love it either on 1st listen :(

I did, but then I much prefer PT's hairy, krautrocky stoner tendencies to Lindstrom's high-gloss sound. Two of the tracks are pure Faust/Neu!. It is pretty similar to II though.

Wait, waht? Is this out, or are you guys eating up the leaks?

No.

I really freaking hate you guys sometimes. It really spoils things for me when everyone else is played out and sick of an album by the time it gets released and I get to listen to it.

You could just listen to the leak?

I'm looking forward to this - I think Prins would be great at hairy krautrocky stuff. I'm hoping for lots of fuzz and noise and heavier drums.

If I listen to the leak, then I'll be bored of the record when it comes out, and not get around to buying it. Which - and I know this is old fashioned - I really think is bad form. :-(

Good for you. No more spoilers from me.

:-(

just because spoilers annoy me doesn't mean I don't want to hear them.

idk if it's leaked, i'm listening to a promo, and yeah it's basically pretty hairy and rocky, not even krautrocky specifically. not for me. this is not opulent music :(

Sauerkraut is so krautrock the title even makes a joke about it! Krautrock isn't meant to be opulent, or am I misreading your point?

Put your promo in the post and send it to me. I will even write the review for you. :-P

Krautrock has a different idea of what "opulence" is supposed to mean. As a reaction to all that post-war austerity, it's opulence on the cheap. Whether that means all flowing beards and hair or shiny silver boxes of technology depends on whether you're from Dusseldorf or Berlin?

wonder if he was playing bits off this on sunday night, when i saw him play a set on a balcony as the sun went down. the stuff i didn't know, it was good!

oh my point was more that other lindstrøm stuff - even ii - is a ton more opulent than this.

I tend to think of Lindstrom & PT as opposites - 80s:70s, cocaine:weed, precise:loose, synthetic:organic - and I keep coming down on PT's side. Lindstrom's relentless shiny opulence gets a bit cloying.

Either of those extremes gets fairly boring fairly quickly without the opposite to provide counterpoint.

I've got more tolerance for PT's extremes. His long, winding remixes are sublime.

i'm coming down on the lindstrøm side for each of those

I don't want it to be opulent. I want it to be sweaty and dirty.

Stop biting my style, DC.

Anyway, who says sweat and dirt can't be opulent in their proper place?

has anyone else heard

el_guincho-antillas_(prins_thomas_diskomiks)

His long, winding remixes are sublime.

Yeah, I'm hoping for an album full of White Diamond remixes.

that guincho thing is kinda shit fwiw

it's basically pretty hairy and rocky, not even krautrocky specifically

not seein where this is coming from. it is extremely krauty, i'm very much digging it, and generally i tend to be far less tolerant than most of krautless rock.

haven't heard the whole shebang yet but I'm really liking the "wendy not walter" track on here:
http://www.wavesatnight.com/2010/02/20/prins-thomas/

for those who have heard the album: is "wendy not walter" a track that it makes sense to gauge the rest of the album with? it doesn't really mesh with the "dirty, sweaty, hairy" comments on the thread imo.

this pic is def pretty sweaty, tho:

http://www.wavesatnight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/prinsthomas.jpg

"Wendy Not Walter" <- didn't a prominent ILX0r get sued for this kind of thing? I call bullshit.

on what?

On that song title, duh.

(The song, however, is doing it to me in the eardrum.)

((Agree it is neither dirty nor sweaty nor hairy, though. It is a shiny and wonderful diskomiks as expected))