Gang Gang Dance LP

not sure what the question is but yeah tinchy stryder is on the track Princes

And that picture is of Tinchy Stryder as well.

oh I get it. for some reason that image doesn't show up for me

gotta say, i think the gang gang dance have a lot of this in their sound...

http://srsly.tv/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/dcd84.jpg

i mentioned that in another thread, too.

also, telepathe sound so much like gang gang dance on their first ep it's scary. i'd be willing to bet ggd came along first, though

"First Communion"-which sounds like a tribal version of Justice jamming with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah practice space

wtf?

Right now, I could listen to "Vacuum" forever.

it was cool to see that song live cause i didnt't realize the main riff was guitar.

'Blue Nile' sounds quiet Prefusey

hey look there's an LA version of GGD
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/147194-pitchforktv-rainbow-arabia-let-them-dance-video-premiere

Tinchy doesn't really work for me or feels un-necessary on 'Princes' but the music is awesome

"First Communion"-which sounds like a tribal version of Justice jamming with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah practice space

haha where is this nonsense quote from?!

i think tinchy sounds immense on 'princes' (it's a slightly reworked version of his 'mainstream money' verses which people should check) (haha slight mystery: i interviewed him about a month, maybe more, ago, and asked him about working w/gang gang dance (before i'd heard the track)), and he said that there had been plans to work with them but nothing had come of it in the end. i assumed the rumours i'd heard were false - so i was obv v confused when i finally heard 'princes'. so i'm not sure whether he misheard my question and thought i was talking about someone else, or whether gang gang dance just used vocals he'd already laid down...)

haha where is this nonsense quote from?!
http://www.straight.com/article-168984/gang-gang-dance-credits-right-its-rise

another band doing the dubby, worldy, noisy thing is SF's Mi Ami
http://www.myspace.com/miamiamiami

a lil less on the sampledelic side of things, though.

Wow this is amazing. So much going on! I'm on the penultimate track and already want to go right back to the start to listen back to spot more things. The Tinchy track works I think, because his flow is in someways better suited to being part of the murk than right upfront, and on Princes it sounds like another sample being woven in and out.

Wait to to you hear the last track though!

I'm loving this.

Hecuba is the L.A. gang gnag

If anything is going to beat Portishead for me this year... it could be this record. I've played it at least a dozen times this week, and it hasn't gotten the least bit old.

"The audio disc with that, btw, runs to the exact playing time as Music For 18 Musicians. "

Doubly weird, then, that the start of their song "Nicoman" is exactly like the start of that very Reich piece.

wow this album is great! loving the uh kaleidoscopic-ness and the 'computer incarnations for world peace' vibe

anyone hear that brian degraw solo lp?

http://printedmatter.org/cover_images/82969.418.jpg

i have been a huge fan of these guys for years so i duno if most people just picking up 'saint dymphma' would be into it, but it still is a great, weird record. almost reminiscent of one of yamataka eye's side projects (lift boys, etc)

show tonight was sooo much better than cmj

although I can admit the possibility that the other show might have gotten that good if I stayed past 3am. the super housey encore was the best bit

I saw this tour a few weeks back and they were excellent. Too bad I plunked down $15 for the new LP and it's no God's Money.

i like st. dymphna but i was pretty well blown away by the live set. hard to describe without making them sound hokier than they are (indie-tribal, trance-rock, whatever). the show was really well sequenced -- dmr is otm about the encore, they saved that final extra gear for the peak.

Too bad I plunked down $15 for the new LP and it's no God's Money.

Are you kidding? I love God's Money, but the new album is ten times the strength of God's Money, easily the best music they've put to tape.

These fuckers need to play Glastonbury next year, they'd be perfect in some tent somewhere.

yeah i was thinking they'd be big at bonnaroo. hippie kids would dig it.

"Are you kidding? I love God's Money, but the new album is ten times the strength of God's Money, easily the best music they've put to tape."

I don't think the material is terribly lacking. But the new record does a lousy job of showcasing the drummer. He's so good and his input is so understated on this record. It's a shame because live they were awesome.

"I don't think the material is terribly lacking. But the new record does a lousy job of showcasing the drummer. He's so good and his input is so understated on this record. It's a shame because live they were awesome."

This is OTM and I hadn't really thought about it because there is so much going on in the album its easy to forget about the drummer. However, the parts were the drums are more pronounced definitely kick ass, so I totally get your point.

songs that are more sort of drifty-dreamy on the album really cooked live, which definitely had a lot to do with the prominence of the drums. i mean, i like the vibe of the album. but the energy of the live show was a whole other thing.

this album i feel like is the black dice album i never knew i always wanted except with tinchy stryder bonus track that could never happen but here is also that yknow

I played this recently in the company of my dad who has a pretty narrowly defined classic blues/soul taste continuum and he called it "interesting"
My album of the year anyway

I wish GGD left the Tinchy song off of the album. When ilm revisits this thread in a few years, you will all agree with me and curse GGD for time-stamping this wonderful album. The rest of the album is great, though. I'm not sure I'd say it's better than God's Money. This album seems a little too current and blog-influenced. Whereas God's Money was like their own planet, this album's more like...oh. They live in New York and want to be cool RIGHT NOW. :/

ENDLESS COOL

are those brooklyn accents for reals? didn't know if they were kidding during the spoken moments at the show

When ilm revisits this thread in a few years, you will all agree with me and curse GGD for time-stamping this wonderful album.

This is missing the point really. As Tim mentioned upthread, the album (and especially that middle section) is awash with UK garage influences, among others. The xylophone hook on Inners Space is pure garage, and there's bits off of dubstep in here as well (although I think dubsteps blends much more easily into the overall warp and weft here). It is totally natural that someone like Tinchy turn up on here.

Considering Tinchy's been knocking round for nearly five years already, he's hardly a flash in the pan in any sense. Unless there's a kind of 'experimental indie rock = timeless, other stuff = fad' snobbery at work here that totally goes against the vibe the band are going for.

Also several references to reggaeton.

I actually like the fact that they don't seem much to care about blending together "timeless" and "fashionable" sounds - again, this is what always seemed unique and marvelous about The Beta Band at their best (The Beta Band pulled a similar stunt of releasing a 2-step garage track at the tail end of 1999). Capital I indie (which Gang Gang Dance) usually spends far too much time strenuously avoiding pop music fads.

Although if you want to be really shocked check out the rap track on Jim Moray's album!! That makes GGD look very subtle.

Haha I was going to mention the Beta Band (Hot Shots II really) but thought that would be too corny indie fuxx. What I liked about Hot Shots II was that it sounded really fucking ancient but at the same time like something that couldn't have emerged at any previous moment. Saint Dymphna is similar in that regard.

I'm not trying to over-emphasise the garage influences here, they're an equal ingredient alongside dozens of other things, but to criticise GGD for "time-stamping" a record that is very consciously of it's time seems to be missing the point. See also the synth stabs on House Jam that seemingly come straight out of The Way I Are.

Yes, this is totally brilliant.

― Tim F, Monday, October 27, 2008 8:47 PM (1 month ago)

Fact Magazine calls it

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/fact-magazine-picks-gang-gang-dances-isaint-dymphn/23767/

I've never heard of Fact Magazine, but that seems like the exact list a mid-level indie fuxxor from the US would make.

i'm being dismissive of these albums, but - it has your Animal Collective-ish bands (Ponytail, Gang Gang Dance, High Places) american indie-with-a-good-story (No Age, Jay Reatard, Deerhunter) run-off from Burial last year (The Bug, 2563, Flying Lotus) "good times" from New York (Vampire Weekend, Hercules and Love Affair, MGMT)

*disclaimer - i would probably consider myself a mid-level indie fuxxor from the US

anyone else think Tinchy's rap might've worked better on 'Inners Pace"?
the sloppy drums on 'Princes' are still buggin' me but i like it OK

calling the bug album "run-off from burial last year" is one of the lamest things i've read on ilm, which is saying something

"I've never heard of Fact Magazine, but that seems like the exact list a mid-level indie fuxxor from the US would make."

Fact is basically the UK version of XLR8R.

this album is terrible y'all are nuts

Hahaha

calling the bug album "run-off from burial last year" is one of the lamest things i've read on ilm, which is saying something

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:29 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mightnt be strictly correct, but the sentiment is spot-on.

uh re the sandwich post i mean, not lex.

re ggd: i gave them a go in i dunno, 2004 and decided that they were bad ny dj/spookyrupture toss, and then reconcurred with myself from afar upon seeing subsequent riddim n grime waffle. i saw them live this summer as well, and it was all soundscapes maaaan. (okay, though.) i'm gonna put this album on now.

"decided that they were bad ny dj/spookyrupture toss"

Nonsense.

i absolutely love saint dymphna. what else should i get?