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is it all over my face 11:55"

the vinyls are boxed.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh ok. I was picturing (hoping for) some kind of 10 disc epic thing.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost - Ah! I get it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 22 August 2005 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, the vinyl came in a nice box, and the liner notes, 12" x 12" featured some discussion about a few of the tracks. I thought it was weird to only have a few so I emailed nuphonic to see if I was missing anything. Nope. There's also a complimentary 10" featuring another version of Risco Connection's beautiful Ain't No Stopping Us Now. I think the box set was presented as a bootleg killer, as people like me were spending lots of money buying those Loft and Garage Classics bootlegs...I remember Mancuso/Nuphonic stating that explicitely. But those are great bootlegs and I still bring them around with me for the convenience of having key songs on one record. First place I heard How Much are They?, Don Ray's Standing in the Rain, It Ain't Reggae, Delirium, Double Journey etc etc.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:03 (eighteen years ago) link

and stirmonster, I know you dig Love Heartache cuz you played it on Beats in Space, but have you heard the weird Vinyl Mania tribute record that came out recently with the Tom Moulton mix? It's on the Crazy Rhythms CD.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

yup, i picked up that love heartache doublepack last time i was in nyc dan. btw, really enjoying your mix cd.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks. andwhilewe're(ok me)talkingaboutmymix...for those who want to support the arts:

http://igetrvng.com/shop_mx4.html

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I had some downtime at work so I thought I would decode the Arthur on the Floor comp for obsessives like myself (I like my ID3 tags as close to 'reality' as I can get):

Treehouse/Schoolbell [Walter Gibbons mix] 10:12
= Indian Ocean: School Bell/Treehouse from School Bell/Treehouse 12" (SLX-023X)
http://www.discogs.com/release/95379

Treehouse/Schoolbell [Arthur Russell mix.1] 6:54
= Indian Ocean: Treehouse/School Bell from School Bell/Treehouse 12" (SLX-023X)
http://www.discogs.com/release/95379

Treehouse/Schoolbell [Arthur Russell mix.2] 3:23
= Indian Ocean: Treehouse/School Bell (Short Version) from School Bell/Treehouse 12" (12 BRW 57 DJ)
http://www.discogs.com/release/435779

Let's Go Swimming [Walter Gibbons Coastal dub] 7:50
Let's Go Swimming [Gulf Stream dub] 5:18
Let's Go Swimming [Puppy Surf mix] 5:21 (actually Puppy Surf Dub)
= Arthur Russell: Let's Go Swimming 12"
http://www.discogs.com/release/372073

Wax the Van [Kenny's club version] 5:30
Wax the Van [Cherry's Club] 5:38
Wax the Van [radio edit] 4:00
Wax the Van [Jon's dub] 7:12
= Lola: Wax the Van 12"
http://www.discogs.com/release/98656

not sure about these next two:

Go Bang! 5:37
= Dinosaur L: Go Bang (Dinosaur L Bangs Again) from Go Bang 12"
http://www.discogs.com/release/335007

Is it All Over My Face? [Larry Levan mix] 6:56
Loose Joints: Is It All Over My Face (Female Vocal/Larry Levan Mix) from Is It All Over My Face 12"
http://www.discogs.com/release/231272

Now if I could just figure out where my 9:28 version of Let's Go Swimming comes from ...

― Brakhage (brakhage), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Dinosaur L Bangs Again is straight up a house version, released after Todd Terry's Bango I believe, and is noticeably different. Kinda fun though. Which version of Treehouse/Schoolbell appears on Disco Not Disco 1?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 August 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Should be the b-side to School Bell/Treehouse 12" (SLX-023X)

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The non-Gibbons mix.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link

If my Dinosaur L Bangs Again attribution is wrong, then I'm stumped. Dunno where that one comes from.

― Brakhage (brakhage), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks. andwhilewe're(ok me)talkingaboutmymix...for those who want to support the arts:
http://igetrvng.com/shop_mx4.html

I wasn't aware it was you! Killer tracklist. I ordered it last week, it should arrive soon...

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:56 (eighteen years ago) link

also, thanks to all those who provided (the info on) the 'on the floor' comp. i had that one on my old computer, glad to have it back!

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 05:57 (eighteen years ago) link

hope you like it willem...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks to everyone who posted arthur ysi... amazing. does anyone have the different versions of "tell you today" - i've never heard the new shoes mix...

― jon dale, Friday, 26 August 2005 07:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I just stumbled on this blog and thought I would contibute a couple of things...I've just finished mastering a 2 CD set of Arthur's orchestral and instrumental music. The title is FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT. It will include the previously released albums Instrumentals Vol. 2 and Tower Of Meaning, plus 50 minutes of unreleased music. The original LP release of Instrumentals Vol. 2 was filled with errors. Lousy pressing, incorrect credits, and they mastered the second side at the wrong speed! All of these have been corrected, plus I found 25 minutes of music sequenced and edited by Arthur that he asked be included on the LP but wasn't. Other highlights include a compostion Reach (for two fender rhodes), and a the original version of Sketch For The Face of Helen that is totally different from the short excerpt found on Fruit Of The Original sin. This one is keyboards, tugboats sounds, and a tone generator. Both Helen and Reach are from Instrumentals Vol. 1. Really beautiful stuff. I'm in the art/design/credits stage now, and I hope to have it all out in November. The Springfield/DFA mix (thank you Beta Boy) is still being worked on but what I've heard to date is amazing. It may end up as an EP with a couple more unreleased tracks. I really want to release a song called See My Brother He's Jumping Out which we left off of Calling Out Of Context. It's basically the first version of Let's Go Swimming and was recorded and mastered for CORN which Sleeping Bag rejected. Personally speaking I like See My Brother.much more than Let's Go Swimming. After I get these out I want to do a compilation of Arthur's Cowboy and Folk songs, and then I'll get to 24-24 etc. And I just mastered the entire Sketchs For World Of Echo which is another long story and when I figure it out I'll post it on the Audika page. Regarding the 12" of Tell You Today..the promo and commercial 12" versions are very different. The commercial version has a very long dub.

― Steven Knutson, Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck! Yeah!

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

nice, thanks for the info, good to finally hear 24-24 will see the light. Regarding the collaboration with DFA, which I think is a really cool idea, if you do that again with unfinished stuff I'd even more excited to hear what Metro Area or Danny Wang would do with the material...just a(nother) thought!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 27 August 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Alright, Mr. Knutson! You're doing great work, I really couldn't be more thrilled by what's been (finally) happening the last couple years. Great to hear (via you) that 'Another Thought' is being reissued---that's the first I heard, and how I fell in love.

― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

wait, where did Steve say "Another Thought" was being reissued?

― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 27 August 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Another Thought will be re-issued by Orange Mountain Music early next year. OMM is Philip Glass's independent label. OMM licensed it from Decca UK which owns the rights to Point, Philip's old label that originally issued Another Thought. Confused yet? I wanted to re-release it on Audika, but Arthur's estate did not own the copywrite, and I'm not into licensing already released material. My mantra is the unheard for all to hear.

― steven Knutson, Saturday, 27 August 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Another Thought is great. but i'm so confused. i must have the original issue but where the fuck did i get it? at any rate, its great that this is being re-issued.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 27 August 2005 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, I still can't remember how I came to buy 'Another Thought,' or when exactly. I think I got it around '98, but I know I didn't really listen to it till '99 and I was suddenly deeply smitten. Then I found 'World of Echo' and started copying it for everyone I could get to listen.

― I.M. (I.M.), Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

my funny Another Thought story involves finding a cd copy on gemm cut-out for 2 dollars, but with 12 dollar or so shipping from australia.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link

but you're still excited that technically you got it for $2! or atleast that'd be MY rationale.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, if you'd been in Australia (and coulda picked it up onsite, instead springing for Kangaroo Express across town), it would have been only $2.00 (long as you paid American)!

― don, Sunday, 28 August 2005 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish i'd bought thirty

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 28 August 2005 05:40 (eighteen years ago) link

the way I saw it I paid what I'd pay buying a new CD in the states. I was definately happy.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 28 August 2005 05:47 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I've been unable to listen to pretty much anything besides "In the Light of the Miracle" off The World of Arthur Russell for going on a week now. The further Audika releases can't come soon enough.

― matt2 (matt2), Thursday, 13 October 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Can anyone re-ysi those tracks up thread? Thanks

― some best friend, Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

as hardly anyone got it in glasgow, i thought i'd post up pictures of my friend's arthur rustle (sic) halloween costume. also note face mask with 'is it?' all over it.

http://www.optimo.co.uk/rustle.jpg

http://www.optimo.co.uk/swimming.jpg

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

and tiny cello too!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

LOL

― willem (willem), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

magnificent!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link

! that mask is the best thing EVAH.

― etc, Wednesday, 2 November 2005 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

There's an update on the Audika site. Very exciting news. I don't here the snippet when I enter the site, though:

"I had hoped to release two new Arthur Russell titles this year, but they have been pushed over into 2006. In January Audika will release FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT, a 2 CD compilation of Arthur's orchestral and instrumental music, with over 50 minutes of previously unreleased music.

Our friends the DFA are putting the finishing touches on SPRINGFIELD, which is another lost gem from Arthur's vast archive. If you haven't noticed already, when you open the Audika site you'll hear a very brief snippet of what's to come. Look for the commercial release sometime in March.

Steve"

― matt2 (matt2), Monday, 28 November 2005 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

So, those AND Another Thought reissue?

Absolutely cannot wait.

― Corcoran (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i stumbled across a $5 used copy of 'another thought' on half.com a couple weeks ago. made my day! wonderful album ... it's yet to leave my CD player since arriving.

― rajeev (rajeev), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link

I wanna hear the album of cowboy songs!

― turboalbino (haitch), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

this is very exciting!

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I have no idea if this is gonna happen or not, but I was digging through Dusty Groove's "upcoming releases" page and they list a Dinosaur L CD/LP coming out "fall 2005." Hopefully it's a real thing and was just pushed back a bit, but there's no label listed and I can't find anymore info, so...

― telephone thing, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 04:05 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I was playing back some old videos last night and came across a satellite TV broadcast from 1984 called "Good Morning Mr. Orwell". It's an interesting time capsule with the strangest mix of characters: Oingo Boingo, Merce Cunningham, Salvador Dai, Yves Montand, John cage, Laurie Anderson... And guess who's playing cello behind Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky on a couple of songs? I couldn't believe I hadn't noticed before.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link

he's all over one of the discs on the ginsberg box set

― tom west (thomp), Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I know he accompanied Ginsberg for awhile but, still, I didn't know there was footage of them playing together.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Saturday, 28 January 2006 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

brief blog bit and YSI from the upcoming First Thought set:
http://imbidimts.blogspot.com/2006/03/beta-daze-in-heaven.html

― Beta (abeta), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Already downloaded this from you, B-man, and I'm really looking forward to hearing this set. I returned to "Terrace of Unintelligibility" for a while the other night, also, probably inspired by this.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

What're these? Official re-releases on vinyl only?

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=20996
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=20997

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

those are rereleases alright (i bought 24-24 last year. and a 1986 release of go bang#5/clean on your bean as well), don't know if they're official though...

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

bootlegs

― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

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