I LOVE YOU "THE CHROMATICS"

Love "Baby Girl" streaming on Farah's myspace page. Oh so slowly shuffling tabla, trilling guitar, gorgeous italo bass burbles, space invader noises and flushed synth pads, overlaid with a morbid gothic vibe that reminds me of Siouxsie and the Banshees' A Kiss in the Dreamhouse a bit (think something like "Obsession"). Farah is even more spaced out than usual, sending single solemnly intoned words into a dub-echo abyss.

Stuff like this and the Invisible Conga People 12" are just confounding - I feel like this label is increasingly making connections no-one else is making.

tim have you heard the amazing glass candy remix of ssion 'clown' yet? it's an unusually sleazy bit of slo-mo 80s rnb with succulent mini-diva vocals and understated, woeful house piano. what's confounding to me is how there is a seemingly endless supply of great vocalists to lace johnny jewel's sullen disco epics!

when is the invisible conga people 12" in shops?

The Italians blog says 3 new 12"s in stores in 2 weeks... I'm guessing those will be the Inivisible Conga People, the Tiedye, and maybe a new Farah?

i hope a mirage record comes out. the songs on his myspace are sublime.

I feel like this label is increasingly making connections no-one else is making.

probably because none of the artists are coming out of a techno/electro/house background, but a hardcore/punk/no-wave/etc history, so there's bound to be a skewed take on it. They're not the only ones coming from that direction, but they've had a better ear for it, so far.

They played on my Dj night at Tube (Portland) last night because it was the owners birthday. They played "running up that hill". Tube fits about 50 people comfortably. There must have been at least 100 though...

There were even more when Get Hustle played an hour before them.

Fucking hell, that Brick Lane lineup is !!!!

"probably because none of the artists are coming out of a techno/electro/house background, but a hardcore/punk/no-wave/etc history, so there's bound to be a skewed take on it. They're not the only ones coming from that direction, but they've had a better ear for it, so far."

Yeah this is right, though Invisible Conga People also bring a dazed out krautrock (Can and Tangerine Dream) vibe to the table.

that line up is totally !!!! - i'm guessing it's just a studio dj set??

Tim F have you heard this? one of the Invisible Conga People was in this band

http://progressive.homestead.com/files/we_acediasts.jpg

good record, dazed out krautrock meets underground japan vibes

I saw Studio DJ in Brighton last year and they were v good.

Their mixing's rubbish but they play good tunes.

Does Studio not play live ever?

they do play live, just not very often. there are a bunch of youtubes of some live shows.

so given all the love here i checked out the myspace pages.
are the album versions different to whats streaming there ?

I have to say i'm really not feeling Farah, esp not that "Baby Girl" tune.

where is that?

i love love love law of life life life.

Anyone going to the Lasermagnetic night? Heard good things about Studio but haven't heard them

Just got back from the show. I know all the discussion about this was happening on the Studio thread, but I only really saw Chromatics. Also, technically the night is supposed to be going for another 8 hours (!), but I have to work tomorrow/today, so that was it for me.

They were awesome, though. Just exactly what I hoped for. The songs were generally faster, but it all worked. She is perfect, and seemed genuinely humbled by the response. They were all very warm for working this icy aesthetic.

Mike Simonetti played some really cool stuff that I had never heard before. The DJ who started right after Chromatics kicked off with Bob Marley's "Could This Be Love?," which seemed to confuse a lot of people.

That space was nicely sized and never felt overwhelming. The "compulsory coat check" seemed weird, but maybe that's normal for clubs.

I think Studio was DJing in the next room partially at the same time as Chromatics.

Did anybody else go to this? They're playing again at the same place on Tuesday night.

hi i like them now

I thought they were kind of boring to be honest, wandered into the other room and listened to Studio playing to a virtually empty bar for a bit. Ame was tremendous though, Simonetti pretty good as well (that was him after the Chromatics as well).

Also it felt less like a club and more like a converted multi-storey car park.

yeah i was there, i dont know that i thought they were boring but i defintely thought her voice sounded pretty bad.

and i was too tired + old to see ame! this makes me sad. mike simonetti was cool tho

I saw Simonetti play at Did We Tell You About Our Disco last year and he was good--played Doobie Bros and stuff. And The Lex blanked me there!

Might go tomorrow. I saw Joakim instead on Saturday which was v boring.

Haha having seen the state the Lex was in before that Our Disco (ie he had to be carried out of the pub pretty much) I doubt he even knew who you were.

He was barely standing but then he unFacebook friended me the following week so who knows.

I definitely wasn't bored by them at all (I guess I don't really see how they could have been boring if you've heard them before - I don't mean this sarcastically at all, but what did you expect?). I was pretty captivated.

I saw a different guy on the decks after Chromatics, but maybe Simonetti was just taking a break for a sec after putting that Marley tune on. My favorite thing (of the songs I knew) that he played was "Hollywood Seven" by Alides Hidding, which the band were all singing along to when they were setting up.

I was hoping they would be selling those new Italians 12"s, but they said they were almost all sold out of all of them already, and they only have copies of them in the label store. I really want to hear that Tiedye/Metallica cover thing, and the Invisible Conga People stuff.

I'm tempted to try to see them again tomorrow, even though I'm sure it'd be the same show.

They were all very warm for working this icy aesthetic.

That was a slight problem for me, actually. A bit of a disconnect between material and delivery, especially at the end, on In the City and Running Up That Hill, where they were really getting into it. Pls be more haughty and emotionally withdrawn, thx.

I'm an idiot, though. I just looked at the running order in the main room and thought Studio must have cancelled. It never occurred to me that they were in the bar.

Other highlights: Johnny Jewel (I presume) from Chromatics leaping around like a lunatic in DJ booth. Mike Simonetti playing the Doors TWICE (Peace Frog and them doing Gloria live, which I'd never heard before and was fantastic) and looping a bit of Beautiful Life for seemingly ever. Ame sounded great as well, although much darker and trackier than I'd expected.

Downsides: people not dancing at all until Chromatics came on. I hate it when at a club, just because there's a band on, people stand around waiting for them to play instead of dancing as they would if there weren't a band next. It was nearly 1am and everyone was stood around talking. Two and a half-hour journey to get there owing to rail replacement bus service after seeing Saints slump 1-0 and now staring relegation in the face, followed by an hour of queing to get in, get wrist band and get coat compulsarily checked - not great mood enhancers.

Did anyone stay to the bitter end? I'm too old for that, although Horse Meat Disco would have been cool. Should have gone to bed and come back around 10.30!

That's queueing and compulsorily.

I think I left about 8am? It's all a bit of a blur after about 2ish though - I was already pretty drunk when the Chromatics were on and I'd forgotten about both Gloria and Beautiful Life.

There was hardly any dancing before the Chromatics and the place seemed to empty out a lot after that, almost like a load of people had turned up just for the gig.

The thing that weirded me out the most was the bouncer leaping up the side of the toilet cubicles and looking over to check people weren't taking drugs in there.

I just picked up the Tiedye remix of Rubies "I Feel Electric" today, and it is one of the most gorgeous, blissed, envelopingly beautiful things I've heard in a looooong time. There's a stream here: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/49949-rubies-ft-feist-i-feel-electric-tiedye-remix-stream... This label is one of the most exciting discoveries for me in ages, and I can't wait to start taking some of it in in a live setting.

Phonica or some site was streaming the Tiedye cover of the Metal1ica song ("Nothing Else Matters" done ultra-balearic with live instruments)... awesome.

http://www.juno.co.uk/products/309450-01.htm

I know it kinda kills the whole vibe of the label, but I wish I could get good quality MP3s of these new tunes.

cos of this thread today i have picked up the 2 cds that are available.
not decided as to whether i have done the right thing ..

Night Drive and After Dark are DRM-free on the iTunes store. No surprise the Tiedye Metallica cover isn't.

All of Juno's stock of ICP's 12" are unplayably warped. Seriously, I love the music, but after three run-ins with the label, every one problematic, they don't strike me as the most competent outfit in the world.

I'm listening to a cover of "Pornography" they've done for some Cure tribute cd and it's purdy nice.

?!!!!!!??????

http://store.releasethebats.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1537&osCsid=3b22b3241a4198c84b90fb9fe5223dd0

Ah this is the "old" Chromatics then

http://acuterecords.com/blog/imgs/JUNE21st.jpg

So am I the only one who thinks Plaster Hounds is a swell record? As in Swell Maps. Hadn't spun it since the IDB reincarnation. But it's really good wasteland rock.

i just bought the Dark Days "Hands In The Dark" 7" (the song they covered)

dang, shadow is so good

it really is. hit my right in the heart at the end of twin peaks.

https://www.spin.com/2017/05/chromatics-dear-tommy-delayed/

Seems like Johnny is mixed on this record and is endlessly tweaking/revising the record. Or he thinks it's crap. The songs released from this are good ("Shadow" and "I can Never Be Myself When You're Around") to mediocre, but the delay seems related to artistic exhaustion/perfection

It's coming!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwigmMTsM-Y