There has never been a thread about Egyptian Lover

"YOU WILL ENJOY THIS MUSIC EXACTLY IN THE APPROPRIATE WAY OR YOU DON'T UNDERSTAAAAAAAAAND" are way lame

-- J0hn D., Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:38 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

chiding people for not dancing is pretty much the most indie thing you can do these days.

i hope he still looks like that photo

the rapping always sounded kinda...y'know..."the pyramids are oh so shiny" wtf are you talking about egyptian lover)

just a shot in the dark but i think he's talking about egypt

captain save-a-lame

xp

deej do you approve of sampling or do you think music should be kept in its original context?

xpost Alex in Baltimore has a point
xxpost are the pyramids really shiny? what are they made of? nb I haven't been, for all I know they're chrome

he used to have more videos on youtube but
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EfTg3ymB4lg

^^^this is pretty recent isn't it?? solid tho

and deej I am not a non-dancer! I'll bounce my fat ass all over the floor whether people like it or not, I could give a shit, I like to get sweaty. I'm just sympathetic to those who don't want to, i don't think they're necessarily thinking as you think they are. In fact, I'd wager you don't really have any insight at all into why people don't dance, other than shit you're projecting ("if I weren't dancing, this would be why").

xxpost are the pyramids really shiny? what are they made of? nb I haven't been, for all I know they're chrome

-- J0hn D., Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:41 AM (23 seconds ago)

oh noes someone took artistic license with penning lyrics! was a girl name lucy really flying in the sky holding some diamonds?!?#!@?

dude you are reading way too much into my description here. I don't care how boringly you want to listen to egyptian lover in your tour bus, i'm just saying when i go out to listen to a dude play 80s party-electro about fucking women in his waterbed on the nile, i probably want to party & not stand around analyzing it.

yeah I hear you

am0n quit being lame, "shiny" is a non-starter as a descriptor for pyramids and you know it

may if it was followed by "the women here, they have six legs" you'd have something, but no

and deej I am not a non-dancer! I'll bounce my fat ass all over the floor whether people like it or not, I could give a shit, I like to get sweaty. I'm just sympathetic to those who don't want to, i don't think they're necessarily thinking as you think they are. In fact, I'd wager you don't really have any insight at all into why people don't dance, other than shit you're projecting ("if I weren't dancing, this would be why").

-- J0hn D., Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:43 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

are you that sensitive? you can't even say 'this party was kind of lame, people were just sort of standing around' w/out defending them. "Well, you don't know, maybe they were coming from a funeral." ok, a lame party is still a lame party

this isn't some "dancing is BACK, idm is for nerds!" thing. We're talking about going to a club to listen to dance/party music. Everything has its place but i'm sorry, if i go to see egyptian lover i want to do it in an atmosphere that reflects the music

oh sorry didn't see 'yeah i hear you'

Criticizing the rapping is missing the point almost as much as Deej's beardos.

-- The Reverend, Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:37 AM (12 minutes ago)

http://msfcontent.mqube.us/preview/thumbs/images/100x100/45041.jpg

deej I thought it was a matter of record that I am The Most Sensitive Man Alive

xpost yeah as I said I hear you, you're right & I agree actually, I'm just kinda different-strokes-different-folks about shit, also I'm having a hard time seeing the screen in the glare of these shiny, shiny pyramids
xpost word deej!

i hope he still looks like that photo

-- am0n, Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:40 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

+ 60lbs or so, yeah

http://oldschool.terramail.pl/fotosy/egyptian_lover04.jpg

http://www.iloveyes.se/bilder/2006-06%20Egyptian%20Lover.JPG

that looks pretty recent

http://flickr.com/photos/16866536@N00/1021751680

saw him at Studio B, he put on a great show, played classics and his own songs, sang the lyrics, did choreographed dances with his hype man. Pretty awesome.

Song deej posted: muy hot.

I like how this thread has, in spite of itself, managed to pick up at least two points of contention.

www.egyptianempirerecords.com

his site isn't working ... :( you used to be able to buy tshirts from it

http://www.chocosho.com/admin/images/285x380/79625_vertical_1_egyptian_lover__mens_vertic.jpg

^^ Just stroked chin at concert.

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j244/egyptianlover661/Tshirtstatoo.jpg

^^^has been shaking booty to egyptian lover since 1983

Oh wow.

'house on the nile' has some fantastic lyrics, something about his waterbed and solid gold speakers.

^^^i bet his neighbors complained a lot too

^^^dont know why ^^^ were necessary in that post

remember when Hashim posted on ILM? he kept spamming us with links to his new breaks stuff lol

i found an egyptian lover cassette in the budget bin when i got my first car and was looking for shit to bump in the tape player. i believe him when he says the pyramids are shiny.

its entirely possible that the pyramids are shiny. shit gets awful bright in the desert, sand reflects the sun etc

http://www.chocosho.com/admin/images/285x380/79625_vertical_1_egyptian_lover__mens_vertic.jpg

my sister had this album, the beats were good & the synths chilly, the rapping always sounded kinda...y'know..."the pyramids are oh so shiny" wtf are you talking about egyptian lover

loool

WHAT IS A DJ IF HE CAN'T SCRATCH
WHAT IS A MC IF HE CAN'T RAP
WHAT IS A BEAT WITHOUT A LIVE CLAP
WELL I CAN DO IT ALL BABY JUST LIKE THAT

oh and let's not forget FREAK-A-HOLIC

http://www.parisdjs.com/images/covers/parisdjs_vintagerobot/The_Egyptian_Lover-Freak-A-Holic_b.jpg

i'm searching desperately to find egyptian lover lyrics page :(

http://www.chocosho.com/admin/images/285x380/79625_vertical_1_egyptian_lover__mens_vertic.jpg

am0n quit being lame, "shiny" is a non-starter as a descriptor for pyramids and you know it

see my waterbed, fifty feet long
with solid gold speakers, to play this song

it is mostly about the original 4 track ep -- http://www.discogs.com/release/43329 -- 'On The Nile' had remade versions of some of the tracks. see also 12" for 'Computer Love (Sweet Dreams)'

& I remember his track for Bobby Jimmy and the Critters was, well, I bought everything he did in 1984

'We Like Ugly Women' - http://www.discogs.com/release/97719

And My Beat Goes Boom (Long Version)

Drums - (Ultimate) Egyptian Lover, The*
Producer - (Genius) Egyptian Lover, The*
Remix - (Awesome) Egyptian Lover, The*
Vocals - (Creative) Egyptian Lover, The*

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?what=R&obid=48819

THE FREAK-A-HOLIC VIDEO (must see):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pjyu6BpJF0

FUKK ALL DA HATTERZ !!!!

Egyptian Lover is THE MAN. A few of my favorites 12"s are "Girls/Voices" and "She's So Fine." The "one track mind" is non-stop genius. Bambaataa ain't got shit on The Lover's early material as far as I'm concerned. And, in fact, Electro may have got it's start on the East Coast, but it really came of age on the west coast. Dudes like LA Dream Team, Arabian Prince/Professor X, Unknown DJ, and Ice-T (in his early days collaborating with Chris "The Glove" Taylor) really kept the electro flames burnin' and dropped some serious next level shit.

And here's a fun fact: The Egyptian Lover taught Luke Skywalker how to program beats ... so dude is like the godfather of Miami Bass and shit.

I must say though that The Lover's 1990 LP, "Get Into It" is kinda weak despite a few good jamz.

http://www.westcoastpioneers.com/uploads/pics/picture_egyptian_lover_turntable_afro_hair_old.jpg

Home of the Egyptian Empire
http://www.westcoastpioneers.com/uploads/pics/picture_egyptian_empire_los_angeles.jpg

and this: http://www.westcoastpioneers.com/typo3temp/pics/cover_rodney_o_everlasting_bass_egyptian_empire_dmsr_00772_1986_front_02_a6230022e6.jpg

freak-a-holic is dope but way different than his other stuff

"if i go to see egyptian lover i want to do it in an atmosphere that reflects the music"

Please put this on a t-shirt.

(Then the beardos can wear it and stroke).

I first heard I Need A Freak through Egyptian Lover. I remember working at the record store when the owner found an Egyptian Lover album and just flipped his shit—apparently he had loved him as a kid, because as a kid he was totally into pyramids and mummies and shit, and hadn't ever put together that Egyptian Lover wasn't actually, you know, archeological until he heard the stuff again as an adult.

np:

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/051b4456b75044c457bca2e7f5b9e439.jpg

d^_^b

BREAKDOWN

DJ Pooh did killer shit for all of Ice Cube's prime era projects - Del, Da Lench Mob, Yo-Yo, etc

RIP Rodger Clayton of Uncle Jamm's Army.

http://s1.directupload.net/images/110202/scw2lwx3.jpg

BREAKDOWN

I played "Egypt, Egypt" out DJing last Thursday. I wish I'd done it all current-events-ironic-y, but no.

am0n quit being lame, "shiny" is a non-starter as a descriptor for pyramids and you know it

yes, i am a party rockist, i prefer to go to a place where people are, you know, having fun to fun music

― deej, Thursday, September 20, 2007 11:34 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

party rockist in the houuuuse tonight

hahahaha

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/egyptian-lover-rftf

ooh! look forward to reading this

awesome

great story: http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/kraftwerk-changed-my-life-20-artists-pick-their-favourite-kraftwerk-records-of-all-time/2/

haha sweet

http://boingboing.net/2015/05/12/egyptian-lover-egypt-egypt.html

classic exchange with j0hn d itt

the rapping always sounded kinda...y'know..."the pyramids are oh so shiny" wtf are you talking about egyptian lover)

just a shot in the dark but i think he's talking about egypt

When the pyramids were built they were coated in polished limestone and often capped w a golden piece at the top, and supposedly actually _were_ shiny especially in contrast to the surrounding desert. They look rocky and Earthy to us now only because they have been sitting in the desert, periodically raided and dismantled, for thousands and thousands of years.

The old temples and stuff were similarly super colorful; a lot of the original paint remains even to this day.

lol I didn't see that before
xp

SS: Then the guy from Cybotron, Rick Davis, thought you were dead?

EL: He saw the headline: “Lady Diana Dies With Egyptian Lover.”

-- haitch, Monday, September 24, 2007 11:56 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

lmfaoooo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiW7NbkhbJ0

did y'all know that Egyptian Lover released an album this year and every single track has the Numbers/Tour De France beat and it sounds fucking amazing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8x8oFp_-E8

!

http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/egyptianlover/1983-1988

And building on that new collection: I talked with the man himself.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/30/the-egyptian-lover-interview-electro-stones-throw-anthology

http://www.hexapolis.com/2014/10/31/historians-concur-great-pyramid-glass-like-shiny-4000-years-ago/

nice piece, ned!

Thanks!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BNUV9SiEVg

really cool new video feat. (among many) Lady Tigra of "Cars That Go Boom!"

https://67.media.tumblr.com/afc168482221c8836b3a0dfd7200399d/tumblr_n9oa3z4DJ81twulego6_500.gif
(via Night Flight on Facebook

I'm pretty lukewarm on most of his stuff but man I love "I Cry". Any recommendations on similarly moody 80s electroish stuff?

I don't know but here's Jeff Mills in 1983 scratching side two track two of the first release on Freak Beat Records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uapn-mknXVU

Wow I didn't know Mills was active quite that early in the 80s