official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

From The Magician's Facebook page:

"Known as the other half of “Aeroplane”
Stephen left before the release of their anticipating album to focus on his own project!
He’s currently working on a remix for The Aikiu and he is planning his first EP for Autumn this year!"

and he is planning his first EP for Autumn this year!

Over/under on how much this smokes the Aeroplane album?

http://www.discobelle.net/2010/08/10/dont-turn-the-lights-on-2/

still not heard it but has anybody re-assessed the album yet?

still hoping that this guy is right and everyone here is wrong please please please

too bad he's wrong

When is the actual release date for this?

http://toomanysebastians.net/2010/08/22/george-michael-aeroplane/

Official remix of Faith by George Michael!

It's becoming more and more clear to me that we, as a people, severely overrated Aeroplane from the beginning. In what world is that George Michael remix anything more than "zzzzzzzzz"? But because we just got done hearing a terrible album, the remix seems brilliant in comparison.

doesn't seem to build with the song at all. it must be an existing track with vocals dumped on it.

Magician Magic Tape 2

opens with arcade fire btw

the one good song on that record thank god

this mix kills it imho

that mix according to a soundcloud commenter:

1. Arcade Fire - Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (Tommy Sunshine's Quaalude Edit)
2.Mark Seven - Sermon ( Serotonin Edit )
3.Kolombo - Waitin For
4.Blamma Blamma - Beyond 17
5.Roman Salzger - Alpha Century
6.Mark Ronson - Bang Bang Bang (U-Tern's Disco Dub)
7.Hannulelauri -
8. Keane - Clear Skies (VillA Dub Remix)
9.Chilly Gonzales - Knight Moves
10.Bubble Club - Violet Morning Moon

ah wondered what the stevie nicks "edge of seventeen" track was

that mix is very, very good *indeed*.

August mix

http://soundcloud.com/aeroplane/aeroplane-august-2010-mix

never followed these ppl before but i like the album already

Nice mix but it kind of blended into the background at work today.

To Vito's credit, whenever I download the individual songs they seem to be far worse in isolation. Montauk's Holiday was very effective in one of the recent monthly mixes and by itself is super boring and repetitive.

yes, this mix is ace

haha having read back some to discover how hated this is, but then i can skip the tracks that start off annoyingly w/out feeling dreadfully disappointed (not quite tabula rasa since i know a few remixes but completely uninvested in them)

the total absence of restraint is kinda endearing

i assessed the album. it's sweet. slow it down like 10% and it's the exact mastery OPN drops on his games mixtapes ok

Montauk's Holiday was very effective in one of the recent monthly mixes and by itself is super boring and repetitive.

Montauk had much better songs when they first started (see "Speed of Light"), but they've gone the wrong way since then.

WARMER MIXTAPES #237 | by Stephen Fasano [The Magician]

This is my Top 10 favourites songs EVER!

1. Jacno | Rectangle
This track remind me when I was young boy. I remember, it was taken for a chocolate-milk advertising in France around 1979. Unfortunately, Jacno just died last year.

2. M&G | When I Let You Down
Probably the best Italo-Disco track ever made. I've heard it for the first time on a BASF tape mix that my uncle has made. I was 8 or something. A bit later he gave me the record. I'm still playing it!

3. The Beach Boys | God Only Knows
Best voice/chorus ever. I think if I had the choose to take just one song on a desert island, that would be God Only Knows.

4. Aphex Twin | Alberto Balsalm
I'm not really onto Aphex Twin in general but this one is just fantastic!

5. Fiction Factory | Feels Like Heaven
I was listening to this in the Ford Mustang of my dad when we went to the Belgian coast. A fantastic souvenir!

6. Q. Lazzarus | Goodbye Horses
EMOTION!

7. The Visitor | Expedition Adam 84
From a Czech Sci-Fi series from 1984.

8. Jeanette | Porque Te Vas
I could say that it's the most POPular song I love.

9. Lucio Battisti | Ancora Tu
Italia! My roots...

10. Alba | Only Music Survives
This song is so intense... I play it to finish my djsets.

Stephen was the half of Aeroplane.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14614-we-cant-fly/

Aeroplane
We Can't Fly
[PIAS; 2010]
4.4

For the past couple of years, Aeroplane have been the best kind of music geek secret. A pop-disco production duo from Belgium, Aeroplane have released a sporadic but endlessly enjoyable stream of singles, remixes, and collaborations since 2007. It was a bit heartbreaking when Vito De Luca and Stephen Fasano announced their breakup this summer; they cited artistic differences (De Luca will carry on as Aeroplane). We Can't Fly will make you believe those artistic differences were real. A schizophrenic and ultimately confused record, We Can't Fly abandons Aeroplane's airtight constructions for loose, haughty tracks that are as unclassifiable as they are messy.

We Can't Fly has the feel of a record that's to be everything to everybody-- hit receptacle, compendium of past works, exploration-- and as such ends up being nothing. There are splinters of excellence: the title track weaves an unexpectedly skankin' guitar part into gospel chants, big-rock piano bridges, and miles of keyboards. It's the antithesis of so many disco-as-savior anthems; you will nod and chant to our collective failure. "Good Riddance" and "Without Lies"-- a strange country amble and a sassy pop gem, respectively-- suggest the range and diversity of Ze Records (a clear influence), though "Good Riddance" mostly serves to remind that those Mutant Disco comps had some real clunkers.

The misses miss big, and perplexingly. "I Don't Feel" splits the difference between Guitar World riffing and Patti LaBelle to disastrous effect. "The Point of No Return" auditions for Top Gun montages past and future; "Fish in the Sky" for Bowie's mid-90s blind spot. This from a band who had shown commendable restraint-- no wailing divas or 22-minute Kraut-funk jams; just tight, languorous bodyrock. It's not that these songs are gregarious, silly, and overstuffed-- we suspected Aeroplane had that in them-- it's that they are charmlessly so. "I Don't Feel" will fit most people's definitions of Bad Music, but more troubling is the existence of a giant, wailing barnburner that acts dressy and prim. Aeroplane aren't big personalities or great wits, so when they jostle and play it always feels like the joke's on us.

Aeroplane seem to know a bit about artifice-- the serrated hook of "Without Lies" imagines a boring world without artists-- but We Can't Fly doesn't see them inhabiting unexpected personas or adopting new voices. It feels like fucking around, like a definitively non-definitive remnant of a partnership. We Can't Fly's stylistic knuckleballs lack just about everything we'd grown to love about Aeroplane: namely luxurious grooves and effortless cool.

— Andrew Gaerig, September 8, 2010

It's hard to disagree with anything in that review except the bit about "I Don't Feel" being Bad Music. Once you get acclimated to the the dueling vibrato in the first minute it's actually a solid track. Then again I can't imagine putting it on a mixtape intended for, well, anybody.

M

Magic Tape 3:

http://soundcloud.com/themagician/magic-tape-three

""I Don't Feel" will fit most people's definitions of Bad Music"

This is such a weird line to write in a review.

true but it seems apt.

Vito's new mix:

http://soundcloud.com/aeroplane/aeroplane-september-mix

1.Bostro Pesopeo - 0000
2.Jamie Woon - Night Air
3.The XX - Shelter ( John Talabot Remix )
4.Sabo - Mogo Te Disco
5.Tricksi - Point O
6.Johnny Paguro - Igadadadoo
7.Yeasayer - Madder Red ( Munk Remix )
8.Luke Million - Italo Journey Part 1
9.The Glass - Four Four Later ( Black Van Instrumental Mix )
10.Boys Noize - Yeah

That looks good... Bostro Pesopeo is a totally underrated producer.

Why won't Vito just leave things alone? He just remixed Gypsy & The Cat's "The Piper's Song" (a song I've loved for a full year) into a complete mess.

Original:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQS8AkkulI

Remixed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_wdjEk6UAE

Trax mix #139:

http://soundcloud.com/trax-magazine/trax-139-mix-by-aeroplane

that piper's song really reminds me of toto's africa. the remix isn't bad, certainly not one of aeroplane's best but that's more the fault of the original track.

kindof worrying they haven't released anything amazing since stephen left. though apparently he never actually did anything other than 'yay' or 'nay' vito's remixes so dunno

says vito but o find this hard to believe considering how far and fast they went downhill.

but i

We'll know for sure when The Magician stuff starts coming out.

though apparently he never actually did anything other than 'yay' or 'nay' vito's remixes so dunno

surely not "nay"ing the duds would be enough for duds to start coming out?

I think it's less a matter of 'one member wasn't there any more and suddenly everything went to shit' as 'both members started started making bad aesthetic choices', even if one was less enthusiastic about them.

well apparently the album had been written two or so years ago, so it's more like they existed in some weird parallel zone where they were throwing out amazing remixes while also writing/recording crummy album tracks.

other than releasing the album what have they/vito done since stephen left? breakbot remix, which i like, was just before they announced the split. is it just this gypsy cat track?

The Chromeo remix is post-split and great

ah yeah forgot that one, yeah it's great!

I think the monthly DJ mixes that Vito and Stephen have both been releasing since the split have been more inspired (and twice as many!) than in the months before they broke up. I'm all for it if it means more good music for everyone.

well apparently the album had been written two or so years ago, so it's more like they existed in some weird parallel zone where they were throwing out amazing remixes while also writing/recording crummy album tracks.

I got the impression that these were written, but as time wore on and they (or just Vito) got more money he would go back into the studio and do something to the existing tracks. I've only heard the album once, but it does reek of someone piling on over time.

It makes little difference really, they just aren't good songs full stop.

so, anyone seen aeroplane dj's since the split? how was it like? still the same?

Bostro Pesopeo is a totally underrated producer.

― Matt DC, Sunday, September 26, 2010 3:54 PM

Anantes EP is ace

Why won't Vito just leave things alone? He just remixed Gypsy & The Cat's "The Piper's Song" (a song I've loved for a full year) into a complete mess.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 8 October 2010 23:48 (1 week ago)

Did you see the retraction Vito made?

"Last week the internet saw an Aeroplane remix of Gipsy & The Cat spreading everywhere. Going up to number 2 on hypem.com and even being played on BBC 1 Radio.

Due to miscommunication Sony/RCA mastered and released an MP3 of a raw demo on the Neon Gold blog, who has been turned down.

Here is my final mix. I would like everybody to delete the other version from their drives.

Hope you'll like it.

http://soundcloud.com/aeroplane/gipsy-the-cat-pipers-song-aeroplane-remix";

Working link:

http://soundcloud.com/aeroplane/gipsy-the-cat-pipers-song-aeroplane-remix