are disco edits the new electroclash?

late to to teh party m8s, but here are my two #####. there's no mood anymore because people aren't looking for magic, an experience, a transcendant kinda thing (despite the whole "cosmic" motif these days, no one's doing any of that 'open ur mind + heart' shit). people want the coke, bat-shit out of your minds kinda experience, or the "I'm so cool cuz I'm here" - so, you get "UP UP UP", corny gimmicks, horribly lame underground clothing label-type mixes, etc.

When psychotropic drugs and that social atmosphere come back into fashion (if ever, and maybe they have somewhere cooler than me), then you'll probably get people favoring music that's a little weirder and moodier. But, 2007 = lindsey lohan, obsessive materialism, narcissism, cocaine, internet-age ADHD, etc. - so it's what u get.

are you saying its hard to enjoy disco music on coke?

I get those emails too, the Can one is probably the worst one. I like the JJ Cale, Frankie Valli, Human Beinz the best.

2007 = lindsey lohan, obsessive materialism, narcissism, cocaine, internet-age ADHD

this and this

you get "UP UP UP", corny gimmicks, horribly lame underground clothing label-type mixes, etc.

is OTM, but you're making a mistake conflating the disco edit movement with this. if anything, that movement is about decreasing the energy - cutting out all the fun bits and only keeping the dull, "tasteful" parts. worst idea ever, i say.

i'm quite fond of the idea of Diplo as our generation's Jive Bunny, i must say.

are you saying its hard to enjoy disco music on coke?

No, it's hard to enjoy disco when everyone else is on coke and your quad-dipped tabs are starting to come on and the guy next to you with the lava lamp for a face just won't shut up...

i'm still not understanding the point of edits like this edit of the turtles 'happy together' by Todd Terje. sounds like he looped the intro once, pumped up the bass and added a bit of effects towards the end. what'd that take him, 10 minutes?

http://americanathlete.blogspot.com/2007/06/introducing-wade-nichols.html

But that's often the point of an "edit" as opposed to a "remix". And they often take 10 minutes.

it's for people who would do mashups but don't have the talent, basically ;)

naaah edits generally don't fuck with the originals too much, just make them more "deejay-able" - ie a bit more intro, bass and effects

Exactly, nowadays it can be as simple as just running a live drum based song through ableton to set the tempo perfectly.

boring

like putting stabilisers on your bike

Eh, works for me.

no one here is taking a purist "all edits are bad" stance, right?

we can all agree that there are good ones and bad ones, however different that may be defined.

anyone who says all edits are bad has obv never heard anything by beatconductor or tangoterje

well i think the thing that should be questioned is whether or not they should be pressed and offered for sale. altho of course it'd be impossible to make that kind of judgement, the impression i've always gotten is that dj's would make em for personal use, personalized for their own sets. i mean, if you're a budding producer or whatever it's probably a nice way to learn stuff but i don't know about building a whole reputation on edits.

Oh yeah, I'm speaking purely in terms of edits as a DJ tool. Occasionally, an edit is worth releasing, but it's rare.

nothing wrong with stars on 45 is there?

Love the Tangoterje edit of Paul Simon's "Diamonds on the Souls of her Shoes". It ends up halfway between Studio and Arthur Russell's "In The Light of the Miracle".

If they are using Ableton/Audacity/Whatever to tighten up the beats on these edits they need to do a lot better job cause I still have to warp the shit outta them!

Rune Lindbaek's Afrika I'm looking at you here.

Geraldo Pine - Heavy Heavy Heavy (Catch & Release Heavy Lifting Edit)

I am obsessed with Peter Visti's remix of Dolly Parton's "Jolene". Amazing.

how do you all feel about bands doing covers a la mountain of one "can't be serious"

Who/ what is this a cover of? It's cool.

it's by Ginny.
http://www.flexx.be/distro/items.php?id=flexx004

got big on the DJ Harvey Sarcastic Disco mix.

surely the irony is that AMO's cover version is totally serious and straight faced.

holy crap -

http://discoedits.com/

ahha
this one is one of the best out there...

http://sci-fi-pogo.blogspot.com/

this just in: disco edits are still 99% retarded. that said, hearing Mike Dunn play disco records in Chicago sort of changed how i look at edits.

thank god ILX is ok until end of june

http://www.grahamphillips.net/Ark/Ark_2_files/moses_with_tablets.jpg

best edit i have heard lately is the dr. dunks' 'keep it cheap', nice echoey looping business as heard on rub n tug's beats in space mix.

yellow cards? are we playing soccer here?

the yellowcard is ILXs own way of calling you retarded, bro

Soccer? What's that then? I

^^ RIP us / europe zinger

Is pipecock banned again already or something? If not, I'm interested in hearing more about the Mike Dunn set and in what way it changed your view.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4662/img00036v.jpg

no wai

wai

that wasn't even at a nerdy record store. was just at your run of the mill hipster haberdashery

This has been a fun thread to reread.

Was this a joke TOM PETTY - You Got Lucky (Cosmic Instrumental) b/w Don't Come Around Here No More (Synth-drum Dub)?

never heard a version of You Got Lucky but there is definitely a track out there called Don't Dub Around Here No More (Italians-related ... I think it's done by Tiedye under a different name)