Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

(listens to it) plus fuck you, cuz shit sound way more like classic dino jr. than fuggin k recs anything, like "freak scene" forever. and the tune is called fucking "brothers" besides, so why ain't it oughtta be bro jams unto thee three suns forever? one of my favorite songs of the year, no competition. those with hearts will understand.

the point being "FOREVER" (apparently)

the mist album is so good. "taking the mist" splits the difference between early tangerine dream and the cosmic jokers. 10.0 bongloads

just got remastered by Plotkin & issued on vinyl too!

lol @ shit upthread: contedo i just think theres something in the space-y meandering nature of 'living with yourself' that recalled k records stuff but a 'jams' version. maybe its the evocation of nature's grandeur and scope but its there in the jags and swirls of 'the vast structure...' for e.g.

also the guitar tone + stupid kids at a party shit that opens it is vintage k

i will look out for 'taking the mist' tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5Bnu_1vpxo&feature=related

i mean cmon

was super drunk for what it's worth, lamp. kinda cringe reading back. but i still don't hear the k-rex vibes you're pointing at. i mean, "space-y and meandering" music evoking "nature's grandeur and scope" isn't how i'd describe the label's core sound. like to me, k = beat happening, pastels, stuff that grew out of that. intimate, childlike, distinctly in the here and now. never followed the likes of mount eerie, and maybe that's what you're linking living with yourself to?

funny that you call it "stupid kids at a party shit", though, cause to me it's like family snapshots: an expression of affection for one's own family & history, an acceptance of the domestic. again, i don't really associate this with k, who always seemed kinda aloof & hipster snide, despite the twee kidstuff affectations.

guitar tone business may be OTM, but i'm so far removed from those beat happening records, i dunno. there's some interesting effects on the guitar on LWY, but you don't notice them much unless it's loud or on headphones.

like, i'm listening to the LP (youtubes sound like ass), and the guitar tone seems much richer and druggier than anything i associate with classic K. their sounds were always so sharp and cheap, like little insects banging against my ears.

the closest k records vibe to this stuff is yume bitsu and that's way more maximal i think

yeah i was thinking of stuff like mount eerie or mirah more than beat happening or lois or w/e, although there is a beat happening song 'our secrets' that reminds me of 'for erin' where the guitar is fairly 'rich' and 'druggy' although its faster and theres less space in the composition

im not wedded to this comparison really but it forced me to relisten to the record

i mean its a bad analogy from the start because its like 'x reminds me of y but really an imaginary only in my head version of y' so

yeah, and by the same token, it's lame of me to be all, "i don't hear it the way you do, so you must be wrong." ears are funny things, like little cabbage leafs on your head, and they tell you things. but they are not always to be trusted, again like cabbages. petit chou.

i like ilxor because i can read it during college and it's so text heavy that it looks like i am doing research.

I read all of you saying there is other stuff that sounds similar but better or whatever, but I think "Does It Look Like I'm Here?" is my favorite record of this year anyway. I really like this band!

Holy fucking shit @ Brothers (For Matt)

(kinda sounds like the Bevis Frond though)

just put on Does It Look Like I'm Here? in the living room -- before i knew it my wife was passed out asleep on the couch an hour earlier than usual bedtime within 20 min (track 6 or so). coincidence?

awesome record btw

Incredible album, that ^. I never would've thought for a 1000yrs that acoustic strumming and entirely irrelevant 1950's computer terminal beep-boops could work so utterly well together, especially considering separated they could be 2 entirely different melodies/songs.

thankyou to all emeralds voters in the ilm poll. am just concluding my first listen to this album and it's beautiful. the pastoral guitar-led closers were a surprise, in a good way!

hurrah!!

assume this'll be old news to you guys, but check out delia gonzalez & gavin russom if you haven't already - "track five" from this year (which emeralds just reminded me about), their days of mars album esp "relevee" and esp the carl craig remix of that.

(are there any similar house/techno remixes of emeralds?)

Love that D & G record, and other stuff Gavin Russom has done. Emeralds are lovely!

(are there any similar house/techno remixes of emeralds?)

lol really?

haha

Track Five was kinda disappointing IMO, swear it rehashes something off Days of Mars. (Which is a great great record, even tho I do kinda wish Carl Craig had remixed the whole thing. or someone at least had done a bootleg with a thumping 4/4 kick underneath every tack)

Emeralds "Candy Shoppe (I'll Let You Lick The Lollipop Tiesto Rave Remix)"

lols aside, i think it would be cool to hear some emeralds remixes

I guess the people lolling never heard Âme or the like

the humour for me comes from the fact that the musicians seem VERy american and VERY far removed from anything in the dance music world:

hay guyze ne1 up for some k00l beats? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Lp9U8SGzb-g/TPNQikuBZ3I/AAAAAAAAAIw/O-LZmxOuiKM/s1600/fall%2Btour%2B2k10%2Bpt%2B2%2B150.jpg

just curious, does anyone know if there's been any music in the extended emeralds universe that even uses a drum machine?

gavin russom + delia gonzalez are also v american + yet they still manage to have carl craig (another american) remix them

gavin russoms remix of trans forest alignment by luke abbott is kinda emeraldsy

no idea why that photo is supposed to indicate an obvious disinterest in dance music - afaik there aren't any Emeralds remixes, dance-y or otherwise, but the material is totally there in their jams

when I saw them a couple of months ago I was right next to a speaker and it was fucking intense and pulsing

Some of the Outer Space stuff could really work well with beats & bass imo.

John Elliott's Colored Mushroom And The Medicine Rocks project uses drum machines.

Etienne Jaumet's album was produced by carl craig and has its fair mix of dancey/komische moments

I can't find any examples streaming or on Youtube, but there's a CMATMR LP on Wagon and three out of print tapes that are readily available on blogs.

http://www.theliminal.co.uk/2011/02/the-liminal-mix-02-schizo-snow-mix-by-john-elliott/

the CMATMR lp is excellent

gavin russom + delia gonzalez are also v american + yet they still manage to have carl craig (another american) remix them

ok let me be more specific: they seem VERy ohioan. more specifically, they self-identify with cleveland. and if youve ever been to cleveland then youll know that theres a pretty perceptible difference between that and nyc/detroit

no idea why that photo is supposed to indicate an obvious disinterest in dance music

it's not, it's just a joek. SORRY YALL FOR HAVIN A LAFF

yeah but think like e2e4 man c'mon dance remixes are not a stretch by any means

need to hear this colored mushroom and the medicine rocks business. i saw that lp lying around my old house when i visited over xmas and was intrigued by the cover alone

ok let me be more specific: they seem VERy ohioan. more specifically, they self-identify with cleveland. and if youve ever been to cleveland then youll know that theres a pretty perceptible difference between that and nyc/detroit

Cleveland has one of the best record stores for techno in the country, Bent Crayon.

I'm not entirely sure why but these guys aren't clicking with me at all. I appreciate what they're doing but I'm not particularly enjoying it aside from the song "Genetic".

Okay, this is neat:

Editions Mego compiles A Young Person’s Guide to… Emeralds’ Mark McGuire

i will buy that

I preordered both of the Spectrum Spools releases, really looking forward to them

Still trying to figure out what Ddave meant by the band being "VERY american"... you can't play it at the discoteque?

he means tag their MP3s with the genre FREEDOM SYNTH

http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/3/7/electric-independence-emeralds--2

Okay, this is neat:

Editions Mego compiles A Young Person’s Guide to… Emeralds’ Mark McGuire

― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, March 7, 2011 4:27 AM (2 weeks ago)

about halfway thru disc 1 and OMG if the whole thing is this good, it gets my vote for compilation of the year, easy