Richard X produced about half the tracks on the last Hundred in the Hands album (which no one on ILX seems to love except me.)
― Wheal Dream, Thursday, 18 November 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Hundred in the Hands
new name to me. clearly i need to be more on the ball as it sounds rather fine (ta amazon previews)
― mark e, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
ah yeah forgot about the steve mason thing.
heard a couple HITH songs already (pigeons and commotion) but wasn't aware rx was involved.
big list of what he's recently done here: http://www.blackmelody.com/
what's going on with xenomania though, other than florrie?
― NI, Thursday, 18 November 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Richard X and... Belle And Sebastian? Colour me intrigued.
― get the fuck out of my mouth (boxedjoy), Thursday, 18 November 2010 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
near total collapse of xenomania? what's the story here?
All the core members left except for Brian, who sat behind with nothing but a few engineers, as far as I understand.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
3 key Xenomania members left this year: Miranda Cooper, Nick Coler, and Tim Powell. Besides that Mini Viva are gone, Alex Gardner is not doing any better, and no one seems to be using any of their songs anymore (both Kylie and Alesha decide not to include the Xeno tracks on their albums). That's what I meant by total collapse. There is still, of course, Brian Higgins... plus F. Falke, Toby Scott, Florrie, Jason, Kieran and occasional collaborators. That seems to be the new songwriting team.
― daavid, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
christ, didn't know cooper left - i thought she was as much a part of xenomania as brian. where did you hear of all this? do you have any links?
― NI, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
also, did treasure fingers become a fully-fledged xenomanian? im guessing the distance makes it difficult
― NI, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
The only new acts (other than Florrie) that may be releasing Xenomania tracks are Soundgirl and MNEK afaik.
― daavid, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Here: http://xenomanianews.blogspot.com/
― daavid, Thursday, 18 November 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
could lead to a revival of fortunes? http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a295491/spears-teams-with-girls-aloud-producers.html
― NI, Saturday, 1 January 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
article doesn't seem to know that it's not the same Xenomania anymore
― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:35 (thirteen years ago) link
POP'S ONLY GOOD WHEN IT'S ROCK
― Costco Chapel (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 January 2011 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
does say 'founded by' and that's right ain't it? as in the whole thing was founded by brian and miranda. making out that jessie j has some major role (and was involved from the start) seems hugely wrong though
― NI, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
keeps saying "the producers who did all GA singles" and the like, which plural is unwarranted
― Urban Coochie Collective (sic), Monday, 3 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
First Xenomania (commissioned) production in ages. Sounds like a completely generic, by-the-numbers "in the club" track... but I love it. Better not pay attention to the lyrics, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWn37lqpqXc
― daavid, Saturday, 23 July 2011 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
First Xenomania-launched "girlband" since ...Mini Viva?
They seem to have dialed it waaay down.
You can almost imagine them starting from a Girls Aloud demo, removing the whole backing track and then building it back with bare minimum production.
I like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si954EdfMNQ&start_radio=1&list=RDMMSi954EdfMNQ
― daavid, Monday, 28 January 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si954EdfMNQ
― daavid, Monday, 28 January 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
i like it too. i'm no expert on their output but i certainly don't expect to hear a xenomania production where guitar work is one of its more striking features. i haven't really kept up for the past few years, has their ship basically sailed as far as top-tier commercial success goes? the imperative to release huge hits being somewhat out of the picture might actually make their work more interesting.
rmde at a youtube commenter on the vid saying "Ok but where is the chorus?"
― dyl, Monday, 28 January 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
has their ship basically sailed as far as top-tier commercial success goes?
I would say probably yes. afaik, they haven't had a solid hit since maybe 2012 with that brief, Girls Aloud comeback.
― daavid, Monday, 28 January 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
The unperfect debut EP is out and largely being ignored. It's kind of a mixed bag but this is something else:
https://youtu.be/o5t3t8bjUNs
― daavid, Monday, 29 April 2019 06:10 (four years ago) link
Xenomania seem to be trying to make a comeback this year. In addition to unperfect, we have a new track from Florrie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fYHf_bcWb8
and a new artist launch (Paige Cavell):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4l7d0LMO0
Her first single is a vintage Xeno banger (and by this I mean it sounds like Girls Aloud/The Saturdays circa 2012). I like it, but I don't know if it's only because I miss this kind of stuff.
The Florrie single bores me to tears :(
― daavid, Friday, 10 May 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
Oops, wrong link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVy2NaO91Q
― daavid, Friday, 10 May 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
incidentally "shot you down" is among the first florrie tracks to have made me lose interest in her as an artist
― dyl, Saturday, 11 May 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
Xenomania > Stock Aitken Waterman
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 13 May 2019 11:58 (four years ago) link
this rules but yeah partly because it sounds like it came out beside rihanna’s “where have you been”
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Tuesday, 14 May 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link