i really think they should drop the electro-dance angle (i was sympathetic but unimpressed w/ the juan mclean, J.O.Y., leotard front, etc)
then they could put all their energy into doing things like d&g, more black dice / EYE remixes, more ten-minute drummy kraut pixeltan remixes, etc ... they should produce a kevin drumm album or something ...
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link
here's a fereaky performance shot:
http://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/b_projred/imgsjolund/russom.jpg
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.socledumonde.dk/billeder/black_leotard_front_performance_1_web.jpg
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:11 (eighteen years ago) link
Matos called "Casual Friday" the best 15 minute disco tune ever recorded. he may well be right.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.socledumonde.dk/billeder/black_leotard_front__sdm_2004__install_web.jpg
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― maria b (maria b), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link
dancer one: "to surprise... you in.... the flesh"dancer two: "you love me... you must.... confess!"
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I was leaving the officeI took off my dressI put on my overcoatTo surprise you in the fleshIt's written all over my chestYou love me you must confessYou passed the test
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link
thanks for ruining my dance routine!
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link
"yeah (pretentious mix)" - the payoff is the final, spasmodic timbale/drum solo at the end, where after eleven or so minutes of restrained, tasteful percussion-tapping the dude just breaks out into this endless drumroll that ends in what sounds like a whole wall of pots and pans clattering to the floor.
"get up say what (dfa remix)" - the payoff is those endless change-offs between hissy hi-hat action and thugged-out bassline sections ... it's almost like a call-and-response between the parts where the bass is high in the mix and the parts where the hats are real high - it's basically live filter disco, right?
i feel like "casual friday" has the endless noodling of classic instrument-led disco (believe me, i'm a big fan of the joey negro / dj harvey / dimitri sound) but without the freakouts that leaven it. or, put another way, it's like filter disco, without the filters - sort of an endless circular groove (and not really all that functional, compared to the monstergrooves of "yeah" or "beat connection") that goes nowhere.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:30 (eighteen years ago) link
on which planet again?
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link
you mean like the "I've Lost Control" screaming part, or the weird keyboard wig-outs that occur every few minutes? those aren't freakouts?
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link
no, i doubt it. if anything, prob the opposite (it's why some people DO like them) ... but i think at this point they've sort of been (unfairly) tagged as "the dance punk label" and it's very cool to see that they're not letting themselves fall into a cul-de-sac with that.
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
"dance punk" seems very shallow, but i guess all genre labels are.
anyway, i bet the days of mars is good. i downloaded it, but haven't listened yet. i liked the "el monte" single. initiatic journey through the vibrational system of the planetary mind sums it up pretty well. heh.
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link
It's great that this comment often turns up in blurbs/press releases accompanying the 12".
Vahid, you might dig the instrumental version of "Casual Friday" which sounds more like a DFA remix amd focuses on the disco strut guitar line.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
whoa thanks
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 July 2020 22:41 (three years ago) link
casual friday was the best thing released on dfa in its heyday
― plax (ico), Friday, 31 July 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
this is my opinion
― plax (ico), Friday, 31 July 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Carl Craig mix of Relevee came close
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 31 July 2020 20:39 (three years ago) link
the correct opinion xp
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 31 July 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
I prefer "Hey Coach! (I Read Your Diary)"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 31 July 2020 23:14 (three years ago) link
lol rude
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
I love Casual Friday to death. One I managed to play it during a set, blended into something else around the halfway point, played other stuff for an hour or so, then blended back into the second half of it to end the set; it went over REALLY well.
I would also call Days of Mars the best LP ever released on DFA.
― The Troops™ (jamescobo), Thursday, 6 August 2020 00:50 (three years ago) link
Yeah probably right. Feel like I'm ready to hear some DFA stuff again, most best of stuff focuses on the first golden age (circa 04?) But would really enjoy a recap of the good stuff coming out around 09 that felt like a great second wind
― plax (ico), Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
the two Still Going singles (07 and 09) on DFA are great!
― mizzell, Thursday, 6 August 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
always loved “too much love” rub n tug remix fwiw
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:01 (three years ago) link
relevee carl craig mix fuiud
― ||||||||, Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
yah to both of these
― plax (ico), Thursday, 6 August 2020 20:31 (three years ago) link
probably my track of late 2018, early 2019.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_IWcNfJOk
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
2007-2010ish stuff includes (the physical release of) 45:33, You Are The Space Invader, Hercules & Love Affair, Happy House, Brooklyn Club Jam, Goblin City, I'll Keep On Loving You, Fire Eyes, I Will Come Back, Still Going, Oh Missy, Shit Robot, and Synchronize, as well as Black Meteoric Star, The Crystal Ark and the release of Track 5. What a label!
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
I love this late-era Prinzhorn track too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-d9ou2QXsU
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:05 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VXDFE60.jpg
― ||||||||, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
I liked that black meteor star “dawn” single that sounded like a distorted 20 minute John carpenter jam
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
omg that amy douglas track is fire
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
I like thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1xp6h_D1s
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:34 (three years ago) link
map, check out the crooked man dub of it too.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
haha i was just searching for "crooked man" on discogs to see if there are any other good tunes they remixed besides roisin but all i found was this not-great blondie track from 2017
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
Amy Douglas wrote the new Roisin song, Something More.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
It was someone called Bryce Hackford that did that Delia remix brimstead posted (thanks, I had never heard it). I'd never heard of him either but I'm listening to a new album of his, called Safe (Exits) rn, and liking it quite a bit.
― Gerneten-flüken cake (jed_), Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
first two shit robot singles are gloriously strange and deserve more love
re: 2009, this is evergreen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce5VDZvjWSc
― the late great, Thursday, 6 August 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
Why does no one ever talk about the "Track 5" 12"? Both sides (including the Âme remix) are to me the duo's peak. Just listened again on a whim and my opinion has not changed.
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 20 September 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
Gavilán interview:https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/gavilan-rayna-russom-on-why-she-left-lcd-soundsystem/
Not long after unveiling Voluminous Arts, Russom contracted a severe case of COVID-19. “Largely why I didn’t go to the hospital is because my local hospital is Elmhurst [in Queens, New York], and, at the time there were refrigerator trucks of dead bodies outside,” she said. “There were no beds…. At that point going to the hospital seemed worse than dying on my couch.” Russom says that she still experiences persistent post-COVID symptoms, such as migraines and disorientation, which factored into her hesitance to perform live.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Saturday, 27 November 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link
:(
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Saturday, 27 November 2021 17:22 (two years ago) link