Gang Gang Dance LP

uh re the sandwich post i mean, not lex.

re ggd: i gave them a go in i dunno, 2004 and decided that they were bad ny dj/spookyrupture toss, and then reconcurred with myself from afar upon seeing subsequent riddim n grime waffle. i saw them live this summer as well, and it was all soundscapes maaaan. (okay, though.) i'm gonna put this album on now.

"decided that they were bad ny dj/spookyrupture toss"

Nonsense.

i absolutely love saint dymphna. what else should i get?

God's Money

And the Rawwwwar EP or whatever it's called.

And then you can probably stop.

i saw you guys talking about this in the SF thread and was intrigued. then i bought the album on a whim and now i am bummed i missed that show.

thanks for the recommendations alex.

not a single bad track on SD that's for sure. Rawwwwar is my pretty much what it did to my head. it almost dares you to like it.

Brilliant record, but I've heard they can be awful live. Should I try to see if this is true or not?

nonsense in 2004? i don't know, it mightve been, i didnt have a lot to go on. i took into account the context, and the reception, and the little label the record store man wrote.

I think it depends on the price haha. The previous SF show sounds like it was crappy, but I thought they were pretty good this tour.

the previous SF Show was horrendous... it was at the Independent and they had a major equipment malfunction after 10 minutes followed by a huge temper tantrum. Did not get a refund either! fukkerz.

fukkerz artistes

i have seen this band 3-4 times, none of these was disappointing in the least. did they play the independent twice? i remember seeing them there a few years back and i dug it

oh shit, they've played here a bunch. this was their first SF show... it was like fall 2005. with tussle.

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005 according to SFBG 8-days calendar archive.

omg, this is funny tho... <3 google:

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lololol

unfortunately i feel the need to respond to this.
we(GGD) were flown to SF to play that one show, therefore we were gauranteed a backline and a soundcheck(not unreasonable considering that without a backline our instruments dont make any sound). we arrived at the venue four hours early on the day of the show just to take extra precautions........soundchecks often "magically" disappear from certain venues list of priorities. anyway.....we arrived to find the promised and necessary backline nowhere to be found.....waited two of our four precious hours for borrowed amps to arrive from the very gracious openers. we set up our equipment with a more than adequate amount of time left to soundcheck, but for some unknown reason the "soundperson" at the independent spent roughly 1hour and 45minutes of those two remaining hours running around on the phone, talking to me about his collection of music equipment, asking me if i listened to captain beefheart, and generally being an absolutely passive aggressive condescending prick. so we were left with fifteen minutes to check and during those fifteen minutes encountered more problems than we've ever had on a stage. the DI's that the prickman gave me were all fucked and cutting out, he wouldnt listen to a single thing we suggested, and he sat at the soundboard talking on the phone until finally he approached the stage and told us we had to "get things moving" and that he had to start soundchecking the other bands due to a "lack of time". i told him straight up that we werent going to be able to play if he didnt help us figure something out....that it actually technically was not going to work....and he pointed to his watch and began "helping" us move our useless gear off stage. come showtime.....we made a decision to just play in hopes that something would miraculously occur and the crappy amps and DI's would decide to work. what else could we do? when you have the majority of the staff at a venue yelling at you to get on stage, yelling at you to play when your onstage, yelling at you because your scowling at the fact that the sound is fucked(even though you had told them that before),etc,etc,etc....and your onstage in front of a roomful people whom you so very much want to play to and share your music with, and that very same audience begins yelling "play already!"....and no matter what you try you cannot get anything to work......well, emotions tend to run a little high and sometimes we cant all be so cool as to laugh it off and go with the flow and pretend that its a very comfortable and welcoming and patient situation and just try, as one of you put it, to" stick it out and figure out what the problem is". we stuck it out for four hours earlier in the day and we were completely disrespected by the alltime worst soundperson we've ever dealt with.
so.....while i am not trying to write this as a 'fuck you very much for your comments' type thing....i do wish you would be a little more understanding. had you been through the frustrations of our day you may very well have given up at that point as well. i apologise for the fact that so many people came to see us.....and didnt really see us at all, but it really was out of our hands by that time.
and if you are still unforgiving, then yes, fuck you very much.
------------------"keys boy" uffing it all---------BDG/GGD

they could still give a refund! lammmmmme

refund probably the venue's decision too, no?

I've seen em once when it was just ok and once when it was super good (both in the past 2 months)

"i took into account the context, and the reception, and the little label the record store man wrote."

The little label had refs to spooky/rupture on it? Sounds far-fetched.

no your honour, if i recall correctly the label vaguely referred to new york, world music mixology, tapes, dub, and so on, which to my then mind appeared more theoretical in intention than the generic organic noize band blurb that was fashionable at the time. future "riddim dvd" type releases only seemed to bear this inference out.

Bummer about the sound guy but maybe an hour long noise set on broken gear would have been a better "fuck you very much" than just walking away?

calling the bug album "run-off from burial last year" is one of the lamest things i've read on ilm, which is saying something

Well, if the Sandwich dude means 'this year's broadsheet-friendly token dubstep-affiliated album' then he's right. I think he's just being lame though.

am i the only one who likes this revival of the shittest thing i got off of slsk?

GGD reminds me a lot of "Waking the Witch." Also, whoever described the sound as "stacking" upthread is otm.

I'll be fucked if "House Jam" isn't the best song I heard all of last year.

http://www.myspace.com/flirtyfishing

newish thing from lizzy

http://www.rcrdlbl.com/2009/03/02/exclusive_new_download_i_u_d_911

http://www.rcrdlbl.com/2009/03/05/exclusive_new_download_i_u_d_daddy_aaron_warren_of_black_dice_remix_

++friday night at 8 o'clock++

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HEX MESSAGE + MIKE FELLOWS + BRIAN DEGRAW

playing live music

++T&S++

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who's going to see that at Dingwalls on June 1? Long overdue, especially after they had to cancel earlier in the year after the fire in Holland

^see them

I was really excited for the original gig, and really gutted that they had to cancel, but now I'm not so sure. Partly 'cos it's a Monday and I have stuff to do on Mondays, partly 'cos everyone else who'd come with me is going to see Tenniscoats that night, which I actually have a ticket for already - I think I'd rather see GGD, but part of me thinks I should use the conflict to decide going to evening class is best. Listened to the album again to try and get enthusiastic, but it didn't quite work, not sure why.

Listening to Saint Dymphna on Spotify right now...I get it, I get it. It's so eclectic: I can hear these really well-executed touches of Afro-pop, UK garage, new wave, but mainly it reminds me of Black Dice if they actually lived up to James Murphy's description as a 'pop band'.

New album, s'il vous plait?

itsa comin: http://stereogum.com/635141/gang-gang-dance-eye-contact/news/

I'm so excited for this. 3 years seems like a long time between drinks with these Brooklyn bands.

That one fire really stopped then in their tracks like *forever*.

you guys should seek out Kamakura in the meantime—nice stopgap EP

Yeah I really like Kamakura.

Not heard of them, where are they from?

It's the 15 minute single track EP Gang Gang did for <a href=https://www.southern.net/eu-shop/index.php?artists_id=1649&typefilter=artists_id&main_page=index>;Latitudes</a>.

Interesting.

Oh duh, not a band then!

hence my posting it in the GGD thread—and referring to it as an EP :)

New album is great — even richer and fuller than the last one i think. A couple songs, including a disco track, are the poppiest stuff they've ever done

ordinarily what you just said would scare the shit out of me but after House Jam i'm cool with them doing disco and pop.

whaaaaaat!!!

this sounds so so so rad