Lindstrom & Prins Thomas are the shit

Eskimo, from what i understood, has just finalized a US distribution deal with Forced Exposure -- although the fruits aren't yet available to the public. i do NOT think this applies to vinyl though. I've still got Turkish Delight in stock on 12" here at Amoeba SF, and i've just re-ordered the L&PT full length on vinyl. haven't heard anything about CDs yet, nor have I been offered the new single from any of my distros yet. will keep yas posted.

in fact, it's kind of funny. when i first started the thread my apt had been robbed at the very beginning of the month, and a record bag with all my hot/new/promo shit was stolen. i think the VERY first things i replaced, and within a week or two, was the L&PT stuff in my bag. everything else almost didn't matter.

(btw susan, you're totally otm on the roxy music you hear. can't wait for their roxy music remix that's supposed to come out later this year...)

simon, here's the track your after.

straight from forced exposure:

L&PT album is released domestically (US) on 3/7/06

I hope Feedelity continues the relationship with ClickGroove (or Beatport or one of the high-bitrate stores) despite going on iTunes so impoverished laptop jocks like myself can continue to support. The 128K AAC files from iTunes sound pretty rough on a sound system.

Bought this today and it sure is.

Did any of you get "Another Station" yet?

Yes! That track is amazing, and so is Olav Brekke & Sideshow Jogge's "Gul Boss". The non-L&PT-related stuffreally holds its own.

iElectro-house bobbins 2006
iMinimal house bobbins 2006
iricardo villalobos

for starters

we are talking about simplifying outlines, building new forms out of old that are ever more pared-down, stripped back, and functional, opening up vast spaces (remember, in ancient art emptiness and blankness - the bottomless bass chasms between bongos and handclaps in dub-disco, the vacuous krautrock grooves of lindstrom + gang - signified the presence of the divine and the sublime) while retaining constructions that are upright and supportive. like a vase, or a column.

discus

Re the pop thing, I'd probably rather listen to the neptunes or sugababes or hard-fi, or something that's unashamedly pop 40 than some sub-recreation of 80s pop by Richard X or whatever. In the case of the neptunes it's probably more new sounding than an lot of dance music these days.Electro seemed a breath of fresh air after domination by funky house, but now it's just another boring mainstream sound.

this makes no sense. richard x produced a lot of the sugababes' stuff, incl. their biggest pop hits!

as far as neptunes/sugababes go, maybe you do "get" pop. i'm not sure anybody (even ivan smagghe) would argue that what they're doing is as "new" or "exciting" as the human league - if you had lived through it. don't get caught in the trap a historicism. it'd have been just as easy for frank zappa to lampoon the ramones or new york dolls or whatever in the 1970s by recording "ruben + the jets" ("redundant piano triplets"!!!) (he lived through it, too, after all, cruising el cajon in a bread truck blasting bubblegum) and it would be just as wrong.

as far as stripping back / minimalism / tradition go ... not sure how you are going to defend relief here ... whatever cajmere wants to say about it (mr "i've heard a million acid tracks and frankly it's boring now") i'm not sure how you could characterize relief outside of sticking to tradition, functionalised