You can't hear the piano chords and the chiming noises? Even from the terrible sound quality it sounds like a Coma Cat-style anthem in the making.
i can't hear how they fit into the track or really what they sound like at all - you literally cannot hear how a song sounds properly from a shaky 2-min youtube clip
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Monday, 6 June 2011 09:08 (twelve years ago) link
NB. cuteforce made this debate a non-issue upthread you know.
― Tim F, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
True. They give me a simular vibe though. Benoit & Sergio give me more of a DFA-esq vocal version of someone like Pantha Du Prince rather than Tensnake on everything I've heard bar 'Everybody'. I <3 Pantha Du Prince.
― jimitheexploder, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:19 (twelve years ago) link
They've got a nice little chart on Juno with a nice slice of that kinda thing too: Steffi, Kassem Mosse, Moodyman, Theo Parrish. I feel they're kinda on the edge of what I dig from this end of house but before I can get into it fully they double back on themselves and it gets a little stagnent. Worth keeping an ear on maybe we'll see how they go I guess.
― jimitheexploder, Monday, 6 June 2011 09:30 (twelve years ago) link
"Egad! Is that a Chameleons bootleg?"
"Egad! Is that a Chameleons bootleg?"
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 10 June 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
what i've lost is unutterably gorgeous, wow.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
when the vocals come in it reminds me of a prettier version of a song by suicide
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
the little hollow "PTCHOO" accent that gets used something like six times in the entire song. so brazen, so precise.
haha there's kind of a bruce springsteen vibe somehow too, like "racing in the streets"
they kind of float but they leave me aching for a little more kick and groove
that's what turntables are for i guess!
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 June 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
hurray for these guys finishing that xlr8r mix with my favourite fennesz tune
― straightola, Friday, 10 June 2011 16:02 (twelve years ago) link
^_^ http://soundcloud.com/dfa-records/everybody/s-jWkZ8
― just sayin, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
Hear "Everybody" in hi-res in the middle of Seth Troxler's Essential Mix:
haha this is where i 1st heard these dudes
surprised by the ilm love
"walk & talk" is fffffantastic, everything is also is ok
― neti pot, kombucha, how to die alone (Lamp), Tuesday, 14 June 2011 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
eh, why would you be surprised?
their xlr8r mix is perfectly thriling until the last four tracks, who wants to listen to that pish? total downer of an ending.
― jed_, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
It's no The Weeknd.
It's very Dream Baby Dream actually. Sort of reminds me of something else, like a Lou Reed remix that doesn't actually exist, or something?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 June 2011 09:21 (twelve years ago) link
But yeah, there's totally a 70s American rock vibe in the mix somewhere (okay maybe not on Everybody). When are they going to do their Steely Dan house track?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 June 2011 09:22 (twelve years ago) link
thread needs more PRINCIPLEShttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRCYPbXG6xU
― gr8080, Saturday, 25 June 2011 12:05 (twelve years ago) link
Not to be a complainer, but there really needs to be a single-length edit of Everybody. The original is great for the club, but I need a 3-4 minute version.
― Alpaca Lips (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 25 June 2011 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
xpost principles used v well in soul claps social experiment 002
― just sayin, Saturday, 25 June 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
and johnny fever u r crazy
I just can't get past the pitched down PRINCIPLES every 5 seconds. Murders a great song for me.
― She Got the Shakes, Saturday, 25 June 2011 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
don't really get the buzz with "everybody", like...it's just not very good. i mean, i like a lot of the music that is associated with these guys, except not them. i mean, it's called "everybody" and the hook is someone singing "everybody" but the music doesn't really reach the standard you'd expect given those promising signs. it just sort of falls between too many poles for me, not quite french house, not quite trance.
― MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIVING HERE!! (Local Garda), Saturday, 25 June 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
I saw one remix of Walk & Talk in YouTube but that's it iirc: any official remixes?
― gr8080, Sunday, 26 June 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
Cheers to MikoMcha for the find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ya0XpOpAl0
― Tim F, Sunday, 17 July 2011 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
this is the b-side - even better imo http://soundcloud.com/getdowngood/slow-hands-sweetest-taboo
why is it a vinyl-only release? WANT AN MP3 GODDAMNIT.
re: "around the world", that's a great bassline but i hate that vocal so much (a fault of the original really but i'm never going to enjoy hearing it)
― lex pretend, Sunday, 17 July 2011 10:02 (twelve years ago) link
mean, i like a lot of the music that is associated with these guys, except not them.
i pretty much agree with this re: benoit & sergio in general. i like the whole soul clap/sade house thing but they don't seem to do it that well? idgi.
― lex pretend, Sunday, 17 July 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
I finally put my finger on the ghost I could sense lurking around these guys.
And it's, uh, Paul Simon.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
okay "around the world", THAT'S more like it, so so so much better than "everybody". love that.
― LocalGarda, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
i can get w/ paul simon. im all about these guys but paul simon is by far my most listened to.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
i mean full grown man is straight up peter gabriel though, i would have said peter gabriel.
― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:04 (twelve years ago) link
"Full Grown Man" is still my favourite I think.
― Tim F, Thursday, 21 July 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
From FB:Benoit & Sergioit is with outstanding pleasure to announce that BENOIT & SERGIO's slow motion homage to daft punk's "AROUND THE WORLD" (COVER) will be released on VINYL ONLY.....NEXT WEEK......
― du mein bestie (micarl), Thursday, 21 July 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
Yah I totally hear paul simon on this stuff, as I did on that ndf song from last yr
― Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40), Thursday, 21 July 2011 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
"around the world" is the first thing by these dudes that i'm not feeling
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 24 July 2011 07:55 (twelve years ago) link
that slow hands "sweetest taboo" cover lex posted is dope tho
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 24 July 2011 07:57 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtHcafwSAI
Everybodys is still my fave, but 'Let Me Count the Ways' (just heard it this past week) kills it as well, albeit in a more in-your-face kind of way.
― Josh L, Sunday, 24 July 2011 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
let me count the waysthe ways that I love y-
Is it just me or is there a much sleazier vibe to these guys than the rest of this Sade-house movement?
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Sunday, 24 July 2011 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
otm, and a less stoned, more big-room, poppy vibe imo
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Sunday, 24 July 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
I think "Sade-house movement" (though a nice coinage) perhaps doesn't capture the "movement" as such, only isolated examples of it.
― Tim F, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
ugh "everybody" is so shit and such vapid polar french house, i seldom am moved to criticise but it's really not fun. it's like "take me with you" minus all the joyous hysteria.
― LocalGarda, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:11 (twelve years ago) link
oh shaddap
― night of the living based gods (flopson), Monday, 25 July 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
these guys!
:)
― LocalGarda, Monday, 25 July 2011 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
yeah a lot of deep house in general could qualify for "Sade house", really
― am I diversified? (blank), Monday, 25 July 2011 01:17 (twelve years ago) link
Saw these guys play last month at Voltt Loves Summer in Amsterdam. I have to admit I was a little disappointed and left their set early to drink cocktails and watch Scuba. They didn't seem to know how to create a sense of live dynamics, drama or momentum, came across as anti-climatic and flat. Probably didn't help that they came on after Actress, and were so early in the day. Then again, maybe people have had other experiences seeing them play out?
And the new remix: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/QYeoUA7dPaI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
― MikoMcha, Monday, 26 September 2011 12:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oops, link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYeoUA7dPaI
― MikoMcha, Monday, 26 September 2011 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
Lovely remix!
― Tim F, Monday, 26 September 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
im going to see them on saturday, will report back
― just sayin, Monday, 26 September 2011 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeV745XPrmo
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 11 March 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
pretty delightful
― flopson, Sunday, 11 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that's nice
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 11 March 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
superb. so i take it they were commissioned to do a remix but they did a cover instead? like aeroplane did with friendly fires?
― jed_, Sunday, 11 March 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
Waiting for their album already.
Liking this on first listen a bit more than the last single.
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 30 November 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Two new eps coming out in the next two months, hoping "Dancing Shoes" still sounds like this:http://soundcloud.com/mathilde-dhjan/benoit-sergio-dancing-shoes
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 17 October 2015 02:34 (eight years ago) link
what ive lost is really elegent & profound & beautiful imo its really been hitting me hard as of late
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 20 February 2016 17:59 (eight years ago) link
yeah it's a masterpiece, i put it on a couple times a year and it always kills me. between b&s and those early nicolas jaar singles there was some really beautiful airy tactile post-minimal house in the early 2010s, for dilettantes like me who only find out about music thru ilx at least
― flopson, Saturday, 20 February 2016 19:00 (eight years ago) link
from their new-ish EP; I don't think there's ever gonna be an LP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QxTU8sshoU
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
an album Lost Decade is apparently finally on the way
― ufo, Thursday, 16 September 2021 03:14 (two years ago) link
!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 September 2021 08:19 (two years ago) link
wow
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 September 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
Appropriate album title
― Tim F, Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:06 (two years ago) link
My baby does K all decade.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:14 (two years ago) link
follow your principles
― brimstead, Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGkZlqwy8V4
nice textures but I hope they're not moving completely away from the dancefloor and into stadium indietronica
― boxedjoy, Monday, 13 June 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
Apparently there IS gonna be an actual LP from these guys
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 13 June 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/benoit-and-sergio-announce-debut-album-13-years-after-their-first-release-share-new-song-listen/
they've finally announced it properly
― ufo, Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:20 (one year ago) link
https://benoitandsergio.bandcamp.com/album/lost-decade
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 August 2022 09:46 (one year ago) link
Back in 2012, when I was describing their ace track "Lipstick and Lace" to friends, I assumed their name was pronounced "Ben-wah and Saire-heo", like some sort of French/Spanish crossover. Is that in any way correct? Or is merely as the English phonetics would indicate?
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Friday, 12 August 2022 04:43 (one year ago) link
out today, sounding good
― nxd, Friday, 26 August 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
great album, soothing and lush
― nxd, Friday, 26 August 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
Why are they seemingly so ignored / unknown?
― Evan, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
I thought the album was really underwhelming, one of the biggest disappointments of 2022, especially after it taking so long to arrive
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:28 (one year ago) link
Shame you felt that way. Guess it helps that they're pretty new to me. Years of anticipation is hard to live up to.
― Evan, Friday, 20 January 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
Ah, makes sense, Evan!
Many of the rest of us have been awaiting that album for a decade, so when expectation is building on the back of “Walk and Talk,” “Boy Trouble,” “Adjustments,” etc …
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 20 January 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link
“Lost Decade,” the title track, is my sole keeper from this record, and it isn’t close to my favorites of theirs overall
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 20 January 2023 15:23 (one year ago) link
Just surprising then that there wasn't a discussion. Though I remember seeing a disappointed comment somewhere that isn't here. Still!
― Evan, Friday, 20 January 2023 17:38 (one year ago) link
“Principles” still completely blows me away. Do people not care about that one for some reason?
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 20 January 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
I hadn’t been aware of “Principles” somehow. It’s pretty good!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 21 January 2023 16:13 (one year ago) link
“Principles” is great, though I do think they peaked early where with “Full Grown Man” and “What I’ve Lost”.
― Tim F, Saturday, 21 January 2023 23:38 (one year ago) link