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When does the album come out in the UK? I'd been under the opinion it was today (various blogs, plus good review in yesterdays Observer), but a trawl through Berwick Street later this would appear to not be the case... anyone know when it's out?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 29 March 2004 12:56 (twenty years ago) link

i've been loving a lot of the stuff on the album so much lately. when it hits its stride it just glows.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 29 March 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link

@d@m, did you ever get a copy of this 3cd set? or did you make your own. cause i was looking at my cdr you gave me and these are all here. thanks again

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:28 (twenty years ago) link

am i the only one who finds the album a bit of an anti climax? i had been so looking forward to this and while i appreciate it is an album rather than a collection of club monsters, it just sounds quite weak to me. maybe it'll be a grower?

― stirmonster, Monday, 29 March 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

A version of "Traume" by Françoise Hardy is used in François Ozon's Water Drops on Burning Rocks. IMDB says it's by M. Boetter / F. Veyrich - is it best known as a Hardy song? Superpitcher's version sounds awfully close to hers . . .

― locus solus, Monday, 29 March 2004 23:55 (twenty years ago) link

I kind of find it underwhelming but I think Andy K's allmusic.com review is OTM in that it's a nice underwhelming. The album intentionally avoids any burners like "Irre" or "Fieber", or switching up styles like "I Walk" or "The Dream of Evan & Chan". And maybe Superpitcher feels that with all the other 12 inches and remixes he does, his album doesn't have to be representative of the full scope of his ability and can ply a consistent mood. Certainly a more representative album would ideally cover the full range from "Irre" to "Shadows".

I think it would have been better to have a few instrumentals or guest vocalists - the vocals don't get irritating but they do institute a fundamental sameness that undercuts the range of variation actually present on the record.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago) link

This is my problem with it, on the nose. I don't even mind the two tracks everyone else dislikes. Its just all v. samey.

― djdee2005, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 02:19 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

does andy k still have this up on slsk?

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Is there anything else?

The WB's (w/ Superpitcher) "Baby's on Fire" a kinda mash up thing, probably better than the original (the original superpitcher version that is). Has bits of the Velvets "waiting for the man" in it.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

but not a bootleg exactly .... come back!

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

the Kohncke and Meloboy thing on Kompakt 100 is hilarious and essential!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

the wb's thing is good. (has anyone determined whether or not it's actually westbam?)

the superpitcher album has grown on me a lot. if i mentally program out "fever", it might make my top 10.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

i tend to erase "fever" also.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

how can people possibly hate "fever" more than "love me forever"?

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

lovers rock is ace

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I prefer "Fever" to "Love Me Forever" - at least the groove to the former has an addictive shuffle thing going. "Lovers Rock" is great but the vocals annoy me a little bit. I sometimes wish that with a few of those tracks he'd use the choral effect that worked so well on "Tomorrow".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ronan otm. those last three songs are pretty unimpeachable, actually. "happiness" has to be the album's most underrated track.

andy k reckons old spitcher sounds a lot like luke haines, which i also think is pretty bang on.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes! "Happiness" is probably my favourite. And yeah he's very Haines-ish, perhaps a Haines of fifteen years ago before he got bitter and cynical?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, maybe a candyflipped haines.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

with a viagra thrown in to boot.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

on acid, right?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

no dude that was covered with 'candyflipped'.

i didn't even really mean the acid part. i just wanted to say candyflip.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

And yeah he's very Haines-ish, perhaps a Haines of fifteen years ago before he got bitter and cynical?

Which of course also means Giorgio Moroder circa Knights in White Satin.

WBs = either Westbam or... Wighnomy Brothers?

― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Would anyone (Andy especially) care to make any additions to Andy's list above? A 4th CD perhaps? What would be on it. the MFA remix, surely.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, I must thank Andy for compiling that, it's easily one of the things I've listened to most in the last few months.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

when i saw him dj last week (which was STELLAR, btw) he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it -- and it slowly faded out into the barest of handclaps and hints of low-end murmur. later on, i asked him what it was, and he ran over to his record bag, gave me the 12", and signed it "to geeta - yeah! superpitcher'! i swooned!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

he is the greatest human being that has ever lived.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

his hair looks fantastic, too. just like when we saw him in cologne. mirror-shiny blond hair, sort of an angular cut. i should've asked him what conditioner he uses

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

haha. I still want to see that Happiness video. I read in an interview with him recently and they asked him did his family support him or help him when he decided to make music and his answer was like "No, not at all. There was no help. There was no support. None"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I walked into RX for the Superpitcher show on Saturday...to find nobody there but Alex In SF, Alex's girlfriend, and Superpitcher, all having a little chat!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, he actually remembered us from Cologne (or did a fantastic job of faking remembering)! I guess not all that many Americans go to Koln the day after X-mas with the sole purpose of seeing a Kompakt show.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to go back to Cologne so badly.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it

i have this remix on mp3 available for a limited time only! gissa shout!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

We are planning another trip across Western Europe over next summer. A lot of the trip is keyed on perhaps spending two fridays (various weeks) in Cologne (it's nice to be able to point to wackiness like this whenever my girlfriend claims that I am TOO obsessive about music.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

any chance of a gmail of it Jed?

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

sure - i'll wait to see if anyone else shouts then send it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

if you could send it so i don't have to convert the vinyl, i'd appreciate it! (i just sent you a mail)

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

alex can yahoo handle 9mb?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I think it can. I sent out 10mb files a while ago.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

add me to the list, please! RJG123 gmail. thanks!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

me three!

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Me also, please. Same address as the one I use on here, only with yahoo replaced by gmail. Ta muchly!

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

me too!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

jed!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

superpitcher was what god was up to on the seventh day, right?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

the offer is now closed : p

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

superpitcher was what god was up to on the seventh day, right?

Probably. That and BURRITOS.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

and toast

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

and staplers. Brilliant.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

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Turns out King So So is Superpitcher. I should have known...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApWBL0ZHB_c

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link

love that!

― scott seward, Saturday, 11 April 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Do Kompakt still release comps akin to Superpitcher's "Today"?

― djh, Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:23 (eight years ago) link

not very often ... but occasionally, they do

for example: http://www.discogs.com/Rebolledo-Momento-Drive/release/5789158

― the late great, Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link

there's a conversation to be had about the decline of the dance mix CD in the age of the internet, but it's an old conversation and we've had it before so i'm not going to start it again

― the late great, Sunday, 3 May 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link

Yeah, it's not the time for that conversation ... It was more: I was enjoying 'Today' and was wondering if there was a handy contemporary equivalent.

― djh, Sunday, 3 May 2015 21:56 (eight years ago) link

I don't like calling dance tracks essential, but Superpitcher's take on Along the Wire is super duper essential

― Sharkie, Monday, 4 May 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link

x-post: Ta for the Rebolledo recommendation.

― djh, Monday, 4 May 2015 14:50 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

Just discovered a 14 minute (!) Superpitcher remix of Paradis released earlier this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC7uBYuwtPY

― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 6 June 2015 02:13 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

Superpitcher's new album will include 24 tracks that will be released over 12 separate releases, one a month.

― mmmm, Friday, 20 January 2017 13:19 (seven years ago) link

two months pass...

let's put this here:

I can't find the Superpitcher thread, but his third 12'' is great as well. This album is shaping up to be a favorite.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, April 5, 2017 2:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The One and Only Superpitcher Thread
Yeah I've loved every Golden Ravedays 12" released so far. Perfect nocturnal listening.
― willem, Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:11 AM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― willem, Thursday, 6 April 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link

Listening to the available fragments of #4 on the Kompakt website. Synths on "Blood Berry" sound like Tom Tom Club/Talking Heads ca. Speaking in Tongues.

― willem, Thursday, 6 April 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

My god I love all of these so much.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link

six months pass...

#10 is out (duh) and I have all these on a playlist that's now up to 5 hours and 2 minutes, and man is it wonderful

― Simon H., Thursday, 2 November 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link

the whole project is starting to feel a bit overwhelming - but in a good way.

I can't keep track of which is which now but I love the recent one that is mostly just rippling harp.

― Tim F, Friday, 3 November 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link

two months pass...

Uploading Andy K's playlists to my iPod for a roadtrip to Germany tomorrow.
Some additions, not much though. Had to add this one to Disc Three, one of my all time favourites:
https://youtu.be/IiegYkWmWOY

― willem, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link

Perfect remix. Bon voyage :)

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link

Vielen Dank!
(Will be attending Kraftwerk at Dresden's library #bragging)

― willem, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link

Big surprise you're seeing something hella cool :) Enjoy man.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 February 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

Only up to the third but yeah, they've been exquisite so far. My fav stuff of his even.

― albvivertine, Friday, 29 June 2018 10:28 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

lockdown has been good for listening to these in succession even though it's hard for me to tell which is which at this point. Up to no. 9 now.

― Roz, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

how come ilx didn’t go nuts for this

https://www.discogs.com/master/880525-King-So-So-Disco-In-The-Sky

― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:51 (eleven months ago) link

lol oh wait, read thread you idjut

― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:52 (eleven months ago) link

i went totally nuts for it. still love it.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:55 (eleven months ago) link

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