I'd like to announce the formal release of _The Five EPs_ by Disco Inferno

This is incredible news, and I missed this thread until today (I was away from ILM for years). I still treasure the CDR Ned made me so many years ago; it contains some of the most gorgeous moments in my entire music collection (or anyone's!). It doesn't fit as neatly into the whole post-rock pioneers / sampler-wielding narrative, but I LOVE the earliest JD/Durutti morose delay pedal exercises sooooo much. If you haven't heard In Debt, you really have to.

still havent myself. i love everything else though!

i'm glad these are finally coming out since I sold off my originals on ebay the second ned announced this was happening...what, 2 years ago?

Ha, not THAT bad. A year, three months, but yeah, longer than anticipated. Just a couple of months now...

hey ned. i've got the head over heels and the elemental eps, but is there any other ian crause material out there? i read something a few years ago where he said he was planning to release some new stuff, but haven't heard anything since. figured you might know.

Sorry for the delay -- there's nothing formally available but he is working on solo work again. I've been lucky enough to hear a brief snippet but since he's still fine-tuning what he would like it to be I'd be hesitant to go into details. If it turns out to be what he hopes for it'll be quite remarkable; it's very recognizably 'him' without either being DI or the solo work.

thanks for the update. the thing i read (which i can't find for the life of me, but it was some comments he left on a blog,) made it sound like he was very ambitious about it. i can't quite recall what he said, but i think he said something about a double (or triple) album. i could very well be wrong though.

That's about right; it's certainly a pretty ambitious project given not only its relative length but how he'd like it to be heard. We shall see!

Meantime I've had a chance to see a layout of the CD booklet in full. A month to go!

Tom E. on the reissue and the band in the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/11/disco-inferno-reissue

lots of good reviews popping up. one review said something about "a live ep" (which could be the mixing it session), and that got me thinking... is there any di live material out there? a video would be very informative...

Yeah I'm starting to see it all get written about as well. I still can't believe it's finally here!

so i'm guessing you don't know of any live stuff then? don't be holding out...

Nope, couldn't tell you about that!

i think you're holding out. and that makes me sad.

Seriously, I know of no planned further archive releases or the like. Can't put it any plainer!

stop mocking us with your secret knowledge ;_;

http://pitchfork.com/news/66965-ned-raggett-denies-knowledge-of-forthcoming-disco-inferno-live-album/

Damn, found out.

Meantime, a nice piece here:

http://unreliablewitness.posterous.com/in-the-end-its-not-the-future-but-the-past-th

So Amazon US doesn't have it yet... is it a UK only release?

i am bored at work and clicked on this thread. reading through, everyone sounded so excited! but still i had no idea: what does this band sound like?
then i clicked on ned's link.
i am listening to "second language" right now and

i
love
it

is any of their stuff instrumental? is the singing minimal? i don't mind it terribly, but the music is awesome.

With only a couple of exceptions, all their songs have vocals, but often said vocals are delivered in understated fashion or otherwise intentionally buried in the mix.

As far as I know this is a UK-only release.

some of their stuff is instrumental. the best stuff has singing.

trying to write about this record this week broke my fucking brain and i've been listening to this shit for a decade now.

thanks to NED RAGGETT.

You're welcome!

Pfork review, I'm guessing?

It had better be a Best New Music, or Reissue, or whatever they call it. And a 9+!

i don't mind the vocals too much really, just wondering
"summer's last sound" is great too -- so much to listen to

up on spotify now btw

yeah "Summer's Last Sound" is the song that made me go "just wait a goddamned minute, this is a revelation"

totally going to listen to the rest on spotify when i get home
i thank the cosmos for making me wonder who the hell "disco inferno" are

up on spotify now btw

Could you post the link for that?

also the two songs i've heard so far kind of remind me of ashra/gottsching? is that accurate throughout their various EPs?

I wouldn't've immediately said so but then again that's not been a frame reference all these years for me when it comes to them -- interesting parallel, though!

it was the first thing i thought when i heard my first disco inferno song...roughly 15 minutes ago
they are difficult to google without "essex" or "crause", that's for sure

ned, here you go: http://open.spotify.com/album/7EiX13wWXfjKqq4Eh2Gwm5

Thanks!

only 2 songs available on spotify in US :(

lots of youtubes though
http://www.youtube.com/artist/Disco_Inferno

I can see how Love Stepping Out is reminiscent of Gottsching

they are difficult to google without "essex" or "crause", that's for sure

This is an understatement.

yeah i mean the real elephant in the room wrt to crause's guitar playing has the initials v.r. but theres some softer side of kraut there.

Looks like it was moved from the 13th to the 20th. I used to get imports from CDWow, but it's been kinda crappy lately, and been using importcds. Exchange rate is pretty good right now, at 1.58.

Yep, physical release is delayed a week it would seem. I'm interested to hear more about what, if any, remastering was done. The few things that I've read have made brief reference to an improved sound.

I'm also hoping that this coming out prompts someone into selling their copy of 'The Last Dance' so I can complete my collection, though I think I've missed out on the initial rush of people thinking "better sell while it's still worth something".

As far as I know, OLI had no access to master tapes, so the versions on the new compilation are the same as the CD EP versions. I don't think any further remastering was done on them, but I will check.

there is no mention in any of the press release stuff of any remastering.

I'd assume there'll be a general balancing of the levels, as mastering needs to take place just to sequence them on the CD (Kid's World is probably louder than Summer's Last Sound, for example), but nothing needs doing with EQ or whatever, in my opinion.

I can say that Ian told me he was at some sort of listening session last year which sure as hell sounded like a mastering session, but I'll have to review my mail.

yeah i mean the real elephant in the room wrt to crause's guitar playing has the initials v.r. but theres some softer side of kraut there.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Monday, September 12, 2011 4:16 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

I bought DI Go Pop, two of The 5 EPs, and The Guitar and Other Machines at/around the same time, not knowing there would be any kind of connection. Kinda got smacked in the face by it -- "Red Shoes," "Don't You Think You're Funny," etc.

Ordered this off One Little Indian's site on Monday and it came in the post today, I haven't been in any shops so I don't know if it is actually out yet (wasn't sure if the delay mentioned upthread was US-only). Sticker on the front proclaims that it's 'digitally remastered and compiled for the first time'. Nothing in the sleeve credits about remastering/production etc though so presumably it's just been normalized or whatever?
Really excited about this, I had no idea about Ned's 5 ep distro until this thread started, so I'm not really aware of many of the songs on this. Stoked!

yeah, I don't believe the mastering job was a huge deal...
part of the reason for the whole delay in the release is due to the fact that the band originally approved (ie supposedly listened through in full to) the master after which One Little Indian pressed up a few thousand copies before then discovering that there was a huge mastering error - about two thirds of the way through the album, one of the tracks started, cut out and then replayed the previous track. doh! think two or three thousand copies had to be destroyed... following that, the whole package which was originally just a thin 2-page booklet was redesigned and expanded with photos, reviews and full-length liner notes, which also led to further delays... but hey, what's an extra 6 months or so when you've been waiting 15 years...
yet to see a copy, but sounds lie it looks good!

I got a copy almost a year ago, with the two page booklet. Ashamed to say that I never noticed the error - in the middle of "At the end of the line" it skips back to a few seconds of the beginning of "The atheists burden". I guess I have something of a collectors item now...