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

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...

what does the new booklet look like? how are the liner notes? love to see a scan...

Liner notes are nice, (the press release at I'd like to announce the formal release of _The Five EPs_ by Disco Inferno is a kind of edited highlight of it all), can't remember who they're by. The only complaint I'd have is the scans of reviews from Melody Maker seem pretty poor quality. I would've thought you could just get scans from the newspaper library or something?

The notes are really good to me at providing some sort of context for DI - they weren't something I'd ever heard of before ILM, so to see just how much of a minority concern they were is interesting.

The liners draw on a combination of selections from Ian Crause's Crumbs in the Butter overview from a couple of years back and a new set of interviews with Paul, so it's half familiar already, in a way!

"There is going to be an interview with Paul (DI bass player) and I am asking all the DI fans on here for questions. If there is anything that that you would like to ask Paul, reply here and I will use the best questions for the session. Cheers."

from http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disco-Inferno/

nice.

* http://www.facebook.com/pages/Disco-Inferno/131240070285233

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

thine wish is granted

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15814-the-5-eps

It's probably no accident that they drew the attention of Rough Trade itself toward the end of their career,

weird and inaccurate sentence

yeah, not the greatest bit of writing - and it says "Between roughly 1991 and 1996, Disco Inferno wrote two albums and five EPs that comprised this.... " That should read 92 - 95...

Lovely review!

I swear I read p4k reviews in much faster time when they used size8 font... these are starting to feel laborious.

But fun review, loved fluid interjection of history with the review.

Yeah, it really was one of the better reviews I've read on there in some time.

ought to shift a few copies of the record with this kind of press dropping... brilliant news for DI... at long last!

too bad it's only available from third-party sellers on Amazon.

Pitchfork reviews, even not great ones, make a big difference in sales. </obvious but worth repeating>

But at the same time CD sales are a fraction of what they used to be, even with great press.

I am ashamed and embarrassed I hadn't heard these guys until now.

do you...like them?

Awesome review Jess, inspired me to listen to the OG Ned version very loudly in one sitting yesterday evening and be totally floored all over again.

do you...like them?

gettin' there -- "Love Stepping Out" the highlight so far. Your review has helped.

finally Alfred is ashamed and embarrassed. Weird that it took Disco Inferno of all things to make that happen, but beggars can't be choosers they say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DFpfNFvnfM

Ya gotta start somewhere.

yeah, not the greatest bit of writing - and it says "Between roughly 1991 and 1996, Disco Inferno wrote two albums and five EPs that comprised this.... " That should read 92 - 95...

― dh, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:15 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

q: what does being off by a year give or take have to do w/whether or not the writing was good? a: nothing.

i dont like to jump in on these things because who cares but fwiw the original submitted draft read 92 to 96, which *is* correct because if anyone actually looks at the sentence they'll see i'm including technicolour in there.

no idea what jim was on about considering you know they were on rough trade, courted by one of its founder, etc, but whatevs.

q: what does being off by a year give or take have to do w/whether or not the writing was good? a: nothing

one element of good factual writing would be factual accuracy afaik

no idea what jim was on about considering you know they were on rough trade, courted by one of its founder, etc, but whatevs.

my point was that it wasn't near the end of their career at all, they weren't even halfway through it as far as i can tell - the lion's share of their releases were on RT!

just pedantry on my part, nothing more

"fwiw the original submitted draft read 92 to 96, which *is* correct because if anyone actually looks at the sentence they'll see i'm including technicolour in there"

- sorry... i know it's a bit pedantic but i think technicolor was WRITTEN in 1994-95 and then left on the shelf for a year or more... the band had actually split up by early '95, so i think you'll find that nothing at all was written in '96...

http://thequietus.com/articles/07056-a-new-nineties-an-introduction-part-one-main-feed-the-collapse

not directly about DI, but a great piece of writing that addresses the 90s

I LOVED Hydra Calm but they lost me after that. Too "ambient isolationsim" for my tastes.

Wow, that is a fucking great article.

Speaking of 90s. I have a mix going up soon on french website Hartzine that opens with the recent Seefeel ep and contains old Locust, Disco Inferno and Pram tracks. Ready for the lost generation revival zeitgeist.

I LOVED Hydra Calm but they lost me after that. Too "ambient isolationism" for my tastes.

Exactly why I love their entire career! (Also, Dan, I'm a touch surprised you didn't lock into their sense of rhythm throughout their years because it is there; my good friend Stripey and I are both similarly obsessed with Main's work for precisely that reason.)

Dan: Me too, and that sounds awesome! I eagerly await the 20-year 4-CD + DVD deluxe reissue of Insides: Euphoria in a couple years...

just heard that part 2 is in fact an interview with ian Crause... can't wait!

Nice! I take a tiny amount of credit there, Neil asked me a few months back if I could put him in touch with Ian C.

I haven't heard the following Main releases since college. I just remember really not liking a lot of that, and Scorn. Too much ambient drone, not enough motorik. I'll re-visit.

It's implied motorik -- the sense of rhythm is not in how he creates an overall pulse or groove but how his use of the various elements is essentially rhythmic, layered and collaged, even at its quietest and theoretically most open-ended. Once I figured out that was how to approach it I went from 'nice enough' to 'holy shit, revelation.'

here you go:

http://thequietus.com/articles/07144-disco-inferno-interview

Thank ya!