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

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!

unbelievably great to see the political / social context spotlit and utterly reaffirming to hear ian remaining as focussed and angry and sussed as ever. i've not met him since interviewing him in 94, but seems like he's a very honest, hardcore autodidact - practices what he preaches, pulls no punches, would rather be skint and keep his integrity than sell himself short... i'm bloody glad they'll never jump on that pension-fund reformation bandwagon... It's a mark of sustained integrity

He's right on about Britpop.

http://open.spotify.com/album/7EiX13wWXfjKqq4Eh2Gwm5

oh that link was already posted. ah well, bloody great to see anyways.

Hai, in-case anybody cares about such things there are 3 DI live recordings on D!m3ad0zen at the moment, they are:

1992-01-31 Rails Club, London
1993-01-20, Powerhaus, London
1993-06-08, Garage, London

All master recordings I think.

Watch this space.

*whistles idly*

*cracks knuckles*

bring it on already Ned, bring it on! :-)

(nominated Dave Howell's sleeve notes for this for the De Capo best writing book)

A fine nomination. Something else may yet excite your interest along those lines.

But if this helps:

I'll have a brief personal essay about my fandom and thoughts about Disco Inferno in the next issue of Yeti, due for release shortly. There's also another project well underway.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, October 15, 2010 7:23 AM (1 year ago)

???

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, October 15, 2010 7:30 AM (1 year ago)

And that's all I'm going to say about it for now.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, October 15, 2010 7:30 AM (1 year ago)

Ach, you tease!

― Harrison Buttwhistle (NickB), Friday, October 15, 2010 7:38 AM (1 year ago)

This is the last day of the tease.

if you know something is going to happen but can't say anything about it then it might be better to say nothing at all about it

It is NOT a reunion, if that's what you're wondering. No, it's just another project I've been working on, completed and ready to go. You'll see.

Ned Raggett recites DI

a disco inferno poster?

there seem to be rumors that they will play primavera sound this year. or at least the idea was proposed at some point in time by some person somewhere.

A 12" vinyl box set version of the 5 EPs would not be unwelcome.

xpost -- those rumors were brought to my attention the other day; Paul Willmott confirmed they were just that.