The Avalanches

But to finally anwser Dr.C's query: it's very hard to find a record to compare it with. Certainly not 'Discovery' (impossible). It just reminds me a bit of DJ Food's 'Recipe for Disaster'. I would think a rock-crit description could be along the lines of Mantronix doing a megamix with Art of Noise.

The way each song flows into the next (what brilliant editing!), I'm sure it works much better as a whole. This is not a record for the Napster freaks, I don't think. So anyone who has heard a track or two and is on the fence should take the plunge.

That luminarioes say he's great? well that just shows I'm a shallow person influenced by what other people say rather than what I hear.

That he's Australian? that my shallowness extends to the lowest most destructive emotion, patriotism,

That I am seeing him live in few weeks? that my general shallowness inevitably leads to the conclusion that I will have to see him live in the next few weeks (along with the Mad Professor).

Bring it on

That's from a t-shirt they sell on their website.

their supposed to be working on the new record now. who knows when it'll see the light of day. i doubt it would be before late 2004.

ps chuck d hypin somethin is like yr mum choosin yr girlfriends.

It takes a damn long time to make records like theirs. That is all, I'd guess.

I'm ordering that f*cking kitten shirt.

"Update: Belle & Sebastian Remix

The Belle & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo (Avalanches remix) now circulating on radio and promo CD's is not the final remix version, but rather a work-in-progress mix which was pressed up by mistake and sent to UK radio and press.

The final mix will appear (as planned) when the single is released in -

UK: CD and DVD formats on Feb 16
USA: CD on Feb 24, DVD on Mar 9"

lol that's what it is!

the LP version has the same tracklist as the 2017 pressing of it that leaked out last year but the CD version has more tracks on its second disc. wonder what the hold-up was all this time?

1. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (MF DOOM Remix)
2. Summer Crane (Black Dice Remix)
3. Frontier Psychiatrist (Mario Caldato Jr's 85% Remix)
4. Electricity (Dr. Rockit's Dirty Kiss Remix)
5. Electricity (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
6. Thank You Caroline (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
7. Thank You Caroline (Andy Votel Remix)
8. So Why So Sad (The Avalanches Sean Penn Mix)
9. The Shining (The Avalanches Good Word For The Weekend Mix)
10. Pablo's Cruise (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
11. I'm A Cuckoo (The Avalanches Remix)
12. Chico (The Avalanches Wernham Hogg Mix)
13. Fade Together (The Avalanches Remix)
14. Since I Left You (Stereolab Remix)
15. Flight Tonight (Canyons Travel Agent Dub)
16. Radio (Sinkane Remix)
17. A Different Feeling (Ernest Saint Laurent Remix)
18. A Different Feeling (Carl Craig's Paperclip People Remix)
19. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time (Jackson & His Computer Band Remix)
20. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Dragged By Leon Vynehall)
21. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Edan Remix)

the 2nd CD tracklist is different because it's a dj mix, from the email:

For fans of the CD format, it comes with a bonus mix CD that we made especially for you, a journey through the flotsam and jetsam that has been floating around in the vaults for years.

and in the description:

A 21 TRACK EXCLUSIVE MIX, INCLUDING 8 UNRELEASED TRACKS + AVALANCHES REMIXES OF THE MANIC STREET PREACHERS, BADLY DRAWN BOY, BELLE & SEBASTIAN AND FRANZ FERDINAND

weird that the digital version says "US customers" only, it didn't say anything when i paid, even though i'm in canada.
regardless, holy shit!! i think i only heard 3 of the remixes. can't wait.

[announced 10 years ago for its 10th anniversary and maybe finally here for the 20th...?

ahem :)

As of today we're exactly four weeks from the 20th anniversary of Since I Left You, and they still haven't finalised the release date for the 10th anniversary deluxe reissue, or announced details of the super-deluxe package versions.

― edited for dog profanity (sic), Friday, October 30, 2020 6:40 PM (five months ago)

here's that post about the 2017 pressing: The Avalanches

re-annotating the tracklist - bold/italic new for the LP, just bold new & exclusive to the CD, asterisked old but not on the LP

1. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (MF DOOM Remix)
2. Summer Crane (Black Dice Remix)
3. Frontier Psychiatrist (Mario Caldato Jr's 85% Remix)
4. Electricity (Dr. Rockit's Dirty Kiss Remix) **
5. Electricity (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
6. Thank You Caroline (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
7. Thank You Caroline (Andy Votel Remix)
8. Manic Street Preachers - So Why So Sad (The Avalanches Sean Penn Mix)**
9. Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining (The Avalanches Good Word For The Weekend Mix)**
10. Pablo's Cruise (Original Avalanches Demo Tape)
11. Bell & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo (The Avalanches Remix)**
12. The Concretes - Chico (The Avalanches Wernham Hogg Mix)**
13. Franz Ferdinand - Fade Together (The Avalanches Remix)**
14. Since I Left You (Stereolab Remix)
15. Flight Tonight (Canyons Travel Agent Dub)
16. Radio (Sinkane Remix)
17. A Different Feeling (Ernest Saint Laurent Remix)**
18. A Different Feeling (Carl Craig's Paperclip People Remix)
19. Two Hearts In 3/4 Time (Jackson & His Computer Band Remix)
20. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Dragged By Leon Vynehall)
21. Tonight May Have To Last Me All My Life (Edan Remix)

on the 4xLP but not on the CD:

LP3-1. Since I Left You (Cornelius Remix)
LP3-4. Close To You (Sun Araw Remix)
LP4-1. Since I Left You (Prince Paul Remix)
LP4-2. Electricity (Harvey's Nightclub Re-edit)
LP4-4. Extra Kings (Deakin Remix)

the Jackson remix was announced for the 11th-anniversary reissue but not included in 2017. the El Guincho remix is still missing in action, but maybe we have everything else done in 2011 now planned (again)? good to see the release and the sequencing are still a complete shambles though.

had to search Fade Together, I don't remember that one at all.

the 2nd CD tracklist is different because it's a dj mix, from the email:

haaaa, of course they still can't release everything from the tenth anniversary edition, 21 years on.

Vinyl is already gone, with scalpers listing it for $250 on ebay. Fuckin sucks man

More world tour dates: performing Since I Left You live with a symphony orchestra at an arts festival in Adelaide in July.

Following this, Robbie Chater and Tony Di Blasi will appear in conversation with revered artist Jonathan Zawada at UniSA's City West campus.

They will then team up with artists Michaela Gleave and Fausto Brusamolino for "Messages of Hope, Messages of Love" a visual poem that will light up Adelaide CBD skies across four nights.

They will also be part of another visual experience, "Ghost Stories", which will see the band present work from Zawada and The Experience Machine that influenced their brilliant 2020 album We Will Always Love You.

Finally, the duo will close out the festival, headlining a massive block party with a DJ set on its final night.

looks like vinyl is back in stock.

“Because I’m me” is my jam

Bought the vinyl although i’m not sure if I need the remixes.

Oh nice! Ordered for...way too much. But this is an album I've wanted to own on vinyl for AGES

.. and now CD is shown as sold out

But this is an album I've wanted to own on vinyl for AGES

You could have bought the 2004 reissue or the 2012 reissue or the 2016 reissue or the 2017 reissue for less :)

You're assuming I remember this desire consistently or at even remotely convenient times

Review of the first night of the two-man format WWALY live show.

Next world tour date is available anywhere in the world, and your ticket also gets you CHVRCHES, Phoebe Bridgers, Pond, King Gizzard &/Or The Lizard Wizard, Charli XCX, Kaytranada, The Chats and more

the remaster sounds a little different in places to me, not quite as cluttered and cloudy at times maybe? The vinyl packaging is beautiful. Simon Reynolds’ liner notes sum up a lot of what makes this album special to me.

New American tour dates on sale Friday:

February 17 9:30 Club Washington, D.C.
February 18 Terminal 5 New York, NY
February 19 Theatre Of Living Arts Philadelphia, PA
February 20 Paradise Rock Club Boston, MA
February 22 Phoenix Concert Theatre Toronto, CA
February 23 Majestic Theatre Detroit, MI
February 24 Metro Chicago IL
February 25 Varsity Theatre Minneapolis, MN
February 27 Gothic Theatre Englewood, CO
March 01 Commodore Ballroom Vancouver, CA
March 02 Neptune Theatre Seattle, WA
March 03 Roseland Theatre Portland, OR
March 06 The Warfield San Francisco, CA

I might have to do that Warfield show, I never have seen them.

Live in 1999, uploaded to youtube from a fuzzy off-air VHS a year ago (three-song excerpt of a full set opens with Electricity, iirc before the 12" was out)

Live in 2021, a 50-min condensed set mixed and edited from three shows (at the same theatre) in between lockdowns. Unlisted link apparently made for the virtual festival above, might not last!

for a feel of what their shows were usually like, when Rap Fever starts in the 1999 video, switch over to this audience-shot pub take instead

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haven’t listened to We Will Always Love You in a while, just didn’t have the right mood for it
and tonight it’s hitting just right