Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

them's fightin' words, m83:

When I go out to see a show now, I want to be blown away, even if I don't like the music. If you watch a band like Depeche Mode, their connection with the audience is just magical. You're not going to see that if you go see Emeralds; I wish Emeralds could be as big as them, but it's a different league. And I don't like people spitting on bigger bands just because they have success or because it's not trendy to listen to the Killers. They have 15,000 people at their shows every night, and they're living the dream.

I clicked through for context but he doesn't really explain why he's comparing Emeralds and Depeche Mode.

well, they're both bands

working on an 11 minute piece for the ILM Louticalla comp has put me in the correct frame of mind to finally appreciate Does It Look Like I'm Here?

Whatever it takes Dan :)

It's been more than a week now, but that McGuire show at the Shacklewell Arms was pretty great! He only did three pieces, but he was on for an hour. The second one had this great trick where it built a huge wall of fuzz that got louder and louder until it finally cut out suddenly and this little spidery fingerpicked stuff was the only thing left. I'm not sure if it's on one of his albums, but it was really awesome.

http://static.boomkat.com/images/501817/333.jpg

Steve Hauschildt album on Kranky is out. It's pretty!

Spotify link

That Hauschildt record is great, one of my faves of the year (and possibly of the Emeralds camp).

ok, I'm sold

Was just listening to this at work and I fell asleep at my desk! Not sure whether to implicate the album or not, and if so whether it's a good or bad thing...

yeah the Hauschildt record is super fabulous

yep. really like this one. blue marlin i find especially stunning. also lol: http://i.imgur.com/ZiZLJ.png

oops http://i.imgur.com/ZiZLJ.png

had eased up on emeralds-related stuff lately but this is reeeeal nice and I'm playing it a lot already.

"music for a moire pattern" into "blue marlin" <3

https://twitter.com/#!/infinitelimits1/status/159574035108339712

NEW RELEASE: Inner Tube (Charles Berlitz aka Spencer Clark & Mark McGuire) s/t vinyl LP on Pacific City Sound Visions. Arriving v soon!

http://www.pacificcitysoundvisions.com/

(are there any similar house/techno remixes of emeralds?)

― lextasy refix (lex pretend), Thursday, 3 February 2011 22:00 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hey Lex, Daphni mixes right here:

http://soundcloud.com/caribouband/sets/emeralds-jiaolong002-does-it

I'm not really a Caribou fan btw (I did like the Daphni record last year though), but those are both pretty great.

(I did like the Daphni record last year though

(talking about 'Ye Ye' there, wasn't aware of his other stuff under that alias)(I'll shut up now)

Those mixes are soooo good. I'm a Caribou skeptic, Emeralds devotee but those two are just joyous.

My impression is that these guys basically made a genre out of Pink Floyd's "On The Run".

Ma, that Inner Tube record slayed didn't it? Even the bits that sounded like the Eye on Springfield theme tune

woah, i'm listening to that for the first time right now

New LP 'Just To Feel Anything' appears in November...

http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+150

Although I haven't quite caught up with the two new Outer Space LPs yet.

Those Daphni remixes are astonishingly good, I caned the hell out of them earlier this year. Real 'Relevee' vibe to them.

My impression is that these guys basically made a genre out of Pink Floyd's "On The Run".

― OK CLARABELLE PART 3: The Return of the MOO! (how's life), Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:25 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't tell if you're trolling or not but Pink Floyd were not the first people to use synthesizers and sequencers and stuff

Not to mention noise and stuff

i don't even listen to emeralds but that's some ignorant shit

how's life's post, I mean.

I thought it was pretty otm + I love "On the run" and it deserves its own genre

It's my favorite part of DSOTM! "Why couldn't they just have made the whole thing like that" I often thought. And then lo! there was Emeralds.

It was supposed to be sort of a joke though, along the lines of "someone tell Justin Timberlake that Michael Jackson was an artist, not a genre". Obviously not all Emeralds songs sound like PF, but there are a couple that really do, and those are the ones I like the best.

Sorry if that was ignorant shit.

Uh, I don't think it's ignorant shit. Yeah duh PF were not the first to turn on an arpeggiator and solo over it but "On the run" is by far the most visible instance of that trope and "Double Helix" is kind of a dead ringer

arpeggiator 8-step sequencer

emeralds are boooooooooooooooring

so are sleep and bread and long bike rides and my mom but all those things are classic

emeralds rule. this one makes me bawl:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHHryw-11D4

I heard some of the new album cuz j0hn ell1ott Dj-ed some tracks at the VOV noise festival in west virginia and this new album is going to surprise people bigtime, sounds like a big, extroverted, ambitious record

Ma, that Inner Tube record slayed didn't it? Even the bits that sounded like the Eye on Springfield theme tune

ha, i'm listening to it now and i was thinking 'late 80s saturday morning cartoon' (prime chillwave material, obv), but it is slaying indeed. not so sure about the song that turned into sweet child o mine, though.

This might be a really stupid question, but if I dig the Mark McGuire solo stuff, am I going to vibe on the Durutti Column? Alternatively, tell me who else I should be listening to.

Manuel Gottsching/Ashra as well (if haven't heard already), as far as the delay-pedal cosmic grid side of his sound goes...

Dustin Wong is really good if you like all those really bright looped and layered guitar sounds.

http://open.spotify.com/album/5T6m8Dlu0X2WgpXuuG2T8I

Huh, have now listened to a few "What Happened?" tracks and have come around on this band a little. I really like when McGuire plays clean and minimizes the echo/delay ping-ponging, really don't like when he "shreds" or goes too far down the wormhole with the grid of harmonics and percussive sounds. Also, something about his distortion really bothers me and distracts me from the rest of the music (sorry to nitpick, but this has really been a barrier, can't listen to solo McGuire at all). But yeah, listening to "Living Room" right now and it is cool. Is this more the norm than not with Emeralds, i.e., have I just been listening to the wrong songs?

grandavis otm. You might want to check out Sam Goldberg's stuff. He's a guitar player who's collaborated with the Emeralds dudes, he does a big warm drone thing without crappy distortion.

Ahhh, cool, thanks blank. Thought he was a synth guy for some reason (Sam Goldberg that is), will check that out. I am looking for cool solo guitar folks these days too.

I have tried Emeralds more than a few times cause friends of mine with great taste love them, but yeah I can't get past McGuire at times, though I think he is a talented guy. Why not a better distorted tone though?

This might be a really stupid question, but if I dig the Mark McGuire solo stuff, am I going to vibe on the Durutti Column? Alternatively, tell me who else I should be listening to.

i don't know if you digging mark mcguire is a necessary precursor but for the love of god listen to as much durutti column as possible

drum machines!

on the new one? just saw that it leaked, haven't had a chance to listen yet

yeah, it's good but different: the sequencer/delay balancing act of the previous records is definitely tethered by the drum pulse

Anymore consensus on the new album?

I really like it - I guess Steve Hauschildt's contribution is higher in the mix. It's closer to Tragedy and Geometry, albeit with Mark McGuire all over it. Not sure what the other guy really does TBH.

Ooh well if that's the case, maybe I'll track this down. I loved Tragedy & Geometry.

Not sure what the other guy really does TBH.

as far as i can tell, he's the sequencer dude. which on this album i would imagine means he did the drums