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the Kohncke and Meloboy thing on Kompakt 100 is hilarious and essential!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

the wb's thing is good. (has anyone determined whether or not it's actually westbam?)

the superpitcher album has grown on me a lot. if i mentally program out "fever", it might make my top 10.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

i tend to erase "fever" also.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

how can people possibly hate "fever" more than "love me forever"?

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

lovers rock is ace

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I prefer "Fever" to "Love Me Forever" - at least the groove to the former has an addictive shuffle thing going. "Lovers Rock" is great but the vocals annoy me a little bit. I sometimes wish that with a few of those tracks he'd use the choral effect that worked so well on "Tomorrow".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link

ronan otm. those last three songs are pretty unimpeachable, actually. "happiness" has to be the album's most underrated track.

andy k reckons old spitcher sounds a lot like luke haines, which i also think is pretty bang on.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes! "Happiness" is probably my favourite. And yeah he's very Haines-ish, perhaps a Haines of fifteen years ago before he got bitter and cynical?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, maybe a candyflipped haines.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

with a viagra thrown in to boot.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

on acid, right?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

no dude that was covered with 'candyflipped'.

i didn't even really mean the acid part. i just wanted to say candyflip.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

And yeah he's very Haines-ish, perhaps a Haines of fifteen years ago before he got bitter and cynical?

Which of course also means Giorgio Moroder circa Knights in White Satin.

WBs = either Westbam or... Wighnomy Brothers?

― Stacey Pollen (Andy K), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Would anyone (Andy especially) care to make any additions to Andy's list above? A 4th CD perhaps? What would be on it. the MFA remix, surely.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, I must thank Andy for compiling that, it's easily one of the things I've listened to most in the last few months.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link

when i saw him dj last week (which was STELLAR, btw) he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it -- and it slowly faded out into the barest of handclaps and hints of low-end murmur. later on, i asked him what it was, and he ran over to his record bag, gave me the 12", and signed it "to geeta - yeah! superpitcher'! i swooned!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link

he is the greatest human being that has ever lived.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

his hair looks fantastic, too. just like when we saw him in cologne. mirror-shiny blond hair, sort of an angular cut. i should've asked him what conditioner he uses

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

haha. I still want to see that Happiness video. I read in an interview with him recently and they asked him did his family support him or help him when he decided to make music and his answer was like "No, not at all. There was no help. There was no support. None"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I walked into RX for the Superpitcher show on Saturday...to find nobody there but Alex In SF, Alex's girlfriend, and Superpitcher, all having a little chat!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, he actually remembered us from Cologne (or did a fantastic job of faking remembering)! I guess not all that many Americans go to Koln the day after X-mas with the sole purpose of seeing a Kompakt show.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I want to go back to Cologne so badly.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it

i have this remix on mp3 available for a limited time only! gissa shout!

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

We are planning another trip across Western Europe over next summer. A lot of the trip is keyed on perhaps spending two fridays (various weeks) in Cologne (it's nice to be able to point to wackiness like this whenever my girlfriend claims that I am TOO obsessive about music.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link

any chance of a gmail of it Jed?

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

sure - i'll wait to see if anyone else shouts then send it.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

if you could send it so i don't have to convert the vinyl, i'd appreciate it! (i just sent you a mail)

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

alex can yahoo handle 9mb?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I think it can. I sent out 10mb files a while ago.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link

add me to the list, please! RJG123 gmail. thanks!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

me three!

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Me also, please. Same address as the one I use on here, only with yahoo replaced by gmail. Ta muchly!

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link

me too!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

jed!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

superpitcher was what god was up to on the seventh day, right?

― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link

the offer is now closed : p

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

superpitcher was what god was up to on the seventh day, right?

Probably. That and BURRITOS.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

and toast

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

and staplers. Brilliant.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

I once stapled a staple into my thumb. where was god then

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Cologne?

― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link

hey jed,

please tell me where i can find the remix...i'll owe you seven donkeys.

― youngn, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

THANK YOU JED!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.studio-zuid.nl/img/airmail.gif

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

will someone forward it to youngn?

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

"and his answer was like "No, not at all. There was no help. There was no support. None""

"and he ran over to his record bag, gave me the 12", and signed it "to geeta - yeah! superpitcher'! i swooned!"

I'm not sure which of these stories is better.

"when i saw him dj last week (which was STELLAR, btw) he played this blinding remix of his cover of baby's on fire...it was a bit more rocking than his original cover -- had this sort of this VU riff inserted in it -- and it slowly faded out into the barest of handclaps and hints of low-end murmur"

Is that the Westbam Mix?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

What I wrote back in March, on the short-lived 123 No Gravity [NEW COMMENTS IN BRACKETED CAPS]:

The WBs With Our Superpitcher – "Baby's on Fire" (Road Rage, 2004) The vocals from Superpitcher's Eno cover, originally heard on Total 4, gets grafted on top of a Westbam [OR WAS IT WIGHNOMY BROS? DID ANYONE EVER FIGURE THIS OUT?] production that's made to sound like a thumping overhaul of an imaginary first-album-era Roxy Music tune. The bassline is so boomy that it sounds like it's coming from a floor beneath you. This is far more exciting than the original cover version, and it also hammers home the fact that Superpitcher's voice resembles a young Luke Haines. (Why I didn't pick up on this as early as "Tomorrow" is beyond me.) This track comes from a white-label 12" with two other cuts: one is a piew-piew-lazer remix of Liquid Liquid's "Optimo," while the other is a microhouse take on the Doors' "Riders on the Storm" that could've been done by Justus Köhncke (seek "Shelter," his thinly-veiled Rolling Stones homage).

― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:27 (nineteen years ago) link

The Creepers version still knocks it for six imo.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

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I can't find the Superpitcher thread, but his third 12'' is great as well. This album is shaping up to be a favorite.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, April 5, 2017 2:19 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The One and Only Superpitcher Thread
Yeah I've loved every Golden Ravedays 12" released so far. Perfect nocturnal listening.
― willem, Thursday, April 6, 2017 11:11 AM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― willem, Thursday, 6 April 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link

Listening to the available fragments of #4 on the Kompakt website. Synths on "Blood Berry" sound like Tom Tom Club/Talking Heads ca. Speaking in Tongues.

― willem, Thursday, 6 April 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

My god I love all of these so much.

― Tim F, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link

six months pass...

#10 is out (duh) and I have all these on a playlist that's now up to 5 hours and 2 minutes, and man is it wonderful

― Simon H., Thursday, 2 November 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link

the whole project is starting to feel a bit overwhelming - but in a good way.

I can't keep track of which is which now but I love the recent one that is mostly just rippling harp.

― Tim F, Friday, 3 November 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link

two months pass...

Uploading Andy K's playlists to my iPod for a roadtrip to Germany tomorrow.
Some additions, not much though. Had to add this one to Disc Three, one of my all time favourites:
https://youtu.be/IiegYkWmWOY

― willem, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link

Perfect remix. Bon voyage :)

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link

Vielen Dank!
(Will be attending Kraftwerk at Dresden's library #bragging)

― willem, Friday, 2 February 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link

Big surprise you're seeing something hella cool :) Enjoy man.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 February 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

Only up to the third but yeah, they've been exquisite so far. My fav stuff of his even.

― albvivertine, Friday, 29 June 2018 10:28 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

lockdown has been good for listening to these in succession even though it's hard for me to tell which is which at this point. Up to no. 9 now.

― Roz, Wednesday, 2 September 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

how come ilx didn’t go nuts for this

https://www.discogs.com/master/880525-King-So-So-Disco-In-The-Sky

― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:51 (eleven months ago) link

lol oh wait, read thread you idjut

― brimstead, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:52 (eleven months ago) link

i went totally nuts for it. still love it.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:55 (eleven months ago) link

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