― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 30 May 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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
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
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Probably. That and BURRITOS.
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
"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
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
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Superpitcher to do "Chinese Bakery" with one eyebrow firmly arched!
― adam... (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link
My favorite thing about this thread is that three or four other Superpitcher threads were started after it.
― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 18 November 2004 00:52 (nineteen 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
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
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
how come ilx didn’t go nuts for thishttps://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