^^so this song from three years ago that received two posts here is going to be number one this week
there is definitely a lot of Storm Queen talk on some of the rolling threads. maybe a little less on Look Right Through since it was the first one but when the other two dropped people were like NEW STORM QUEEN OMG
this hitting #1 is so cool.
― dmr, Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
there was loads of talk, it was one of the biggest records of that year.
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 7 November 2013 16:42 (ten years ago) link
I'm gonna go bat for the MK mix here, which is obviously not exactly a fully drawn and pathos-laden song in the way the original is, but is just so compulsive it doesn't matter. There's something about his organ-riff basslines that are totally magical (see also his remix of Katy B's "What Love Is Made Of").
The MK Dub is better, really, it wastes less time paying tribute to the original's structure.
― Tim F, Thursday, 7 November 2013 19:32 (ten years ago) link
Agreed about the Dub being better. I still have a lot of time for MK dubs in general. Old Murk as well. They mined a similar vein that keeps aging well. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qWXtlHuaZg
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 7 November 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
nice momus cameo in the new video
― nashwan, Thursday, 7 November 2013 19:43 (ten years ago) link
re: "Look Right Through" talk on ILx, from Tim's 2010 EOY thread:
It seems like there's usually at least one great storming male diva house throwback tune each year - last year, of course, was Azari & III's "Reckless With Your Love", which not only was excellent as a house tune but also was to my mind is one of the great diva-house songs, and a song that simply wouldn't make sense delivered in any other style or manner. Like a lot of music that hits me thematically as well as viscerally it's the kind of thing that makes me wish I made music. But then diva vocal house has that effect quite often, the short-circuit between surface dazzle and hidden depths so irresistible that even people who stumble on seeming superficiality elsewhere intuitively understand its logic - it's the kind of music, in short, that brings out the best in its listeners fully as much as its makers.
"Look Right Through" (produced by Morgan Geist) isn't quite as fine a song as "Reckless With Your Love", but that's an unfair comparison: "Look Right Through" is lesser only in that it seems content to be a charming, impassioned, exhortative diva anthem about unrequited desire, carefree in its classicism - though formally, of course, it's heartbroken, resentful, oddly philosophical. But these traits emerge in classicist male diva house like hereditary features, inevitable and right-seeming as your right arm. Of course who's to say that there isn't a similarly moving deeper story lurking underneath: as far as I can tell the singer shifts from a drug addict or drunkard lover to a series of one night stands to a realisation that everyone in the world takes him for granted. Shit gets pretty real in this song.
Still, in some ways "Look Right Through" is more track than song: so much of the delight of this tune inheres in its ceaseless mutation, moving restlessly from rudimentary house percussion to shimmering, shivering synth chords and noodly arpeggios and bumping bass, before a bleepy breakdown that in no way preprares you for the tune's sudden headlong plunge into booming, bottom of a well bass at the four minute mark, as the diva wails "am I a piece of glass in your mind??" From there the tune almost disintegrates into murky dub-house, before those nervous synth-chords suddenly emerge, flittering above your ears as delicately as ever. It's great dancefloor trickery, and in the club "Look Right Through" provokes ever greater displays of enthusiasm from dancers with each shifting articulation. I think part of it is sheer surprise: "Look Right Through" is so musically and performatively generous in a style that hardly requires it, you could churn out endless derivations of "Love Won't Turn Around" and everyone would lap it up, but instead Geist and his diva Damon Scott shower you with hooks and ideas like it's the last chance they'll ever get.
― Tim F, Monday, 20 December 2010 12:42 (2 years ago)
& r|t|c precog as usual:
mk dub of storm queen's 'look right through' is arguably one of the most influential cuts of the year imo but not in any way that would get attention here
― r|t|c, Thursday, 24 January 2013 15:06 (9 months ago)
― etc, Saturday, 9 November 2013 02:10 (ten years ago) link
Tim's post is OTM, especially about that "hort-circuit between surface dazzle and hidden depths", which I think is one of the major things I latch onto in overtly happy pop. Anyway,this is the best number one in recent memory.
― Project Witch (I am using your worlds), Saturday, 9 November 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
*short, oops, C+p error
― Project Witch (I am using your worlds), Saturday, 9 November 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
http://www.officialcharts.com/music-charts/
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 November 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
Not heard MK version but original is far better than the 2 records that followed it
― cog, Sunday, 10 November 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfe2d9Yrfuc
also
― cog, Sunday, 10 November 2013 19:47 (ten years ago) link
so wrong!
big congrats to mr. geist.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 10 November 2013 19:59 (ten years ago) link
don't get this:
http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/storm-queen-scores-first-uk-number-1-with-look-right-through-2600/
it's not the OG tune that has gone to no. 1 is it? it's the MK vocal remix? what's been playlisted on R1 for weeks now? yet they're calling it "look right through" full stop?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 November 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Got this one cheap recently too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exaR9koGISc
― cog, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
its the MK vocal remix that gets played on the radio and that got it to number 1, if it was called look right through (MK vocal remix) it probably wouldn't have got to number 1. i really don't like this version but i'm still happy that metro area are making a pile of cash.
fwiw i think i like each original SQ track more than the last. let's make mistakes is the pinnacle.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
2nd is my fave.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 10 November 2013 21:23 (ten years ago) link
This is hardly the first time people have conflated a successful remix with an original version (that didn't chart separately) - who bothers to specify that the version of Robin S's "Show Me Love" they like is the Stonebridge Club Version?
― Tim F, Sunday, 10 November 2013 22:19 (ten years ago) link
i wonder if defected will try to repeat the success by doing the same to the other two records?
"it goes on" is my have too.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
fave. bloody autocorrect.
I'm fully expecting Defected to commission MK mixes of one of the other two singles.
― Use your occlusion (I am using your worlds), Sunday, 10 November 2013 23:26 (ten years ago) link
if it was called look right through (MK vocal remix) it probably wouldn't have got to number 1.
What do you mean by this?
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Monday, 11 November 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
large numbers of people are buying a tune not a remix. if they were buying a remix its just confusing for people and the promotional push doesn't gel with that.
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Monday, 11 November 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
So the version that's being sold now doesn't advertise the fact that it's a remix?
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Monday, 11 November 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link
the one cog linked upthread one of my favorite "microhouse" tracks
― the late great, Monday, 11 November 2013 03:19 (ten years ago) link
fwiw the original is included in the remix EP, but tim's right, whether a song is the remix or not is hardly ever specified in the official chart listings (see also "professional widow")
loving this at no 1 though
― lex pretend, Monday, 11 November 2013 09:22 (ten years ago) link
Lol I remember when "professional widow" was on the charts and for some time I just assumed it was the original and was like o_O
― Tim F, Monday, 11 November 2013 09:35 (ten years ago) link
It's actually specified as (MK REMIX) on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_Singles_Chart_number_ones_of_the_2010s#2013
which feels needlessly pedantic
but then I'm trying to remember the last time there was a club track at #1 but primarily a remix of the original and struggling
― nashwan, Monday, 11 November 2013 10:45 (ten years ago) link
The MK Vocal Remix is the one which will be on Now 86 next week.
Eleven years ago, the first album I reviewed for Uncut was by Metro Area. Now Morgan Geist is number one. This makes me feel good.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Monday, 11 November 2013 11:35 (ten years ago) link
credit where it's due
― gotta lol geir (NickB), Monday, 11 November 2013 11:37 (ten years ago) link
No Galleria chat yet? I think I prefer Mezzanine to Calling Card but the fan-made video for CC is a lot of fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzrFOZb8wfY
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 25 September 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
Hadn't seen that fan video, sweet! Galleria chat happened in other threads (freestyle ones?) but glad it exists & wish it'd had more traction in various EOY things considering what other 80s pastiches did.
Also, breaking news:https://twitter.com/MorganGeistNYC/status/690235600004321280
― etc, Thursday, 21 January 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
Darshan and I put together a @Spotify playlist of some of the music that inspired each track on our @MetroAreaNYC album. Hope you enjoy it. https://t.co/0jGJUkZTfQ— Morgan Geist (@MorganGeistNYC) November 20, 2017
Fun little "album X-Ray" playlist for the Metro Area s/t - hearing the Larry Levan dub of "Somebody New" immediately after "Miura" is a penny-dropping moment.
― etc, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
could you post that playlist etc? i don't use spotify.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
Pretty new to Spotify myself, so found the first tool I could that converts something to plaintext:
Metro Area: Album X-RayJoin Metro Area on a journey through the music that influenced their eponymous debut album. Each Metro Area title in the tracklist is immediately followed by a sampling of songs that inspired its creation!
Metro Area - Dance ReactionGino Soccio - Try It OutBobby Thurston - You Got What It TakesDance Reaction - Disco TrainMetro Area - MiuraJamaica Girls - Somebody New (Larry Levan Dub Mix)Lipps Inc. - FunkytownEddy Grant - Living On the FrontlineMetro Area - PiñaSylvester - I Need Somebody To Love TonightKid Creole And The Coconuts - I'm A Wonderful Thing, BabyBalil - 3/4 HeartMetro Area - Square-Pattern AuraIndian Ocean - School Bell / Treehouse (Mixed with Love by Walter Gibbons)Wet - That's The Game - InstrumentalThe Human League - Only After DarkMetro Area - Machine VibesRon Trent - Morning Fever - Album EditMikki - Dance Lover - Extended MixTime Zone - WildstyleMetro Area - EvidenceMichael Wilson - Groove It to Your BodySyreeta - Can't Shake Your Love - Larry Levan MixTouchdown - Ease Your Mind - Extended MixMetro Area - AtmosphriqueDaniel Wang - Like Some Dream I Can't Stop DreamingEl Coco - Cocomotion - Single VersionNew Order - Bizarre Love Triangle - (7'' Remix Edit) [2015 Remastered Version]Metro Area - Soft HoopThe S.O.S Band - High HopesBrandi Wells - Watch Out - RemixCurtis Hairston - I Want You (All Tonight) - JM After-Session M&M MixMetro Area - Let's Get...War - GalaxyCloud One - Atmosphere StrutDebbie Deb - When I Hear MusicMetro Area - Orange AlertPrince - ControversyPal Joey - Gettin' HotStephen Duffy - Kiss Me (1985)Metro Area - StrutMr. Fingers - Can You Feel ItGayle Adams - Love FeverWest Phillips - Sucker for a Pretty Face - I'm Just aMetro Area - Caught UpKleeer - Happy MeInner Life - I'm Caught Up - In a One Night Love AffairAdvance - Take Me to the TopPeter Brown - Do You Wanna Get Funky With Me [Long Version]
― etc, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 00:54 (six years ago) link
excellent, thanks a lot!
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
oh hell yeah
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
Oh wow! Classic album and fascinating playlist to join it! Wish all artists made this for their albums, always love hearing the influences behind each song.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 21 November 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
There's a nice remaster now out of the original Metro Area LP, with a cleaner sound (especially in the bass) and segues between tracks removed. No bonus tracks.
― skip, Saturday, 2 December 2017 08:28 (six years ago) link
and you can get it on cassette.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 2 December 2017 13:01 (six years ago) link
I'm ready for my Storm Queen album, Mr. Geist.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Saturday, 2 December 2017 16:42 (six years ago) link
sometimes i think this album is the best thing that ever happened to me
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 2 December 2017 16:46 (six years ago) link
I've been looking for a Metro Area live dj mix that I lost awhile ago... it started with Queen Samantha's "take a chance" and segued into Visual's "the music's got me"... and it's like 3 hours long, iirc? Wish I had it back.
― brimstead, Saturday, 2 December 2017 17:49 (six years ago) link
The world may be falling apart, but if you feel like buying a triple-vinyl package at this juncture may I suggest our 3LP @MetroAreaNYC repress? About 300 copies are hitting stores now. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/vaz1j5qcpH— Morgan Geist (@MorganGeistNYC) September 21, 2020
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
new storm queen single!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9EToZqCACI
― donna rouge, Friday, 5 February 2021 19:49 (three years ago) link
wow! I'm so happy :D
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
although I hope this doesn't mean that Damon C. Scott is no longer part of the project.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 5 February 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
New project Au Suisse, a collaboration with Kelley Polar, second "single" up today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi7GqFRAIac
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
(1/3) This past weekend marked 20 years since the first release of our Metro Area album. We wanted to do something nice for the 20th anniversary, but we had already remastered and re-released the album for the 15th. So this time around, we’re doing something a bit different. pic.twitter.com/fVjSr6xQ9G— Morgan Geist (@MorganGeistNYC) October 24, 2022
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 08:19 (one year ago) link
(2/3) Environ has remastered and will reissue the first four 12” records: Metro Area, Metro Area 2, Metro Area 3 and Metro Area 4. Unlike the album reissue, these include the original, extended 12” versions of all songs, including some which have never been re-released.The good news is we have the test pressings and the remastering and cuts by @mattcolton sound absolutely incredible. The bad news is the supply chain is upside down and release dates have been delayed to early 2023. But we wanted to at least announce the news this week.
The good news is we have the test pressings and the remastering and cuts by @mattcolton sound absolutely incredible. The bad news is the supply chain is upside down and release dates have been delayed to early 2023. But we wanted to at least announce the news this week.
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 08:20 (one year ago) link
I had to open up 20 year old quark files in indesign to make that artwork. They were a mess.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link