New from the DFA...

cannot believe i have not done this before, but i have just set up a playlist that puts 'moon unit' parts 1-4 by mogg and naudascher in order that were spread across the 2cd set, nobody knows.

question :

why on earth did they mix up the ordering on the comp, and, were they ever released as a standalone release as an ep/mini-lp ?

Although Murphy always rubbed me slightly the wrong way, I've been really enjoying listening to the MSG live stuff on Spotify - incredible band.

ok ok .. i'll reveal my ineptness .. 'MSG' ??

sorry I mean The Long Goodbye which is an LCD Soundsystem concert album recorded at Madison Square Garden

ahh .. not got that as its not hit the cd format yet has it ?

i have the live-in-the-studio london sessions, which as yet i have not actually listened to ..

time to dig it out methinks.

oh, and moon unit pats 1-4 in order : totally works

hit that playlist creation button now ..

IDK, xp, it's on Spotify. I also watched the film, which is pretty good.

was on uk tv channel film4 a few months back ..
forgot to record it ..
next time i'll grab it ..

(saw them live at glastonbury 2005, and they were truly fantastic. which given it was late sunday and i was in a rather damaged state is a statement to just how wonderful their set was)

Looks like nobody picked up on "I Ain't Gonna Tell You" but as of ten minutes ago it's my favourite piece of 2014 disco revivalism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOaQIQSCxHI

I loved it! But yeah, it didn't get the attention it deserved upon release.

I'm still waiting on people to notice what Dan Bodan's been doing- his first two singles ("DP" and "Aaron") were pretty meh, but the subsequent stuff has been wonderful, especially the M.E.S.H.-produced "Anonymous":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzEaoK6n5TE

http://i.imgur.com/WGpIWlW.gif

Forgive my ignorance but who is the "before" guy?

like two condiments of the same donkey sauce

the fat guy in the t-shirt doing all the yelling

food network personality and bad chef Guy Fieri

essaie pas album is great, for fans of xeno & oaklander/minimal wave revival

looking forward to hearing it. I love Marie Davidson's solo stuff.

The Marcus Marr single just made me dance with the dog (from March, so not exactly "new").

Marcus Marr - Rocketship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzD1t-Tf_-8

Meanwhile

Twitter (DFA REMIX) pic.twitter.com/pqxSgebbLk

— Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) June 16, 2017

shared for free for a limited time on substack, an interview with Jonathan Galkin, who apparently was shut out last year:
https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/jonathan-galkin-helped-start-dfa

sounds like DFA is completely dead except as a brand for James Murphy. the writing was kind of on the wall for a while, but it’s depressing to hear what an ongoing clusterfuck things were for a long time

ooh "Katie Alice Greer, the former singer of Priests, has also finished a solo record"

but my time with the label came to an end in July. One day I came to work and the locks were changed. It was a really sad day, and the only information I got was that the partnership—of which I was part as a minority owner—had made the decision to cut off the label. And then it got ugly, with lawyers involved.

Ouch

Good read, James Murphy sounds incredibly irritating to work with/know

Between him and the rich kid heir who set up the initial studio, that sounds like a nightmare (and miracle it didn't blow up sooner).

it sounds like James Murphy just wanted to pretend the label didn’t exist anymore, even though it was in the same building as the studio? it all just seems irritating and wacky until the locked doors and lawyers come into the picture

Fascinating but yeah a bit grim. Which is the ‘hardcover coffee table book’ he mentions?

Gross demonstrations of power and control like those alleged here rarely happen in isolation. What a sad end to it all.

It's a classic case of lack of communication. One person is doing something and another person creates a narrative around what the other person is or is not doing. Those two narratives diverge as a result of further lack of communication and the narrative gulf gets wider and wilder between what is actually happening and what someone else thinks is happening. Conflict is not abuse!

add in a sprinkling of ego and possibly cOc4ine and it's all over.

the real news here is a benoit & sergio album is finally happening after all this time

both bill brewster and trevor jackson have tweeted this morning how this is not an entirely balanced representation of the story, and there is a lot more to it.

as a fan in the uk who only ever bought stuff on cd, for me things fell apart after the deal with EMI was killed off.
no more compilations, no more cd singles.
album releases were licenced out to different labels, some of which were available on cd, many of which were not, certainly not as easily.
subsequently, i have not heard anything on DFA for a very long time now.

been quite tempted to dive into these digital compilations as they seem to cover a lot, but a quick flick through 2014, and i don't think i would be listening to too much of it too often.

https://dfacompilations.bandcamp.com/

iirc luke jenner of the rapture also has briefly mentioned the extended dfa breakup in interviews as well. in any story where three main players are involved and one insists the other two were hard to work with, etc etc

i’ve had some favorites among albums/singles released on dfa in the last decade but am definitely interested if anyone has some recommendations. kind of fell off my radar

The One to Wait by CCFX is great. The whole single is good but that one song is fantastic.

Not seeing anything from Trevor, must have already deleted it

It is in reply to Dorian Lynskey's Tweet.

The One to Wait by CCFX is great. The whole single is good but that one song is fantastic.

yes. single best DFA tune that's not by juan maclean?

Jordan : in response to Philip Sherburnes retweet of the interview, he and tBD have a little chat about it.

This is a seriously 👀 interview
⚡️ https://t.co/3sdlEURhni

— Philip Sherburne (@PhilipSherburne) September 15, 2021

There's a New York Magazine article from the early 2000s about the rebirth of the new york music scene, with Liars on the cover, and there's a "tribes" "map" that has DFA, then a line that goes down to Plant Bar where it says "downstairs from DFA's offices, Plant Bar hosts scene-maker Dan Selzer's party "Transmission" The Rapture's Luke Jenner tends bar."

Which is my way of once again going on about how I was involved in that scene in the tiniest background way possible. James and Jonathan and Tim were always super nice to me, last time I saw or spoke to either was at that 2013 Red Bull Music Academy event at Grand Prospect Hall. I walked by James amidst throngs of fans and figured he wouldn't have noticed me but then felt a tap on my shoulder looked back and got a head nod from him. Then Ran into Jonathan on the top floor where Larry Gus was performing and he said "we should've had you DJ this event!" Always the bridesmaid. I had stopped going out all the time a long time before that and always feel out of the loop and insecure going to a big event like that, so any kind of recognition from those guys went a long way towards my recalling being a scenemaker 10 years before. My favorite part of that event though was probably Prinzhorn Dance School's performance.

Tim I reached out to when I was visiting Bristol in 2012. I honestly don't know that I even knew anything about his split from the DFA at the time. We briefly spoke and he gave me some tips of places to go and things to see but we didn't meet up.

I did used to hang out with Tyler Brodie a lot, he was always at Plant Bar. Far as being a rich kid heir, he was always a super down to earth nice dude. Only went to his house once but it was something else. I mostly used to bug him about his involvement in the Darren Aronofsky movies and Clint Mansell because I was such a Pop Will Eat Itself fanatic in high school.

http://danselzer.com/images/newyorkcompscale.jpg

The One to Wait by CCFX is great. The whole single is good but that one song is fantastic.

― brotherlovesdub

Yes!! Easily my favorite song to come from the label and probably one of my top 50 songs of the decade.

I've never heard that before!

I think In A Hole/Can't Feel My Knees by Invisible Conga People is my favourite of the (possibly) lesser know releases. My life would be immeasurably improved if ICP had made more music.

My life would be immeasurably improved if ICP had made more music.

ILX posts out of context

Haha! I had to google that!

Justin’s still in NYC. I sold him my couch and we almost shared a music studio space in Brooklyn a few years ago that was being vacated by Jason from Hundred in the Hands and the Boggs, next to Will Speculator and across from Vito and Druzzi.

Justin has some beautiful synth gear. I think we worked on some tracks for a dancer at some point.

I've never heard that before!

I think In A Hole/Can't Feel My Knees by Invisible Conga People is my favourite of the (possibly) lesser know releases. My life would be immeasurably improved if ICP had made more music.

― Heavy Messages (jed_)

Oh crap forgot about ICP… I thought they were on Italians Do It Better? They released amazing singles and disappeared. Agree completely on my life improving with more ICP.

“Cable Dazed” is my favorite one. Sounds like the best song The Knife never made.

agreed. I could say the same about "Cant Feel My Knees"

Apparently, ICP fell out badly. It's an absolute tragedy, to be honest. I always think about The Knife with them too but mainly because Can't Feel My Knees mixes so beautifully into Silent Shout.

Dan, are you talking about one of ICP? Justin? If so please tell him some random guy in Glasgow adores everything he made as part of ICP, and how sad I am that there's not more to come. Or possibly don't. I'm sure it's quite painful for him too. I love ICP.

Oh crap forgot about ICP… I thought they were on Italians Do It Better?

One EP on IDIB and one on DFA.

Yeah I think I like their singles better than anything the Knife ever made and that’s a big compliment because I love The Knife.

I used to play “cable dazed” and “can’t feel my knees” a lot in one of my bars and they were some of the most requested songs before everyone had shazam on their smartphones.

Big love from Mexico as well, sad to hear things didn’t turn out great. They were super talented.