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they always did other things than that, though.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, i know that.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

is the fact that dfa release dance-punk why some people don't like them? dance-punk reads like pastiche to me and while i can see why that accusation may be leveled at them, i think there is more to it than that. (proven in the execution, usually, but if it's not your cup of tea then fair enough - i mean i really like the juan maclean album and that's a different sort of execution altogether, not some studio-muso thing)

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link

duh. of course you do. sorry. (xpost)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:50 (eighteen years ago) link

is the fact that dfa release dance-punk why some people don't like them?

no, i doubt it. if anything, prob the opposite (it's why some people DO like them) ... but i think at this point they've sort of been (unfairly) tagged as "the dance punk label" and it's very cool to see that they're not letting themselves fall into a cul-de-sac with that.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

they talked about that very thing in the Simon Reynolds Voice feature last year--turning down work after the initial burst of attention in '02 so they could do pretty much what they wanted w/o pressure to be one thing.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

they've certainly been knocking out those remixes lately though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:03 (eighteen years ago) link

delia and gavin's full length sounds exciting. I'm with vahid on DFA. Also, I'm trying to not only see James Murphy as being DFA.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

they seem to be remixes of artists on the label though i am probably forgetting some.

"dance punk" seems very shallow, but i guess all genre labels are.

anyway, i bet the days of mars is good. i downloaded it, but haven't listened yet. i liked the "el monte" single. initiatic journey through the vibrational system of the planetary mind sums it up pretty well. heh.

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I really like the second half of "Casual Friday".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link

they've remixed NiN, Blues Explosion, Chemical bros, Gorrilaz, Soulwax as well as Black Dice fairly recently. I'm not complaining though.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah, i saw that limited nine inch nine inch nails single with the dfa remix and almost bought it for sheer novelty. what's the remix like?

― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.80s.de/SINGLES/alexanderoneal_fake.JPG

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link

FUCK. WRONG THREAD. SORRY.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:36 (eighteen years ago) link

another crazy performance pic I see

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Matos called "Casual Friday" the best 15 minute disco tune ever recorded

It's great that this comment often turns up in blurbs/press releases accompanying the 12".

Vahid, you might dig the instrumental version of "Casual Friday" which sounds more like a DFA remix amd focuses on the disco strut guitar line.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I almost fainted when I saw they'd used the quote in the PR

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link

This D&G album is fantastic. Feels like I'm in a spaceship on the way to Mars.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Matos, what about "I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley megamix)"???!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Actually, that's 16 minutes.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, I'm excited about this too!

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I like the original "IFL" better

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 03:32 (eighteen years ago) link

this is a great album now that im through it a couple times. very hypnotic at times and that last track is very tubular bells in its dramatic feel. i feel like i should be running somewhere important in the rain while i listen to it. possibly to cut a wire on a bomb or to catch a plane my soulmate is about to board. its great.

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:06 (eighteen years ago) link

when does this get released, anyway?

listening to the big boys after biscuit's death last week reminded me why so much of the 2000-era "punk funk" stuff is sooooo weak.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Some of it reminds me of Brandi Ifgray's "Stargazer" but more expansive.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yeah, i saw that limited nine inch nine inch nails single with the dfa remix and almost bought it for sheer novelty. what's the remix like?

I dig it, but I seem to be in the minority. It's very...rubbery, if that makes any sense. Lots of bleeps and egg shakers. Trent's vocals are slowed down and shifted off the beat just a tiny bit, which I think works.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Who wouldn't love "Casual Friday"????

Oh, vahid, right.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

hstencil, A little YSI would be really nice of you.

― Jacobs (LolVStein), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:16 (eighteen years ago) link

days of mars (and broken ear record) = the first dfa records I'v been really excited about in some time. awesome.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone seen the cover art yet? i havent...

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm with vahid when it comes to the BLF track.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link

that song is definitely in my top 5 singles of the year (i know DFA2 came out in 04, but the single was 05...).

― petesmith (plsmith), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

BLF are fantastic; I had no idea there were some many DFA-hataz.

haha "Rise" is currently reminding me of a dub version of Fischerspooner's Boredoms cover. I need a chance to play this LOUD at a club or something (er, prior/post people-on-the-dancefloor obv).

― etc, Thursday, 25 August 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link

or a gluggier version of insides' clear skin. steve reich sounds like disco sounds like steve reich, &c&c&c?

― etc, Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link

: O

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:30 (eighteen years ago) link

nothing less than gorgeous and great

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link

2005: A Space Odyssey

― willem (willem), Thursday, 25 August 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I like this, tho definitely in a similar field as Mother Mallard, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream. Actually, this is a bit less "dancey" than I was hoping, but still a good listen.

― Dominique (dleone), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link

ummisanyoneslskingthisrightnow?nooneisintheILMroom...

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 16:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i have it pete (sungravie)

― willem (willem), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I like Casual Friday, but the guy singing is one of the worst singers I've ever heard.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link

so again, i know such a gauche question, but when's the release date again?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link

the female vocals technically aren't so great either ("you must confessssssssss"), but that only adds to it imo. i like how nervous and shaky they sound when everything else drops out. it adds to the sexual tension in the track.

xpost

― tricky (disco stu), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

mid-october, stencil

― petesmith (plsmith), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

"Black Spring" is fantastic.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 25 August 2005 17:50 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks, mr. smith.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

The totally prejudiced opinion at my house is that it's way better than the new Earth plunk.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

saw a hilarious video of them jumping out of a beat-up Thunderbird and dancing to Vangelis's "Come On" on repeat. think "Casual Friday" was made somewhat in its image.

― b8a, Thursday, 25 August 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

RIYL: The scene in "Risky Business" where Tom Cruise is having subruban night-sex with Rebecca DeMornay and the doors fly open and leaves blow in; or the scene in "Thin Blue Line" where Randall Adams goes over the policeman's murder, post-"Swinging Cheerleaders" screening.

― Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 25 August 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, I finally got to listen to this. I love it. "Black Spring" jumps out at me as my favorite track so far.

RIYL: The scene in "Risky Business" where Tom Cruise is having subruban night-sex with Rebecca DeMornay and the doors fly open and leaves blow in;

First of all, what does RIYL stand for? I can usually figure these out, but this one has me stumped.

Also, I'm a big fan of the Tangerine Dream song from Risky Business, "Love on a Real Train", and even a lot of the copy-cat ambient songs. "Black Spring" reminds me of it. The Global Communications song "8:07", and the ambient remix of Chicane's "Offshore", are my two favorite "Love on a Real Train" wannabes. Any of those songs could be substituted in the movie for that scene (maybe not the Chicane one - too upbeat).

i feel like i should be running somewhere important in the rain while i listen to it.

Hahah: nice image.

― recovering optimist (Royal Bed Bouncer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link

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delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars