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Y'know, 'Since I Left You' is so untouchable and then you hear Gimix and you're not sure if it's even better or EVEN BETTER.

I'm ordering that f*cking kitten shirt.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 November 2003 08:05 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.theavalanches.com/images/avalancheplus-tshirtclub-ymc1.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 13 November 2003 08:22 (twenty years ago) link

Dexter DJs often around these parts

― mentalist (mentalist), Thursday, 13 November 2003 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

here is mark p's article with lots of detailed tech talk

― minna (minna), Thursday, 13 November 2003 11:35 (twenty years ago) link

two months pass...

a note from the website re: the remix of "I'm a Cuckoo" by Belle & Sebastian

"Update: Belle & Sebastian Remix

The Belle & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo (Avalanches remix) now circulating on radio and promo CD's is not the final remix version, but rather a work-in-progress mix which was pressed up by mistake and sent to UK radio and press.

The final mix will appear (as planned) when the single is released in -

UK: CD and DVD formats on Feb 16
USA: CD on Feb 24, DVD on Mar 9"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 January 2004 07:27 (twenty years ago) link

Both those pictures are sooo cool!

― Rachel, Thursday, 15 January 2004 07:41 (twenty years ago) link

they're from t-shirts, but they're sold out :(

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 January 2004 08:08 (twenty years ago) link

there's a spiel up on the modular website about them working on the rekkid, or the remix rather.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Thursday, 15 January 2004 11:55 (twenty years ago) link

Cool! I've got a copy of that Belle and Sebastian remix. PAYDAY!

― tdk, Thursday, 15 January 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago) link

Better than the Badly Drawn and Manics one?

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 15 January 2004 20:12 (twenty years ago) link

where can i find this remix? HELP

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago) link

I'm sharing it on Soulseek at the moment, username juror8

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link

sweeet! thanks dom!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 15 January 2004 21:27 (twenty years ago) link

i think that would be the unfinished version.

― glenny g2003 (glenny g2003), Thursday, 15 January 2004 22:16 (twenty years ago) link

one month passes...

In new news, Dexter has left the group. Confirmed at www.theavalanches.com . Now more intrigued about a new record because of this.

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:17 (twenty years ago) link

Am I the only one who wasn't impressed at all by the album?

But I do like all their remixes that I've heared.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

Frontier Psychiatrist is the only record they ever made with Dexter - everything beforehand was prior to him joining (maybe except the Electricity 12"), and the rest of the album was basically done by Chater and Seltmann on their own. His leaving should make no difference to the sound at all.

Me, I'd rather hear them go back to the live-instruments style of El Producto and the first demo tape than do another Since I Left You anyway...

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link

there's actually a little clip of new music on the site too.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago) link

Does anybody have the first demo tape? Can I get it on SLSK?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

i know someone who has it but it might not be easy to get hold of them

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:40 (twenty years ago) link

I only just heard the album this week. I avoided it because I always hated Frontier Psychiatrist due to some bad associations - all of the "creatives" at the ad agency where I used to work would play the video for it incessantly and banter wankily about it's merits. I am as yet undecided.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:41 (twenty years ago) link

the rest of the album is nothing like Frontier Psychiatrist which I found to be an amuzing diversion. The rest of the album is pure bliss.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

adam have you heard any of the dj sets? they are ridiculously good.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:47 (twenty years ago) link

No. Kindly point me in their direction with your words.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, look for gimix on slsk.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link

and search for "avalanches breezeblock" and "avalanches live ibiza"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:49 (twenty years ago) link

triple j set from june (?) 2002 also

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link

Ultimately I love the album most of all though.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

is that the solo dexter one blount? goes for like 3 hours?

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:52 (twenty years ago) link

i think it's robbie chater

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

did I really write "amuzing" up there. I'm getting dumber.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:54 (twenty years ago) link

Also: The "Since I Left You" Sample Companion, which is also on slsk, is a completely entertaining (if unBELIEVEably cheesy) mix. The Blowfly track gets me every time. Horrible. Brilliant!

― Ryan Pitchfork, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

if you search on slsk for someone named spencer500, this nut may have collected almost 6 hours worth of Avalanches samples and mix songs and put it in a folder called "Avalanches Party".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:06 (twenty years ago) link

what a weirdo!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:07 (twenty years ago) link

Am I the only one who wasn't impressed at all by the album?
But I do like all their remixes that I've heared.

-- mark grout (mark.grou...) (webmail), February 24th, 2004. (mark grout)

No, your not alone Mr Grout. It all reminded me of Steinski & Mass Media but what, 10-15 years later?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:13 (twenty years ago) link

crazy.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:15 (twenty years ago) link

very different than Steinski to me. The emotional focus is so much clearer with the Avalanches.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:16 (twenty years ago) link

if you search on slsk for someone named spencer500, this nut may have collected almost 6 hours worth of Avalanches samples and mix songs and put it in a folder called "Avalanches Party".

I DL stuff from that crazie all the time! Fast connection, too...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

what's the difference b/w him and spencer500000? this has always confused me!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:19 (twenty years ago) link

I would venture to guess that the higher numbered one is a work computer.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:22 (twenty years ago) link

You don't think 'Frontier Psychiatrist' sounds exactly like Steinski? You're nuts. Or hang on, maybe I'm nuts.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:27 (twenty years ago) link

Like I said above, "Frontier Psychiatrist" is an anomaly on that album. It *does* sound like your typical collagist turntablist stuff which is why it's my least favorite bit of the album. The rest of it sounds like a fuzzy recollection of being a kid at a resort in the 80s.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, that's true. My memories of the rest of the album are sort of fuzzy too. I think I may have fallen asleep to it on a long car ride. Er, why are people so excited?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

Because it's sort of an amazing feat to create the sound of falling asleep on a long car ride!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link

I hasten to add that I was not the driver.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

haha, I'm thinking that would sound a bit different.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

Spencer OTM - there's a lot of ways that you could criticise the album (I'm kinda afraid to listen to it these days!) but not for being a turntablist rehash. The key point is the group's luv of unexpected emotional ambushes.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link

Wow, it's like I'm in a parallel universe where 'Since I left You' isn't a turntablist rehash.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago) link

And all this emotional stuff? I really missed that. I must give the record another listen then.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

I always hear that album in the frame of the beautiful prose of Tim F. See also: Coloma.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago) link

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