I'm putting together my 2018 mix and still don't get It Makes You Forget (Itgehane) - it just sounds vaguely pleasant but inconsequential.
Can anyone give me a way in here? What is it that people love about this track so much?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 28 November 2019 10:40 (four years ago) link
I also liked-liked not loved-loved the track until I finally heard it out, there’s something very... comforting and vibesy about it on the dancefloor, and the evident abundant happiness it provokes in people. It’s that as much as anything else that makes it classic.
Other tracks which had a similar dynamic for me are Kyla’s “Do You Mind” and Todd Terje’s “Inspector Norse”, both of which I thought were great on first contact but never imagined they would be massive anthems that were also personally important to me - but the latter personal important ultimately was routed through their status as anthems.
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 November 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
Sorry for the double post
― Tim F, Thursday, 28 November 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
Itgehane felt like an instant classic the moment I heard it. There’s a certain timelessness about it - like it’s so familiar and reminiscent of a million other songs yet evidently it’s own thing. And yes, it kills on the dancefloor every time.
― Roz, Thursday, 28 November 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
It’s a deceptively polished track. I don’t really know what to say about it other than I think it’s gorgeous and I love it.
― ingredience (map), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
I see it compared to Inspector Norse a lot, but they are so so very different beasts. That song is massive, anthemic and cathartic, evoking emotions of sheer exuberance. It has a climax. Itgehane is cozy and comforting (literally making you forget your worries); it flows and weaves perfectly fluidly until its done. I think it's a solid club track, but I also don't quite get the cult around it.
― octobeard, Friday, 29 November 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
Itgehane is alright but I the 'chorus' melody is just close enough to the middle 8 of 'Sowing the Seeds of Love' to get the latter tune stuck in my head after a few minutes. My problem and not the tune's though!
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Friday, 29 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
Your problem is listening to too much Tears for Fears. There's nothing remarkable to me about Itgehane other than the lovely timbre of her voice, I prefer Starry Night. Inspector Norse really pops in a way Itgehane doesn't. I don't get that comparison at all.
― viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Peggy gou as a producer is a little bit overrated imo
― Musaique, Sunday, 1 December 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
I like this and Inspector Norse. Both huge anthems that struck me as immediately appealing altho in different ways
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 2 December 2019 05:03 (four years ago) link
New collab with Maurice Fulton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnsVDzZLazs
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Thursday, 13 February 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
did she apologise for taking that cheque from saudi arabia yet
― monotony, Thursday, 13 February 2020 22:31 (four years ago) link
This goes hard: https://soundcloud.com/peggygou/wap-peggy-gous-house-in-this-ho-remix-final-1?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=1
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 01:36 (three years ago) link
It does - though I feel like maybe the Forbid Remix was the better take on "WAP" if only because it really gets to the point.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
Daniel Wang posts long gossipy rant about Peggy Gou (tbh he doesn't come across as the best here either, but yknow it's 2020, everyone's a nightmare): https://www.facebook.com/daniel.wang.16503/posts/10157474272660957
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 05:42 (three years ago) link
lmao not surprising
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 05:55 (three years ago) link
ignoring the outfits of Escada mixed with Supreme on top of Hilfiger (anything with a pricey label!), the bad makeup and overpowering perfume (red alerts for mental illness, hello?)
so much to unpack here
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 07:30 (three years ago) link
i got a pun ready but i’m going to save it until he shows up
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 07:58 (three years ago) link
even with the caveat of everyone being a nightmare in 2020 (are they?) i can’t get past the line boxedjoy quoted
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 12:17 (three years ago) link
like why would you ever write that if you weren’t an enormous piece of shit
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
peggy gou seems like a rich person which means she def sucks but would i ever write a multi-paragraph post about how she refused to organize records at her record store job (quelle scandal) where most of the kudos in the comments were coming from people who were also saying misogynist, racist, and ablelist shit, i’d wonder who was the real monster here
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
the comments were a cesspit. Vakula chiming in was enough of a red flag for me.
If Wang thought she was really that awful then surely he would have distanced himself from her long before now. There are plenty of articles out there about how he, as a neighbour, helped get her career started. If she was as awful as he claims then it would have been easy - and diplomatic - of him to distance himself by downplaying his support, "oh its not really to do with me, let's not talk about her" would have been sufficient.
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
yeah that line quoted above jumped out at me too.
tbh i regret posting/sharing that - it was a bit of an amusing trifle when I read it earlier but it pissed me off the more i thought about it. Like sure, she comes across as a bit of an asshole but asshole white, male DJs are a dime a dozen and I don’t see Daniel Wang coming for the rest of them? Just her? guess none of them had the bad luck of being his neighbour in Berlin.
And him saying that she doesn’t deserve a pass for being a WOC is just... yeah, yikes.
― Roz, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 13:35 (three years ago) link
I kept reading waiting for the bombshell that would warrant the amount of time he implied he needed to compose it, and the "trembling" and nauseousness etc he teased in the beginning, but it was just a smattering of varying shitty behavior stories. Lots of extremely you had to be there anticlimaxes.
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
Well, he was only next door neighbors with this particular DJ to be fair in that regard specifically.
xpost
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:17 (three years ago) link
Oh duh you said that I glazed over that. Nevermind
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
I kept reading waiting for the bombshell that would warrant the amount of time he implied he needed to compose it,
Exactly how I felt. She doesn't hold the door open for neighbours, omg... tbh I actually judge people quite harshly for things like this and bet PG is a total horror but this is not the story Wang thinks it is.
― 10percent Discocunt (jed_), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
by which I mean that it says more about him.
― 10percent Discocunt (jed_), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
I'm trembling and i want to vomit as i finally write this on my Samsung phone wtf? from writing this? nice life you must have dude
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:57 (three years ago) link
Maybe it's due to the physical struggle of writing all that with your thumbs
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link
I'm not above gossip every now and then (all the time) but spare everyone the self-pity jfc
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 15:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah the 'this a healing process for me!' tone really jars and makes me less inclined to believe him. I'd be more into it if was 'haha do you guys wanna hear some shit?'
I've always found Gou's music and aesthetic a bit lifestyle magazine-ish to be honest so doesn't surprise me if she is a bit like that.
― chap, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
Daniel Wang('s music) is amazing. This attempt at canceling over boring neighbor gripes is dumb.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
Wang has done a few vids for 'Electronic Beats'. He comes across as an enlightened intelligent guy. But this post is a load of bollocks no matter what you think of Gou. Most definitely ill-conceived.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Plenty of similar stories about her have been going around for a while, it's fairly obvious at this stage that she's not a nice person. I didn't know the stuff about the plague raves and the £100,000 bung though.
Your man comes across as bit of a whingeing gimp as well. "I'm trembling and I want to vomit as I type this on my Samsung phone" – oh, grow some balls ffs.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
And there's absolutely no reason he couldn't just bitch to his mates rather than do it on such a public platform (not that I didn't read the whole thing avidly).
― chap, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Yes, there's no money shot there really, is there. Btw that "lifestyle magazine" comment of yours upthread puts a finger on why I can't really get into her music either, but I couldn't really articulate it properly.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
Didn't she go out with Jackmaster for a while?
― millmeister, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
no one’s allowed to simply be catty these days
― mh, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
Plague raves tho??
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
Someone on IG told him that maybe this would have been better resolved privately and he responded by comparing her to Trump which shows how the past few years has given everyone massive brain worms
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
Your man comes across as bit of a whingeing gimp as well. "I'm trembling and I want to vomit as I type this on my Samsung phone" – oh, grow some balls ffs.― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, December 8, 2020 5:23 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Tuesday, December 8, 2020 5:23 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
speaking of horrible shit said by someone that reflects very poorly on them...
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
lol was going to say. balls do make you tough iirc
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
also "gimp" is basically "retard"
― cosmic vision | bleak epiphany | erotic email (map), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
So Daniel Wang is not a whingeing poor man's Photoshop?
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
the best music is 'lifestyle music'
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgflip.com/4pkqbh.jpg
― the late great, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:50 (three years ago) link
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40)
But not 'lifestyle magazine music'.
― chap, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link
Is that anything like 'clothing boutique changing room music'?
― Evan, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
I know this makes me sound like I'm 100 years old but gtfo with all those cell phones
― frogbs, Tuesday, October 18, 2022 7:09 PM (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
agree tbh. i don't want to watch the video but just want to register here that i play the soulwax remix of "i go" all the time.
― ꙮ (map), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssKWFlclNFg
― Murgatroid, Friday, 16 June 2023 18:29 (nine months ago) link
it's a... pastiche?
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 16 June 2023 18:46 (nine months ago) link
Is that a 9Pm sample?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:51 (nine months ago) link
maybe just a reference
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 16 June 2023 20:16 (nine months ago) link
it's at least a reference
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:22 (nine months ago) link
👍
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:22 (nine months ago) link
i'm into it!
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 16 June 2023 20:23 (nine months ago) link
verse is a bit like sexyback in a french affair deadpan
the pitch bend brings a pavlovian joy
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 17 June 2023 07:29 (nine months ago) link
Didn't expect her to be having Top 5 chart hits!
― nashwan, Saturday, 19 August 2023 14:06 (seven months ago) link
it's basically ATB's "9pm (Til I Come)" for 2023 though. I'm actually more surprised at how long it's taken for these kind of festival headline acts to have chart success - I thought it would be Patrick Topping or Bicep who would have beat her to a massive crossover hit.
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 19 August 2023 14:36 (seven months ago) link
pretty good dj if you like techno, electro and house in the classicist tradition.
― the late great, Wednesday, January 24, 2018 4:14 PM (five years ago)
fixed
― the late great, Saturday, 19 August 2023 17:42 (seven months ago) link
I like this Michael Wycoff-sampling remix:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYwlWw6EQOg
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 31 August 2023 13:14 (six months ago) link
i don’t think this holds a candle to any of the singles on thw Jam City record, which also reprises this sound in certain ways.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 31 August 2023 20:00 (six months ago) link
daniel wang has to hold this L
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 31 August 2023 20:39 (six months ago) link
I will say I wanted to dislike this at first because the best all-time ATB 9pm rip is Vitas' "Тело" ("Body") which you can see performed at the Kremlin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GdRdRwhtMA
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 31 August 2023 20:40 (six months ago) link
but I came around on it. it feels very 'A&R'd' to me but the end result works ... not sure I can put it on the level of itgahene but its a W
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 31 August 2023 20:41 (six months ago) link
There's a video nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCz5y84dwuA
― Nabozo, Tuesday, 24 October 2023 18:12 (five months ago) link
I’m lost with all the mentions of Daniel Wang in here. Have no idea who he is or what’s the connection to Peggy Gou. Care to enlighten me?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 18:19 (five months ago) link
Oh wait I found an article… shrug
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 October 2023 18:24 (five months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-CfqToO7o
absolutely did not see this collaboration coming
― ufo, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 21:23 (four months ago) link
this has wound up the purists greatly and I love it for that - too bad it's just not very good
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 9 November 2023 07:08 (four months ago) link
i'm just baffled at both the pairing and how mediocre it is
― ufo, Thursday, 9 November 2023 07:17 (four months ago) link