Octo Octa &c

I hoped that a full rip would surface - I missed the first 30 mins or so and didn't think it had worked at all, but in fact I got the last 3 hours. It's a bit big for me to upload uncompressed (2.8gb) but if anyone wants the video and has a preferred reasonable bitrate I'm happy to convert when I get some time.

In the meantime I made a V0 mp3, send me your email through ilx webmail if you want a link.

The YouTube video is working again, the first minute has been muted to resolve the copyright issue

Also, new Octo Octa mixtape on Bandcamp

https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/love-hypnosis-vol-1-2

oh rock on, i'm glad they got it working!

also glad i could actually buy this physical... i suspect it'll sell out quick...

have spent some more time thinking about this thread. i feel a lot of guilt whenever i pull out the "lived experience" card, not that i wasn't honest about it because i was, but i try not to do it lightly and i try to adequately explain it whenever i to. and i'm not sure i did.

i feel like i have this issue relating critically to a lot of creative work. i experience it in a context that is fundamentally different from how other people experience it. the temptation is to say that one context is more important than the other, but i don't think that's true. it's just hard to reach that state of irreconcilability.

i've quit watching doctor who completely because of the way the people on the doctor who thread approach the show. i don't think that's what any of the posters there want. i also don't think any of the posters there are wrong in their fundamental approach! chris chibnall is a hack writer who writes stories that work on a superficial level and still have lots of plot holes and incongruities. what was frustrating to me though is that i saw something _else_ in the show, something that was more important to me than his shit writing, something that rendered his shit writing completely irrelevant to me. and i couldn't explain to anybody else on the thread what it was i saw, why it was watching the show invigorated me so much, and every time i watched the show i wanted to talk about how much i loved it, and everybody else was talking about how shit it was, and it was so demoralizing i gave up.

anyway, i don't _know_ if octo octa and eris drew are anything better than mediocre as house music djs. i think they're pretty damn good myself, but i don't know any of the songs they're playing, have never heard them before, don't know how any of the other people do it. i know a little bit about house music, but i don't know nearly as much about it as i do about, say, prog rock, or about doctor who.

or about being trans. i can't talk about their music without talking about being trans, because they're both extremely clear about what it is they're trying to do and why they're trying to do it. and i can't speak for anybody else, trans or otherwise, but i can say, with reasonable certainty, that i understand pretty well what they're trying to do, and that they are exceptionally good at it.

i get annoyed at hyperbolic praise myself. we've all had a good laugh at the garden state "the shins will change your life" bullshit, i mean seriously the fucking _shins_? on the other hand, fuck it, the shins probably did change someone's life, right? probably made as much difference to theirs as octo octa and eris drew have made to mine. someone, somewhere, saw a shins concert and just cried for three days straight and came to some hard understandings about their life that they didn't have the words to explain. and it doesn't make the shins not a mediocre indie band, and it doesn't invalidate their lived experience for me to think of the shins as a mediocre indie band.

Thank you for writing that wonderful post.

Thanks Kate, and I’m glad you managed to get a copy of the tape!

lol the shins

Aww, thank you y'all.

this mix is fucking excellent

btw Kate (and everyone else) this art of the DJ on RA with Eris is really great:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3352

this is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ef_mtKA12g

Awesome

She's on The Residency now btw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nw0m

Quazar! <3

https://www.thefader.com/2020/11/18/octo-octa-river-premiere?utm_source=tftw

On streaming services now too.

I will honestly say that I didn't "get" the most recent album until a month or so ago, when one of the tracks came on while I was driving and I straight up had an excellent dance party in my car. Went home and listened and danced to the whole thing, love OO now!

Oh shiiiiiiiiit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLGG4fYpdBo

this is a banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ef_mtKA12g

posted by map a week ago!

tim f alerted me to it ftr

I will honestly say that I didn't "get" the most recent album until a month or so ago, when one of the tracks came on while I was driving and I straight up had an excellent dance party in my car. Went home and listened and danced to the whole thing, love OO now!

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, November 20, 2020 12:22 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

awright! that album is evergreen, probably in my top ten of the decade. she is just so fucking great i can hardly believe it.

River is also dope. i'm looking forward to an end of year release hopefully? Anybody know anything?

"River" is from their Fabric mix out this Friday

coolio, thanks!

so unsurprisingly this Fabric mix is pretty banging

listening now, coincidentally, and yes! the first section is fairly high octane house with the occasional break thrown in, I think it will get more ravey...

Interesting how specifically London the opening section feels, and parts of the final third as well, but with this very soft gooey melodic centre. I'm sure that's intentional, but it's absolutely not the version of London that's especially fashionable right now, there's a real Basement Jaxx vibe to some of it (by which I mean the late 90s Brixton club night).

Absolutely riotous and joyous throughout obviously.

🤘

Got a new project with @octo_octa called @Alchem_Sisters. Our first remix is out today of the amazing New Orleans-based punk band Special Interest. The song is called "Disco III" and the remix is punk, acid, breaks, big beat, & psychedelic chaos. https://t.co/SYviPNfqOi

— 🍄 Eris Drew 🍄 (@ErisDrew) January 8, 2021

well that's pretty good

New track from upcoming EP

https://soundcloud.com/t4tluvnrg/octo-octa-find-your-way-home-from-shes-calling-ep-t4t004

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/djs-and-label-heads-eris-drew-and-octo-octa-on-finding-magic-in-the-everyday

octo octa remixes dj q, party starts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTynM5QAmy0

also new EP out yesterday: https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/shes-calling-ep

this might be the best thing she's ever done? that bass is >>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqiZIe-Z7TU

excellent

was this posted? I really liked this, they are such cool and inspiring people <3

https://www.papermag.com/b2b-octo-octa-eris-drew-pride-2646183481.html

thanks for posting that, it's a treat

yesssss https://ra.co/podcast/769

man this is such a fun vibe

was just coming to post that!

just a passing note that the "let's do it" sample in "Find Your Way Home" is buried deep in Cathy Dennis's "Touch Me (All Night Long)"

did not know that cathy dennis co-wrote kylie's "can't get you out of my head". this thread is about cathy dennis now, sorry

she's the best

wait till you find out about Rob Davis

Just Announced: June 26 // NY Pride weekend closes out with @octo_octa and @ErisDrew taking over the Ruins. The T4T LUV NRG founders bring an electrifying sense of urgency and joy to the decks, weaving between classic house & rare rave gems.

Tickets ➤ https://t.co/h1RZGFiYTL pic.twitter.com/Pns64nCTJX

— KNOCKDOWN CENTER (@knockdowncenter) May 4, 2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017khg

Interesting to hear Eris bring up the egg crack analogy in a context that's not explicitly transfeminine. There are these implications to the idea of egg cracking that are kind of similar to what "woke" used to mean before it got weaponized as a term of abuse. I guess the idea of "egg cracking" is different in that it typically has observable, concrete, and specific results.

octo octa is still so good you guys. eris is finally landing with me too. different styles for sure but i can imagine how their energy is related.

yeah eris took a while to click with me, less immediate, but her stuff is starting to click.

honestly while listening to that interview i entirely forgot how rare positive trans representation is in uk media, which was really nice.