https://www.thefader.com/2020/11/18/octo-octa-river-premiere?utm_source=tftw
On streaming services now too.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 19 November 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
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, 20 November 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
Oh shiiiiiiiiit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLGG4fYpdBo
― Tim F, Monday, 23 November 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
this is a bangerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ef_mtKA12g
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
posted by map a week ago!
― Running up that hill but fleeting (a deal with Gop) (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
tim f alerted me to it ftr
― fleet doxes (map), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
― 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.
― fleet doxes (map), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
River is also dope. i'm looking forward to an end of year release hopefully? Anybody know anything?
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
"River" is from their Fabric mix out this Friday
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:19 (three years ago) link
coolio, thanks!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
so unsurprisingly this Fabric mix is pretty banging
― Tim F, Thursday, 3 December 2020 04:54 (three years ago) link
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...
― Neil S, Thursday, 3 December 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 3 December 2020 18:21 (three years ago) link
🤘
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
― dean bad (map), Friday, 8 January 2021 22:19 (three years ago) link
well that's pretty good
― adam, Friday, 8 January 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
New track from upcoming EP
https://soundcloud.com/t4tluvnrg/octo-octa-find-your-way-home-from-shes-calling-ep-t4t004
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 15 January 2021 12:31 (three years ago) link
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/djs-and-label-heads-eris-drew-and-octo-octa-on-finding-magic-in-the-everyday
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 15:27 (three years ago) link
octo octa remixes dj q, party starts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTynM5QAmy0
― Joses Chrust (map), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
also new EP out yesterday: https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/shes-calling-ep
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 6 February 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
this might be the best thing she's ever done? that bass is >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqiZIe-Z7TU
― Joses Chrust (map), Saturday, 6 February 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
excellent
― trans-panda express (m bison), Sunday, 7 February 2021 02:23 (three years ago) link
was this posted? I really liked this, they are such cool and inspiring people <3https://www.papermag.com/b2b-octo-octa-eris-drew-pride-2646183481.html
― brimstead, Monday, 8 February 2021 19:01 (three years ago) link
thanks for posting that, it's a treat
― Joses Chrust (map), Monday, 8 February 2021 20:49 (three years ago) link
yesssss https://ra.co/podcast/769
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 28 February 2021 23:10 (three years ago) link
man this is such a fun vibe
― davey, Monday, 1 March 2021 19:38 (three years ago) link
was just coming to post that!
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 3 March 2021 23:01 (three years ago) link
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)"
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 27 May 2021 17:06 (two years ago) link
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
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Saturday, 29 May 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
she's the best
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 30 May 2021 08:34 (two years ago) link
wait till you find out about Rob Davis
― Long Tall Arsetee & the Shaker Intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 30 May 2021 08:36 (two years ago) link
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
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017khg
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 08:53 (one year ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
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.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
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.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 18:55 (one year ago) link
this is an incredible eris jamhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2QqStJQzeI
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 June 2022 07:24 (one year ago) link
Finally saw Eris Drew DJ at Freerotation on the weekend and holy shit she is one incredible DJ - total vibes, great tunes and massive energy all underpinned by incredible technical ability. My friends and I have all since got tickets for the next Corsica Studios residency on August 5th.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 14 July 2022 09:41 (one year ago) link
yes, mad skills!
― stirmonster, Thursday, 14 July 2022 10:23 (one year ago) link
New Eris Drew / Octo Octa split single is funnnnnnnnn
― Tim F, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 14:35 (one year ago) link
Octo’s “Stars and Water” either doesn’t remember that humanity decided to leave the “let’s slow the track down and then speed it back up again” trick (per “French Kiss”, “Belfast” and “The Rockefeller Skank”) in the nineties, or doesn’t fucking care.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
it's fun for me because i have like zero knowledge of any of this stuff, it's all new to me, and no space in my brain to be even remotely knowledgeable about it the way i was about rock music.
maybe this is just me projecting my own shit onto her work but for me transness is _iterative_, it's just doing the same shit countless other people have done before you, and it doesn't matter if everybody else has already done it because _you've_ never done it before
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
to me it feels like the lack of centralized/agreed-upon assumptions w/in discourse as far as which histories are 'overrepresented' and which ones are 'underrepresented,' whats 'trendy' and what's 'normie,' it makes it hard for maneuvers to sound as easily 'played out' as they once did ... ie nardo wick doing 'tom's diner' melody, which was so oversaturated and played out, and now feels like as fair a maneuver as any other, partly bc im just getting old, and partly bc the multitude of choices, the unfettered access, makes knowing something democratized, and having truly secret information a rarity...idk.
the trade off is that certain discursive maneuvers are definitely overexposed and tiresome, but art itself manages to survive attempts to stamp it out
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
another way I think abt it is the increasing alienation of a very online life makes ppl miss 'common ground'
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
it's just doing the same shit countless other people have done before you, and it doesn't matter if everybody else has already done it because _you've_ never done it before
i don’t necessarily disagree with you, but sometimes when people (some people?) do this we call it cultural appropriation, so i think the formulation there might be incomplete? or maybe there’s no such thing as cultural appropriation, and everyone is just iterating
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
this appeals to me somewhat because i think “cultural appropriation” is a weak critique in general, though i also can’t sit too comfortably w the idea that bradley nowell et al are just “iterating” toots and the maytals
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
the nice thing abt house : techno culture is that iterating is built in, i guess. last night i was listening to mfon’s “ron hardy’s ressurrection” and akio milan paak’s “version city episode” remix and jr vasquez’s “my loleatta” (as ellis-d) and thinking i will just never get sick of tracks that iterate on elements of the loleatta holloway “dish-a-pella”. then i heard a derrick carter track i’d never heard before, and it was a cover of jean carn’s “was that all it was”, etc…
― the late great, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
I think you need to have this attitude to make house & techno at all, or maybe any music, given what's come before.
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
I think as we get older we also become more aware that every idea tends to have a point of origin or two that we didnt know about
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
"i don’t necessarily disagree with you, but sometimes when people (some people?) do this we call it cultural appropriation, so i think the formulation there might be incomplete? or maybe there’s no such thing as cultural appropriation, and everyone is just iterating
― the late great"
lol i'm not touching the "cultural appropriation" argument, if that's a critique someone wants to make i'm not in a position to challenge that
"another way I think abt it is the increasing alienation of a very online life makes ppl miss 'common ground'
― xheugy eddy (D-40)"
for me it's not a nostalgic thing. i'm not yearning for a return to the '90s. that sort of "common ground", the hegemonic narrative, was one that didn't have any place for me. it's rebuilding something from the roots in a way that has a place for me. like, a lot of stuff i work towards within the queer communities i operate in is sort of reinventing the stuff that's been done by christian institutions for ages and ages. but christianity doesn't really have a place in it for queerness, at least that's my opinion, so iteration means doing the same things it did in a new way.
― Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
― Tim F, Tuesday, September 6, 2022 3:41 PM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
she did it on "spin girl, let's activate!" too! i feel like it's just really good timing. so much of h&t now is just good timing plus a fun toolbox.
replaying that remix she did for dj q out lately, it's a high water mark of her recent stuff imo.
not sure if this one was ever posted itt, it's a belter
fatherhood - mural (octo octa remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYUQaHk0gIs
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link