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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

what a weirdo!

A true oddball, that Spencer. Can't imagine who'd care!

I always hear that album in the frame of the beautiful prose of Tim F.

Now truly this is one of the finest statements ever posted on ILX. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago) link

This one's finer, Ned:

Pseudo Echo was a HUGE influence on my musical style. Check out our band, Raya. We pretty much fucking rule.
-- chieftain (hewstin...) (webmail), February 26th, 2004.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

No, that is not fine. That is unfine.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:58 (twenty years ago) link

Once again, I am wrong about something on this thread. That's it, I'm leaving.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

i got the original 'frontier psychiatrist' the other week - the one with a different arrangement, i guess it's from before Dexter joined up as the references to him(cartoon Dexter) are not there - also got 'Ski Surfing' :) still love 'Under Inspection' and 'Rap Fever'

did anyone check the bootlegs on their site a while back - stuff like Royksopp's 'In Space' vs Kings Of Tomorrow 'Tracey In My Room'?

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 27 February 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago) link

they do good tshirt as well

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 27 February 2004 01:56 (twenty years ago) link

please let them release another album soon, I couldn't be loving "since I left you" any more right now.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 February 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago) link

What the Nipper said. I can't imagine what it would sound like if I hadn't read Tim's stunning piece about it first.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 27 February 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

I heard them before Tim's raving, but yeah, I still often think of him when I listen to them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:22 (twenty years ago) link

It is a great album, I didn't like it at first but I was stupid. Live at dominoes is so sweet.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 27 February 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

Ronan, you'd probably enjoy the sampled song from that too, Boney M - "Ma Baker".

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

Hey! I say again, does anybody have this demo tape thingy? I WANT!! I WANT!!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:48 (twenty years ago) link

demo for what?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

Everything from the demo tape got released in various places - first Rock City and Thank You Caroline on the Rock City 7" (Trifekta), then Undersea Community and Yamaha Superstar (the two tracks recorded with their original Japanese MC) on the Wonder From A Quarter Acre compilation (Au-go-go), and finally most of these plus Slow Walking on the Rex Records 10".

The OG version of Rock City also got released in digital form on the Redball soundtrack. Trifekta tried to license a CD release of all five tracks early this century, but the band denied 'em.

PS to Blount: the JJJ Mix-Up was Dexter. Sadly the last twenty minutes never got broadcast because of the previous show running late and the Rage cross-feed being pre-programmed in...

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 28 February 2004 05:12 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

from theavalanches.com website:

"The Avalanches have completed a remix of 'Chico' by Sweden's The Concretes, taken from their recent self-titled album. It will be released on the CD single 'Seems Fine' on Sep 20, as well as a limited-edition, one-sided 7" single on Sep 27."

(I've been really enjoying the Concretes album already!)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

but when the album, when.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

In 3 years of ILX Avalanches love, no one has ever mentioned 'Information' (including me, funnily enough), which Rex used as the b-side to the 'Electricity'-better-thanthe-album-single version. Have none of you heard it? It's a glitchy, cut-up string-swept, helium-chorused beauty!

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I have not heard this!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

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