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what's with people hating on disco vocals? LOOVVVE the sylvester vox. i think the thing that's lacking in the supposed new disco-y house-y stuff is decent vocals and performances. girls and guys with chops. where are they? singing pop rnb? at least gimme SOMETHING, even girlish fun vocals a la italo stuff like "feels good" or something you'd find on an august darnell record. it's like that vibe has disappeared from today's productions. i want it back.

― jaime, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link

What about Escort? Lady can sing, that's for goddamn sure.

― Telephone thing, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

seconded, the Escort vocalist is excellent.

for the record, i adore soul/r&b/disco vocals. i don't think i'm 'hating'.

― BATTAGS, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i use 'hating' very lightly. and i wasn't referring only to you either. i'm sometimes surprised when dj's will use dub versions of songs that i think have excellent vocals, performances and/ or lyrics. just me though.

wasn't nuts about 'starlight'. nice try but not quite there. i should really check out their other stuff though.

― jaime, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 01:16 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes vocals can derail a mix.

i may like a vocal version a lot, but in some contexts the dub or instrumental just works better.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a Sylvester 7" with I Need Somebody to Love Tonight that's instrumental, but yeah, I can't imagine not wanting to hear the vocals.

What's worse then not having vocals is having screaming white guy vocals all the time...that has it's place, but we need more jamie principals

― dan selzer, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't nuts about 'starlight'. nice try but not quite there. i should really check out their other stuff though.

Definitely try "A Bright New Life" first. Is SO GOOD.

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

We need more Jamie Principles and Sterling Voids indeed. Also, random Sylvester side-note, but I heard "Rock the Box" for the first time a few months back and my God that's a perfect track right there. Not sure how I'd missed it all these years.

― matt2, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Strange subliminal capitalization of god in that sentence. Christian upbringing won't go away!

― matt2, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

wasn't nuts about 'starlight'. nice try but not quite there.

wow really? I luv that song.

Definitely try "A Bright New Life" first.

I like the vocals on "All That She Is" a little better .... I think if I was gonna put Bright New Life on a mix I'd use the Morgan Geist version!

― dmr, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

have we talked about A Mountain Of One?

They covered "Can't Be Serious" and have very mysterious/limited pressings similar to WEWW stuff. I haven’t heard much besides what’s on their myspace and the Ginny cover. Their first EP just got a re-press and a second one is supposed to be out soon.

According to this, they're playing live in London this week. Does anyone know if they play live often?

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i was just about to ask about them. listened to a few songs on their myspace about an hour ago. def got the roxy music-ness about them.

― jaxon, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I had an mp3 of the Cant Be Serious cover.

I think I'm gonna pick up that re-press because I like what I hear so far.

― g®▲Ðұ, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Chelonis R. Jones is probably the closest equivalent to Sterling Void/Principle/Owens nowadays.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I think that guy Samwell that sings "what what (in the butt)" is a good candidate, if given a better tune (although i really like the 'what what' beat...)

― BATTAGS, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

^^ yes!

also, who ever sang on the lcd 45/33 first part. (was that a sample?)

― jaxon, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link

ps. alan parsons is killing me right now

― jaxon, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh, I am NOT into those Mountain of One tracks. Voice= turnoff, in this case

― the table is the table, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Michael otm re Chelonis. Love, love, love Chelonis.

― matt2, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago) link

ginny's voice was kind of hurting on the original, but i totally love it.

uhhh, but yeah ... i know people really liked 'starlight' but it was sort of lukewarm feeling for me. something about it just wasn't givin'er, musically and vocally i find it kinda just fades into the background.

i think the song that has given me the most disco joy this year is kotey extra band + chaz jankel doing 'sooner or later'. so damn good on the dancefloor. i RUN to the floor. was listening to that and 'give me your love' and 'i love you more' and realized that i'd also like more strings!

also agree about the sexy house vox - "it's you" being one of my fave vocals of all time. chelonis is a good approximation of that style.

― jaime, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I love "Starlight," but the pressing that I have is kind of sub-par. I usually dont have the best ear for that kind of stuff but I always notice it when I put that record on.

Ive been meaning to check out that kotey extra band 12". Thanks for reminding me.

― g®▲Ðұ, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The new Royskopp back to mine thing is stocked with italo and new wave, but also has "Can't Be Serious" on it as sort of the token cosmic/beardo track.

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link

grady that kotey extra band thing is rally good. the chicken lips mixes are REAL dubby, even by their standards.

― haitch, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:42 (seventeen years ago) link

'give me your love'

oops i meant 'i want your love'

― jaime, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

huge xpost but:

>Aeo (Pt.1 & 2) - Brian Briggs

YES!!!!

This is the awesomest.

― J@cob, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 10:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Out Tomorrow:

Rvng of the Nrds Vol 3 - Mock & Toof

I can't get the sample of the first track to work, but the other two sound alright. Not as exciting as the Betty Botox and Flying Squad ones, but the previous Mock and Toof releases have been more playful and campy, and not so much essential transpotter material.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Also!

Map of Africa full length is coming out some time this summer/fall! Very limited LP release on WEWW. I'm told (but can't say for sure) it will be comprised of new tracks and re-working/re-recordings of the singles.

The unofficial Harvey fanclub has had a thread going on it for a while now.

It is in the forthcoming releases at Piccadilly- with audio samples!- where they are calling it "release of decade."

Based on the samples, some tracks sound a lot less sweaty/balls out and have a more druggy/cosmic sound. I got to hear "Here come the heads" in full a few weeks ago but I was pretty drunk.

― g®▲Ðұ, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

That Kotey Extra Band feat Chaz Jankel.

Love it, love it, love it! i RUN to the floor I wish there was a dancefloor near me to run to.

― Jamie T Smith, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Also loving Allez Allez African Queen, a gorgeous post-punk meets exotica thing, and the Otterman Empire Dharma, which has wild folk/middle eastern violins.

― Jamie T Smith, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

"Digit 2" on that Mock & Toof is some really obvious classic rock song that I can't quite place

― dmr, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

3 be shina williams

― jaime, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i haven't heard it but i believe digit 1 is wire.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i, uh, just realized 'sooner or later' is a moroder track. just as i was thinking "wow people can still WRITE good SONGS!". :\

― jaime, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, this might fall under the "beardo" designation even though it was a semi-hit (IIRC) on Casablanca, but ever since Radio Slave's Eskimo mix reminded me of its existence, Dennis Parker's "Like an Eagle" has been absolutely slaying me.

*edit* ...aaand now I see Lovefingers were on it as of December of last year. Anyway. Still a fucking amazing song.

― Telephone thing, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i think I got it off midnight mike's blog (12am maternal) last year .... which now went to a secret-tracks-only format (no artists or titles)

― dmr, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

"Like an Eagle" was on that james murphy beats in space set from earlier in '06, actually

― deej, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

April 2006

― deej, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

beardo virus multiplying

― dmr, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

...come to think of it, i haven't shaved in a couple days

― deej, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link

i grew one on vacation in march

im a cliche :(

― dmr, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not surprising that there already is a beardo cannon with all the blogs posting such similiar stuff

― Michael F Gill, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

me jumping on the bandwagon = further sign that this shit probably already peaked.

still, as an approach i really like its embrace of diverse genres previously ignored etc... the unifying aesthetic is pretty unique. once this gets calcified into a canon it would take most of the fun out of it i think.

i mean i guess thats already happened but i'm behind enough that it will take that much longer

― deej, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:59 (seventeen years ago) link

if anything i think the movement/trend is just as much a return to dance music/deejay culture's roots, as best I can understand them having been born in 1980.

i understand what you're saying about how its kind of silly/sad that there's a cannon being established. but that's kind of how its always been, hasn’t it? there weren't blogs or pro-tools-fueled edits in the 70's, but in a way, one person sharing a track with others or including it on a mix causing other deejays and music fans to get into it isnt any different from how it all started in the 70's with record pools.

what i think is positive about it all is that a genre in which eclecticism but not just for eclecticism's sake can exist.

yes, we have talked about this before. yes, i read love saves the day and am perhaps not really thinking for myself.

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i agree with these things you have read

― deej, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

things g®▲Ðұ read otm

― deej, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

'like an eagle' was also on that radio slave mix for eskimo last year.

― haitch, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:38 (sixteen years ago) link

"like an eagle" was recorded in 1979 on casablanca records :-O

one-up'd forever

― deej, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Dennis Parker is said to have been an adult film star at the time he released the Jacques Morali produced "Like An Eagle" in 1979.

― deej, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.discomuseum.com/DennisParker.html

― deej, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.onesheetindex.com/pix/5396_1.jpg

more than you ever wanted to know!

― deej, Friday, 20 April 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link

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