delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

RIYL: The scene in "Risky Business" where Tom Cruise is having subruban night-sex with Rebecca DeMornay and the doors fly open and leaves blow in;

First of all, what does RIYL stand for? I can usually figure these out, but this one has me stumped.

Also, I'm a big fan of the Tangerine Dream song from Risky Business, "Love on a Real Train", and even a lot of the copy-cat ambient songs. "Black Spring" reminds me of it. The Global Communications song "8:07", and the ambient remix of Chicane's "Offshore", are my two favorite "Love on a Real Train" wannabes. Any of those songs could be substituted in the movie for that scene (maybe not the Chicane one - too upbeat).

i feel like i should be running somewhere important in the rain while i listen to it.

Hahah: nice image.

Andy K., I absolutely adore your new e-mail addy.

I also deeply love Casual Friday. And the NIN remix too. I would probably feel worse about being such a shameless DFA fanboy if they'd stop being such an awesome label.

OTM. DFA have surprised my by lasting this long without fizzling out, and even if LCDSS and Juan Maclean have disappointed with their full-lengths (at least by the ridiculously high standard they set with the early singles), they've more than made up for it with the less-hyped stuff (the Pixeltan and JOY singles, Dela & Gavin/BLF, the new Black Dice which has come out of nowhere and utterly gobsmacked me, etc). And trendiness aside, they're one of the few labels I follow that has an output that's consistent enough that I can justify picking up every CD release the day it comes out...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000AMUUKI.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

It's very...pink.

http://www.astralwerks.com/black_dice/images/smilingoff.jpg

and the Juan Maclean's "Give Me Every Little Thing":

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000APR5D0.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Have I ever mentioned I really like DFA's sleeve designs? Because I really really do; especially Black Dice releases.

I like this quite a lot! Which is especially surprising given the running time (13 mins) but, wonder... what else is this like?

my lack of Krautrock knowledge (past the corny canon classixx - Tago Mago, Faust, "Phaedra" etc) and of other stuff that is sometimes little more than modulating synths in excecution (M83, Ulrich Schnauss, Slowdive??) leaves me feeling a bit stranded & unsure what to make of this, there's not much of a 'pop' song about it, neither does it feel like anything remotely new. Despite all that, it's engaging (at least whilst playing) and I've yet to feel the impulse to turn it off in the middle.

I'm curious, because most of the above acts (the non-Kraut, more recent stuff) I haven't really taken to, for similar reasons to my antipathy to a lot of the mainstay Morr stuff (Lali Puna & the likes probably excepted). But this little track... there's something *gutsy* about it. Closer to "Loveless", than Stereolab or vague 'electronica'. Maybe it's just the heavy analogue feel. Are they good live?

(kinda obvious I wrote this offline upon reading the thread now, but I'll post. I think I still have a point to ask of some kind here, I'll work out what it was by morning).

But I'll see how it goes :) Thanks for the tip.

it's not just the sounds but also (maybe even more so) the imagery the music evokes that made me draw the comparison

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what????????

anyway this album is awesome

they are called BLACK LEOTARD FRONT - clearly a parody of overserious politcal postpunk tendencies blending into ambisexual "sprockets" aesthetics.

i guess it is a matter of whether the joke works for you or not.

also i will freely admit i am unfairly biased towards pretentious overseriousness as opposed to comedy / the light touch.

also, check out this pic from their nascent site!
http://www.deliaandgavin.com/images/d_g-pic.gif