Why is LFO's "Frequencies" still...

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No, a performance.

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

They were at a club and Dave was hosting. Maybe The Limelight?

Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:01 (nineteen years ago) link

NO WAY!

I do own the RSW In Video video...as well as a promtional poster for Soundclash that I got mounted ages ago but never hung up. Should do that soon.

Sometimes I think RSW is the greatest band of all time, for real. I love most of their stuff, and especially a few of those singles/dub mixes that don't show up on the CDs. Stuff like Space Gladiator Dub and Probably a Robbery (12 gauge turbo). The mixes of Women Respond to Bass, Manphibian and Mash-Up. This is some of their best stuff and most people who only own the CDs have never heard it.

Not knowing much about house music OR hip-hop at the time I never really had a context for RSW. Now I know. Fast golden age of rap + Pal Joey and Todd Terry + Dub = RSW

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Can I add to the RSW love? Thanks, g'day. I still believe that they were the not-so-secret precursors to the Chemical Brothers, by way of, say, the Specials (Terry Hall version).

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I've decided my next task is to digitize all that stuff and compile it:

Probably A Robbery (12 Gauge Turbo)

Space Gladiator (Dub) if you haven't heard this, it's not Space Gladiator (Satelite of Dub) which is a more related remix of Space Gladiator, but a totally different club cut, completely slamming.

The Phantom (Turntable Scratch Mix)

Women Respond to Bass (12" Vocal Mix)
Women Respond to Bass (Women Respond to Terror Drums)
Women Respond to Bass (Women Respond to Heaven)

I don't think any of those have been on CD. There was a Women Respond CD single but I've never seen it.

The Thunder II CD single is essential for Thunder II, Manphibian, Mash-Up and 2 later versions of Biting My Nails, (Bass Numb Chapter) and (Sound System Plays a Renegade Tune) There's also a Biting My Nails version 90 or something, I have to check.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm sure there's a RSW thread somewhere.

jed_ (jed), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:50 (nineteen years ago) link

(Dan, before I leave the RSW hijack here, I have some pretty odd RSW vinyl items, in addition to the ones you listed.. contact me elsewhere.)

donut debonair (donut), Friday, 6 May 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Danny, I have some of that RSW stuff on CD singles that were reissued by Mute a few years back. Don't know for sure what tracks, but I DO know that the "Probably..." 12 Gauge Turbo is and I definitely have the "Women Respond To Bass" CD single, so I can attest that it exists!

Thanks for linking (and elsewhere for the kind words) about my write up of that RSW live show on Stylus. Seriously, that night changed my fucking life. I honestly don't think I've ever walked out of a show with my mouth as wide open and my mind as blown EVER. That write up still doesn't even do it justice...

Hutlock (Hutlock), Thursday, 12 May 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Deep Space by Juan Atkins is the greatest techno album ever.
Frequencies is hamfisted and inarticulate compared to the first SAW record, or the second Autechre album, much less Juan at his peak.

Deep Space is the most criminally under-rated and unappreciated electronic music album of the 90's.

-- Disco Nihilist

The Nihilist speaks the truth.

moley, Thursday, 12 May 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Frequencies = still dope beyond all reason

Music should never have changed anymore after my mid 80s (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:37 (fourteen years ago) link

truth

jed_, Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link

wicked album. will put it on tonight. i wish they'd used the 12" version of LFO however. it's excruciating when it fades out so early on the album.

and no way is 'Deep Space' the best techno album, sorry.

sam500, Thursday, 15 October 2009 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link

Frequencies and Advance are 2 of my all-time fave albums.

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 15 October 2009 12:29 (fourteen years ago) link

LFO Frequencies > REO Speedwagon

henry s, Thursday, 15 October 2009 13:37 (fourteen years ago) link

Now you're just talking crazy!

EDB, Thursday, 15 October 2009 14:41 (fourteen years ago) link

i'm a leave this thread alone i think...

dog latin, Thursday, 15 October 2009 14:42 (fourteen years ago) link

the samples didn't really interest me too much, but anyone have anything to say about the Luke Vibert and Autechre covers of LFO and the intro to Frequencies?

EDB, Thursday, 15 October 2009 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link

not heard

pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, 17 October 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link

three years pass...

I really like this peel session from 1990 a lot. Kinda pastoral, reminds me of the black dog.

brimstead, Saturday, 20 April 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link

two months pass...

i just got it for the 3rd time on cd and it is great otherwise i only care for a few songs from the future releases.

xzanfar, Sunday, 23 June 2013 02:22 (ten years ago) link

six years pass...

I really like this peel session from 1990 a lot. Kinda pastoral, reminds me of the black dog.

― brimstead, Friday, April 19, 2013 7:47 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeeeaaah this just got released on vinyl. Much better sound quality than the mp3s i had. TIP!

brimstead, Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link

yes it’s tasty, just picked mine up today

also preordered the reissue of leeds warehouse mix on flash forward

djdirtbagstyle, Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link

two years pass...

Bit random but would anyone in the UK like the LFO stencil kit?

(Having a tidy and can't quite bring myself to throw it out).

djh, Saturday, 18 December 2021 11:51 (two years ago) link

the solo mark bell and gez varley stuff is good too as i have everything available of theirs on cd!

xzanfar, Saturday, 18 December 2021 23:41 (two years ago) link

two months pass...

just listening to Rob's Nightmare Peel Session. urgh so goooooood

Ste, Friday, 11 March 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link


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