― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
- MBGATE = title acronym- all song titles are six characters- the lyric of "MBGATE" is the sentence from Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman where the narrator "dies"
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 5 February 2006 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― rajeev (rajeev), Sunday, 5 February 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Can this really be five years old next month? I hope there's a new one soon.
I've been listening to most of the Tundra stuff I've acquired over the years today, partly prompted by reading Pitchfork's review of YACHT which claims they sound like they're trying to do what MBGATE does (not so much to me, but hell, I wish someone would), and getting excited googling recent live reviews which mention new tracks.
Lots of remixes in the meantime, of course, some of which are really great, most of which follow the pattern (bit which prominently features vocals from original and I don't really get into) (bit which sounds like ALL-NEW TUNDRA TRACK with occasional spatterings of original chorus and makes me want to tell everyone this is the best thing ever and oh gosh I have to play it again, so I replay the first bit and remember I don't like the original vocals, but but hey! here's three minutes of Max Tundra genius on the end, and...)
Oh yeah, and once Resonance restarts its regular programming (next week, maybe?) Mr Tundra will be doing a show on Saturday afternoons which I'm looking forward to. Missed the first one, unfortunately (anyone here record it?), but the tracklist is up here. Something else to tide me over until a new album. Please?
(also, sorry for yet more parentheses, but that Cozen post upthread - "the record is so fidgety, like he's saying "look look!!!" and when you turn to look at it he's already saying "but, oh yeah, as well..." - there's this boundless joy that is hard to not be affected by" - is the most OTM thing I've read about MT anywhere)
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I do really like this record, but I never really got into it. I should really give it another go, I suppose.
― I know, right?, Sunday, 29 July 2007 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Proclaimed his MySpace blog in May of 2006:
"My new record will contain around ten brand new songs, but thanks to my laboriously luddite working methods it's taking me anything up to three months just to record one track. Domino will be releasing this LP; this might happen as early as this year, but then again, what's the rush?
That said, I'm deliriously excited about these new songs. They make everything else I've ever recorded sound more insignificant and ordinary. I really should spend less time on Myspace and get them finished."
Fingers crossed. I was traveling this summer and had only a half-dozen albums with me on cassette. MBGATE soundtracked a disproportionate share of my bus rides and never got old.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
playing @ the whitechapel gallery on oct 26th. same night as the boredoms :(
― t_g, Thursday, 4 October 2007 11:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i like some of his less "wacky" stuff.
― max r, Thursday, 4 October 2007 11:46 (sixteen years ago) link
nice sounding remix of tunng's bullets, previewable on boomkat
― jermainetwo, Thursday, 11 October 2007 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
this album rocks
― chaki, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 23:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought this was going to be about a new album : (
― I know, right?, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link
These are both awesome:
13. Paul McCartney: Coming Up 15. So Long, Farewell (The Sound Of Music)
― Mark Rich@rdson, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
AGREED
― chaki, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Max Tundra has very, very nearly completed his third album. (2 hours ago.)
― nabisco, Friday, 15 February 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
are you his facebook friend?
― s1ocki, Friday, 15 February 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago) link
and can you tell us what he wrote after heath ledger died?
― ^@^, Friday, 15 February 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
MySpace friend
― nabisco, Friday, 15 February 2008 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
My fake/crappy electronic music is friends with his real/awesome electronic music.
― nabisco, Friday, 15 February 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
does myspace have status updates now?
― s1ocki, Friday, 15 February 2008 21:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I think you guys are ignoring the exciting point here
― nabisco, Friday, 15 February 2008 22:22 (sixteen years ago) link
that myspace is cool!
― s1ocki, Friday, 15 February 2008 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
You guys really should listen to his radio show, you know...
But yes, super-excited for new album.
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 16 February 2008 02:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Max Tundra has finished his album (On Friday).
― nabisco, Sunday, 6 April 2008 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, you're really following that story!
― I know, right?, Sunday, 6 April 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link
is myspace cool?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 April 2008 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm excited
― cutty, Sunday, 6 April 2008 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
― chaki, Sunday, 6 April 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
best news ever
― Creeztophair, Sunday, 6 April 2008 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I am happy about this news.
― Bee En Juan, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
sweet!!!
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 April 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Oct. 20?
http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=95;-1;-1;-1&sku=841756
― Bangelo, Saturday, 2 August 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
got this from mt the other day, and is great
― Dominique, Saturday, 2 August 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Totally great. Awe-inspiring. Can't stop listening to it.
― Owen Pallett, Saturday, 2 August 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah
― I know, right?, Saturday, 2 August 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it similar in style to the last one? How about some details?
― Mark Rich@rdson, Saturday, 2 August 2008 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
It sounds like 'Steppin' Out' played at 45 rpm.
― Owen Pallett, Sunday, 3 August 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
very excited for this
― cutty, Sunday, 3 August 2008 10:39 (fifteen years ago) link
It sounds like 'Steppin' Out' played at 45 rpm. :D :D
― t_g, Monday, 4 August 2008 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Sooo psyched for this. Glad to hear such positive reviews already!
― Vinnie, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Owen Pallett, Saturday, 2 August 2008 20:42
^^^heh
― CharlieNo4, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Max Tundra poos FRAGRANT SPRING RAINSTORMS
― nabisco, Monday, 4 August 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
'"Parallax Error Beheads You" will be released by Domino on 13th October this year,' says the email update.
Real title? No idea. Made me laugh though. Well, smirk in an office-inappropriate sort of way. Excited by the prospect of finally having new Max Tundra in my life!
― a passing spacecadet, Thursday, 7 August 2008 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/maxtundra - new song "A Truce" is lovely.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 24 August 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
ha nothing else sounds like max tundra, maybe "one size fits all" zappa--
"a truce" is great
― cutty, Sunday, 24 August 2008 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Note: "A Truce" isn't a "new song," really -- it's from that comp of musicians doing David Shrigley items, not a dribble from new-album stuff.
It is pretty great, though, yes.
― nabisco, Sunday, 24 August 2008 20:48 (fifteen years ago) link
A song that kinda reminds me of Max Tundra...
Elma Mayer 'My First Kazoo' from the 1985 comp 'a beginner's guide to COMA'
This was posted on Mutant Sounds, but there's still cheap (and sealed!) copies available for just $10 on the Rotary Totem website.
― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 25 August 2008 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link