delia gonzalez & gavin russom - the days of mars

I think I may have a song by them on this really great compilation called "They Keep Me Smiling," on obscure microlabel Uunited Acoustic Recordings. $34.00, but worth it. Seek it out - NICE!

And has that goddamn Luomo remix surfaced yet? Sigh...

xpost, i'm with jed.

i really think they should drop the electro-dance angle (i was sympathetic but unimpressed w/ the juan mclean, J.O.Y., leotard front, etc)

then they could put all their energy into doing things like d&g, more black dice / EYE remixes, more ten-minute drummy kraut pixeltan remixes, etc ... they should produce a kevin drumm album or something ...

here's a fereaky performance shot:

http://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/b_projred/imgsjolund/russom.jpg

http://www.socledumonde.dk/billeder/black_leotard_front_performance_1_web.jpg

Matos called "Casual Friday" the best 15 minute disco tune ever recorded. he may well be right.

http://www.socledumonde.dk/billeder/black_leotard_front__sdm_2004__install_web.jpg

dancer one: "to surprise... you in.... the flesh"
dancer two: "you love me... you must.... confess!"

I was leaving the office
I took off my dress
I put on my overcoat
To surprise you in the flesh
It's written all over my chest
You love me you must confess
You passed the test

thanks for ruining my dance routine!

"yeah (pretentious mix)" - the payoff is the final, spasmodic timbale/drum solo at the end, where after eleven or so minutes of restrained, tasteful percussion-tapping the dude just breaks out into this endless drumroll that ends in what sounds like a whole wall of pots and pans clattering to the floor.

"get up say what (dfa remix)" - the payoff is those endless change-offs between hissy hi-hat action and thugged-out bassline sections ... it's almost like a call-and-response between the parts where the bass is high in the mix and the parts where the hats are real high - it's basically live filter disco, right?

i feel like "casual friday" has the endless noodling of classic instrument-led disco (believe me, i'm a big fan of the joey negro / dj harvey / dimitri sound) but without the freakouts that leaven it. or, put another way, it's like filter disco, without the filters - sort of an endless circular groove (and not really all that functional, compared to the monstergrooves of "yeah" or "beat connection") that goes nowhere.

on which planet again?

you mean like the "I've Lost Control" screaming part, or the weird keyboard wig-outs that occur every few minutes? those aren't freakouts?

from the comments - https://www.facebook.com/142732862075/videos/10153239991977076/

really love the delia gonzalez album from last year. beautiful solo piano...

me too!

http://s3.amazonaws.com/factmag-images/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/delia-gonzalez-horse-follows-darkness.jpg
Delia Gonzalez Horse Follows Darkness
01. ‘In Through The Light’
02. ‘Hidden Song’
03. ‘Roulette’
04. ‘Horse Follows Darkness’
05. ‘Vesuvius’

Horse Follows Darkness is the second record by Delia Gonzalez, her follow up to the album “In Remembrance”. The title is taken from a werewolf genre film her 8 year old son Wolfgang had created. At this time, Wolfgang also turned Delia onto a genre of cinema she had always resisted - the American Western.

"Delia explains that what she observed “was all relevant - the album is based on our personal experience of moving back to America (from Berlin) and the journey that followed. The record is a manifestation of that, and what one creates for themselves under the given circumstances. Coming back to America, I felt like a foreigner and NYC / America felt like the Wild West. Most Westerns from the 1960s to the present have revisionist themes. Many were made by emerging major filmmakers who saw the Western as an opportunity to expand their criticism of American society and values into a new genre.”

The narrative of the record is one of re-encountering the frontier mentality that shaped the country but somehow never faded. This time as a foreigner. The genre of the Western remains pertinent, many of the same stories of that brutally deromanticised era are still relevant today. America hasn’t changed - the cast, times and settings have, but we still hold onto the same ideal. Horse Follows Darkness is essentially a modern electronic soundtrack for the Revisionist Western. Even the idea for the record cover is inspired by one of the most well known modern Westerns, Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs Miller.

The album was recorded with Abe Seiferth at Transmitter Park studios, which Delia likens to “going to the finest tailor”. Abe became an integral part of the recording, playing guitar and helping to suggest experimenting with different synthesizers, something Delia was keen to do. Delia refers to Abe as a magical and incredibly intuitive collaborator” regarding the sound of the record. The music that emerged from these recording sessions combines a range of influences - from the compositions of Erik Satie to ‘Salon De Musique’, the solo piano record by Su Tissue (of the L.A. punk band Suburban Lawns). The record also took on a much different shape and sound with the introduction of the Sequential Circuits Prophet VS, as well as a vintage Korg Poly synth and the Roland SH-101. The golden era Krautrock recordings of bands like Neu!, Cluster & Harmonia were touchstones as well, the repetition, swirling soundscapes and locked-in rhythm tracks.”

oh yeah

I never really got into In Remembrance but this sounds like it's gonna be great

is there a release date for this?

tomorrow!

whoa! need to buy this. thanks

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/05/05/delia-gonzalez-horse-follows-darkness-review/

uhh... the title track is a cover of LCDSS "Something Great" / 45'33" ?

Send me a PM if you want a Bandcamp code for this- I got an instant download for buying it, then a second code in the actual LP sleeve. First come first serve.

OK, the code's been claimed

“I’m the happiest I’ve ever been,” Russom said, “but I have my good days and my bad days. On my bad days, it really sucks and I wait until I get home to go to the bathroom—which is such a basic thing.”

https://www.grindr.com/into/lcd-soundsystems-gavin-russom-comes-out-as-transgender/

from the LCDSS thread:

I suspected that was GR but he's unrecognisable these days. I wonder what made him change from weirdo wizard to... guy in a baseball cap and t-shirt.

― Heavy Doors (jed_), Monday, May 8, 2017 5:46 PM (one month ago)

thinning hair

Good for her!

Love this: https://deliagonzalez.bandcamp.com/track/vesuvius

nice

"horse follows darkness" is really excellent

A new triple-LP by Black Meteoric Star, and a free 2hr 37min DJ mix by Gavilán Rayna Russom to promote it. Plus more new & archival Russom releases at the Bandcamp link!

whoa thanks

casual friday was the best thing released on dfa in its heyday

this is my opinion

Carl Craig mix of Relevee came close

the correct opinion xp

I prefer "Hey Coach! (I Read Your Diary)"

lol rude

I love Casual Friday to death. One I managed to play it during a set, blended into something else around the halfway point, played other stuff for an hour or so, then blended back into the second half of it to end the set; it went over REALLY well.

I would also call Days of Mars the best LP ever released on DFA.

Yeah probably right. Feel like I'm ready to hear some DFA stuff again, most best of stuff focuses on the first golden age (circa 04?) But would really enjoy a recap of the good stuff coming out around 09 that felt like a great second wind

the two Still Going singles (07 and 09) on DFA are great!

always loved “too much love” rub n tug remix fwiw

relevee carl craig mix fuiud

yah to both of these

probably my track of late 2018, early 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq_IWcNfJOk

2007-2010ish stuff includes (the physical release of) 45:33, You Are The Space Invader, Hercules & Love Affair, Happy House, Brooklyn Club Jam, Goblin City, I'll Keep On Loving You, Fire Eyes, I Will Come Back, Still Going, Oh Missy, Shit Robot, and Synchronize, as well as Black Meteoric Star, The Crystal Ark and the release of Track 5. What a label!

I love this late-era Prinzhorn track too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-d9ou2QXsU

https://i.imgur.com/VXDFE60.jpg

I liked that black meteor star “dawn” single that sounded like a distorted 20 minute John carpenter jam

omg that amy douglas track is fire

I like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1xp6h_D1s

map, check out the crooked man dub of it too.

haha i was just searching for "crooked man" on discogs to see if there are any other good tunes they remixed besides roisin but all i found was this not-great blondie track from 2017

Amy Douglas wrote the new Roisin song, Something More.

It was someone called Bryce Hackford that did that Delia remix brimstead posted (thanks, I had never heard it). I'd never heard of him either but I'm listening to a new album of his, called Safe (Exits) rn, and liking it quite a bit.

first two shit robot singles are gloriously strange and deserve more love

re: 2009, this is evergreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce5VDZvjWSc

Why does no one ever talk about the "Track 5" 12"? Both sides (including the Âme remix) are to me the duo's peak. Just listened again on a whim and my opinion has not changed.

Gavilán interview:
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/gavilan-rayna-russom-on-why-she-left-lcd-soundsystem/

Not long after unveiling Voluminous Arts, Russom contracted a severe case of COVID-19. “Largely why I didn’t go to the hospital is because my local hospital is Elmhurst [in Queens, New York], and, at the time there were refrigerator trucks of dead bodies outside,” she said. “There were no beds…. At that point going to the hospital seemed worse than dying on my couch.” Russom says that she still experiences persistent post-COVID symptoms, such as migraines and disorientation, which factored into her hesitance to perform live.

:(