Is it just me or is Fairmont's "Gazebo"....

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one of the best records of...........all records.

Well, at least one of the best records of the past few years, and an amazing piece of music.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i knew this was a ronan thread!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

haha......it just seems to get better and better. and yes I did play it last night. but I guess its wider appeal kind of struck me cos I've recently been selling border community 12 after border community 12 to one of the Irish radio DJs here, the closest to a John Peel we have.

It's like not even a dance record, more like a carefully arranged selection of weird noises which then shuffle around each other.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I put it in that same 'spookhouse' pigeonhole as 'I Feel Space' and 'Pillowtalk' I guess. It doesn't do enough for me to think of it as amazing though, none of these things do. Impressive but not amazing, you know?

But if it's not even a dance record, how come it gets played? Just something to do with people wanting to hear different ideas on the dancefloor/in that club context? Even if that's 'woah this is really elegant and beautiful but kinda bleak-sounding?'

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, no it definitely causes a similar reaction to the other big records, I just mean it sounds very very different.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

i really really love this record but i don't think it's among the very best of records and, contra stevem, i find it amazing but not impressive, if that makes any sense.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

it is indeed incredible!

i don't think it sounds that bleak-sounding.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

bleak? i find it very joyous. it makes me grin.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

jed OTM @ 12:15

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

i find that with most dance and then i come to ilm and people are all 'melancholic' and 'wistful' and 'bleak'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

(which isn't to say it's not true a lot of the time! but, y'know, focus on the happy.)

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link

It is interesting that the reaction is big tho. I don't quite get it but then I'm not in clubs enough to hear this LOUD in the dark with people all around. Maybe the way it sounds make this experience intentionally seem more surreal, if not unexpected. These tunes are now expected to be big aren't they? Where did that come from, when they're so different? I'm curious about it. Because they seem the antithesis of 'anthemic' or euphoric. Or do they?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe bleak is wrong. But there is something sinister about 'Gazebo', no? But then 'Energy Flash' is bleak/sinister and that's uber-anthem of course.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I think Gazebo is kind of euphoric. Every noise in it is happy, to me.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link

me too.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Ronan is, of course, absolutely correct, Gazebo is magnificent. I find it bitter-sweet mix of euphoria and melancholy. God I'd love to hear it in a club.

― stevo (stevo), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

i still think its the 'first rebirth' that you can take home to meet your mum

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

which is a good thing, a little fluffyness goes a long way,

― 048 (gareth), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

do you think its going to be one of those records that keeps getting reissued every year, with red jerry remixes, for the rest of eternity?

― 048 (gareth), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Fairmont - Gazebo vs Cluster - Hollywood t/s

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

what makes it 'amazing'? what makes it euphoric (given how different it goes about this/how different it sounds to...other models or ways of aiming for that reaction)?

is it really something inherent in the sound of it that would make one think it is happy or bleak, or is it just what we project onto it and what it evokes? (musicians view on this as well as just critics would be cool!). but you can ask this of an endless ream of house tracks.

i think it's okay. i did actually have to ask Lex what it was when he played it out a few weeks back so it was clearly doing something interesting. weirdly when i dl'd and listened to it the next day i couldn't understand what i had been that excited or curious about at the time. but i listened to it twice earlier because of this thread and i started to like it more (again).

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't sleep on "Walk to the Water", y'all.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 14 April 2006 03:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I won't pick one over the other, Good Dog :-)

Stevo, come to Tivoli on the 19th of May. Mayer (!) will spin and Nuño Dos Santos is spinning before him and he's a fan of "Gazebo" - he played it before Vitalic's set in february and boy does it sound good when played loud (even though Tivoli's acoustics aren't really good).

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 14 April 2006 05:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i think this is the record that superpitcher was carrying in a bag around his neck all night, then played during his set. it took me forever to identify it. i like it a lot though!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 14 April 2006 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link

You guys...back in the day the cool people were all over it. :)

― Omar (Omar), Friday, 14 April 2006 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link

those were heady days

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 14 April 2006 10:31 (eighteen years ago) link

I love it. It's sort of... not bleak or melancholic but... portentious in a friendly way. Like a colourful child's drawing of a storm brewing.

Also, Steve, like most of this stuff it needs to be played LOUD to work. It's one of those records that can sound totally somnolent and Boards of Canada-house at home, then an absolute banger when you hear it out.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 April 2006 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link

There's a Sebastian Legere remix that threatens to turn it into an epic trance anthem but ruins it all by anchoring it in a clunky bassline and just not quite reaching the ecstacy zone.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 April 2006 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Listening to it again now, it's the way that low synth string line wants to try and scare you a bit, but not as much as the bouncy plinky bit over the top wants to make friends with you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 14 April 2006 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link

i really like the b-side Gazelle and the trickery of the riff revealing that the plain 4/4 is really 3/4, which i suppose is what reminds me of Cluster. prog!

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Friday, 14 April 2006 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I like that there is a Fairmont track called Mansfield.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 27 April 2006 09:16 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Has anyone seen Fairmont's live set? Any good?

― jeffery (jeffery), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

here's a recent one

― willem -- (willem), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

two years pass...

Jake Fairley/ Fairmont new project: <a href=http://www.myspace.com/bishopmorocco>;Bishop Morocco</a>

guitars and drum machines, they say roy orbison/ the smiths/ twin peaks, i'd add ... the chills?

live debut saturday july 11 @ whippersnapper gallery for those in the toronto area

― jaime, Friday, 3 July 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link

ugh, still can never get the formatting right on this board

― jaime, Friday, 3 July 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

I just got ambushed by this tune in a mix of big warehouse techno having not heard it for years and it took every ounce of restraint in my body not to just start raving on the bus.

― Matt DC, Friday, 19 August 2016 07:59 (seven years ago) link

TUNE

― brimstead, Friday, 19 August 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link

kind of want to dj a party and refuse to play anything other than mid 00s border community tracks

― mh, Saturday, 20 August 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j6zpq4LTW8Y

― mh, Saturday, 20 August 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link

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