CLASSIXX

album immediately samples "seven wonders" and i think to myself "oh this must be the place"

Haha that's what it is. That's been bugging me all day.

Shy Child kind of got there first by immediately sampling "Everywhere" on their second album </sad fan boy>

another sample request: what's the female vocal that starts around 2:00 on dominoes?

Tarzan Boy?

wow well spotted, totally thrown by the pitch shift

this album is fantastic btw

They're playing in my town tonight and I would kinda want to go see them but they're touring with/opening for the Presets who I can't fucking stand.

ive had brunch w/ classixx twice but never seen them live

see if you can get brunch with them would be my advice

braggin

had a go of this the other day, wasn't impressed really but will try again. feel like this has been done to death last few years.

it sounds like sally shapiro without the songs.

Yeah it kinda feels like they should have released this album three years ago, there's a real 'Magician-remixing-Cut-Copy' vibe to the whole thing. I mean it's an enjoyable record but it feels like a furrow that's been pretty comprehensively ploughed by now.

Keen students of the Daft Punk/Pharrell debate from three weeks ago should note that these are exactly the sort of terrible disco vocalists I was talking about. Who is this Jeppe guy that these dudes all bring in to honk over the top of their records? His unjustified land-grab is worse than Emeli Sande and Hitler, dammit.

yeah I like the album but DO YOU LIKE BASS is a bit of a turnoff

I'll give it another go today - I've tried twice and found it pleasant but switched to Random Access Memories or a DJ mix after two/three tracks.

i was/am not as deep in this scene, so it's newer to me and i'm enjoying it.

DO YOU LIKE BASS is vile tho.

lol the jeppe song has been a popular single for three or four years now

Yeah it's been knocking about for ages but I'd kind of blotted it out.

after living with a while i've downgraded this album to pleasant and enjoyable rather than WOW MUST HYPE but its high points are pretty high. definitely not as boring as random memories

it's nice there's only 2/3 dance albums released a year so we can compare them all

god forbid two retro-ish discoey dance albums that are released within a week of each other should be mentioned in the same sentence

They aren't even trying to do the same thing though.

neither are most albums, yet people compare works in the same broad field all the time, as i'm sure both you and local garda have done many a time

yeah I like the album but DO YOU LIKE BASS is a bit of a turnoff

Really enjoyed this on first listen last night but yeah, this. Pretty sure I'll skip that one next time around.

i dig that song but also felt it didn't really fit with the album. felt like they tried to make an album edit of an already hugely popular single and the compromise didn't really pay off.

ppl should try the single version or the treasure fingers remix:

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

miss u summer 2010 ;_;

neither are most albums, yet people compare works in the same broad field all the time, as i'm sure both you and local garda have done many a time

Not when the functional intention is totally different though. I'd have less problem comparing this to, say, the last Lindstrom album or a Permanent Vacation comp.

i didn't realise jeppe is the big lad from junior senior. i thought it was the bloke from shiny toy guns at first.

treasure fingers remix was good - reminding me of things like triple x 'feel the same', galleon, aloud etc.

i didn't realise jeppe is the big lad from junior senior

Lol seriously?

ha, i always wondered who jeppe was too

"the big lad from junior senior"

classixx have got him in to do a job on vocals

Not sure Nancy Whang could do it on a wet Wednesday at Stoke, just saying.

what happens on wet wednesdays

random access penalties

Disco hoofs.

Yep. Jeppe is the Senior half of Junior Senior.

He's also cowrote Lady Gaga's Born This Way.

getting a lil' no doubt - spiderwebs vibe from nancy whang

this album is great!

is a bit weird that i'll get you is on it tho, it's been on my gym playlist for years now

posted about this upthread already, but all three official remixes for "hold on" are great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTG7kdI8STw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCk4i6CYnBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJvJN6_TXd0

http://open.spotify.com/album/07nFPB6OfiTSCgyRKpUWZx

i'll get you is a blog house-era classic btw

this album is really cool, agreed it's lost much of its zeitgeist-y energy but it's a pretty strong record

opening track 3 min. mark is teh bomb

this whole thing is teh bomb

https://soundcloud.com/innovativeleisure/classixx-valley-vacation

the sax is a real tease

The entire album's a bit much but I really like the track with the the Fleetwood Mac Seven Wonders interpolation in it. (Hanging Garden?)

with the nice weather this album is on constant rotation. hard to find fault with any of it really

yeah, it's perfect sugary summer bliss.

I'm into it