winston its still lindstrøm but way more proggy/druggy/scape-y. i think it definitely qualifies as an evolution--the closest thing i can think that hes done yet is nummer fire en (tho to be fair i might be saying that cause its the only other one as long as this one?)
― max, Saturday, 5 July 2008 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
grand ideas is the most disco, the rest are totally 'balearic' in the less dance-y sense
― max, Saturday, 5 July 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
listening to this on the airplane yesterday, flying way above this incredibly bright wavy cloudscape and then descending through it into the rain was @_@
― s1ocki, Saturday, 5 July 2008 07:23 (fifteen years ago) link
did i use that right
― s1ocki, Saturday, 5 July 2008 07:24 (fifteen years ago) link
d@_@b
― max, Saturday, 5 July 2008 14:10 (fifteen years ago) link
did you just call me a dweeb
― s1ocki, Saturday, 5 July 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
no i drew a portrait of u listening on ur headphones
― max, Saturday, 5 July 2008 14:21 (fifteen years ago) link
///0d@_@b
― max, Saturday, 5 July 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ thats you on your headphones next to the airplane window while its raining outside
lol
― s1ocki, Saturday, 5 July 2008 15:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm telling you tho, it was something else.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 6 July 2008 06:28 (fifteen years ago) link
That title track is so... I don't know. My cup runneth over. Never been so glad with my 1,5+ hrs daily commute.
― willem, Sunday, 6 July 2008 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
just before 7 mins into the last track is ALFJELIJFELIJl
― deej, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 01:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Ohhhh, this is sooooo dreeeeeamy. ILM Hive Mind, once again I salute you.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
i interviewed him and believe it or not, i kind of liked the album less after hearing him talk about it. it is very good--epic, atmospheric, groovin-- but i can't buy what he said about 'pushing the form' or anything like that. it's basically like Lindstrom doing a fantastic driving/workout mix, imho.
also, though i've mentioned this in the bobbins thread, i think that there's also a bit of jan hammer in him, more than i've ever heard before.
― the table is the table, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 19:00 (fifteen years ago) link
petition hp to release the yacht rock track we did
― Dominique, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 02:24 (fifteen years ago) link
ya table i think theres a ton of jan hammer in this esp. in the title track
― max, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
didn't realize 'grand ideas' is the track 'musikal overtones' used in the lindstrom & prins thomas essential mix from last summer until i heard it today
― san frandisco, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I kind of lost interest in Lindstrom (less so PT) over the last 18 months or so but I absolutely love this. It makes me want to get a train through the Swiss Alps wearing a pair of outsized sunglasses and an atrocious sweatband.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Can I just use this exact point of the universe to point out that the version of Boney M Down on Reinterpretations is the greatest thing ever.
― I know, right?, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
funny, i'd lost interest in him too. but i got assigned to interview him and got the album, and was kind of floored by it. and despite what some think of as the 'wankiness' of the last track, i think it is totally awesome.
i must say, though, that i am glad i am done writing that piece.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
so what Jan Hammer are you guys hearing in this? Miami Vice soundtrack? because i've been listening to a LOT of hammer lately and not hearing it. but i'm listening to his more fusion/pop/beardy stuff.
― jaxon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I hear less Hammer and more Cerrone (especially in the title track, which smacks of "Supernature" to me)
― jamescobo, Thursday, 10 July 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
and how come my miami vice soundtrack lp doesnt' have crocket's theme. that's the one everyone seems to love, no? is that only on 12"?
― jaxon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 19:13 (fifteen years ago) link
his TV show stuff, and all of the incidental stuff he did for Miami Vice.
and Crockett's theme is only available on the best-of Miami Vice CD, and the Miami Vice Volume 2 (season 2) LP, which runs about 50 cents in most places, and also includes "Take Me Home" by Phil Collins.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
cerrone AND Faltermeyer, methinks.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
dudes this was also awesome driving through the czech countryside in the rain
― s1ocki, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i like (not being sarcastic) when ppl get so excited about a record that they start telling everyone what they are doing when they listen to it.
"I was eating slices of cheese and watching maury on mute ... this record is so dope!!!"
― deej, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, me too. i really liked sitting in Dolores park listening to it on a sunny day last week.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i played it in my kitchen while doing dishes, which was way more fun when listening to this than the new nas
― deej, Thursday, 10 July 2008 21:36 (fifteen years ago) link
That third track is the closest to really capturing the DJ set vibe - the first 10mins or so are all "you've been listening to West Coast a lot haven't you?" and then that slower funk thing comes in and it's like he's just effortlessly layered one record over the other. It's one hell of a moment.
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 July 2008 12:59 (fifteen years ago) link
it's loads better than west coast
― lex pretend, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Matt: rite! lex: rong!
― mizzell, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Flipsides of the same coin. It's all good.
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Duh Matt, West Coast has indie vocals.
― Tim F, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
(still got love tho lex)
(I listened to Nivea's "Parking Lot" tonight and thought of you)
Carry on Rest-of-ILM - I haven't heard this album yet but desperately want to.
― Tim F, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
(Sorry T_G - it's not really cool to post whole albums here)
― Matt DC, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry!
― t_g, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Really great album indeed. I've been listening to this and the Alex Moulton for a week or so everyday on my commute that's almost exactly the same length as those albums.
― Jibe, Friday, 11 July 2008 13:45 (fifteen years ago) link
jax 'crockett's theme' is on the volume one of pure moods
― max, Friday, 11 July 2008 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
which is frankly a must-own
Can't think of much to articulate about this yet but I deffo like it, majorly for 'The Long Way Home' when it just *ascends* (deej said the same thing a while back I guess?)
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i have zero use for anything I've heard from this guy before this, but i'll definitely be buying this album. after one listen i'd say it has some serious 'classic' potential for me.
― rockapads, Friday, 11 July 2008 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
-- deej, Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
hahah totally
― s1ocki, Friday, 11 July 2008 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
this record really lends itself to that kind of shit tho--its so consciously (esp the title piece) a 'soundtrack' joint that it makes the setting in which you listen to it really important.
― max, Friday, 11 July 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
the first record i think of when i think about music doing that is 'right here, right now' by fatboy slim
― deej, Friday, 11 July 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
its not just the record in this case either its what lindstroms been saying abt it
― max, Friday, 11 July 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
right now i am listening to it in my kitchen posting to ilx
― max, Friday, 11 July 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I am listening to it at work and it's making my copyediting SO EPIC
― dmr, Friday, 11 July 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Now, WYGIGT v Lindstrom and Prins Thomas v II v It's a Feedelity Affair v Real Life is No Cool would be interesting, though the Christabelle one is probably too new.
― moron oil (Gukbe), Sunday, 10 January 2010 00:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm totally torn as to this vs West Coast. On the one hand this doesn't have Out There or Indo on it, but on the other, it does flow like a motherfucker, and take you on a coherently awesome journey...
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Sunday, 10 January 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i would take WYGIGT over West Coast, but it's vv close.
all lindstrom poll would be impossible though - i love them all so much for different reasons.
― Roz, Sunday, 10 January 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
that studio album is nowhere near as good as anything lindstrom has done
west coast just sounds like those shitty 'funk' albums on factory that no one except tony wilson gave a damn about
lindstrom poll would be interesting for the debate but almost as hard to choose as the fever ray poll. he does too many different things too well to pick just one
― Karen Tregaskin, Sunday, 10 January 2010 13:20 (fourteen years ago) link
no
― max, Sunday, 10 January 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
LJ, listen to "I Feel Space" by Lindstrom, it's amazing.
― Neil S, Sunday, 10 January 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost I hate you
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 10 January 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
It's like Marcello but with less correctness.
― Tim F, Sunday, 10 January 2010 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Louis has it really taken you this long to listen to it? It's like the most LJ-friendly dance album imaginable.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Sunday, 10 January 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Nobody recommended it to me! They ought to have done. Will be pursuing Moulton next.
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Sunday, 10 January 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, In Sides is slightly more LJ-friendly imo
― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Sunday, 10 January 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't realise the scandobalearic house mafia were policing this thread. is it problematic that i like lindstrom and don't like studio?
the yelpy 80s robert smith vocals on the studio are distracting to me. never heard lindstrom sing. also lindstrom no matter what kind of music he's doing has a certain smoothness and perpetual flow to his music. studio have a jerky fractured factory feeling that reminds me of a certain ratio. it interferes with me trying to get my cosmic disco groove on like i'm being needled in the kidneys by those basslines when i'm trying to lie back in the sun
― Richard D JAMMs muthafuckas! (Karen Tregaskin), Monday, 11 January 2010 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
"Problematic" only in the sense of being wrong. If it helps you to parse, Marcello's always been king of the "I was there the first time and saw through it even then" dismissals. Though he might add some allusion to actually telling Tony Wilson as much.
I like yr imagery in that last post, kidneys etc.
― Tim F, Monday, 11 January 2010 12:08 (fourteen years ago) link
(and "wrong" only in the sense of "my mileage varies substantially", obv)
― Tim F, Monday, 11 January 2010 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
the yelpy 80s robert smith vocals on the studio are distracting to me
definitely - though i love studio in their non-vocal moments (that d.lissvik solo album was better than west coast, i thought)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Monday, 11 January 2010 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
studio have a jerky fractured factory feeling that reminds me of a certain ratio
not hearing this at all
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 11 January 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago) link
so many varieties of rong in only 2 posts
― psychgawsple, Monday, 11 January 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG this album. I have no idea why I missed it for so long, but so glad for finding a used copy the other night. This is so so so great. Wishing I'd have had more time to import the bonus disc of the Prins Thomas edits though, I want more.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 26 May 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
Going on a train right across the Alps in a couple of months, might have to dig this out again.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:02 (twelve years ago) link
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we all fell space since the loft era and the paradise garage. I fellspace and universe every time music gets kosmic and synthetic andshouts body and soul. Then from New york to chicago, over Detroit with gary numan's cars, italian and electronic european cerrone andmoroder things ... All the sounds are compressing and invite us togather, wherever we come from; that is all about with scando-med music. Travel all over the Whord by the extremities. North and south,black and white, find out what common is between krautrock and discoor the possible alliance of rythm. That music is utopic like the hippies were at least.Dreamy and psychedelic, background the Sun of the baléares and the everlasting scandinavian summer !
-- laure oth, Friday, 16 September 2005 11:51 (2 years ago) Link
bears repeating
― Tim F, Thursday, 26 May 2011 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
i fell space and universe = chop world down w/ kosmische feels
― j., Thursday, 29 January 2015 01:08 (nine years ago) link
love this fucking album
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 29 January 2015 01:15 (nine years ago) link
if you're looking for a different experience check out the LP - quite different edits and cool in its own right.
― skip, Thursday, 29 January 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
Universe?
― the most painstaking, humorless people in the world (lukas), Thursday, 29 January 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Inspired by this thread, I just copped the vinyl for $10 on eBay. Looking forward to blissing out to it!
― A big indietronica fan (Whitey on the Moon), Friday, 30 January 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
damn, i never find good deals on eBay. I should try harder I think. anyway, i bought this on vinyl too and it's a great listen.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 30 January 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
the title-track especially has aged so exquisitely
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Sunday, 22 August 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
It’s magical, one of my favorite songs ever.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 23 August 2021 11:35 (two years ago) link
“grand ideas” is still so thrilling
― Roz, Sunday, 17 March 2024 14:54 (one month ago) link