Luomo: The Present Lover

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Can someone who understands them post the lyrics to the title track?

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 17 September 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago) link

I've always heard it as (in the order that the cut-up vocals appear:

I'm the present, the true lover...
Life, whatever (forever?); no nobody does it better, does it better...
Would you be mine? My silver, would you be mine my most moment, my most moment...
hunting for you, hunting for you...
How could you leave, how could you leave it all behind...

I can't remember any other lyrics in it off-hand. It's not supposed to make sense really, although all the vocals imply a lot.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 17 September 2004 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

vladislav is doing the production on the new gold chains and sue cie record...!

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:32 (twenty years ago) link

"What Good" is my favorite as well, it's that little gentle, extremely quiet/subtle keyboard thing going on.

"Shelter" is pretty wicked too...live it was a revelation.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago) link

its on soulseek, vinyl rip but at 256, two excellent tracks though the second might have a bassline a little too close for comfort to "beat it" but it still sounds great. first track might be one of the best pop songs of the year.

― twelve, Friday, 17 September 2004 02:45 (twenty years ago) link

I'm pretty sure a lot of vocals on The Present Lover are just cut up syllables, particularly the main refrain in the 'hunting for you' section.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:49 (twenty years ago) link

who has it on slsk?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:50 (twenty years ago) link

yes please tell me

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:53 (twenty years ago) link

Please please you have no idea how happy I would be.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

I am nordicskilla on slsk if you want to whisper it.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

WHERE IS A SERIOUS GIRL WHO REALLY AIMS LUOMO

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

what

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

what what (uh)

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

Have you heard it yet, amateur!!!st?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

I'm guessing that is a yes.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:03 (twenty years ago) link

i think am's inner noise dude has been peeking out lately

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago) link

That's a rude way to talk about his person.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:05 (twenty years ago) link

well isn't he usually rude? i find his noise side to be quite the gentleman.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:06 (twenty years ago) link

no i haven't heard it yet. :-(

i'll probably need someone to copy it for me since i haf no money. hint hint (what what) (uh).

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago) link

Yes, I will do it for you. But Jaymc has it and he lives in the same city as you. And you know him.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago) link

He is also about to receive my microhouse mixes...eventually.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link

ok, maybe i'll ask him, if he can forgive me for not making it to his show.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link

am!!st once you get your new imac you can run soulseek/nicotine.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link

i just spent $650 on plane fare so i'm not buying a new imac anytime soon.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago) link

ok well no more complaining about no money for MUSIC then

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago) link

Luomo is everything I love about music.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:20 (twenty years ago) link

does he have a giorgio moroder moustache? cos that's about 45% of what i love about music.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

definitely sounds like beat it.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

actually, it's the bass line from billie jean.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago) link

NO IT'S SMOOTH CRIMINAL.. really

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:23 (twenty years ago) link

whoa, i was just talking about the first track. the b-side is direct beat it ripoff, no doubt.

this must have been a michael jackson themed release.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:29 (twenty years ago) link

does the cover feature bobo jacking off a llama?

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:30 (twenty years ago) link

that would be a hint.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:30 (twenty years ago) link

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:33 (twenty years ago) link

i think i drank too much spicy v8 tonight.

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Friday, 17 September 2004 03:37 (twenty years ago) link

Has anyone heard this domenico ferarri/luomo thing?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago) link

AMATEURIST, YOU WILL GET THIS AND "ALPHABETICAL" NEXT TIME I SEE YOU!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:44 (twenty years ago) link

I am happy that other people think "What Good" is the best track, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:46 (twenty years ago) link

"Talk in Danger" is my favorite - babbling subdued-hysterical desire.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

"The Present Lover" could be my favorite Luomo's tune from TPL album, but all Luomo tunes are very astonishing. That moment of The Present Lover song, where rhythm is starting after vocal introduction, is probably one of the most moment where house music is making you start to dance immidiatly. Same feeling I have with "Market" opening track of Vocalcity album...but prologue is more longer. Or I should say I have this feeling every time when I listen Luomo.

btw:
Did anybody hear Domenico Ferrari vs. Luomo - "Kick" remixes ?

― bojan (bojanm), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link

the new luomo/raz ohara tracks "give it away" and "on a runaway" are awesome. luomo is just such a genius. he's the only one on the planet whom i can forgive the straight bass drumm.

imagine he put some more effort into drum programming!

― xenografia, Friday, 17 September 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago) link

he's the only one on the planet whom i can forgive the straight bass drumm.
imagine he put some more effort into drum programming!

House music will NEVER DIE. Also, the 4/4 kick is absolutely intrinsic to Luomo's music.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link

i go for "So You" as the finest thing on TPL.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link

me heart luomo!

― hector (hector), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:20 (twenty years ago) link

xenografia let's be friends

― adam. (nordicskilla), Friday, 17 September 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

house music is long dead, spencer, at least as a creative force, and vocalcity was at the same time its glourious summary and one of its pinnacles. 4/4 kick is not intrinsic to his music. on "the present lover" he's trying to do uk-garage. he doesn't quite succeed rhythmically, yet it's a good track. sparse breakbeats work well with his way of cutting together vocal samples. in fact what he does with vocals is not unlike uk-garage's "vocal science", except that where the latter takes its rhythms from dancehall/ragga, luomo looks back further in time, to dub.

― xenografia, Friday, 17 September 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link

now i owe jaymc two serbian man-hugs

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Saturday, 18 September 2004 01:41 (twenty years ago) link

house music is long dead, spencer, at least as a creative force

The first time I heard this was in 1991. And then again in 1994. and again in... I remember when a clerk at Amoeba told me that they removed the house section because drum n bass was "where everything was headed". In fact, people have been declaring the death of the 4/4 kick since the mid-70s.

Also, Luomo's actual stab at garage-y syncopation happens on "Melt (AGF Dlay edit), and it's actually quite successful. However, it's not as successful as the slow burn 4/4 thump on the album - on 'Vocalcity' it's like he actually makes us believe that the heart beats at a constant 120 bpm. As for UK Garage's vocal science and how it "takes its rhythms from dancehall/ragga", well, half of UK Garage is 4/4 and the vocal science comes directly from American Garage House music - specifically the dubs. Todd Edwards turned it into a science and he only records in 4/4 (although I wish he'd mix it up a bit). I'd be cautious about the notion of 'progressing' 'beyond' 4/4. Also, please note that I love 2-Step, grime and breaks as much as anyone...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 18 September 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link

god spencer shut up house music is dead!!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 18 September 2004 02:23 (twenty years ago) link

actually didn't we decide in that great house debate that it was the style of music least prone to major innovation (ie. breaking its own rules and becoming something else) but at the same time most accomodating to (natch) micro-innovation?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 18 September 2004 05:48 (twenty years ago) link

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