Disco Inferno: please help me out

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), June 14th, 2004."

Ha! I was right!

How more allmusic.com errors do I have to pick out before I win a date with you, Ned?

Ha! Ha!

Anyways, I shall send you my address, Ned. This seems like too great an opportunity to pass up.

You actually have to pay for the cost of the plane ticket.

Oh shit, thank you! D.I. vinyl is criminally hard to find.

This threads new mission should be to track down copies of every EP.

I am listening to "Second Language" right now and am contenter than content.

-- Bimble (grippledybu...), September 14th, 2004."

Pedantry I know, but it's a compilation of their first single, first album, and an EP (plus 'Broken' which was previously unreleased.

The stuff on 'In Debt' *is* indeed great, but it doesn't have the same groundbreaking sampling and stuff that features in 'D.I. Go Pop'.

I paid £9.

Second Language
The Last Dance

Well, a huge thank you to Ned and everyone else who evangelizes in the name of Disco Inferno. I was sold after about 20 seconds of "Love Stepping Out", but by the time I got to "Footprints in Snow"... *swoon*. Personally, I think this is a rare case where comparisons to MBV are entirely appropriate. D.I. Go Pop (the album) is especially dense, and can be at once overwhelming/crushing and incredibly delicate-- even if the sound itself isn't all guitar noise, there is a common thread to my ears. The Avalanches connection is a good one too, and to a lesser extent other sampler guys like Manitoba and Amon Tobin. But D.I. is of course quite singular in a lot of ways too. Certainly I've never heard anything for which the term "kaleidoscopic" is more fitting; in fact - probably due to the nature of the samples - it was a very "visual" listen overall, as long as I'm getting into totally subjective non-descriptions. Enough rambling though.

Question: the mp3s I have of the two EPs that come immediately after D.I. Go Pop don't appear to match up to the descriptions on AMG. For example my "Atheist's Burden" is the one with the big fat booming drum loop, and my "Second Language" has the lyric "taught a little song to only sing when things were going horribly wrong" etc. Would someone mind posting the tracklisting of these two EPs, track lengths included? Here's what I have:

Second Language
1 Second Language [3:00]
2 The Atheist's Burden [4:38]
3 At the End of the Line [2:53]
4 A Little Something [5:06]

It's a Kid's World
1 It's a Kid's World [4:48]
2 A Night on the Tiles [3:59]
3 Lost in Fog [4:22]

Thanks in advance.

The one with the big drum loop is "It's A Kid's World". The lyric you quoted is from "A Little Something".

"The Athiest's Burden" has a weird gloopy Aphex Twin-like 4/4 beat, woozy guitars and starts with the lyric "I took a hell of a chance and it's paid of handsomely.'

"At The End of the Line" is all shimmering guitars and strong, melancholy bass, a bit like Bark Psychosis meets late-era The Church. Probably the most out-and-out beautiful thing DI did.

"A Night On The Tiles" is the weird sample-based one with Edith Piaf and glasses breaking.

"Lost In Fog" is the dark ambient one with lyrics about how "we all live underground".

I'd say the semi-secret ingredient in the 'beautiful' DI songs like "At the End of the Line" is the Durutti Column, but that would be only part of it. I think somewhere in that where-the-HELL-is-it interview I did with Crause he copped to being a massive fan.

Ahh, still a bit starry eyed :) Oh transience, you haven't got me yet.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0001XAQ32.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

tattooed on my stomach.

before i do this, does anybody know if that is the symbal for anything?

my first tattoo, btw.

Help me Obi Wan Kenobe, you're my only hope.

but i do have that one on 12" and cd.

I listened to it on my commute to LA. Awesome stuff