New from the DFA...

Jeez, Spencer... is that sarcasm I detect?
This is Nick Sylvester we're talking about. It's not like he's one of those shallow, superficial L.A. people.

it made me think almost the opposite, like the problems i have with some ompakt(ish) tunes...well, sometimes they do sound like just the beginning. there's no there there innit. DFA tunes tend to go through stages as if there's this dance telos moment they wish to achieve. like, Hasn't anyone learned anything from what we learned about making disco tracks, making disco edits that just get better and better and better? made me really excited. do that! i'll do it as long as i can dance to it!

Jeez, Spencer... is that sarcasm I detect?
This is Nick Sylvester we're talking about. It's not like he's one of those shallow, superficial L.A. people.

-- On a Strict El Cholo Diet (fiestasandsiestas(nospam)@yahoo.com), May 9th, 2005.

omg roffle

James: That sounds good. This has to be you and your friends.

Pitchfork: It is. Will you remix it?

James: I'm not sure. I really--

Pitchfork: It's about my ex-girlfriend.

James: Okay, that's--

Pitchfork: She dumped me for an LA type who graduated from Harvard-Westlake. Now I hate Weezer.

James: I don't see why that's--

Pitchfork: I want to crush him with boats.

James: So East Coast.

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/q_and_a.htm

otm. perhaps Michael Mayer should make more song based music, which goes somewhere. bah this is just the usual DFA real band bias thing which always comes through.

I wonder how much further this masculinisation of disco can go!

stir I was being facetious a bit I guess, that's what seems odd about the comment aswell, and probably makes it not specific to Mayer really, not much of his stuff is based on total repetition. Even Kompakt as a label, relative to other dance labels, are quite song based, I'd have said.

Murphy's "you turn that up and down for 7 minutes and mute shit, go fuck yourself" typifies this.

If I want an egomaniacal record once every 7 years I'll come back to you dude.

And there's no programming/synths in DFA productions...

And explain how "song-based" equates to "real band" while you're at it.

what genre?

*Mind you, yesterday's Lush thread was a nice tip.

my point was that Murphy is of the virtuoso/auteur side of things and always will be.

Kompakt are not, and the Kompakt guys for all their overblown images are all still prolific and just get on with making records, which are not massive sprawling masterpieces but anthems specific to their own scene.

Just looking for the reasoning with which both phrases appeared in the same short, facetious paragraph is all.

perhaps Michael Mayer should make more song based music, which goes somewhere. bah this is just the usual DFA real band bias thing which always comes through.

xpost - Ronan, i've no idea whay you treat this stuff like a personal insult to you, esp where the DFA are concerned.

and even if it was, the scene in their case is rather big.

that's what you said: it does seem to champion the local and the folky against the virtuoso auteurs -- which is fair play, but it needs explaining how the products of scenes translate.

I'm not sure how this came to be such a specific Kompakt VS DFA thing, though I'm sure it's my fault.

I am not saying, by default, that labels which are more prolific are better. But since the criticism of the Mayer record seemed to suggest it was just tacked together and rush released, I offer a counter argument, not for the sake of contrarianism, but because I genuinely believe that a more sweatshop style environment produces better music and better art.

There's only so many puffed up pieces you can read about the DFA before actually having to consider how many records they've actually released in the 3 years they've been in the public domain.

Very few. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd say it's not a quality over quantity issue either, there's just been very little to follow the initial excitement whatsoever.

I think this issue reared its head on some other thread when someone freaked out and said I liked Ghostly International.

It strikes me as a reasonable amount to be honest, taking into account blatant 'perfectionist' stance of Murphy's. But I don't like labels and artists that are too prolific right now just because I am not really keeping track of any of it at all.