<3 u ILX
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 u 2 Spotify haha
holy god. this is...wonderful
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
d/ling now, have always liked his stuff. he used to work in an excellent record shop called Revolver on the Triangle in Bristol. When it shut in the late 90s, rumour was that they chucked all there excess stock in a skip.
― Neil S, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought this couldn't get better than the first two tracks, then I heard Closure. Holy mother of god.
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Dälek should ask to sample the whole of that track and rap over it, btw
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 14:53 (thirteen years ago) link
love the way it builds over the whole first two tracks, from 'bog standard' TEF to 'omg i am being crushed under an ocean of sadness'.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah srsly, at first I was all 'this is some neat dark electro' and then halfway thru part 2 I was basically reduced to 'my god this is the end of days'
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:05 (thirteen years ago) link
only clicked on this thread coz I dimly remembered the dude having produced Hood's two best (by fucking MILES) albums
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
The new one, "The Dark". Tempted to say album of the year, after one listen.
It's my album of the year, and my reaction was the same as yours the first time I heard it. It had been years since I was so floored by an album on the first listen.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
more ppl plz listen to this
when it winds up at like #20 in the ILX year-end ballot a lotta folks are gonna be 'whu'?
but it's shot to my top 3, just like fucken that
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmmm, I should listen to this I guess.
― O Permaban (NickB), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
It's good, more dubby than his earlier stuff IIRC
― Neil S, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
oh shit how did i miss this
i have no time to get to a record store until after retail death march december but maybe i will poke around on line a bit
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
this
this is great
― "Kiss Players♥" (DJP), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
cmon ILX a record hasn't had a first-listen reaction like this since idk A VERY GOOD ALBUM
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Listened to this at full blast while reading about the inhumane incarceration of Bradley Manning. Unsurprisingly, seriously bummed myself out. Incredible bass though.
― e.g. delete via naivete (ledge), Thursday, 16 December 2010 10:29 (thirteen years ago) link
this soundtracks absolutely everything really well
― schlomo replay (acoleuthic), Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, I'm liking this whole dub-rovnik thing.
― O Permaban (NickB), Friday, 17 December 2010 10:15 (thirteen years ago) link
really good album indeed
― sisilafami, Saturday, 18 December 2010 15:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Quite wonderful to hear this, and as an immediate followup to the These New Puritans album at that. Sonically dissimilar but crucially allied in terms of uneasy mood...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 20 December 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hey this is still album of the year you guys
― acoleuthic, Friday, 24 December 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
alright guys, can we do a quick Third Eye Foundation C/D, S/D for a new listener & potential fan? for some reason i just found out abt this guy's origins w/ flying saucer attack (obv. awesome & untouchable) so must explore TEF now
- what do i seek out first?
- what's essential?
- is there anything i should avoid/save for later?
- etc.
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ghost" and "The Dark" would make for a good bookendish overview, I think. Much of the other stuff is either too wishy washy shoegaze for me or goes too far in the other direction with the masturbatory breakbeat stuff. Hes's at his best when he finds the middle.
― the only tastemaker (noz), Friday, 11 February 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Ghost is great and all but good lord you have to start with Semtex.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 February 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Still one hell of a way to start a career, this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90rIyiuQ5B0
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 February 2011 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the Semtex 12", which is different from the Semtex album, is better.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 12 February 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and I agree that to get a quick and dirty introduction, Ghost and The Dark would be the best way to go. You can tell from there how much deeper you want to get -- it's all good.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Saturday, 12 February 2011 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
ned: yesss that is awesome
incidentally, i ended up getting Little Lost Souls, which i found for $2 in one of the local used bins on my way home. played 3 or 4 tracks, digging it so far -- vaguely shoegazy textures, dubby basslines,, breakbeats that sound a bit like autechre stoned/on downers, and disembodied female vocal wails looped over the top at various points. not mindblowing, but pleasantly right up my alley.
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Saturday, 12 February 2011 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Little Lost Souls is my favourite of the TEF albums I've heard I think. For all the praise The Dark has been getting, I find it quite a slog to listen to.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Saturday, 12 February 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Same for the track Ned just posted. Interesting, but not actually enjoyable for me. Obviously I'm a lightweight when it comes to such things.
― Inevitable stupid dubstep mix (chap), Saturday, 12 February 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
good lord you have to start with Semtex.
YES. Then Ghost. And the Semtex Remix 12" in between, like Marmite.
― cette villes est en enfer and shit. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 12 February 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I've briefly investigated this dude's other stuff but as things stand it's stone-cold clear to me that The Dark is his masterpiece. As an album experience it's...nigh-on perfect, the use of sound and narrative here is exquisite. Haven't heard Semtex yet, however - am fully prepared to believe that one's on a similar level, and of course the others may grow on me...
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
fsa were far better
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:12 (thirteen years ago) link
why don't you go and namecheck them in a song about an ILM poll
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/042/e/a/se__epic_stance_by_thoughtless4ever-d39c5vq.jpg
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
the dark is alright, nice sound design etc but v much in a l8 90s premillenial angst art-junglist vein that seems kinda played
― itv digital manqué (nakhchivan), Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Although one cannot oppose to Ghost and Semtex, I do really like the territory Elliott veered into with Little Lost Soul and I Poo Poo On Your Juju, both fantasticly subtle dark albums.
But then I love all of 3EF's albums equally as much, except for The Dark maybe, which is great but not as sublime as the previous albums. Maybe it's different if you've heard that one first, like LJ has. I wouldn't call it his masterpiece though ~ the man's whole discography is one big masterpiece.
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:25 (thirteen years ago) link
fyi nakh and anyone else, yr presence and neoclassical avant-awesomeness is v much desired here: Rolling dilettante convocation 2011
clearly I need to give the other albums a closer listen! even the one with the worst album-name ever. like, worse-than-chocolate-starfish bad.
― acoleuthic, Saturday, 12 February 2011 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The new album is incredible.
― djh, Monday, 2 January 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
does he sing?
― Quoth the raven "Nevermind" (ledge), Monday, 2 January 2012 23:47 (twelve years ago) link
A new new album, like not-The Dark?
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 00:58 (twelve years ago) link
it's a matt elliott record, no?
― keythhtyek, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
Matt Elliott - The Broken Man
Track here: http://mattelliott.bandcamp.com/album/the-broken-man/
Yes, singing.
― djh, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 07:32 (twelve years ago) link
I don't, or I shouldn't at least, have anything in principle against electronic intrumentalists suddenly getting all singer-songwritery, but "one mans analysis of his own descent reflecting the frustrations and sadness that touch us all at some point" doesn't really sound like an enticing prospect and when it ends up just being "this is how it feels to be alone" intoned repeatedly in a funereal bass, then - and speaking as a miserablist who would happily listen to "Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me" on repeat - this one man's analysis really adds nothing new to the picture, and the touches of TEF ethereal electronics and the trusty bowed saw beneath aren't enough to tempt me to listen further, I'm afraid.
― Quoth the raven "Nevermind" (ledge), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
I must admit I've barely played this since January 3 but it is sounding magnificent right now.
― djh, Monday, 29 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
Still love The Dark - listen to it all the time, especially if I need to get into a writing zone. (And yet I am left totally cold by the stuff he does under his own name.)
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
just occurred to me that Closure taps into the same part of my brain as Cap.IV - and while the latter is better, the former is still wonderful
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Saturday, 4 October 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
not much info yet but new Matt Elliott album is due next month
https://scontent-cdg2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfa1/v/t1.0-9/12439209_10154003732751055_5888604936290127722_n.jpg?oh=6961c0532159b75b64ea96894319ddd0&oe=5748852A
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Wednesday, 6 January 2016 13:29 (eight years ago) link
Hadn't clocked that.
There's an expanded version of Semtex due soon (most of the extra tracks seemingly as downloads).
― djh, Wednesday, 6 January 2016 19:09 (eight years ago) link
Pretty much every 3EF release is amazing, I still regularly play them. I'm a huge stan for Elliott's work under his own name, too, though that's very different.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 6 December 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
By coincidence or otherwise, I've been playing various TEF tracks recently.
Yes, Sleep is incredible. I'm enjoying Wake The Dead tonight.
― djh, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:25 (four years ago) link
Do you have the extended version of Semtex? It was expanded to a double cd and came with a download code for another two hours, 29 tracks total.
― koogs, Friday, 6 December 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
I... do not
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link
They was a solid couple of months when I'd hear something unfamiliar but that I liked on my MP3 player and when I'd take it out and look it'd be one of those extra tracks.
― koogs, Friday, 6 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
I must have this extended version.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 December 2019 21:22 (four years ago) link
me too!
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Saturday, 7 December 2019 08:35 (four years ago) link
I only got around to listening to Wake The Dead a couple of weeks ago, it's very dark.
― S-, Sunday, 15 December 2019 09:56 (four years ago) link
Did anyone ever watch the film?
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/whatafuck
― djh, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
First I'm hearing about it but it looks great. Will try to make some time to watch this weekend
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link