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Oh, thanks, Jess, I'm so excited!

― Ding Dongs in Motion (Arthur), Friday, 29 August 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link

:-) This is actually going to be album number two of the year for me to get really excited about, I realize.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

okay, here goes:

track 1: 2-step dnb buried in an avalanche of r&b signifiers (strings, chimes, the works) with a vocal rips "tained love" (no shit.)

track 2: serious p-funk house action. what "sfm" was trying to be on rooty and failed to be. n'degocello sounds like prince's camille, except the genderfucking flipped and reversed.

track 3: interlude.

track 4: dizzee rascal is the most exciting person on the face of the earth today. vaguely middle eastern acordion (?) modal/bagpipe drone thing going on. imagine jammer or danny weed if they overdosed on e and got 10k in new equipment.

track 5: interlude, deranged freaks-style gibber

track 6: their most deranged track since "fly life", and 100x as overstuffed. also, their most blatantly princely track ever. harmonica! acid wah-wah guitar! half a dozen competing voices!

track 7: if jc chavez produced an entire album with the jaxx it would - in sonic terms at least - trounce justin 8-ways from sunday. more prince. imagine modern r&b produced by, say, the house crew or jonny l.

track 8: interlude. "robert owens in the echo chamber."

track 9: a rather straight forward, yet totally beautiful, fingers inc. style house-ballad.

track 10: title track. the best electroclash track every written. no contest.

track 11: fractured spanish-guitar pop house that never quite achieves lift off since it seems to be collapsing from the inside. "house of the rising sun"/"paint it, black" meets chain reaction meets rodney jerkins.

track 12: stacey q style stab-fest. the rhythm sounds like it was made out of stalactites and percolating coffee.

track 13: indie pop! this is the jaxx's "hey ya".

track 14: typical jaxx gorgeous slow jam closer. 7 minutes. utterly aquaeous. chill out meets kompatkt meets drexciya meets timbaland.

this album is fucking STUFFED. as usual, they fill each track with enough ideas to fill another artists whole album.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:39 (twenty years ago) link

and two listens in album of the year, no question.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:40 (twenty years ago) link

:::dies:::

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link

haha look at my horrible grammar there, people! do you see what this record has done to me!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:43 (twenty years ago) link

i can't remeber the last time a record had me feeling dizzy.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 05:48 (twenty years ago) link

01 what strongo forgot to mention is that the vocal rips THE ORIGINAL GLORIA JONES VERSION OF "Tainted Love" or at least that's the effect. and that the bridge is all slurpy and glitchy before going all orchestral-stomp but tempered w/vox that balance out their grit with an I-can-wait-awhile-it'll-be-fine smoothness. and that there's a fucking compu-coda that sounds like the lock-groove at the end of adult.'s sgt. pepper.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:06 (twenty years ago) link

oh my fucking god it's the album of the year and I'm only halfway through the second track. oh my fucking god oh my fucking god OH MY FUCKING GOD.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:07 (twenty years ago) link

haha james blount to me earlier tonight: "this is going to be for andre 3000 what it was like when brian wilson heard revolver."

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:09 (twenty years ago) link

(i want this thread bookmarked for the next time someone says i never say anything positive on ilm.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:10 (twenty years ago) link

04 "i just want to say i feel great" ME TOO DIZZEE!!!!!!!

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:11 (twenty years ago) link

(also chorus splits diff 'tween rave-siren, todd edwards-style cut-up, glitch, middle-eastern modalisms, thousand other things i can't even comprehend right now)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

(I think Blount meant when BW heard Rubber Soul but carry on)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:12 (twenty years ago) link

and holy shit did they swipe that beatboxy coda w/acoustic from "Like I Love You" OR WHAT?!

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:13 (twenty years ago) link

i don't want to go to bed, but i'm propping my head up on a cup just to stay awake just so i can listen to this again. I AM 14 ALL OVER AGAIN AND MY FAITH IN MUSIC IS TOTALLY REDEEMED.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:15 (twenty years ago) link

aaaargh, i want to hear this NOW

― H (Heruy), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:19 (twenty years ago) link

sorry Luomo and New Pornographers, you look like pikers to me now (still love y'all though but, well, you know)

07 is so fucking Prince-circa-1999 crossed w/Prince-doing-rock it's just fucking sad-making

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:21 (twenty years ago) link

(plus vocoders that sound like windshield wipers tiptoeing thru low-pass filters)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:22 (twenty years ago) link

I mean they get the EXACT SAME TEXTURE in the background vox as Prince did up through Lovesexy, it's a holy and beautiful thing

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:22 (twenty years ago) link

track 13 is the great lost b-side from the rapture album.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:26 (twenty years ago) link

(remixed by junior senior.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:27 (twenty years ago) link

I'm still floating on the glissando-vibe of 09, don't rush me

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:27 (twenty years ago) link

10 "Hi. My name is 'Kish Kash.' I'm the title song on Basement Jaxx's new record, and I am a heat-seeking missle aimed straight at Simon Reynolds' heart."

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:29 (twenty years ago) link

(haha watch him go and not like the song now that I wrote that)

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:30 (twenty years ago) link

(okay, track 14 has me drifting off into a beautiful sleep, so i think i will follow it to the logical conclusion. and tomorrow we will all hold hands and run through fields of gold singing the praises of this record together.)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 06:33 (twenty years ago) link

12 "it makes no SENSE at all to me!"

oh jesus yes

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:44 (twenty years ago) link

fuckers! I always thought romeo had touches of tainted love.

Grrrrrr I want this NOW!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 07:47 (twenty years ago) link

Argh! Why isn't their a SLSK client for Macs? WHY?

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 29 August 2003 08:41 (twenty years ago) link

anyone got this on slsk?! particularly anyone who can put me further up than 170th in line? i've got 3gigs of grime shared...

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:45 (twenty years ago) link

i'm on soulseek right now where only two people seem to have it, and of course there's an enormous queue behind them.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:53 (twenty years ago) link

jesus, after school i'm going to speed to the house of my friend with the ASDL internet line

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:57 (twenty years ago) link

Whoa. I HAVE to hear this. Stuffed to the gills albums *rock* me.

― Barima (Barima), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:07 (twenty years ago) link

The size of this thread daunted me and Jus 1 Kiss was unfortunate blemish that scuppered otherwise-fantasticness of Rooty for me a bit but THIS is immediately Most-Feverishly-etcetc record of the now and am frightened by how much happier the prospect of it is making me.

― Alex in Rotherham (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:17 (twenty years ago) link

strongo + matos I kiss you, even two degrees removed from hearing this I'm hyper hyper hyper.

(bah the cybercafe has decided to stop letting me burn the mp3s I burn, fuckers (& after I spend 16hrs downloading stuff!) - dunno how I'm gonna hear this)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:21 (twenty years ago) link

Ohhh I really need to hear this now.

― Larcole (Nicole), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:38 (twenty years ago) link

i have the 1st 13 tracks on slsk right now, and i'll be online for the next 3 hours (then off home for the weekend). message tsg21 if you want it.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:39 (twenty years ago) link

2 tracks in THIS IS SO FUCKING GOOD!!

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:41 (twenty years ago) link

i hate you all (stares at 'Remotely Queued' message and weeps)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:10 (twenty years ago) link

*smiles with Buddha-like patience*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:13 (twenty years ago) link

*whispers*It's available for download on pfms

― Michael B, Friday, 29 August 2003 12:14 (twenty years ago) link

on what?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:22 (twenty years ago) link

haha I'm staying up in the cafe just to listen to this despite early morning shift on the other side of the hauraki gulf.

(psst stevem, what's yr slsk username? try xpecting2fly; nobody's currently d/l-ing anything from me)

― Ess Kay (esskay), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:25 (twenty years ago) link

the pitchfork forum
http://www.dragondata.com/~mich/forum

― Michael B, Friday, 29 August 2003 12:28 (twenty years ago) link

you fuckers overloaded me!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:29 (twenty years ago) link

you overloaded yourself years ago strongo

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:31 (twenty years ago) link

you overloaded yourself the day you signed up for slsk

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:32 (twenty years ago) link

you're off the team strongo!

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:42 (twenty years ago) link

no chief, you're off your team

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:49 (twenty years ago) link

mongobongostrongoloids presshhaaaaaaa

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 29 August 2003 12:51 (twenty years ago) link

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