http://pitchfork.com/news/41514-games-change-name-to-ford-lopatin-start-mexican-summer-imprint-software/
Why??
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm. I actually do love that logo though. Totally something I would have seen on a sub-Sierra computer game back in the day.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah cool logo + Games was a crap name so w/e. really want to see that London show.
― idgi fridays (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPA3UVX_UWA
― idgi fridays (blueski), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
software label lookin good.. putting out demdike stare!
― talk talk talk (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
also based on that url i thought they changed their name to Ford and imagined that this http://www.performanceoffroadcenter.com/oscommerce/images/ford%20logo.jpg was the cool new logo haha
― talk talk talk (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
holy cow be sure to pick up the harald grosskopf - synthesist reissue http://igetrvng.com/prsnts/314
includes bonus cd with reworkings by contemporary kosmische superstars (oneohtrix, arp, stellar om source, cfcf)
― Paradife Loft (diamonddave85), Monday, 21 February 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to hear that remix cd pretty badly
― van smack, Monday, 21 February 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I finally got in touch with Acreil again, via last.fm of all places. He gave me a link to his newest stuff, for those who are interested: http://soundcloud.com/gsn10
― farieling thosder chout a bagh an i ballme crantuman (dog latin), Saturday, 12 March 2011 12:02 (thirteen years ago) link
preview of the Ford & Lopatin LP 'Channel Pressure' out in June
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1TsnYJoMEc
― dumb p rusty nults (blueski), Monday, 14 March 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Personally I am not into the stuff F&L are doing at all. Too retro for me.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
what isn't retro in 2011?
that sounds mint. i dunno if it's just the way it's edited, but kinda reminds me of VHS head. anticipating hard.
― http://i56.tinypic.com/xnsu1g.gif (max arrrrrgh), Monday, 14 March 2011 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
vocals sound a bit too max tundra at times mind you
― dumb p rusty nults (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i havent heard the F&L stuff yet, but a max tundra name-drop will keep me far far away from most anything... say it aint so :(
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
you put me right off
hah XP
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Love OPN, don't like Games/F&O, OBSESSED with Max Tundra. So, weird.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
listening again, tundra but with a bit more green gartside thrown in maybe (def an improvement). anyway the second track sounds particularly great.
― dumb p rusty nults (blueski), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
ya idk guys these vocals are way better than max tundra. also the context helps quite a bit, esp when compared to tundra
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
loved the Games EP so will pick up the album on sight for sure (unless they raidcally changed their sound along with their name).
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Seeing them (Games) play live in less than a month... really looking forward to this.
Will likely drop back to the bar for OPN.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Hah! I thought that was supposed to be all one track...
― farielan chosder bout a chagh an i ballme trantuming (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
According to RA:
Software Recordings will release Joel Ford and Daniel Lopatin's debut album, Channel Pressure, in June.It will be the first time Ford (of Tigercity) and Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) have released together under their given names, with previous material always credited to their Games moniker. The initial single from Channel Pressure—titled "Emergency Room"—is said to be a limited edition x-ray picture disc. Due for release on April 26th, it will contain remixes from Gavin Russom and The Bug.The album itself will follow the story of teenager Joel Rogers, who lives in a time when bands are extinct and the record industry is controlled by a super-computer. An anti-hero, it's Rogers' dream to "unplug from reality and jam in the style of his MIDI-equipped ancestors."A video made available by the duo elaborates on the theme and provides samples of the music.Tracklist01. Scumsoft02. Channel Pressure03. Emergency Room04. Rock Center Paranoia05. Too Much MIDI (Please Forgive Me)06. New Planet07. The Voices08. Joey Rogers09. Dead Jammer10. Break Inside11. Surrender12. Green Fields13. World of Regret14. G's Dream
It will be the first time Ford (of Tigercity) and Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) have released together under their given names, with previous material always credited to their Games moniker. The initial single from Channel Pressure—titled "Emergency Room"—is said to be a limited edition x-ray picture disc. Due for release on April 26th, it will contain remixes from Gavin Russom and The Bug.
The album itself will follow the story of teenager Joel Rogers, who lives in a time when bands are extinct and the record industry is controlled by a super-computer. An anti-hero, it's Rogers' dream to "unplug from reality and jam in the style of his MIDI-equipped ancestors."
A video made available by the duo elaborates on the theme and provides samples of the music.
Tracklist01. Scumsoft02. Channel Pressure03. Emergency Room04. Rock Center Paranoia05. Too Much MIDI (Please Forgive Me)06. New Planet07. The Voices08. Joey Rogers09. Dead Jammer10. Break Inside11. Surrender12. Green Fields13. World of Regret14. G's Dream
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha wow, now that is some next level concept album shit
― La descente infernale (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i hear it's co-written by Ben Elton
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha!
― ka£ka (NickB), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Not really feeling the single so far
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
So I went to his SF show. I was sortof stupefied from a long day, holding a beer staring at the DJ booth, when I realized I had no idea what a traveling OPN show would be like. Would he bring out a massive rack of analog synths? Would he have some creative way of translating that to digital controllers? No.
― lukas, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
laptop?
― adult music person (Jordan), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2011/04/27/mp3-ford-lopatin-emergency-room-gavin-russom-remix/
― ˆᴥˆ (blueski), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Sampler / controller pad attached to laptop, yeah.
― lukas, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm. how was it? for me one of the most appealing parts of OPN is the analog sounds ... when i caught him in brooklyn it was juno + sampler + effects and it sounded fantastic
― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't loopy enough to miss a Juno, I think, didn't see one anyway.
It was ok. Preyouandi should always be played that loud. Too bad the sound sucked.
― lukas, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
JF: “One of the other things totally different about Mexican Summer is that I found it such a turn off talking to other labels due to the lack of actual interest in what we were doing. It was so…brutal. Like ‘oh, I saw you guys on the internet. Want to make a record? We’ll give you $10,000.’ Hell, for that I could buy a computer, and a decent mic pre-amp but still be in my bedroom.”
oh yeah, so brutal. maybe this makes me an herb, but what indie labels are giving bands $10k to make a record these days? especially electronic music producers (whom they saw on the internet) who are presumably self-sufficient as far as a recording setup?
― adult music person (Jordan), Friday, 29 April 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Love OPN, but dude is branching out into some real crapola
― bananas foster wallace (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 29 April 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 29 April 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, its been pretty much diminishing returns since Rifts if you ask me. I mean, Returnal was only a very very slight drop in quality, imho, but I haven't really been into the other stuff all that much.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 29 April 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Well the Games stuff I've heard is awesome imo and I'm very excited about the album.
― kraudive, Friday, 29 April 2011 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ditto
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 29 April 2011 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I just put on Returnal extremely loudly on the turntable, and literally seconds after that opening blast of "Nil Admirari," a construction crew started jackhammering pavement down the street. It complements the song awesomely at the moment, though I'm sure I'll be buzzkilled when I'm trying to bliss out to the third and fourth tracks. This record just keeps getting better, does it not?
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 25 May 2011 16:48 (thirteen years ago) link
leaked.
awesome so far
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 27 May 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
A new album? Or is this a Ford/Lopatin thing?
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 27 May 2011 04:41 (thirteen years ago) link
the ford + lopatin record is out next week (or the week after?) so probably that?
― :D-00 (Lamp), Friday, 27 May 2011 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
ya i mean the ford & lopatin album (channel pressure)
after hearing the whole thing at least once now i can say there are a few tracks that i am less than fond of, but usually this is because of the vocals (and there are instrumental versions of most of the tracks i have so w/e)
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 27 May 2011 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
loved the Games EP but found the F&L single very underwhelming so a bit ambivalent right now.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 27 May 2011 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the best thing abt the single was the crawl @ the beginning of the video...
― :D-00 (Lamp), Friday, 27 May 2011 16:35 (thirteen years ago) link
the single is "emergency room", right? is it the vocals that you are ambivalent about? because... like i said, there are instrumentals.
hard to imagine anyone who liked the games ep wouldn't be able to get into at least half of this album
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Friday, 27 May 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah 'emergency room' is the single although the crawl i was thinking of was across the channel pressure teaser lol @ me...
im still p hype to hear this but the songs ive hears seem busier and choppier than the games ep? idk
― :D-00 (Lamp), Friday, 27 May 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I only listened to a few songs and didn't like what I heard.
― van smack, Friday, 27 May 2011 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
whole album streaming herehttp://www.factmag.com/2011/05/31/stream-ford-lopatins-channel-pressure-album-in-full-exclusively-on-fact/
― blueski, Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
They were kind of ambient when I saw them at Primavera, but I'll hopefully be seeing them again on Thursday too. Anyone coming to that?
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:48 (thirteen years ago) link