The Avalanches

abracadabra!

happy new year yall. we've made a heap of mixes and stuff available while we finish the record. they wont give you a hint of the new albums magical sound unfortunately, but they will keep you pilgrims well nourished until the next harvest.

its a really thrilling time for us right now as this record comes together, its so fuckin party you will die, much more hip hop than you might expect, and while there is still no accurate estimated time of arrival, were sure you're gonna love it when it arrives.

much of last year was spent cutting up the spoken word/instructional records we need to tell the albums musical story, and we have some 40 odd songs we're narrowing down and finishing. so its real, it exists, and you know we wouldn't be serving anything up unless it was gonna give you that same special feeling that since has. funnily enough its ended up sounding like the next logical step to since, we just had to go around in a big circle to get back to where we belong.

and one day when you least expect it you'll wake up and the sample fairy will have left it under your pillow.

so big up to clint for all his work in making the downloads available for everyone to enjoy, and have a great oh seven.

At the very least that story should be worked on by Gear and Ned as ILM's first (last?) foray into writing pop music fanfic.

has ILX Screenwriters Presents 'It was all Yello: The Coldwerk Sessions' been so quickly forgotten

New "yoga mind meld relaxation tape" is up on their page, it's very MBV.

Haha, from the first freakin' second! (No complaints, of course.)

I've always said they're on similar wavelengths.

No, it makes perfect sense. Beach Boys/Disco Inferno line of descent. Kinda.

I still don't get Disco Inferno, and I've listened to their entire recorded output at this point.

It's not for everyone. I'm trying to think if the thing with DI is that you intentionally can't dance to what they do, but that's not true. Not entirely.

On theavalanches.com there are new goodies to download (some on the news page, but some you have to register to get to) including what I consider to be the best mix EVER: GIMIX.

and both sides of the first 7". man that thing goes for some $$$$ now!

WHEEEEE, THAT'S ROCK CITY

COCAINE! BUBBLY!

I should have bought the red vinyl repress too, at the time I though it was a rip-off cos it didn't come with a poster like the first 500. And where is that poster now?

in the bin, like all our hopes for future avalanches material

Slow Walking is so good.

i've still not heard Ray Of Zdarlight, ridiculously.

Uh, it's GREAT!!!!!

i assumed it was a late madonna mash-up so didn't seem essential listening

it's still on the site to download

I WANT A NEW ALBUM NOW.

I hate all that "stick a bunch of samples together" music, outside of classic '88-'94 hip hop of course.

I never had an mp3 of GIMIX back then for some reason, although I LOVE LOVE LOVED Since I Left You. I just downloaded it off the site, and it's wonderful. I had an atrocious hangover on Saturday (and no sleep, due to my ongoing futile attempts to combine fatherhood with going out occasionally) and was getting the train to Southampton (to see us beat West Brom!!) generally feeling like crap. And within minutes I was literally dancing (on the escalators at Waterloo). My world was filled with sunshine and joy. I've rarely felt happier. It's ahistoricity actually seems to sum up it's era perfectly, that first Napster/Audiogalaxy rush of file-sharing, all of musical history spread out for your pleasure. So listening to it now is a kind of nostalgia for the permanent present, which is a weird idea. It sounds so light of touch as well, (whereas looking at the track list you would think it could be heavy-handed), and so light and fizzy and bubbly in the sonics, all high end skipping over the bass/beat fundamentals so you hardly notice they're there. Erm. I'm gushing rather.

any thoughts on the 'some people' mix?

http://www.nialler9.com/blog/2007/07/04/avalanches-mix-some-people/

I love it, but am kind of more excited about their long-promised 'big-tent' and full on 'brains' mixes.

Also:
I hate all that "stick a bunch of samples together" music, outside of classic '88-'94 hip hop of course.

Me too, luckily the Avalanches somehow turn that idea into something truly wonderful.

ban max r

lolol

mix sounds kind of ... not novel. and novelty's a huge part of their appeal so its a little disappointing. but i guess times have changed since 01

their album is still one of the best things, tho

The great thing about Gimix is that, by only including a handful of other people's songs, the quality control is absurdly high, and the appearance of each song is a huge surprise despite the choices being hyper-canonical(although perhaps only in retrospect) - "Like A Rolling Stone", "A Rollerskating Jam Named Saturday", "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", "The Boy With A Thorn In His Side", "Livin' Thing", "Billie Jean"... It really did sound quite amazing at the time. Also some of those transitions are still stunning - the beginning of "Like A Rolling Stone" emerging from out of the "Holiday" bassline, for example.

They should really try to release their new album this year. The timing is perfect: so much stuff in 2007 that i really liked had a Avalanchesy vibe (Studio, Panda Bear, Mungolian Jetset, The Tough Alliance, Invisible Conga People) - they would sound just right in the current sonic context.

Not to forget the DJ Koze remix of Elementary Lover - Not really a Avalanchesy vibe, but more a job application to be a member of the Avalanches.