― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 04:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― dex-mongrel (kit brash), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene in a DIE BLIPSTER SCUM! tee (R. J. Greene), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej, Monday, 5 March 2007 04:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Monday, 5 March 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― braveclub, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― haitch, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― braveclub, Monday, 12 March 2007 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― energy flash gordon, Monday, 12 March 2007 13:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Telephone thing, Monday, 12 March 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
New "yoga mind meld relaxation tape" is up on their page, it's very MBV.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Haha, from the first freakin' second! (No complaints, of course.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I've always said they're on similar wavelengths.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
No, it makes perfect sense. Beach Boys/Disco Inferno line of descent. Kinda.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 July 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I still don't get Disco Inferno, and I've listened to their entire recorded output at this point.
― Spencer Chow, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 2 July 2007 22:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
and both sides of the first 7". man that thing goes for some $$$$ now!
― haitch, Thursday, 20 September 2007 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
WHEEEEE, THAT'S ROCK CITY
― haitch, Thursday, 20 September 2007 01:50 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 20 September 2007 04:39 (sixteen years ago) link
in the bin, like all our hopes for future avalanches material
― haitch, Friday, 21 September 2007 15:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Slow Walking is so good.
― blueski, Friday, 21 September 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i've still not heard Ray Of Zdarlight, ridiculously.
― blueski, Friday, 21 September 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh, it's GREAT!!!!!
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 21 September 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i assumed it was a late madonna mash-up so didn't seem essential listening
― blueski, Friday, 21 September 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
it's still on the site to download
― energy flash gordon, Saturday, 22 September 2007 03:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I WANT A NEW ALBUM NOW.
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I hate all that "stick a bunch of samples together" music, outside of classic '88-'94 hip hop of course.
― max r, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 17:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jamie T Smith, Tuesday, 9 October 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
any thoughts on the 'some people' mix?
http://www.nialler9.com/blog/2007/07/04/avalanches-mix-some-people/
― jermainetwo, Saturday, 5 January 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Spencer Chow, Saturday, 5 January 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
ban max r
― blueski, Saturday, 5 January 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago) link
lolol
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 5 January 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― deej, Saturday, 5 January 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Tim F, Saturday, 5 January 2008 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Jedmond, Monday, 7 January 2008 01:43 (sixteen years ago) link
hacks
― S-, Monday, 7 January 2008 01:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/142685-avalanches-putting-finishing-touches-on-second-lp
― theslothproject, Thursday, 31 July 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
yay
― stephen, Thursday, 31 July 2008 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
aussie democracy
― omar little, Thursday, 31 July 2008 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
yah dont know how excited to get tho, they had a message on their facebook back in january saying exactly the same thing
― t_g, Friday, 1 August 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
they don't look like they're in a rush to do anything
http://www.nialler9.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/aval.jpg
― braveclub, Friday, 1 August 2008 10:45 (fifteen years ago) link
this will have to sound exactly the same or completely different
― blueski, Friday, 1 August 2008 10:50 (fifteen years ago) link
altho now i just saw somewhere that there's some rumour the new album will be coming out on 08/08/08??? apparently www.letitsnow080808.com was registered by one of the avalanches dudes + that's how the rumour started...
― t_g, Friday, 1 August 2008 10:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't know about anywhere else, but I had no idea that Since I Left You had been deleted in the UK. Doesn't bode well for the album coming out here next week at any rate.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 1 August 2008 10:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, we couldn't find http://www.letitsnow080808.com/. Here are some related websites: :(
― Tape Store, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
-- blueski, Friday, August 1, 2008 10:50 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link
http://www.vh1.com/mobile/img/graphics/80s_3D/thumbs/NoDuh.jpg
― s1ocki, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
too late
― blueski, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link