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
OK Ray of Zdarlight is one of the best songs i've heard this year
― deej, Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:16 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 20:51 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a party record as well as a sonic treasure chest, and its strict sampling aesthetic is leavened by the overwhelming presence of great toonz. There's something quite heartening about a record that can cross so many boundaries like that. Maybe it's the Dubya of pop?
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
so weird i was just looking at their website today for an update but yeah, deej otm. not sure if tim f is otm here cuz i'm not quite sure what he's saying.
― t_g, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
He tends to be otm.
God I miss The Avalanches.
Air France has been a nice hold me over.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I do wish people wouldn't revive Avalanches threads without cast-iron proof of a new album.
Oops.
Soz.
Can't someone get in touch with them?
― Matthew H, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 10:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha ha, even though I was referencing his rhetoric (at the time) rather than his performance, my jokey Dubya comparison still looks bizarre now.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
So has anyone else heard that the album's supposedly coming out in July, as was announced on JJJ recently?
I'd like to believe it but July's not that far away and surely we'd have heard something official by now if it was coming out. Unless it's going to be one of those super fast releases (oh, the irony) a la Radiohead and The Raconteurs
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe the next album is just a special edition of Since I Left You.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 22:15 (fifteen years ago) link
surely we'd have heard something official by now if it was coming out
the label announced in December it was finished and turned in, is that not official enough?
― IRL Consequences by Godley & Creme (sic), Thursday, 19 March 2009 00:24 (fifteen years ago) link
http://livingincinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/x-files-001-450.jpg
― Number None, Thursday, 19 March 2009 02:22 (fifteen years ago) link
My Sp@c3 page says that they're putting the finishing touches on to album 2...
― Kings of Tedium (SeekAltRoute), Thursday, 19 March 2009 04:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that's been there for two years
― IRL Consequences by Godley & Creme (sic), Thursday, 19 March 2009 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
It has, but in November it was changed to "putting the finishing finishing touches on album 2"
― groovypanda, Thursday, 19 March 2009 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Every time this thred is revived I get a pang of hope :\
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 19 March 2009 13:47 (fifteen years ago) link
new Avalanches will probably be like a dissapoint like Shadow's Private Press. (which, after the Outsider, turned out to be pretty decent after all)
― Ludo, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd like it to sound like 'My Girls' (but with singing more like Linda Lewis/Debbie Newman), Mike Westbrook's 'Song Of Spring' and Aeroplane remixed by cats and the ghost of Dilla
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost, have you heard of Bullion??
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, came to post that their myspace status now says "The Avalanches ...are clearing samples."
Hmm. Good sign, I suppose. But that could take ages tho, right?
― homage is parody gone sour (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah + what if they can't get clearance for 10% of the samples (which is like 1000 samples in their case) they will need 5 years to find similar clearables ones. :/ ;)
― Ludo, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
wtf at them just clearing samples now
― just sayin, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 20:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://planetparadigm.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/patterson_bigfoot_lg1.jpg
― "Together we could rape the universe" (omar little), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 20:38 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^just out clearin samples
― just sayin, Tuesday, 5 May 2009 20:40 (fifteen years ago) link
clearing samples is for suckas
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 20:41 (fifteen years ago) link
new mix album meant to prime the pump?
― death from abroad (lukas), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 16:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm sb'ing anyone who revives this thread w/o solid knowledge of a def release date.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost, infos?
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
http://extramusicnew.blogspot.com/2009/06/avalanches-after-goldrush.html
― death from abroad (lukas), Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
This set looks OLD.
― Spencer Chow, Tuesday, 23 June 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link