Demdike Stare

Oh, and dmr, upthread Vahid spotted two old Chain Reaction samples, which are pretty clearly presented if you're familiar with the original tracks:

off the new one it sounds like "eurydice" samples the first track off porter ricks' "biokinetics" album and "mathilda's dream" samples the last track off monolake's "hongkong" album

I caved. It's ok, although I have only listened through the first two pieces of vinyl, and only a couple times. I guess there are some lock grooves or hidden sections I need to check out, though. The packaging is really, really nice though.

OK, I stretched my chances and missed pt. 4 of the Elemental vinyl at most online stores. Anyone know of one that might possibly have it in, still?

same here. bought #1 and #2 in the gatefold and when i checked again #3 and #4 had been released a couple of days before and they were gone already. two empty pockets in the gatefold :((((

http://www.weirdforest.com/store/distro/index.html#demdike-4

also big ups to experimedia.net for offering first dibs on #3 & #4 on those who ordered the gatefold

How's the music on these?

same here. bought #1 and #2 in the gatefold and when i checked again #3 and #4 had been released a couple of days before and they were gone already. two empty pockets in the gatefold :((((

I purposefully ended up not buying the box because I was afraid of that happening. I like my vinyl, but I just cannot be that obsessive all the time about being on top of new releases. This was a dick move on their part, I think.

FWIW, I think the music itself has been on something of a sharp decline from the start, or at least since Forest of Evil, but I also totally concede that may just be me getting tired of their schtick. Serious Stereolab syndrome here - they're never as good as the first time you hear 'em.

I did just pick up that Slant Azymuth thing earlier today; it's still in its shrinkwrap, but I'll listen to it soon. I don't know, I got a little tired of the stuff from Triptych after a while, but pulled the LPs out recently after quite some time not hearing them and they hit pretty damn hard.

The lengths to which some groups go to preserve limited-ness and mystique, though, often just makes me laugh / irks me. I work for a decently well-known importer of small-estate French and Italian wines, and I've been going through so much mental hell the past week trying to fairly allocate the stupidly limited quantities of some of our imminently arriving ultra-in-demand red Burgundies. These things are limited because they come from tiny and definable plots of land; they are finite agricultural resources. Records are different, and while I understand small labels not having the means (or foolishness) to do enormous pressings, situations like this one with the Demdike vinyl just feel so forced and unnecessary.

See also: Uncle Acid

Seriously; in that instance it's the secondary market that's raking in all of the cash some people are stupid enough to pay... So both the artists and the averagely financially endowed (or, perhaps averagely mentally stable w/r/t/ spending) consumers lose out!

Very much otm.

I'm just going to hold off for the 3xcd reissue of this Demdlike Stare. Not as pretty to look at, but good enough.

oh ho but didnt you hear - this one is going to have different versions on the cd

gree hee hee

oh well

also big ups to experimedia.net for offering first dibs on #3 & #4 on those who ordered the gatefold

I purposefully ended up not buying the box because I was afraid of that happening. I like my vinyl, but I just cannot be that obsessive all the time about being on top of new releases. This was a dick move on their part, I think.

manufactured scarcity is a great move for building interest, but a lousy one for maintaining it

Going to have all four of the vinyl releases fairly shortly. Look forward to staring at them and feeling all cultish shortly.

I want to like this band so much and it just never sticks :(

It's funny, I seldom can listen to any particular full release and stay interested but if one track pops up while shuffling, or I actually listen to one side of a record, it hits me.

Yeah, my best experiences with this band have been when I've kinda been blindsided by a track that pops up on shuffle.

It's kind of a "two guys chopping up bits of other records" thing for the most part, anyway.

This Slant Azymuth record (Demdike dudes + Andy Votel) is pretty outstanding upon first listen. It's a bit less pieced-together feeling than the Demdike stuff, a bit more rhythmically vital, less drifty, more harmonically diverse, more composed-feeling. Definitely recommended to people who like Demdike... I bought my copy at Other Music in NYC yesterday; they probably printed like 150 copies, knowing their M.O.

+1 on the frustration with this band - some interesting stuff here and there but not sure when would be the right time/context to listen to them

Zero frustration with this band, just lots of love and frequent plays. I listen to "Liberation through hearing" about 10x more than any other release gho

i'm with owen p on "liberation through hearing" as the high point ... best time/context would be on a cold spooky night, when you're in the house by yourself and in the mood to freak yourself out.

if you don't appreciate freaking yourself out on cold spooky nights this is not the band for you!

yeah liberation thru hearing is definitely my favorite

THE STARS ARE MOVING MAAAN

if you don't appreciate freaking yourself out on cold spooky nights this is not the band for you!

this might be otm - i guess i used to be up for cold spooky nights til I moved in with my s.o. and became old and broing :-/

I definitely prefer this stuff on speakers rather than in headphones. I've listened to it at high volumes in the dark, but also at lower volumes while I'm working (I work quite often from home)--seems to work both ways pretty well for me. The musique concrete-ness of it still sounds cool even if your not fully immersing yourself in the EVIL vibes.

I don't know if most of their stuff codes as evil, just kind of dark and ambiguously spooky.

I was listening to one of the Regis retrospective discs this morning, though, and I think it started with a Jim Jones sample!

That Amazon review up the thread for Tryptych is still one of my favorite things written about them.

The test pressing 12"s from this year are pretty great imo.

jesus they are

i don't usually walk with the headphones in but the other week i was at a loose end and decided to take the train to burnley. went the whole hog and read aickman on the way. walked up to the moors from burnley train station with a mixed up playlist of these, passing the actual ruins of EXTWISTLE HALL. that was good.

scariest part was walking through burnley with an ipad right guys.

Last time I was in Burnley I parked opposite this slice of realness http://goo.gl/maps/bd1rH

The Eulogy/Dysology split on #003 really is something.

anyone catch them in LA last night?

The test pressing 12"s from this year are pretty great imo.

Totally agree. Just came across the full series of these 12" and they are amazing.

#4 just arrived and it is just as great as 1-3.

I only realised the other day that I've been listening to Eulogy at the wrong speed for months. It's their fault ffs.

would love to see a digital compilation of the testpressings

I think that was the most boring Wire cover feature I've ever read.

Been digesting a load of Demdike mixes lately. Some superbly diverse selections all cohesively mixed. Would single out the Osmosis, FACT and xlr8r sessions in particular.

http://somuchnoisetobeheard.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/demdike-stare-collected-mixes-podcasts.html?m=1

the empirical research tape is really nice

I keep trying to shazam tracks off it, lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcVjeyDPvuo

No thoughts on Wonderland here?

I prefer droney Demdike like Liberation EP, kind of disliked the Testpressing series when it was coming out but think this album is great on first couple listens

I like as always how their production m.o. is "a good idea presented simply"

Yeah I really like it. I was initially disappointed to read they'd moved away from the droney side of things but this LP is great.

picked up the 3cd edition today, so have a lot of soak up,
but 'elogy' from the testpressings is fantastic.
i much prefer this to the drone stuff to be honest.