Dance to the sound of grand slam Big Data.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 29 August 2014 09:40 (nine years ago) link
surprise! sounds like a keyboard demo.
― the late great, Monday, 1 September 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Being assisted by James Murphy could be the best thing to happen to New Order in years. Unfortunately DFA says it ain't happening. So bummed.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 1 September 2014 18:31 (nine years ago) link
cannot believe i have not done this before, but i have just set up a playlist that puts 'moon unit' parts 1-4 by mogg and naudascher in order that were spread across the 2cd set, nobody knows.
question :
why on earth did they mix up the ordering on the comp, and, were they ever released as a standalone release as an ep/mini-lp ?
― mark e, Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:44 (nine years ago) link
Although Murphy always rubbed me slightly the wrong way, I've been really enjoying listening to the MSG live stuff on Spotify - incredible band.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
ok ok .. i'll reveal my ineptness .. 'MSG' ??
― mark e, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
sorry I mean The Long Goodbye which is an LCD Soundsystem concert album recorded at Madison Square Garden
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
ahh .. not got that as its not hit the cd format yet has it ?
i have the live-in-the-studio london sessions, which as yet i have not actually listened to ..
time to dig it out methinks.
― mark e, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:15 (nine years ago) link
oh, and moon unit pats 1-4 in order : totally works
hit that playlist creation button now ..
― mark e, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
IDK, xp, it's on Spotify. I also watched the film, which is pretty good.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
was on uk tv channel film4 a few months back .. forgot to record it .. next time i'll grab it ..
(saw them live at glastonbury 2005, and they were truly fantastic. which given it was late sunday and i was in a rather damaged state is a statement to just how wonderful their set was)
― mark e, Thursday, 18 September 2014 22:26 (nine years ago) link
Looks like nobody picked up on "I Ain't Gonna Tell You" but as of ten minutes ago it's my favourite piece of 2014 disco revivalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOaQIQSCxHI
― sweet lids of the stars (seandalai), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 00:09 (nine years ago) link
I loved it! But yeah, it didn't get the attention it deserved upon release.
I'm still waiting on people to notice what Dan Bodan's been doing- his first two singles ("DP" and "Aaron") were pretty meh, but the subsequent stuff has been wonderful, especially the M.E.S.H.-produced "Anonymous":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzEaoK6n5TE
― You guys are caterpillar (Telephone thing), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/WGpIWlW.gif
― pandit pran nathalie (sanskrit), Sunday, 23 August 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
Forgive my ignorance but who is the "before" guy?
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Monday, 24 August 2015 03:54 (eight years ago) link
like two condiments of the same donkey sauce
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 24 August 2015 07:07 (eight years ago) link
the fat guy in the t-shirt doing all the yelling
― bizarro gazzara, Monday, 24 August 2015 09:53 (eight years ago) link
food network personality and bad chef Guy Fieri
― aaaaablnnn (abanana), Monday, 24 August 2015 10:22 (eight years ago) link
essaie pas album is great, for fans of xeno & oaklander/minimal wave revival
― flopson, Monday, 8 February 2016 15:48 (eight years ago) link
looking forward to hearing it. I love Marie Davidson's solo stuff.
― example (crüt), Monday, 8 February 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link
The Marcus Marr single just made me dance with the dog (from March, so not exactly "new").
Marcus Marr - Rocketshiphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzD1t-Tf_-8
― Bottleneck Century (Sanpaku), Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
Meanwhile
Twitter (DFA REMIX) pic.twitter.com/pqxSgebbLk— Sean T. Collins (@theseantcollins) June 16, 2017
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 June 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
shared for free for a limited time on substack, an interview with Jonathan Galkin, who apparently was shut out last year:https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/jonathan-galkin-helped-start-dfa
sounds like DFA is completely dead except as a brand for James Murphy. the writing was kind of on the wall for a while, but it’s depressing to hear what an ongoing clusterfuck things were for a long time
― mh, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
ooh "Katie Alice Greer, the former singer of Priests, has also finished a solo record"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
but my time with the label came to an end in July. One day I came to work and the locks were changed. It was a really sad day, and the only information I got was that the partnership—of which I was part as a minority owner—had made the decision to cut off the label. And then it got ugly, with lawyers involved.
Ouch
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
Good read, James Murphy sounds incredibly irritating to work with/know
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:15 (two years ago) link
Between him and the rich kid heir who set up the initial studio, that sounds like a nightmare (and miracle it didn't blow up sooner).
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:30 (two years ago) link
it sounds like James Murphy just wanted to pretend the label didn’t exist anymore, even though it was in the same building as the studio? it all just seems irritating and wacky until the locked doors and lawyers come into the picture
― mh, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link
Fascinating but yeah a bit grim. Which is the ‘hardcover coffee table book’ he mentions?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 15 September 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
Gross demonstrations of power and control like those alleged here rarely happen in isolation. What a sad end to it all.
― Position Position, Thursday, 16 September 2021 00:40 (two years ago) link
It's a classic case of lack of communication. One person is doing something and another person creates a narrative around what the other person is or is not doing. Those two narratives diverge as a result of further lack of communication and the narrative gulf gets wider and wilder between what is actually happening and what someone else thinks is happening. Conflict is not abuse!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 16 September 2021 00:52 (two years ago) link
add in a sprinkling of ego and possibly cOc4ine and it's all over.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 16 September 2021 00:58 (two years ago) link
the real news here is a benoit & sergio album is finally happening after all this time
― ufo, Thursday, 16 September 2021 02:37 (two years ago) link
both bill brewster and trevor jackson have tweeted this morning how this is not an entirely balanced representation of the story, and there is a lot more to it.
as a fan in the uk who only ever bought stuff on cd, for me things fell apart after the deal with EMI was killed off.no more compilations, no more cd singles.album releases were licenced out to different labels, some of which were available on cd, many of which were not, certainly not as easily.subsequently, i have not heard anything on DFA for a very long time now.
been quite tempted to dive into these digital compilations as they seem to cover a lot, but a quick flick through 2014, and i don't think i would be listening to too much of it too often.
https://dfacompilations.bandcamp.com/
― mark e, Thursday, 16 September 2021 07:54 (two years ago) link
iirc luke jenner of the rapture also has briefly mentioned the extended dfa breakup in interviews as well. in any story where three main players are involved and one insists the other two were hard to work with, etc etc i’ve had some favorites among albums/singles released on dfa in the last decade but am definitely interested if anyone has some recommendations. kind of fell off my radar
― mh, Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:09 (two years ago) link
The One to Wait by CCFX is great. The whole single is good but that one song is fantastic.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 16 September 2021 13:41 (two years ago) link
Not seeing anything from Trevor, must have already deleted it
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 16 September 2021 14:18 (two years ago) link
It is in reply to Dorian Lynskey's Tweet.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 16 September 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
yes. single best DFA tune that's not by juan maclean?
― adam, Thursday, 16 September 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
Jordan : in response to Philip Sherburnes retweet of the interview, he and tBD have a little chat about it.
This is a seriously 👀 interview⚡️ https://t.co/3sdlEURhni— Philip Sherburne (@PhilipSherburne) September 15, 2021
― mark e, Thursday, 16 September 2021 14:29 (two years ago) link
There's a New York Magazine article from the early 2000s about the rebirth of the new york music scene, with Liars on the cover, and there's a "tribes" "map" that has DFA, then a line that goes down to Plant Bar where it says "downstairs from DFA's offices, Plant Bar hosts scene-maker Dan Selzer's party "Transmission" The Rapture's Luke Jenner tends bar."
Which is my way of once again going on about how I was involved in that scene in the tiniest background way possible. James and Jonathan and Tim were always super nice to me, last time I saw or spoke to either was at that 2013 Red Bull Music Academy event at Grand Prospect Hall. I walked by James amidst throngs of fans and figured he wouldn't have noticed me but then felt a tap on my shoulder looked back and got a head nod from him. Then Ran into Jonathan on the top floor where Larry Gus was performing and he said "we should've had you DJ this event!" Always the bridesmaid. I had stopped going out all the time a long time before that and always feel out of the loop and insecure going to a big event like that, so any kind of recognition from those guys went a long way towards my recalling being a scenemaker 10 years before. My favorite part of that event though was probably Prinzhorn Dance School's performance.
Tim I reached out to when I was visiting Bristol in 2012. I honestly don't know that I even knew anything about his split from the DFA at the time. We briefly spoke and he gave me some tips of places to go and things to see but we didn't meet up.
I did used to hang out with Tyler Brodie a lot, he was always at Plant Bar. Far as being a rich kid heir, he was always a super down to earth nice dude. Only went to his house once but it was something else. I mostly used to bug him about his involvement in the Darren Aronofsky movies and Clint Mansell because I was such a Pop Will Eat Itself fanatic in high school.
http://danselzer.com/images/newyorkcompscale.jpg
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 September 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
― brotherlovesdub
Yes!! Easily my favorite song to come from the label and probably one of my top 50 songs of the decade.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 16 September 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
I've never heard that before!
I think In A Hole/Can't Feel My Knees by Invisible Conga People is my favourite of the (possibly) lesser know releases. My life would be immeasurably improved if ICP had made more music.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
My life would be immeasurably improved if ICP had made more music.
ILX posts out of context
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:28 (two years ago) link
Haha! I had to google that!
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Thursday, 16 September 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
Justin’s still in NYC. I sold him my couch and we almost shared a music studio space in Brooklyn a few years ago that was being vacated by Jason from Hundred in the Hands and the Boggs, next to Will Speculator and across from Vito and Druzzi.Justin has some beautiful synth gear. I think we worked on some tracks for a dancer at some point.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 16 September 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
― Heavy Messages (jed_)
Oh crap forgot about ICP… I thought they were on Italians Do It Better? They released amazing singles and disappeared. Agree completely on my life improving with more ICP.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:14 (two years ago) link
“Cable Dazed” is my favorite one. Sounds like the best song The Knife never made.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:16 (two years ago) link
agreed. I could say the same about "Cant Feel My Knees"
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:17 (two years ago) link
Apparently, ICP fell out badly. It's an absolute tragedy, to be honest. I always think about The Knife with them too but mainly because Can't Feel My Knees mixes so beautifully into Silent Shout.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 17 September 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link