Fabriclive 29 - Cut Copy

i haven't listened to this yet. it looks mostly ok. 'e talking' in 2006 though? hein?

"this stuff is rock music and only for indie kids GET IT AWAY FROM OUR PURE MINIMAL HOUSE AND OUR CLUBS YUCK"

(the irony is that this is MY traditional position, and i hate rock music and indie kids more than anyone in the world, yet i love justice (or at least i love 'waters of nazareth') and uffie!)

just to drag this all up one more time, i love rock and minimal but (to my ears) mstrkrft just sound lame and justice just annoy me.

fruity loops here I come!

It was a great analogy though!

I'd much prefer things to be going in a more Justice-meets-DFA direction than yet more 80's retro sleazyshinydance because I am about 100% sick of it all already, yet ONLY NOW are the NME/Zane Lowe starting to pick up on it (Killers new album no good?) so it's probably going to be the reigning sound of the next 5 years at least.

'e talking' in 2006 though?

remix of the Faint in 2006?

Excited by the Fred Falke track though. How long's that been around?

and by the way cut copy and the like have been bigged up in NME since they've been bigged up on ilm.

i've said it before and i'll say it again, the first place i read about ANNIE (to use one example) was in NME almost a year prior to the release of ANNIEMAL over here.

And I should let this stand in the way of me being a knob?

Who Made Who live sound like the Scorpions live in 1978 (but that's OK cuz I Like the Scorpions. "Steam Rock Fever" forever.)

irony or hypocrisy!?

fuck party mixes, looking at their tracklists is more entertaining than sitting through them.

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(No ideas, myself)

ROCK
GOBOT ROCK

ROCK
GOBOT
ROCK

ROCK GOBOT ROCK ROCK
GOBOT ROCK ROCK
GOBOT
ROCK!!!!

repeat x 10

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This does look totally awful, though.

Please not this! I realise it's a very fine line I'm attempting to draw here between the gold & the grit in all this stuff like...

Also, finally heard MSTRKRFT... and they are mindbogglingly mediocre.

this stuff is just a big messy vortex of indie dance that appears to be sucking in bits of other genres, that's why no-one can figure out a name for it.

More Indieclash? http://www.juno.co.uk/products/181758-01.htm (okay 2005)

Remixing Wolfmother, no less. Ow.

I dunno man ... for me Digitalism remix of Cut Copy is on the good side of the line and MSTRKRFT remix of Wolfmother is way way way on the bad side of the line

only 50% of the stuff on Kitsune is any good, but when it is good I really get into it

maybe there should be a Kitsune s/d thread

Kitsuné are good, I think, but rapidly deteriorating in their constant search for HITS.

What really sucks about this sound is when it sounds like "modern pop music", a little dancey, a little rocky, and a little like hiphop, with lots of squeaking noises. eg Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler".

(Well, given my general lurking these days and my diminished appreciation for '00s dance, which I made quite clear on one of my fave threads, it's surprising to be (indirectly) asked)

I've tried with a bit of this stuff. Cut Copy remain faves, even though I still much prefer their pre-2004 output to the album onwards, though there's a funky remix of a song called 'No Way Out' he/they did last year that should get more play (think the DFA mix of Junior Senior but more noirish). Justice - like the Soulwax mix, discarded everything else. MSTRKRFT - agreed with fandango, though there's a listenable 90's-style mix of Annie's 'Heartbeat' that's credited to them. Haven't heard much of the album but will give it a go because I've never fully believed an act can be entirely irredeemable.

The dancers I'm listening to these days are mostly past releases. I've been retroactively discovering Japan's electro-tech scene, which is made more interesting because many of the producers tend to diversify their output. My fave album this year is Capsule's FRUITS CLiPPER, which is basically JPop\French House\Electroclash\DFA\Daft Punk\JLC\Tribal\Rave self-styled "electro-disco" joy. And to illustrate my previous obeservation, they used to put out hyper-processed, uber-produced JPop jazz, lounge and vocal house albums over 5 years.

Also, where does Joakim fit into all this? Everything I've heard has been great.

I quite like the Wolfmother remix as well but at least that doesn't try to be remotely house. Fight the real enemy = FOX AND WOLF! DIE DIE DIE.

I think this stuff is the inevitable bi-product of the rise of Erol etc and the general swing away from the 'dance is dead' stance of a couple of years ago.

As I said on the other thread, there hasn't really BEEN an indie-dance crossover music for several years (electrohouse doesn't count because it was largely ignored by non-dance kids).

http://www.zshare.net/audio/5775638b415d1c/

^^^ this is good

i mean uffie is basically how i imagined paris hilton's solo career to be, before it turned out that paris was even better than that

-- The Lex (The Lex)

that's hot

it was mildly amusing to see Lex do a complete 180 on Justice i guess

that Falke track is pretty good tho

Not so into the new So Cosmic mix - somehow both too indie (Panda Bear?) and too monotonous. The Fabriclive was really really great.

i dunno what any of the stuff on the mix is but im feeling it. hearts on fire is !!!!

hearts on fire is !!!!

-- and what, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

also sounds like bronski beat

hearts on fire is great.

did hearts on fire make any great impact in the charts/clubs/blogs? its brilliant but i only heard it recently yet it came out much earlier this year, right?

no idea why its not on top of every 2007 list cuz its def the kinda shit ilx types are usually into but whatever

I heard that it was the highest requested song on Triple J (Australia's National Youth Radio Station)this year. It still gets played here a hell of a lot on radio and out in clubs. I'll give it a spin Saturday.

We interviewed them a little bit ago and they've rerecorded it for their album due out next year.

AD: The version of Hearts On Fire is one that I downloaded nearly a year ago – I understand that it's been re-recorded for the album?

TH: Yeah, we re-recorded it with Tim. It's essentially the same track, it hasn't really changed that much arrangement-wise. Dan's added a few new vocals to it, but it's interesting. Tim Goldsworthy is the king of the drums – that's true of both the DFA guys, actually, and their disco drum sound – but I think the version on the album sounds a bit more band-y as opposed to the club version that came out a year ago. It's probably one of my favourite mixes on the whole album; it has that slightly 70s disco aesthetic to it now.

So maybe it will have a bigger impact when it gets a more official release? Evidently the new album is going to have a 'shoegazery' feel. :/

actually my favourite version is the DJ D.STAR edit, is this an official release or just an edit by some guy sat in his room? head and shoulders above the original (and that boring joakim remix)

DSTAR is amazing.

what's that song that's sampled in hearts on fire?

spencer, what else has dstar done? i don't know a single thing about him! (his remix is easily found on hypem if anyone here hasn't yet heard it)

He's done a few mixes that appear on blogs/forums. My favorite is a "Destination Calabria" mix that adds a bmore beat and Trina vocals. He also did this wild Ocelot remix that I'm really excited to play on NYE. Check his myspace and search on hypem.

video is madd corny but new song is good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2KojnKSMlg

their first album is still Classic

So none of the posts above this are by people that have heard the mix. Literally. Or if they are, they didn't see fit to mention it. I dunno maybe it was adequately covered in the MSTRKRFT thread.

It's surprisingly well done - there are some spectacular individual mixes (see the mix into Dead Eyes Opened) and the more sudden switches work well in the slightly chilly context.

It's also the mix that introduced me to Severed Heads so I'm not completely objective.