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Is it this years schroomadelica?

John Harris
Friday October 13, 2006
The Guardian

Must we go through all this again? ... The Klaxons

With the students back, parliament in session and that Killers album slowly being revealed as an overwrought dud, what better time for the greatest minds of their generation to go down the pub and invent a new genre? Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it. In a slightly patronising way, I approve: a media life devoid of the pleasure of inventing a supposed youthquake is no life at all, and I have the trophies from such piss-poor attempts as "the New Eclecticism" (rap-rock for cult-stud undergrads, circa 1993) and "the New Wave of New Wave" (Britpop without the good bits, circa 1994) to prove it.

So, what have we got with New Rave? The essential idea, it seems, is to tap back into the spirit of the pre-Britpop years, all gurgling keyboards, cut-price drugs and secret parties, only this time with more guitars. Here follows a cut-out-and-keep guide to all this, written with the aid of a few promo CDs and MySpace, so: scissors at the ready, and let's get it over with.
Shitdisco are from Scotland, sound less like anything "rave" than like the unremarkable row once made by such rock-groups-with-a-synthesizer as Classix Nouveaux, and will surely all be over by Christmas. Trash Fashion reek of east-London trendiness, are chiefly famed for a song called Rave Dave ("And then my friend will sort you out/ 'Cos that's what raves are all about") and may yet turn out to be a scam. New Young Pony Club sound quite good in a Talking Heads/Grace Jones kind of way, but Lord alone knows what they're doing lumped in with any of this stuff. And then there's my own personal favourite: those Worcester-based jokers Analogue Domestos, who are about to release a single entitled I'm Mental, and do weekly slots at the voguish London club Byte Slasher. (One of these is made up - there's a free lightstick if you can spot which one).

The leaders of this sea change, however, are a London-based trio called the Klaxons, who have recently been posing with Acid House-esque Mr Smiley faces. Clearly, they've surmised that if a pop-cultural wave comes along and life on income support is starting to pall, you may as well surf it. I don't mind the noise they make - scabrous electronics meets vaguely indie-sounding rock. But two minutes into their hot(ish) new single Magick, you suddenly realise the flaw in their plan. They sound a bit like those American gadflies the Bravery, and that is not good at all.

As for the "rave" aspects of all this, it may seem like a laugh now, but just you wait. Some of us remember Old Rave, and what with all those white gloves, whistles and regular tales of some hapless young person losing their sight after doing nine Es, we do not want it back. Remember, though: in the dark days of 1991-93, it looked like the guitar really was extinct, but rock bit back and eventually won. Who now listens to such rave milestones as the Prodigy's 1992 hit Charly, the entire oeuvre of Altern 8 (two blokes who essentially released the same record over and over again - what cards!) and Shaft's 1992 smash Roobarb and Custard? Only very strange people.

Then again, perhaps folks like me are taking all this far too seriously. "This country needs to party," reckon the Klaxons, which may be a very reasonable point, and rather makes me want to paraphrase an old David Bowie song. Sorry and all that, but the pun was too good to use: Genre? I'm only dancing!

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

shroomadelica*

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I love the remixes of the Klaxons songs I have heard so far (the Simian Mobile Disco mix of 'Magick', the Crystal Castles remix of 'Atlantis to Interzone', the Van She mix of 'Gravity's Rainbow'). But the idea that they have anything at all to do with rave is just prespoterous.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

i like some songs which fall under this umbrella but am reluctant to embrace the label itself. it doesn't seem to have a great deal of relevance to what's happening in actual dance music.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Watch out, Lex...they'll make you like boys with guitars if you're not careful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Said it before, but when it comes to "new rave" or "indie rave" the Hadouken rework of the Klaxon's track is the only thing that actually sounds like the concept.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I like "Charly" and Altern 8 waaaaay more than any Britpop shite John Harris rates.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

dark days of 1991-93, it looked like the guitar really was extinct,

Oh for fucks....

but rock bit back and eventually won. Who now listens to such rave milestones as the Prodigy's 1992 hit Charly, the entire oeuvre of Altern 8 (two blokes who essentially released the same record over and over again - what cards!) and Shaft's 1992 smash Roobarb and Custard? Only very strange people.

Well apart from Shaft, call me very strange.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

The fuck? I love me some early-90s hardcore!

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I regularly play everything namechecked in that stupid paragraph!

Also, anyone who says "Activ8", "Brutal-8-E", "Frequency", "Evapor8" and "Hypnotic St8" are the same song is seriously stupid.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

John Harris is seriously stupid.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps, but "Talking Heads/Grace Jones"? I would like to believe that. Send promo, O New Young Pony Club publicists!

― don (dow), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

predictably, i like a bunch of the stuff that probably falls under this label. i wrote a little bit about it in my my blog yesterday, though not very well, but basically it amounted to the idea that new rave is not really a genre, per se, so much as a name for a scene or something that's meant to distinguish a certain group of bands/producers from an other, indicating, 'we're not just antother indie/indie dance act, we're here to fucking party.'

also though, klaxons have fueled the fire. they encourage people to use the term not because it is an accurate description of the sound, but because every time someone uses it their fame increases, and they are confident that their songs will keep them around long after the glow sticks have dimmed.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

i would like to violently hack off the superfluous 'my' in the link there.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

i think we may be a month behind, but the new (to us yanks) i-D magazine had a big who's who of the new up and comers that would make up the new rave scene. it was accompanied by a manifesto-like essay that actually made a very persuasive case for the true importance of this stuff for a certain kind of creative person of a certain age, just because it is so creative by nature. it is a huge diy spirit, something that even as the means to produce and distribute art have democratized, has failed to take hold in many young kids yet.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I had heard some of the Klaxons remixes and was looking forward to seeing them open for Soulwax but was pretty underwhelmed. they sound more like Bloc Party than anything "ravey."

― dmr (Renard), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

this piece already got bashed on the Petridish Punchbag, is it time for a rolling Gummidge thread?

― occasional mongrel (kit brash), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

ok now i just listened to a Klaxons track. kinda sounds like indie pop doesn't it? How is this anything to do with dance music? Do they DJ?

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

This might make more sense:
http://www.myspace.com/hadoukenuk

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

that was harsh!

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

We need a rave revival but this isn't it.

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, nothing from E1 could be

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

nor N1 if bangface is any indication, despite its other *cough* redeeming qualities

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

i've heard good things about bangface.. is it good?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

if you like sweaty tawdry places and wildly inconsistent rave music yes!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

all gurgling keyboards, cut-price drugs and secret parties

HOORAY

only this time with more guitars.

BOO

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 20 October 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

you all just discovered the klaxons today? sheesh

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

ghislain poirier played the prodigy's 'out of space' at slowed-down pace when he dj'ed down here a couple weeks back, fitted in well with all the dancehall he was playing. get on 'screwed rave' as the next bandwagon, kids!

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

i heard "out of space" on a huge soundsystem recently too and it blew my mind right back to 1992(?)

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

Mildly Amusing NYT Article on Klaxons

September 21, 2006
Music Review
Danceable Tantrums From an East Village Basement
By KELEFA SANNEH
Even before their first American performance on Tuesday night, there were a few things we knew about Klaxons.

There are three of them. (Except onstage, when they add a drummer to become four.) They love the unpretentious dance music associated with Britain’s early-1990’s rave scene. (Although at least one member says he hates it.) And they play squiggly, noisy dance-punk. (Though they’re always talking about their love of “melodic pop.”)

But until sometime after midnight, when the three-plus-one took the stage in the basement of Club Midway, on Avenue B in the East Village, we Americans couldn’t quite be sure that this group actually existed. Half an hour later the set was over, but the answer still wasn’t quite clear.

With their danceable tantrums, Klaxons sound a bit like the short-lived Test Icicles, who announced their breakup about a month after their first album was released in America. And with their press-friendly back story (scrappy lads revive rave), their predictably provocative quotations (they work hard to cultivate an aura of druggy decadence) and their suspiciously sudden ascent, Klaxons could almost be another clever British hoax. Perhaps you remember Hope Against Hope, the beloved British band whose promising career was interrupted this year by the announcement that it didn’t really exist. (Q magazine was having a bit of fun.)

In any case there were definitely British people onstage, and they were definitely making a danceable racket, provided you like dancing to frantic disco-inspired beats and a distorted bass guitar and yelped falsetto. This was a short, wilfully messy set: part of the idea, it seemed, was to put the screaming punk back in dance-punk. Their breakthrough single, “Gravity’s Rainbow,” is fast and angular, with a warm, daffy chorus to balance the sharp bass line: “I’ll always be there for you, my future love.”

No American listener would be likely to identify this tumult as a tribute to rave culture. But then, those dance tracks that once ruled Britain were never more than obscure import singles over here.

In Britain the band’s cover of the the dance smash “Not Over Yet” sounds like a sly nod to Paul Oakenfold, the star D.J. who helped produce it. But at Club Midway, some listeners may have been hearing the song for the first time. Similarly, the band’s forthcoming American debut, a smartly produced mini-album called “Xan Valleys” (Modular), includes a scrappy take on “The Bouncer”; if you’ve never heard that once-omnipresent rave track (by Kicks Like a Mule), the Klaxons version sounds less like a joke and more like a lark.

Maybe that’s for the best. It’s hard to hate a band that barely exists, and it’s hard to roll your eyes at a joke you don’t quite get. The British are being bombarded with articles about Klaxons’ sweaty live shows and bright clothes and tongue-in-cheek devotion to all things glow-sticky. Transplanted to an East Village basement, they seemed more like a pleasant curiosity, beamed in from Britain, or the Internet, or some other faraway — possibly imaginary — place.

Klaxons play Studio B, 259 Banker Street between Meserole and Calyer Streets, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, tonight, with Soulwax.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

oh, we must've discussed them before if kefela's writing about them.

― H2-H4 (H2-H4), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

i opened for them at that show, no mentions ;_;

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 20 October 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

No American listener would be likely to identify this tumult as a tribute to rave culture.

I guess this is where I'm at then. That Gravity's Rainbow song sounds like TV on the Radio to me.

― dmr (Renard), Friday, 20 October 2006 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

The music linked to on the myspace above sounds like 2002 era dance punk to me.

― Period period period (Period period period), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

so - does the new one from simian mobile disco fall under this banner ?

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

'new rave' = crap indie rave

― braveclub (braveclub), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

get the distinct impression that J Harris never went to a rave (or even dance club?) in his life.

― ;_; (blueski), Friday, 20 October 2006 08:35 (nineteen years ago)

I thought baile was the new rave or was that last year's new rave.

― white heat (white heat), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

IPC/the broadsheets' insistence on using "new rave" as the plucky British opponent to that evil horrid aimed at girls emo music looks ever more like a malnourished Palestinian child throwing a handful of pebbles at an approaching battalion of Israeli tanks.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

No American listener would be likely to identify this tumult as a tribute to rave culture. But then, those dance tracks that once ruled Britain were never more than obscure import singles over here.

How true is this? I forced everyone in my high school and then college to listen to that stuff.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Friday, 20 October 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

you're unbelievable

OHH!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

is this like the british equivalent of black dice / excepter / gang gang dance or something?

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

i-D hasn't had a good opinion in almost 10 years BTW

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Saturday, 21 October 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

You should like it, Vahid, cos this is actually the new Big Beat.

(Check the sirens at the start of Atlantis to Interzone - it's all very Lo-Fidelity Allstars)

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Saturday, 21 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

As a term it seems a bit weird and inappropriate - these are guitar bands, after all.

BUT - I went to see The Presets and Shitdisco the other night and there WAS at least one glowstick. And a young boy came out of the moshpit all sweaty in jeans, a t-shirt and PEARLS??

Moshpits are not very rave either, are they?

― Jamie T Smith (Jamie T Smith), Saturday, 21 October 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason, bringing back Rave is just like bringing back Polio.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Saturday, 21 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

― ;_; (blueski), Saturday, 21 October 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a bunch of young people brandishing glowsticks [i]in the pub[/i] t'other day.

― braveclub (braveclub), Saturday, 21 October 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

Fuck Ravers.

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Saturday, 21 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Who now listens to such rave milestones as the Prodigy's 1992 hit Charly

Me, it's a great tune!

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Saturday, 21 October 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 59 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

your replacements, Vice and Homme+, are both just photography magazines (for either ryan mcginley or bruce weber wannabees) that happen to have clothes in them

whatever

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 07:19 (nineteen years ago)

why is it that when people want to disagree with me they just resort to posting incomprehensible lofty-sounding shit??

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

i can't parse your first two sentences, the third one i think you're trying to say that homme+ is unstylish, and the last one is like 50/50 i sort of get what you're trying to say.

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

what's any cop by datarock

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I have a track knocking around my hard drive somewhere but didn't think much of it at the time. I'll give it another listen and post it in the usual place this evening. Maybe.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

None of the stuff I've heard has the incredible, intricate drum loops that were an integral part of hardcore.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a bit baffled by the klaxons cover of Not Over Yet - i mean i quite like it (it's VERY indie) but why that song specifically? i recently got a kylie/grace mashup pointed at me too, so i was wondering if there is something else going on there.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

xpost:

Earlier rave was not necessarily super intricate proto-drum n bass. Something like "The Dominator" is pretty basically programmed. Many of the earlier tracks simply relied on things like hoover sounds and sirens.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

what's any cop by datarock

"Computer Camp Love"!

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I REALLY like the new ShitDisco single. Can't stop playing, much to my neighbors' delight I'm sure.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

None of the stuff I've heard has the incredible, intricate drum loops that were an integral part of hardcore.

You need to search the Third Eye Mafia remix of Atlantis To Interzone then. Ridiculously bombastic proggy breakdown + pianos + utterly tasteless last couple of minutes of breakbeat mentalism.

Last night I downloaded a zip file containing every single remix of the Klaxons. They've managed to make three songs go a very long way indeed.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was wrong about Datarock incidentally. Fa Fa Fa is great. They've managed to make their guitars sound very pretty indeed.

Do Pull Tiger Tail belong here as well? I quite like the one song I've heard by them.

What's going on? I like lots of the young person's indie music again, for the first time since about 2001.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really like Datarock much. Aren't they just the unnecessary mid-point between hot Chip and The Presets, with a bit of The Pulsars thrown in for good measure?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

On the basis of the one track I've heard, no. But then again I hate the Presets, so...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'd thought of them as more of a 'slightly unnecessary Scandinavian take on baggy' myself.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm basing this is on the Computer Camp Love Ep which has no baggy whatsoever.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Not even sure if this is nu-rave (sounds more like nu-uk-hip-house), but this song is INCREDIBLE:

Epic Man & Plan B - "More is Enough (Sinden remix)", available on fluo kids: http://fluokids.blogspot.com/

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh, we must've discussed them before if kefela's writing about them.
-- H2-H4

zing zang zong

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh dear

http://www.nme.com/images/84_NMEcover_oasis_L111106.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

It would be one thing if "new rave" meant, like Eats Tapes or some proper squiggly acid circuit bent freak shit, but the whole "this time there's more GITARRS" line gives the game away pretty badly ("new wine in old bottles" is the new "old wine in new bottles"?). Let me know when it starts to sound like Acen's "Trip II the Moon", but if it's just going to be crappy indie rock then fuck off and leave poor old rave alone.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

i think Noel might've at least gone to a rave once or twice

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Drew, a bunch of this stuff is actually eschewing the guitars - especially some of these amazing remixes. I like it more than the usual DFA dance-punk stuff (this coming from an old raver).

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

according to myspace, oasis is indie

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

i think it should be called new w(r)ave. but i'd rather have new (w)rave or even new (w+r)ave.

― Login Name consigliere (consigliere), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

It definitely seems like the 'New Rave' tag as the magazines have defined it only applies to the REMIXES of these bands. Shitdisco's 'Reactor' single is a standard indie song; the James Ford edit does some fun things with it. See also all these endless (though excellent, I think) remixes of the Klaxons singles. Etc.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Kitsune Maison Compilation 3 Tracklist

01. Simian Mobile Disco / I Believe
02. The Lovely Feathers / Frantic
03. The Whip / Trash
04. Fox n’ Wolf / Youth Alcoholic
05. Klaxons / Gravity’s Rainbow (Van She Remix)
06. Freeform Five / Home With U
07. Boys Noize / Feel Good (TV=Off)
08. Gossip / Standing in the Way of Control (Soulwax Nite Version)
09. Alex Gopher / Motorcycle (Wet Clutch Short Edit)
10. The World Domination / Galactic Lover
11. Dead Disco / The Treatment (Metronomy Remix)
12. The Valentinos / Kafka ! (Bag Raiders How’d Ya Like at Five Remix)
13. Oh No ! Oh My! / I Love You All The Time
14. The Whitest Boy Alive / Done With You
15. Digitalism / Zdarlight (Paranoid Asteroid mix)

New Rave http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/5030/pacmanxk0.gifieclash...

― brr (fandango), Sunday, 12 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

03. The Whip / Trash

this song is REALLY good.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

somebody should start a band and call it "schubert dip"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

a new Dummy Magazine mp3 - sorted by the ubiquitous Simian Mobile Disco

http://www.dummymag.com/dummymonthly/SMDMix.mp3

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's weird that so many people are focusing on the guitars when in fact most of these bands are scuppered by the fact they have a DRUMMER.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

That Kitsune tracklisting is kind of depressing. I like several of the tracks I've heard but they're really desperately chasing a We Are Your Friends-sized hit, aren't they?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000007MVQ.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

"emf" is an excellent choice for the name of schubert dip's first single

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

They should release lots of singles all called EMF, and change their name with each release. I suggest 'Unbelievable'.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

That Kitsune tracklisting is kind of depressing. I like several of the tracks I've heard

end sentence

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

i still have CDS of 'EMF' by Perfect Day (one of their later guises) if anyone wants it.

― 2 american 4 u (blueski), Thursday, 16 November 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

nobody listens to the klaxons.

― pernicus (pernicus), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

I listen to the klaxons.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh dear...

― pernicus (pernicus), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

You're too old, let go, it's over, no one listens to The Klaxons.

― dommy p is alright WHICH IS A LOT MORE THAN I CAN SAY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE (Dom, Friday, 17 November 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

No, i'm not trying to be contrarian or anything; I'm just saying I listen to them - or at least I listen to the EP I bought. I really like it, though as I said way upthread I like the remixes a lot more than the regular songs.

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.last.fm/music/Klaxons/+fans

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

i love the klaxons

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

No you don't. No one listens to The Klaxons. Passantino's Magic Finger On The Pulse knows exactly what everyone is listening to. And no one listens to The Klaxons.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

come with me come with me we'll travel to infinity

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't need to go any further than the local Wetherspoons, thanks.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

we tried to go to that wetherspoons on farringdon road after fabric! but it wasn't open at 6.30am on a sunday morning :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'd forgotten about that. The bloke who was cleaning the bar just stared at us and went "oh god, look at you all."

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

as if we were going to look any different after raving all night, he should not have been like that

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

although the MAGIC CAFÉ was a zillion times better anyway

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

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