New Broadcast (RIP Trish Keenan Jan 2011)

they started out perfect and slowly improved. what a miserable loss. poor trish,

That's a nice piece, Ned.

Im actualy in tears listening to her now,so sad

― nakamura, Friday, 14 January 2011 17:27 (2 hours ago)

I actually have shed a few tears today, over this person I never even met. It's weird, the power that good music can have over your emotions.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^This completely. Her voice was just so warm and kind that you felt you'd known her your whole life.

This song for some reason just seems like a good way to remember. I love the sentiments in it. Love the album version, but youtubed it to discover that footage of "Halloween" was playing behind it. Prefer to let the band stand in themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3B1XtWD0gY&feature=related

This is terribly sad.

Feel punched in the gut. I can hardly believe it. :(

trish lives forever in our dreams

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5001/5354827591_b41642cbc9_b.jpg

Joe Muggs just posted this on Twitter:

Here's a compilation Trish Keenan made for a friend of mine just before going to Australia: great way to remember her.

Shortcut to link:

http://bit.ly/eI1wmT

thanks for the heads up, ned

Joe's friend said more on FB:

Before she went to Australia Trish sent me a mix CD of bonkers pop music she compiled, I never thanked her. Its called Mind Bending Motorway Mix and I want to share it with you, please pass the link on, share it far and wide, its a little tribute to a (as a friend referred to her today) exhilarating woman

d/ling now

Broadcast used to have a series of radio mixes up on their website that were really fantastic. There is still one of these up on their newer site, but I can't seem to track down the previous ones. Lots of great, obscure psych music.

no tracklisting!

some Broadcast live sets from bygone years can be found at http://www.percussionlab.com/

interview with Trish on Australian radio from December
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2QAMVQRK

seriously anybody got a tracklisting for this thing, I don't recognize anything so far...

> Broadcast used to have a series of radio mixes up on their website that were really fantastic.

these are from the broadcast forum, posted in the "Radio Files - can't open them" thread by Teclo. (website jiggerypokery stops me from posting link to the message itself so i'll just paste it here)

haven't checked these. first one appeared to still be there.

Radio Mix 1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mqtdyinwmzu
2:
http://www.mediafire.com/?uamttmdqzwy
3:
http://www.mediafire.com/?wtqmedxhkxj
4:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ggmz04nftzm
5:
http://www.mediafire.com/?kzjunyjkdoj

have been listening all afternoon. brian cant, godzilla, morricone...

thanks for that link stevem. never saw them live.

shakey - second song from that mix is Harumi "what a day for me" .. . haven't recognized anything else yet ... only a couple songs in though

What a shock this is ... heard them for the first time in '98 on Warp's "We Are Reasonable People" compilation and couldn't stop listening to "Hammer Without a Master". It was the best track on an album that I listened to all the time in the summer of '98. In a way, they let me down for several years after that, because they couldn't top that song. Nothing from "The Noise Made By People" could touch it. But I became an even bigger fan of them after "Tender Buttons", which was tremendous. Great band, and such a sad loss. RIP.

this is bumming me out so much

this sucks ;_;

was in berlin for a few months in fall 2005, no internet and no money to buy music. tender buttons was the last thing i put on my mp3 player before the trip. discovering that album and a new city at the same time was wonderful... and then they came through on tour! just perfect. fuck :(

haven't read this, but http://pitchfork.com/news/41229-artists-react-to-death-of-broadcasts-trish-keenan/

Mix CD is totally great - wish there was a tracklist

wtf!

this is awful. Broadcast put out some of my favorite records of the 2000s, & the Focus Group collab last year was just as rewarding and promising as anything else in their remarkably consistent discog. just terrible..

of Montreal's reaction annoys me especially for whatever reason (it reeks of self-image promotion) but otherwise this tops the slew of deaths that affected me most lately. Even MJ's didn't entirely get me as much as it did the world - the guy seemed clearly past his prime, while Broadcast I was still waiting to release that classic album.

I can't stop thinking about this.

while Broadcast I was still waiting to release that classic album.

see, this is where i go: have you heard any of the 3-4 classic albums they already released??

was just going to say...

Didn't mean for it to be demeaning, I just never really felt the band had reached their prime yet.

she definitely had a lot of music left in her

^ I can dig it. Too young, too arbitrary, too bright a future... I don't think any other 'popstar death' has affected me more deeply.

of Montreal's reaction annoys me especially for whatever reason (it reeks of self-image promotion)

Unless its since been edited, I don't get this complaint. No less so than the Toro Y Moi talking about how big of an influence she was.

yeah, this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and i'm no of-montreal fan.

Not to get too nitpicky here about such a non-issue considering this thread, but how is of Montreal's thing worse than The Antlers... who actually linked to their cover of a Broadcast song? I mean, thats untimely self-promotion.

Anyway, back on topic, I happened to be meeting a friend near a record store today and had a few minutes to kill inside. Walked out with copies of The Noise Made By People and Work and Non-Work.

Another elegy http://www.bangthebore.org/archives/630

"If it was once written of Nico that her voice was so deadpan it could flatten a coffee jingle, Keenan was the polar opposite – her voice could make the speaking clock sound like your childhood best friend." Great article, Karen!

Another memoir by Bob Stanley: http://caughtbytheriver.net/2011/01/trish-keenan-remembered-by-bob-stanley

Lovely article, Karen. (Your B&W image of Trish is by my friend Ga1l 0'H4r4, if you want to credit that).

I haven't read my blogs recently, this has passed me by. This is so sad.

Only own the two last albums, I guess. And I really want all the others. Tender Buttons is such an appropriate name, I've never heard computer music sound so close to a hug and a roaring fire before. Listening to it seems like going to one of those empty but warm and inviting pubs with an old friend. I didn't even know Trish's name, I've never seen them live, I rarely read about them or anything but this feels like losing an old school buddy. The type you may have not spent a lot of time with an yet still ended up sharing a ton of secrets and in jokes with.

Tender Buttons and Haha sound really should be in everyone's collection, especially after how mental people went for The xx last year. And when I get a bit of money and sort my life out and can afford records again, I bet I will pick up their others and feel exactly the same way about them.

The Noise Made By People is their best!

hey y'all the tracklist for the Mind-Bending Motorway mix is here:

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=4565

Thanks for that!

ahhhhhh muchas gracias! was hoping that would turn up

Still two unlisted tracks but at least most of them now have an ID.

Victor Jara! awesome

Andy Votel's tribute, really good:
http://fingersports.blogspot.com/2011/01/bye-trish.html

this sunday's Freak Zone (radio 6, sunday) is apparently a tribute - featured album is Noise Made By People and he'll be playing related tracks.

Those Bob Stanley and Andy Votel pieces are really pretty great.

Incidentally, the Motorway Mix also formed the basis for the pre-show soundtrack for those final dates. I distinctly remember the Harumi and Tangerine Peel tracks, at the very least, playing at high volume while they were merrily plugging in cables and erecting the projection screen, etc, on December 9th.

jess harvell's piece on pfork today is nice