Please talk about: "Buffalo Stance" by Neneh Cherry

surely Twitter buzz is an onomatopeoic oxymoron?

Four tet's bee is half bird

It's not uncommon

The Buzzing of Summer Tweets

can we talk about "Everything" and "Weightless"?

Let's talk about the god damn awesome synth 'bit' 2:50 into the track with Robyn. Fuck me. So cool.

I like that song a lot but I don't really like Robyn on it, or she doesn't really add much

Yeah, her voice is perhaps too much like diet-Neneh to add much.

If every vocal on here was pitch-shifted, too cool for school Knife fans would be going nuts over this album.

Weightless is incredible

gets better every time i hear it

this is really good. the title track has that skittery intense feel of the thing album although the rest of the album is quite sparse.

Weightless is incredible

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Neneh's youngest girl Mabel just premiered her first single today: http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/13/mabel-know-me-better

an early version

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

interesting

I love this song

that demo/early version doesn't really hang together does it? they made the different parts sound of a whole in the final version

loving the "whaaa is he liiiike" ad-libs

it's a weirdo throwaway remix of another song [the A-side], with one of the guys' girlfriend adding some vocals over the top, not really intended to "hang together" at that point!

aaah, I see

Man, had no idea about this. Amazing that something so great could come so casually from something so shite (the A-side). That B-side may not exactly hang together, but all the bits are there, and they wouldn't need much changing.

wow the A-side really is awful.

incidentally, anyone know where i might be able to get the stem samples from the Neneh version? I've been wanting to do a remix of the track for years but no idea where you get this sort of thing

According to wikipedia, the Buffalo Stance single was released on my tenth birthday. I can't find anything else confirming this though. Hope it's true.

I always thought Buffalo Stance was a weird-ass song so the fact that it started as a remix makes a lot of sense

nice review from maura

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/neneh-cherry-raw-like-sushi/

does anybody know who directed the Buffalo Stance music video? is it the same person who did this Sinead O'Connor/MC Lyte vid? are there other music videos from this era that are in this style?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7u7g7oV68

yeah, same guy. he did loads of Sinead videos, from Troy for a decade or so onward. The No Clause 28 video is totally in the same style, as was Neneh's Kisses On The Wind, but in black & white.

the two videos from Jamie J Morgan's solo album might hit the spot for you, too.

(No Clause 28 is by Boy George, and Jamie J is the Morgan of Morgan / McVey.)

I was looking up the genesis of Lara Croft after seeing the new film and the Wikipedia entry mentions that Neneh Cherry was one of the models for her. Which seemed odd.

the links in the second and third paragraph of that review made me get a very late start on actual work today. Now I know tons of stuff about Ray Petri, Jamie Morgan, and The Face magazine.

so dont. you get fresh with me.

No style rookie
You better watch don’t mess with me

Don't remember this thread---great to see the love on here for The Cherry Thing as well as Raw Like Sushi. Saw collection of TCT remixes on discogs; anybody heard those?
I liked The Blank Project Deluxe, which does incl. mixes, though it's overall chilly (in the creepy Ballardian sense, incl. murky allusions verbal and aural) *and* tending to fairly lengthy tracks in medium tempo, that I've never really warmed up to it---overall, but for instance opener "Across The Water," which might be about her kid, got me right away.

I've still got Rip Rig & Panic's I Am Cold and Attitude somewhere---need to dig those up and get more RRP and related:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/27501-Rip-Rig-Panic

This review of Mark Springer's 2017 collection looks promising:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jul/13/mark-springer-circa-rip-rig-panic-review-fascinating-freeform-jazz-that-never-loses-its-way

new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efTqhft8yCk

produced by Four Tet and 3D of Massive Attack

You can certainly hear 3D's input. Track would have fitted right in on Mezzanine.

new album broken politics out october 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGrXaPLX0PU

and you may find yourself listening to "Shot Gun Shack"

Great news! Blank Project still one of my faves of the decade.

Out today! Get thee to a record store.

album rules. way more actively pretty than blank project which i'm into

I've got something longer going up soon but I gotta say it disappointed me compared to Blank Project, which now sounds like it didn't just presage this cultural moment but is OF this moment.

I agree with Alfred here. Blank seems more urgent to me and just generally better. I like the new one, just not as much.

I was half-listening to it the other day while reading and the sudden air horn cracked me up

"Natural Skin Deep"? That's one of the good ones. I blasted it this morning.

I like this a lot. Agree about the urgency, it feels altogether more worked over / less spontaneous than Blank Project, but in a way that the instruments (vibraphone!) require. The albums feel like opposites in many ways, or maybe complementary. I feel like something interesting would happen if you played them simultaneously.

It's quieter than Blank Project (and Brad is right about it being "actively pretty") - I was expecting from the pre-release leak tracks an artier version of Homebrew whereas it's more like an artier version of Man: perhaps that album if more of the Tricky collaborations and less of the MOR-gestures had made it on there. It's very dense and layered and involving.

Not enough chatter about this LP. OK, literally everyone good has put out something in the last 2 weeks. Even so.

"Slow Release" is, accidentally or not, a good summation of the whole.

i love “black monday” and “faster than the truth”