Octo Octa &c

this mix is fucking excellent

btw Kate (and everyone else) this art of the DJ on RA with Eris is really great:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3352

this is incredible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ef_mtKA12g

Awesome

She's on The Residency now btw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000nw0m

Quazar! <3

https://www.thefader.com/2020/11/18/octo-octa-river-premiere?utm_source=tftw

On streaming services now too.

I will honestly say that I didn't "get" the most recent album until a month or so ago, when one of the tracks came on while I was driving and I straight up had an excellent dance party in my car. Went home and listened and danced to the whole thing, love OO now!

Oh shiiiiiiiiit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLGG4fYpdBo

this is a banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ef_mtKA12g

posted by map a week ago!

tim f alerted me to it ftr

I will honestly say that I didn't "get" the most recent album until a month or so ago, when one of the tracks came on while I was driving and I straight up had an excellent dance party in my car. Went home and listened and danced to the whole thing, love OO now!

― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, November 20, 2020 12:22 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

awright! that album is evergreen, probably in my top ten of the decade. she is just so fucking great i can hardly believe it.

River is also dope. i'm looking forward to an end of year release hopefully? Anybody know anything?

"River" is from their Fabric mix out this Friday

coolio, thanks!

so unsurprisingly this Fabric mix is pretty banging

listening now, coincidentally, and yes! the first section is fairly high octane house with the occasional break thrown in, I think it will get more ravey...

Interesting how specifically London the opening section feels, and parts of the final third as well, but with this very soft gooey melodic centre. I'm sure that's intentional, but it's absolutely not the version of London that's especially fashionable right now, there's a real Basement Jaxx vibe to some of it (by which I mean the late 90s Brixton club night).

Absolutely riotous and joyous throughout obviously.

🤘

Got a new project with @octo_octa called @Alchem_Sisters. Our first remix is out today of the amazing New Orleans-based punk band Special Interest. The song is called "Disco III" and the remix is punk, acid, breaks, big beat, & psychedelic chaos. https://t.co/SYviPNfqOi

— 🍄 Eris Drew 🍄 (@ErisDrew) January 8, 2021

well that's pretty good

New track from upcoming EP

https://soundcloud.com/t4tluvnrg/octo-octa-find-your-way-home-from-shes-calling-ep-t4t004

https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/djs-and-label-heads-eris-drew-and-octo-octa-on-finding-magic-in-the-everyday

octo octa remixes dj q, party starts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTynM5QAmy0

also new EP out yesterday: https://octoocta.bandcamp.com/album/shes-calling-ep

this might be the best thing she's ever done? that bass is >>>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqiZIe-Z7TU

excellent

was this posted? I really liked this, they are such cool and inspiring people <3

https://www.papermag.com/b2b-octo-octa-eris-drew-pride-2646183481.html

thanks for posting that, it's a treat

yesssss https://ra.co/podcast/769

man this is such a fun vibe

was just coming to post that!

just a passing note that the "let's do it" sample in "Find Your Way Home" is buried deep in Cathy Dennis's "Touch Me (All Night Long)"

did not know that cathy dennis co-wrote kylie's "can't get you out of my head". this thread is about cathy dennis now, sorry

she's the best

wait till you find out about Rob Davis

Just Announced: June 26 // NY Pride weekend closes out with @octo_octa and @ErisDrew taking over the Ruins. The T4T LUV NRG founders bring an electrifying sense of urgency and joy to the decks, weaving between classic house & rare rave gems.

Tickets ➤ https://t.co/h1RZGFiYTL pic.twitter.com/Pns64nCTJX

— KNOCKDOWN CENTER (@knockdowncenter) May 4, 2022

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0017khg

Interesting to hear Eris bring up the egg crack analogy in a context that's not explicitly transfeminine. There are these implications to the idea of egg cracking that are kind of similar to what "woke" used to mean before it got weaponized as a term of abuse. I guess the idea of "egg cracking" is different in that it typically has observable, concrete, and specific results.

octo octa is still so good you guys. eris is finally landing with me too. different styles for sure but i can imagine how their energy is related.

yeah eris took a while to click with me, less immediate, but her stuff is starting to click.

honestly while listening to that interview i entirely forgot how rare positive trans representation is in uk media, which was really nice.

this is an incredible eris jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2QqStJQzeI

Finally saw Eris Drew DJ at Freerotation on the weekend and holy shit she is one incredible DJ - total vibes, great tunes and massive energy all underpinned by incredible technical ability. My friends and I have all since got tickets for the next Corsica Studios residency on August 5th.

yes, mad skills!

New Eris Drew / Octo Octa split single is funnnnnnnnn

Octo’s “Stars and Water” either doesn’t remember that humanity decided to leave the “let’s slow the track down and then speed it back up again” trick (per “French Kiss”, “Belfast” and “The Rockefeller Skank”) in the nineties, or doesn’t fucking care.

it's fun for me because i have like zero knowledge of any of this stuff, it's all new to me, and no space in my brain to be even remotely knowledgeable about it the way i was about rock music.

maybe this is just me projecting my own shit onto her work but for me transness is _iterative_, it's just doing the same shit countless other people have done before you, and it doesn't matter if everybody else has already done it because _you've_ never done it before

to me it feels like the lack of centralized/agreed-upon assumptions w/in discourse as far as which histories are 'overrepresented' and which ones are 'underrepresented,' whats 'trendy' and what's 'normie,' it makes it hard for maneuvers to sound as easily 'played out' as they once did ... ie nardo wick doing 'tom's diner' melody, which was so oversaturated and played out, and now feels like as fair a maneuver as any other, partly bc im just getting old, and partly bc the multitude of choices, the unfettered access, makes knowing something democratized, and having truly secret information a rarity...idk.

the trade off is that certain discursive maneuvers are definitely overexposed and tiresome, but art itself manages to survive attempts to stamp it out

another way I think abt it is the increasing alienation of a very online life makes ppl miss 'common ground'

it's just doing the same shit countless other people have done before you, and it doesn't matter if everybody else has already done it because _you've_ never done it before

i don’t necessarily disagree with you, but sometimes when people (some people?) do this we call it cultural appropriation, so i think the formulation there might be incomplete? or maybe there’s no such thing as cultural appropriation, and everyone is just iterating

this appeals to me somewhat because i think “cultural appropriation” is a weak critique in general, though i also can’t sit too comfortably w the idea that bradley nowell et al are just “iterating” toots and the maytals