LCD Soundsystem???????
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Anyone? I've been giving more "normal" music a chance. IE new stuff on the radio that isn't hip hop or beat digger oriented.I saw these guys on Letterman and they had a cool young Talking Heads sound/look. Kinda liked it.
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I figured after the way the Rapture bubble burst (releasing your new LP almost 2 years after your "hype" peaks, not a good look), we would never see DFA major media again...
"it's like a movement, from a smaller place to a bigger city... it's like a culture, without the effort of all the culture... it's like a movement without the bother of all the meaning"
"There's a pit fight brewing at my house, because the jocks can't get in the door"
Losing My Edge is fucking hilarious too, if you haven't heard it..
"I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good 60's cut... and another box set from the 70's.. I hear you're buying a synthesizer, and an arpeggiator, and throwing your computer out the window, because you wanna make something 'real', you wanna make a Yaz record..."
i hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
i hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.
Yea, he loved them. It's not often you see him get excited about a band. So they have a connection to DFA? (excuse the little dude question)
as far as I know, they are/he is DFA. I dig them, too, I wasn't hating...it just seemed there was all this hype around DFA/Rapture and the whole Brooklyn thing, but they blew the Rapture up with all this hype, like the "next band you will love more than sex or ice cream" and, at least in the US, the response was:
I'm laughing trying to picture Letterman all into LCD Soundsystem...that dude is 9 feet tall...
i hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought harps[/b].
LCD is only a group on tour, the album i think was all done by murphy. all instruments/recording/mixing, etc done by him alone. it is a good album that gets better upon multiple listens. the production is sick. did anyone else hear that DFA did some tracks for both Britney and Janet Jackson that will apparently never see the light of day?
Tim is from the UK and was a childhood friend of James Lavelle (founder of Mo'Wax) and part of U.N.K.L.E. before the DJ Shadow UNKLE incarnation and now the current Richard File + James Lavelle version of the group. Working with Masayuki KUDO and Lavelle in the early to mid 90's, they released songs under the name U.N.K.L.E. (a play on the man from U.N.C.L.E.). Namely, they produced "The Time Has Come" and "Berry Medidation" which are a couple of my favorite Mo'Wax tracks. I think right before Lavelle got a huge advance for his U.N.K.L.E. album from A&M (later to become Psyence Fiction) Goldsworthy split for NYC. This was circa 1994/1995, I think.
So yeah, Tim is a producer and James is a producer/singer.
Can anyone shine some light on how he met James Murphy?
Cool. I really like the DFA remix of the Le Tigre "Decepticon". Now I'm interested to hear the CD. The band on Letterman was cool, very nerdy looking and just did that whole stand in one place funkin' like Talking Heads. The Asian girl playing Farfisa was the only one looking remotly cool. The rest were white boy hipster jeans and hoddie I could care less I'm on TV types.
Obviously Tim was the singer? He pretty much kept his eyes closed the whole time except when he pulled the African cowbell out from behind his back.
More cowbell baby!!!!
mylatency,
from what i know they crossed paths doing work on a David Holmes album?? Goldsworthy was doing alot of the programming and I'm not sure if james murphy was the engineer or not but I believe that is how they met.
Co-Sizzle.
that U.N.K.L.E. record was my shit...I was on some MoWax shit for a while, Palmskin Productions, Twig Bug...it got expensive buying all them 12" imports, though.
On a somewhat related note, I saw "!!!" a few months ago and they were the shit, definitely had that Talking Heads nerds-in-a-groove-thing working, although if you can't feel the vocalist styles, you probably won't dig it, cause he's over-the-top...
Ahh, thx for reminding me that Tim did some work on that David Holmes album, forgot about that.
Yea, i figured people would know what I was talking about. The cone shaped ones, connected with a bar, one cone smaller than the other. I think they are a traditional african bell. Though I didn't actually think they put them on cows. And they sound a lot better then the common cowbell. I'm sure they have some actual name, but "go go bells" works cuz they got used in go go music a lot I'm sure.
I need to start google-ing before I type..................
"Agogo Bell - African name "Gankogui." A two-tone bell played with a stick made out of cast iron, from Ghana. Plays a repeating pattern that helps keep a drumming ensemble playing together with a steady beat."