New from the DFA...

Disc 1:

CD 1 un-mixed by Michel gaubert et Marie Branellec
1.Electronicat "Till I die"
2.Fat Truckers " anorexic robot"
3.Radio 4 "dance to the underground"
4.Playgroup "make it happen" (zongamin remix)
5.Le Tigre "deceptacon" (DFA remix)
6.The Tards "high fire hell"
7.the Soft Pink Truth "promofunk"
8.Gold chains "the game" (clubmix)
9.Colorsound "fly with me"(midnight mike remix)
10.Quarks "I walk" (superpitcher shaffel mix)
11.Chicks on speed feat peaches " guitar anthem"
12.White sport "she's groovy"
13.The Human League "reach ou (I'll be there) instrumental
14.Polyrock "your dragging feet"
+ bonus track

Yanc3y, is this a CD? and will it be released commercially?

where is JON WILLIAMS?!?!?!?!?!?!

1. The Juan Maclean - "By the Time I Get to Venus"
2. LCD Soundsystem - "Give It Up"
3. The Rapture - "House of Jealous Lovers"
4. Black Dice - "Come Toaster"
5. The Juan Maclean - "You Can't Have It Both Ways"
6. The Rapture - "Silent Morning"
7. LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"
8. Black Dice - "Endless Happiness"

Maybe this is an incomplete comp, since no "Olio" or "Beat Connection?" I'm not sure...

while we're riding the black dice jock:

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/g/goa/goa.shtml

miss you JW

:-D

:-D

The other four were promo-only/given away?

Wow, how's that sound?

how do i get dfa to send me packages of stuff?

i can't find any info about that black dice 12" (though i was aware eye was remixing some shit for them). any idea about a proper release date?

I always liked that name.

Did he get that alias from Beavis & Butthead?

"This here's Colette. She's been rolling around in a pile of her on sick."

it has "i need your love" by the rapture on the free cd and this dancer is very impressed, the chorus sounds like my doorbell though which will cause problems later when I have my friends in for a few drinks.

Colette

is this available on vinyl worldwide?

:-(

sigh.

(i haven't listened to it yet)

did you check the Ceramic Hulk on Collette? thing is massive!

Hey Yancey, is that the complete tracklisting?

I have four or five SFS records, though I rarely listen to them anymore.

Catsup Plate 12" (repackaged Tigerbeat6 3")
Eye Remix 12"
Cone Toaster 12" (With Eye)
New LP (with Eye?)

JON WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND THEY ARE ON TOUR WITH THE LOCUST SOON

IAN NO WAY YANC3Y ME FIRST PLEASE

SORRY FOR THE MISACRONYMING GYGAX! I WILL NOW BEAT MYSELF SILLY (BMS)!

The beat and bassline from the new Juan Maclean song are very fucking close to ODB's "Got Your Money."

http://www.thechinesestars.com/

or

http://www.lotsofnoise.com/

you sent me a rip (and indexed, weee!) copy of the dfa colette No5 mix and a negroclash mix (which you identified with BALL POINT FUCKING PEN = skippy disc). yes, i am still in debt to you. how about huff for sweeney?

AUBREY HUFF STAYS PUT!

ms. lauren, you have my full undivided attention.

I expected to like the Luomo more, but the Rapture cd is awesome. Sorry to be a typical hipster but it actually rocks funks and stops starts in a great way. The chilled out songs are good too.

For some reason the one that sticks in my head the most other than Jelous Lovers is the 2nd track.

1234567
I'm floating in a constant heaven...

Awesome.

gygax!, come east!

ps - gygax!,don't you think i look like a blockhead in that picture?

noooo! i was really looking forward to hearing that one :(

I think my head just exploded.

Seriously, I saw them earlier this year at the DEMF and they were 100x better live than they were on their records. I cannot wait for this at all.

Where can I find a DFA complete discography?

Don't go looking at me like that, Ned. (tho if it makes you feel any better my second-favorite track on XTRMNTR was that MBV Arkestra thing.)

they were pretty good live, not so great on record -- they played a lot with friends' bands like sleepyhead, dungbeetle, 6fs (john / juan mclean) so i saw them maybe ten times...

just curious.

i think the turing machine record is the first dfa production. i'm completely unaware of any work with brainiac... interesting, though.

(hi, jg. you following all of this?)

Hey Yancey, you've moved up in the world like your name was greenhouse gas, eh? How are you?

search: six finger satellite law of ruins, produced by james murphy

A look at the discography page also turns up:
LCD Soundsystem "Movement" 7", with the album now scheduled for 2005
The Juan Maclean "I Robot / Less Than Human" 10"
DFA Compilation #2, 3xCD (!)

I thought this was part of the press release and enjoyed the weary candour.

LCD Soundsystem are now taking the piss.

It'd better be fucking January 2005.

If "Movement" is the next LCD single, where the heck did "Kick Out the Chairs" come from?

anyone got links to download any of the above?

(x-post)

xp

James Murphy picks his favourite tunes for Pitchfork, including M.I.A., Daft Punk, Lethal B and fucking Jet(?).

Gestures of rock in the vocals, the rock gesture in the production, the manipulation of sound, sound being the manipulator in terms of cool versus sound being a manipulator in terms of your body.

What does this mean? It's very interesting. I'd like to talk to him myself, it's not as if I make music right now and could do anything with it, but I'm just curious. Like his way of thinking about music makes sense to me and then there's a side of my brain that says if I had a band, it should sound like Big Black. There's some weird tension between hating a lot of things about rock and thinking there needs to be a canon. I guess that's often the space where the most interesting work gets done.

that's so wrong and, even if it wasn't, what's wrong with that? The writer seems a bit of a dick, at least give them some respect if you're going to rip off their idea.

so . . . is this a hanging offense now or something?

Jeez, Spencer... is that sarcasm I detect?
This is Nick Sylvester we're talking about. It's not like he's one of those shallow, superficial L.A. people.

it made me think almost the opposite, like the problems i have with some ompakt(ish) tunes...well, sometimes they do sound like just the beginning. there's no there there innit. DFA tunes tend to go through stages as if there's this dance telos moment they wish to achieve. like, Hasn't anyone learned anything from what we learned about making disco tracks, making disco edits that just get better and better and better? made me really excited. do that! i'll do it as long as i can dance to it!

Jeez, Spencer... is that sarcasm I detect?
This is Nick Sylvester we're talking about. It's not like he's one of those shallow, superficial L.A. people.

-- On a Strict El Cholo Diet (fiestasandsiestas(nospam)@yahoo.com), May 9th, 2005.

omg roffle

James: That sounds good. This has to be you and your friends.

Pitchfork: It is. Will you remix it?

James: I'm not sure. I really--

Pitchfork: It's about my ex-girlfriend.

James: Okay, that's--

Pitchfork: She dumped me for an LA type who graduated from Harvard-Westlake. Now I hate Weezer.

James: I don't see why that's--

Pitchfork: I want to crush him with boats.

James: So East Coast.

http://www.ireallylovemusic.co.uk/q_and_a.htm

otm. perhaps Michael Mayer should make more song based music, which goes somewhere. bah this is just the usual DFA real band bias thing which always comes through.

I wonder how much further this masculinisation of disco can go!

stir I was being facetious a bit I guess, that's what seems odd about the comment aswell, and probably makes it not specific to Mayer really, not much of his stuff is based on total repetition. Even Kompakt as a label, relative to other dance labels, are quite song based, I'd have said.

Murphy's "you turn that up and down for 7 minutes and mute shit, go fuck yourself" typifies this.

If I want an egomaniacal record once every 7 years I'll come back to you dude.

And there's no programming/synths in DFA productions...

And explain how "song-based" equates to "real band" while you're at it.

what genre?

*Mind you, yesterday's Lush thread was a nice tip.

my point was that Murphy is of the virtuoso/auteur side of things and always will be.

Kompakt are not, and the Kompakt guys for all their overblown images are all still prolific and just get on with making records, which are not massive sprawling masterpieces but anthems specific to their own scene.

Just looking for the reasoning with which both phrases appeared in the same short, facetious paragraph is all.

perhaps Michael Mayer should make more song based music, which goes somewhere. bah this is just the usual DFA real band bias thing which always comes through.

xpost - Ronan, i've no idea whay you treat this stuff like a personal insult to you, esp where the DFA are concerned.

and even if it was, the scene in their case is rather big.

that's what you said: it does seem to champion the local and the folky against the virtuoso auteurs -- which is fair play, but it needs explaining how the products of scenes translate.

I'm not sure how this came to be such a specific Kompakt VS DFA thing, though I'm sure it's my fault.

I am not saying, by default, that labels which are more prolific are better. But since the criticism of the Mayer record seemed to suggest it was just tacked together and rush released, I offer a counter argument, not for the sake of contrarianism, but because I genuinely believe that a more sweatshop style environment produces better music and better art.

There's only so many puffed up pieces you can read about the DFA before actually having to consider how many records they've actually released in the 3 years they've been in the public domain.

Very few. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd say it's not a quality over quantity issue either, there's just been very little to follow the initial excitement whatsoever.

I think this issue reared its head on some other thread when someone freaked out and said I liked Ghostly International.

It strikes me as a reasonable amount to be honest, taking into account blatant 'perfectionist' stance of Murphy's. But I don't like labels and artists that are too prolific right now just because I am not really keeping track of any of it at all.

In my opinion it is, anyway, I think I'm probably polar opposite to JM in this respect though. I know nothing about rock history.

x-post, as I said N_RQ, I don't think one model is by default better than the other, but in this case stagnation only fits one party in my opinion. As for monopoly, I don't know, very complex to discuss really, probably a case for either.

LCD spending three years on an LP, and then boosting a past-their-prime dahnce supergroop on the lead single is part of the package -- as he says, the fact that they've gone downhill is the whole point. kinda.

I'm going to completely screw up this description and make both 'dance' music and Murphy sound bad, but I do like both. Anyway... James Murphy doesn't actually like dance music. He likes music you can dance to, but when it comes down to it at the end of the day, it all sounds like repetitive lazy shit where it's just a little effect here or there and some sort of cheesy hook, or even worse, cheesy ambience. If you're a guitar tech, fiddling with equipment guy, you're going to be all about the "disco edits" where you take that effect, chop it down, make the music ramp up to that point, and then reverse the effect. You can't just sit there and say "yeah, this beat is great" and dance around. Remember the late 1990s when there was some supposed "rock/electronica" crossover period and all the rock kids were going to love Daft Punk and shit, because it wasn't that "boom boom boom" boring "techno" stuff? Lots twitchier.

It's interesting that the idea of re-appropriation is mention, and it's such a stumbling point for JM. He's doing (in my opinion) a pretty good job of combining a lot of influences, not so subtly. But he doesn't even vaguely connect that to the obvious beat-jacking that went on when Goldsworthy was at Mo'Wax. It's always been amazing to me that the influences are so similar (and probably why Goldsworthy and Murphy get along so well) but there's this weird dismissal. I have no idea how much influence Goldsworthy had outside of the records he either worked on or helped get released (Liquid Liquid!) but the influences are similar to DFA's.

hadn't heard anything about this so was quite surprised to see it on the racks and even more surprised to see that it was going for the princely figure of £3 (for 50 minutes of music).

granted the tracklisting does, at first glance, look a little unadventurous (lots of mixes from a specific artist grouped together) but it works unbelievably well . hearing the great (new?) cute/psychedelic delia and gavin track "5" mixed into tiga's mix of "tribulations" has got to be a musical moment of the year. after 2 plays i prefer this to any other dfa mix so far. put it this way it just made cleaning my oven and fridge out a hell of a lot more fun.

This should be printed on a label and stuck on the packaging.

you've got it wrong - that BX remix is the jam!
-- rajeev (rajeev...), May 6th, 2005.

Right now listening to The DFA Remixes Chapter One and you're right. I got it wrong. Too bad the NIN remix coudn't make this compilation though.

here are some more electronic battle weapons due later this year:

The DFA - Remixes Chapter Two

01. Far From Home - Tiga
02. Shake Your Coconuts - Junior Senior
03. She Wants To Move - N.E.R.D.
04. Colours - Hot Chip
05. Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails
06. Slide In - Goldfrapp
07. Destination Overdrive - Chromeo
08. In A State - UNKLE

no seriously tho I think I would like the mixes better with vocals or twisted remnants of the originals.

The whole vocal collaborations thing, or Ashcroft in particular? Spill it, Galkin!

I guess the Tiga and the Unkle one are both vocal-less. I found the Tiga one pretty disappointing. I dunno, as I say, there's nothing about the remixes that I think sucks particularly just it feels a bit like the sort of work that would be much better on a full length album and not in a remix coming out every 2 months.

The Unkle one is odd, it should be amazing but it just feels kind of flat to me, maybe not raw enough I dunno, just something about it reminds me of Josh Wink or someone where massive suspenseful buildup does not necessarily equal lots of fun.

I guess I'm cursed in that I listen to these releases with a view to playing them at our night and alot of the DFA ones, even the ones I like like the Hot Chip, are kind of unplayable, they do sound different and fresh but they are not really club music to my ears, and as a result I kind of wonder at their purpose.

I know they don't need a purpose but then the DFA are held in very high esteem by alot of people so I guess it's ok to expect a high standard. (maybe I just feel nothing since the first few LCD releases has ever come close to that initial excitement, and in many ways could some of these "DFA" remixes be any further from "Yeah" or "Losing My Edge"? I often wonder what level of involvement Murphy has in the DFA remixes, maybe Galkin can shed some light)

not to get too divergent.

I haven't cared much for most of the DFA mixes of more mainstream artists like NIN or N.E.R.D., mostly because they seem unwilling to engage the songs on any more interesting terms than to make a DFA version of the track. Which is exactly what they're being asked to do, of course, so it's not as if that's any big offense or surprise. It's just that when they remix pop songs, it makes me wonder to what extent there is a DFA REMIX MACHINE, because they come out, usually, sounding more or like their other remixes-- rmxs made from songs that were rarely too far from speaking the same languages as the DFA's original productions, so the lack of huge noteworthy differences seems somehow much more acceptable. It just seems like a wasted opportunity or a cashed check (and maybe that's all it is, and that's probably totally fine).

I think you are maybe equating "masculine" with "rock" a little too much. I guarantee you a lot of my more rock-oriented friends would not view such tight disco drumming as particularly masculine (or necessarily gay, but still). The issue seems more "live" v. "electronic." Even though I know DFA drums are heavily (and masterfully) edited, there's still that little bit of swing and difference in mixing that makes them sound different even from sampled live drums.

I mean obviously there's a huge amount of creativity within the parameters of "mixing music" which is exemplified by the range of different types of producers who make it.

I guess I wonder what the point of electronic often 4/4 remixes released on 12s is if not for playing out, but then firstworldman is probably correct that it just doesn't fit with what I play, electrohouse/minimal/lindstromandco.

While it's not that weird that DFA is still lumped in with all the above, in that it does sort of sound similar, it's still almost as if it's determined to not be club music sometimes.

Some have likened that same binary to straight v. gay - not that they're identical, but that many of the same prejudices against "electronic" appear in the discomfort that many people have with homosexuals. I know this is ILM 101, but refreshers are often valuable.

The more we discuss the more convinced I become that the difference is basically that DFA drums have a room sound and that your standard-issue dance music drum sound doesn't.

Eppy, it's a long trip down the theory rabbit hole that you might not have much interest in taking, but the privileging of the sound of a "performance" rather than things electronically mediated (especially in supposedly "dance" music) are in fact part of this "gay"/"straight" aesthetic binary.

i'm a total sucker for any DFA remix, and probably the biggest James Murphy apologist you'll ever meet.

gay/ straight, live/ sampled, rock/ dance.... whatever. the unifying theme is that they set out to be a bridge between those two worlds and have (for the most part) succeeded. and i think that is awesome. no, they're not re-inventing the wheel, and yes they tend to trample over the original when doing a remix, but damn it if the ends don't justify the means.

that gorillaz remix (or half a dozen others) is a sure-fire floor-filler for me every time. and i'm usually playing to crowds that are 50/50 dance/rock.

04. Colours - Hot Chip

I have been so into the Over and Over/Breakdown 12" the last month or so.

Eppy, it's a long trip down the theory rabbit hole that you might not have much interest in taking, but the privileging of the sound of a "performance" rather than things electronically mediated (especially in supposedly "dance" music) are in fact part of this "gay"/"straight" aesthetic binary.

this is a totally ridiculous notion. james murphy's a drummer so they can record their own drum sounds. how on earth is using the tools at your disposal 'privileging the sound of a "performance"'??

Yes, DFA, I am in fact available for street team work. ;)

It's mainly the remixes I meant. I have the Goldfrapp one but it just kind of passed me by. Maybe I ought to listen again.

http://www.ourdisco.com/music/

who's baby ford?

I really don't understand how the DFA mix is an improvement on the amazing original. They take a actually danceable slickly futuristic Prince pastiche and turn it into a passe disco-punk dirge. Well, maybe dirge is too strong a word, but it just turns it into a standard DFA rock song.

that should turn out pretty sweet

http://www.johnconnellypresents.com/avaf.htm

Right, that's why I specifically said "disco-punk" which is the passe (but still accepted) term for DFA stuff in general.

March 14, 2006

lcd soundsystem have a brand new download-only album available now through all your favorite online retailers. Entitled "Introns", the album consists of several remixes, vinyl-only B Sides and live radio sessions. The tracklisting is as follows:

01. Yr City's A Sucker (7" edit)
02. Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (Soulwax Shibuyaremix)
03. Disco Infiltrator (Francois K Remix)
04. Disco Infiltrator (Francois K Dub)
05. Slowdive (XFM Session)
06. Tribulations (Tiga Remix)
07. Tribulations (Lindstrom Remix)
08. On Repeat (XFM Session)
09. Thrills (XFM Session)
10. Too Much Love (Rub N Tug Remix)

i really like this on-vinyl-first-digital-release-later-on-cd-never thing they're doing...

Yeah someone explained this to me. I was wondering why you can never download Superpitcher remixes from iTunes!

I suppose they think that charging a dollar something for an eight minute track is too much of a good deal, but are conversely loathe to bring in a per-second rate....?

BOOKA SHADE
LINDSTROM
PUTSCH 79
CAJMERE
CARO
MOCK & TOOF
STRATEGY

SOON

MARK B AND BLADE
TRUESTEPPAZ
BENTLEY RHYTHM ACE
THE FREESTYLERS

LATER STILL

SCUMFROG
PETE TONG

God I'd love that

I just meant the acts remixing were getting smaller and smaller, I don't know if this is a strategy or whatever, as I say just making a joke.

Trip 1 (Side A / 45 RPM): 8:44
Get on the Funky Train Re-Edit

Trip 2 (Side B / 45 RPM): 5:48
Night Flight To Venus Re-Edit

All aboard, brothers and sisters. Two of your favorite Italo tracks re-imagined by Tim Sweeney as The Flying Squad. You know Tim, don't you? The voice behind the long long standing Beats In Space on WNYU, the DFA protege, the next DJ Kicks contributor, the man behind RvngMx3, the long haired, deep digging DJ that makes rooms across the globe GET INTO IT?! This is the first 12" release of a whole lotta production work you'll hear from Tim over the next year. Enjoy, enjoy.

Pressing details:
2 dub plates
28 test pressings
1,075 copies, 4c labels
Pressed at Brooklyn Phono

1,100 chipboard jackets, black "Flying Squad" print both sides
Addt'l cover color screen printed by Polluted Eyeball, Brooklyn, NY
250 Magenta / 275 Orange / 275 Yellow / 300 Red

ROCK

Regarding DJ Kicks, the mix is actually Tim & Tim (i.e. Goldsworthy and Sweeney), and would come after 4 Tet. But we are not 100% locked down quite yet. Close.

Prinzhorn Dance School 4eva!

-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald6NOSPA...) (webmail), Today 6:46 AM. (Ronan) (later) (link)

it was a Holiday card you insensitive bigot

http://www.tropicalcomputersystem.com

It's kind of disappointing- the cover of the single is a still from the video. Mostly consists of some vaguely silly dancing in front of the light-up neon backdrop.

-- lift up fong and see (birthday.part...), July 12th, 2006 9:34 AM. (haitch) (later) (admin) (userip)

I agree about the New Order similarity on the Strategy rmx, but I dunno-- I couldn't get as into it as I thought I was going to.

DFA WEB SHOP HAS IT ALL FOR SALE. PLEASE BUY A COPY!

I definitely remember the Family Fodder, I remember thinking, is the song Debbie Harry really 20 minutes long?

Thanks for coming down, hope you had a good time. A lot of really nice and cool people were there, and it was a totally down to earth time, just like we like.

Us Against The City in particular is excellent.

I did too, but I haven't quite figured out what happened with the two albums since then (Mathematical Warfare and Infinity Land). Flat boring stuff.

uh dtlz plz thx bye.

News to me there were others. I'd heard they split up. Thanks anyway for the negative recommendation...

I gotta believe that crown belongs to "Drop The Pressure".

I think I'm most excited for that Captain mix - I can't even imagine where the DFA's entry point into such a straightforward Britpop band would be! (I'm also v. curious to hear how the DFA Steez interacts with the Trevor Horn Steez - a mighty steez-battle indeed.)

You can hear it at the very end of the Aug 8th episode of beats in space. it sounded kind of so-so to me as far as DFA mixes go, but i'm looking forward to hearing the whole thing.

from a kiss fm playlist. what's the word on this?

also, again: the colors remix (rewind, repeat times a million).

Yes. Oh, yes indeed. This is where I get all fanboyish and start dribbling and yelling DUDE BUY IT at my screen.

It took me SO long to learn to like this, but now I think it's one of the absolute most exemplary tracks they've ever come up with. I mean I don't have it on endless repeat or anything (that would still be the "Colours" remix), but it might be the best example of the DFA "hey, let's not do anything particularly CRAY-ZEE, and let's spend like twelve minutes not doing it" steez. And good lord is that ever a quality steez. I'm hoping my reaction to the Arthur Russell mix comes around in similar fashion.

1  Far from Home          Tiga            10:06
2  Shake Your Coconuts    Junior Senior    5:14
3  Colours                Hot Chip         7:36
4  She Wants to Move      N.E.R.D.         7:40
5  The Hand That Feeds    Nine Inch Nails  9:00
6  Slide In               Goldfrapp       12:59
7  Destination Overdrive  Chromeo          5:38
8  In a State             Unkle           13:32

6  Slide In               Goldfrapp       12:59

http://www.dfarecords.com/radiomixes/

ps: so glad the UNKLE mix has been rediscovered a bit, always wished people heard that for the great mix it is (and about 95% original music), it was a bit strange to spin out so it got buried when released. that box set is hilarious. they have like 65 remixes on there, no joke, and they EDITED ours?

"I'm up in ur remix
editing ur running timez"

Probably his slightly harder stuff like "Jimis (2006 Edit)" or the second half of his remix of Tosca's "Superrob".

b-b-b-ut .. the box is pink, really really pink.
surely that makes the pain easier to accept.

and yes - the full version (on the previously available cd single .. and the extra disc on the Never Never Land reissue 2cd set - ahem) is total quality

s'been a bit quiet in DFA land of late, i assume because LCD are touring. wonder when all this new stuff like 'still going theme' (!!!!!!), 'hold on' by holy ghost and that hercules & love affair track is coming out.

also: they're reissuing the first pylon record.

Yeah, and when's the Mock & Toof coming out?

Shocking Pinks 12" was released today with a Glimmers mix on the b-side.

are mock and toof on DFA? well i never.

They're on the Death From Abroad imprint...

At least, there's an ad in this week's NME advertising the Shocking Pinks single being released today. I can't find any mention of it on any online store, so who knows.

http://www.myspace.com/deathfromabroad

"Yellow Idjut Hoe Down Mix" is the future.

i kind of hate it.

I'm sure something like it has been done before, and I'm totally corning myself out here, but it's one of those things and hear and, y'know, SEE THE POSSIBILITIES. Filter country as hip style of 2008, etc.

i don't understand. is this a new band or something?

its a new sub-label signing European acts, if i'm correct. Three 12"s to be released in the next month or two.

I really like the other side of that Altz release, "Max Motion." Been wondering where to find it since hearing it on the Optimo Essentials mix from last year.

i started listening to the new Prinzhorn Dance School. only on like song 3. it's kinda weird. not what i'd expect from DFA. really minimal. lead by bass with drum accents (no real drum beats yet). maybe a bit Fall-ish? i'll listen to the whole thing before i make a full judgment.

That band made more sense to me when someone pointed out that they're named after Hans Prinzhorn, a German psychiatrist whose life's work was collecting and studying artwork made by the mentally ill.
Anyway, yeah, ultra-minimal Fall is definitely the reference point, it would seem.

I finally did get that Shocking Pinks 12" - it's pretty nice.

i like the glimmers remix.

the use of Prinzhorn in that same Optimo mix is pretty great, too.

Prinzhorn = very Fall, very good bet for America's many fans of getting yelled at by British people

Or, to translate that post into Prinzhorn speak:

very Fall!
very very Fall!
good bet!
for Americans and all!

shouted at by Brits!
shouted at by Brits!
shouted at by Brits!
hey! if the boot fits!

America's many fans of getting yelled at by British people

A+

I really like the Shocking Pinks new single too - it's got more than a hint of New Order but if all the lyrics were indecipherable and a little pouting indie.

The Arkityp remix is pretty great too.

This shocking pinks stuff is kinda reminding me of... the field mice? It's pretty good, but nothing's really grabbing me either. But it's at least a bit unusual for the DFA.

b. acarpenter (joakim remix)

the altz 12" was out only in japan last year with the same tracklist.

I am really liking all this Death From Abroad stuff. Thanks for that link.

loving the shocking pinks album

the prinzhorn stuff is trying to be the prats, not the fall.

Gucci Soundsystem and Bot'Ox tracks up on the new myspace now.

http://www.seahawkblue.com/images/smilies/animated/sleep-038.gif

i take that back, this bot'ox track gets good towards the middle.

I really like the new Juan Maclean track Happy House (played on last week's Beats In Space). It's the one that goes "Excellent" a lot. Who is on vocals?

not really sure about the shocking pinks stuff - touches of new order are nice enough, but the vocals drag, and after starting out reasonably pretty, the songs don't really seem to go anywhere. the glimmers remix sounded quite nice though.

we talked about 'still going theme' yet? piano-house revivalism too self-conscious by half? i could see it working well in a set, i suppose, but as an exemplary example of retro-futurist perfection it's a little shaky, no? i think osborne's "outta sight" pulls off the same trick with twice the smooveness and none of the winking knowingness.

I like that Hercules and Love Affair track

alba: it sounds like nancy whang (who has done a bunch of female vox on the LCD and juan material in the past). it's a great track!

Ah right - I guess I'm used to her shouting more.

no disrespect but osborne's "outta sight" ain't got nothin on either side of the still going 12". heard the both the theme and on and on at horse meat the other night and the crowd went mad at each take... i'll take winking knowingness over a so called smooveness any day!

wandazee

Still Going Theme and On & On are both great but I don't understand why they'd release it in September - it's such a summer tune.

Ha ha - I was just listening to the latest beatsinspace and just before Tim S played Happy House again there was another tune that sounded great and I thought "I'll look up what that was in the tracklisting later". Then I looked at this thread, got interested in talk of Still Going, so Googled them and their MySpace page had a news item about how Still Going Theme was played on beatsinspace. Turned out it was the very track I was listening to.

DFA $#@%! up on tha release date. Both Still Going cutz are most definitely summer tunes (guess sept 18 is technically summer). also looks like Still Going remixed !!! Anyone heard this yet?

I picked up the Hercules and Love Affair 12" today, which is okay (I listened to it all the way through at 33rpm, as it says on the label, but it actually should be 45rpm).

Speaking of DFA labels (actual sticker labels, I mean) - almost everything I get from them has a warped/creased or off-center label sticker. I'm sure it's a sloppy machine doing that, but it's kind of irritating.

They had a couple of the Death from Abroad 12"s as well, but they were £7.99 each, which seems pretty insane.

will have to check out "still going" again, i guess. 'sides all you believers, todd terje mentioned it today in our brief exchange (namedropping alert!).

juan maclean's HAPPY HOUSE samples 'do it now' by dubtribe i notice.
is this the early-00's-house revival gathering apace?

where are you people finding that Hercules & Love Affair single? I was going to hold off on buying it until I could pick it up from DFA's insound store properly, but I don't see it available therewards or anywhere else in the US of States (I do see it available at Rough Trade, but frankly I'd rather spend my money somewhere else after staring down their ongoing reluctance to honor the gift certificates my friends got me for my birthday)

also I got all three of the Death From Abroad releases off iTunes yesterday and they're pretty good! I think my favorite one so far is the Gucci Soundsystem track - shame that there's no Joakim remix on the flip. The Altz single is completely as good as advertised too.

Yeah, I got the Hercules 12" at Rough Trade. Didn't know the DFAbroad tracks were on iTunes!

Are you in the UK? Last time I checked (Tuesday) the US itunes store only had the Altz and Mock & Toof twelves available.

nope - I'm in the US of States

Ah, just doublechecked- they do have it, but the reason there's no Joakim remix on the flip is that it's the original release on Bugged Out.

anyway I just said fuck it and ordered from Rough Trade - minor buyer's remorse since I live within walking distance of both Amoeba and the LA branch of Turntablelab, but this way I get to pick up the LA Priest single too.

Was the Still Going Theme actually released on Sept 18?

Much love for the Hercules & Love Affair - Roar

Really looking forward to the C2 remix of Sound of Silver, also.

when's the juan maclean song officially (and unofficially) out?

Was the Still Going Theme actually released on Sept 18?

Not out until Sept. 25 in the States.

I get to pick up the LA Priest single too.

Holy shit is that "Engine" song great. I can't find it digitally anywhere, but I keep playing the 12". I like the original version best. Does anyone have this as an mp3?

I am really loving "Babylon by Car" by Bot'Ox (http://www.myspace.com/babylonbycar). I look forward to a CD collecting all the Death From Abroad stuff.

a new cosmo vitelli thing, nice one.

so yeah, when's the juan maclean song officially out?

I have no problems stating that my favorite DFA release this year (so far) is the Hercules and Love Affair 12". It deserves more love.

anyone heard that Holy Ghost record? who is he / are they?

haven't seen the Hercules in the shops yet .... def. want to get that one

Hercules and Love Affair Roar/Classique - Good stuff, but not amazing. Slow chicago house-y retro-ness. I prefer that Athene track that's around, which is more, er, disco.
Shocking Pinks Smokescreen (+ glimmers remix) More cowbell than you know what to do with. Are dfa just getting all their cowbell out the way in one go?
Gucci Soundsystem Acarpenter/ Lord a Mercy Erm OK. I get the two confused, and haven't heard the Joakim mix.
Still Going Still Going Theme Yeah! A lovely dance record full of poise and funk. A four-note bassline with a blues-y piano bit then chattering synths.

How are the others?

So dfa are increasingly becoming a sort of retro house label, no? Is that OK?

Saw Shit Robot and James Murphy DJ at the Fabriclive launch thing, and had a great time. Shit Robot played System 7 and Vooday Ray and lots of old stuff. James Murphy still can't beatmatch, but it was cool, although left just as the old disco was turning into new disco (Sly Mongoose was about the last thing I heard).

I prefer that Athene track that's around, which is more, er, disco.

oh crap. yeah that's the one I like too, didnt know that wasn't on the 12"

listened to the new Shit Robot 12" the other day too, wasn't that into it

LOVING "still going theme" right now

tho it's sold out at basically every online shop right now

the (two?) main guys in holy ghost used to be in automato, that undie hip hop thing that got produced by DFA a few years ago. 'hold on' is a nice breezy bit of disco revivalism; possible club hit maybe?

they have a good logo!

http://a202.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/95/m_31b1dfe3798db90378e650e8b1771069.gif

I'd have to switch your reactions (and comments mostly) on the Hercules and Love Affair and the Still Going Jamie. I still don't quite understand what the big deal is with Still Going. It is absolutely perfectly gorgeous, but it doesn't move me. It's the one about which I would say, "Good stuff, but not amazing. Slow chicago house-y retro-ness." "Classique" on the Hercules and Love Affair is a perfect acid update to me. But to each his/her own.

I agree with the turn towards a retro house sound for the main label though. Right now I'm perfectly happy with it, but we'll have to see where it goes I suppose. Is the Holy Ghost logo supposed to look like the Knicks logo?

Athene IS the b-side to the Hercules and Love Affair 12". Yes, that is a psuedo-Knicks logo. The Bot'Ox stuff is less house and more Italo, with some bonus weirdness (I love it). Oh, and nobody's mentioned the Pylon re-issue since it came out (I haven't heard it yet, and I've never heard them before, but I am curious).

Actually Roar is the b-side.

i really like roar. and "hold on". and the sound of the holy ghost remixes on his myspace. and still going's remix of chk chk chk's "yadnus".

I'll admit that I don't keep up with all the (nearly impossible to find) vinyl releases, but I've been loving that Shocking Pinks album lately. The Prinzhorn Dance School disc was really solid as well.

Actually Roar is the b-side.

Shit, I'm an idiot, sorry... I could have sworn!

So dfa are increasingly becoming a sort of retro house label, no? Is that OK?

Yes.

Good. Thanks for putting me straight.

I realise I was a bit unfair about the Shocking Pinks single, as it's great.

I've actually only got the two different Glimmers mixes, not the original, and the longer one in particular is fab - beneath the mad insistent cowbells it's full of murky, dirty bass and the guy intoning "Take the medicine, that's all you know" over and over. Nice.

So dfa are increasingly becoming a sort of retro house label, no? Is that OK?

as opposed to a retro postpunk/disco label?

I was just asking. I suppose the source material was more distant in time and (to me) more obscure.

The Fabric mix might be my favorite album of the year.

i love the fact that the new cd single snubbed the rules re charts and was basically a mini remix album of Sound Of Silver.

is it possible to get the Fabric Mix in the US? I'm not seeing it on iTunes.

I'm lost without a certain torrent site...

it's not out yet ... villalobos just came out in the US about a week ago, give it another month.

fabric are utter masters of prerelease hype.

i think it comes out 11/13

if you subscribe to the fabric series, you get them way before (4-6 weeks) the american shops do.

is it possible to get the Fabric Mix in the US?

obviously not the US, but worth a shot.
http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/285817-01.htm

what are the US shipping terms for fabric?

£2 shipping and £6 per mix (roughly $16.50 as of today)

ok Punkin' Machine's "I Need You Tonight" on the Fabric mix is fucking killing me eight ways to Saturn. I really didn't want to love this mix so much, fought against it and everything, but no, this thing can have its way with me for as long as it likes

i subscribe and i got it two days ago, even with the shitty canadian postal service

yes that punkin machine track!!! i had heard the suzy q version before on a rub n tug mix (last track on this) but not this version.

the whole mix is sorta endearingly rough round the edges, you can tell they're straining to make it work at points but it all comes off. that chic > was not was > GQ > mudd section is so so good.

you sure the Suzy Q and Punkin Machine versions aren't identical?

you know, they may well be!

I only have the 12" credited to Punkin Machine but was under the impression it's just the same song. Still don't know for sure!

i too love the Hercules b side "roar"

The b-side to the new Shit Robot is kinda eh but HOLY FUCKING FUCK FUCK @ the a-side.

also the Holy Ghost! 12" is a pretty damn great deal - the kickass original version and dub, and then the Blackjoy remix on the flip which could pass for the best Escort track since their mix of "It's All True".

I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH ALL OF THIS!

still waiting for the follow-up to "casual friday"

Yeah they have gone kind of release crazy this fall, huh? I haven't gotten around to any of the DFAbroad stuff and most of these new 12"s are on kind of a "which should I try to digest first" level so I'm just ignoring it all at the moment.

xpost.

they are pretty much all good. dive in, dudes!

apparently the casual friday follow up is never coming.

RIP formal saturday

xpost

WORST POSSIBLE NEWS

I like "Hold On" very much.

I grabbed "Hold On" (excellent!) from Fluxblog, then later that day read an interview with Galkin where he talks about how much their single sales have nosedived since the advent of MP3 blogs (he says early 12"s sold 15,000-20,000 copies, and now they generally do about 2,000-3,000 of each one, which he blames on blogs). Intersting...

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/11/louis_pattison_thurs_am_pic.html

that DFA article re blogs

I think Galkin is being slightly disingenuous if he thinks mp3 blogs are why say, the Shocking Pinks, are selling less than HoJL (which I'll bet sold a LOT more than 20,000 12"s anyway, if you count the Output UK version and so on).

It would be more interesting to see what Pixeltan or whatever sold.

also: not everyone buys vinyl, also their 12"s are fucking expensive

(which is why i haven't bought any of them, nothing to do with mp3 blogs)

umm. could it not just be a simple case of Shocking Pinks/Prinzhorn aint exactly crowd pleasers.

that DFA article re blogs

I actually read a different version in Plan B, but he's basically saying the same thing.

w/o the input of mp3 blogs how many people are realistically going to have heard these bands?

I'm never able to find these 12"s in shops around here, and with very shoddy mail delivery (missing pacakges, packages beat to shit) I don't feel very good about getting vinyl shipped to me. I bought the recent Shit Robot 12" on iTunes since they had it DRM free, I wish more of their stuff was that way.

also their 12"s are fucking expensive

I still buy the 12s. they're actually cheap in the States compared to a lot of the Euro shit I like. I don't feel like I have to get every single one like I used to though.

there's probably some truth to the blog criticism but I wonder if there's a corresponding rise in legit digital sales. some of their core audience (DJs) seem less interested in vinyl in general (see "do DJs still collect vinyl" thread) and probably feel like if they wait for something to come out in stores they missed the boat.

w/o the input of mp3 blogs how many people are realistically going to have heard these bands?

that don't make it ok to give it away.

"RIP formal saturday"

and repentance sunday as well

well, maybe there will be a follow-up to "relevee"? or maybe the dfa can remix all of the days of mars like they did with "rise".

"still going theme" reminds me of big country.

that don't make it ok to give it away.

maybe not but exposure's surely a good thing, and it's hardly gonna sell loads without it

I think there were ways to get exposure and sell music before music blogs. I obviously don't know what those methods were, but it worked for some people. The bloggers do have other choices. They can ask the label if they can share the song. They can provide a link to the streaming version the label has offered. They can post a lower bit-rate or edited selection. But they almost never do any of these things.

they can ask the label if they can share the song.

some of us nearly always do (for the new stuff as opposed to old OOP stuff), well maybe not the label, but the artist involved.

I heard "Hold On" on a Tim Sweeney mix like in January and I couldn't find any information on it... great song, glad it's finally been released.

some of us think you should ask permission to post OOP stuff too, but that's a discussion I'm sure we've had on other threads! Generally I find posting OOP stuff a bit more understandable. What's really brutal is the posting of complete brand new CDs.

What's tough for labels releasing singles is they don't benefit the same way from blog promotion. When I've released CDs, we've posted a few tracks, sent them to blogs, even on occasion offered unreleased exclusive material, because in the end you hope people will like the song well enough to buy the whole CD. But when you post 1 or both sides of a 12" single...that's it, you're giving it all away.

I really wish the DFA (well all labels which derive a significant portion of their income from singles, but due to selfish interest I especially mean the DFA) would release compilations a lot more frequently - that way MP3 blogs have a complete package to hype instead of just giving the whole game away out of laziness or lack of promotiona acumen (which I freely admit I've done in the past and will most assuredly do in the future).

not to mention Compilation #2 is straight-up one of my very favorite releases of this decade and I would sell limbs for a similarly-minded sequel. Lord knows their releases over the last few months certainly haven't done much to extinguish that fire.

But when you post 1 or both sides of a 12" single...that's it, you're giving it all away.

yeah hearing that take on things from labels I think are great (mainly Environ and DFA) caused me to stop posting new stuff except in mixes.
older stuff I think is more of a grey area.

(not to open this whole can of worms again.)

anyway, Holy Ghost! think I might grab that one next. put me down as one of the people that doesn't really "get" the Still Going Theme. it kind of brings that fabric mix to a halt imo. maybe would work better in another context? i dunno.

I'll have to give the new shit robot another listen, I checked it in the record store and definitely wasn't going holy fucking fuck

What's really brutal is the posting of complete brand new CDs.

absolutely dan. couldn't agree more.

Just to let folks know, you can get both songs from the new Hercules and Love Affair from Amazon's MP3 store (DRM free, 256 VBR) for only $1.42 here . Trust me, it's definitely worth it. You can also get the new LCD "Bunch of Stuff" EP with the Carl Craig remix for only $3.68 for six tracks (four of which are $1.94 on their own) here . With prices like that you should buy them even if you did download them for free, just to support the label.

Their Bleep store has a bunch of their more recent stuff available in DRM-free MP3 too.

Yup. And to add to matt2's post above, everything DFA on iTunes (at least the US store) is free, since they're distributed by Astralwerks, which is EMI, which was the first major to adopt DRM-free sales on iTunes across the board.

you mean copy-protection free, I assume!

Acute Records is distributed by Carpark via Caroline via EMI as well. Even some tiny hipster indies with that hierarchy have been able to benefit from iTunes+.

Telephone thing, that definitely does not seem to be the case, unless I'm missing something when I search the store. Only a couple of them are noted as being iTunes Plus (the DRM-free version). For example, the new Shit Robot is DRM-free, but Holy Ghost is not.

i had to burn 'still going theme' onto a cd and then reload onto my computer to use it in traktor 3. I think I'll have to do the same with the Holy Ghost I bought off iTunes last night. Is there anyway to tell if a single is DRM-free before buying it?

As far as I know, the only way to tell is if it says "iTunes Plus" in the description of the album/single.

nice. spendin' time

i take that back. "CURRENTLY NOT LICENSED FOR SALE IN AUSTRALIA"? fuck you bleep

uh, how come my bleep has suddenly gone in US$ and telling me things aren't availabe in australia?!

I really wish the DFA (well all labels which derive a significant portion of their income from singles, but due to selfish interest I especially mean the DFA) would release compilations a lot more frequently - that way MP3 blogs have a complete package to hype instead of just giving the whole game away out of laziness or lack of promotiona acumen (which I freely admit I've done in the past and will most assuredly do in the future).

not to mention Compilation #2 is straight-up one of my very favorite releases of this decade and I would sell limbs for a similarly-minded sequel. Lord knows their releases over the last few months certainly haven't done much to extinguish that fire.

^^^This. I would totally dig a new DFA comp.

CURRENTLY NOT LICENSED FOR SALE IN UNITED KINGDOM

lol so i have to pay £7.49 for the 12"? no ta.

ok the hercules and love affair 12" is greaaaatttttt

it is. apparently ther's an album for early next year too!

from here:

The really big release for me has really been the LP by DFA's Hercules & Love Affair, due out early next year. I’ve only heard the six-track sampler but believe me when I say that 'Classique No. 1’ will not remotely prepare you for the depth and reach of its charms. Antony (as in the Johnsons) features heavily on the vocals – but even if you, like me, were always slightly put-off by his stark, withering and (joylessly) camp solo material, you’ll be forced to reappraise when that androgynous wail his re-cast in Andrew Butler and Tim Goldsworthy's unbelievable production – all strings, horns, killer acid lines, heavy Chi-town beats and a huge dose of NY disco sass. This is one of the most exciting, revelatory and downright GOOD releases I’ve had the pleasure of beholding in a long, long time; respect to Antony as much anyone else for pulling this one off.

woah! that's great news!

awesome

antony as disco / house vocalist makes total sense, this describes me to a T ---> even if you, like me, were always slightly put-off by his stark, withering and (joylessly) camp solo material, you’ll be forced to reappraise when that androgynous wail his re-cast in Andrew Butler and Tim Goldsworthy's unbelievable production

I actually really like 'The dull flame of desire' that he did with Bjork,

Looking forward to hearing this.

Yeah, I'm super-duper excited for this. The 12" just gets better and better. Not sure how I didn't notice before that Antony actually does vocals on Roar.

That Holy Ghost song was the free iTunes store download last week.

And got plenty of one-star reviews like "WAHT ARE THIS TENCHO SHIT??1"

GIEV US SOMETHIN GUD ITUENS (THAT IS NOT R&B OR TEHCNO)

hello canadian ilx peoples ...

andy butler of hercules & love affair will be djing in montreal on friday december 14th at zoobizarre (6388 st hubert) and toronto on saturday december 15th at wrongbar (1279 queen st w) ...

i can't help but think this has been mentioned somewhere around here recently ... but there's a dwnld at the fader (http://www.thefader.com/articles/2007/12/3/freeload-hecules-and-love-affair-hercules-theme) and a stream of another antony sung track at popjustice (http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1914&Itemid=206)

ya i know! shweet

still going theme... sometimes think it is my song o' year

remixers of that new hercules + love affair single: serge santiago, and frankie knuckles!

just got that new hercules, along with the frankie knuckles remix...

on first listen: fucking awesome. especially the knuckles mix-- very funky and early house style.

I just heard Juan Maclean's "Happy House" on his RA podcast for the first time. I'm mighty excited.

all I want is for Happy House to leak so that I can listen to it to the exclusion of everything else in the world for like seven hours straight.

YASE.

oh - that Blackjoy remix of Holy Ghost gets better every time I listen to it. Anything else by them that I need to search out?

i havent heard that!

oh - that Blackjoy remix of Holy Ghost gets better every time I listen to it. Anything else by them that I need to search out?

-- jamescobo, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 7:44 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i like both sides of this:

http://www.discogs.com/release/792527

a little more on the deeeep side of things but still gets people moving.

i was going to post that knuckles remix today. now i can't. fuck.

okay, well it ain't showing up in hype machine, so i'ma do it anyway.

tables i didnt know you blogged. link?

this track is so rad. so i havent read anything on it yet, but this is Anthony on vocals, right?

really want to hear the santiago version.

also, there's a new syclops track up on the DFA myspace today that sounds pretty good.

grady, i am here: deepmovements.blogspot.com .

yeah, good on you for bringing up the santiago version-- i am sort of dying to hear it. as i was saying upthread, he's been getting a lot of action recently, and it seems to have come out of nowhere? i mean, i'd heard his shit before this summer, but it had never struck me, and now he has tons of new (and mostly good) remixes for big releases floating around, and is getting more hype.

ive been digging him for a while.

i've talked up his 15 minute re-edit of roxy music's "angel eyes" on other threads, and finally got to play it out a few times in the last few months to great effect.

his stuff is all over the place from harder electro-house stuff to cosmic, re-edit stuff.

his "we love ibiza" mix w/ riton is pretty great too.

aside:

is it riton as in triton?

or is it riton as in right on?

carry on.

I think it's REE-tawn

as in boca

frankie knuckles mix is RIDIC

gr80: why hsnt anyone else put that big tranny on a dance record until now?

deej: lol

i think i've listened to that frankie knuckles/ herc love affair/ anthony track like 30 times since this morning.

two months is too long to wait for vinyl.

of all the weeks to not have broadband connection at home ;___;

i think i've listened to that frankie knuckles/ herc love affair/ anthony track like 30 times since this morning.

two months is too long to wait for vinyl.

-- gr8080, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 8:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this, and this

GOOD GOD! Blind (the club mix, which is all I've heard thus far) is just, wow. . .

Oh and thanks to JD Twitch's quite excellent RA Podcast for enlightening me to this fact

the original Blind is imo 10x better. i listened to that 30 times yesterday

do i want to listen to antony?

Antony's always been good with decent/great backing/beats - see "A little bit of time" http://www.discogs.com/release/323632 which is fantastic. But still have no desire to listen to "I am a bird now".

How different is Blind from the club mix?

kinda surprised you prefer the original ... i much prefer the bigger, smoother sound of the remix, his voice just seems more powerful that way. The original is kinda weird & arty but also sounds too narrow or something

maybe i just need bigger drums

Still Going is pretty wonderful too. Curse all this time I have ignored DFA!

wow. i've only ever heard one brooks song years ago, and i always thought it was sung by a seriously gay man, and totally loved it, but had no idea it was by antony.

i first saw him on tour w/ lou reed in 03.

he was singing the nico parts.

http://a511.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/56/l_f8372225194836aac5a9a770989bf8d6.jpg

Anyone know if there's any more on the way from Holy Ghost? They've got another track on their MySpace - if it's indicative of a looming album (or even just another single) I will be Very Much Of The Happy. (I am stupidly angry at myself for being unable to go see them DJ at the Mountain Bar last Thursday - stupid job requiring me to be coherent at 6 AM.)

also those Syclops tracks are dope^very, "Where's Jason's K" moreso than the other one.

I know, I love that stuttery bassline on "Where's Jason's K."

Have you heard "Keep on Move" by Babytalk? Could totally be one of these 12"s (down to the artwork)

I really like how this batch new singles/albums are all very good, and mostly coming from new artists; I'd even like to hear more stuff from Prinzhorn Dance School, though their album last year wasn't particularly great it hinted at good stuff

Delia & Gavin/Black Leotard Front need to put out some new stuff though

Where are you Black Leotard Front? Why haz teh Berlin split you up?

what's really maddening is that I could have sworn I remember reading that "(Hey Coach) I Read Your Diary" was all but ready to go, but for whatever reason it's just been sitting on the shelf. And then there's "Song #5" from the DFA Xmas mix from a few years back, which is v. much the BOMB.

DFA WY U BRAEK HART

The world needs another 'casual friday"

the new juan maclean song

http://profile.imeem.com/YR-sQ_/music/gO4rqhHn/the_juan_maclean_happy_house/

i feel like i could hear bass like this 24/7 till i died and never get sick of it

man I am going to buy like eighty copies of that single when it comes out on the off chance that I lose seventy-nine copies in a fire. GOD what a song.

wow. that is seriously addictive.

Yeah, just from hearing it in mixes and sound clips, I'm pretty sure it has surpassed GMELT as my favorite from him.