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I just downloaded a track called Absolut by Vitalic and Al Ferox, it is fucking nuts! His usual deadpan beats and then it segues into an eerie breakdown which sounds like the music from World War 2 footage, it's all sweeping off key strings and then out of nowhere there's a whipping snare noise and the track goes off again.

I've been googling all morning and it seems there is loads of Vitalic stuff knocking around. He records as Hustler Pornstar and Dima (as was said on the other thread).

Tracks which seem to exist which I didn't know of and am attempting to find on soulseek.

Vitalic-Absolut

Vitalic-Telerotica

Giorgio Moroder-The Midnight Express (Vitalic Remix)

The Hacker-Fading Away (Vitalic Remix) (er yeah I know!)

Vitalic-Relax

Vitalic-Soulshaker

Vitalic-Scratch Massive

Vitalic-La Rock (Al Ferox Remix) this was described as "the best dance track I've ever heard" on a discussion board I found.

Anyone know about this Al Ferox character? Is it just Vitalic himself again? Will his website ever be completed? Will he make an album and take over the world? Will he play live in Dublin? WHO KNOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I swear finding this stuff I feel like I'm downloading crazy illegal porn or something, it's all so good.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god that absolut track is fucking amazing, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, this has made my day, year maybe, and there are still more downloading.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I found an interview with the bloke in a copy of Vice (the Australian version). His real name is Pascal Arbez-Nicolas. He has a new project called Silures with someone called Linda Lamb, and they have a release called All You Can Eat (single? album? it doesn't say) on Citizen Records.

...why do the tease with so little information!?

― Hayden Nicholls (Pop the Weasel), Saturday, 11 October 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Dima-Poetry

Dima-Fuckeristic

Dima-D'Aim

It seems the Fading Away remix is the Dima remix and it's the one on Dave Clarke World Service. Just realised.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Giorgio Moroder-The Midnight Express (Vitalic Remix)

This one is sooooo good. Ronan, don't know if you have it already but you need the Live@shockers set which you can find within a couple of seconds on Soulseek. Genius.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 11 October 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all pretty well-documented (almost complete discography) on discogs.com, complete with cross references and all.

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Also: Linda Lamb did the rather well known track "Hot Room" last year on International Deejay Gigolos - it was featured on a loads of electroclash compilations including Tiga's "American Gigolo".

(i'm sharing some more vitalic stuff on slsk, btw if anyone's interested)

Personal Vitalic favourites:
Silures - 21 Ghosts
the whole Poney EP
Bolz Bolz - Take A Walk (Dima Neo-Romantic Remix)
Hustler Pornstar - You Know What You Did Last Summer
Lady B - Swany (Vitalic Remix)
The Hacker - Fadin' Away (Dima Remix)
Dima - Poetry (The Year 2000 Remix)

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, the Citizen Records website has lots of info as well as a nice bio:

"Vitalic was born in 1973 in Borodianka-Ukraine-in a traditionnal Ukrainian family living from the selling of animal furs. In 1989, after the falling down of the Berlin wall, he could emigrate to Eastern Germany with his dog -Mini Robot- where he survived with parttime jobs and even masculine prostitution. Little by little, Vitalic decided to stop playing the "Trubka", a traditional Ukrainian instrument, and started to compose electronic music in a collective near Munich. Then Kobayashi Records (France) released his first EP in June 2001, followed by Gigolo Records (Munich) with the "Poney EP" - a record about the pain of ponies in funfairs.
Another EP should be released soon on the brand new label Citizen Records."

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 11 October 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I just got Vitalic-Icebreaker (Dima Remix) and it rocks in a Garnier style.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 11 October 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck, I wish I could get slsk working.

― adaml (adaml), Saturday, 11 October 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, it's Scratch Massive - Icebreaker (Dima Remix)
i love being totally drunk but what about tomorrow...

― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 12 October 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

al ferox is a french techno producer on kobayashi records. he recorded an ep called vitalferox w/ vitalic. so it's actually "absolut" by vitalferox. there's a track on that ep called "suck da MC" which rocks even harder.

he (ferox) also runs a label called dancefloor killers, which released the vitalferox ep and also eps by david caretta and carl denza. the first mix cd of dancefloor killers tracks is insanely great (i ranted a bit about this on the other vitalic thread).

www.dancefloorkillers.com

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 12 October 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah the version I got listed it as a Vitalic track. I love the David Carretta stuff I've heard. Unsure if I've heard any Carl Denza.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 12 October 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the first mix cd of dancefloor killers tracks is insanely great

Just got this one on Soulseek. It is indeed insanely great. Total 91-92 style full-on banging techno madness.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 18 October 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

oh for a broadband connection.

I am full on loving that 12 Angry Men track "looser" by the way, it's a total Vitalic rip off but worth downloading any day. Especially if you have broadband.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 October 2003 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

When come back bring album.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd settle for come back at this stage.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

An EP or just a single would be nice.

― stevo (stevo), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i think he's going through that 'difficult second single' syndrome.

― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

hi, twitch!

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 25 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

hi lauren! are you in the uk yet? hope to see yr boys tonight / tomorrow - could be messy!

― stirmonster, Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Grrr yeah, just a single please!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not coming over until the 6th, which means yet again i miss glasgow and all attendant fun. *SOB*
be extra special messy for me, okay? and tell the kids i love 'em.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 25 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I have something called "Vitalic Presents Onurb" (or at least that's what the files says). Does anyone (Ronan?) know what this is?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 25 January 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody know the lyrics to "Poney"?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 26 January 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=lyrics+vitalic+poney&btnG=Google+Search

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 26 January 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently they are "dudduhdudhduhduhduhDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHDUHduhduhduh"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 26 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

@d@ml, Onrub are labelmates of Vitalic's on Citizen Records. There's a bio on the Citizen's updated website alongside some pics of our much-missed-hero looking cool and moody in a suit + buttoned up shirt.

http://www.citizen-records.com/

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 26 January 2004 08:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracking down this stuff on had copy is a bitch.

I've decided that Vitalic will probably provide all my techno needs from now on, though the mosta Kompakt thread was interesting reading.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

I saw him last night, and it was fucking incredible. I mean I was just drinking, for once, and it was as good as anything I've ever seen.

It's always difficult to compare nights but one thing I can say, definitively, is that I have never, ever, EVER seen a crowd go so totally fucking spastic mental as when he played La Rock for the second time, at the end of his set. It was just absolutely ridiculous, incessant screaming, jumping, glasses breaking, an entire room of people trying to escape their bodies, like getting bashed around the place and this big howl just welling up around you. AMAZING.

The rest of his set was full of mental moments but none quite so mad. He has alot of new material, it seems, one track in particular is like industrial metal or something.

I can't wait for the album. So so much. Oh also he threw a record into the crowd and I caught it and continued talking to my friend, I was sort of pissed and didn't realise why I had caught it or what it was for a few minutes.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan, you're headed for journalistic greatness. What record was it?

I got hold of the Silures, Bolz Bolz remix disc and Dima - 'Fukeristic EP' a few months ago, so I'm on my way.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:07 (twenty-one years ago)

i maintain that vitalic makes the best electronica ever made by anybody that isn't in kraftwerk or new order.

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

'esccape their bodies' = greatness

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

what will ronan do though once his youth wears off?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"it'll happen to YOU"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

go indie?

― the surface noise for the sake of noise (electricsound), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"do you love house music, but hate the 'house scene'?"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I am certain new material will appear anywhere between the next 1-5 months.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 4 June 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha "album".

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 4 June 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

he's playing in london tonight, isn't he? at that sonar thing.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i KNEW there was gig i was looking out for - but I think that's next week, the 11th. Ocean is it?

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

bugger it IS tonite

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Friday, 4 June 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

[gpallis] J'aime Vitalic beacoup, actuallement, le remixes (il s'appelle Dima ou Bolz Bolz) sont fantastique.
[gpallis] A Londres.
[gpallis] Est-il popular (um, je ne sais pas le mot?) en suisse, dizzee?
[alex skiatala] dima est son 2eme nom de scene pour la scène française
[alex skiatala] pas vraiment je connais car il est passé a sonar
[alex skiatala] tu connais fuckeristic ep
[gpallis] Entendais-tu son remix de "fading away"? S'est comme la mémoire d'un boum. Trop etonnant.
[gpallis] Non, par qui?
[alex skiatala] dima alias vitalic sur step-2-house
[gpallis] Oh! Wow!
[alex skiatala] il a produit aussi sur dancefloorkiller
[gpallis] je ne comprend pas sa message, il a produit la meme ep sur deux labels?
[gpallis] (pardon encore un fois pour la francaisse terrible)
[alex skiatala] non je veux dire qu'il a fait d'autre morceau sur dancefloorkiller

WHY HAS NO-ONE POSTED ABOUT THIS?

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

let the nail-biting begin

from vitalic.org:

VITALIC
next record to be released in september

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Could somebody please translate Gregory's post please?

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 20 July 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM the only one who bought his remix of 'Cish Cash', aren't I?

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Snrub: basically I just found put from this Swiss dude on soulseek that there are two Dima eps out! Yay yay yay wow.

Barima: !!! Are there any lists of what he's done, anywhere? All this pseudonym stuff totally throws me.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

www.discogs.com

He remixed Basement Jaxx under the Vitalic moniker.

― Barima Chk-Chk-Chk (Barima), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i got that too Barima. surprisingly restrained i thought!

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 21 July 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Eagerly awaiting the new single. Anyone know the title?

― stevo (stevo), Sunday, 29 August 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

oh c'mon, someone must know.

― stevo (stevo), Tuesday, 31 August 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

A reliable source tells me VITALIC will be overwhelming my iTrip's crappy circuitry very soon.

He's releasing a whole new album soon right? If I read vitalic.org correctly anyway.

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Oops: andrew m. - "next record"

― Lukas (lukas), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

The release in September is an EP through PIAS. Assume the album's gonna follow later on the same label...

― Mil (Mil), Wednesday, 1 September 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't wait.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 5 September 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Last night Uncle John Peel played a track from the new 12". The title was probably 'Fanfare 1'. More 'banging techno madness' about 5 minutes long, 136 bpm, lots of familiar Vitalic flourishes, crashing symbols, sirens going off etc pausing for Synth-noir section in the middle, difficult-to-understand vocals in the background. Not sure I'll love this as much as anything on the Poney EP but really looking forward to the album. Anyone know what the release date?

― stevo (stevo), Friday, 17 September 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

october 25th.

― :|, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

well ok its not an album.

― :|, Wednesday, 13 October 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

What are all of these!?

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/music/Vitalic

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 26 November 2004 08:10 (twenty-one years ago)

lots of mislabels (there is no Felix Da Housecat remix of "You Prefer Cocaine"), some bonafide remixes. See discogs.com for a comprehensive discography.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 26 November 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Vitalic in session on Radio 1 tonight - exciting!

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:40 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/alt/johnpeel/thisweek/images/vitalic_205.jpg

― :| (....), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago)

ugh. "everything is ok" (if it was labeled correctly) is melting my mind. i almost can't stand how slammin it is. also, i have a new theory: vitalic prefers cocaine! you know it's true!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)

a quik trip to the dancefloorkillers site reveals that the track currently melting my mind is "absolut." what a killer.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

a dancefloor killer even

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Vitalic LIVE ON RADIO 1 NOW ! Tune in

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:06 (twenty years ago)

i still haven't heard 'Absolut' you know

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago)

it's pretty much the new album, with a weird encore and a tiny version on La Rock. + if you listen close you can hear me screaming wo-aaoaoao-ye-eah and whoopin' at the end of the session. everyone came out to dance

― nick.K (nick.K), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago)

I really hope Vitalic is the savior everyone seems to think he is...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I have this on tape..recording with a c90

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:21 (twenty years ago)

not a saviour Spencer, just some more great dance music

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

i can't listen to it anymore anyway, shite internet

― Frankenstein On Ice (blueski), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

This mix is very exciting! I'll try to save the stream. Radio1 stuff is usually up for a week, yes?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:26 (twenty years ago)

correct

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Thursday, 23 December 2004 00:28 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

so he's playing in london next week. i'll be in san francisco. i considered coming home a day early but it's not really possible. are lots of you lucky ilxors going??

also, according to the forum on his site - where vitalic responds personally to every message from his fans! - he'll be touring the UK in april.

― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 7 January 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Where is he playing next week? I saw that he was on at Bugged Out on the 22nd and was thinking about going.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

I will most likely be there.

― RickyT (RickyT), Friday, 7 January 2005 09:47 (twenty years ago)

Bad link, sorry:

http://www.endclub.com/whatson/weekends/weekends22-01.php

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

i shall be going too i think

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

i found this:

Vitalic - News
http://vitalic.ouquoi.org/index.php

Also does anyone have any knowledge when the Vitalic album will be released?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)

March.

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

And the title is...?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 7 January 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Alex Gopher, Etienne De Crecy and Jo Jo De Freq as well on the 22nd? I'm there. Alba, you should definitely come, Ronan too.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Ronan's in Barcelona, apparently.

Yes, let's all go apart from him.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

god give me patience

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

wheeee!

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 7 January 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

yeh i went to that link and it reminded me that Super Discount Deux actually happened and is finally coming out!

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

coming out? it's been out for 3 or 4 months!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I really love "vitalic ou qoui" as a site name.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

sadly i can no longer make the 22nd :-(

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

my humble prayer

please, god, let me come into a fortune over the next week or so. i need to be able to quit my job and get a plane ticket so i can go on uk tour with this bald-or-balding ukrainian-born dude as his roadie. he's kinda like you, god. you'd like him!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 7 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

it's been out for 3 or 4 months!

ergh, i had a feeling you were going to say that. there was a thread but i don't think anyone's talked about it since the release then.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 7 January 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

damn that recent dj phatty mash of larock01 and peaches' "rock show" is annoying.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Bugged Out anticipation - get in!

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

I want his set to be so mindfuckingly intense that by the end I am now longer capable of speech or movement. Actually, scratch that, I don't want to be able to SEE.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

please keep this thread for discussions of Vitalic's forthcoming album.

it was not started with exclusive international events in mind!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

TrusttheDJ writer answers back to Guardian’s Alex Petridis
http://www.trustthedj.com/news_article.php?news_id=3432

How soon will The Guardian champion Vitalic?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

oh dear they went and did the 'Petri-dish' thing again

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:12 (twenty years ago)

it's still a good joke!

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

knock knock

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

who's there?

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Sorry Ronan. I'm on the point of booking my ticket down to London that weekend. Is it true you have to queue for hours ON END at the End¿

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

And the title is...?

OK Cowboy, release date pushed to April 18.

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

You heard it yet JoB?

― stevo (stevo), Sunday, 16 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Eh, no.

― JoB (JoB), Sunday, 16 January 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Y'know the one with the stuttering octave bassline on the intro, and then out of tune robotic vocals, and then a synth breakdown with a skittery drumbeat leading into a massive chorus? Is that Soulshaker or You Prefer Cocaine? I've got it named as both.

― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Sunday, 16 January 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

I just booked my ticket for this Saturday at The End. I'm coming down by coach god help me. Has anyone else already bought their ticket online? I feel like a bit of a square but I have no idea what the possibility of it selling out was.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 January 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

so tempting. how much is it costing you all-in alba?

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 16 January 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

22 for the coach, 15 for the ticket. You should totally come!

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

(National Express, not Megabus. I have some standards.)

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

£37 quid - bargain ! that's probably cheaper than a shag with Glaswegian prostitute and a takeaway deep fried Mars bar.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 16 January 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

twisted humour Alba, your coach trip/club nite in London is cheaper than a sordid nite in Glasgow.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 17 January 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

Ferg, that's "You Prefer Cocaine"

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Monday, 17 January 2005 02:33 (twenty years ago)

I reckon when the Vitalic album comes out every single track we've already heard should be given a different name, just to annoy people.

I don't think I can make it out on Saturday now. Rumbling skintness and siblings' birthday are making it look very unlikely.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 17 January 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

£37! wow cool. exams over and everything = so so tempting.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 January 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

You won't though. You never do.

Who actually is coming? Roll call!

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

this is going to be fun. i've got some friends coming in from new york such is the power of vitalic.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

whoo!

― Ric Flair On X (blueski), Monday, 17 January 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

TS: Vitalic vs my best friend's birthday vs Matt's sibling's birthday.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

dropping likes flies :(

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Dropping like it's hot.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

I won't though. I do never do.

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 January 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

roll call?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

who shall i envy? i need names.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Hi all i'm waiting with big impatience his first album !!!
for more info about vitalic go here :
--------------------------
Vitalic Fan Club
http://www.vitalic.ouquoi.org
--------------------------

― ouquoi, Friday, 21 January 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

for anyone else going along to The End tomorrow some of us are meeting in the Princess Louise pub tomorrow night around 8pm prior to clubbage

― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

dansu!

― cis (cis), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

surely one of you londoners has a minidisc recorder...?

― :| (....), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Ooh I did not see this thread until now. I will be there on Saturday (omg tomorrow!): am meeting others god knows where first, I will attempt to steer them towards the Princess Louise. And if not I will see alla y'all inside. (Alba, do not even think of leaving London again before meeting me!)

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 21 January 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

da~ansu!

― cis (cis), Sunday, 23 January 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

holy fuck was that ever amazing. holy fuck.

I met Ronan's brother on the bus home!

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 23 January 2005 06:19 (twenty years ago)

haha weird. I am in barcelona, my friends are in bed. I saw Lawrencand MIA from Sub Static, lots of fun. How did you meet my brother lex?

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 23 January 2005 09:51 (twenty years ago)

Aw man, I wish I could have been there. Leaving the house for all of two hours yesterday made me so tired I could barely move. Fucking flu.

― RickyT (RickyT), Sunday, 23 January 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

Ronan - we were at the same bus stop waiting for the same bus, he'd been at the End too. He mentioned his brother in Ireland who wanted to be a music journalist, and I was like 'hmm that sounds familiar'. he said you were in Barcelona!

it was lovely meeting Barima at last!

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 23 January 2005 12:21 (twenty years ago)

that's some coincidence! Barima also bumped into an old college friend. I was just glad to hear so much great stuff I recognised last night (pablo Psychonaut was good as was Brendan Long tho he doesn't look like a DJ, if you know what I mean, haha) e.g. the Daft Punk, Rex The Dog, Tiefschwarz, 'E Talking', that one that goes 'waap waap waap waap waap...waap waap waap waaaaaaaaap', erm

― Stevem On X (blueski), Sunday, 23 January 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

and obv. Vitalic was awesome. i think my feet actually lifted off the floor for a split second during 'Poney 2', and i was temporarily deafened

― Stevem On X (blueski), Sunday, 23 January 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

so, so good.

― cis (cis), Sunday, 23 January 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Vitalic's set seemed to go by so fast, such an amazing experience.

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 23 January 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I haven't yet wrapped my head around it all. It was grebt and everything, but I think my suspicions about my fading love for electro house are coming true. My legs still ache too.

The rumours about Alba's vanishing act are set to run and run.

If I ever give anyone the thumbs up ever again, just kill me.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Sunday, 23 January 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

also it sounds like there are at least 3 GREAT tracks on the Super Discount 2 comp

― Stevem On X (blueski), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Vitalic = Nosferatu.

I'm glad you guys decided to follow me to the other room, since I thought you were being a bit 'meh' on the always excellent PsychoPab at first.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

OMG

Apparently the ALBUM will be released on March 21 in France, according to Vitalic himself posting on the forum at vitalic.org

OMG

― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

March 21! 2005 is turning out to be a cracker of a year already, isn't it?

I am kind of jealous I missed this, but the DJ at my sister's party was playing lots of DFA and electrohouse so I was happy enough.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 24 January 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

and remember everyone, it's not a contest ;)

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

Wooo!

Or is it wood?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

you tell us ;)

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

more elaboratin' for the less fortunate please

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 24 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

i'll post photos tomorrow. i only recognised the big tunes in his set and it seemed chronological ('cept i can't remember if 'La Rock' came before or after 'Candy' and 'Fanfares', the latter being probably the highlight - really incredible! I don't think 'Poney 2' sounded as good as it did on the Peel session apart from being technically louder and better quality, being as i was actually there.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

"La Rock" was at the end, wasn't it? Maybe even one of the encores? Definitely after "Fanfares" which was mental and astounding. I didn't know you had a camera there...

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 24 January 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

who went?

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Me, Lauren, Stacey, Lex, Barima, Emma, Alan and Steve M.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

and Cis

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/vitalic20.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/poney.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/vitalic40.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/candy.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/barima.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/vitalic50.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/fanfares.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/vitalic60.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/larock.jpg

http://www.base58.com/pics/myphotos/0501_london/vitalic90.jpg

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

it was cool that he did live vocals, even if you could barely hear them or understand what he was saying

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

strange, it makes the end look much smaller than it actually is

i have vague recollections of someone taking a pic of me on saturday night.

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

well remember this was just that half of the main room where they made a little stage and it's usually closed off for things like Trash. not very practical i grant thee, but nobody cared.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

i wish i had come, in a way, but i needed a quieter* night than the end would have been

*of course, traipsing out for alcohol at 8am showed that i didnt actually get that quieter night...

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

oh well

― pete b. (pete b.), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I was there as well, not that I know any of you... Bloody marvellous it was as well, Pablo Psychonauts possibly rivalling Erol that night, he's improved so much since I last caught him out. Don't need to reiterate how amazing Vitalic was, just incredible.

― MattR (MattR), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

agree on all counts

― Stevem On X (blueski), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:18 (twenty years ago)

MY EYEBROW IS TURNING GREEN OMG WTF

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

it was cool that he did live vocals, even if you could barely hear them or understand what he was saying

I made out "Fremme neppa venette" and "Feed me little children".

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Might've been the same thing.

― Captain GRRRios' Giggletits (Barima), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

That Vitalic was incredible is about the only thing I clearly remember. You've just reminded me I met Cis.

There's no word on Vitalic doing more UK dates around the release of the album, is there?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.7digital.com/shops/productDetail.aspx?shop=15&product=9764&sid=69184&trackid=107394

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Friday, 15 April 2005 09:53 (twenty years ago)

That Björk remix is really great.

― locus solus, Friday, 15 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

it is HOT!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

so hot

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I gave the album a listen last night. What is this guy using for synths? Is he using old analogue hardware, or is he a software guy? The album is mastered loud as fuck, the waveforms brickwall during the loud synth parts.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Vitalic! and Björk! Together at last! sweeeeeet.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

I love the synth / organy sound on that Bjork remix.

― Mil (Mil), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

What did you think of the record Mike?

I know as regards the live show he changed from hardware to Ableton in the last year or so.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

I only got ahold of the 1st seven tracks. I mainly just listen to the hits, Poney and La Rock. I think that if I heard either of those tracks on a loud system I would scream and yell and roll around on the floor. I thought the rest of the tracks were lack luster. Not horrible, just not my cup of tea.

His mixes are weird. He doesn't really give a shit about rhythm, his drum programming is really square and basic. Most of the action takes place in the synth which sounds huge and takes up most of the space in the mix. I really like how he uses volume dynamics and pitch shifting/portomento to build energy into his tracks. That is kind of his catch 22, he can work a crowd because his sounds are so extreme, but he isn't all that funky.

I have a definite Detroit/Black American prejudice there. For me to really appreciate something it has to be a lot more clever in the low end. I would rather hear a track with a simple bassline and some good drums than crazy rave noises. It is also an age issue, back in my day we had Neil Landstrumm to do the same thing with a pro-one and a 909. I still don't consider those records good "music", but for crazy rave noise to lose your mind to it works pretty well.

Again, As I age I tend to move more towards the jazz axis in dance music. I want more complex chord structures, polyrhythm, and heavy drum. I think Vitalic is working the rock axis, simple structure, simple rhythms, and and emphasis on crazy noise. I don't privledge one over the other, but I prefer electronic music that works off of jazz.

I think Deep Space by Model 500 on R&S is the best electronic music album of the 90's bar none. Deep Space is a heavy music record and nobody knows this. Between Deep Space and Mill's Every Dog has It's Day records most of my dance listening slots are filled. I just can't get down with 4/4 beats and screech anymore, unless it is fueled by nostalgia re:Landstrumm.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

it ain't called La Funk 01, that's for sure.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

heh, it sure ain't.

I see what you mean I guess Mike, I suppose I'm not rigidly in the rock or jazz side these days. Do you not feel a strong emotional thing running through the Vitalic stuff? His drums are bizarre, I agree, not pretty by any means, but I think there is a really massive Moroder influence on the whole record, which I guess fits the "high camp" description some others on this thread have offered.

I think some of the stuff is "crazy noise" and some is definitely more relaxed instrumental downtempo stuff, but then there's a middleground which is really strong on emotion but also quite hard/crazy occupied by Poney Part 1/2, and U&I, in my opinion.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Do you not feel a strong emotional thing running through the Vitalic stuff?

yes and no. I was thinking about you and this record while I took my daily walk this afternoon. I was thinking about what it must be like to be in your early 20's in 2005, getting fucked up at clubs, living in Barcelona, the whole trip of being young right now. If I were in your shoes this record would mean a lot to me.

I remember when Rolling and Scratching and Rock n' Roll by DP were making their rounds on old Robert Armani and Mike Dearborn mix tapes(this was back in the old days before internet/p2p when there was a underground tape network and heated discourse about mixtape ethics) and how me and my buddies would drive around the city on ghetto cruises and rock out to those tracks mixed with ghetto house bangers from Chi. I look back on those days so fondly. I remember how exciting it was to get the new Cristian Vogel 12" on Saetiva or the Polaris 12"s on Sonic Groove or the early Subhead Records. That was the coolest stuff in the world to me at the time.

Now I am 28 (and 8 years is about three generations of youth culture,) I cannot relate to what is going on these days. I can understand why Vitalic gets love, but it just doesn't speak to me. That particular window of time in my life is closed. I think there is emotion there, but it isn't an emotion that speaks to me. To me, Vitalic is music for younger club people who haven't lost the passion yet. I try to hang out at clubs these days, but I am just not feeling it anymore.

I think the drums are the worst part of the record. Those tinny reverbs with long reflection times just don't work for me. His programming seems really stiff to me. The whole record doesn't project any kind of vibe that I am looking for in my records. While I was listening to the tracks on my monitor headphones I was impressed by how blistering the tracks were when they were played loud. Those tracks rock, no doubt about it. Vitalic makes you want to pump your fist in the air.

There might be a moroder influence, but it doesn't touch moroder. The writing isn't there, the production/engineering isn't as good, and the playing programming isn't there either. I find the tracks I have(and I only have the 1st seven tracks) to be aurally ascetic and unsensual. I know I am going to sound like a lame analogue wanker, but records just don't sound good anymore. They just don't sound as full as my old disco records or 70's soul. I know older House and Techno suffer from lower production quality but I can still get with those records.

Don't worry about my opinion though, I think I am just getting to old to be relevant these days. Also, living in Texas is a lot different from Detroit. The harsh machine vibe just doesn't translate as well down here. For whatever reason, I have developed a strange infatuation with Cleveland since I moved down here. Go figure...

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

so it seems vitalic is remixing daft punk

http://www.f135.com/2step/f135?0=1&tplt=musNews&id=11386&beg=

(in spanish)

― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

Swank! "Technologic," looks like...

― Telephonething, Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

And now, without further ado, an abridged gringo translation by yours truly (mainly because i'm waiting for my rice to finish cooking).

Vitalic first unveils and remixes Daft Punk!

Our favorite cowboy is quickly becoming included in Lucky Luke and his shadow (?) and, in an able maneuver, has now released more rapidly than anyone else in the duel of the most juicy remixes of the moment and he has won. It’s only been a couple day since Vitalic advised us was preparing to remix Bjork, concretely (?) for the song “Who is It?” and now we come with another similar and equally lucrative story: a remix for Daft Punk. How cool. The most fashionable Frenchman got his hands working on the most fashionable French duo from 1997 and 2001 and has completed a remix for the theme, “Technology” that, as he explained to us in an interview with out own Pascal Arbez that you all can read on the web very soon, he’s done a little work and reconstructed the original from Daft Punk. Certainly: “Ok Cowboy” his debut album, goes on sale this week. We have no problems with him it so far…

Hispanohablantes, I'm sorry I mangled your language... (my brain hurts)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm excited.

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

In 1997, the most fashionable French duo was Antoine De Caunes and Jean-Paul Gaultier. 2005? Dunno yet.

― The Irrelevant Man (Negativa) (Barima), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Listening to some samples.... I'm feeling strangely on the fence about this one, and not hugely keen to fork out full price for it to get aquainted with it yet.

It's quite Ferry Corsten big arena-synth-tranceish at times isn't it? Very *bright* sounding.

I'm probably making a fool of myself & will discover in 2006 I shouldn't have ignored this at the time. Or maybe next week. Will see.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

it's quite Ferry Corsten big arena-synth-tranceish at times isn't it? Very *bright* sounding.

it is, but how is that bad

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

For Vitalic news just go here : www.vitalic.ouquoi.org
I love his last remix of bjork !!!
Vitalic Rulez

― Vitalic Fan ouquoi, Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

this guy!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I think I am turning into a big fe zaffe fan!

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I don't want to get into an argument within the Stypod comments box, esp. since Will Simmons' new Luminfire mix is so great -- but dude's trying to tell me that the "Who Is It" remix is in 6/8? I can't feel it anything but 4/4. I mean, it sounds all schaffelicious, but it's not in 6/8. Am I nuts? Can I not count?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 14 July 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

bump

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

has anyone heard the vitalic mix on colette no. 7? i heard a couple of minutes of it yesterday and it sounded interesting, not what i expected. not enough o pay 26 euros or whatever it costs, though.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

the 'discomix' of 'repair machines' has a tinge of melancholy to it that i rather enjoy.

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

vitalic's playing london soon--anyone going? i figured i might drop by london for a visit soon since it's only a short flight away from berlin.

― geeta, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:11 (twenty years ago)

fabric on sep 9, and YES

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Yo Geeta, if you stop by Amsterdam on your way back from London (I'll be there the weekend Vitalic plays Fabric), cool!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

GAH!

COLETTE N°7 - 2CDS

The new installment of the colette cd compilation series has been inspired by the number 7 and the french philosophy of art forms represented as numbers, particularly cinema which is recognized as number 7.

On cd 1 Michel Gaubert and Marie Branellec delivers their track selection as the soundtrack to an imaginary film.
Cd2 is mixed courtesy of french electro sensation Vitalic who offers for the fisrt time on cd an electic and very personal selection of his all time favorite tracks.

Tracklist :

Colette n°7 CD1

1 Roisin Murphy : Ramalama (Bang Bang)
2 Minotaur Shock : Vigo Bay
3 Isolée : Schrapnell
4 Joy Zipper: Go tell the world
5 Lorenzo Fragiacomo : Kirby
6 Gang 90 & as absurdettes : Jack kerouac
7 Soulwax : NY Lipps (Kawazaki Dub)
8 Bumblebee Unlimited : Lady Bug (disco remix by Larry Levan)
9 Donald Byrd : Steppin Again (Madlib remix)
10 Whitey : Can’t go out can’t stay in
11 Harmonic 33 : Optigan
12 One Self : Be your own
13 Gary Wilson : Debbie Debbie
14 The Dears : 22 The death of all the Romance
15 Prince Paul : Flattery
16 Gustav : Rettet die wale

Colette n°7 CD2 VITALIC MIX

1 Vitalic : Sunny DAY (intro)
2 Wim Mertens : FERnglanzend
3 Whitey : Can’t go out can’t stay in
4 Colder : To the music
5 Vitalic : The Past
6 Front 242 : Ethics
7 Crash course in science : Flying turns
8 Vitalic : Repair machines (Vitalic disco mix)
9 En route pour rome (intermède)
10 Jean-Louis Murat : Au mont sans-soucis
11 Charlie : Spacer Woman
12 Rita Mitsouko : Le petit train
13 No More : Suicide Commando
14 Sophie Moleta : 10X2
15 Vitalic : The Chase

― david day (winslow), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

i fear i'm unlikely to make it to vitalic at fabric, as there are already two other things i'm supposed to go to that evening, and i have to fly to montreal the next day. boo.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

"the chase"? is that available?

― jermaine (jnoble), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

14 Sophie Moleta : 10X2

omg I didn't know that a) anyone else had ever heard this song, b) cared about sophie moleta! VITALIC I LOVE YOU.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

maybe i should have bought it after all! a bit late now, anyway.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

"the chase"? is that available?

I think that's Vitalic's remix of Moroder's "The Chase".

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

The second side of the 'No Fun' 12" is godlike.

― jngpng, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

aw I always knew Vitalic had to be a MASSIVE fan of "Spacer Woman"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

I think that's Vitalic's remix of Moroder's "The Chase".

kinda ironic after Mike T's comments about Vitalic re Moroder influence upthread.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

It's hard to find anyone in electronic music these days who is not a fan of "Spacer Woman".

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 1 September 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

Pretty awesome video from Pleix...

http://pleix.net/birds.html

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

i heard this myth two weeks ago that they were playing at don hill's, but that musta just been some shit somebody made up@!! dammit.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

vitalic was scheduled to play don hill's but he canceled!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

i think he might've canceled all his US dates.

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

he's playing the big day out, this sunday!!!

...at 1:45 pm in the afternoon, in a tent?!

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

i think he might've canceled all his US dates.

SAD FACE x A MILLION

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 24 January 2006 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

that was PUNISHING. it was so hot in the tent, his laptop crashed after two minutes! I thought he looked very non-plussed about it at first, but it turned out that is just his regular facial expression. once the problem was sorted (solution: a big fan placed on the stage) he dropped straight back in where it had left off. best bit #1: cutting "la rock 01" off really suddenly, then fading up this weird pingy alternate version, it was like a 2-step remix! then CRUNCH back into the original. best bit #2: end of set = "dario" > "no fun" > "fanfares". oof.

― controversial buffalo stance (haitch), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. He was supposed to be playing around here in March, and it was enough for me to think about going to an overpriced dance club for, like, the first time in ages... I wonder if that's still on...

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic really needs to lose the laptop and find some other way of playing live.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Please to try and identify song from Vitalic set based on stupidly vague description:

He opened with it when I saw him at Warwick Uni. Built up to this 4 chord progression over yer 4/4 kick beat, with big epic synth strings and wailing, incomprehensible vocals. Felt almost uncomfortably overwhelming at the time. Didn't recognise at as being a Vitalic original, it wasn't as detuned and bleepy as most of his stuff, but I dunno.

The chord progression may have been a bit like the breakdown in "Take You On A Cruise" by Interpol. If you made that into a house record and got Enya to sing on it then made it all fucked up, it might sound like what I'm thinking of. It's uh, been a few months though.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I think his US dates might still be on in March, at least it looks like he's playing in Detroit...

http://www.dethlab.net/

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost...

That sounds like the Discomix of Repair Machines from the b-side of the No Fun 12. There's a sample here.

― jng (jng), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it could be 'Juliet India' too. Both sound pretty similar.

― jng (jng), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Aaron! (Detroit is where I'd be seeing him).

― js (honestengine), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty sure it is Juliet India actually, thanks.

― Michael A Neuman (Ferg), Sunday, 29 January 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic really needs to lose the laptop

he did that once :(

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

haha, at cargo? it was supposedly nicked wasn't it...I really didn't believe him.

― barbarian cities (jaybob3005), Monday, 30 January 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic hasn't always played with a laptop - At Sonar a few years back it were pure analogue and totally rocked. I haven't caughty this new laptop vibe, can anyone comment on the difference between the styles now and then?

― meep, Monday, 30 January 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

Bells EP: any good?
http://www.emusic.com/album/10949/10949479.html

― a.b. (alanbanana), Thursday, 7 September 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am no longer sure that thing four posts up is Juliet India, it sounds like it but has a less distorted vocal line and a slightly different progression. He usually plays it near the start of a set. Help?

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's Bells. Arf.

― Fraggle O Rly (Ferg), Thursday, 7 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

'You Are My Sun' I really like a lot.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 8 September 2006 08:00 (nineteen years ago)

Vitalic LIVE @ Rock Werchter Festival, Belgien (30.06.2006)

Vitalic test-driving some new material - the track six minutes in sounds promising!!

― Python... No Bite :B (flezaffe), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Here he is at that show if you need a cover picture:

http://www.proximusgoformusic.be/images/Werchter2006/Pyramid/Vitalic/Vitalic_01.jpg

― StanM (StanM), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Good god. I know I'll be hated for saying this but he really does look like Moby's evil twin. Fresh off a week-long bender of red meat and coke.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

a lot of people hate you now

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

come now. no one has an appetite on a coke bender.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

How did Chris Farley get that big then?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

new myth and rumour:

vitalic based "suicide commando" on the urinals' "last days of man on earth"

... having just heard it again for first time in a while.

― andrew m., Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

my knee has never been the same after that set in the tent.

― haitch, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/vitalicvlive

new (great) live album, out on Sept 24th, recorded in the Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Oct 2006!

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Were you there?

Logo seems inspired by Weezer's.

― willem, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

No, I wasn't - I had seen that live set only a short time before that show. Wish I'd gone though, this wasn't a festival appearance and he had a video screen with him and there was a stage invasion that night.

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

I was there! It was ok. There were lots of teenagers there.

― barnaby, Monday, 3 September 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Logo seems inspired by Weezer's.

http://www.vanhalenstore.com/shop/graphics/00000001/CD02B.jpg

― dmr, Monday, 3 September 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

ok this is great

― ☪, Monday, 3 September 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Vitalic makes the nastiest, dark/saddest, most clumsy and tedious music I know of- it sure works like a charm on crusty drunken french teen crowds.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

He also rocks the neo-fascist fashion & style rather well.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

yeah hes known to wear keffiyehs and bomber jackets but i wouldnt hold that against him

― ☪, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

I don't quite know how or why, but my male intuition (or something) tells me that you're not a big fan, blunt. Is that correct?

― StanM, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

He's more of a sleek grey minimalist suits & motorcyle boots kinda mensch.
Yeah I was astounded at a live set of his about 4 months ago over here. It was metal techno for caners. Kids gobbled it up (and god knows what else).

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Just about the most manipulative and least subtle music I've had the opportunity to hear out, bar trance & related.

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

what the hell is 'manipulative' supposed to mean, in the context of banging dance music? that it manipulates kids into jumping up and down? ok then, job done!

― jabba hands, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

predictably and heavy-handedly

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

le hamfist dans le clunkyglove

― blunt, Monday, 3 September 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

new album 4.5 / 5 on RA.

can it really be all that?

― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 26 September 2009 02:08 (sixteen years ago)

That's what I thought too. I read the review until the words Crystal Castles-style appeared, and I closed the browser and forgot about it instantly.

Listening to him now (as opposed to 2005, or whenever) a lot of it seems to sound really flat and macho in its aggressiveness, although the latter quality is also what gives it its charm.

― EDB, Saturday, 26 September 2009 02:55 (sixteen years ago)

that review is horrible

― jabba hands, Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:00 (sixteen years ago)

If it's even half as good as OK Cowboy I think we've pretty much got the album of the year locked up.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 26 September 2009 03:04 (sixteen years ago)

it's not a horrible album, it's just...diminishing returns on the same old. "inessential" rather than awful.

― lex pretend, Saturday, 26 September 2009 09:22 (sixteen years ago)

naw it's good

― cutty, Saturday, 26 September 2009 21:44 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

ok. "no more sleep" got shared somewhere. from new album, Rave Age. um. first time i listened i hated. it's about as hamfisted as the album title, which is like Disco Very's stupid brother. almost softened on it after 2nd listen, but i really just think he's a lost cause. wish he'd prove me wrong. or do i even care? nah.

― andrew m., Monday, 24 September 2012 22:02 (thirteen years ago)

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