lindstrom & christabelle (aka solale) - real life is no cool

take all this with a grain of salt because im a certified unrepentant lindstrom stan.

a dozen listens in and i genuinely think this is as strong, if not stronger, than WYGIGT or II--in totally different ways, though. those of you (jergins) turned off by masturbatory jams will dig on this, i think--much tighter and more formal than his last couple (the magnificent not included), but not without classic lindstrom wooze. lot of moroder/summer in this (duh) and i think also post-chic edwards & rogers.

high points for me: this badass sort of drunken gina x stomper called "lovesick" (actually sort of reminds me of that NERD song 'lapdance,' lol) and the album closer "high and low" which is totally reminiscent of thousands of songs that ive heard but couldnt name right now (almost like a funkier sally shapiro? but less italo? includes guitar solo btw)

OK, OK, OK... I will check it out. Because Lindstrom totally blows my horn and the idea of his schtick combined with female vocals would be just about my idea of heaven - but it all comes down to how much of the noodling has been cut down on because I'm an unrepentant spaceprog-noodle fan.

yeah i kate id guess that youll be way less into this than WYGIGT or II based on what i know about your taste and the reasons you like lindstrom--this is way more disco; like i said the reference points here are more donna summers shit w/ moroder and 80s edwards and rogers than vangelis and gottsching (notwithstanding the fact that one of the songs is a vangelis cover)

still id be interested to hear what you think about. just b/c its not as noodly as the other stuff doesnt mean that its totally free of noodle--and its still sort of sloppy in that purposeful lindstrom way.

Hey! I know that I'm originally a spacerock/kraut/drone head, and I came to Lindstrom from that angle, but I'm certainly not adverse to a little disco, especially of the more cosmic Italo end. The only thing I've got is that Music In My Mind track that was on the Smalltown Supersound On Fire comp from Plan B. Which I like, but I'd really like a lot more if it was about 3 times longer and went off into phased-out-heaven.

I mean, I hugely love girlypop, so the idea of Lindstrom doing a take on 3 minute girlypop disco songs is really kind of intriguing. I will chase down more of it tomorrow at work with a good connection.

Has this leaked? I read it's not coming out until jan. 2010.

promo copies went out last week so its probably only a matter of time

To be honest, I've been wanting Lindstrom to drop a straight dancefloor-orientated cosmic disco album for some time now and I'm therefore really looking forward to this.

Does this sounds anything like Run, the last song off the first L&PT album? That has always been my favorite song my them. I am excited to hear this.

Oh, I thought he tweeted that he'd put the whole album up on their MySpace, but maybe that's clips or something.

But, to be perfectly honest, I'd be happy if he just made a straight-up cover of Steve Hillage's Green album but, erm, that's just me.

(I would say something about offering to be his Miquette Giraudy in this project, but, erm, I've learned to keep my lustful outbursts to myself on this board)

yeah jacob run is a definite antecedent to what hes doing here--the song wouldnt sound out of place on the album, even if it is a little less 'disco' than the rest of it

Now I'm really excited about this!!

I'm really glad she's changed her name, mostly because I wasn't sure how to pronounce 'Solale' and I'm relieved I no longer have to try.

fyi you pronounce it "christabelle"

I like the name "Solale" better. Way more mysterious.

Really cannot wait to hear this, I think it's got the potential to be the best album Lindstrom's been involved with.

how's it compare to "let it happen"?

yeah count me in the camp that prefers Run and Let's Practise to WYGIGT-style noodle, i'm stoked to hear this

xp the vangelis original or the version they already did?

theres a version of their cover on the album--not the same as the one thats already been released as lindstrom & solale. i prefer the earlier, solale version, but maybe just cuz it hews closer to the vangelis original, which id take over both versions of the lindstrom cover

the cover

the version on 'real life is no cool' is a) shorter and b) sort of more aggressive; the synths are foregrounded on a way theyre not on the OG (at least the one ive heard) and it doesnt have that great sort of bubbling/boiling over quality that the 9-minute "solale" version has

at least thats what i think--havent listened to the long version in a minute

I'm also in the camp that wants to hear more of a straight-up disco album. Something like a bunch of tracks similar to "Let's Practice" would be amazing!

WELL YOURE IN LUCK MY FRIEND

Excited about this, I thought (the original version of the cover of) "Let It Happen" was fabulous and like it more than anything on WYGIGT/II.

yall i hope im not blowing this up for u guys too much but i think this is FIRE as they say, it is the REAL DEAL so u are right to be excited!!

this sounds good:

There will also be a second 12" with Baby Can`t Stop remixes from The Idjut Boys and Prins Thomas.

baby can't stop is another fave of mine, those synth-brass stabs are so rad, just the most perfect split btw obviously synthy and sort of brassy

lookin forward to this one, bigtime.

i wonder if 'baby can't stop' is the untitled demo i heard in a mix about two years ago... really sparse apreggiated synth line going up and down?

no, no way

lookin forward to this one, bigtime.

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There will also be a second 12" with Baby Can`t Stop remixes from The Idjut Boys and Prins Thomas.

ws

OK, I have just found that L&PT track "Run" on Spotify - and wow, OK, I'm going to start anticipating the hell out of this album if it is in the vein of this. The big heavy stomping bassline plus the wibbly wubbly arpeggiated synths plus drifty female vocals - if it goes in this direction then this could be my new favourite thing ever.

OK, and to make this even sweeter, there's an Aeroplane remix on the MySpace...

::falls off chair with happiness::

http://www.myspace.com/lindstromandchristabelle

the Aeroplane dub remix is even better!

"keep it up" is such my jam. reminds me of the donna summer version of "state of independence"

This is amazing. So sharp and chunky and R&B! Final track is perfect.

Single out today. With Aeroplane remix. (rolls over and waggles arms and legs in air)

However, I haven't listened to it yet as, erm, I'm listening to the Fever Ray RA podcast first.

Oh god.... Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Dub Remix) - WHY OH WHY COULDN'T THEY HAVE LEFT THE VOCALS IN?!?!?

if they had, this would be, like, remix of the year...

I'm pretty sure the version I have, which has been knocking round since the start of the year, has vocals on it. I'll need to check though.

yeah it does have vox

If you have that Aeroplane (ha ha, I just totally subconsciously typoed Aerolplane oops) remix with vocals, I'm a-coming round your house to pry it from your cold dead hands. ;-)

i want to know whether solale or christabelle is her real name (or maybe one is her middle name?). when she went under solale i always used to type lindstrøm & solange by mistake

Funnily enough, I don't actually think either is her real name, but I can't remember where I read that.

yeh 1st time i read it i thought it was an unlikely collab

haha, is this really the cover of the single?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_2_SQZKe4yoY/Stz0KfupgaI/AAAAAAAABtM/t5sTiWioq3E/s1600-h/lindstrom_christabelle_baby-1429de4.jpg

Only heard the non-aeroplane version today, anyone else think this might actually do OK, sales-wise? Probably not, but it is a lot more catchy and poppy than some of the stuff that's done well that I've heard recently

the Aeroplane vocal mix kind of annoys me because when it does that little flourish at the end it feels like it's going to leap up to a higher level of awesomeness again (as it has already done four or five times), but then it just stops. A very minor complaint, I guess it's tough to know where to stop when you can just keep making it better and better forever.

wow, the American release date for this (according to amazon) is January 2010! Both the single and the Aeroplane remix are ace!!

can someone link to the single

I swear I've heard edits of the Aeroplane remix in DJ mixes that are floating around the web. maybe it was those monthly Aeroplane promo mixes.

xp, i listened to it on there myspace page

*their

can someone link to the single

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rad

this badass sort of drunken gina x stomper called "lovesick"
loving this track right now. are most of the songs this short (3 mins)?

everythings between 3 and 6 minutes, pretty evenly distributed in terms of lenght

can someone link to the single

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sorry that isn't the single.

here it is

i wish somebody would just leak the entire thing already. either leak it or stfu about it. ;)

Ah, I didn't see that Lovesick link there. OK, this is really wonderful.

i've been playing Lovesick b2b w/ Cruel Intentions (Heartbreaks Slow Action Remix) and it's honey drizzled perfection.

http://rcrdlbl.com/cms/rcrdlbl/albums/e7864433322ef25c557b9771ba3be4b5.jpg

cannot fucking wait for this record

Me either!!!! I was sorely disappointed with the last L&PT record ll. It's not bad exactly, I'm just never in the mood to listen to it. I played the first record like crazy though, and many singles, I hoping this will renew my love of Lindstrom. Btw here's a dub of the Aeroplane remix.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/hqnnozy2two/04%20Baby%20Can%27t%20Stop%20%28Aeroplane%20Dub%29.mp3

did y'all see on pitchfork that he's doing a 40 min version of the little drummer boy??? looolll

I saw that late last night and promptly forgot about it, but this morning (thinking about various dronerock versions of that song that I love love love) I think it's gonna be the best thing EVAH.

(Though he is probably joking.)

i hope he isnt! i remember last year (?) he did a cover of 'wonderful christmas time' the paul mccartney song

Yes, but that is an awful song to start with. Little Drummer Boy is a truly fantastic song.

i guess it IS one of the better christmas songs, but still... very skeptical.

ps - based on the past week or two i think real life is no cool could easily be my album of the year (if it were actually coming out this year)

Little Drummer Boy would be truly amazing with the vocals replaced by the sort of spacey synth chords he uses as the refrain in Where You Go I Go Too.

don't know how i slept on this. unreal shit.

slept on it? it's not out for two months.

i'm power napping on this

leak the record
*clap*clap*clapclapclap*

leak the record
*clap*clap*clapclapclap*

sorry, been watching sports on tv

"Baby Can't Stop" is fantastic - wasn't it on the Lindstrom Caviar mix from, like, 2 years ago? Or is it even older?

Ridiculously excited about this to the point where I'm searching all over for a leak every day

Same here. I've already preordered but am still searching daily for a leak :(

@Lindstrom Just did a 40 minutes mix, finishing the Little Drummer Boy version now :-)

WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT

is that twitter? cuz @Lindstrom on twitter is some other dude

Sorry, he's http://twitter.com/feedelity on twitter - he just linked to his facebook, where he's Lindstrom, so I just assumed the user name was the same.

I am stanning so hard for this album. Based on the two songs I've heard off it, I have a feeling it might be in my top ten of 2010.

Can you hear I'm sick?
dun dun dunnnn CLAP
I'm LOVESICK
dundun dundun dinkdonk dink

this is the new Happy House for carolanning on.

It's a great album, top ten of 2009 for me if i'm allowed to count it.

I don't think you're allowed to count it ;)

No! it doesn't come out til next year!

I'm trying really hard to wait and hear it properly, in its entirety next year and not go chasing it. Like, I don't want to ruin it before it comes out. because if I have it now, I'll just start playing it out ALL. THE. TIME. and burn out on it by the time it's released.

yeah this is one of my favorite things that ive heard in the last 12 months, unquestionably

T've only just heard the original Baby I Can't Stop and it's miles better than the Aeroplane version.

Lovesick is just so perfect for playing over and over and over - you can make your own 20 minute remix, because it starts with the same WOOO! that they use during the breakdown so it just sounds like a loop.

Honestly, it's like... I love his proggy space disco. But there's only thing I really love more than noodly prog - and that's girlpop. So you take girlpop vocals and stick them over proggy space disco and I'm in heaven. This is the most *ME* music since I first heard School of Seven Bells.

Not that they sound the slighest bit alike - but conceptually they just totally hit my personal sweet spot in different ways.

OK, I think it might just be official. I think my Crush of Shame on Lindstrom has finally eclipsed my Crush of Shame on Erol. :-0

Incidentally I've only just realised that the amazing sparkly disco track Lindstrom's been playing live for the last couple of years is 'Breakfast In Heaven' which I'd never heard before.

I could have sworn I had Breakfast in Heaven, but I can't seem to find it. Must be at work. Dammit. OK, I'm gonna go on a Lindstrom binge this afternoon.

I have tickets to see him & Prins at Corsica Studios later this month. God help us all.

T've only just heard the original Baby I Can't Stop and it's miles better than the Aeroplane version.

^ me last week.

glad "let it happen" is on this - it was on lindstrøm's late night tales mix a couple of years ago, such a great track.

prefer the solale appellation to christabelle but the latter is her real name - christabelle silje isabelle birgitta sandoo.

hans-peter looking v smashable in this picture

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/36539647/Lindstrm++Christabelle+lindbelle.jpg

ach, tell me about it, Lex! That was the picture that finally put him above Erol on the hott-o-meter. Those pale, knobbly scandinavian feet. his spindly wrists and his beautifully massive hands. ::fans self::

OK, I'm gonna stop now. Because it is kinda creepy how much he looks like my ex.

But mainly I just love him for his wub.

yes, this album is incredible

yall have press copies or

yeah

3 of the tracks have been released already though

Tracklist
01. Looking for What
02. Lovesick
03. Let It Happen
04. Keep It Up
05. Music In My Mind
06. Baby Can't Stop
07. Let's Practise
08. So Much Fun
09. Never Say Much
10. High & Low

the flow of the album is really awesome, the way it peaks in the middle bell curve style

I WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO HEAR THIS.

COSIGN

time for someone to edit up some Rick Astley to mirror the RINC tracklisting and watch the discoblogosphere combust imo

why do the press need copies so far in advance? killin' me that I can't hear it.

it will leak very soon

Rough Trade's page for this (with the Little Drummer Boy bonus disc) says it ships on November 30th...

http://www.last.fm/music/Lindstr%25C3%25B8m%2B%2526%2BChristabelle

lol this is like lex and one other person

the other person is max

ive been searching daily for too long

waht?!? has it been moved up? end of the month? oh JOY

Those Rough Trade bonus discs are a killer. hate having to trek out all the way to Brick Lane to get them, but feel left out if I don't get one.

Lovesick is just so perfect for playing over and over and over - you can make your own 20 minute remix, because it starts with the same WOOO! that they use during the breakdown so it just sounds like a loop.

Came here to post exactly that! The track restarts perfectly in time -- I don't even notice it looping back to the beginning. 17 times in a row so far.

This is just stomping! -- Rufus and Chaka Khan reincarnated as Norwegians.

http://www.feedelity.com/sound/live%20at%20club%20caviar%202006/

Found a download to the Live at Caviar Club mix from 2006 - Baby Can't Stop is at 20mins into the mix.

Such an amazing mix - was one my favourite thing for at least 6 months after I heard it back then.

lol @ last.fm. one of the other top listeners is my girlfriend.

lex is right about the sequencing. perfect valley-peak-valley

u guys r such cunts talking bout this pre leak imo

ok its come to this - if one of you writer folks hook me up with this, it will greatly increase yr chances of getting the aeroplane album early when it comes next year :)

WTF @ "Baby Can't Stop" being floating around for THREE YEARS before it finally came out.

it came out as a single three years ago

o sorry it didnt

music in my mind and let's practice were

lol @ last.fm. one of the other top listeners is my girlfriend.

hey i'm on there too!

i would be on there but i just ipod'd it

the album is pretty good, love the last track esp

yeah "high and low" is my second favorite ("keep it up" still being my first)

I WANT TO HEAR THIS FYI

I think promos for this never actually went out and they paid people like Max and Lex and Tim to hype it knowing full well they'd never heard it, just to build fervent anticipation.

Also the bit in Baby Can't Stop where the pianos come in is just so ridiculously brazen in its sheer audacity.

So has the release really been moved up? Can anyone confirm/deny? link?

want wantwantwant wantwant

I mean, he is playing on the 28th November so it would make sense.

lol since last.fm automatically tweeted that l&c were one of my most played artists last week, i've actually had a bunch of randoms tweeting me asking if i can leak it. as well as like 5 friends. idk why it hasn't leaked yet! you can come to my house and listen to it.

i LOVE that vanity 6 are a reference point on the press sheet - makes so much sense, christabelle's voice is pitched precisely in between your expected ethereal drifty balearic diva and hard-edged, supercool r&b attitude. she apparently ad libbed a lot of her vocals, so it really keeps that loose, jammy feel - but she's never remotely unfocused, she just keeps it moving from one awesome vocal styling to the next.

I'd prefer it to come out in 2010 and have a chance of being a zeitgeisty type album rather than something that gets largely overlooked by virtue of coming out at the back end of 2009.

That's a good point, Matt. But it's gonna be a 2010 album even if it comes out now.

Right, I'm coming round your house tonight to listen to it, Lex!

It's funny, I love the way Christabelle flips between sweet, sweet singing and those kind of low down spoken word parts. With her tough girl vocal styling she almost manages to pull of a Shangri-Las on Lovesick, yet updates it into something completely fresh.

(Ha ha, I have three different incarnations of Lindstrom in my top 8 on last.fm again this week)

if you want to you can! i'll be in tonight, probably still bashing fruitlessly away at my computer. did you get my email on fri btw?

I did, thanks, but as much as I want that album I really don't want to get on any more PR's lists. I've spent the past year since Plan B's demise trying to get OFF PR's lists. I can wait. Really I can.

Actually, I better not come round. I've got a terrible cold at the moment and don't want to pass it on.

Are you going to Corsica Studios later this month? All you Lindstrom stans should come.

ooh i've heard tell of that - will definitely try to make it.

fun christabelle fact - she is half-mauritian. she sounds like a definite wkiw candidate.

Her voice is so sexy, in that slightly husky and effortlessly cool kind of way.

I was under the impression that the Lindstrom & Prins Thomas night at Corsica clashed with a friend's birthday party but have only just realised they're one and the same. Yay.

Right, if you lot are all there, please, STOP ME if you see me in any way attempting to lick Lindstrom or Prins Thomas.

slocks arent u a journalist? can u get a press copay

i cant believe they included some of the old shit on this ... why not just record new?

b/c the old shit is really good and, from the evidence of this thread, not actually that widely heard? and there are only a couple of previously-released tracks (not counting the current single)

i think some of the old stuff has be re-recorded/re-mixed too. at least the vangelis cover definitely is.

well, its only 10 tracks & 'music in my mind' & 'let it happen' have been out for ages, pretty high profile lindstrom singles!

hmm i wondered if they'd messed with that at all xp

i dunno ive had the vinyl single for the original cover he did of that for like 2 yrs i feel like

10 new traxx is a lot of new traxx deej!!

that would be 8 new traxx!!

or 8.5 if he messed w/ 'let it happen'

8 new traxx is more Lindstrommy goodness than we had last month so I ain't complaining!

yeah I meant 8. 8 new traxx is a lot!!

also there's this thing where when people release an album they put previous singles on it; this has been going on for some time

well of course but that doesnt mean im not disappointed that this one includes a song that was on his last album

instead of **another** new jam

Who says that you would have got more new jams if the old singles would have been left off? WOuldn't you just have less Linstrommy goodness?

The AGONY of REPEAT:
DEEJ CALLS OUT LINDSTROM
"HALT this FILLER CHIZ"

don't forget about the track that is just a backwards rewind through all the other tracks!

ehh, the 'filler' is good for the flow of the album, imo. and i'll take any excuse to hear more of those tunes

lol so is this going to be like that lindstrom & prins album where everyone pretended to love it for a month and then we all forgot about it

pretty sure ur rong btw

yeah, i still listen to II quite often. just last weekend it was repeated twice on the car ride up to BC.

good 4 running iirc

speak for yrself kev

uhhh, II is still awesome

ya i still pretend to love it!!

i think what kevin is alluding to is that there was tons of immediate effusive praise on this message board for II but not much sense

altho "pretend" is a troublesome word to have chosen

pretty sure this isn't gonna be an alex moulton boner-spike followed by....

lol sorry, not much since**

some sense tho

haha alex moulton, the clap yr hands say yeah of the ilm beardo collective

i for one never really cared for alex moulton... too electro-ish iirc

anyway lets all remember that kevin was too cool for this album before it even came out so

i'll still rep for the alex moulton album, altho to be fair it is only pretending to be good

lol i was jk :(

Let us keep perpetuating the fallacy that losing interest in something we once enjoyed nullifies any previous enjoyment of it!

or not checking in every day on ilm to say we still like it

I don't care if I listen to it with the frequency of Halley's fucking Comet, Exodus fucking owns

and this album still really really really needs to leak

feelin pretty special -- bumpin it rite now ^__^

Yeah, last.fm tells me I've given Lindstrom & Prins Thomas album 45 plays in the past 7 days so clearly, yeah, I'm totally over that. uh-huh right.

there's an aeroplane remix at xlr8r.com

(apologies if this has already been pointed out)

yeah it's on the EP

::licks thread::

I get excited every time this gets bumped.

This is something that I've really missed in the age of leaks and iTunes and being able to google any record imaginable and have it on my hard drive in a minute and a half. The idea of actually *anticipating* an album. Of looking forward to it, trying to imagine what it's going to sound like from singles and other people's descriptions. I know already that I'm going to like it, so it's going to be exciterating to see if my imagination will compare with the real thing when it comes.

In that Stumbling On Happiness book I read a while ago, it said that that was one of the basic human methods of maximising happiness - setting the right amount of anticipation time. That, actually, a really nice thing happening in a couple of weeks is actually better than a really nice thing RIGHT NOW, because not only do you get the nice thing, but you get a couple of weeks of thinking about the nice thing, which is in itself inherently pleasing.

So I'm enjoying this state of ignorance right now.

(Not that I won't d/l the hell out of it the moment it does leak, but right now I'm enjoying the anticipating.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE9ks45Wcwg

Anyone else here think it's also kind of cool that the promos were sent out a month ago and the record still hasn't leaked. Major props to the integrity of the cosmic/beardo/space disco community.

However, if max was to post another track on his blog then surely that wouldn't be a bad thing either... ;)

you truly believe this is about integrity?

Until Christabelle grows a beard, I REFUSE to refer to this as beardo disco.

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/beardo.jpg

OK, I'm kinda disturbed by how... hott Christabelle looks with a beard. :-8

http://estb.msn.com/i/3C/C44FDE1E8C8791893BF6047BC9EEC.jpg

isn't androgynous guys ur thing? shouldn't really be that surprising

thought IKR was addressing matt for a minute there

Ha ha ha! um.

http://i36.tinypic.com/rc6gpt.jpg

top listeners is really an ILX0rama...

MasonicBoom
Listens to Lindstrøm and Christabelle 2% of the time, mostly to the track Lovesick

That's really quite embarrassing.

some talk about the collab in this interview that coincides with his mix for Fact magazine

Thanks, really interesting interview! Quite interesting to read about the differences in their writing styles and how they worked together on that one. I like the idea of spinning 1 minute pop songs into 10 minute space epics. I need a Lindstrom around the studio to help with my tracks, maybe. ;-)

SOrry, just another moment of squee...

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/images/stories/easygallery/thumbs/25/lindstrom-2.jpg

SSQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i knew that was going to happen ;-)

also, with Lindstrøm around you'll probably never get things done

I have just made that my new wallpaper. ^^^^^^^^^^

Tiled. So I have 12 Lindstroms winking at me. It's a bit much, really. I may never run another report again, let alone produce any music.

Wait, that article says 18th January. Rough Trade says November. What's going on here?

is the tracklisting for Fact Mix 100 available anywhere? - i couldn't see it

It's not on the site. And it's erm... interesting. (OK, I admit, I had to skip the Abba track, Lindstrom, why you brake heart?)

He's really all over the map. It's quite refreshing, actually.

Did he really just play Uli Jon Roth - The Night The Master Comes?!?!?!?! Holy shit. WTF?!?!?!?

He either has the best taste in the world, or the worst. But he's Norwegian. They're like that, right?

(I think I love him)

Is that last freaked-out backwards track Wars of Armageddon? Actually I don't think so. Need to get Pfunkboy on this mix to give us the track list.

Names and titles, or a few of them, come up in the last bit of the interview - read, don't just look at the pictures ;)
"The Night The Master Comes" is mentioned and that backwards track is probably "Eulogy and Light". Can't listen to it at work but will do once home...

Oh, sorry, I got distracted by the pics and didn't make it to the end. ;-)

No, not really. I was just LOLing at him geeking out over Led Zeppelin's drum sounds TBH.

God, my reading comprehension has gone to shit. Curse the internet, I used to pay more attention, but now if it's not in the standard artist - song list format, I don't notice it.

(To be fair, I was doing 6 things at once while reading that article trying to work and squee and read and listen all at the same time. I didn't actually notice the Black Sabbath track though I was not looking forward to it, wargh.)

Ah, so it was Eulogy & LIght. Right band, wrong album closer. Close, though?

Tracklist:

1. Joe Byrd & The Field Hippies - Kalyani
2. Jobriath - World Without End
3. Hall and Oates - Is It A Star?
4. Abba - Eagle
5. Tears for Fears - The Big Chair
6. Led Zeppelin - Bonzo´s Montreux
7. Robert Wyatt - Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road
8. Black Sabbath - Breakout
9. Uli Jon Roth - The Night the Master Comes
10. Ciledaknuf - Thgil Dna Ygolue

ain't tempting me :/

Come on. That mental Tears For Fears track -> Led Zeppelin is inspired psychedelic nonsense.

Oh wait. Never mind.

Eagle is a great song.

I just have a pathological hatred of Abba. Cannot get past it.

Oh jesus, I take it all back. I actually thought that Black Sabbath track was some long lost Hawkwind bootleg the first time through. Was gonna comment on how awesome it was if I could chase down what it was. Have just realised that it might be Ozzy that I don't like, not Sabbath.

Yeah but Eagle is a total predecessor of Studio + Lindstrom + Sally Shapiro stylings (imho)

But that's the element of that aesthetic that I *don't* like!

I had a cheap Roland sampler in the late 80s as well, but the capabilities of such a fantastic machine combined with teenage imagination made me use it mainly for recording loud farts and other exciting bodily sounds. Played it in a different pitch, or as chords. Very funny (laughs).

Steve Morris from New Order once said the exact same thing.

I really liked that mix - the only thing I didn't get along with was Hall and Oates! (that's the element of that aesthetic that I *don't* like!)

So, did anyone else go to the Koko show with Glass Candy earlier this year?

No, because I was too tired or too lame or something like that.

It was really really good. Really.

I know. Sigh.

now pictures or GTFO ;-)

Sorry! No pics ...

He played loads of older stuff as well as Where You Go ..., all done as a continous mix. Fab, but it was a weeknight and people didn't go very crazee over it, and in fact some of them left half-way through.

My evening is complicated on the 28th and I think I'm going to be left begging people to come with me at pub chucking out time. Sigh.

where you go... has become my bus journey home track for the last while - it's just the perfect length

man i gotta say i was really not feeling that fact mix EXCEPT for the hall & oates!

Ha ha, I was thinking it would rather put off the disco kids. It's way more beard than it is disco. Makes me feel quite happy knowing that in fact, Lindstrom really *is* a DDB under all that techno/house bobbinage.

jesus

i mean i love me some beardiness but there's nothing special going on in that respect with this mix. are we really supposed to be wowed by black sabbath and led zeppelin at this point?

Considering there were eight songs in that mix that were NOT Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin - yeah, I think that sticking Jobriath or Uli Jon Roth in a mix is definitely something that I have not heard before.

I mean, I'm teasing about the "ha ha, Hans-Peter is a DDB not a dance kid" because I know that's the sort of thing that sends Tim F into the vapours.

Anyway, is a mix supposed to be "mind-blowing" or just a representation of where that particular artist is at, at this point in time?

(and as an aside, isn't it a mark of creativity that an artist can take unpromising "influences" and turn them into something as wonderful as what Lindstrom does?)

ugh i just don't get it, i guess. it has nothing to do with notions of obscurity, just a poor track selection imo? there are more interesting led zeppelin and black sabbath songs.

Well, he succeeded in one effect - in that, I, too, have always shied away from Black Sabbath. But hearing an instrumental track like Breakout actually made me go and investigate further. I think he picked those tracks (if I understood the interview correctly, when we've already established that my reading comprehension has gone to shit) specifically *because* they were ones that showed a different side - ones that haterz might even be intrigued by?

not to be all waynes world or something but fu if u dont like black sabbath, imhfo

ehh, it just boils down to me not liking whatever 'psych freakout' vibe he's pursuing here. sabbath is great, wyatt is great, fuck even led zeppelin is great (maybe wouldn't admit to this sober). and i see the common thread in all of those tracks, i just don't like it. it's not something i care to listen to again (and i used to be a giant 'psych'-head, fwiw)

That track made me realise, I don't mind Black Sabbath - I just can't fucking stand Ozzy Osbourne's voice - or indeed, entire personna perhaps.

And heh, I think "heavy psych freakout" vibe is exactly what I like about it. I don't think I'll ever really grow out of that. (Though, spending my teenage years in a little nowhere town in upstate NY, it took a long, long time for me to admit that there was anything good to Zeppelin.)

(and yes, I have such the horn for Hans-Peter that I do find it kinda gratifying to see him exercising the DDB side of him.)

Lindstrom doing a mix like that makes perfect sense - I don't get the controversy here.

walked into the club on friday night, aeroplane mix of 'baby can't stop' playing, perfect mood-setter for the evening. good times.

no no no i have NOT 'grown out' of psych-freakouts!

these ones just seem lame, and i'm sure this is something my former self and i would agree upon! all the marijuana in the world could never dupe me into diggin this uli jon roth track

Yeah, I played Lovesick at Crafty Beats yesterday afternoon. I just looped it coz it was the last song in my set and I was waiting for Anna to come back from a smoke and start her set. It was just so laid-back perfect I was almost disappointed when Anna came back and I didn't get to set it on its third spin.

Also, psychgaw, consider the venue. He's doing a mix for Fact, not a "blow yr mind" mix for the rolling psych freakout stoner metal smells bad and doesn't take itself too seriously thread.

well we live in a world with optimo and multiple volumes of 'fragments of fear'

Really, when it comes to Lindstrom, I'd rather have all 29 minutes of "Where You Go, I Go Too" than, like, the best and most mynd-blowing DJ mix in the world, you know?

lol erik i guess you missed the memo where ur not allowed to be dissatisfied wit anything he does

I will *personally* eat the soul of anyone who expresses dissatisfaction with ANYTHING that Hans-Peter does, on this thread. :-P

j/k j/k

(maybe)

How does one eat a soul?

ask the Aphex Twin.

It's like Wimple Winch in reverse, maybe?

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS328US328&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=wimple+winch

What?

A psych band, best known for their garage rock hit, "save my soul"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fVU3gNj2j4

Eating someone's soul would surely be the ultimate opposite of soul-saving?

Hi guys I know I'm late to this party (aside from the album not being out for two months) and I actually like this a bunch but has anyone mentioned how much the keyboard part in 'High And Low' sounds like the end of the Eastenders theme tune yet?

okay, it leaked and I heard it and it's amazing and then the baby looked at me. I'd only heard the Aeroplane "Baby I Can't Stop" until now so I wasn't expecting it to be Lindstrom Does "Thriller", and yet here we are. also the opening bit (before all the kickass schaeffle stuff kicks in) is AWESOME.

cannot find this ANYWHERE. argh.

Me neither. But I'm also of the opinion that my google skills aren't up to the task.

umm my google skills are up to par and i could not find this either. a little nudge in the right direction from this board ??? i will buy this on lp when it comes out anyways...

oh, I'm glad it's not googleable then. Because that would be far, far, far too tempting.

::sticks fingers in ears and sings la la la while waiting patiently::

this aint out there yet, time 2 chill

Thing is, I know that this music would help immensely with my chillage.

Amazed no one's put out a fake leak yet.

"High and low" is always in loop on my iTunes.
Great album!

Still haven't found this although I did stumble across the new Beach House album whilst searching for it which was a little unexpected bonus

this is now on a certain private torrent site...

thanks Orson

it's great. i'd be buying it as a christmas present all round if it came out now.

Thanks for the tip. It's now playing and I already hate the first track :) Pretty shit way to start the album. I'm assuming it gets better.

I knew this was gonna happen and I hate you all.

I don't have access to secret torrent sites. So you're all hearing it, and I"m not gonna hear it for another month or two, by which point, you'll all be sick of it and not want to talk about it any more.

Just going to roll my eyes and harrumph and think about Lindstrom masturbating my jams, baby. :-P

As is usually the case, early listeners overstate the quality of the release because there's something special about hearing it first. This album is about half as interesting as the first Sally Shapiro album. The first track is terrible, the rework of Let It Happen is worse than the original version and the short pop style doesn't allow for the epic jams Lindstrom is so good at. I'll upload the album for you but i'm warning you, it's more exciting to think about than to hear. Prepare to be underwhelmed. You've already heard the best two tracks on it.

dead rong btw

dude this album is way more interesting than the sally shapiro album

the short pop style doesn't allow for the epic jams Lindstrom is so good at.

whats yr point? turns out the guy is really good at short pop disco, so...

also the "early listeners" kind of already said that you shouldnt expect jams

I guess if it is up on secret torrent sites, it'll soon be on blogs and stuff. But what with talk of it being like Sally Shapiro's album (or not), I really want to hear it to see for myself.

its not really like sally shapiros album except insofar as theyre both disco-influenced albums with female vocals

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT

::sticks fingers in ears::

masonic, what's your email addy, i'll send you a link.

Max, the guy isn't nearly as good at short pop as he is at epic jams. I've played it 3 times now and it's just OK. I would rank it behind both L&PT albums, the Feedelity comp and every single release from Lindstrom. It's decent but not great. The best songs are Lovesick and Baby Can't Stop, far better than anything else on the album. The Sally Shapiro is full of good, memorable melodies and great singing. This one is full of dull singing and less than standard Lindstrom chuggers. of course, this is only MY opinion. I can see that you disagree.

good reading comprehension

anyway i dont really know how to respond if the only specific criticism youre willing to level is "dull singing" i guess well just have to "agree to disagree"

also there are a lot of "memorable melodies" on this album

not that i think thats a great standard for a good album

hahaha

step away from the geirmobile

As 2008 ended, anticipation for the new Animal Collective album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, due in January 2009, reached a fever pitch. The band and Domino were doing an unusual good job of keeping the material under wraps. The thirst for new music took a bizarre turn on December 17 when the website the Quietus received an email alleging to be from Brian "Geologist" Weitz of Animal Collective, urging them to spread the message that the band themselves wanted the record released. The note proved to be a hoax, but Weitz's email had indeed been hacked so that the illicit message could be sent, and the episode proved to be a weird sign of the times. Release dates certainly didn't mean what they once did, but the fact that fans were resorting to criminal activity to hear albums before they were legally available showed how deeply the desire for "new music now" ran for some. --MR

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7699-the-decade-in-news/9/

i'm waiting till Lindstrom & Christabelle is out properly

wow thanks 4 that

really put som stuff in persp 4 me u no

35th best album of 2009 according to Rough Trade Shops

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4206980

35. lindstrom and christabelle - real life is
no cool

dude this album is way more interesting than the sally shapiro album

― max, Sunday, November 22, 2009 1:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

for real. sally shapiro is awful

i like shapiro a lot but "interesting" isnt an adjective id use to describe at all

i think shes hella boring -- her singing is super bland and the production is way more generic than lindstrom, its like shes getting by on precious euro pop star personality w/ critics & none of the melodies are particularly memorable

vs.

"high & low" being totally awesome which dude didnt even mention

would this album be interesting in a vacuum or is it made more interesting in the context of lindstrom's career

there is nothing worse than music that doesn't have memorable melodies guys

christabelle is a way more compelling and more interesting singer than shapiro - deej is totally right about her

there is nothing worse than music that doesn't have memorable melodies guys

― plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, November 22, 2009 3:06 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well in shapiro's case it has no other real purpose. its just like, music that im supposed to like because it goes thru the list of influences -- "its scandanavian, disco & sung by a reserved aryan pop goddess, A+!!!" -- but really theres nothing there -- i dont just mean melodies, i mean song writing, or functional dance music structure, ss doesnt really work on a lot of levels

lindstrom & christabelle def drop some memorable music tho

yah ok def think l+c r a lot more interesting than ss so i don't even kno why i started. There's something really athletic i want to say abt them, they remind me of awesome 70's sports clothes and I want to go running with them in my headphones, they make me think of dancing that is just as much abt stamina as it is abt foreplay r sumthing

I'm really not keen on Sally Shapiro. I don't think she's particularly memorable at all.

Christabelle, however, is much more compelling, both as a singer, and as a writer. It's as much her presence that gives the songs I've heard (Lovesick!) such depth and well, earwormness.

she's a weird singer, she has a lot of muscle without doing a whole lot, also her voice is a weird fit for this type of production

lol @ sally shapiro being dragged into this, i don't see the connection

dude, there is a girl singer!

oh yeah it's scandanavian too

I really loved the first Shapiro single (I'll Be By Your Side) but I liked it so much that everything else she did felt cloying and irritating by comparison. I like to pretend she put out one amazing single out of nowhere and then disappeared without trace.

I think Shapiro's spectral winsomeness can work really well on solitary tracks - esp. the Tensnake and Lindstrom remixes of songs off her first album - where it both allows the music to do its thing and gives the impression that that was the idea all along. Across an entire album it becomes a bit wearing though. I can't help thinking of her as a more polite / "cute" version of Stina Nordenstam.

Before hearing this album in full I wouldn't have gone into bat for Solale/Christabelle as a particularly great vocalist but I think she excels here.

^^yeah im listening to the tensnake remix right now -- there's definitely more of a balance between persona & music which is important when her persona is fairly one note

(re: SS)

i think more ppl would like her if she was riding w/ a slightly less dainty producer than johan ageborn

but rn't most of her major stans all abt the "poor princess is 2 shy 2 sing" backstory?

o i dont know. maybe? i like to listen to it when its snowing outside and im making hot cocoa or something.

ur prolly wearing mittens 2 and dancing wit ur cat

http://i386.photobucket.com/albums/oo305/lejospopo/max-1.jpg

l-r: max's imaginary friend, max

seems about right

Also the other crucial difference is that Christabelle's voice sounds sassy and effortlessly cool whereas SS is a big wet blanket.

also l+c bring the funk whereas SS...

Baby Can't Stop sounds like Street Songs-era Rick James was reincarnated as a woman (this is a very good thing).

OK, I've paid my money and pre ordered it off Rough Trade so I can feel less bad about the leak.

Which I am still looking at and haven't quite had the guts to open. I know I'm going to love it, but I'm kind of unprepared for how much to love it.

a minute and a half in and... OH YEAH. It's like classic discopop taken and chopped up and thrown in a blender with LINDSTROM SPACE MAGIC and I'm already rolling around on the floor waggling my arms and legs in the air like a baby.

OH NOES.... LINDSTROM WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!?!?

WHY YOU GET OUT THE GONK GONK GONKLOPHONE ON KEEP IT UP

I am utterly allergic to that sound, which kinda marrs an otherwise perfect run so far.

Yeah, OK, sure, I see yr points, in that it is about 4 or so really really good singles and a bit of filler.

BUT MY GOODNESS WHAT LOVELY FILLER IT IS, MY FRIENDS.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwww

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/36539767/Lindstrm++Christabelle+lindbelle2.jpg

this is now googleable fwiw

Went for a walk with this at lunchtime - I was surprised to find out I recognised about half of it, either Lindstrom's been playing some of it live or they've been sitting around in one form or another on various mixes for a while.

I think Lovesick and Baby Can't Stop had led me to think this would be a lot tighter and dancefloor-orientated than it ultimately turned out to be. It's sort of... blurry? Like a whole album of that bit in Where You Go I Go Too where the ambient wooze starts to blearily coalesce into a groove.

I really liked it on first listen. The first 20 seconds or so are rubbish though.

been a real shift in the critical consensus on this board in the past few days. don't know whether to hate the hypers or hate the haters. :( still looking forward to hearing it.

Blurry... ambient wooze... blearily coalescing into grooves... you're talking my language here!

I'm trying to figure out where I know Let's Practice from. Seeing as I've not seen Lindstrom before, I can only guess I must have heard it on the MySpace or something.

i dont think anyone hates it except for "brotherlovesdub"--matt sounds like he likes it just not as much as me. which is ok because he has a lot less of a crush on lindstrom than i do.

You have more of a crush on Lindstrom than I do. Which is quite scary, actually. ;-)

yeah im coming to terms w/ my scandosexuality

Oh yeah I liked it rather than loved it on first listen. It did make me get my arse into gear and buy a ticket for the Lindstrom/Prins Thomas/Horse Meat Disco night at Corsica Studios this weekend though.

Hang on, I dreamed the Christabelle was playing at that show, too. This is just my subconscious wish fulfillment f*cking with me, right?

i think of it less as singles + filler b/c i'd only heard "let it happen" (and i prefer the fuller album version), "music in my mind" and the aeroplane remix of "baby can't stop" before the album - and in any case i really think the ebb and flow of the album makes it a great album qua album and brings out the singles' qualities even more. fwiw i think it's way better than l&pt's ii and i'm a longtime shapiro hater ("i'll be by your side" and sundry remixes aside).

yeah its easy to think of it as "singles + filler" just looking at the tracklist--since there are 4 pure knockouts and the rest are way less memorable--but im with lex, the sequencing here is fucking terrific, and i listen to it as an album way more often than i cherrypick for specific songs... tho id expect nothing less from a dj like lindstrom

that said the track where everything just goes backwards can fuck off

The sequencing is really great, the first half is all stoned sex jams and the second half is like "right, now we dance". I don't think of the first part as filler at all.

I really, really like Keep It Up, it sounds an out-of-focus version of the Bangles or some other 80s teen movie mall-pop act.

keep it up is the biggest grower for me so far

I think my one disappointment with the album is that I'd expected Christabelle to be more of an upfront-and-centre vocal presence whereas she seems like a bit of an afterthought on some of these. She doesn't really dominate any of the tracks in the ways she does Baby Can't Stop and Lovesick.

hey, what part of "my god, what lovely filler it is" did you lot not understand?

Seriously, I'm not dissing this album. I love it so much I listened to it 3 times in a row this morning, and then had to take it off for fear of playing it 17 times in a row and burning out on it before it had even come out.

But this sense is probably because of having heard certain of the songs OVER AND OVER AND OVER when they were the only things I could find, rather than an assessment of quality.

keep it up jumped out at me most first and is the only one i've played like crazy

don't know how you'd define any other album if this is 4 great singles + filler... it's not a singles collection!

Lots of albums are one fairly ordinary single and a HUGE FUCKING LOT of filler.

You guys are obviously taking my comment way out of proportion.

I think I know what you mean Kate - there's a few tracks here which sound really sharp and focused and a few tracks which sound really woozy, and the actual best moments are spread pretty evenly between them.

I love the first track actually - that little guitar lick at the end of each measure, then the piano chords, then right back into it ---> Lindstrom is a genius of groove.

I think I know what you mean Kate - there's a few tracks here which sound really sharp and focused and a few tracks which sound really woozy, and the actual best moments are spread pretty evenly between them.

this ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Lots of albums are one fairly ordinary single and a HUGE FUCKING LOT of filler.

You guys are obviously taking my comment way out of proportion.

― Cosmic Dentistry (Masonic Boom), Monday, November 23, 2009 11:52 AM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i am agreeing with u!

s1ocks don't pretend like you still like this album

after a couple listens high and low is my fav

wish it lasted longer tho

high & low is dope -- its a pretty long song too

first listen on the train rolling into work this morning and i was digging it enough. not overwhelmed or anything tho. i'll try it again tonight ON W33D

Surprisingly this sounds much much better on speakers than it does on headphones.

i'm not really loving this and find it slightly annoying which surprises me considering "lets practise" is probably my favourite and most listened to track of the past several years. the full (original) version is so much greater a thing than the version on here. in fact, the track gets really interesting around the 6 or 7 minute mark and this version is only 5 or so. of course i understand why they wouldn't want an 11 minute track on this album but as it stands i'd rather listen to "let's practise" in full 4x over than listen to this album.

i would love to hear extended versions of most of these songs.

yeah i think i agree actually. i like most of the songs i just find that there's a lot of stoppy startiness to the album overall. i'd like longer tracks and maybe less of them.

i would like this record 30% more if i could hear the version that isnt a concept album about annoying backwardz voices

HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT OH HOLY HOLY SHIT OH HOLY SHIT

I am listening to this now, if you were wondering.

Has anyone tried playing that penultimate track backwards yet?

This is a bit like Aerial for me, in that it sounds like some of it was recorded several years before the the rest, and yet it flows really well.

Now I want Prins Thomas extended disco edits of every single track. Which will probably happen.

Since when the fuck was Lindstrom this funky?

uh

(nb: I've only really heard WYGIGT and II)

I am currently doing the jigglepanda in my room to this shit

dude--'long way home' on wygigt is epically funky

"mighty girl" is amazingly funky

Also a little thing called 'I Feel Space' that people might have heard of.

Rev, you should def. pick up the Lindstrom comp from a couple of years back.

also rev, weren't u mad gone on super roots 10

'Sykkelsesong' and 'Forelopig Bit' with Prins are his/their funkiest joints imo.

yes to Foreloping Bit!

also boney m down reinterpretations version

love the transition from "let it happen" to "keep it up"

awesome that others are getting into "keep it up". those synths really are straight out of paisley park

haven't heard this yet. in fact i'm now listening to lindstrom for the 1st time - l&pt ii which is wonderful and which i picked up the other day. are yall saying that the new one is MUCH less cosmic & progged-out? i'm a big tangerine dream & vangelis fan, so...

contenderizer i think u'd like reinterpretations! it's got a bad rep but I love it, its weirdly lo-fi and angular for lindstrom, great guitar in places.

It's pretty cosmic and progged out to be fair.

am encouraged by reports of cosmic prog. and i figured reinterpretations would be remixes by other folks. love the idea of self-remixing an entire album! is that the ideal next step if i like cosmic disco, guitar noodling and endless synth arpeggios?

That or Where You Go I Go Too. Have you heard Studio, Contenderizer? I can't remember.

Yeah Contenderizer I'd go for Where You Go I Go Too ahead of the new one, if proggy is really what you're looking for. Helps that it's the best Lindstrom-related album as well (this new one is probably the second-best).

re tim's question:

no! until recently i have been locked in a small dark room with mountains of garage punk, metal and noise records. so no, have not heard studio, though i remember it getting a LOT of love hereabouts. is it of similar stock?

plus yeah wanted to pick up wygig2 along with ii, but someone snagged the last copy before i could. :(

Sort of - lots of guitar noodling and endless synth arpeggios. But more moody and with intermittent sadsack post-punkish vocals. There's even a bit on Where You Go I Go Too that sounds totally like Studio musically.

That was an x-post.

I'd also highly recommend Meanderthals' Desire Lines if you like II - it's a bit less dense but I think actually prettier and eerier and more affecting.

don't think i've ever heard of meanderthal (other than as a heavy metal record i don't love). "prettier and eerier and more affecting" is just the way i like it.

and will check out studio due to recs & mucho ilm love, tho "sadsack post-punkish vocals" are not my catnip. not the good kind anyway.

More than half the Studio album is instrumental, if that helps.

it does, it does. and thanks for the pointers all.

to bed, to bed...

the meanderthals album is amazing and i might even prefer it to any other balearic album mentioned so far - ideal default first-thing-in-the-morning listening to ease you into the day

I still find the Meanderthals album really dull actually :/

me too. It's pretty but it's one ear and out the other for me - can never remember anything from it even though I'm pretty sure I've listened to it upwards of ten times now.

Still haven't listened to RLINC yet. Wondering if I should wait til January or cave in...

contenderizer you should hear the Mungolian Jet Set 'We Gave It All Away...' collection too. also things like the Milky Disco 2 compilation probably (Secret Circuit's 'Roll' is a real fave of mine).

i envy those who still get to hear Studio (and Lindstrom & Prins) for the first time

i hate those people

in the interest of full disclosure i've heard and dug quite a few lindstrom/pt remixes, just not the stuff under their own names

goal today = studio & wygig2

hey remember blackbelt andersen?

i still like the first lindstrom comp the most

also- it's not scandinavian but the sombrero galaxy remix of grackle's "desert acid" is the best vangelis-y/new-agey/cosmic track i've come across all year

currently spinning wherever you go i go too and it is BLOWING MY FEEBLE WHITE MIND. maybe my favorite thing of its kind since from here to eternity. if those two things are of the same kind ... i dunno.

yeh tho Cerrone's 'Supernature' is surely the record it owes most to

also this which is still a+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VqL8KnOJo8

embarassed about geeking yesterday, but loving this album a lot

plus happy thanksgiving to any and all concerned

this being the happy thanksgiving ilx thread and all

Pitchfork has a five minute edit of The Little Drummer Boy track that you can download here

Hahaha this is rub.

omg that's terrible.

how long is the whole "re-imagining"?

40 minutes ffs.

Pitchfork: Hear Lindstrøm's "Little Drummer Boy"
http://pitchfork.com/news/37228-hear-lindstrms-little-drummer-boy/

Pitchfork has a five minute edit of The Little Drummer Boy track that you can download here

― groovypanda, Friday, November 27, 2009 6:02 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's shit? least surprising news ever

Now that's I've listened to this all the way thru a few times, I'm really impressed. Lovesick, Let's Practice, So Much Fun, High & Low. Only thing I dislike are the backward vocals at the beginning. A great mix of R&B, classic house, disco, and down tempo.

what;s wrong with backwards vocals?

ya it's like 20 seconds why is everyone freaking out about them

They sound particularly bad, not sure quite what it is about them. Also it's kind of a lame way to begin an album.

I'm not freaking out about it. I like her voice a lot. I guess I was hoping for an intro like Luomo's Visitor off The Present Lover.

I do wish the tracks were longer; great album tho

stop freaking out jacob sanders

Now I'm freaking out

Is "Baby Can't Stop" supposed to be a new "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"? Why is Lindstrom just so goddamn hot?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPTDU40hO4

I may be crazy for hearing that similarity...but come on

yeah, shit is mad jacksony

So - is RLINC officially out (in UK) now or not? I saw it for sale in a shop on Saturday. But Fopp didn't seem to have it yesterday. Amazon UK still says January 2010.

yeah it's in rough trade

Ooh, so it is. Have duly mail-ordered the Rough Trade "exclusive" 3CD version.

this finally turned up in the post on my return from atp. only took them a week to get it to me but i suppose i shouldn't have asked for recorded delivery

the 40 minute version of little drummer boy utterly PWNS the edit on P4k. the majority of the 40 minute mix has almost to utterly nothing to do with the christmas carol, it's just endless philip glass arpeggiated noodling which is just about my favourite thing on earth. hearing the P4k edit without having heard the rest of the piece - the build, the waves of texture, the ambience, everything that makes lindstrom lindstrommy - it's like walking in on a drunken philosophical conversation that two people have been having all evening right at the very end. it doesn't really make a lot of sense without the full understanding of what has happened before. you have to listen to it all in one go, with peaks and troughs and valleys and lakes and streams and fjords - out of context i could understand that the edit would be rather disappointing. but the full version really is worth persevering with, it has about 3 or 4 climaxes of sheer otherworldly beauty

"High & Low" giving me big warm fuzzy feelings.

the ending of 'little drummer boy' is fuckin ace

best album of 2010. Damn.

I'm voting for it in all 2009 polls. Don't care if it says 2010 on the CD, I bought in a shop and everything.

"Baby Can't Stop" is the best Michael Jackson tribute that anyone's managed this year. Now I've heard the original, I can also appreciate the genius of the Aeroplane remix.

yeah, this is totally on my 2009 best of list

i don't want to have to wait a year to rave about how much i love this

heard ilxor Clay play "Baby Can't Stop" out the other night and started sorting through the Off the Wall tracklist in my head trying to figure out what it was

he said someone else had asked him what MJ song it was when he'd played it before too

man that song is so good.

Yeah, Baby Can't Stop is a wondrous piece of MJ-redux better than pretty much any 'tribute' to him this year, with the exception maybe of Erykah + the Roots doing I Wanna Be Where You Are.

Also, LoveSick should really just be called FutureSexLoveSick, no?

Erykah + the Roots doing I Wanna Be Where You Are.

^^^this is great

I wanna say that "Baby Can't Stop" must have existed before MJ's death. Seems like the Aeroplane mix has been floating around since before then at least.

Except songs like Baby Can't Talk and High and Low just make me want her to actually sing on all of the songs, instead of the vague "sing talking" she does on shit Lovesixk and Music (in my mind), I love those songs, don't get me wrong, but they just don't have the power of the ones where she really lets her voice go. Basically it would be a 47 minute long orgasm.

ooooooo this alternate version (or maybe it's the real one who knows it's not even out yet) of "baby can't stop" is pretty awesome too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34S1YVcPmN8

apologies if that's old news

sounds like the album version w/o horns, maybe?

ok, yes, that version without the horns is actually totally awesome, it's much more floaty

however, it always amuses me, dance dj artist dudes who can NOT dance themselves hilarity

'Little Drummer Boy' is kind of the shit.

Yes, you need to listen to the whole thing in its entirety. Whilst peeling sprouts, making a veg roast etc ...

Mine arrived yesterday, just in time to soundtrack present-swapping and rum-ball-eating - it's ace

ffff

i just bought the WAVs today and just realized the promo copy i've been listening to all this time was NOT intentional with all the backwards intros

okay the version of Music In My Mind on this record >>>>>>>>>>>> the original that was released ages ago. it's shorter but... bigger.

And "So Much Fun" would be so much fun if it was oh i dunno ten minutes longer?

brndnna:

Really? I hope so. The backward part at the beginning of "Looking for What" is awful. That's the only track with a backwards intro, no?

Presumably the backwards vocals were leakproofing?

i bought the rough trade release but i haven't listened to the album proper - just the bonus discs that came with it. are you telling me that it's different from the leaked version? because i love those backwards vocals and i'll miss them if they're not on the final mix. in fact that might just change my entire conception of the album

Yeah, I've heard the rough trade version and it has the backward parts... I'd like to get this confirmed either way!

Having now bought it - the backwards vocals at the beginning of Looking For What have been replaced with, well, forwards vocals. Sounds a lot better frankly.

Actually, it sounds like the leaked version was either half finished or not finally mixed or something. This one sounds way better, and there are longer intros to a couple of the songs (notably Lovesick).

i have a retail copy as well as the promo and there are definitely still backwards vocals at the start of "looking for what"!

Do you have a two-bar beat intro at the beginning of Lovesick or does it just kick in?

Keep It Up is different as well, the chiming chords in the chorus are on the beat rather than just off it, it sounds a lot more... in focus?

I believe you Lex, but then what is Matt DC talking about? Surely he's telling the truth too?

"lovesick" just kicks in, same as the promo - 3:12 is the length.

Keep It Up is different as well, the chiming chords in the chorus are on the beat rather than just off it, it sounds a lot more... in focus?

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Tuesday, January 5, 2010 10:41 PM (7 minutes

this does not sound like an improvement

I've got a whole extra two seconds on mine, aaaah.

I got my version from emusic, fwiw, but it's definitely different. The "you're my only friend" wailing bit in 'Let It Happen' is a lot less upfront in the mix. Also 'So Much Fun' is a little bit shorter but a lot fuller and brighter with the piano chords much more upfront.

So Much Fun also has a new widdly guitar line that I hadn't noticed before.

I wonder if this version people are talking about (wavs / emusic) actually predates the promo / released version?

On some not necessarily rational level it makes sense to me that a forward vocals intro would predate a backwards vocals intro.

hang on a sec - i think i have the extra two-bar beat intro at the start of "let it happen", not "lovesick", and i hear the new brighter piano/widdly guitar in "so much fun" as well

but def still the backwards vocals!

(i've been listening to the cardboard-sleeve promo until today - reimported from a proper-cd-case retail copy today based on these apparent "changes")

Nah the 'new' version of Let It Happen is a bit longer as well.

High and Low has the last minute or so of humming and drifting cut off the end but is otherwise more or less the same. The whole album has more low end to it, that I can tell, although that may have just been a matter of shit MP3s.

On balance, the album I bought >>>> the album I stole. 1-0 to honesty!

I'm so confused now.

oh wait - i do have the extra beat intro to "lovesick", but it's at the end of "looking for what"

(i haven't listened to my reimported mp3s properly yet, just skipping around to the relevant points - and listening to the start of "looking for what" now, it starts off with backwards vox which then skip about between forwards and backwards vox)

Christabelle: What shall we do, shall we start?
Lindstrom: Looking for what?
Christablle: Shall we start, shall we start, shall we start looking?
Lindstrom: Looking for what? (Repeated over and over again while Christabelle goes 'ooh' in the background)

Is how the album now begins for me. No backwards vocals (although they're still there on the penultimate track).

So if I buy this it won't have backward vocals at the beginning?

i have:

backwards christabelle vox (synth comes in at 0:37) until 0:48, at which point lindstrøm repeats "looking for what? looking for what?" and the backwards vox fade out; at 1:00 christabelle's main forwards vox come in, "shall we start? shall we start?" &c

i mean "what shall we do? shall we start?" but there's no more lindstrøm after 1:00

That's what I have.

Yeah that was the case on the old version I had. Maybe Rough Trade was selling promos or something, or the early release was based on the leaked master and they then changed things?

Essentially the biggest difference on the new one is that Baby Can't Stop no longer sounds substantially bigger and fuller than the others. So Much Fun felt kind of airy before, now it's a big shiny stomper.

i seem to have all the other changes you mentioned though - i'd guess that emusic (or whoever sent the mp3s to retailers) must have unscrambled the backwards vox for whatever reason

I have a retail CD copy, bought from Rough Trade mail order. It's the only version I've heard. It sounds as Lex describes, rather than as Matt DC describes.

1. Backwards vocals at start of Looking For What, exactly as Lex describes.
2. Possibly some sort of beat intro to Lovesick at the end of Looking For What, but Lovesick itself kicks straight in.
3. Brief backwards vocal at start of Let It Happen, then beat intro. Main track kicks in at 0:21.
4. Chiming chords in chorus of Keep It Up are slightly off the beat.
5. So Much Fun has a guitar line which could reasonably be described as "widdly".
6. High & Low takes c. 90 seconds to fade out completely - the last lead vocal is around 4:35.

I have the same CD that mike has. I suppose it's entirely possible that retail mp3s include some different mixes to the retail CD. I'm pretty sure I've heard of this happening before.

someone in a country that sells it run out and buy a non-Rough Trade hard copy and report back! (I got the RT vers obv, and it's packed with backwards bits)

I've seen a copy with a second cd of remixes! Unfortunately it was like sixty dollars so I did not buy (this price strategy is prob due to that music store owner who literally harrasses customers into laying down ridiculous amounts of cash - hopefully it will appear elsewhere for much cheaper).

is the part where she goes "I PLAY THE DRUMS" still there at the beginning of "let's practise"?

that is the rough trade copy that i have! i've just browsed 7digital though and think i know what's going on - there's a single version of "looking for what" which is 5:59, and the mp3 of "looking for what" they're selling with the album is also 5:59, but my cd copy of it is 6:06, so i assume there are two different versions of that track.

everything else, my retail copy jives with matt's.

xp - yes

I've seen a copy with a second cd of remixes!

My Rough Trade copy came with this. (And a third CD of Little Drummer Boy.)

It's like the West Coast confusion all over again. These Balearic types just like to fuck with us, I think. Anyway, just to be really anal:

Looking For What - 5:59
Lovesick - 3:16
Let It Happen - 4:54
Keep It Up - 4:30
Music In My Mind - 3:19
Baby Can't Stop - 6:06
Let's Practise - 5:49
So Much Fun - 4:37
Never Say Never - 3:50
High And Low - 4:59

As far as I can tell the only track that is defintely the same as the first version I had is Baby Can't Stop and maybe Music In My Mind as well.

some considerable time differences from the one i've got.

Matt DC's version is the same length as the track lengths I see in the iTunes store. I'm perfectly satisfied with the version I have but it would be nice to know which is the "proper" mix.

at this point, I'm guessing that it's a modern iteration of the cassette and LP versions having different sequencing and edits; the wacky backwards intros and whatnot are what he wants for people who are playing the whole album through to hear, but he assumes that people buying mp3s are more likely to listen to individual tracks, and thus want a version more designed for discrete play.

that's fine for minor stuff, but DC's Keep it Up is about a minute longer, while High and Low is over a minute shorter.

yeah i guess sic is right

the times on the retail cd are -

looking for what 6:06
lovesick 3:12
let it happen 4:53
keep it up 3:28
music in my mind 3:19
baby can't stop 6:11
let's practise 5:42
so much fun 4:55
never say never 3:08
high & low 6:21

they've definitely polished up the production between promo and retail copies though

that's fine for minor stuff, but DC's Keep it Up is about a minute longer, while High and Low is over a minute shorter.

yeah and his last album essentially had completely different tracks on the vinyl!

So this is pretty much a 5 star album, amirite?

is there anything on this as funky (or as MJ-like) on here as "baby can't stop"?

MJ-like - definitely not
funky - YMMV but the basslines of Looking For What and Lovesick totally slay me in a bizarro olde Ze Records sort of way maybe

Finally this is out. Music store had the 2CD version Tim mentioned upthread, at normal single-cd price. What a nice surprise :)

The Bonus Disc:
Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Vocal Remix)
Baby Can't Stop (Prins Thomas Remix)
Baby Can't Stop (Idjut Boys Remix)
Looking For What (Sally Shapiro Remix)
So Much Fun (Dølle Jølle Remix)
Lovesick (Fan Death Reworks)

Love the squishy eighties keyboard sound of "High and Low."

lovin' this, 'baby can't stop' especially.

i wonder if 'baby can't stop' is the untitled demo i heard in a mix about two years ago... really sparse apreggiated synth line going up and down?

― racist of the falling leaves (haitch), Monday, 19 October 2009 13:58 (3 months ago)

to answer my own question, the demo must've been an early 'so much fun'; the album version is pretty heavily re-tooled in comparison, everything but the vocals has changed!

so if i have the version with backwards vocals on the first track, do i have the wrong version?

nah that's what i got, and mine's a retail copy (w/ bonus disc)

...unless I too have the wrong version??

alright, that conversation upthread kinda got confusing to me so i wasn't sure

we ended up deciding that the legit mp3 version doesn't have as many backwards bits as the legit CD version

ie yr BUSTED, give our love to mickey

This was playing in Exeter Gap yesterday.

the 2CD version Tim mentioned upthread, at normal single-cd price

Apparently we don't shop at the same places. This is going $19.99 most places, finally found it $16.99 and shelled out figuring I wouldn't find it lower. Been playing this all weekend and loving it, btw, finally.

"Lovesick" reminds me so much of Will Powers "Adventures In Success"

what other records should i dig if i dig this record?
tim? max?

ian u should check out that last lindstrom solo record - 'where you go i go too' - it's not quite the same, no vocals, more sprawling epics; but you might like it i'd say!

oh, i do like that record! i don't own it, but i listened to it a lot when we had it in stock.

what tracks on this do you like?

"let it happen" is a vangelis cover, but id be surprised if you didnt already own "earth"

the names that come to mind when i hear this are like... quincy jones, giorgio moroder, nile rodgers, bernard edwards on the production side.

but this is drawing on a lot of stuff im not super familiar with and those are some pretty obvious names! deej probably has some good ideas too.

I tend to think anyone who likes this would also like SOS Band.

yes! this album is totally on some early 80s funk shit

yeah, SOS. some zapp stuff too.

really anything produced by niles & bernard after chic

It's probably worth making a mixtape for peeps who want to know more - "Love Come Down" etc. Maybe "Lucky Star" from the first Madonna album?

shalamar - make that move

the early 80s synth-inflected disco sound is so croosh

mtume - juicy fruit

enterprising rap producers should mine RLINC for beats

no one mentioned cerrone yet?!

i wanted to let you mention him

Chaka Khan, Sinnamon, Carol Williams, Katie Kissoon, Sylvia Striplin, Karen Silver...it totally invokes that post-disco diva with producer (with a synthesizer) tradition that informs not just that early-80s Paradise Garage sound but that era of R&B, pop and boogie.

Now this is why I prefer lindstrom to Prins Thomas.

It's probably worth making a mixtape for peeps who want to know more - "Love Come Down" etc. Maybe "Lucky Star" from the first Madonna album?

Where can I hear this mixtape? I want to know more :p

was also thinking Janet Jackson's "The Pleasure Principle" was very much RLINC

I'm up for collating tracks for a mixtape and stickinng them up for easy dl, i'll start with the suggestions above. Perhaps even a in-thread or new thread discussion to dwindle them down to the most suitable in terms of stylistic lineage/touchstones w/ youtube etc. Fun, baby!

I am up for this too. Do what you must.

thanks a lot of the recs guys! lots of stuff i've always seen but never listened to. will dig in. thanks!

You'll need Sharon Redd's "Beat The Street" on there...

Seriously, if the was song was just the intro/first 8 seconds looped, "Baby Can't Stop" would still be one of the best things of the year

"lovesick" is in a new car commercial here (acura i think)

It's called "Nipponsick."

I thought it was for a cadillac

i was worldsick last week O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D9B3LJcdM0

Anyway, my wife loves that song and pointed it out to me last night

Lol @ the omission of vocoder Lindstrøm saying 'lovesick'

I think a lot of what makes this album tick is how many vocals styles Christabelle pulls off over the course of it.

Seriously, if the was song was just the intro/first 8 seconds looped, "Baby Can't Stop" would still be one of the best things of the year

― sassy boy, throwin' shade (Stevie D), Friday, April 9, 2010 2:12 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

i still can't figure out if i have the right version of this or not! how much backwards vocals are there supposed to be

Eight minutes worth.

expliquez the username alfred?

lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71gvV9n9Cs

as sampled by all saints

music in my mind btw

oh man, i'm really feeling 'high & low' right now

the way she says 'i cant reach you, ya know?' is just so sad

this album has totally clicked for me

yeah "high & low" is so beautiful

i've been super into "let it happen"

throwawayyourfearonthewheeloflife

and i think i've said it before but the transition from "let it happen" to "keep it up" is one of the best parts of the album

^^^

this album is so great

"Baby Can't Stop" reminds me of:

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

little drummer boy is still great

lonely opinion of the day i guess

think i got as much pleasure chilling on the beach w/ this album as from any other musical experience this year

love little drummer boy & will be subjecting my family to it this xmas

I'm trying to work out what it is about this album that has prevented me from ever really loving it this year. It might be Christabelle's vocals, but not entirely because the songs where she's on it she is totally on it, maybe it just doesn't stay up in the stratosphere enough for my liking, and the two tracks that follow Baby Can't Stop feel a bit half-finished.

always think lindstrom sounds v chilly n dg the summertime vibez assoc. sommayu bring 2 it

album of the year for me. Hasn't grown old at all.

give me examples of songs that remind you of "high and low." i want more.

slow, sexy, emotional.

I'd guess they'll make more money from this that they made on album sales:

http://youtu.be/s_llvsC394s

That song sounds so much like a European fashion advert that I'm amazed its never been used in one before.

http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2009/12/23/pa-rumpah-pum-pummm/