Gratutious self-serving hype (Ghostly Intl)

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Sorry if this offends your chatboard sensibilities, but thought this might be of interest to some....

This week, Ghostly International's new compilation, Idol Tryouts, was released, featuring exclusive and rare tracks from Dabrye (with remix from Prefuse 73), Matthew Dear (who also has releases on Plus 8 and Perlon), Midwest Product (with remix from Telefon Tel Aviv), Osborn (who also puts out those Soundmurderer CDs), plus some killers from Kill Memory Crash (think 21st C EBM), Dykehouse (bedroom shoegazer) and more. Five star reviews from Urb, XLR8R, De:Bug, etc. etc.

There are two release parties as well: on Saturday 6.7 in NYC at Piano's and on Thursday 6.12 in Chicago at the Empty Bottle with many of the aforementioned artists.

Please come out. Please support. Please complain. Please don't ever change the way you do that crazy thing you do.

Go to www.ghostly.com (web update will happen very soon) for more info or feel free to email.

Danke!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

when is Mykehouse gunna put out a full-length?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a great record. I love it, partic the outputmessage track on there... fab stuff... hope yr nights are fun i'm in london so won't be coming!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr. J. Salmon-- It's scheduled for the fall. Stuff I've heard so far is really great. His "Map Ref." cover on Idol Tryouts seems to be the crossover "hit."

Mr. Stelfox-- Thanks! Dabrye and Matt Dear will be over in the Europe in late July (and I'll be tagging along as well).

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

you have any idea what he's gunna do with it? more shoegazey fun, hopefully? He did say last year that he'd always been in love with Ride's "Taste".

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Excellent, take my email from below and keep me updated, i'll definitely come and check you out twhen you're here...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

J. Salmon-- Oh yeah, totally along the shoegazery lines... He's been playing out a lot of new stuff at live shows which all sounds very, very good. We're all pretty excited about the full-length.

Dave-- I'll definitely add you to our mailing list and keep you in the loop.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron, you and your punk rock ways, I tell ya.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaron, I am buying it today (when I get paid). Did you see the write up of it in Entertainment Weekly?

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh... I've been out of the office the past couple weeks studying for the LSAT (Monday, thank god) so I'm out of the loop on our latest press! That's great though... I'd heard it might run.

Enjoy it, Nicole!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Well if someone had remember to fill up my mailbox then maybe I'd go tomorrow...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Yanc3y! If you go, I'll tell Sam (runs label) to give you your promised copy! I've been bussssssy, ya know!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm at work so I can't access their website (you need the stupid subscriber code now to access reviews), but I remember it got an A-.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks Nicole! :) Hopefully it's waiting in my in-box for me.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I know I know. Just giving you a hard time. What time's the showcase? I gots two parties I'm 'sposed to go to...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

That is cool indeed! Rah Aaron! Rah Nicole for giving him money! Reminds me, Aaron, wasn't I supposed to give you money too?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah sure! Give me money!

Yanc3y-- I assume it'll be a 10pm till whenever that sort of thing ends... and I think it's in the smaller downstairs room, if that means anyhing (having never been there myself and all).

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Drop me a line and remind me, sir. :-) Actually, fuck, I just remembered I need to give Amateurist money too!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Interactive press sheets what what!

Where's my 5 Gs, Ned?

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

You have me confused with someone else.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

also, WTF has Kiln been up to? I heard that he put out another album, but nobody seemed fit to get it to us. The first track off of _Ampday_ is fucking killer.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 6 June 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, and I forgot to post these:

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/May/20035286308207271697747.jpg

http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/May/20035288879970098124377.jpg

Mullins there looks like J.Pierce's cover of Magnet last year...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 6 June 2003 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Those are great pics, Jeremy! And Kiln are actually gonna have a full-length out in the fall (on Ghostly as well).

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's the review from Ent. Weekly:

VARIOUS ARTISTS Idol Tryouts: Ghostly International Vol. 1 [Ghostly International]

Great electronic music compilations--ones that don't just catalog a subgenre or reproduce a DJ's club set but also march to their own aesthetic drummer--are rare. Last year saw Friends, a sumptuous set of warm, laptop-fractured "microhouse" beats with a touch of vocals, from the German Kompakt label. Tryouts is this year's one to beat, a set from the young Michigan-based Ghostly International crew that comes with a grittier techno-soul vibe, more Detroit than Cologne. Hip-hop impressionist Dabrye, a cohort of like-minded beatmeister Prefuse 73, flips old-school synth stabs and Gigantor hand claps into a mod R&B bubble bath; Kill Memory Crash build a Teutonic-robotic Jonzun Crew; and Dykehouse's "Map Ref. 41 N 93 W" is a prog-pop masterstroke that dares a sing-along chorus. RESPECT YOUR ELDERS Outputmessage's "Bernard's Song" sounds like a wordless shout-out to Bernard Sumner of New Order, whose recent boxed set is mandatory listening for tune-poor dance-music makers. A-

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Awww thanks for posting, Nicole!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Kompakt in EW

*head explodes*

(alternately: Matos WHERE YOU AT?)

Also: "Dykehouse's 'Map Ref. 41 N 93 W' is a prog-pop masterstroke that dares a sing-along chorus."

!!!!!!!!!!

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

And Kiln are actually gonna have a full-length out in the fall (on Ghostly as well).

Is this the Kiln that have released a few albums already? I like those guys.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

who wrote the ew piece?

(i still maintain that ew has the best music coverage of any u.s. glossy)

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

They listed a whole bunch of writers in the reviews section, it didn't list a specific writer for each review. It was in the Listen2This part of the lastest EW, the one with the Hulk on the cover.

― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

When is Midwest Product gonna come back to DC and put out a full-length that approaches the live show? Dammit! I'm a consumer! YOU WORK FOR ME!!!

Also: Dykehouse full-length of the stuff he's been doing live = slobber.

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 6 June 2003 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this the Kiln that have released a few albums already? I like those guys.
Yup!

who wrote the ew piece?
I'll find out... they mentioned Disco Nouveau last year, as well. I'm unusually out of the loop these days!

When is Midwest Product gonna come back to DC and put out a full-length that approaches the live show?
The two tracks on Idol Tryouts (one is a Telefon Tel Aviv remix) are fantastic... next up is an EP, which is slated for late summer. Live shows have gotten even better than last summer, in my biased opine! I think tour dates might be happening in the late summer as well, and DC was on the list.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 6 June 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

finally got all the pics posted:

http://osric.com/~jeremy/pics/demf/

Day 3 of the DEMF 2003 blah blah blah.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 9 June 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Tell me about Kill Memory Crash.

― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

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