No doubt someone on here has it already or has something to say about it. Just downloaded "Follow Me", and it's pretty weird, not heard that amount of what sounds like fx on such an old record before, very cool.
I'm now downloading the rest. What do people make of this then?
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)
It does sound very good and real also! Yes either way who cares
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)
I like it a lot. Sounds real to me. If nothing, it sounds like it was recorded on and with vintage equipment.
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)
(Okay, enough unfounded goth-mocking)
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)
Ronan, is this worth including in my weekly mail-order haul?
― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― pete from the street, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)
X post x 2
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)
is it creepier than "Magic Fly"?
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Xpost x 1
Magic Fly is creepy? Must check out again.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)
don't worry jedmond, the other two are coming out as a separate release with a kerrier district remix.
i have nothing else to add except 1) matt woebot compared them to the black dog, which made me initially skeptical and set me up to be underwhelmed (not least because i find black dog underwhelming 50% of the time) and 2) matt is RIGHT and these tracks are KILLER (for different reasons)
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― donny dorko (searchanddelete), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)
okay so the other two tracks are called "h friend" and "we never fly away again". or that's what they're called on slsk anyway. they have vocals. "we never..." is probably my favorite of the whole bunch.
the vibert remix and the "exclusive" haven't turned up yet.
then again rephlex lists the EP as a 3-track while warpmart lists it as a 4-track. is the one on warpmart a limited promo??
― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 26 February 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:02 (twenty-two years ago)
kerrier district is nowhere near as good as metro area but i'm feeling it, too. i guess my problem is that k.d. sounds like luke vibert in a disco mood. metro area really sounds like nothing before or since those records - even geist's own work! and it's pretty much spawned a scene around itself. i can't imagine playgroup's dj kicks or dj hell's electrobody mix without the metro area tracks. they're like the keystone (if not the cornerstone) of that scene.
― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)
Xpost
Vahid, true you don't hear that much Metro Area in his early work, but his recent work sounds Moves, Super) like Metro Area but with electronic instruments only - it still has the stripped down splashes of colour on a black canvas style arrangement.
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 26 February 2004 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh fuck it
― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 26 February 2004 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 26 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)
anyway...
Yes it's real. I've seen it. It came out in 1978 and it's not so suprising. Listen to side one of Giorgio Moroder's From Here to Eternity. That is the number 1 reference/precedent. It was recorded probably in much the same way as well, although with live drums on top of the click tracks. The way the songs don't stop on the Black Devil LP are very similar to the Moroder LP. Now add the post-Morricone/Goblin italian melodic/dark soundtrack feel and you have Black Devil Disco Club. Claudio Simonetti's stuff w/ Easy Going, like Fear aren't that far off either, and it's also from that period(79 I think?)
I think it's a lost classic only in the sense that it is just impossibly cool. I can't imagine it would have been that popular then, or any time between then and say 1993. It's pure dark italo-disco, what makes it weird is some of the stripped down parts that start to sound like Black Dog or Basic Channel or something, almost tracky...
But listen to the Moroder album again and you'll realize how similar the later Black Devil record is.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)
but when the time is right I'll throw it on and see what happens.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 26 February 2004 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 1 March 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)
http://rapidshare.de/files/12348264/the_strange_world_of_bernard_fevre.zip.html
― Yawn (Wintermute), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)
So "H" Friend never got reissued? Huh! That is one of my favourite tracks. It was stuck in my head when I was away all over Christmas and I kept grinning at the thought of it. Though I do remember not liking it much on first hearing; Timing is more immediately awesome (less dated? less... gothy?) so maybe they thought it would get more attention with that as the first track. But still. That chorus!
Anyone know anything about this other Bernard Fevre release on discogs: "Spatial Disco 2005" with 2005 Stars Group? The 2005 Stars Group tracks look like covers including Space Oddity, Telstar, and one "Here To Eternity" (presumably the Moroder referenced upthread).
This page says 2005 Stars Group is Eddie Warner, who I don't know much about except his tracks on Vibert's Nuggets, assuming it's the same guy. It also gives an mp3 of excerpts and a pricetag of $170. Ouch! As yet the internet is not providing me with it...
― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:44 (nineteen years ago)
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― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Friday, 12 January 2007 08:14 (nineteen years ago)
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― babedad, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael F Gill, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)
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― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 07:14 (nineteen years ago)
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 07:21 (nineteen years ago)
Black Devil in Dub >>>>>>>>> 28 After
― g®▲đұ, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)
that's what i think too, grady
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)
anyway the AMG review is beyond absurd
It makes the Blue Man Group sound credible and the Bloodhound Gang look like John Cage.
uh ... no.
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)
new one is out
― gr8080, Monday, 7 July 2008 02:47 (seventeen years ago)
cover art http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x18/gr8080/blackdev.jpg
― gr8080, Monday, 7 July 2008 02:54 (seventeen years ago)
I bookmarked it on eMusic. Any good?
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 7 July 2008 03:40 (seventeen years ago)
i dont think i'm feeling it
― gr8080, Monday, 7 July 2008 03:45 (seventeen years ago)
ok 3rd listen not so bad but still not grabbing me
last track is dope, would like to hear a metro area remix or something.
in fact, a dancefloor-ready remix collection of this LP (as opposed to the IN DUB remixes for the last one) would be pretty dope.
― gr8080, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:31 (seventeen years ago)
how many new releases will we suffer through before they do a decent reissue of the original? i'm betting 7.
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:37 (seventeen years ago)
only track ive heard is never no dollars, i like
― max, Monday, 7 July 2008 05:06 (seventeen years ago)
I am very late to this party, but I'm enjoying 28 After a lot. I've yet to listen to the original stuff.
I know there was a bunch of back-and-forth about if the Black Devil Disco Club album was actually from 1978 or not, given the involvement of Rephlex. Eventually there was consensus that it was from '78, right? Because this humorless guy didn't get the memo.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 20:42 (seventeen years ago)
That was always a joke. Pre-Rephlex people would sit around and go "wow, this can't really be old!" because all we had were bad CD-r burns. At the time it seemed so minimal and dark and sonically adventurous, but it was also pretty clearly a concurrent mish-mash of Giorgio Moroder and Claudio Simonetti.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:40 (seventeen years ago)
still love this record (28 after)
― contenderizer, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 21:41 (seventeen years ago)
original (i'm assuming) showed up at amoeba sf awhile back; priced at $400 or something
― winstonian (winston), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 23:19 (seventeen years ago)
(1st album, i mean, of course)
wait, there's a new one? eight oh eight?
― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 22 February 2009 13:56 (seventeen years ago)
oh wow i didn't see the last batch of posts.
AND I POSTED IN IT.
actually i think i thought they were talking about in dub. yeah, i'll go with that.
― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 22 February 2009 13:58 (seventeen years ago)
CONSTANTLY NO RESPECT
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Friday, 27 February 2009 01:04 (seventeen years ago)
but yeah, eight oh eight = drag
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Friday, 27 February 2009 01:09 (seventeen years ago)
yeah I DLed it and it's surprisingly crap
i have come around to 28 after, though
― DONKEY CANCER in action (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 27 February 2009 04:40 (seventeen years ago)
28 after is surprisingly not crap
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Friday, 27 February 2009 05:09 (seventeen years ago)
I wish Rephlex had just reissued the damn thing and not made you buy two extra 12"s with tracks you already had and one lousy Vibert remix just to get both the tracks they left off.
Love the original, love 28 After; Eight Oh Eight was pretty forgettable but I couldn't fault it much beyond sounding like a tamer copy of 28 After. And following this back to Fevre and Giordano's library music work and the other artists on Illustration Musicale has thrown up some good stuff, too.
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 27 February 2009 09:46 (seventeen years ago)
weird thing about eight oh eight is that it didn't sound crap when i first listened, it was just...wallpaper. 28 after is classic 4eva - remember seeing them at fabric for that and it was one of the best nights of my life
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 February 2009 10:23 (seventeen years ago)
And following this back to Fevre and Giordano's library music work and the other artists on Illustration Musicale has thrown up some good stuff, too.
i know it's like gauche to ask this, but how about some specific titles to look for.
― i'd rather cut cane for castro (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 3 March 2009 12:21 (seventeen years ago)
Just spinning 28 Later for the first time and it's enjoyable enough. How's the more recent stuff?
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 25 March 2010 20:19 (sixteen years ago)
i like eight oh eight. you can listen to it all here: http://www.lorecordings.com/index.php?artist_id=40
― mizzell, Thursday, 25 March 2010 20:26 (sixteen years ago)
I just got Eight oh eight and really like it. It's not as dark as 28 After but still has lots going on.
I noticed a few copies of the original record have appeared on discogs recently, I was hoping this was a good sign that it might be getting rereleased in the near future and these people had some kind of insider knowledge. This is probably just wishful thinking.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:45 (sixteen years ago)
'circus' seems quite good on first listen
― barbara of seville (electricsound), Monday, 11 April 2011 23:54 (fifteen years ago)
wow listen to "From Here to Eternity", it's like, the same album (but better)
― frogbs, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 01:33 (fifteen years ago)
Just listened to this and wasn't that impressed. The last two tracks seem nice enough but nothing really stuck and I don't think think the guest vocalists really worked.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 17:02 (fifteen years ago)
So... reissue of the full EP on Anthology coming out shortly. I am excited.
― See the Belz up in the sky, somebody cancelled SVU (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 7 May 2015 18:13 (ten years ago)
http://www.anthologyrecordings.com/albums/disco-club/
― See the Belz up in the sky, somebody cancelled SVU (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 7 May 2015 18:14 (ten years ago)
I missed this revive. Got a massive shock when I was in my local record shop and saw the CD on the new releases stand. Will be getting the vinyl reissue of this as soon as I can. I've had it on my Discogs wishlist for about five years.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, 14 May 2015 18:25 (ten years ago)