C/D: Soulwax - Any Minute Now

Haven't heard the new one but I really want to.

Their ballads do fall a bit flat sometimes, the only song that I skip off the last album is "More Than This".

NY Excuse has been improved by the album in one way. It is much shorter. No better, though.

step 2-leave house, checking mirror.

step 3-enter club, stand around, drink, find drugs.

step 4-dance to "this is the excuse" and think "nggggggggggghhgashfghesghg" at the long drawn out build up.

step 5-go to party, talk nonsense with hot electroclash girl you eventually marry.

if they'd made a dance record first and then became a successful rock band would they deserve props for sticking to dance?

"‘NY Excuse’… “This is an excuse that we’re making, Is it good enough for what your paying?”… “well this is a really long story. ..” laughs Stephen, of the track featuring the vocals of Nancy Whang (LCD Sound-system) and lyrics written with James Murphy (DFA/LCD), which started life as a rock track with vocals recorded at the DFA’s Plantain studios in New York. They later decided to rework it potentially for the dance floor. “We were really happy with the new version, so we played it at Fabric at Christmas as the first track, having not played for a while and the whole place went off... The next day the track already had a life of its own; people were on chat room’s emailing each other. We pressed up a few white labels for our DJ friends to play out, so people think it’s the first single, but its not. We had to make a choice between that and the rock version…The Rock version is really good and will definitely come out, but on the album it doesn’t work as well,” say the brothers."

(from http://www.angloplugging.co.uk/artist.cfm?artistID=579)

I imagine Soulwax don't give two hoots about cohesion and consistency and think putting the superior version is best regardless of what the rest of the album is like. It's not the production I don't like about, it's just not that good of a song and no version's likely to change that for me.

Ah, OK edward. It's just that I wouldn't call it 'incongruity' sounds too negative. Making a great, varied album isn't just about sticking all your best tracks on - it's the way different styles complement each other. Or something. I guess I've got making compilation tapes in my head when I say this.

I don't see why they can be lauded for going back to their roots! half the people who are into the Dj albums probably had no idea that they had ever been a "Band". the funny thing, is for Djs with pretty good taste in music generally they just can't write a decent tune.

its just a boring album. the only reason i was interested at all was because they *seem* to have good taste.

here's the full title of the soulwax remix album (!!!) :

“Most Of the remixes we’ve made over the years except for the one for Einsturzende Neubauten because we lost it and a few we didn’t think sounded good enough or just didn’t fit in length-wise. But including some that are hard to find because either people forgot about them or just simply because they haven’t been released yet. A few we really love. One we think is just OK. Some we did for free. Some we did for money. Some just for ourselves without permission and some for friends as swaps but never on time and always at our studio in Ghent.”

CD1:
THE GOSSIP - STANDING IN THE WAY OF CONTROL (SOULWAX NITE VERSION)
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - DAFT PUNK IS PLAYING IN MY HOUSE (SOULWAX SHIBUYA MIX)
HUMAN RESOURCE VS 808 STATE - CUBIQUE (SOULWAX EDIT)
KLAXONS - GRAVITY'S RAINBOW (SOULWAX REMIX)
DJ SHADOW - 8 DAYS (SOULWAX REMIX)
JUSTICE - PHANTOM PT2 (SOULWAX NITE VERSION)
KYLIE - CANT GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD (SOULWAX ROCK VERSION)
GORILLAZ - DARE (SOULWAX REMIX)
ROBBIE WILLIAMS - LOVELIGHT (SOULWAX RAVELIGHT MIX)
ARTHUR ARGENT - HOLD YOUR HEAD UP (SOULWAX REMIX)
LORDS OF ACID - I SIT ON ACID (SOULWAX REMIX)
DAFT PUNK - ROBOT ROCK (SOULWAX REMIX)
SUGABABES - ROUND ROUND (SOULWAX REMIX)
MUSE - MUSCLE MUSEUM (SOULWAX REMIX)

CD2: Mix – features the above and also portions of the following rare, lost or unreleased mixes.
WES PHILLIPS - I'M JUST A SUCKA FOR A PRETTY FACE (SOULWAX REMIX)
TIGA - MOVE MY BODY (ORIGINAL VERSION)
PLAYGROUP - MAKE IT HAPPEN (SOULWAX REMIX)
FELIX DA HOUSECAT - ROCKET RIDE (SOULWAX ROCK IT RIGHT MIX)
LADYTRON - SEVENTEEN (SOULWAX REMIX)
HOT CHIP - READY FOR THE FLOOR (SOULWAX DUB)

the 'part of the weekend never dies' tour doco is a really fantastic thing. has anyone else seen it?

What happened to these guys??

not seen the film but loved the Nite Versions show both times i saw it. is that what the film's about?

it is, well that and everything around it, including the 2many DJs stuff. it really captures the randomness of a big night out like nothing else i've seen. it's pretty technically ambitious for an 'on the road' doco shot with one camera - looks really beautiful at times, lots of long slow pans around scenes on stage, in clubs, in the tour van, etc. there's one bit where it quickly cuts between about 30 gigs with everyone going mental to the same part of that gossip remix, it's pretty jawdropping. you get to see some guy from the klaxons get attacked by a pigeon, too.

you get a CD of a nite versions set from fabric included, with covers of 'washing up', and 'move my body' by tiga!

What happened to these guys??

They kept doing exactly the same things and never went away.