65daysofstatic

What do they sound like? this from www.playlouder.com/feature/%2B65daysofstatic/:

"We all love to compare bands to other bands, categorising and pigeonholing them to make life that bit easier. Hacks in particular feel smarmy being able to show off their great musical knowledge, so when a band as original and special as 65daysofstatic comes along, they make our job that bit harder by deliberately flaunting some cross-pollinated-alien sound. We give them rubbish descriptions. "Yeah, they’re Mogwai vs. Squarepusher, fistfucking Venetian Snares playing chess with Godspeed! You Black Emperor." The truth is it’s hard to nail down exactly what who, if anyone, they sound like"

I remember seeing them at the (excellent) 2002 Dustpunk night in Sheffield, they really rocked, quite a shock, was expecting to be staring at guys with laptops all night.

They've got a drummer now?! Do they still use electronic beats on the CD?

Great to see all the old tefosav guys doing well now, Digitonal especially, the guy is awesome!

i hate to make a bad statement about 65DOS as i was involved with them when they first started, but i think you're right. haven't heard their latest stuff but i'd say they need to update their sound a little. would've worked better in 1999, but the beats are a bit derivative of primetime Warp meets Mogwai. They have the potential to be what they want to be but just need a little fuel injection.

i hate to make a bad statement about 65DOS as i was involved with them when they first started, but i think you're right. haven't heard their latest stuff but i'd say they need to update their sound a little. would've worked better in 1999, but the beats are a bit derivative of primetime Warp meets Mogwai. They have the potential to be what they want to be but just need a little fuel injection.

I can listen to "fall of math" and "one time for all time" repeatedly and it hits home for me, much like MBV did when I first heard them.

I dont think they're "groundbreaking" - im 35 ffs, I've heard every other band they sound like. But they somehow pull some disparate elements together *just right* and - to me anyway - are a glorious hammering sound of heaven.

YMMV, I suppose. Sad to see ILM is so dried up and cynical.

That said, to be constructive, some of the beat ideas have been done before. I think I'm becoming allergic to drill'n'bass noises having overdosed on them in 2001.

I don't even know what is happening to them now - they seem to have fractured beyond any solid form. Shame really.

Eggzackly. I didn't say they sucked. Although I'm not really fussed on them either way. But some of the reviews of them I've read are fucking *absurd*

Does anyone still have a copy of that bootleg they made back in 2002? It was on boomselection, and I downloaded it at the time, but now I've lost it.

It's a track where they mash up loads of records to make the sound of '65'. They used to use it as the track they came onstage to.

i'd like to see them live; i imagine they fucking rock.

Or else it's going to be tiring waiting for the Cure to hit the stage.

Well they're NOTHING like the Cure, I'll tell you that much.

In fact I am baffled they got the support.

I think they are too.

Did they actually make it to the US then? They were held up with visa problems and had to cancel 2 or 3 support slots.

Tour hasn't started yet over here but they're still booked to open.

They are currently supporting this lot I've never heard of - or would be if they had visas: http://www.marchofflames.com/

They're playing Exeter Lemongrove, which is round the corner from my office and ac ross town from my new house, on Sunday. It'll be nice to walk home from a gig for once!

I've not listened to TDOSI for a while.

Some of the quiet, pause / surge runs in "Music Is Music As..." are really beautiful. Those delicate guitars and pianos. Then the strings come in. But the percussion's still pretty wild; it's like what Bloc Party did on So Here We Are, without the obnoxious trendiness and asthmatic singer.

these dudes put on a hell of a live show. i saw them at this weird little bowling alley in the suburbs of denver last night. great show.

the albums never convinced me entirely. i had it playing in the car one time and this dude was like "this is the soundtrack to which movie?" and i was just like 'um...good one..."

but yeah, live show was sick

i saw them at this weird little bowling alley in the suburbs of denver last night. great show.

Haha, okay, considering they're opening for the CURE otherwise I had this vision of Robert Smith and company playing their arena show in said bowling alley.

haha they played red rocks the night before

I saw these guys open for the Cure three times, didn't care for em in Dallas, much much better in Austin (small venue effect?) and by Houston they were fucking great. Just picked up the latest album, haven't listened yet. But it better be as good as Nick/Louis were saying. Or, nearly.

:D

I still can't get past their fucking name.

Whiney G. Weingarten

Hahahaha

As the little cartoonist from the Onion would say, we are all Whiney G. Weingarten

Bad news: I don't really care for this album. It does sound a bit Mars Volta-ish in places. Or like an instrumental emo/screamo band. I can almost imagine the singer on top of parts of it. Yeeeesh!

But my favorite track (which I still like) is "Retreat! Retreat!" from one of their other albums. That one killed at the Cure shows.

Have you listened on headphones yet?

^^^U&K

"A bit Mars Volta-ish" = listen again, stop being lazy :p

xpost nope, will do soon enough. listened in the car (shameful to admit to you, Nick, you damned audiophile). anyway... all i can say at this point is: the production *may* be great on headphones, but the music sure ain't doin' it for me yet.

I can't imagine ever even considering listening to this in the car, dude. Totally wouldn't work on any level. The previous albums might do, but not this.

For one thing the engine noise drowns half of it out (yeah, I've tried).

but..... but i listened at home and yeah, the production is stunning. but i just don't care for the music much.

:-(

I should like these but they leave me cold. Not sure why. Too contrived?

too nerdy

May be of interest to some:

http://www.thequietus.com/articles/remixing-bootlegging-and-the-cure-by-65daysofstatic

Never heard this band.

That Cure remix thing sounds like the nth circle of hell. Have I missed an ILM pile-on concerning it? I thought there'd be one

what are you talking about

http://www.thequietus.com/articles/the-cure-announced-brand-new-remix-project

Live album Escape From New York available on spotify - recorded live at Madison Square Garden when they were supporting The Cure.

http://open.spotify.com/album/7vQoqSGmZBKUsjvpe5bDip

1 Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here
2 No Use Crying Over (Some Techno)
3 Retreat! Retreat!
4 Await Rescue
5 Fix The Sky A Little
6 65 Doesn’t Understand You
7 Primer
8 Radio Protector
9 Four Score And (Some Drum’N’Bass)
10 A Failsafe

Or you could, you know, pay money, and get the CD + DVD package.

They've abandoned most of what made them good (dynamic, progressive songwriting, subtlety) in favour of full-bore glitch-rave. FFS. And despite the emphasis on this new direction, not a SINGLE track here bangs as hard as Eastern European Dance Parties. Only 'Debutante' really stands out - and that's the quietest song by a distance.

Hm. If I liked early glitch-ravey track "play nice kids" more than all their subtle stuff put together (though the "dynamic, progressive" era was very much better live, I'll give them that - more down to very hard work touring incessantly than anything else, I suspect), will I like their new stuff?

Well, the album's all here... http://www.myspace.com/65propaganda

(the last 3 tracks are all pretty good, to tell the truth, and Debutante is EXCELLENT, but before that, Christ they try me)

Huh I didnt even know a new one was out.

Re reading this thread makes me sad, for reasons related to discovering 65dos. I've let so much time pass unnoticed.

Hm, its... different. I'll need to give it a proper listen at home though.

It's different but the same. Debutante is undeniably the highlight, and the end is better than the beginning.
Not as good as they used to be, but still, I like.

Debutante is kinda what I had in mind for these guys going in a more 'electronic' direction - much better this than forgettable non-stop aggressive thumping

Tried to play this for modex last night but he went "eeww myspace compresion yuck I'll wait til it comes out".

Fussy bloody audiophiles!

Saw these guys open for the Cure's last tour and about 30 minutes each night was more than enough 65DOS for my ears. Pleasant in a Mogwai-lite sort of way, but nothing I'd strive to hear on record.

To be fair, Myspace compression is abysmal, and 65DOS have so many different layers that it is a waste of time to sacrifice sound quality.

listening to The Fall of the Math for the first time on Spotify

holy yes

or The Fall of Math whichever you'd like

The Fall of Math is probably my fav album by them. One of the most apocalyptic albums I own.

'Tiger Girl' is my prob my fav song though. A sped up mix of Fuck Buttons drone, techno/trance, and post-rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1HeIpHMC_o

Ive been really into No Mans Sky lately so I gave their album based on the prodecural stems soundtrack to the game a listen - no idea why I never did when the game came out 4 years back. Its really good! They need to do more ambient work.

prodecural? Procedural.