Gang Gang Dance is complete and total crap, right?

Just kidding. I haven't heard it yet. If it pisses off ILM I usually guess it's reasonably good; I am right maybe 55% of the time. What kinda stuff is this and what makes it "bad"? Or "nightmarish"?

SORRY.

anyway, ggd, i like one of their songs okay, it's sorta dubby, but i can't see buying the album, personal politics notwithstanding.

But about Gang Gang Dance: I've not seen them live. Perhaps that'd change my opinion, but I seriously doubt it. I could see this being somewhat engaging on stage. In the same way carwrecks tends to grab my attention when I pass by.

However, both of their records have done absolutely nothing for me. And it ain't like I loathe noisey stuff. This just seems like the din of a first grade classroom packaged and passed off as outsider art. That's fuct.

I could banter all night, or at least until the caffeine wears off.

Speaking of bands you suspect are a huge joke, the Junior Boys. Can someone please explain to me what that is all about?

I don't trust it.

Ian, hard at work not trussin' it ... also, lampin'.

i smoke less rock than flava flav.

this dude packages his uppercuts with a kiss ^^

the trouble is that too many people use the line 6 to take the cheap way out. the damned machine just grew ubiquitous in a very unintersting way.

but now im rather entertained by herr noizez duk communicating only via mooger fooger.

(those people that choose to use a delay rather than depend on are forgiven) = "in the air tonight"

anyone see them last night in London?

Yeah, they were great but as I tried explaining how great they were somewhere else I realised my descriptive style is roughly at the local newspaper level. Anyway, yep, great, keyboard broke, borrowed a keyboard off Alexis Taylor which helped but they still couldn't do loads of stuff, seemed to just jam for ages with massive 4-person drum freakouts.

Uh. I'd see them again, maybe w/Animal Collective in Brixton.

How could you look at that Mikata album and think it would likelier be crap than great?

Just saw them last night. Was completely blown away. One of the best live acts I've seen in a really long time.

Just got signed to 4ad too. They deserve it. I suggest you all go see them if they come around.

yeah they're great live. i took my brother and his girlfriend to see them a few years back, they'd never even heard of them, and they both completely loved the show. hoping to catch them at big ears.

They've signed to 4ad?

do they sound different after all their equipment burned up ??
i haven't seen them in a really long time.. kind of regret i was not in a position to go last night..
was there a good crowd ? i dont think it sold out

nothing much soaked in lots of reverb and delay

this is a nice thought, about AC or in general.

i thought i heard that at the show. maybe they didn't get signed.

anyhow show was great. yah it sold out day of. crowed was cool. everyone seemed to be genuinely into what was going on.

ive not been into the last few albums but saw them live in june here and they were like a noisey soca jam band, really entertaining

Gang Gang Dance sign to 4AD; new album this year

^ hey, good call gman

like a noisey soca jam band

Not another one of those, they're everywhere (I'm kidding)

i dunno, everytime i've been excited by a new album by a band going from "under">"over"ground its been pretty disappointing, but i do feel like these guys r on a + trajectory

hmm i cant see them going overground in any big way; seemed like the last album was the real leap into artistic aceness. but then a thousand people will tell me source tags and codes was the big trail of dead moment when i know it was Madonna, so whatever

I wonder if the new record will have Lil Wayne guest verses.

I listened to their last album a couple times on ILMs recommendations and it was fucking horrible. I can understand how they could be different live but on record... ugh

even house jam? come on

he crazy. the whole album rules. Warp are silly for letting them go, if indeed they did (maybe wasn't a long term deal)

this was at least a year ago so I couldn't differentiate any of the tracks from one another at this date, but my memory was just that I didn't really ... get the point of it, I guess. I don't have any trouble with atonality or improv or dance beats or tribal drumming or weird production or whatever but it just seemed like this amorphous, directionless mess, full of ugly sounds with no coherence or melodies or even ideas really. It was the aural equivalent of sifting through garbage.

This is Saint Dymphna you are talking about?

and REALLY don't get how this could have any conceivable commercial appeal. people (not necessarily me, but audiences at large) are engaged by song structures and hooks and repetition and so on, and I didn't hear anything like that

gimme Oneida or AC any day

they would be so awesome if they had a different singer. she cops yoko ono, which seems super-promising, but she's just so awful. its sort of nightmarish in the way it intends, but when you add the vox, it becomes infinitely more nightmarish, and not at all in a good way.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, January 6, 2005 9:08 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

im almost certain id feel different now

seems like shakey mo was listening to the earlier recordings and not St. dphymaxia!! cuz his complaints were exactly like mine until i heard St. dpnynmaxiapedicab...

maybe I downloaded the wrong thing or something

u dont get it

seems like shakey mo was listening to the earlier recordings and not St. dphymaxia!! cuz his complaints were exactly like mine until i heard St. dpnynmaxiapedicab...

― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Friday, January 22, 2010 9:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

LOL secret scrabble reference

i mean, there are 2-3 songs that i can see how your assessment fits, but most of the rest of it is way more focused, realized, "pop", "grime", "hey wouldn't it be cool if we were the post-00s Boredoms too!", etc.

xp lol

I actually really like the last couple of things. God's Money and the Rawwar EP both have some pretty poppy moments. Not Vampire Weekend or whatever though.

saw em live after their drummer got his arms fucked up and holy shit that dude rules

last few times i've caught them they've been particularly amazing. we had them support animal collective at a huge 4000+ capacity show in london last summer and they were incredible.

I just listened to House Jam again and um yeah, I don't get the appeal. is it just me or does no one notice that stuff sounds, well, sequenced wrong? Like the beats don't maintain an even tempo, samples aren't synched together, pieces come in and out of the mix off-beat...? or is that the appeal

Like the beats don't maintain an even tempo, samples aren't synched together, pieces come in and out of the mix off-beat...? or is that the appeal

they are not das robots!

oh so the "House Jam" title is ironic

st dymphna is sooooo fuckin good

Yes I was at that AC Brixton show and they were absolutely awesome, possibly even better than the headliners ;)...I should give them another chance.

that night was so good; forget all the AC haters, we were just loving the fact that a band who despite their success are still a REALLY weird group playing to so many people and nobody really walking out! pretty heartwarming to see them get that success after so much work over 10 or so years.

they would be so awesome if they had a different singer. she cops yoko ono, which seems super-promising, but she's just so awful. its sort of nightmarish in the way it intends, but when you add the vox, it becomes infinitely more nightmarish, and not at all in a good way.

― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, January 6, 2005 9:08 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

im almost certain id feel different now

― 69, Friday, 22 January 2010 21:56 (2 months ago

Saw 'em live in DC last night. Instrumentally fun (all the percussion, the keys, etc) but repetitious, vocally weak. Her vocals were definately the weak link.

i think she's great?, kinda confused to hear otherwise. she has a pedal to bring some of the radio-swirliness to her live vox too iirc. feel like her vocals sort of broaden their sound a lot, they can get too guitarry i think.

Impatient for the new LP, whenever that's going to arrive. Anyone hear the track on the 4AD ep?

x-post. I like the idea of vocals broadening the sound, I just did not like the way live her yelps and screaching and sounds fit in. Some of the time they were buried live last night as was the guitar, with the keyboard, samples, her percussion and the drummer being most prominent in the mix.

Anyone hear this new 15 minute single (that sounds like Gang Gang Dance's version of "Djed" hah)?

this latitudes EP is pretty awful.

Gang Gang Dance is complete and total crap, right?

yes

rong

i didn't really enjoy the Latitudes thing on first listen either, ian... gonna give it another listen soon.

I really like the 11-minute track that was going around the blogs a few weeks ago. That's my frist exposure to the band since their earliest material, which I didn't much like.

check out St. Dymphna which has some really great songs on it