Joakim, Search and Destroy

Destroy: the rest of the non enthralling spooky ambience on that album, which just slapped the two singles on the album basically and padded it with said ambience.

Anyway all his remixes/re-edits that I know rock.

Love the Clashing Egos one too. And of course Severed Heads.

I must seek out Fantomes.

one of the nicest records I picked up last year! nice packaging too.

(going to find the MaxBerlin one, right away, sir.)

I love "Are You A Vegetarian", I only heard it recently too.

Oh yeah and if the new Chateau Flight remix is the track I think it is, that's a serious search too, I think he's probably going to blow up a bit more this year, even if he is a bit leftfield.

Ronan, someone should send you a Rough Guide to Severed Heads CD-R.

Anyway, while I like the Clash loops in "Are You Vegetarian" and the various remixed of "Come Into My Kitchen" (esp. the lyrics), "The Minimum Of Life" is the key track, I think. I love the way it just builds while the robot just keeps repeating "'n' WORK" over and over again, things get louder, and then CRASH BOOM back to the spooky bass line and breakbeat.

its the basement mix of "come into my kitchen that slays me, not the original. im also really digging this joakim remix of seelenluft "i come along", really nice glittery falling keys. can only find it on a klein mix cd tho. stop being down, discogs!!!!

I've seen these referred to as the analog version(the since the accident/Ink version) and the FM version (dead eyes opened ep attached to the Come Visit the Big Bigot CD)

The Air remix is great too.

on that label (future talk), was a tune that i thought was the most unbelievable thing i had ever heard!

kinda like a demented futuro-medieval green velvet.
any more he's done like this?

best thing ever. sounds utterly timeless. love the restrained use of the hook which helps the song seem sparse even when theres a million cute little things going on. theres a lovely balance to the whole thing.

"Come into My Kitchen" and "Are You Vegetarian" have figured prominently in my crate and sets for some time. The Pubahs remix is a total panty-dropper and his Annie remix is pretty great too.

I'm still on the fence with "Wish You Were Gone" but it's growing on me.

"Drum Trax", "Sleep In Hollow Tree", "Three Legged Lantern", "Lonely Hearts", and of course "I Wish You Were Gone" are all great, the rest just comes across as filler.

The album would have been much stronger if he had just included "Teenage Kiss", and the full length version of "I Wish You Were Gone" and removed two of the weaker tracks (and the monster #s for good measure). Hell, add his collaboration with DJ Morpheus as well.

I like to think that part of the sketchy nature of some of the songs is due to him apparently losing a lot of the album recordings in a hard drive failure - but then it's not as if "Fantomes" was lacking it sketchy bits either.

that antena remix is a treat though.

LP

CD

!!!

i like the album - the first half is amazing, kind of what the new lcd soundsystem should be like. then it turns into, like, a desert sessions album without warning. which is kind of ok too but not the same.

how is his colette mix?

Yeah that Camino del Sol remix is gorgeous, as is his Gucci Soundsystem's "Acarpenter" remix.
Haven't heard his Colette mix but the tracklisting (or at least the tracks that I know - not that many) looks great - I love that he's put Guem's "Le Serpent" on it! A great, hypnotizing track.

get physical put the max berlin mix out as the sampler for the second monza compilation. fucken ace.

Yesterday this thread spurred me to download the camino del sol mix, and I'll tell you SO THAT'S WHAT THAT AMAZING SONG I'VE BEEN HEARING FOR THE PAST SIX MONTHS IS! is right.

Obviously it's been very frequently played in the last year, but the funny thing is I thought I had this track on my computer already, and already knew what it was, finding out it was something else was kind of wierd.

I love the Colette CD- a huge improvement over the previous installment's Vitalic mix. I can rip and distribute it tomorrow if anyone's interested.

so shd i check him out for 10$ tonite

i would, definitely

yeah, I would

I caught him saturday ... lots of crazy vocal tweakin, opened w/ Wish You Were Gone, did a Cure cover (A Forest) ... it was fun

I'll be seeing him this weekend in SF w Glass Candy !

me2

see now i'm jealous

He's really good live.

anyone go last night to his show in sf ? i was supposed to but couldn't make it. curious as to how it was .

Remixes compilation out soon on Tigersushi:

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/images/stories/news/joakimcover.jpg

01. Annie - Always Too Late
02. The Chap - Ethnic Instrument
03. DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano
04. Zombie Zombie - Drive This Road Until Death Sets You Free
05. Tiga - Pleasure From The Bass
06. Late Of The Pier - The Bears Are Coming
07. Clashing Egos - Aiming Nebere
08. Alter Ego - Why Not?
09. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
10. Lionel Hampton - Vibromatic
11. Antena - Camino Del Sol
12. Max Berlin - Elle & Moi

No Detroit Grand Pubahs, sadly, but there's some really great shit on here.

HAPPY FACE EMOTICON.

no clor remix either .. humph.

no fischerspooner either :(

but! how great is the DJ Mehdi remix??

The Max Berlin remix is such a stunner, nice way to end it.

while perusing website offering tix to his DJ set this friday in melbs, came across this tidbit:

even Disney wants a piece of Joakim, having commissioned him to rework parts of the soundtrack to cult sci-fi film Tron

?????

cool! i went to see him in sydney last week but didn't stay long, the place was packed with lairy white-shirted blokes for some reason, at a night that normally struggles to sell out. had no idea he was such a big draw for that crowd.

how strange. i wonder if any one remix in particular put him 'over' with that lot? nothing really springs to mind.

can't think why either. maybe he's picked up a following from festivals or something? anyway his set was appropriately banging :-/

I didn't see any lairy blokes in Sydney!
You should have gone down to his set at The Tilbury on Sunday. It was great, with lots of weird and interesting music.
And the crowd was inoffensive enough for anyone's taste.

You should have gone down to his set at The Tilbury on Sunday

not being secret might have helped this!

His new track with The Disco on the Versatile sampler is beastly (in a good way). "Love & Romance & A Special Someone"

great set last night. yo-yoed between classic disco ('underwater'!) and harder electro; best reaction was for the 'camino del sol' remix, which is still amazing. also played 'pocket piano' and 'ethnic instrument' off the remix comp, both really good (the latter is pretty abrasive).

he's really tall!

why can't I find this remix album anywhere in England? FUck you England

he is playing Fabric tonight but I did not go; I am just angrily not finding his cd on he Internet

Downloadable on iTunes but I think it misses off a couple of tracks.

I just bought it direct from Tigersushi

it's annoying that it's out of stock everywhere bogstandard though

Does someone want to tell me if Joakim : Nebula Laughter is at all representative of what he does?

Seems like it's the b-side of a single. I wasn't bothered about the A-side, but this track is spacerock goodness on a platter, especially the last few minutes of it.

it is hilarious how good that remix comp was, considering it leaves off some of his best work ('budapest' dub, 'a mountain for prez', 'big onion'). doesn't it only have an edit of 'camino del sol' too??

kate it doesn't really but you should still dip a toe in, the guy is so all over the shop now style-wise that you'll find something you like. the max berlin remix would probably be a good start if you're fiending for aeroplane-type stuff.

Yeah the Permanent Vacation mix with the Max Berlin remix on it would be a Kate favourite I think. So pretty and swirly.

People probably already know this, but he's got another album due out soon, called The Milky Way or something similar (at work, can't look it up atm)

Didn't know that, thanks for the info. I'll be looking forward to that one, even though Monsters etc. was overlong and a bit boring as a whole.
Interestingly, I noticed that the remix comp that's available on iTunes has quite a different tracklist compared to the fysical release - it has the "Budapest" and "A Mountain for President" remixes! (and also the Gucci Sound System one)

My only problem with Nebula Laughter is that it isn't LONG enough. Like, he should have gone whole hog and done a full-on 18 minute spacerock epic re-edit of it.

This makes me want to listen to La Dusseldorf but I've not got any at work with me. Damn.

(the remix album was pretty hit and miss, TBH.)

The Milky Way is good, but kinda hit and miss. When he's good, he's amazing, but when he's not so good, it's a bit... erm.

NEBULA LAUGHTER, however, might just be my song of the year. I cannot stop listening to this thing. I just want an hour long version of it.

really digging a couple songs on this 'milky way' album, but it's pretty all-over-the-place. the first track is a crazy stoner/space rock jam and it's pretty amazing

The album has, actually, really grown on me with repeated listens.

yea i was going to recommend it to you actually! glad you're coming around

At first the all-over-the-place-ness was slightly annoying - like, VLARGH! a ten minute doomspace anthem! a disco workout! computer generated PROG! some glossy shiny ELEKTRO! a lazy indie boy-girl indie anthem duet with a vocoder! - but now I'm really enjoying the ambition of its range. And it's also quite happily melodic and catchy in a way that was not immediately obvious.

(I still do wish that Nebular Laughter was on it, tho)

the drums sound great on this

love the explosion of shoegazey noize in the second half of nebula laughter, reminds me of that DFA remix of tiga from a while back (a personal fave). my copy has an enormous scratch/scuff mark across the entire song though - luckily hasn't harmed the playback but still ;__;

I really like this but it's hard not to think that it's gonna fall through the cracks and not really click with enough ppl to get talked about - it has a lot of styles and maybe lacks an 'audience' for that. Yeah the drums are *big*, trudat

Well, I'll just keep playing "Spiders" for people until they come around on it.

ha, i just spent spiders to a friend. glossy papers is also amazing.

weird and wonderful record.

He was PROGTASTIC at Pure Groove just now.

And I've just figured out who he reminds me most of, is actually Capitol K. That whole laptoppy proggy synth thing stuck on top of kick-ass disco bass and live drums with added extra Moogy goodness. In a really good way. I like. Lots.

Guys, I'm really in need of some help here. Whomever can provide it will get my deepest thanks. So there's a contest for a free Joakim ticket and the question is: "What you find on Joakim wrist on the inner sleeve of his album 'Milky Ways'?"

anyone? :(

he's coming to the US of States

North American Tour Dates:
July 8th : SF, No Way Back @ 222 Hyde
July 9th : LA, A Club Called Rhonda @ El Cid
July 13th : Washington, Fixed @ UHall
July 14th : Philly, Snacks @ Voyeur
July 16th : NYC, WarmUp @ PS1
July 28th : Chicago, Club Berlin

definitely going to the LA show!

been listening to 'heartbeats' on repeat. it's like a comfort blanket.

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

a slightly ominous comfort blanket.

this is apparently a neil young cover (have never heard the original) but it's nicely bleak/comforting

https://soundcloud.com/joakimbouaziz/joakim-on-the-beach

would recommend listening to that NY album, lex.

i already tried another neil young album and i can't stand his voice