Why doesn't Drew Daniel....

PF only ever seems to provide lucid, plainly understandable writing when they are slating something. I could see it going the way of Melody Maker (in a bad way) if it carries on it's current form.

Creepy? :-( I have the first SPT album.. but only like about half of it. I'm not about to stalk him or anything.

Hey there.

Here's my random thoughts (sleep deprived as I just got back from Berlin and then had to pull an all-nighter to turn in a chapter chunk to my advisor which I have just finished and emailed off- yEssss)

I have an issue with giving numbered ratings to artwork, as a (quasi/pseudo-)musician I don't personally feel cozy with giving albums a 7.2 or a 5.6 or what have you tho I see why real deal music critics should be willing to do so. . . anyway when the chance to possibly write for P-f0rk came up, I thought "oh, I'll just try to write about individual songs so I won't have to hand out evaluations to the decimal". Stupid Me hadn't noticed that there is a numbered system of stars for singles in the WATW column. Duh. Somehow I hadn't processed that part of the site. By the time Stupid Me did notice that, I was already into taking part in this controlled burst manner because it seemed like a chance to sound off about stuff I dig, and I just sort of carried on. One hit and you're hooked, so lay off the music journalism kidz! So there you have it, yes I am being a bit of a hypocrite by getting on a highhorse about number ratings and then compromising on it, but c'est la vie.

Plus I need to focus on band stuff and dissertation stuff first anyway, so putting a limit on how much music writing I do is part of that, and that's why contributing occasionally and only about individual songs lets me kinda be involved but not overly so.

I'm glad you appreciate what i've written; thanks. As for my involvement, it certainly isn't tokenistic on Pitchfork's part in any way; I'm stoked they let me yap about stuff I like on their site and it's as simple as that. I don't agree with everything on that site, and nobody who writes for Pitchfork could. It's an aggregate of lots of people's opinions, and there isn't a mandate or a party line, though there is a demographic overlap of sorts, which I feel tangential to for some reasons (I am in my thirties not my twenties) and close to for other reasons (I didn't grow up in a big coastal city).

I do have an email address too (mcess@prodigy.net). So next time you are curious you should also feel free to just write me directly. I'm pretty hard to creep out, unless you're a Bj0rk-stalker.

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I feel pretty dumb for starting it tbh. Thanks for the reply all the same :)

A thread about my dead ass, though, needs its own space. Obviously.

Rah for Drew! He's a prince of a feller based on his many comments and makes some mighty fine music to boot.

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Drew_Daniel_Fanatics/

I'd love that.

BTW, did anyone read Drew's Invisible Jukebox in the Anthony Braxton issue of the Wire? That may be my favorite jukebox yet, not least because of the photos.

i was reading that wire on the train, and just turned the page and folded to save space. i hadn't noticed the last photo in the process and was standing there flashing it all about the uptown 4/5 train.

when i relized this, holding back the laughter was dead hard.

Either "The Phantom" or "Thunder"... it thumped surely.

Other 90s dahnce heart-throbs include . . . Bomb the Bass? S' Express? Acen? Meat Beat circa Storm the Studio? Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era?

Oh, and who knows if Bam Bam's "Where's Your Child?" is on CD?

Let's keep the Pitchfork h8 to a minimum and the whistles blowing and the smart drinks flowing . . . . .

"UNO, DOS, TRES, QUATRO"
DUN-UN-UN-UN-UN DUN-UN-UN-UN DUN-UN "Ess... Express!"
DUN-UN-UN-UN-UN DUN-UN-UN-UN DUN-UN
DUN DUN
DOODOODEHDEHDEEDEEDON
*303* *303 *303* *303*
"I got the hots for you.. doot do-doot nenh-ne-nenh"
etc.

Ned STILL says this, because it is true.

I'm sure the Grizzly stash is out there on the internet somewhere or other, but I think it's only fair that the Grizzlies get to open the kimono on their own remix project when they choose to. Sorry to be a boyscout about it.

When I saw the title of this thread i was hoping that maybe it would be actually helpful advice about what I should do with my life.

advice for life: you should throw a Drew festival once a year. Drewfest. I'd go. You curate it. It'd be fun. I can do cartoon sketches of guests a la central park style

Drew's talk last night at the Guggenheim was awesome, I heard. I got to meet Richard McGuire, which was AWESOME. He's a nice gentleman. I didn't get to hear him speak, sadly...

where can one find some writings of mr. daniel?

― Rizz (Rizz), Tuesday, February 8, 2005 2:02 AM (3 years ago)

Just to reinforce something I said elsewhere, Drew's book on 20 Jazz Funk Greats is grebt

I'm pretty hard to creep out, unless you're a Bj0rk-stalker.

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― Drew Daniel

It's funny cos it's drew! Bj0rk-stalkers are implacably aggressive defenders of their pixie-muse.

Oh man, I just got home from that 24 hour marathon, it was pretty crazy. I tried to stay up for all of it, but I wound up going to sleep at 6 am, crashing on a beanbag in front of Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho installation, and then the noise of the janitors coming into the gallery at 8:20 am woke me up right when the grinning skull of Norman Bates' dead mom pops up on the screen: best way to wake up ever. I wound up staying from 6 pm yesterday til 7 pm today but I had to leave just before Grubbs played for the second time. It was exhausting and energizing, very weird and fun thing to do i must say.

Matmos album was voted #1 in 2008 Brainwashed poll, btw:

Album of the Year

Matmos, "Supreme Balloon" (Matador)

"This is far and away the best record Matmos has ever released. Their signature cadence, abrupt editing style, and virtuosic tendencies are all present, but without a gimmick in sight. I've loved many of their past albums, but this one is more pure and potent." - Lucas Schleicher

"To me 2008 was year of the synth, where releases like this and from Four Tet and Bomb The Bass brilliantly exploited the sounds of the synth. This album is easily the cream of the crop." - Jon Whitney

"In my review for the album, I complained about the lack of a central conceptual conceit uniting the songs on Supreme Balloon. It's true that the album isn't as rigidly structural or conceptually playful as albums like The Rose Has Teeth or A Chance to Cut, but over time it reveals itself as joyfully perverse and masterful in its own unique way. And it must be said that the 2xLP version is vastly superior to the mass-market CD version, both because of its beautiful artwork and the full complement of bonus tracks, which are some of my favorite tracks recorded for these sessions." - Jonathan Dean

"Matmos proves they don't have to sample the sound of ejaculation or use slugs and laser beams to make a great record. The result of their retreat from microphones is pure electronic bliss." - Justin Patrick

http://www.brainwashed.com/

hi drew can i just get your response to this dream 1 time:

recently on ILX Dreams...

Irrelevant post but:

I tried to stay up for all of it, but I wound up going to sleep at 6 am, crashing on a beanbag in front of Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho installation, and then the noise of the janitors coming into the gallery at 8:20 am woke me up right when the grinning skull of Norman Bates' dead mom pops up on the screen: best way to wake up ever.

Reminds me of the time that I once fell asleep in the middle of a class on Rem Koolhaas, only to wake up, totally disoriented, to a huge projected slide of a drawing of a bunch of naked men in a gym wearing boxing gloves.

you studied architecture?

For the first year and a half of my undergraduate career. Formally, it was pretty much over right after it began, really (I should get it together and start auditing classes).

somehow i have never noticed you until this week, on this and the skateboarding threads

nice to "meet" you anyways

Nice to "meet" you too (incidentally one week ago marked 4 years on ILX for me).
(It's also ridiculous that that's the only real skateboarding thread on ILX)

but enough thread hijacking. .

drew

I always feel like I'm in trouble when I see this thread title, like my chops are gonna get busted . . .

did u get a haircut or

(researchin ur life)

Drew, can you tell me about the student with the samurai sword?

i always forget that 'Neotropical pygmy squirrel' is drew d