Recent things on Warp Records

the home video EP from last year was nice

May I just say at this point that the Harmonic 33 album is absolutely fantastic. Though the concept and packaging suggest a tongue-in-cheek attempt at library music, this is far from throwaway and much much more than an in-joke.

For all those who have been waiting patiently for a follow-up to Plone's "For Beginner Piano", this may be the next best thing. Mark Pritchard and Dave Brinkworth avoided using samples of original library music and ended up making some rather whimsical stuff. I don't know how much of this uses real instruments and how much is synths and samples but it works.

The album manages to remain a fun and interesting listen without over-egging the library concept. There's very little irony to the whole thing and this makes the compositions both modern and innovative.

Can someone remind me who Pritchard and Brinkworth used to be please? Chz.

maximo park is a decent little guitar band. i like 100% of their single "the coast is always changing" and 68.9% of their album.

Can someone remind me who Pritchard and Brinkworth used to be please? Chz.

Mark Pritchard? Jedi Knights.

both maximo park and home video = great, but i don't understand what they're doing on warp (ok perhaps home video fit in, being a pastiche of radiohead being a pastiche of other warp acts)

Well, Warp has/d Red Snapper and Broadcast, so... I love Maximo Park's singles (especially the last one) but there is nothing techno about them, no.

again, the mix CD that comes with the DVD is just brilliant

I ought to dig that out again Stevem. The fact it came free with the DVD and isn't in amongst my other CDs makes me forget to ever play it. I only heard it once but it was fun trying to play "name that track".

it sort of sucks that arcola died such a fast death.

search:

prince - "uptown" (brothomstates re-edit)
dub kult - "bells of death"
denis rusnak - "working sister"
louis digital - "ecology of fear"
brothomstates - "rktic"
brothomstates - "matala bobo"
cane - "teknotest"
milane - "vanilla monkey"

the brothomstates tracks are head-and-shoulders above the rest but all those tracks are killer!

maximo park = futureheads lite

i couldn't get into that home video EP last year. felt like a watered down "idioteque" to me.

To recap - that Harmonic 33 is just so so good! I've decided it's how I wish the Two Lone Swordsmen had made their last album instead of going all Post-Punk.

cutty VERY otm. but, mark p is otm as well - 'the coast is always changing' is lovely and a great melodramatic guilty pleasure.

i dunno. I think maximo park are slightly more interesting than the Futureheads. However I think they are a cross between Franz Ferdinand and The Futureheads.

I like the way that they take really good pop melodies, and twist and turn them around within the 4 min pop song.