Luciano & Phil Quenum - Orange Mistake

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There's a thread devoted to "Beau Mot Plage" so I figured this needs one also. Talk about how life affirmingly perfect this tune is.

― coral/coral/coral, Monday, 25 July 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Never heard it.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

When those hyperactive synths come in it's so wheezingly joyful, like if Maurizio was a jester or something.

― coral/coral/coral, Monday, 25 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

ysiiiiiii?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

What else has Phil Quenum done btw?

― coral/coral/coral, Monday, 25 July 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

i am pretty sure this is the tune mayer played when i saw him that i said sounded like "it was being disassembled and reassembled as it played, like it was made of lego blocks". if it's not, it certain fits that descripition. awesome.

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 25 July 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

Yeah spot on! It's a bit like that White Stripes video where they're all disa./reas. into angular Nintendo pixels. (YSI on it's way.)

― coral/coral/coral, Monday, 25 July 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

So incredibly classic in every way! The main melody is so wild and playful, and I love how the drums become more supple and orgiastic as the song progresses.

The final phrase of the melody where the drums briefly drum out kills me every time, because you know he's gonna brings back the beginning of the melody/groove even harder than it was before.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

I am also haunted by this track every time I hear that single by The Bravery (which I know only from the Superdiscount remix.)

"Don't look at me that way, it was an orange mistake."

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

i thought of it as sort of decaying organ sound, its amazing. the gliss when it drops, and the bass throb. and then the repeat, slowed down drop in the melody.

i want to hear this in a club :(

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

i want to hear this in a club :(

Yeah. Or even a reissue of the 12-inch. Or maybe a compilation of Luciano w/ mates (probably would amount to a double cd since all these tracks run over 10 minutes.)

Anyway...amazing track.

― Omar (Omar), Monday, 25 July 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

http://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3S6GNW98B9KMW2DJYAU2WW9BPO

― coral/coral/coral, Monday, 25 July 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Finally, a sentiment I can get with!

An absolute classic. Sounds great on the Optimo comp too.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

this is not so good. straight ripping-off of japanese techno circa 1996. the great, mysterious AKIO MILAN PAAK and the other anonymous madmen on fumiya tanaka's crucial TOREMA label.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.citynerd.com/simpsons/grandpavoice.gif

― strng hlkngtn, Monday, 25 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

haha perfect!

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

The flip is a banger as well, it has ultra gay spoken word vocals.

― coral/coral/coral, Monday, 25 July 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

Great track! I feel like my innards are being shaken like a Martini! (still, not in the same league as "Beau Mot Plage," but little is...)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 25 July 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

Actually the vocals aren't that gay but they're how I'd imagine these dudes speak

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"This is nice, so cool, so funk... funky dondy!"

― coral/coral/coral, Monday, 25 July 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

I love this track too - I agree it sounds best on the Optimo mix.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 25 July 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

I hadn't heard that long version before. Even though it's simple, whenever I listen to it I can't get my head around how quite he fitted the organ part in, like was it done live or what?

― Telegram Sam, Monday, 25 July 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Hi, I wrote the promo for this record. The title refers to the way that synth arrangement happened, 'by mistake'. That's what they said, meaning chance, and that's nice.

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 25 July 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

here are a couple examples of the style of japanese techno i was referring to:

>tanzmuzik - version city episode (akio milan paak remix)
flare - grip (ken ishii mix)

(yousendit links)

both are coming from a slightly different place than the luciano track. tanzmuzik being on fumiya tanaka's label it's absurdly crammed-together and hyped-up, prob to make it easier for hard techno djs to fit into their sets. ken ishii on the other hand was listening to lots of coldcut and squarepusher in 1996, so we've got a breaks-heavy leftfield IDM track.

but i think there's something eerily similar in the method. milanpaak and ishi both sound like they're reacting to the polish of mid-90s minimal techno by purposely choosing the most awkward, lopsided synth riffs to loop. ishii is having the same sort of demented fun with the wheezy, grainy textures of analog synth and underscores the point with the cheesiest sampled percussion ever. milanpaak skips the fancy processing on his drums and synth in favor of brutal edits, which he also applies (with some wild filtering) on loleatta holloway's monologue, turning her into a manic human 303.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

tanzmuzik - version city episode (akio milanpaak remix)

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

(tanzmuzik track is great, although i'm too tired to listen for similarities.)

btw...whatever happened to that Luciano mixcd (on Mental Groove?) that was supposed to be released this year?

― Omar (Omar), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

It's a fantastic record.

Though of course it is so good that when I got it I listened to it constantly, and everyone was playing it, so now I tend to head for the other side which is just as cool and crazy. And not particularly gay; well certainly not 'ultra gay'.

― Bn1, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

It's called "Funky Dondy"!!

― coral/coral/coral, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

sorry im mystified, i cant see any link between those two japanese tracks and "orange mistake", sonically.
and the ken ishii track was well boring. i think calling orange mistake a "straight rip off" is slightly absurd.

granted, the ishii track had a sort of organ noise in it....

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

coral : Phil has an arm-long discography as he was part of UK techno act Access 58, who released loads of records during the 90s. He was also part of the short-lived Jaam project, downtempo/jazz oriented. Now he releases on Cadenza and other continental labels. He's just been signed to a certain 4-letter UK label (no, not Warp) for their new sub-label.

Omar : Mental Groove Records and Luciano have parted ways and there is no mix CD scheduled for release at this time.

― blunt (blunt), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:02 (twenty years ago)

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