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Is there a thread on this yet? I really enjoyed this on first listen on the way in today. They seem to understand the point of layering and building more than most of these other Justice knock-offs that are springing up, there's more than just going DURR DURR DURR and chopping up some vocoder over the top. Still, it's very catchy.

I predict a lot of people will disagree with me. Feel free to do so here.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 June 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

MSTRKRFT represents everything that is right with electro-rock.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 22 June 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

so just how on earth do i ask/pronounce this bands name then ?

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 22 June 2006 09:10 (nineteen years ago)

Masterkrafter?

I would like to hear this, but I hope it is not too rocky.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 22 June 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am bearing in mind that Matt DC had no shame in 'moshing' to Rage Against The Fucking Machine at the End!

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 22 June 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

i too am bearing in mind that matt likes fun. i have one track off this album courtesey of matt, and it is pretty ace. i might look for the whole album

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 22 June 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

'Masterkraft', I thought. I like this much more than Justice I think. They tend to rely on going BASH! a lot, there's a bit more awareness of the dancefloor here. Some of it is very French-sounding, with a bit more scuzziness.

One track, Street Justice, has an axe solo, but I predict you'll like it Lex.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

That said, this stuff is all going to inspire some fucking dreadful bands, isn't it. Have the NME called 'nu-rave' yet?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:04 (nineteen years ago)

i expect i'll like it too! i love justice so it follows.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

Have the NME called 'nu-rave' yet?

There's a compilation already, it was in their playlist this week but I forget the title. The Klaxons and that lot are on it.

I have a MSTRKRFT remix of the new Gossip single to my right, pretty decent. Haven't heard this though

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

This video for "Easy Love" will never, ever, see the light of day on MTV.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

But I had to watch it twice.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Justice but I've liked everything I've heard from MSTRKRFT. Haven't heard the Looks yet but 'Street Justice' is killah!

― Roz (Roz), Thursday, 22 June 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

I like the album but nowhere near as much as their remix work. I can absolutely vouch for "Easylove"'s dancefloor-wrecking powers, though.

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Thursday, 22 June 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am kind of feeling MSTRKRFT lately but can somebody explain to me why this stuff packs dancefloors in this town (So-Cal) while more trad house/techno/electronic music clears em? It all sounds the same in structure to me. Is it that rock kids need distortion/fuzzy sounds to get down? Kind of mystifying.

― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 22 June 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Kids need MySpace to get down.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 22 June 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone seen MSTRKRFT Dj? They're playing here on Saturday and I'm curious as to what I can expect.

― jeffery (jeffery), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I missed them when they played here in MTL, but my friend Guillaume caught them and was quite underwhelmed, despite being a fan of the remixes n' stuff they've done. The other kid, not Jesse, but what's his name, did some interesting Avalanches-like stuff under the Girls Are Short moniker previously...

― Jay Watts III (jaywatts), Thursday, 22 June 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

The new Cursor Miner album is kind of in this vein. I haven't heard the whole thing yet but there's a surprisingly great Van Halen cover.

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 22 June 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

ugh.....I hate all this shit and I've never even heard mstrkrft

digitalism are the only one of these acts that are any good, but in any case I can't stand this happy go lucky indie dance, it makes me want to play the most repetetive "go nowhere" minimal I can find for several hours.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

The other kid, not Jesse, but what's his name, did some interesting Avalanches-like stuff under the Girls Are Short moniker previously...

The second Death From Above single has a Girls Are Short remix on, which I was under the impression was also Jesse's work. It's a wholly unabashed and thus enjoyable Daft Punk homage

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 22 June 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

ronan, i thought this whole techno grouch steez yr laying down was anathema to you! surely you can at least understand this style.

"and I've never even heard mstrkrft"??

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

the whole Vice/Ed Banger/Modular thing is an axis of . . . well, I dunno, but the Melbourne indie dance scene was pretty terrifying. also MSTRKRFT = one of the people out of DFA1979, one of the worst things EVER.

(maybe the album'll be good, who knows)

― etc (esskay), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

(I mean, do they have a catchy novelty "Needy Girl"/"Do I Look Like A Slut" track in them, or even a "Never Be Alone" style anthem?)

― etc (esskay), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

DFA79 is teh awesome.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

i saw them dj last weekend. it was fun, about what you'd expect, harder electro-house, more live drums, juan maclean, some of their own shit. there were only like 50 people there but we all were super-drunk and dancing storms. so yeah you should go especially if you live in a town like mine where rarely are there decent dance events and when there is, half the crowd doesn't dance.

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 22 June 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

the Melbourne indie dance scene was pretty terrifying. - haha, it's true!

― indie disco dancer, sweet romancer (haitch), Friday, 23 June 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

i went out to a club (for pleasure?) for the first time this year and the soundtrack was about 80% mstrkrft / simian / justice / banging remixes of disco tunes (scouse disco??). my god, it was awful but i can't deny how much everyone there was loving it.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 23 June 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

MSTRKRFT: too many handclaps.

― turtledoveDIES! (turtledoveDIES!), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

mstrkrft / simian / justice / banging remixes of disco tunes (scouse disco??)

I'm pretty sure MSTRKRFT is the only act out of this whole scene that I like at all, but I just can't resist a couple of their songs (and don't actively hate the rest).

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Friday, 23 June 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

I hate it becase it's all just an excuse for people to listen to shit rock music!

Plus I hate the way alot of this stuff veers close to "let's all jump up and down and shout and dance! hooray!" organised fun-indie.

It's crept up on me, probably with the way the whole electrohouse scene has kind of split, but I really am starting to go beyond just dislike for all this stuff, it's just so so horribly studenty and awful.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 June 2006 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

What's the view on Headman? My indie-loving girlfriend loves his Resident Advisor podcast. It's got some simian type stuff and some more 'ravey' stuff. Pretty catchy on headphones but I can imagine being grossed out by the crowd in a club where they play this kind of thing...

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:21 (nineteen years ago)

ugh.....I hate all this shit and I've never even heard mstrkrft

Haha. Dance music Lex! In fairness I think you probably wouldn't like it, except maybe Paris and a couple of the more French sounding tracks.

I don't understand where this split is supposed to have occurred. Every time I've been out recently this stuff has been there in the same nights as the techier end of electrohouse - different points in the night maybe. And everything goes minimal past about 4 anyway.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 June 2006 07:22 (nineteen years ago)

I hate it becase it's all just an excuse for people to listen to shit rock music!
Plus I hate the way alot of this stuff veers close to "let's all jump up and down and shout and dance! hooray!" organised fun-indie.

OTM. I had to play two student-heavy parties last weekend and I found it infinitely frustrating that Justice and MSTRKRFT would fill the floor with pogoing indie-twats who left at the first sign of anything techy (admittedly this says as much about me as them). Bizzarely the same crowd was going mad for dubstep.

Justice/Simian/MSTRKRFT are to electrohouse/minimal as Pendulum are to drum&bass.

― jng (jng), Friday, 23 June 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

So Justice/MSTRKFT 2005-06 = Prodigy/Chemical Brothers 1995-96?

This means t minus 12 months to ELECTROHOUSE FATBOY SLIM hahaha.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 June 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

to be fair if i hadn't heard justice et al before they were described to me, i would have taken against them as well. but 'waters of nazareth'! DNNN! DNN-DNNN! etc.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 23 June 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

MSTRKRFT ain't electro-house; if you call it that then stop.

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

ugh.....I hate all this shit and I've never even heard mstrkrft

I hate it becase it's all just an excuse for people to listen to shit rock music!

Plus I hate the way alot of this stuff veers close to "let's all jump up and down and shout and dance! hooray!" organised fun-indie.

- Ronan

What else do you hate, hater?

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Friday, 23 June 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

i actually like some of justice's productions -- which i didn't want to, honestly -- but i am also irked by the RECEPTION of the stuff, the fact that in the US it seems to be the "acceptable" dance music du jour for indie kids; i also don't really care for its approach to form ("jump up and down organized fun" is a good way of describing that kind of form's effect); i think more than anything i'm annoyed that this "new french touch" (whatevs) is getting much media backing, as though it were the only worthy development in dance music. and the way the PR for it (vice, what else could i expect) highlights "drunk frenchmen jumping up and down..." -- there are other ways to rave (and other substances!)).

i checked that MSTRKRFT video and remain mystified. what is the appeal of that track again?

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 23 June 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

the jumping up and down indie pogo dance drives me nuts. dance you fuckers!

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

SAY NO TO POGO KIDS

― jng (jng), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've suddenly realised that there just hasn't BEEN a Dance Music For Indie Kids for about five years*, since all that 'dance is dead' stuff started appearing. It's a bit weird to see it back in today's landscape.

(*DFA doesn't count, that's indie music for dance kids)

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 23 June 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

MSTRKRFT: too many handclaps.

NEVER ENOUGH HANDCLAPS

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 23 June 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

I like death From Above 1979 and Justice and pogoing and booze and drowning kittens but I'm listening to this album now and it does nothing for me. It's too generic, too personality free, too hook free and sounds a bit sterile in a trapped-inside-a-lsptop-with-plugins way. About half sounds plitely post-Justice but a lot of it sounds like a less fun Chromeo.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

i checked that MSTRKRFT video and remain mystified. what is the appeal of that track again?

daft punk innit. sub-braxe but still fun. summertime.

― jergins (jergins), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's an awful, gutless post "Call On Me" video upthread as well.

(xpost)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

there just hasn't BEEN a Dance Music For Indie Kids for about five years*

erm....what? ELECTROHOUSE ahoy!

it is the ultimate dance music for indie kids, surely the most succesful dance music for indie kids to date, that's where this stuff has come from. I think it goes beyond being dance music for indie kids too, it's something new, neither dance nor indie, like music for people who like going out and doing drugs but do not like dance music....something more along these lines.

the thing is I have no problems with actual guitars or whatever, I love loads of rocky house tracks, I just think this sound is just "a bit of a laugh" for people who'd probably rather you were playing indie rock all night anyhow.

MSTRKRFT ain't electro-house; if you call it that then stop.

Yeah I agree, it's bad rock music.

what else do you hate, hater

Bad rock music.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I mean seriously, IS IT REALLY SO HARD TO LISTEN TO A GENRE ON ITS OWN!!!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

not if you're wearing a minimal scarf. clearly, what indie dance is lacking is an indie-dance scarf.

[take me seriously at yr own peril.]

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

if there's a non indie scarf invented I've yet to see it!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 23 June 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

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A burst of AC/DC dropped in at the right point in a house set can sound amazing

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

which DJs were dropping a token rock/metal track into an otherwise largely dance set 4 years ago? i know 2 Many DJs and Alkan were - anyone else stand out for that gimmick?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Tiga too probably (remember him dropping 'She Sells Sanctuary' at The End one time)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hollertronix to thread

― nancyboy (nancyboy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

Reports of that EvilNine mix cd say that the actual mixing on it is AWFUL.

― pher (pher), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever this sound is being called, it's got its own Fabric mix now:

Cut Copy - Fabriclive 29

01 - Joakim – I Wish You Were Gone – Versatile
02 - Cut Copy – Future Unlimited – Modular
03 - Munk – Disco Clown – Gomma
04 - Who Made Who – Hello Empty Room – Gomma
** - Cut Copy – Future Unlimited - Modular
05 - New Young Pony Club – Get Dancey – alt< Recordings
06 - In Flagranti – Bang Bang – Codek
07 - Goldfrapp – Slide In [DFA Remix] – Mute
08 - Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened [Extended Mix] – SevCom
09 - Who Made Who – Out The Door [Super Discount Remix] – Gomma
10 - Daft Punk – Face To Face – Virgin
11 - The Presets – Truth and Lies – Modular
12 - MSTRKRFT – Work On You – Last Gang
13 - B.W.H. – Stop – Radius
14 - The Faint – Your Retro Career Melted [Ursula 1000 Remix] – Saddle Creek
15 - Soulwax – E Talking [Tiga’s Disco Drama Remix] – PIAS
16 - Ciccone Youth – Into The Groovey – Ciccone Youth
17 - Justice – Waters of Nazareth [Erol’s Dur Dur Durrr Re-Edit] – Ed Banger
18 - Grauzone – Eisbär – Welt
19 - Riot In Belgium – The Acid Never Lies – Relish
20 - Midnight Juggernauts – Shadows – Cutters
21 - Fred Falke – Omega Man – Work It Baby
22 - Daniel Diamond – Champu – City Rockers
23 - Roxy Music – Angel Eyes – EMI
24 - Cut Copy – Going Nowhere [Whitey Remix] – Modular
25 - Cut Copy – Dream Sequence - Modular

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

tHE 80'S >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> tHE 80'S REVIVAL

FIND A NEW FUCKING DECADE, PLEASE!

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 July 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever this sound is being called

"tired"

OOH BURN

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

I like how the tracklisting complements this thread, as if Cut Copy's selections were based on reading all the previous posts here.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

Really, I think the only '80's revivalists who haven't induced a gaping huge yawn from me this entire bastard of a half-decade, and more to the point are capable of recalling anything from it semi-believably in their music other than "oh... black clothes, synth-pop-electro, cocaine, fashion, emptiness, boredom, everything I read it was like..." are the fucking GO TEAM!!

FUCK THIS SHIT ONCE AND FOR ALL! tHE GO TEAM ARE DANCE-ROCK I CAN GET BEHIND!! OR AT LEAST I WILL WHEN I GET ROUND TO BUYING THEIR ALBUM...

god this stuff has really begun to PISS ME OFF.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

I like how the tracklisting complements this thread, as if Cut Copy's selections were based on reading all the previous posts here.

-- Michael F Gill

blog consensus is the new 00's "alternative" music for shut-ins.

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

blog consensus is the new 00's "alternative" music for shut-ins.

-- fandango (...), July 17th, 2006.

ding ding ding! except you can't avoid seeing these people/hearing this music out & about, believe me.

tho haha wrt/ YR NEW AUSTRALIAN OVERLORDS . . . did anyone see this coming? poor Avalanches . . .

― etc (esskay), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

SO disappointed they didn't put 'ride on time' on there, the last two times I've seen them DJ they've played it!

― finest quality internets beef (haitch), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:47 (nineteen years ago)

could actually see 'waters of nazareth' finally make sense mixed into something like 'eisbar'. maybe.

― finest quality internets beef (haitch), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was hoping "Riot In Belgium – The Acid Never Lies" would be some awesome old New Beat track...

WHY DID I GOOGLE WHY... FUCKING VOCODERS AGAIN!! CHER, I TAKE IT BACK!!

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 17 July 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

australians making significant contributions to pop culture? oh dear, it's the early 80s again ...

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

WHY DON'T YOU GO MARK A PAPER OR SOMETHING.

― finest quality internets beef (haitch), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Cut Copy - Fabriclive 29

D+

― the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

ding ding ding!

― Moonwalkbjrain (chaki), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

I hate fun.

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have kind of passively avoided this stuff but Vahid's comparison to Par-T-One's "I'm So Crazy" makes me want to check it out more, I adore that track so much. Fond memories of hearing it while destroyed at a Sydney Mardi Gras afterparty at the beginning of 2002 and thinking "there should be a whole sub-genre of this rock-house thing"... OH NO!

The tune that no-one has mentioned in this thread, which strikes me as something of a forerunner as well, is "Where's Your Head At". That always got huge reactions at any not-altogther-dance-loving club night I ever went to. I've always thought that the rise of electroclash-->electrohouse and their emphasis on cold synth textures kind of derailed what appeared to be a logical development at the time.

None of the tracks in this new style I've heard have had as much songstructure as "I'm So Crazy" or "Where's Your Head At", despite the presence of rock vocals, distortion etc. It's mostly intro-build-up-bosh-bosh-bosh, yes?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

apparently DFA1979 are nicknamed "Politening Bolt" by fans of that other band XD

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

It's mostly intro-build-up-bosh-bosh-bosh, yes?

yes. new digitalism single is EXACTLY this, f'rinstance. (+ no vocals.)

― finest quality internets beef (haitch), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

cutcopy fabric >>>>> evil nine fabric (which has some of the WORST MIXING I HAVE EVER HEARD EVEN INCLUDING MY OWN DRUNKEN ATTEMPTS)

new digitalism single, if you mean 'jupiter room', is ACE.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 07:14 (nineteen years ago)

australians making significant contributions to pop culture? oh dear, it's the early 80s again ...

Which is why INXS sampling "I'm So Crazy" is an unacknowledged forerunner!

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

solo Fred Falke? i wonder what that's like.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly how you expect it to sound, judging by the one track I've heard.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

do MSTRKRFT only own 1 drum machine? I'm sure every song i've heard is Roland TR-707 and nothing else.

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Thursday, 20 July 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

The Fred Falke 12" came out a few months ago on Work It Baby, it does indeed sound exactly what you think it would sound like (and it's pretty good too.)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 20 July 2006 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

DJ Funk remix of Justice 'let there be light' = great

― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 20 July 2006 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

The way these guys get caught between the Scylla and Charybdis-like twin rockisms of indie dudes and dance fans on the web is pretty laughable. There's obviously better stuff in this genre but the record isn't as bad as the reviews it's been getting. I like how stripped down it sounds, the way it to a few different noises. But what do I know?

― xavier (xave), Thursday, 3 August 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

it's good for about two plays.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 3 August 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

i have seriously mellowed on this stuff, btw

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i think it might be because it's ALL I'VE HEARD when i've gone out this year. this stuff and that baile funk track with the DURN-DUH-DUH-DUH horn fanfare.

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

i kinda LIKE the "let's all jump up and down" aspect of it

― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

really like the Para One mix of 'Work On You' - probably cos it reminds me of Medicine8 (but this means of course it sounds kinda 4-5 years ago)

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 9 October 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I missed this thread first time around. I think it's ok in small doses but when DJs slam you with it non stop there's just no dynamics, half the room may be jumping up and down screaming the other half is just like, I'm tired, play something quiet for a second so I can slow down for a bit, then get excited again!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 9 October 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Dan totally OTM there. Although I've never noticed this 'jumping up and down' reaction to this stuff in a club. And that includes indie clubs, where the reaction is usually 'widespread shuffle in the direction of the bar asap'.

I haven't actually listened to this album at all since the week I started the thread, although I've taken a bit of a break from dance music altogether without even realising it.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 9 October 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

i played a set a couple weeks ago and didn't bring music. i finished my set with the soulwax dub of the robbie williams track that they remixed. i told another dj that i didn't expect to play for so long and didn't really bring anything out that would work after that song, so he should feel free to put something on. lo and behold, he foists upon me a mstrkrft record. i put it on (it was 'work on you') and half the room kinda sighed all at the same time, the other half didn't seem to notice that anything had been spoiled.

i've definitely turned on mstrkrft, but my enthusiasm for a lot of other stuff on this thread is mostly undiminished. that said, i've been playing less of it just because so many other people are playing it.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 9 October 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

didn't bring ENOUGH music that should say

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 9 October 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

sammy d and alland biyali played a pretty rad set this past weekend. almost every record was like the house response to all this stuff. lots of switch in there.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 9 October 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

also everyone should check out Sneaky Sound System - I Love It (Bag Raiders Dub mix), which you can d/l here: http://ladecadanse.blogspot.com/2006/10/less-talk-more-rave.html ... this stuff is becoming just plain ol wonderful french house.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 9 October 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Alland Byallo's new single on Liebe Detail is great.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

that's his name. knew i wasn't quite right.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

damn this thread is old for an album that aint out yet. (or is it ?)
got it in the post today.
its very one dimensional and wears you down ..

― mark e, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

has been out a while! it is pretty wearing, i like 'work on you' though.

― haitch, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

australians making significant contributions to pop culture? oh dear, it's the early 80s again ...
the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid) on Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:02

WHY DON'T YOU GO MARK A PAPER OR SOMETHING.
finest quality internets beef (haitch) on Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:07

Cut Copy - Fabriclive 29

D+
the fuckablity of late picasso (vahid) on Tuesday, 18 July 2006 10:10

this was such a great zing, even if it was at my expense.

― haitch, Friday, 2 March 2007 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

I certainly enjoyed the Essential Mix they did the other day, but I'm worried that I can't spot the elements in their music that are distinctly Canadian and therefore lame.

― Chelvis, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

I can't believe I actually went to bat for these guys in 2006. :\

― JefferyMac, Wednesday, 28 May 2008 17:44 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

So years after the fact, I picked this up on John Justen's recommendation and fucking love it to death. I don't think I've bought anything exuding so much relentless, uncomplicated fun in years.

― Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Thursday, 9 October 2008 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

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