Supermayer - Save the World

ambiguo boys?

There's a bit of discussion of this on the Kompakt thread but it probably deserves its own thread. Anyway, excited.

I don't get why the excitement about this. Nothing they have done together has been even remotely as good as their own solo work.

For a start this is their first own material instead of remixing others. Also they've been fooling around in their/mayer's new studio which, combined with the coverart, makes me think we're in for a wonderfully weirded-out concept album. Which gets me excited but will put a lot of people off as well I gather.

fair enough, yeah I think I'm more put off by the conceptual nature of it, seems a bit late in the day for Kompakt concept albums.

It's the conceptual nature that I'm looking forward, the more pop the better as far as I'm concerned.

why don't they just do a musical or something

That would be awesome!

I've been hoping their own work together turns out something like their remixes for Gui Boratto and Geiger, i.e. bouncy, infectious dance music. That said, the description in the press release ("indiepop and laidback, lounge-y jams") scares me.

the press release has overstated the case. if anything it's not conceptual ENOUGH.

They had an original track on Total 6 which I thought was isn't that bad.

I listened to a bit of their single and was not liking it at all, which took me as a little of a suprise, because after seeing the cover art and concept and what have you, my expectations became suprisingly high. "It can't be bad, look at the cover art/they're superheroes!"

That and Michael Mayer there looks suspiciously like once popular wrestler, The Rock.

have only heard "two of us," which wasn't cutting it for me at first. too kitchen sink or something. but after several tries it's growing on me. need to hear it loud. very rekids-y.

Correction, that track on total 6 was Thomas/Mayer not Supermayer. My mistake.

Nothing they have done together has been even remotely as good as their own solo work.

and this album manages to be even worse than their solo albums. 'two of us' isnt too bad though

mehlt, you mean 'panic room'? i love it!

Wow, The Art Of Letting go is so, so lame.

Two of us is one of my favourite tracks of the year but apart from that really quite, quite lame.

I know that a one line negative answer is incredibly lazy and is one of the lamest trends on ILM but really this doesn't even grab me enough for me to give it a well thought out dressing down. No good rhythms or memorable melodies.

http://gfx2.decks.de/decks/gfx/co_mid/front/end_e/bop-ze.jpg

the glockenspiel "hook" on two of us is rank. good track up til then but that thing renders it pretty much unlistenable.

I actually like some of the non-dance interludes and so on, all a bit krautrock. Erm, and Saturndays is good.

The rest of it really isn't very good at all, though.

Nevertheless, they're both DJing at Plastic People this Wednesday, which should be nice. Come along.

I strangely like this, but a lot of it is very un-Kompakt sounding. This has definitely been the year Kompakt full lengths have really embraced their indie crossoverness and downplayed their techno/minimal roots.

Anyone who bigs up the Modeselektor album over this clearly has cloth ears

hadn't noticed many people making that comparison?

(haven't heard this fwiw)

Album's turning out a grower, I like it quite a bit. Next single, "The Art of Letting Go", will contain a remix by Ewan Pearson. Should/could be terrific.

the art of letting go sounds like gorillaz

thumbs down

michael mayer's production work does nothing for me (superpitcher is okay i guess).

MM should stick to dj'ing and running a label. sorry.

definitely wouldn't go that far

'hush hush baby' and 'falling hands' and 'amanda'???

...and 'speaker' and 'heaven'...

'privat'

i think 'heiden' was the one i really liked off his album but cant remember

Okay fair enough.

I'd rather spend an hour listening to 'Immer' or SuperP's 'Today' mix than any of their own stuff though. But that's just me.

I think my favorite track on this is "Please Sunrise."

Mayer is a brill. producer even if this album is poor.

Random Michael Mayer Top Ten fuxx you:

1. Amabile (srsly)
2. Falling Hands
3. Love Is Stronger Than Pride
4. Amanda
5. Hush Hush Baby
6. Heiden
7. Speaker
8. X
9. Lovefood
10. Privat

Special bonus points for his remix of The Modernist's "Protest Song" - WOW.

Thanks for that list, Tim. I haven't heard all of them.

Please Sunrise is actually really good, too. But what's really good is the SuperMayer remix of Good Evening by Geiger (which is on Immer 2). I LOVE that track (although I just read a hilarious review of it on Resident Advisor It’s one of the most pompous, overblown pieces of Wagnerian microtrance I’ve heard in a good while. Superstinky. ).

"Stop. Somebody scream."

haha just read Tim's review of this on pitchfork for the first time and ...

Rather than execute an unlikely pop-contraption with deadpan seriousness, "The Art of Letting Go" sounds like a giant arrow pointing to a raised eyebrow.

->O_o

??

giant arrow pointing to raised eyebrow = HEY LOOK THIS IS NOT DEADPAN SERIOUSNESS, NOTE THE RAISED EYEBROW

(I guess technically the raised eyebrow is a feature of knowing "deadpan" comedy, but you know what he means)

nah i know what he means, just all the talk of arrows and raised eyebrows made me think of spending too much time at ilx making emoticons. that could very well be purely on me and not tim tho

I think the secret, for me at least, with Supermayer, is that you really have to shove aside all techno expectations and look at them as a real pop band, not just kompakt-pop. By which I mean that Goyte Remix written of on This month in Techno is just beautiful, a very wonderful song.
Although I must say, theres times I fear Kompakt might start heading in similar directions as Warp, but that's discussion for another thread.

that remix is fucking killer!

thanks for digging it up, ph1l

Band is actually called Gotye, not Goyte, band is actually one dude, not a band, and the song is called "Hearts A Mess" (sic), not "A Mess"

Point duly noted (ha, I thought the name was a (more) phonetic spelling of Goethe)

xpost: yes, thanks a lot!

it's actually a phoneticish spelling of dude's own real name (Wouter)!

mother of GOD but that Gotye remix is TEH AWES

Gotye remix is astonishing.

Arguably Mayer and Superpitcher were (separately) the greatest producers of schaffel during its golden age (I'd still argue "Amabile" is the mini-genre's highpoint) so it's nice to see them come back and rescue the style from all the lesser light bandwagoneers.

Love the way it gradually becomes more organic as it develops. This is really what the Supermayer album should have sounded like.

Ha ha didn't see deej's consternation at my pitchfork review. hadn't thought of emoticons. Was thinking more of a big neon sign.

because i am missing the photo at the start of the thread:

http://www.exclaim.ca/images/up-Supermayer_1.jpg

link to the gotye song? i can't find it.

try mr shrbrn's blog

thx

This is really what the Supermayer album should have sounded like.

On the money.

it's nice but i think i'm overlushed by it

if such a thing is possible