Two Lone Swordsmen

The TLS record before Tiny Reminders is called Stay Down, and I don't like it nearly as much. Not nearly as clean, as much less electro.

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Virus because it just didn't grab me. Forgettable.

Tiny Reminders has some fantastic stuff. But because the mood is so varied I never get round to playing it. I put bits and pieces from it on compilations sometimes.

Did I write that? Hmm. Anyway the new question is Does Anyone Care Anymore? Gave the new one a listen, and by now they're just as far from their techno roots as it's possible to get. Kudos for such a radical reinvention I guess, but sorry - just not innarested. Even the uncanny melodies have vanished.

I kinda liked the previous one, but the new one is very generic sub-Gun Club.

It's bad rockabilly with electronic embellishments. Dud.

i haven't really been enjoying their new stuff. Still got lots of fantastic memories of their techno stuff though.

i've always thought this band was a little too polite.

i thought that for a long time, them being on warp and all they seemed a bit "straight" for that label. Listen to their stuff like you would dub (helps if you have a little green to hand). Or alternately, wack on "Tiny Reminders" really really loud, switch off all the lights and get all your mates round to sniff poppers and dance about like lunes.

yeah, there's just a sort of tight constrictedness to it no matter how kerrazy it gets. i like that sometimes, just not very often.

Fifth Mission was pretty loose. Compared to their later stuff. Maybe.

Fifth Mission is fucking terrific. AMAZING on good headphones.

Shit, you're not wrong. Gotta break out the 'phones more often.

It's weird that album. It threw me at first because it's so, well, shallow at first. I thought a lot of it sounded cheap and nasty. I was wrong.

I have the new album but I daren't listen to it in case it's cobblers.

Got Tiny Reminders for $6 today. Sometimes these dudes just hit the spot.

So are these guys going to do anything good together again? I really don't like their rockabilly stuff and that AW solo album was some boring glo-fi nonsense. STOP TRYING TO MAKE PROPER MUSIC AND GET WITH THE TECHNO YEAH?

^ i've been saying this since forever

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I always assumed Keith Tenniswood was the techno/electro man in 2LS. I'm not super familiar his solo work as Radioactive Man, but I think it's much more "techno" than whatever 2LS are doing these days.

So are these guys going to do anything good together again? I really don't like their rockabilly stuff and that AW solo album was some boring glo-fi nonsense. STOP TRYING TO MAKE PROPER MUSIC AND GET WITH THE TECHNO YEAH?

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I have a real hankering to hear Tiny Reminders again, which for me was my introduction to electro music in 2000, and what a great introduction it was.

What is going on here? This definitely isn't the right track: https://open.spotify.com/track/3UcMBpcdmZlI0zgMy45IpA

Warp could really do with getting some vinyl reissues out. The next three Autechres and Tiny Reminders would be nice too

xp is that the bunker? yeah something's up. maybe that explains why i didn't recognise about a quarter of the tracks on drukqs when i listened to it yesterday...

It's definitely not the Bunker that's on my copy of Tiny Reminders, but it's what's in its place on Spotify. I thought I was having a senior moment when it came on because I've listened to the album countless times and I don't recognise it. Sounds like a parody of their style and there's a horrible clip every bar.

just came here to post what I posted in 2018. it's a different track on Youtube as well. And not a very good one either considering the Bunker is a highlight of the record

stockwell steppas best album ever

It has Spin Desire on it so that might be true. I can't remember much else about it though. For that reason I should revisit it

tiny reminders also best album ever

Yeah I adore Stockwell Steppas.

A hypothetical album comprised of just the deep house tracks on that and Swimming Not Skimming would be one of the absolute best house albums ever, but I suppose such a path was rendered pre-emptively redundant by Weatherall’s 96 Essential Mix and Live at the Social 3.

first track of Swimming Not Skimming on a hot summer evening is perfection

It might have been discussed on the Fabric mix thread I suppose, but shout out to the Radioactive Man entry in that series, heavy electro bangers all the way down

it's possibly my favourite of all the Fabric mixes and it never gets enough props, so biggups Neil S

tiny reminders also best album ever

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yeah, agreed

xp this one is particularly evil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHR-_zz-jLk

Yeah that's the pinnacle of the thing. It's such a banger. I spent ages trying to track down a non-mixed digital copy of it online

my favorite 2ls track is "gay spunk" tho

I'm sure they did a shitload of stuff around this time but I really like this one. Only heard it recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR7uMAbEITs

LocalGarda - ivy mentioned Gay Spunk, but also Sticky from the Bag Of Blue Sparks EP has this vibe (and one of their best)

Will check those out for sure. It's been mentioned a lot in these parts but Andy W's Live At The Social Mix is obviously this sort of sound also.

For a long time I've been trying to figure out what makes TLS sound the way they do and I'm slowly circling around the idea that they know when to deploy a nice old-fashioned slapback reverb on things, which might stem from AW's rockabilly obsession

'Glide By Shooting' was on an old Cream mix by Deep Dish I had so for a while it was the only track I really knew by them. I've coincidentally got 'Stay Down' queued up as I type but struggled to get into it in the past.

i'm planning to work stay down's "no red stopping" into my next dj set

Stay Down is good. I often think of it as a spiritual companion to the Haunted Dancehall, or a distillation of what TLS sound like. But I prefer Tiny Reminders

I always thought the Stay Down cover art, title, and the first track being “hope we never surface” was incredibly poignant. The album itself is amazing too obv.