Indie-Friendly Electrodribble S/D

On Max Tundra

i wanted to edit it to "indie-friendly electrodribble" or somesuch, but figured i'd done enough damage already.

― get drunk and do legos (contenderizer),

What else could be described as Indie-Friendly Electrodribble?

1)The Avalanches

2) Max Tundra obviously

hot chip
crystal castles
junior senior
el guincho

le tigre

:-/ I like at least that one Junior Senior song.

beta band

xp:

i like lots of these. (NOT max tundra...)

Postal Service

that one bright eyes album

Everything on Morr Music post 2004

the knife?

esp. Electric President

everything ever called electroclash

See Pazz & Jop thread; I think we figured out that at least eight indie-friendly electrodribble albums finished in the Top 40 this year (Portishead, Santogold, Girl Talk, MGMT, Hercules and Love Affair, Cut Copy, M83, Hot Chip.) Though obviously some of those are more dribbly than others.

Actually possibly invented by the Replacements on Hootenany and Urge Overkill on Saturation -- one song on each, though I don't have the energy to look up their titles right now. Then who? Magnetic Fields, White Town, and all of electroclash?

The Books

I think the aesthetic pinnacle of this was New Buffalo's "About Last Night" EP - Avalanches production placed in service of depressive indie songs sung in purposefully blank/unpolished female vocals.

High Places are the current big example of this for me though - the vocals are even more extremely blank/unpolished.

all things dfa

all things blechdom

all things kid 606

LCD Soundsystem how did I forget that

Stockholm Monsters

*waits for bimble with a sponge and a rusty spanner*

replacements song is "within your reach." which, maybe. is a drum machine all you need to be electrodribble?

i guess all the alec empire stuff is too noisy to count.

all things tigerbeat6

is this the new ELECTROSOUL thread??

is a drum machine all you need to be electrodribble?

Maybe, but lacking a sense of rhythm really helps.

lol i think it's the new indie-electro thread

I think people are expanding this too much. "Indie-Friendly Electrodribble" seems to imply an element of tweeness and softness.

Postal Service and Max Tundra and The Avalanches yes, Blechdom no.

(Yes I can see how Blechdom/Tigerbeat 6 are arguably twee but it's of a different stripe I think)

the blow/yacht
mpp
dan deacon

From the thread the reference came from
http://i39.tinypic.com/2ib24jp.jpg

a different tiger stripe, you could say (xxp)

Like, Peaches are the paradigmatic example for me of the electronic act people who feel uncomfortable with actual dance music still check for all the time (i hang out with too many gays/lesbians though, maybe this is why) - but I wouldn't describe her as "electrodribble".

um jr boys much

Maybe, but lacking a sense of rhythm really helps.

― xhuxk, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 5:31 PM Bookmark

Right. I don't think anything that qualifies as REAL DAHNCE MUSIC FOR DAHNCING should be in this thread.

beta band

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 February 2009 01:24 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

*glowers*

i wanna say bis even though they weren't actually electro.

i think the adjective which springs most to mind is "awkward", deliberately so, hence xhuxk otm wrt "lacking a sense of rhythm"

i don't think peaches quite fits, too shouty and in-your-face

omar s
theo parrish
patrice scott

stockhausen

Peaches is more like electrospittle.

phlegmlectro

i still have never heard max tundra. i like max cloud though.

the go! team

electrodribble hall of fame nominee: the avalanches' belle & sebastian remix.

Scott

Its AWFUL

biggest electrodribble tends to be like dj duos for me, the kind that are only big in their particular big city...london, nyc, berlin, paris, melbourne, wherever has these useless fuckers

my god will people stop posting max tundra videos?

the new rickroll.

id rather listen to rick

cornershop belongs in here somewhere.

Urge Overkill proto-dribble track was "Dropout" btw.

get busy livin or get busy dyin

dance music for people who to die on bank holidays

I heards a milkman whistling Strings of Life once. So I punched him in the face.

lol what in god's fuck is this

Tags: Hyper Crush the arcade electro neon black light hip hop hypercrush

bump

yeah that shit is fucking horrible - i think grady was forced to see them in hawaii lol

wow, that max tundra video blew my mind with its awfulness. isn't this the guy that used to try to start feuds with Aphex Twin over drum programming techniques? I wish this thread was about ex-IDM guys who do bubblegum laptop pop.

dare 2 dream buddy

This whole thread and no mention of Home Video, even tho Jr Boys got mentions. I'm going to cry now.

This is to balance out the Hypercrush tracks, not all the hipster hiphouse is that bad.

awesomeness btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ipqEk3ZPY

the new single definitely samples the sound ichat makes when you get a new message

― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 2, 2009 12:39 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

the song is ooookay, doesnt need to be 5 mins long tho

also "electrodribble" is my least favorite phrase ever

where is contenderizer anyway?

the song is ooookay, doesnt need to be 5 mins long tho

― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, June 3, 2009 8:18 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

um no

some friends of mine just got a peep from pfork. pasted here in its entirety:
Oh, get your mind out of the gutter. Teengirl Fantasy's name has nothing to with fantasies about teen girls, but rather the fantasies of them-- cute boys, baby animals, and rainbows that taste like mint chocolate chip ice cream, according to one "fan's" site. It's an appropriate handle. The dorm room project of Ohio students Logan Takahashi and Nick Weiss, Teengirl Fantasy's music is nothing but dreamy-- warm and ethereal like the pastel waterscape that decorates the cover of recent single "Floor to Floor". Pulling a classic bait and switch, the song opens with some garden-variety 8-bit glitch tinkering before a belching synth lets things loose at the one-minute mark. From there, it's straight coasting. Like a washing machine set to "gentle," the track's heavy bass bleeds into lush, aquatic synths, and stirred-in vocal samples (including jubilant cries of "do it, do it!"). The result is something akin to High Places' post-pop at its most buoyant, but informed more by house music and beat-heavy Top 40 hip-hop, and rather accomplished for two very young dudes working out of their bedrooms.

here is the myspace: http://www.myspace.com/teengirlfantasy

and a video of their first track together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BY4xIpwk2w

i'm conviced that if they stay together, they will be very famous one day.

imo that yacht-pyschic city song sounds like a kinda zzz young marble giants bside -- dont get whats so BEST NEW MUSIC abt it at all

also this thread reads so ridiculously. whats 'electro' about the avalanches?

man, have you ever even heard YMG?

Nope, sorry, just have a mental block against all-male bands with the word "girl" in their names. Can't get past that. (I'd say it's fairly obvious from listening to about two minute of the track that they don't have a clue what actual teenage girls fantasise about, as they've clearly never been one.)

At least now I know why my sister used to buy all these magazines with pictures of mint choc chip ice cream rainbows on the cover - thanks Teengirl Fantasy band u r a treat

Pulling a classic bait and switch, the song opens with some garden-variety 8-bit glitch tinkering before a belching synth lets things loose at the one-minute mark. From there, it's straight coasting. Like a washing machine set to "gentle," the track's heavy bass bleeds into lush, aquatic synths, and stirred-in vocal samples (including jubilant cries of "do it, do it!"). The result is something akin to High Places' post-pop at its most buoyant, but informed more by house music and beat-heavy Top 40 hip-hop, and rather accomplished for two very young dudes working out of their bedrooms.

This description makes them sound like the worst shit ever by the way. Does the world need a twee Crystal Castles?

liked that gasmaskk(?) track you that was on 20jfg/you linked to tabes

they don't really sound like a twee crystal castles. i'd say more housey Wham City type stuff.

also, fuck yall if you don't like 'em.

Something in this vein that I've been enjoying quite a lot lately has been the new album by Wave Machines. On the surface they sound like Hot Chip, but when you skim that layer off, they're actually a really interesting band with very catchy tunes and that Liverpudlian sense of melody/experimentation that I like.

pitchfork best new music is prime site for quality electrodribble cf Discovery So Insane, great bit where the beat halves

the xx have this years electrodribble award sewn up

i dunno, man. i just don't hear enough electro in their dribble. :/

well there is a lot of dribble, i grant you that.

the wholesale absence of any actual electro is what makes so damn indie-friendly.

it was only a matter of time until Electrodribble splintered off into an even indie-friendlier subgenre called "dribble".

no..."double dribble."

who in your funny little world is actually giving out these awards guys?

v. important news, algerian goalkeeper plz take note -- this may merit an overseas trip...

http://pitchfork.com/news/41307-max-tundra-tours-with-girl-talk

Max Tundra Tours With Girl Talk

Right now, ADD party-controller Girl Talk is in the midst of a gigantic North American tour. And for a month-long chunk of that tour, he'll have some serious help: British bedroom pop experimenter Max Tundra, who will open a bunch of shows. To celebrate the tour, Tundra's giving away a new track: His reworking of the immortal theme music to the great 70s detective show "The Rockford Files"; download that here. We've got the tour dates below.

In a press release, Tundra says, "Psyched to be heading out on the road again. I intend to gorge on American delicacies such as chicken pot pie, What-A-Burgers and an over-easy egg, only then to dance it all off each night before several thousand pairs of eyes. I would love for people to sing along as I do this-- hopefully people are learning the lyrics to their favourite Max Tundra ditty as we speak."

Max Tundra:

02-23 Brooklyn, NY - Glasslands Gallery
02-24 New York, NY - Terminal 5 *
02-25 Providence, RI - Lupo's *
02-26 Boston, MA - House of Blues *
02-28 Portland, ME - State Theater *
03-01 Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis *
03-03 Royal Oak, MI - Compuware Sports Arena *
03-04-05 Chicago, IL - Congress Theater *
03-07 Madison, WI - Orpheum *
03-08-09 Minneapolis, MN - First Ave *
03-11-12 Denver, CO - Ogden *
03-14 Missoula, MT - Wilma Theater *
03-15 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo *
03-17 Portland, OR - Roseland *
03-18 Oakland, CA - Fox Theater *
03-19 Pomona, CA - Fox Theater *
03-21 Los Angeles, CA - Palladium *
03-22 San Diego, CA - SOMA *
03-23 Phoenix, AZ - Marquee *
03-25 Las Vegas, NV - Cosmopolitan *

* with Girl Talk

max tundj was always waste

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you h8 melody

h8 geir melody and proto-pompl twee indie electro melody yeah

electroprog too lies without your fancy, but we'll be cool

to call maxt proto-pompl deserves a swift dom leone to the sternum

srsly lj u gotta outgrow this shit

tundj isn't really electrodribble tho, parallel currents but his 'arch' 'affecting' ~best new music~ avant la lettre is affectively quite different to the sort of moshi moshi shit that occupies the dribb mnstrm

^^^that second bit is completely otm, was gonna object to mxt being itt - he's basically an eccentric bedroom hypermelodicist rather than an indiedribblah - he's much more organic than electro in concept, even if his tools are recognisable as electro

you'll have to try harder to get me on the ascetic path

this thread. memories...

srsly lj u need to get some sense kicked into u again

swift blast of russell haswell will clear away the cobwebs

i liked his earth remix iirc

might come in there later but i've promised some ppl a k8 bush liveblog

oh ok, 5 mins but it better be good