Come and anticipate: new Vitalic album "Flashmob"!

The new "Disco Terminateur" is promising, albeit a bit Justiceish. Should be a really awesome album.

terrible, terrible title

Agreed. Also if anyone can decode the lyrics to the rewind-hidden track from OK Cowboy ("One Billion Dollar Studio") I will be your best friend forever.

good title

apparently there will be a song called "Chicken Lady" on this album. Vitalic is a Kids in the Hall fan, who'd have guessed?

12 minute album minimix available at http://www.vitalic-flashmob.com/minimix/ Sounds promising, no?

Is this album going totally under the radar or are people just not feeling it? I quite enjoyed it on first listen - a couple of terrific tracks, although it doesn't quite have the "WRAAAGH!" factor of OK Cowboy.

it's pretty good, really like Poison Lips and One Above One, but it feels a bit generic and bland in parts, especially the second half of the album.

http://www.pablopda.com.ar/blog/imgdepost/where_is_the_love_blackeyedpeas_cropped.jpg

Is this album going totally under the radar or are people just not feeling it?

dude, the latter. this record sucks, and Vitalic's sound is so terribly dated it gives me tard tingles just imagining this shit on speakers.

I am seeing him live at Matter tonight

Is Matter as terrible as I have been led to expect? I was initially expecting your standard overpriced London club experience, but user reviews have led me to think that on top of this I'm going to have my flesh eaten by feral residents of Woolwich within seconds of entry

there's a club in Woolwich? and you thought Venue was the last great SE London outpost

Woolwich is kinda 50% cuddly pushover Charlton fans and 50% BNP troglodytes

it's at the o2

I dunno I mean a lot of the reviews seemed to be written by prissy thin skinned racists

I quite like this album

Matter isn't in Woolwich anyway. I doubt you'll encounter much trouble on the inside as it's your standard London Fabric-style crowd. Maybe a bit more studenty depending on line-up. The only locals around the venue will be those who are otherwise going to the Dome - ie not yer typical menacing youths.

As a venue, Matter is fantastic, terrific soundsystem/visuals, really good upstairs room for dancing with glitterwalls, tremendous vibrating dancefloor downstairs. Also has great colosseum-style steps/seating around the dancefloor, good for either dancing or taking time out, or just standing and watching the action. Only problem is that there's only one staircase which can get a bit congested.

The big problem is that getting inside is marginally more onerous than getting on a plane - metal detectors, queues etc. Also you have to walk right round the Dome to get in, hugging the river all the way, so if it's a cold and windy night you're basically fucked. It's brilliant once you're in though.

went to the main O2 Arena once, didn't get on with it

but there isn't much risk of harm. and there are plenty of buses from immediately outide the arena. it does sound like the people writing the reviews are all 'ew ethnics' because, like, deptford and greenwich dare to be multicultural

relax fellas, the only folks mugging you are the people who set the ticket-prices

I can't emphasise how awesome the vibrating dancefloor is. I saw Gavin Russom there and when he played Revelee there was this enormous bass drop that literally sent shivers across the entire dancefloor.

Oh and if the Jubilee line isn't working then it will be hellish all around the venue.

if the Jubilee line isn't working, seriously just walk to westcombe park station

but yeah uh VITALIC! *I* LIKE VITALIC!! YAYYYY!!

Vitalic = VitAWESOME

Jubilee is fine east of Waterloo afaik; night-bussing back in time to get up to go to a 12:45 kick off in Birmingham maybe not so much, but I've shat in my own bed and now I've gotta lie in it

I know it's not really Woolwich

"Second Lives" is real big

that Robocop/Ariston advert music style breakdown is borderline piss-takingly sentimental

The album is a bit of a bore but the Second Lives EP makes up for it.

if the Jubilee line isn't working, seriously just walk to westcombe park station

After a night of dancing? Fuck that for a laugh.

mine is the mindset of someone morally and financially opposed to cabs, also it's a nice li'l stroll thru semi-urban desolation

At 5am.

morally?

Then again I now refuse to go anywhere after midnight without getting a cab home. I value my sleep at somewhere slightly over £20 an hour.

o_0 @ lj, once again

Then again I now refuse to go anywhere after midnight without getting a cab home. I value my sleep at somewhere slightly over £20 an hour.

leaning this way, yeah

taxis in London still have novelty value to me

It says a lot about the appalling positioning of the Dome that even getting to it from most of SE London is a fucking nightmare.

This discussion of late night London transport has now outstripped the discussion of the album. Which is an okay record in its own right but next to the first one it doesn't really stand up at all.

morally = why line the pockets of the cab racket when you can take public transport? although really it's 'do not want to spend that much money on travel'

That is a rubbish moral stance. Until public transport arrives within a few seconds of me wanting it and drops me right at my doorstep, and wakes me up if I fall asleep, it will remain so.

It's also a bit "if you rely on public transport at that time of night, you will end up getting a cab either through the shitness of late night London transport or through your own drunken idiocy, so why put off the inevitable?"

Also Louis we can't all have our dads pick us up at the station you know.

^^^this does not happen any more

buses are my everything these days

Until public transport arrives within a few seconds of me wanting it and drops me right at my doorstep

lols at your little blackheath midnight gardenland

on topic, Station Mir 2099 is my favourite joint off Flashmob (couldn't really get into it on the whole)

Also Louis we can't all have our dads pick us up at the station you know.

rolling "oh snap" 2010

yeah there's basically nothing i could come back to that with without sounding like the whiney adolescent i try not to be

who could have known meeting matt dc on the train home when i'd already arranged a lift all of 2 or 3 years ago would have such consequences ;_;