DR. WHINEY PHD CULTURAL STUDY #003: Have you heard of this?

Wasn't even into 'tronic much when it came out, but "Third World Lover" made me pick it up. Know a rockabilly/hc dude who felt the same way.

TRIVIA: DJmeDJyou is Ross Harris aka "Ross Angeles" who is fairly obscure these days but is primarily known as his role as Joey in Airplane!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5U2unOeY

whoa

i have not heard of this. i have also never been in a turkish prison.

had never heard of this

also, once again, whiney's study is futile from the start since the poster who used the reference in his dn (causing this whole clusterfuck) admitted he had never heard of it either iirc???

what was the second one?

I'd heard of it.

Pretty sure everything Dan did made it into Aquarius at that point.

yep I've heard of this.

A contentious display name choice set forth a long argument about what exactly constitutes "obscure" on a music message board.

i like how this is phrased in a sort of indirect way as if it were describing sixteenth century theological argument

never heard of it fwiw

no

How the hell do we plan on interpreting the data? The answer with the most votes wins?

Coz, I mean, even when Whiney loses he can just be all "Well dipshits if x% of voters have heard of it then it's really not that obscure"

sure ive heard of it. was really into automator back then. definitely liked the first one, don't recall hearing this one tho.

i think i had heard of it but not the electric vindaloo part anyway. not even sure i heard of it

i own a copy that i haven't listened to since the day I bought it 10 years ago

ive heard of it and i downloaded and listened to it in the year of our lord two thousand and two

i knew that the first one existed, have a few downloaded tracks from it, but was unaware that there was a vol. 2.

I am aware of its existence. Honestly I couldn't say much beyond that.

I have the first one. The music's really good, but the jokey titles are kinda cringey.

not heard of it

did actually know Steve Shasta's trivia factoid but I needed to look up that dude was in Sukia to nudge me into knowing, if you follow me

Beatles compilation playing in restaurant this morning.

Thankfully I brought my iPod, so I can ensure the wait.

Had not heard of (prior to last week) and I was aware of who DTA was at the time.

Did Dan The Automator actually have anything to do with Bombay 2: Electric Vindaloo? Discogs notes indicate he doesn't...

Oh ok, well regardless, I was into artsy, instrumental hip-hop!

Automator did vol 1, vol 2 was a bunch of other producers going wild with his idea

iirc

all the tracks in iTunes say "featuring" him??

Was the first volume even his "idea"? I always got the impression that someone at the label was like "here are a bunch of tapes, can you make a comp out of 'em?"

was not familiar to this iconic compliation

I owned both volumes at one point - part of working at Global Rhythm.

lol daniel esq on the wrong cultural study

my copy currently located somewhere in a box of CDs in my parent's garage

Never heard of it, nor of any previous volumes. I do know who Dan the Automator is though, I even own the Deltron 3030 album. Is this some kind of Indian pop music comp by him?

had never heard of it. it's funny that that's become a conversation in and of itself because really just saying "it was a dumb screen name and look the same dumb wordplay was thought of once 10 years ago" is enough, there's no reason to get all GAWD you guys should know about this random old record.

Are you going to do the 4th cultural study about whether people have heard this CD?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/AmICoolorWhat.jpg

I remember you claiming it was in 100% of dollar bins in used stores & you got kind of flippant when I suggested otherwise.

Pretty sure everything Dan did made it into Aquarius at that point.

^^^yep I heard of this, and iirc even heard it cuz a friend bought a copy

for the record I hate the Automator, dude is so fucking obnoxious/overrated

Three more weeks on this poll? Really?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&bookmarkedmessageid=2204224&boardid=41&threadid=84831

oh christ

I prefer the first record, especially "Fear of a Brown Planet" > "Uptown Bollywood Nights":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHz8YNPs4i0

Suspense is killin me tbh

We had this at the college radio station, I liked it.

Ditto. College radio bait for sure. Liked it, played it, forgot it, like about 1000 other records from 1999-2007.

bought vol 1 way back when cuz i was "into" dan the automator at the time. liked it, but haven't listened to it in years. knew there was a vol 2 and always meant to check it out, but never cared enough to actually follow through.

this record is a good working definition of the point at which obscure slides into not-obscure, and vice-versa. to people paying lots of attention to music in general and especially to the scene corner it inhabits, it's not going to seem properly obscure. "come on, you think that's obscure? i assume you've never heard the ass baboons of venus..."

to everyone else (i.e., most normal, sane people), it's gonna seem a hopelessly obscure wtf curiosity.

Which I've said from the start, btw

I'm trying to remember how I first heard of Dan The Automator and I think it was first JSBX "Acme" and then Vol. 1 of this. I have heard of this record.

This is an interesting poll and I hope there's a happy ending to this instead of a "lol at forgotten producer X" punchline

to people paying lots of attention to music in general and especially to the scene corner it inhabits, it's not going to seem properly obscure. "come on, you think that's obscure? i assume you've never heard the ass baboons of venus..."

I've paid attention to rap/hip-hop since I was a teenager, I know who Dan the Automator is and I even own the Deltron 3030 album, but this record is still obscure to me. Many others have said the same in this thread. Basically it seems to me the record is not obscure only if you are/were a Dan the Automator fan, or if you were working at a record store when it came out.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Or a DJ at an American college/community radio station, as stated.

Okay we have 22 hours to decide:

If chrisv2010 wins, then ______ ????
If Whiney wins, then _____ ????

will chrisv2010 have to presubmit all further dn's for approval?

Loser has to run naked around ILTMI.

either way we all lose

pretty sure it's gonna result in an argument about about exactly what ratio would be mean "obscure" on a musioc message board

looking forward to that

Hey Whiney I have to apologize, I reread that conversation about the Garfield album, and you weren't flip at all.

Had this for about 7 years, assume it was a promo, not sure I ever listened to it. Sold it a while ago.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN??????????

lurkers and socks

proven by science, whiney.

jesus christ that's a lot of votes

Why shouldn't a lurker matter just as much as anyone else, since we're talking about statistical analysis here?

55 of the "yes" votes are Whiney socks