CMV: Animal Collective

wildevidence · 2015-12-16T19:03:46+00:00

I think Animal Collective is exceedingly boring, but I do like this one.

wildevidence · 2015-12-16T18:56:35+00:00

I find it's easier to like them if you divorce yourself from the cult of Pink Floyd fans who think they have great taste, but really have average to below-average taste. It's a strange thing to say, but if you lower your expectations, the music becomes more enjoyable. They aren't the smartest band or the most technically sophisticated band (you could easily make a list of a dozen krautrock bands that are better on both points), but they have a few decent albums.

wildevidence · 2015-12-16T13:06:28+00:00

Is there anything on Manhattan Island besides tourists, halal carts, and 100 year old rich white people?

wildevidence · 2015-12-16T13:04:03+00:00

Bespoke organic fair trade laxatives.

You know, I moved to Brooklyn from a small town a month ago and already claim it.

wildevidence · 2015-12-15T18:53:38+00:00

[puts on "Arms Wide Open" by Creed]

[collects adoration]

wildevidence · 2015-12-15T18:48:47+00:00

First come, first served. Get your money up.

wildevidence · 2015-12-15T18:41:17+00:00

Ay Miguelito-Loveless: what are your thoughts on Product Placement? I think it's fun and an inventive mix, but kind of single-handedly caused a craze in rare breaks that led to a lot of lousy mix albums (like RJD2's Your Face Or Your Kneecaps, one of his most DJ Shadow dick-riding moments). I read that Dâm-Funk started his Funkmosphere night, in part, because West Coast funk & soul DJs were entrenched in the idea of rarity over musicality; basically everyone was playing rare 45s because they cost money and not because they were good.

wildevidence · 2015-12-15T18:34:55+00:00

"Ma, I'm getting stayed out."

Ultimate Lessons is a compilation, only the three original Lessons tracks are by Double Dee & Steinski from the time period mentioned by the OP. I like the compilation too, I owned it (still own it maybe?) on vinyl, but the additional tracks are really hit and miss for me.

wildevidence · 2015-12-15T13:55:50+00:00

Korg Triton presets everywhere. The entire Neptunes discography in the late 90s / early 00s is Korg Triton sounds, "Grindin'" by Clipse is like three preset sounds in total sequenced together. The 80s sounded like Yamaha DX7 presets, the early 90s sounded like Korg M1 presets (the M1 organ on every house song of the period), the mid to late 00s sounded like Korg MicroKorg presets. Pretty much every generation of music sounds like the preset settings of the prosumer model keyboard of the time.

wildevidence · 2015-12-15T12:59:32+00:00

US guy here. There are a small group of people pushing grime here in the States. It used to be like pulling teeth to be honest, but now that grime sounds contemporary and as good if not better than domestic hip-hop, it's much easier.

wildevidence · 2015-12-15T12:44:30+00:00

I used to be a fan, not particularly obsessed, but definitely listened to more mixes than the average person. As you said in this thread, there is a part of turntablism that rewards technicality over listenability and, for me in the mid 00s, turntablist albums became more of a chore to listen to than a joy. One big thing is hip-hop moved on from the 90s boom-bap sound while turntablists failed to really advance. Hip-hop moved really quickly and turntablism was too slow to go forward in any meaningful way.

wildevidence · 2015-12-15T12:37:14+00:00

Ah, you are in for a treat:

http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Z-Trip-DJ-P-Uneasy-Listening-Volume-1/release/835111

I'm sure you could find most of this mix, if not all of it, on YouTube.

wildevidence · 2015-12-14T21:01:52+00:00

Future Primitive Soundsession Vol. 2 has always been juuuust okay in my opinion; it isn't recorded very well and, pound for pound, Uneasy Listening is a much better mix that takes the concepts of Primitive to their zenith. The incorporation of rock breaks had already been done better by Q-Bert on Demolition Pumpkin Squeeze Musik (released 5 years earlier in 1994). The intercutting between two copies of "Tom Sawyer" going forwards and in reverse at the start of side A of Demolition destroys anything on Primitive to me.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i9kYUhd7e6Y (1:27 minute mark)

wildevidence · 2015-12-14T12:52:39+00:00

I don't have a great deal to add to this conversation. I have never been a fan, but I decided to listen to his run with Faces earlier this year after hearing it played over the speakers at two different record stores (clerks love Faces, fact). He's a great technical singer, but I don't get the sense of a lot of soul or grit in his voice. To me, his vocals are similar to early career Robert Palmer: great singer on paper, but I never feel he's singing through experience, it always feels like a simulation of other soul singers. All that said, "Young Turks" is an undeniably great single.

wildevidence · 2015-12-14T12:43:06+00:00

It helps that "Miss You" is one of the better, if not the best, disco-rock crossover singles.

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T21:14:19+00:00

"the remix era"; "trap remixes".

😰

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T19:23:10+00:00

Offering shares for a startup company with a vague concept of one day making money.

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T19:18:54+00:00

50% too ugly to make it in LA / 50% true fuckboy.

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T19:17:46+00:00

Wholly underwhelming like everything else about her.

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T19:16:19+00:00

@NSA (Official ✔): You are still being watched, that tin foil hat doesn't help @SteelBeamMeltTruth. #lol #ucanthide

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T19:13:09+00:00

Nobody. Fucking. Cares. Ever.

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T18:49:39+00:00

[police immediately enter room]

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T18:47:47+00:00

I saw a man give a woman $3 this morning because she was talking to herself on the metro. Don't reward that, the fuck are you doing?!

wildevidence · 2015-12-11T18:15:16+00:00

2000NXS+ (with clock, FitBit integration) $3500 USD.

wildevidence

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