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[Horseleech]

BeatChemist said:Wow.





Not only do they concoct a great album release, but they make a college kid $5k... genius!




Except that this auction is almost certainly bogus at this point and won't be paid.





It does generate a lot of publicity, though.





b/w





After reading his 'description', I think this guy needs less college, not more.

 

[BeatChemist]

Horseleech said:


Except that this auction is almost certainly bogus at this point and won't be paid.





It does generate a lot of publicity, though.







True. True.

 

[Gibbo]

 

[Duderonomy]

[media]http://player.vimeo.com/video/69302787[/media] DJ Food - O Is For Orange from Solid Steel on Vimeo.

DJ FOOD: "This mix originated because of a night called 'A Few Old Tunes' that I was involved with alongside Posthuman, Tom Central and Mach V. The idea was to build a night of sound and vision around Boards of Canada-inspired music with visuals of a similar aesthetic. It's a loose concept and I've used it to string together a lot of downtempo tracks that usually wouldn't get played in one of my regular club sets.


'O Is For Orange' is the sound of weathered tape saturation, detuned analogue synthesisers, vinyl crackle and machine hum. It's also the look of flickering, unfocused lenses, mirror image filters and blurry grain embedded into film. Unofficial fan films sit alongside experimental animation, public information shorts and even the odd official video. Material that BoC took inspiration from blends with their own work as well as many that they in turn inspired.


I make no apologies for the quality of the vision here, some of it is only available via the web at frustratingly small sizes. In a couple of instances I've actually downgraded the look and quality of the image to make it blend in better and in others, even my best attempts at filtering can't disguise the low quality of the source material. No HD or widescreen here, I've gone back to 4:3 for this one even though some of the clips were originally 16:9 or wider."

Tracklist:


Sesame Street - Oh! Orange (Sesame Workshop) - dir. unknown


Galt MacDermot - Aquarius (RCA Victor)


Video: 'Conquest of Light' - dir. Paul Cohen (AT&T), 'Mars & Beyond' - dir. Ward Kimball, 'Time Magazine' advert, 'Thunderbolt' - dir. Ira Cohen


Boards of Canada - The Colour of the Fire (Warp)


Video: Sesame Street 'I Love You' - dir. unknown


Broadcast & The Focus Group - The Be Colony (Warp)


Video: 'Witch Cults' #1 & 2, Oasis 'Shock of the Lightning' - all dir. Julian House


Yosi Horikawa - Wandering (First Word)


Video: Yeasayer 'Henrietta' - dir. unknown


Prefuse 73 feat. School of Seven Bells - The Class of 73 (Warp)


Video: Official - dir. Chris Boyle (Warp Films)


Mordy Laye & The Group Modular - Electric Paint (Audio Montage)


Video: Official - dir. PlanktON


Boards of Canada - Everything You Do Is A Balloon (Skam)


Video: Unofficial - dir. by Nonameno5, sampled from "One Got Fat" (1963)


John Abercrombie - Timeless (ECM)


Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange - The Dreams: Land (BBC)


Video: 'As The Crow Flies' - dir. Funki Porcini, AT&T documentaries, 'Light' - dir. Jordan Belson


The Books - Group Autogenics I (Temporary Residence)


Video: 'Terminal Self' - dir. John Whitney Jr.


Two Quiet Suns - Light Curve (Bandcamp)


Video: Yeasayer 'Fingers Never Bleed' - dir. unknown


DJ Food - Sunspot (no label)


Video: Official - dir. DJ Food and Tom Clarkson


Lost Idol - Beesmouth (Cookshop)


Video: excerpt from 'The Public Voice' dir. Lejf Marcussen


Boards of Canada - A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (Warp)


Video: Unofficial - dir. Neil Krug


Meat Beat Manifesto - Prime Audio Soup (Boards of Canada remix) (PIAS)


Video: 'Series 4' - dir. Normand Gr??goire (Nation Film Board of Canada)


Autechre - Teartear (Warp)


Video: 'Beyond The Black Rainbow' - dir. Panos Comastos, 'Skyfall' intro, Aldo Ar??char 'That Will Be The Day' - dir. Matthew Divito


The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast)


Video: Unofficial - TV performance remixed by DJ Food, 'Beyond The Black Rainbow' - dir. Panos Comastos,


Wagon Christ - Chunkothy (Ninja Tune)


Video: Official - dir. Celyn Brazier


Boards of Canada - Satellite Anthem Icarus (Warp)


Video: Unofficial - dir. Videomarsh


Boards of Canada - Music Is Math (Warp)


Video: Unofficial - dir. unknown


Slag Boom Van Loon - Poppy Seed (Boards of Canada remix) (Planet Mu)


Video: Unofficial - dir. Olyamoshi using 'Rendezvous with Rama' Arthur C. Clarke 3D footage


Boards of Canada - Olson (Midland re-edit) (mp3)


Delia Derbyshire and Barry Bermange - The Dreams: Colour (BBC)


Video: 'Hello Machine' - dir. Carroll Ballard (AT&T)


Sesame Street - A Lot of Me - dir. unknown (Sesame Workshop)








edit - DJ Food's words (not mine or my mix sadly enough!), also due to being a dribbler I accidently DL'd the video before I worked out there's an mp3 of the audio on soundcloud, and the video has since been taken down due to copyright, so if anyone wants a copy of it let me know and I'll set up a fileshare for DL.

 

[kala]

oh how lovely Duderonomy


that's the best thing i've seen/heard in awhile


massive props!

 

[Duderonomy]

It's a great mix, let alone the visual element which is also amazing. Blazing downtempo excellence - you can download the mp3 here: https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-28-6

















Off topic: Solid Steels's 25th anniversary year - a lot of good mixes recently. Definitely check the De La Soul 3 Feet High mix if you haven't - there's a link in the Strut 100 to it http://www.soulstrut.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/75469/P60/

 

[Okem]

BoC are just one of those groups I've never got into, and I have tried several times. I always feel that on paper I should love them but there is something about those glitchy plodding downtempo beats that just makes them unlistenable for me.

 

[Duderonomy]

I think I agree with what you're saying. I've always wanted a copy of Rogybiv (or whatever it's called) but never enough to actually buy it as the 2nd hand price kept rising and rising and rising...


I'm sure if I plowed through their entire catalogue I'd find other tracks I like, but I'm quite happy to just have this mix instead.

 

[kala]

its certainly not for everyone


but if you smoke tree and have love for ambient electronica/ analog synths,70's ost's and educational films its kinda hard not to dig their first 2 albums:


MHTRTC and Geogaddi

 

[cove]

What he said ^

 

[Brian]

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=20777

 

[Duderonomy]

PatrickCrazy said:http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=20777




I wouldn't get overly excited. I decided to buy a Warp reissue of Aphex Twin's I Care Because You Do in case they become valuable in the future. The cover looks like a poor photocopy compared to my OG, and when I did a sound comparision it's quieter and muddier than my OG which I have played to death since '95. Don't know if Warp lost the Aphex masters or are doing it on the cheap, but it's a seems like a shitty way to treat an incredible album.





Can only hope they do a better job with the BoC.

 

[Brian]

wasn't there something about that remixes for cash CD release having a lot of mp3 tracks cos of lost masters too?

 

[Duderonomy]

Not sure about that - I had a vague feeling that the majority of 26 Mixes For Cash was made pre-MP3. There's only two tracks made after 1997, so would've thought he had everything on DAT.





I know bugger all about technology, but from my memory MP3s didn't come into use until the very late '90s/early '00s.





Tech geeks please to weigh in.

 

[Brian]

I mean obviously the tracks were initially on DAT but my recollection was that some of the tracks on the actual CD seemed to be from MP3s





http://forum.watmm.com/topic/73706-did-warp-really-use-mp3s-for-some-tracks-on-26-mixes/





edit: post 36 from that thread

Here's the full story (since I was somewhat involved in it/aware of it at the time): Another label (don't know which one) was getting ready to release a compilation of Richard's remixes (since the majority of them were for labels other than WARP/Rephlex), and when WARP got wind of it, they did a mad scramble to get the rights/masters for all his remixes.





I don't think Richard himself was involved in this (beyond his contributing the SAW II and Windowlicker remixes, and those might have been unreleased material WARP had versus making a specific request to Richard - but that's speculation on my part), and that might be why they couldn't get masters from him (that, or Richard didn't have masters for some of his remixes he did, since he may have sent off the master to the label in question when he did the remix).





WARP contacted me inquiring if I had any of the remixes on CD (specifically the Gavin Bryars remix and the Heroes remix), as the masters were unavailable or wouldn't be available in time to meet the deadline (this may also explain the minimalist artwork, not to mention the very tongue in cheek double meaning of the album title).





Oddly enough they had time to press a promotional chocolate coin, though.





I unfortunately at the time didn't have either of those releases (wasn't really concentrating on collecting the remixes at the time), so I imagine they ended up indeed using MP3 audio of the tracks in order to get them on the compilation.





I couldn't ask the community on WATMM at the time as I was told to keep things quiet since they were obviously trying to beat the other label to the punch. Was I able to do so, I'm certain one of us on here would have had either or both on CD so we could have gotten at least Redbook Audio versions of the tracks.





Both the Gavin Bryars and Phillip Glass Heroes remixes are strangely both on Point Music releases in Japan (Gavin Bryars remix did come out in the US; the Phillip Glass remix was on a bonus 3" CD for the Japanese release of Heroes Symphony) - I wonder if there were issues in getting clearance to use these (especially the Phillip Glass remix) from Point Music?

 

[Duderonomy]

Ahh, gotcha. The only surprising thing about that fiasco is the chocolate coins. WTF?

 

[BeatChemist]

I find this new album pretty blah. Anyone else feel that way?

 

[Gibbo]

I really liked it. It's a much darker album than they're previous ones though and a lot of the tracks peter out quite quickly and seem to just 'end' rather than fade out.

 

[cove]

BeatChemist said:I find this new album pretty blah. Anyone else feel that way?




I don't feel this way (after appx 4 listens through).


Sounds like you need to slow burn one in a sunny park and watch the trees sway.

 

[BeatChemist]

cove said:BeatChemist said:I find this new album pretty blah. Anyone else feel that way?




I don't feel this way (after appx 4 listens through).


Sounds like you need to slow burn one in a sunny park and watch the trees sway.




Yes. I think I will. I listened a few times and nothing jumped out at me. I think a nice afternoon on a park bench with something combustible might be the listening experience it needs.