Sometimes I can't tell if what I read on ILM is a joke

[petronia]

SO THIS SUPERMAYER REMIX OF RUFUS WAINWRIGHT'S TIERGARTEN

...is a white label. With Oink deceased how this is going to trickle down to me I don't know. :((( *snips it out of Damian Lazarus's podcast*

Mayer and Spitcher are getting INDIE in their old age and need to have the glockenspiel and trombone and whatnot forcibly removed from Kpakt premises for the greater good but... this really is AMAZING orz||

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[cis.livejournal.com]

what is this 'getting indie'? XD well okay mayer is q pop but spitcher is about the indiest indie that ever indied, bless his little cotton scarves.

I kind of have to hear this, I think.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Said podcast (http://www.damianlazarus.com/lazpod/tracklisting2.html) (speaking of indie) is the only way I've found so far! It starts off full-blown Christmas Schlager then turns into ten minutes of mnml-istic representation of Rufus Wainwright slowly being soaked by drizzle. I really dig it, it's like the epitome of what they seem to be reaching for with this Supermayer business. XD;

Pundits would love the Supermayer album if it were by some Pitchfork-indie outfit. (Or maybe not: doesn't save it from being cutesy at times I think. Then again when has twee ever...)

[cis.livejournal.com]

...okay seriously how does d lazarus deceive us all into thinking he's a dance dj? that is some magic right there.

hm, listening, I think it could have done without the bit at the beginning where it's mostly actual-song? when it's all burbles and ghost voices and propelling-bass versus the drag of wainwright's voice it's pretty awesome. they really are doing something different, aren't they? I mean some of it's formula dance-remix but some of it v def isn't.

Pundits would love the Supermayer album if it were by some Pitchfork-indie outfit.

yeah! And it doesn't even have the crossover thing that, say, the field had because it's not dance enough. poor boys.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It's a tour-de-force! There are no dance remixes of Rufus Wainwright, millions of gayclubbers couldn't figure out how to make it work til now. But it turns out a healthy serving of warm Kompakt bass is all you need.

What strikes me as distinctive is the organic high end - this jumble of identifiably real instruments being played (seemingly) and not sampled+sequenced. Is what gives the Pfork-indie vibe, I think, at least all the Pfork-indie I listen to these days is a jumble of people playing odd instruments with varying degrees of competence/halfassedness. XD CocoRosie's twee toybox noises vs. the "Like You" remix's twee toybox noises. The thunderstorm recording here. The polarizing glockenspiel in "Two Of Us" (I think it's polarizing precisely because it sounds like a "live" glockenspiel being played over the "proper" track). And so on.

One down, I'm still waiting on that FZ-style mnml remix of Beirut though. XD D'you hear me, universe.

If it turns out Damian Lazarus and M. Mayer sit around listening to Annie St. Vincent it would explain a lot (I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I'M SURPRISED).

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Hey, I came across a Patrick Wolf cover here and thought that you might want in. :)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, thanks! It's a good cover choice. XD

[subterrain.livejournal.com]

Dude, I just wanted to thank you again for that Audio Visual Experience thing by the Knife you posted a few weeks back. I listen to it pretty much whenever I need to Get Shit Done, and it's single-handedly getting me through the month of November.

(obvs, am procrastinating RIGHT NOW. what.)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! Er, do you not have more stuff by The Knife? Because I could totally remedy that. XD

[subterrain.livejournal.com]

I had seriously never even heard of them. AND THAT WOULD BE SO GREAT.