#simian mobile disco

[myvinylplaylist]

Ghost: Meliora Deluxe Edition (2015)

2023 Limited Edition Indie Exclusive Reissue on Translucent Yellow Vinyl.

Deluxe Edition Inclues the Popestar EP

Album Artwork by Zbigniew M. Bielak

Loma Vista Recordings

[omegaremix]

Omega Radio for October 11, 2014; #64.

LCD Soundsystem “All I Want”

TV On The Radio “Happy Idiot”

Ex Hex “Don’t Wanna Lose”

Henry’s Dress “Zero Zero Zero”

Vaselines, The “One Lost Year”

Twin Shadow “Five Seconds”

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Fright Night (Nevermore)”

Miniature Tigers “Bullfighter Jacket” (Aislyn RMX)

Harvey Eyeballs “Albino Girl”

Simian Mobile Disco “Tangents”

Casket Girls, The “Holding You Back”

Broadcast “Goodbye Girls”

Summer Camp “Better Off Without You”

BNLX “Message From HR”

Unstoppable Death Machines “Single Clarity”

Axxa/Abraxas “Waiting Daze”

Raspberry Bulbs “When A Lie Becomes The Truth”

Creepers “Take You There”

Catholic Spray “Drift With Satan”

Criminal Code “No Device”

Xray Eyeballs “Die Little Love (Menthol 100’s VER)

Carbonas “Frothing At The Mouth”

Neighborhood Brats “White Girl”

Deluxe rainbow broadcast; hipster, noise rock, garage, indie, and more.

[sinceileftyoublog]

Fontaines D.C. Live Show Reivew: 10/9, The Salt Shed, Chicago

Photo by Zach Caddy

BY JORDAN MAINZER

It's clear that on Romance (XL), Fontaines D.C. are a changed band. The story behind their "bigger" sound and reach is well-known by now, the Dublin quintet ditching scene go-to Dan Carey for Simian Mobile Disco's James Ford to flesh out the ideas that started when they opened for Arctic Monkeys throughout the U.S. Taking inspiration from the hip-hop, R&B, and dance stalwarts of yesterday and today, the band members went their respective ways, reflected, experimented on their own, and then wrote and holed up in the studio together for months, at different locations. Knowing that they wanted to explore grandiose themes--life, death, and, yes, romance--beyond the confines of their native Ireland, it makes sense that Grian Chatten and company decided to break down any sonic barriers. And they've let us know every step of the way, from Romance lead single and industrial boom-bap banger "Starbuster", to album and current tour set opener "Romance", whose melodic vocals, chiming synths, and blasts of distortion present us with this new era of Fontaines D.C.

Photo by Zach Caddy

On Wednesday night at The Salt Shed, the band's reintroduction was as gradual as ever, as the members came out in bunches, building up "Romance" piece by piece, Conor Curley's guitar, Conor Deegan III's bass and Tom Coll's drums, Carlos O'Connell's keyboards, green strobe lights, and then Chatten's vocals. It took me the whole song to get used to not just how they sounded, but that there were more band members on stage than I expected, and how they looked. For one, Fontaines D.C. are touring with guitarist Cathal Mac Gabhann and multi-instrumentalist Chilli Jesson of Palma Violets. Moreover, multiple band members had dyed hair and wore Matrix-meets-Brat leather jackets and sunglasses. If you didn't know it before, it was clear this wasn't the same scrappy band who wrote Dogrel.

Photo by Zach Caddy

Throughout much of their set, Fontaines D.C. performed the songs that best emphasized their expanded sound. There was the post-grunge standout "Here's the Thing", replete with Chatten's unexpected falsetto, Curley's buzzing guitars, and Deegan III's menacing bass line. "Bug" sported acoustic guitars and whooshing synthesizers, shoegaze beauty "Sundowner" a gentle Curley on lead vocals. Just like on their previous albums, though, the songs that ended up being the live anthems were those where Chatten showed off his mighty pen. The loud-quiet-loud "Death Kink" takes its name from those who believe the idea that misery makes good art. "There's a certain kind of air in the smoke / Must be some amount of truth in the joke / For it to make you laugh, ha ha ha," Chatten sang, the audience laughing with him in unison. As a frontperson, Chatten spent most of his time rousing up the crowd, arms waving in the air like Craig Finn, or jittering around in circles reminiscent of Ian Curtis. The crowd ate it up; someone even tossed a blow-up doll over the barrier during "A Hero's Death".

Photo by Zach Caddy

Approaching the climax of their set, Fontaines D.C. made sure to get out of the way their clear-cut back catalog highlights: "Jackie Down the Line", "Big", and "Sha Sha Sha", the final preceded by a simple, "Free Palestine" from Chatten. Yet, I'm glad they gave prime real estate to Romance closer "Favourite", a stunning, glorious, reflective slice of jangle pop, the band playing it last before coming out for an encore. The song is, at once, hyper-specific and universal, perhaps most successfully exemplary of Romance's wide-reaching goals. During one verse, Chatten describes the type of hangover where your mind is running all over the place, thinking about how you might have had a good night, regretting some decisions, yearning for a simpler time when your immediate world was "bed radios and days spent playing football indoors," and nonetheless realizing that you were lucky not to experience the time "when they painted town with Thatcher." Anyone, Chatten posits, can feel nostalgic for a time while recognizing its ills.

Photo by Zach Caddy

That mental back-and-forth played out during the band's encore, too. "In The Modern World", played first, refers to a trip Chatten and Curley took, where they met another Irish traveler, who gave them a drug that numbed them to their surroundings and overall troubles. Its acoustic guitar line, Chatten's whispered rasp, orchestral synths, and layered vocals in the chorus certainly recall the Lana-esque faded L.A. glamor the band was going for. But the lasting sound of the night was "Starburster", a stream-of-consciousness-seeming rap inspired by Chatten having a panic attack in the St. Pancras tube station. The song is composed as if to surprise you around every corner, beginning with piano plinks, harmonic synths, a snapping snare drumline, and a chorus punctuated with Chatten's breathless gasps, replicated live by a sampled gurgle. "Starburster" is certainly one of Fontaines D.C.'s finest songs, and it will likely be played during every set for the rest of their career, but I feel like only on this specific tour can it close the night. If the band is trying to show that they've grown beyond the taut, literate punk blasts of their first three records, what better way than to unspool like nervous wrecks?

[post-futurism]

Rocking out to sloshing water!!!!!

[rayjuss]

Ray Juss Mix Tracklisting

- Title - Artist

1 - Hungry For The Power (Jamie Jones Ridge Street Remix) - Azari & III 2 - Who's Afraid of Detroit? - Claude VonStroke 3 - Wet Dollars - Tazer 4 - Just Step (Original Mix) - Hugo Massien 5 - Ubay - Cc 6 - The Capsule's Pride (Bikes) - Bwana 7 - It's The Beat - Simian Mobile Disco 8 - Opal (Four Tet Remix) - Bicep 9 - Fatherless - Breach 10 - Mind Ur Step (feat. Janelle Kroll) - Dennis Ferrer 11 - Techno Disco Tool - Mella Dee 12 - H.O.U.S.E - Carnao Beats 13 - Nobody Else - DUSKY 14 - Ain't No - Kaytronik 15 - Free and Easy (Original Mix) - Stephen Brown 16 - The Gun - AWANTO 3 17 - Piano Skank - Ahadadream 18 - Hammer Time - Dismantle 19 - Made You Look (Hugo Massien Remix) - Nightshift

[autoneurotic]

it’s eight o’clock and i got nothing to do, can’t go to the club so i guess i’ll go to the record store, visit my record man with my sticky hands, walk out that record door with the records in my clothes the records in my clothes what the fuck is you gonna do? what the fuck is you gonna do about it? nothin

[soundofmusicmobiledisco]

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[myvinylplaylist]

Ghost: Popestar (2016)

Loma Vista Recordings

[schnuron]

Electronic albums I like from the 2000s

This post is the same premise as the last one.

The ones that I used to enamor industrial music, IDM, drum n bass… those things I might have been obsessed with for a while, they faded in my taste over time.

2000: Enigma - The Screen Behind the Mirror Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain (If you want a 60s James Bond soundtrack, here it is.) Radiohead - Kid A Susumu Yokota - Sakura Gas - Pop Apoptygma Berzerk - Welcome to Earth Covenant - United States of Mind

2001: Basement Jaxx - Rooty Monolake - Cinemascope Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz and Thee Glitz Daft Punk - Discovery

2002: The Frozen Autumn - Emotional Screening Device Frou Frou - Details Apoptygma Berzerk - Harmonizer Convenant - Northern Light VNV Nation - Futureperfect

2003: Celldweller - Celldweller Goldfrapp - Black Cherry The Postal Service - Give Up Massive Attack - 100th Window Fluke - Puppy Bonobo - Dial 'M' for Monkey Blu Mar Ten - The Six Million Names Of God

2004: Cut Copy - Bright like Neon Love Pan Sonic - Kesto

2005: Goldfrapp - Supernature Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel The Frozen Autumn - Is Anybody There? Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself Ladytron - Witching Hour VNV Nation - Matter + Form Secede - Tryshasla

2006: Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet MSTRKRFT - The Looks Covenant - Skyshaper

2007: Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release Trans Am - Sex Change Chromeo - Fancy Footwork LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol.1

2008: Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree M83 - Saturdays = Youth Pendulum - In Silico Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles

2009: Editors - In This Light and on this Evening Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol.2

[dailyalbumrecs]

Attack Sustain Decay Release - Simian Mobile Disco

This is the first album album by Simian Mobile Disco and it is named after the four sections commonly seen on the envelope generator section of synthesizers. This album is a neat dance album, and most of the songs are instrumental, but not all of them. My favorite song is Wooden.

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[autoneurotic]

i got that brand new Lincoln playing PM Dawn, with the DAT player, minidisc CD-ROM

[mitjalovse]

The modern electronica comes in all shapes and sizes as we see, though a good question in here would be – which musicians could be called the major influences? I would claim one of those might be Simian Mobile Disco. Mind you, these two aren't the originators of the modern electronica, since the latter had a variety of different predecessors, yet their outfit did point towards the developments of the style during the noughts already. Yes, they anticipated the brand together with some other musicians we probably mentioned in some other discussions. Thus, their latest works feel like a validation of their path thanks to their scene becoming close to the way the charted. Still, one does ask oneself more – did they plan this?